CPX - TENTH ANNUAL COINT & PLICK 2016 nomination thread

I guess I'm doing this again this year. :)

Nominate the best games of 2016! Starting the nom thread early this year. will leave it open for at least a couple months tho. Will announce a close deadline later. Prob early Feb.

MARVEL PUZZLE QUEST because why ruin a good tradition?

isn't 2016 the year of ruining good traditions?

ALL THE MORE REASON

at least i have a new dn now (i really can't settle on one lately)

i nominate THE WITNESS

Can we nominate that Nintendo retro machine that no one has?
Otherwise, DARK SOULS MOTHERFUCKIN THREE YALLLLLLLLLL

nominate Doom + nominate Final Fantasy XV + nominate Stardew Valley + nominate Titanfall 2

games are basically the only thing 2016 has actually been good at

really? i've been kinda disappointed by games this year. anyway:

Salt & Sanctuary
Enter the Gungeon
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Darkest Dungeon
Civilization VI
Stellaris
Hearts of Iron IV

Pokemon Go
Pony Island
Tom Clancy's The Division
République
Hyper Light Drifter
Starbound
XCOM 2

gonna nominate No Man's Sky so that EZ Snappin doesn't have to

Stardew Valley
Devil Daggers
Sorcery Parts 1 and 2, 3, and 4
The Sea Will Claim Everything
Punch Club
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
We Know The Devil
Oxenfree
Out of the Park Baseball 17

Pokemon Sun & Moon
Overwatch

Mini Metro (iOS)
Planar Conquest (iOS)
Hero Slide (iOS)
Harvest Moon (iOS)
Disney Crossy Road (iOS)

Inside (!!)
Dishonored 2

Obduction
Slain: Back from Hell

BoxBoxBoy.

Uncharted 4

Street Fighter V
Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-
Teeny Titans (iOS)
Severed (iOS)

Do PS4 Pro updates count as 2016 releases? eg Infamous First Light has effectively been released on a new console now and looks stunning, enough to suddenly feel well worth playing (when it didn't, to me, before) so...nomable?

World of Warcraft: Legion
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake: Roots

yeah what the hell, nom infamous

Shit...did I even play any 2016 games? I'm going to have to really think about this. They were probably Vita games if so.

Okay, I guess this is the sum total of the 2016 games I've bought and played enough to say I enjoy them (one of which is a port of an old game):

Lego's Marvel's Avengers (pretty much every console)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus (Vita)

And another game I'll nominate because I bought it and assume I'll like it even though I haven't played it yet:

Dragon Quest Builders (PS3, PS4, Vita)

I was serious about the Nintendo Classic btw

Imbroglio (iOS)

Crashlands

(barely - released in January)

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes (ios/androd)

Firewatch
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Banner Saga 2

Hitman
Owlboy
Witcher 3 Blood and Wine

Farming Simulator 17
Overcooked

overland , unless being an itch.io first access thing disqualifies

Football Tactics

guess my ballot is just going to have 4 games on it unless i can stop playing witcher 3

were there any "epic" clickers this year?

^^^
typed in shame BUT

Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre (ios, android, browser)

Rodeo Stampede (mobile)

Human Resource Machine (so very many platforms)

My Name Is Mayo (PC, PS4, Vita, probably others)

(Haven't played it yet but I am intrigued by what appears to be this year's low-key Goat Simulator and this poll may induce me to finally drop a dollar on it.)

Pocket Card Jockey (legit GOTY contender)
River City: Tokyo Rumble
MLB The Show 2016
Tales Of Cold Steel 2
Dragon Quest 7 3DS
Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Picross 3DS Round 2
Bravely Second
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE (I have this but never got around to playing it, still figure someone else might vote for it)

What is pocket card jockey and would I like it?

It sounds rude.

Pocket Card Jockey = Game Freak's solitaire/horse-racing hybrid game for 3DS. play solitaire to propel your horse around the track, level up your horse, etc. unbelievably charming art style. costs like five bucks. many many hours of playtime. I endorse the absolute shit out of this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LuYv6rSIU

I mean, the real GOTY was the cumulative FPS super-experience of TF2, Doom, and Overwatch, but PCJ is a legit treasure.

