The Fourth Annual Coint and Plick Video Games Poll - Part One: #106 - AKA the 26 games that got one vote and five points

#106: Osmos – iPhone – 5 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://handpickedpixels.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Osmos.png

Post Mortem

Surfing at Work: Dreamy and difficult.

http://d26zvu0xdzossp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/osmosiphone_screen1-642x428.png

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrzhlTn1_ds

Jamescobo: Fun but very very overrated. If you were one of those people who busted a massive nut over the Bit Generations games, you'll probably love this.

http://osx.iusethis.com/screenshot/osx/osmos.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCNwdRRy4c

groovypanda: Osmos is a great gaming experience and the soundtrack rocks (in an extremely ambient way of course).

Download the Free Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWI_CiMVT8I

http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/steve_jobs-osmos_ipad_2.jpg

”Spiritual Advisor” Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiMVNwt-8f8

Lead Designer/Programmer Interview

http://cdn.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/osmos_iphone.jpg

GamalielRatsey: Succumbed to Osmos, which helped soothe my hangover. Clever and fun.

#106: Playpen – Web Based – 5 pts – 1 vote - FREE
Official Game Site

http://www.boingboing.net/oimages/playpenduck.png

As you wander through the world of PlayPen, clicking from picture to picture by depressing your left mouse button whenever you find an interesting text prompt hidden in the images, you visit places, people, ideas and imaginings created by other players. Sometimes a text prompt will include the words (Draw new page). If you follow one of these prompts, you'll find yourself looking at an empty image and a simple set of drawing tools. This is your opportunity to get creative. Please try to remember how you got there though, so your new page makes sense when other people come to visit it. Also, if you're looking at someone else's page and you think I have a great idea that would make this page even better, please hit the Draw Here button and edit that page.

http://static.philpep.org/oujevipo.fr/images/stories/jeux/M-R/playpen.jpg

One of Gamasutra’s Top 10 Experimental Freeware Games of 2010

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4558426617_1646671f9a.jpg

Developer Interview

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2l3onWhFV1qaz8s5o1_500.png

Best of Playpen Tumblr

http://blog.samuelrhodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/playpen_leprechauns_400.png

Bamcquern: Like Wikipedia crossed with a visual novel.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2se3j0aBr1qaz8s5o1_500.png

http://playpen.farbs.org/index.php?title=Ilx_makes_me_mad

Oh, I forgot about Osmos. I'd still say it was clever and fun - the whole scaling thing really worked for me, and, to give it credit, the whole ambient thing really did help my hangover. Haven't played it a whole lot at all since that hangover tho.

i have monster hunter tri but the scale of it overwhelmed & i gave up

reminded that GunGirl 2 did have a pretty nice soundtrack

#106: PrincessRL – PC – 5 pts – 1 vote – FREE!
Official Game Site and Download Hub

http://doryen.eptalys.net/data/libtcod-projects/princessrl_004-full.jpg

a passing spacecadet: An ASCII roguelike take on Princess Maker, with multiple dungeons and special combo moves, supposedly coded within a week. Remarkably, it actually manages to be fun to play (though I admit it's an acquired taste).

http://doryen.eptalys.net/data/libtcod-projects/princessrl_003-full.jpg

Dev Blog

http://flend.net/images/princess1small.png

Winner of the 7DRL Competition

oh man, had no idea about this. i loved princess maker (i think pm2 to be exact) back in teh day.

#106: Shoot First – PC – 5 pts – 1 vote – FREE!
Official Game Site and Download Hub

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/178641-shoot.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANnfaH5NqT4

Dev Blog

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4776289953_3726b8b0b4.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI9AvwEK29Q

http://teknopants.com/games/sfb.gif

Also by Teknopants: Grid Shock

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/shootfir3a.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lamAKE1Gg

Bamcquern: This is a procedurally generated top-down shooter that only works on really good computers.

http://tk-nation.com/uploads/5_shootfir3b.png

#106: Sin and Punishment 2: Star Successor – Wii – 5 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/media/wii/sin_and_punishment2_/sin_and_punishment2_-4.jpg

Metacritic

http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/915/915813/sin-and-punishment-2-20081002032142590_640w.jpg

zappi: Sin & Punishment 2 is: (A) ugly as hell, the cutscenes will make you want to gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon, (B) really really difficult at times and (C) tremendous fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkF-NUtFSY

Iwata Asks Treasure

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sin-and-punishment-2-wii-underwater-gameplay-screenshot.jpg

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/03/69/36985_normal.jpg

Gamasutra Critical Roundup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsTFyou_OXI

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sin-and-punishment-2-release-date-june-7-2010.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7dOy6xIGo

GameTrailer Review

http://www.cubed3.com/media/2010/April/jesusraz/punishment2/53477_Sin_Punishment2_32.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_65falVSWM

http://4playerpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/sin-and-punishment-boss-585x408.jpg

So how far through the 5pt games are we?

six more; we'll start a new thread on friday.

73 to go

do you understand how difficult it is to explain to people IRL what it is that I'm doing spending an hour a day on this? it's olympic nerdery

I'm gonna have to watch some of the youtubes upthread because I am unfamiliar with most of these games.

Great presentation forks!

My solution is to never people about the nerdy shit I do.

you never them, huh?

Boy is my red.

