The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part One: #77 through #93

Surprised to see Forza already. And NFS Shift, for that matter. I seem to remember quite a lot of us playing and enjoying one or both of them, according to the individual threads.

Yup, that's what I was thinking reading the latest bunch, didn't expect to see Forza 3 so low, and with only one vote. I mean, I've not played it and didn't vote but I thought it would be higher.

In other news I bought 50 Cent Blood on the Sand and think it deserved more than one vote. It handles a little clunky compared to others in the genre like Gears of War, but something about it feels solidly arcade-shooter, like when I used to play Devastators at the arcade as a kid. It's pretty good fun.

So far there are a couple of games I haven't even heard of (pixeljunk shooter, critter crunch, death smiles) that I'm interested to check out now too...

"loooooong tail"?

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:05 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Long Tail or long tail is a retailing concept describing the niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities – usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities.

i.e. you coulda set a score cutoff so that shit that gets one vote doesn't show in the results.

Ah, but part of the fun of this is seeing those danglers that you probably hadn't heard of or completely forgot about.

i understand the concept, just didn't see how it applies.
and yes, the idea is to try to have a yearly representation of all the games we play

lady if u have to ask

that's what the show your ballots aftermath is for. xposts its your show, bro. just making suggestions

eh, i like having a concordance

Eh, I don't that show your ballots stuff afterward, I mean we had thirty votes here. Also easier to talk about this way, before we get to the heavy hitters.

In unrelated news, this thread is the first real test I've had to see the difference in heavy page loading between Firefox and Chrome, and wow. Immense. I'm just keeping a tab open in Chrome for this now.

which did u vote for

I'm also thinking of the last poll thread I was in, that '00s TV thread, where after the results were done it totally devolved into people just listing their votes and stopped being fun or readable.

i think the thing neogaf does well (i know, i know) is present a thread with a ton of back information on games so you can see/read/hear everything about them before you take the plunge. I'm not saying we need to do a lot more of that, but a once a year taking-of-stock seems appropriate. As I said, more than an arbitrary THESE ARE _YOUR_ TOP TEN list, I like the idea of coint and plick as a 365 day signpost for a state of the hobby/art panorama. Constricting that in any way strikes me as not serving the final purpose.
Also: aspies

i dig getting the one vote stuff! i mean theres a shit ton of stuff released every year and im willing to sift out stuff on the basis of one vote rather than by metacritic score

plus then i know who to angrily shake my fist at if it sucks

yeah, including the one vote things, in a poll this small, is great!

you are all wrong and stupid

Fuck tha haters, Forks. It's good reading through all the stuff about games that (in many cases) didn't even occur to me. Plus, y'know, every vote means something. Also with it being split over a few threads, if you aren't interested in the 1-voters; wait for the next thread(s) before getting all butt hurt that we're not at the top ten yet.

looking forward (srsly) to the logjam of 10 point single vote getters

The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Two: #52 through #75