Oh that looks great, honestly had no idea that Game Freak ever did anything else but pokemon.

more nominations

STEAM:
Road Redemption (easy top 5 pick)
NeuroVoider
Hitman GO
Offworld Trading Company
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
RimWorld
Shadow Complex 2
Superhot

PSN:
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
The Last Guardian (I haven't actually bought this yet but figure it's probably worth nominating anyway)
Adventures of Mana
Invisible Inc: Console Edition
Alienation
Axiom Verge

oh and Twilight Struggle

also Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

games are basically the only thing 2016 has actually been good at

I cosign this 100%; I feel like 2016 wasn't the kind of year where I'd be

*where my ballot would be overflowing with must-have titles but rather the kind of year where everything I ultimately put on the ballot is just really strong. I currently have 7 titles that 100% have to be on my ballot but they all own immensely, and I am quite good with that number.

Mini Metro is awesome btw

well I'm very glad I played (100%ed even!) Inside after cavalierly writing it off for pretentious trash.

Subnautica

Though its another never quite finished Steam Early Access open world survival game, I think 2016 is its year of impact.

Was that good? It looked interstng

Ok kind of ashamed to be this guy but here we go:

Job Simulator
Tilt Brush
Batman Arkham VR
Robinson: The Journey
Tumble VR
Rez Infinite
The Lab
The Climb
Keep talking and Nobody Explodes
Eagle Flight
Pinball FX2 VR
Hover Junkers
Eve: Valkyrie
Sports Bar VR
Lucky's Tale
Tethered
The Playroom VR
Bound
Battlezone
Driveclub VR
Thumper
Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission
Rigs
Super Stardust HD VR
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Playstation VR Worlds
Harmonix Music VR
Superhypercube
Wayward Sky
Here They Lie
Pixel Gear
Windlands
Carnival Games VR
The Brookhaven Experiment
How We Soar
Werewolves Within
Fruit Ninja VR
Lethal VR
Crystal Rift
Holoball
Waltz of the Wizard
Rec Room
Space Pirate Trainer
Vanishing Realms
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Portal Stories VR
Star Wars VR: Trials on Tatooine

(I think I've played more new games this year than I have in a loooooong time thanks to Vive and PSVR. And I'm not even including non-game experiences like Google Earth VR or Allumette).

SteamWorld Heist (was 3ds in dec 2015, but like four other platforms in 2016)
King Rabbit (iOS)

bullet hell monday (iOS)

I'm going to close the nominations in about a week, fyi. Waiting until the end of year music stuff is outta the way. Let's say Feb 1 for now.

good, one week should give me time to finish this huge backlog of games i need to play before voting

srsly tho i've been meaning to bring this up somewhere + this seems as good a place as ever. surely i'm not the only person who basically ignores new games until they've come down significantly in price (unless they're truly special), right? this means that i'm rarely playing the game in the year that it was intended to be played but for some reason this doesn't bother me at all. unlike music where i feel a compulsion to "keep up," i really don't mind getting to a game 1-3 years late or even 5-6 depending on what it is. i still haven't played xcom 2 yet but altho i'm sure it's excellent i'm positive i can wait until it's $15 before i dish out.

i do the same thing sometimes, it doesn't happen as much with mobile and browser games which is probably part of why they place so well. Still, some voters still play the big ones, so they place sometimes...

Depending on time and interest, I'm considering re-polling old years in the future. Since this is C&P number 10, maybe do year 1 again in the summer/fall? I also wanna keep up the "generations" polls though, so not sure if it'll fit. These things take a lot of work :/

well they're super appreciated i think coint & plick (and generation polls, and other video game polling) probably the best polling on ilx, a place known primarily for its extraordinarily prolific approach to polls

surely i'm not the only person who basically ignores new games until they've come down significantly in price (unless they're truly special), right? this means that i'm rarely playing the game in the year that it was intended to be played but for some reason this doesn't bother me at all. unlike music where i feel a compulsion to "keep up," i really don't mind getting to a game 1-3 years late or even 5-6 depending on what it is. i still haven't played xcom 2 yet but altho i'm sure it's excellent i'm positive i can wait until it's $15 before i dish out.

― Mordy

no, of course not. usually buying a game new is a sucker's bet- a good game doesn't rely on being topical or current, and game development heavily incentivizes releasing games that aren't finished yet. buying a game when it's new, in most cases, makes no more sense to me than buying a 3D TV or whatever the second it comes out - there's no real advantage to being on the bleeding edge except bragging rights. there are of course exceptions.

