Concluding The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Four: #1 through #20

World of Warcraft (ongoing) - 30
Orbital for iPhone - 30
Wipeout HD Fury - 20
Street Fighter IV - 8
Dragon Age - 7
Demons Souls - 5

lol at my point distribution pushing my hobby-horse games way up in the rankings

i would have probably given orbital more points but I HATE WHAT IT HAS DONE TO MY LIFE

but i still love it so. sigh.

the croc level was fine for me; my main issue with Arkham was the MIND NUMBING REPETITION of voice over stuff. I knew I was frustratingly stuck on a level when I had to listen to joker or harley or gordon or thug #12 or a warden say the same shit 99BAZILLION times. They drastically underestimated either how many variants they needed or when the time was to cut off the talking. Having it go on forever sometimes made me have to play it on mute when hunting for riddles.

Idk, the croc thing was this maddening combo of really easy and really slow and really unfun.

Biggest problem I have w/the game is kind of the zero replayability factor.

That being said, like bioshock, worth it for how great a single playthrough can be when in the right hands.

23 Left 4 Dead 2
23 Trials HD
14 Battlefield 1943
12 Beatles Rock Band
10 Orbital Iphone
8 Drop7
5 Guitar Hero Iphone
5 GTAIV TBOGT

yrs a mostly casual gamer

= 1) GTA IV - The Ballad of Gay Tony
= 1) Worms 2: Armageddon (XBLA)
3) Rockband: Beatles
4) GTA IV: The Lost And Damned
5) Pro Evolution Soccer
6) Time Fcuk
7) Battlefield 1943

in all fairness Worms 2 isn't the same game as the worms armageddon from a decade ago

1. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (19 POINTS)
2. Dragon Age: Origins (13 POINTS)
3. Trials HD (12 POINTS)
4. Games by jtmb02 (achievement unlocked, this is the only level, run elephant run) (11 POINTS)
5. Killing Floor (10 POINTS)
6. Shadow Complex (9 POINTS)
7. Arkham Asylum (8 POINTS)
8. 1 Vs 100 (7 POINTS)
9. Suikoden Tierkreis (6 POINTS)
10. Droplitz (5 POINTS)

In retrospect I would've made some changes, added & dropped some things, but... yeah that was my list.

Forks if you need some help next year definitely, definitely let me know, I am totally in. Awesome work. What a bizarre top 10 though-- I guess I forgot how many Ps3ers are on here.

yeah - amazing work forks this was a pleasure to read!

1. Arkham Asylum - (20 points)
2. Skate 2 - (18points)
3. Fallout 3 - Broken Steel - (15points)
4. Fallout 3 - Point Lookout - (15points)
5. Trials HD - (10points)
6. New Super Mario Brothers Wii - (9points)
7. Bowser's Inside Story - (8points)
8. Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - (5points)

Disappointment - Scribblenauts

I probably would have tied Arkham Assylum and Borderlands at top, and bumped Zelda off the list if I had played Borderlands before the ballot.

Thanks again Forks!

5 Guitar Hero Iphone

lol this doesn't even exist you twonk.

oh yeah, i meant rock band, don't worry forks cleared up my confusion for me :)

i didn't vote (i played, like, three of these games) but yeah well done forks

i voted for guitar hero android

kinda amazed arkham asylum finished #1. sure the demo was fun but far from legendary... anyway, great job obviously forks!

If even 60% of the demo's fun quotient carries over through the rest of the game, it will unambiguously be my #1 game of 2009 (even tho I didn't even touch the demo until 2010).

i have the feeling a bunch of people warmed up to borderlands just after they voted in the poll, obv craigG upthread and i think mordy as well?

xpost oh dan you are in for a treat, the rest of the game is way more fun than the demo, it goes in lots of directions that you def will not see coming, plus - SO MANY GADGETS

i am working thru borderlands hells slow because i am doing it coop with a friend and we can't get on as much as we we would like. anyhow, we only recently got past the first area and the game has finally kicked in now. before i was thinking that it was a super average game that i was only playing cos of the coop but now i am loving it and thinking of starting over 1p to quell the frustration of our glacial coop progress.

in all fairness Worms 2 isn't the same game as the worms armageddon from a decade ago

The only major difference is online play, right?

a bunch of new weapons/tech too, and new single-player campaign (also you could play the original worms armageddon online)

cobo - do you have a PC?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/16600/

fuck, guess I'm'a have to take the plunge

also my ballot:

1. Demons Souls (15 points)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (14 points)
3. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (14 points)
4. MLB 09: The Show (12 points)
5. Uncharted 2 (12 points)
6. Canabalt (8 points)
7. Way of the Samurai 3 (7 points)
8. Retro Game Challenge (7 points)
9. Metroid Prime Trilogy (6 points)
10. Big Word Puzzle Book (5 points)

games I regret leaving off: Bayonetta (although I'll just vote for it this year instead), skate 2, Sword & Poker ON IPHONE, Wolfenstein RPG ON IPHONE, Puzzler World (maybe even instead of the controversy magnet Big Word Puzzle Book)

man last year owned so hard.

also GOOD JOB FORX. if you wanted I would be happy to help start/populate a Wordpress blog w/ all these entries for archival/nerd-trolling purposes.

wolfenstein RPG?!

Oh yeah, I've got that game. If I had realized it came out this year I would've voted for it.

go for it jamescobo!

just bought trash panic btw, will report back

I reluctantly accept this high-paying, largely ceremonial position

http://cointandplick.wordpress.com

someone make a logo. also if anyone wants on the blogroll holla at yr boy.

voted 5 stars!

also (pedant) if you want to fix the spelling of my name in that first post, i will not be angry

intersting

So I guess I'll give batman a second chance. I hated that demo so much though, I was REALLY BORED within five minutes. Clearly I missed something. Going to grab it again today and give it another go.

Forks, u hero. I'd like to buy you a pint! Paypal? :-)

still haven't bought batman ;_;

might go grab it today actually

Oh, and my votes were:

Plants vs Zombies - 5pts
Fallout 3: Point Lookout - 5pts
Beatles Rock Band - 5pts
Retro Game Challenge - 5pts
Tekken 6 - 10pts
Bayonetta - 10pts
1 vs 100 - 10pts
Battlefield 1943 - 10pts
Shadow Complex - 10pts
Rittai Picross - 30pts

Should've finessed my scoring a bit really, kinda nuts that I gave tekken 6 the same score as bayonetta.

(In other news, I fiddled around in some of the deeper menus of Rittai Picross last night, trying to get the text to turn english...and managed to delete my savegame and my 235 completed puzzles, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). Will wait for the euro one before I restart, I think.

cozen how did you log 600 hours on SFIV and not then vote for it

keen observation lol

i played an assload of NHL 10 and didn't vote for it. some games you play because they're a sickness.

MW2 IMO

that site is awesome!
I'll take you upon that pint sometime.

btw I will be adding in the comments I was too lazy to include with my ballot into the results here. EDITORIAL DISCRETION~

when you're driving, you can make detours.

omg I missed so much by having images off

those would be good last words

ayo jamescobo, if you want to add the hi dere and jjjusten collaborative and inactive blog to yer blogroll, cool. http://jjjusten.blogspot.com/

done and done

The blog looks awesome btw!

standing on the shoulders of giants, etc.

also if'n anyone wants to make a ILG/C&P logo I'll gladly put it up top

i say keep it text-exclusive, like this board

Guys, I played Hatsworth and it's bonkers amazing. So much fun, such innovative mechanics, etc, etc. I'm loving it.