The Fourth Annual Coint and Plick Video Games Poll - Part Three: #53 - 79

also do normal peeps actually do those 8 hour endurance races in gran turismo, or just my crazy ass alkie former roommate? because leaving for work in the morning and then coming home afterwards and realizing hes been sitting in the same chair drinking a bottle of sailor jerrys rum and doing THE SAME EXACT RACE for like 7 hours was uh unsettling to me

Haha.

When I was a kid I bought a "Space Shuttle" simulator for the ZX Spectrum, because space is rad and awesome etc, and was totally not impressed to discover the manual was several small-print pages of technical-sounding descriptions of 100 different keyboard commands, and that the gameplay was effectively staring at a blank view portal for 6 hours while some numbers changed slightly underneath

my dad, however, actually took on the challenge, making me sad that I could not play inane brightly-coloured platform games that weekend

so that was pretty much the end of me and simulators (excluding god sims/simcity type stuff, which I am still a sucker for, though I do keep buying them and then going "this is actually quite boring now I don't have the patience of a teenager on a PC which only has 1 game installed")

Five way tie for 66 and some major challops ahead

That one game on PC patience is responsible for my beating a dozen infocom and Lucasarts games without the aid of walkthroughs.

what does it say about me that you could substitute out "race in Gran Turismo" for "raid in World of Warcraft" and that could basically be me

wait what are we subbing for sailor jerrys rum?

Maker's Mark or Sam Seasonal, probably

I don't think I am ever knowingly buying Sailor Jerrys Rum, he might come after me

#66: Call of Duty: Black Ops – PS3/360/PC/Wii/DS – 15 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site
http://www.co-optimus.com/images/upload/image/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops%287%29.jpg

jim in glasgow: (May 19, 2010) Once bitten thrice shy; not even going to consider playing this.
(November 7, 2010) Think i might be poop socking it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtRnpC7ddv8

The public library has a moral authority; it should be about learning, not learning to kill.

http://www.ps3community.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/black-ops-ops.jpg

Gametrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NQSX7Mne3A

Chrisv2010: Black Ops has toned down the sniping to the point that there are no more of those quick scoping shitheads. A sniper rifle needs to be used like a sniper rifle.

http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/images/uploaded_images/Black%20Ops%20zombies%20header--article_image.jpg

Guardian Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pblj3JHF-Jo

Polyphonic: I was blown away by how incomprehensible the cutscenes are.

http://anyauto.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-Jeep-Wrangler-Unlimited-1.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuIj-zP3RoE

Antexit: I feel like I get more or less the same sort of concentrated pleasure from the new pac-man game as from this game. the amount of playtime it would take to get up to 15x prestige you could probably work at mcdonald's and save enough to buy gold-plated guns irl...

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13800000/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-wallpaper-call-of-duty-black-ops-13857633-830-467.jpg

The inherent social media dangers of courting deranged teenagers

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbl119cwwE1qzb9hgo1_500.jpg

Zero Punctuation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV01n03Sk7A

jjjusten: oh my god the single player on this (yeah yeah i know) is the dumbest shit i have ever seen… and i played just cause 2!

http://www.nave360.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-Zombies-Mode-Gets-Surprising-Details-2.jpg

$1 BILLION in sales plus the year's most pirated game

lolol @ the jim in glasgow quotes

Every year a game like this finishes incredibly low in our poll and I always find it incredibly heartening.

Bigger than avatar AND TAKE THAT

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-14-black-ops-bigger-than-avatar-take-that

what the hell is take that?

The Best Band in Britain

http://991.com/newGallery/Take-That-Take-That--Party-380476.jpg

as a dude who gets paid to moderate gamers' facebook comments I remain astonished at how many different ways kids can misspell "Black Ops"

like at this point when I see the box art I half expect it to read BALCK OPPS

hahahaha so proud that i don't know who the fuck take that are

wow, only 2 votes

yeh a bit o_0 that some of games i voted for are going to place above BLOPS

i figured ppl would vote it just for more mentions of the word.... BLOPS

but yeh, pretty heartening heh

what's not heartening is that the game I halfheartedly awarded my last 5 points to is going to end up somewhere north of here

as a dude who gets paid to moderate gamers' facebook comments I remain astonished at how many different ways kids can misspell "Black Ops"