Yeah I am in this boat, hence my nominations (apart from WoW, teacher/mother/secret lover) being small iOS games that I can play in a few commutes.

Also if it's early enough to ask - since it sounds like people may be picking through the poll results for recommendations at various future dates, any chance of returning to putting the system(s) in CRTL-F friendly text with each entry?

mordy, xcom 2 is $12 in this month's humble monthly! + you get a bunch of other games with it
but yeah, i have a massive old backlog using the same principles, cheap cheap cheap
the only brand new games i generally get tend to be multiplayer because it actually does matter getting in early on those. though i got Overwatch six months late, would've have regretting it at release
(and the odd phone game)

Yep, I have the same approach as mordy, down to Xcom 2, which I plan on checking out once it's down to $11. I do deviate from the pattern with some brand new games if I'm pumped enough to check them out, though. Like no mans sky. Sigh.

I also wait until games are on sale. Still haven't played The Witness yet because the best deal is usually 33% off for a $40 game. It was 50% off right around Christmas and I probably missed my best chance.

Pocket Mortys

if someone wants to slip me a free PS3 I'd still love to play Tokyo Jungle and vote for it in whatever poll I can

(unless it's out on PS4? I might end up getting one of those in the next year or two)

mordy, xcom 2 is $12 in this month's humble monthly! + you get a bunch of other games with it

ok fine sold

there's no real advantage to being on the bleeding edge except bragging rights. there are of course exceptions.

The main one being if there's a big multiplayer component, I think? They're usually more fun close to release before everyone knows what they're doing, and later on it's just the hardcore players who are super good. Although a lot of these games probably get better over time through patches for balance etc.

Nuclear Throne came out Dec 2015 - can it count? (year of impact / dec release)

Shadow Tactics
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due

Ratchet and Clank 2016
Skyrim Remastered
Watch Dogs 2
Batman: Return to Arkham
Rise of the Tomb Raider

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor

if someone wants to slip me a free PS3 I'd still love to play Tokyo Jungle and vote for it in whatever poll I can

(unless it's out on PS4? I might end up getting one of those in the next year or two)

― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:55 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No PS4 afaik but it is one of the few PS3 games that you can also remote play on Vita.

xcom 2 runs v poorly on my mbp but it seems really fun maybe i'll just dish out for the ps4 version (and play it on my mbp w/ beautiful resolution and a controller)

took me a sec to understand you there, what a world we live in now

omg The Witness is on sale again. Now I just need $20.

i beat the original xcom last night (somehow the first time i played it i got up to the final mission before abandoning it so it took almost no time at all to finish it - and it was a cakewalk), restarted the 2nd one this morning. it really is so v good - the reviews are right that basically everything about the original xcom they improved on. and playing it thru the ps4 means that the graphics are crisp and it runs perfectly. i don't love the controller scheme quite as much as using a keyboard + mouse but it is good enough that it really doesn't bother me. i'm really glad it's good too bc i played stellaris last week and man is it disappointing. it's super buggy & boring. the basic framerate is like yr most conventional, standard 4x game but w/out any kind of propulsion or momentum. there literally feels like there's no reason to play. i have v specific complaints about it that maybe i'll save for when it places (either on the main poll, or the most disappointing game side poll or both). on the plus side despite its major flaws i do trust paradox to do right by it eventually. it's not totally bereft of interesting ideas.

framerate was def supposed to say framework*

i plan on playing xcom2 very soon as well (and the last guardian).

a lot of games i still want to play but no way i make it to all of them by voting deadline. if one of these is really good plz tell me and i'll prioritize it:

Axiom Verge
Crashlands
Dishonored 2
Doom
Hearts of Iron IV
Hitman
Oxenfree
The Last Guardian
The Witness

The Witness

PLAY DOOM MORDY

only $20 on amazon? sold! when witness hits around that price i'll bite too.

Okay! Gonna close nominations on WEDNESDAY night (Feb 8) at 12am EST. Get any last-minute ones in! I'll post an updated list on here tonight or tomorrow.

Let it Die

By no means perfect but as a weird free to play twist on a Souls/Roguelike game I had a lot of fun with it. Tons of charm and personality too.

