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

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.

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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.

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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!!

thx to both of you wrt this, if i havent already made that clear

I believe the proper way to express that sentiment is WOOOOOOOOYAYUH

YAAAY-UH

Two-way tie for 61st.

#61: Kirby’s Epic Yarn – Wii – 19 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site

Polyphonic: Amazing levels, incredible visual style. This game could really use the horsepower of the PS3 to give those cloth textures more appeal (i.e. Little Big Planet), but still one of the most creative games of the year.

http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/112/1120639/kirbys-epic-yarn-20100914060905480_640w.jpg

Silby: Cute.

http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/112/1120639/kirbys-epic-yarn-20100914060914434_640w.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkht8JTdyOo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3035/2507256940_c99e909ef6.jpg

Zero Punctuation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PsOCN4RU88

Eurogamerzzzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lly6rCcp09E

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/4522008012_a168f8214e.jpg

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

Oops, meant to go image - quote - image up there. I am terrible at this!

doing fine boyo

Last one for today.

#61: Alan Wake – 360 – 19 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/alan-wake.jpg

Craig G: This game genuinely spooked me and got me panicky in places when fighting/running for survival. The narration really reminded me of Max Payne, which I loved back in the day. I didn't finish the game, but I really want to, just to get the rest of the story (though I think I heard it ends on a cliffhanger). The episodic layout of the game had an almost certainly deliberate Twin Peaks feel to it, and also fits quite nicely with my short attention span.

http://mktplassets.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/5DDA154F-EDCB-4D43-9A6F-1D3EF6C43672/0/simAlanWake00.jpg

GM: the visuals are not a problem at all. kinda digging it so far, despite similarities to failures like Heavy Rain and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSB4QcQMm6E

Cozen: the visual style reminds me more of the 2005 remake of the fog

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01417/alanwake2_1417057c.jpg

bnw: some good ideas behind this game but plagued with an unlikable main character who never shuts up ... I think its biggest issue is that its just not freaky/weird enough especially in comparison to SH. it tries for this psychological thriller level but isn't smart enough to move it past cliches.

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/107/1070128/alan-wake-20100218084206752_640w.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECv-qHCz_c

Euro-Gamer

jjjusten: not one scare in the whole thing, ultra repetetive gameplay to the point of huge frustration, garbage script, super boring visually, makes the color palatte in FO3 look like a rainbow brite episode, pointless driving sections, terrible characters, and for bonus points direct ripoffs of other games and the most noxious product placement ive ever seen (not in quantity, but in the way its done). god i hated this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzoA09eTmxo

Holding true to my one major error per post ratio.

hahaha yeah that was my biggest disappointment/most hated of the year vote iirc

Chime was ass, wtf is wrong with you people.

i played the hell outta chime. really enjoyed it.

it felt like a weaksauce version of Lumines

and tbh I always thought Lumines was pretty overrated in its own right

i just like philip glass

I do too! but not that song. if they'd picked the epilogue from Satyagraha I would be calling it the best game ever.

derp, I mean the epilogue from Akhnaten (the one working in all the Einstein on the Beach bits)

Should I do more this afternoon? y/n

http://teamofmonkeys.com/maze-mazes/images/maze-of-uppercase-y-yonatan-frimer-1000.png

Yes!