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― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:47 (Yesterday)

hold on hold on, you're not secretly one of my moderators are you?

hahahaha so proud that i don't know who the fuck take that are

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― I saw this awesome photo of a marmot (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:49 (Yesterday)

you sure abt that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ICtCO8TCw

great, now i know who the fuck take that are and they suck.

what's not heartening is that the game I halfheartedly awarded my last 5 points to is going to end up somewhere north of here

Yeah, I did some last-minute points inflation on realising that my short ballot didn't meet the minimum points total, and now I don't know whether to feel bad that my hasty casual gamer votes are going to dwarf the BLOPSes of the year, or if such craziness is all just part of the fun of Coint+Plick...

I like that ilx taste doesn't just c/p gamefaq's

Yeah, I did some last-minute points inflation on realising that my short ballot didn't meet the minimum points total, and now I don't know whether to feel bad that my hasty casual gamer votes are going to dwarf the BLOPSes of the year, or if such craziness is all just part of the fun of Coint+Plick...

I feel this, yeah. After I sent my ballot in I realised I should've maybe scaled down my total points relative the number of things I actually voted for. My number one choice def deserves its 5-point inflation though.

?

hahahah, i was going to do this wasn't i

If you want I can finish it for you. Your call obviously.

sigh.
maybe?

nut up forks! PSN's down anyway!

Yah, but three jobs are in full swing!

dude ur going to bang this thing out the week i get married and over my honeymoon arent u u son of a bitch

"honey can we drive into town i need internets so i can check on what videogames won in the ilg poll oh hey why u putting my luggage out here on the lawn"

Just FYI I will be bored at work for the next 2 days

poly, you wanna drop me a line and we can work out a bit of a succession plan? I have a great deal of the core work finished here; the numbers are all worked.

*shakes fist at god*

Two-way tie for #64:

#64: Dance Central – 360 – 15 pts – 3 votes
Official Game Site

http://www.gamehoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Dance-Central-motion.jpg

Mitch Krpata: Fitness games are one thing, but you'll break a sweat without complaining in Dance Central.

http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2010/228/reviews/997631_08172010_640screen007.jpg

Polyphonic: It's very easy to humiliate yourself playing this, and the track list sometimes leaves a bit to be desired, but this is a very well-made Kinect game that is a blast to play or to watch. This is the ultimate girlfriend game for a large segment of girlfriends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbF-qFMySU

Eurogamer Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYtH28esTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JG4BpAY7A4

thanks for doing this dude!

#64: Chime – PC/360/PS3 – 15 pts – 3 votes
Official Game Site

http://consolepress.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FTR-Chime-GamePlay.jpg

Will M: Every year I think there are no new ideas for fun puzzle games and
every year a new puzzle game ends up being really fun.

Eurogamer review

litel: Chime is a pretty compelling puzzler. Well worth the price.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZs3SrGybw

Nhex: Chillest puzzle game ever.

http://www.sportsmantalk.org/jokes/images/Redneck%20Wind%20Chime.jpg

thanks for doing this dude!

No sweat!

YAY

better than blops

YAY!!

Dance Central would almost be enough to persuade me to get Kinect, if it wasn't for the fact that my flat is way too tiny for it to work properly.

It lives! Thanks forks and thanks polyphonic!

I really wanted to like Chime but it feels kinda clunky to me. But I've been playing it on my laptop, which is not a gaming machine at all and doesn't have a real mouse, so maybe that's why. I liked the music though, and since I got it for like £2 in some Steam sale or other it was still worth the price.

#63: Art Style: Light Trax – Wii – 17 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site

http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/107/1071651/art-style-light-trax-20100224023013453_640w.jpg

zappi: ok so i was hyped up for Light Trax cos i love the game that its based on, but holy shit did Skip deliver - the minimal bleep music & art style, the new freeway mode, the improved more tactical gameplay - its a shame i don't smoke weed anymore cos this seems to be designed for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALe7wFWXFuE

abanana: a racing game that looks great. track memorization still required,
unfortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HMRpN0UJE

It's like Tron, but not.

[Removed Illegal Link]

http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2010/054/990142_20100224_640screen011.jpg

Eurogamer review

The illegal link: http://tubedubber.com/#S34olFV-eDo:OXuwkoRTamg:0:100:0:0:true

Wooooooooooooooooooo!!