ABZU
Adventures of Mana
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Alienation
Animation Throwdown
Axiom Verge
Banner Saga 2
Batman: Return to Arkham
Battle of Polytopia
Battlefield One
Battlezone
Bound
BoxBoxBoy
Bravely Second
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre
Carnival Games VR
Civilization VI
Crashlands
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due
Crystal Rift
Dark Souls 3
Darkest Dungeon
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Devil Daggers
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Dishonored 2
Disney Crossy Road
Disney Magic Kingdoms
Doom
Dragon Quest 7 3DS
Dragon Quest Builders
Driveclub VR
Eagle Flight
EDF 4.1
Enter the Gungeon
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Eve: Valkyrie
Farming Simulator 17
Final Fantasy XV
Firewatch
Football Tactics
Fruit Ninja VR
Glittermitten Grove
GOTTA PROTECTORS
Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-
Harmonix Music VR
Harvest Moon
Hearts of Iron IV
Here They Lie
Hero Slide
Hitman
Hitman GO
Holoball
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Hover Junkers
How We Soar
Human Resource Machine
Hyper Light Drifter
Imbroglio
Infamous First Light
Inside
Invisible Inc: Console Edition
Job Simulator
Keep talking and Nobody Explodes
King Rabbit
Lego's Marvel's Avengers
Let it Die
Lethal VR
Lucky's Tale
Marvel Puzzle Quest
Mini Metro
MLB The Show 2016
My Name Is Mayo
NeuroVoider
Nintendo Classic Console
No Man's Sky
Nuclear Throne
Obduction
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
Offworld Trading Company
Out of the Park Baseball 17
Overcooked
Overland
Overwatch
Owlboy
Oxenfree
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
Picross 3DS Round 2
Pinball FX2 VR
Pixel Gear
Planar Conquest
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
Playstation VR Worlds
Pocket Card Jockey
Pocket Mortys
Pokemon Go
Pokemon Sun & Moon
Pony Island
Portal Stories VR
Pro Evolution 2017
Punch Club
Ratchet and Clank 2016
Really Bad Chess
Rec Room
République
Rez Infinite
Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Rigs
RimWorld
Rise of the Tomb Raider
River City: Tokyo Rumble
Road Redemption
Robinson: The Journey
Rodeo Stampede
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake: Roots
Salt & Sanctuary
Severed
Shadow Tactics
Shadow Warrior 2
Skyrim Remastered
Slain: Back from Hell
Slide the Shakes
Sorcery Parts 1-4
Space Pirate Trainer
Spaceplan
Sports Bar VR
Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission
Star Wars VR: Trials on Tatooine
Starbound
Stardew Valley
SteamWorld Heist
Steep
Stellaris
Steppy Pants
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Street Fighter V
Subnautica
Super Mario Run
Super Stardust HD VR
Superhot
Superhypercube
Tales Of Cold Steel 2
Teeny Titans
Tethered
The Brookhaven Experiment
The Climb
The Lab
The Last Guardian
The Playroom VR
The Sea Will Claim Everything
The Trail (mobile)
The Witness
Thumper
Tilt Brush
Titanfall 2
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Tom Clancy's The Division
Tumble VR
Twilight Struggle
Uncharted 4
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Vanishing Realms
Waltz of the Wizard
Watch Dogs 2
Wayward Sky
We Know The Devil
Werewolves Within
Windlands
Witcher 3 Blood and Wine
World of Warcraft: Legion
XCOM 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus

Missing anything? Did I accidentally leave some doubles in there?

Kentucky Route Zero: Act IV
Tricky Towers

missing Bullet Hell Monday

I forgot to nominate it but Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS)

Good thing I didn't have time to compile until now, haha. Should have a thread/link up soon for voting!

Mordy: re Subnautica

I just started the game, so most of my experience of it is through streamers. Like other feted early-release first person survival games (Ark: Survival Evolved, Rust, The Forest, Empyrion), the basic gameplay loop is solid, but it remains up in the air whether it will be judged a "complete" aesthetic experience. Its environment (alien ocean) is unique, capturing the wonder and fear I'm familiar with from scuba diving.

please add Steep

Without further ado...

Tenth annual Coint & Plick. Vote for the best video games of 2016! DEADLINE: MARCH 6

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Coint & Plick 2017 - ILX's best games of the year - NOMINATIONS (Deadline: March 4)