Is there any way we could do this all in one big thread? Think of the ILX LOL (list of lists)!

tried that method and people freak out because the media takes FOREVER to load.
I'll put a list of prior nominees and earlier threads at the top of each new thread so you can easily click through to older ones, a'la: Concluding The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Four: #1 through #20

do you understand how difficult it is to explain to people IRL what it is that I'm doing spending an hour a day on this? it's olympic nerdery

― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 3:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

aw

seconded

#106: Sleep is Death – PC – 5 pts – 1 vote – Only two bucks (minimum)!
Official Game Site and Download Hub

http://pc.gamezone.com/images/sized/images/screenshots/SleepIsDeathfeature-630x218.jpg

Gamasutra Analysis

Forksclovetofu: It's a two-player only game where people take thirty second turns scripting, scoring and animating an 8-bit environment that they each play through together. My vote for Sleep Is Death is nearly a meta-recommendation; I wasn’t able to devote the time and energy it required you to put into it, but the concept and the quantum leap forward that it made even as a proof of concept deserves acknowledgement. If this had come out when I was in high school and had lots of free time, I basically would’ve eat/sleep/breathed this; as it is, I probably played it four times and backed slowly away. I blame myself, not the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGiBd1pTVCs

Stories

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/forever.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdVDmfbwjI

Dev Blog

http://a.onionstatic.com/images/media/game/654/sleep-is-death_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg

Mordy: This was really easy to set up; I made an interrogation room, a visitor's room for a prison, a house, a prisoner in striped pajamas and a hanging interrogation style lightbulb. Everything else I needed came with the game. I'm already working on something for my wife where I made an avatar that looks like her.

Onion AV Club Rohrer Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZ73DBndx8

Wired

http://www.boingboing.net/oimages/sleepdeathpayanything.png

The Trend of De-Automation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgNdoFnlHg

Shannon Galvin’s Worldbuilding Tutorial

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/04/02/1.png

Brainy Gamer Recommendations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6QDJQOa5Lw

Boing Boing

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/100427-sid.jpg

GM: This is a thing that I will pay for and hardly ever use, I am sure.

Rohmer Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYHd7fS78A

Hundreds of Resource Packs

#106: Slingo Supreme – iPhone – 5 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TrXBRDgQciQ/TG1oQeM3Q6I/AAAAAAAALGU/gxUVcy3ZIn0/s1600/Slingo+Supreme.jpg

Play Online for Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmL7ADoJUBM

jeff: It's not even fun and only barely a game, but still very playable.

http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/027/Purple/28/52/85/mzl.zviqnjhb.480x480-75.jpg

Developer Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfk3zuUiVpk

Dev Blog

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/1392365/

jamescobo: God, why can’t I stop playing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d80rFtHYjbE

Touch Arcade Review

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/1392373/

I played this a few times but I don't think I ended up voting for it. It was enjoyable but it was also a lot of work. When you get home in the evening you don't want to start creating objects and slaving over textures to make them look right. Also, there were way more people who wanted to play with your worlds than vice-versa, and it's much more satisfying being the player than the creator. xp

#106: Sly Cooper Collection – PS3 – 5 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4e1n2HVpl1qbzf0vo1_500.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jiMBnzi0P4

Game Trailer Review

http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/244260_S/New-Sly-Cooper-Collection-Comparison-Screens.jpg

”Which body part would you be?”

http://images.cosplay.com/photos/11/1151909.jpg

Eurogamer Review

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/06/5303gamesinone.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yfb6KF7B4M

Cozen: I’m claiming credit for this btw.

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sly3sl1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqK319Kn3Cg

s1ocki: Is this like some british tea simulator or something?

700+ Sly Cooper Fanfic stories

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs20/f/2007/267/8/8/Pregnant_Female_Sly_Cooper__by_Virus_20.jpg

wtf is that

Pregnant_Female_Sly_Cooper__by_Virus_20.jpg

posting just so that i never have to see that again

can you put cozen's quote on that last pic? thanks

6. Sly and bentleys Happy time adventure! :3 by Neo the Otter
sLY AND BENT HAVE A HAPPT TIME ADVENTURE! NOT FOR KIDS
Rated: M - English - Humor/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 490 - Published: 12-28-10

wow slingo is terrible!

so it's bingo and what now?

I can't believe you fuckers made me buy slingo, it's the worst game I've ever played for three hours straight.

hahaha i was just about to come here and bitch about slingo and how it isnt even a game and bitch bitch bitch and then i noticed that i had been playing the lite version for 2 hours without realizing it.

this is why people have gambling problems

Slingo effortlessly combines the thrills of Bingo with the fun of poking blindly at a screen

said the guy who's like three stars away from 100%ing it

that slingo is evil

played it for an hour on lite and then deleted it. why? bc it was simultaneously so addictive and yet every new round i played made me angrier and angrier that it was suckering me in

What the hell now I really want to NOT download slingo

i am worried that one of my voted before i had time to play it games isnt going to place at this point, but that wont really be the end of the world, although i looked forward to yammering about its strengths (and significant weaknesses). no spoilers tho, so you will all just have to guess.

I thought all votes were placing?

no im saying i didnt play it until after i voted, so unless someone else voted for it it wont make the list (and i havent really heard anybody talk about it on here so?)

http://www.blogcdn.com/news.bigdownload.com/media/2010/05/warrirosboxcovermay7.jpg

I forgot to ask if I could vote for Evony.

NAUGHTY BEAR! NAUGHTY BEAR! NAUGHTY BEAR!

Naughty Bear is definitely not the worst game I played this year fwiw.

wow

i am impressed that a) you played naughty bear and b) that there are worse games!