"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"
― The Band Perry is the drummer for Gay Dad (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Just FYI I will be bored at work for the next 2 days
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― And thusly create the illusion of babby (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
*shakes fist at god*
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Two-way tie for #64:
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
#64: Dance Central – 360 – 15 pts – 3 votesOfficial 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!
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
#64: Chime – PC/360/PS3 – 15 pts – 3 votesOfficial 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 andevery 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
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
No sweat!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
YAY
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
better than blops
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― if, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
#63: Art Style: Light Trax – Wii – 17 pts – 2 votesOfficial 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
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
The illegal link: http://tubedubber.com/#S34olFV-eDo:OXuwkoRTamg:0:100:0:0:true
Wooooooooooooooooooo!!
― secretariat on demand (Z S), Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
thx to both of you wrt this, if i havent already made that clear
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I believe the proper way to express that sentiment is WOOOOOOOOYAYUH
YAAAY-UH
― secretariat on demand (Z S), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Two-way tie for 61st.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
#61: Kirby’s Epic Yarn – Wii – 19 pts – 2 votesOfficial 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!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
doing fine boyo
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Last one for today.
#61: Alan Wake – 360 – 19 pts – 2 votesOfficial 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
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Holding true to my one major error per post ratio.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha yeah that was my biggest disappointment/most hated of the year vote iirc
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
Chime was ass, wtf is wrong with you people.
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Friday, 6 May 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
i played the hell outta chime. really enjoyed it.
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 May 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
it felt like a weaksauce version of Lumines
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Friday, 6 May 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
and tbh I always thought Lumines was pretty overrated in its own right
i just like philip glass
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I do too! but not that song. if they'd picked the epilogue from Satyagraha I would be calling it the best game ever.
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
derp, I mean the epilogue from Akhnaten (the one working in all the Einstein on the Beach bits)
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Should I do more this afternoon? y/n
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://teamofmonkeys.com/maze-mazes/images/maze-of-uppercase-y-yonatan-frimer-1000.png
― secretariat on demand (Z S), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yes!
― Mordy, Friday, 6 May 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
the answer to that question is always yes
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Alan Wake plot summary: The darkness took her so I had to write a story about the darkness so I could get into the darkness to save her because my story about the darkness became real!
― You Get Hoynes (bnw), Friday, 6 May 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Eight-way tie for 53. I only have time to do one this evenin'.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
#53: Super Crate Box – PC – 20 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Site
http://www.pixelprospector.com/wp-content/gallery/super-crate-box/super-crate-box-02.jpg
Super Crate Box is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can. Prepare for an arcade delight with interesting, refreshing game mechanics, cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JlGC8GVlJM
Bamcquern: not as good as the demo version but the basic idea of collecting as many crates as you possibly can no matter how doing so will disadvantage your position is still there
http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/coverback2.gif
Rock Paper Shotgun review
http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2011/067/623298_20110309_640screen002.jpg
MTV blog review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8aeZ_41Z3E
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4MUf6T4VzPw/TNdMAGZdPvI/AAAAAAAARtY/Y4vz_PK2fhU/vlambeer-super-crate-box-papercraft.jpg
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
#53: Space Funeral – PC – 20 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Site? I think?
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/spacefun5a.png
Bamcquern: jrpg less interesting for how it interrogates the limits of the form than for its atmosphere, unlicensed music and its Platonism-themed punch line
http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/images/spacefuneral-2010-10-12/sob.png
Nhex: Some people have pushed Space Funeral as the quirky horrible RPGMaker game of the year, but mostly it is just terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syDXH-ZPXvA
RPS review
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/10/oct/spacefuneral.png
http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/space_funeral_02.jpg
Celestis makes it possible to honor the dream and memory of your departed loved one by launching a symbolic portion of cremated remains into Earth orbit, onto the lunar surface or into deep space.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
les rallizes denudes track in that youtube clip - nice!
― original bgm, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
#53: Mirror’s Edge – iPhone – 20 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Site
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/edgephone.jpg
Autumn Almanac: The designers really thought about how to execute parkour platforming on a touch screen and it shows.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2829849839_765697c938.jpg
abcfsk: Mirror's Edge is just wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i791LVFlxQg
http://i.neoseeker.com/gg/uploads/news/10-2008/news_img_14791_5.jpg
Touch Arcade review
IGN review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr5LQq42l4M
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Probably my last one until next week, btw.
bummer. i hope this list finishes before we start soliciting ballots for 2011
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
If forks has some free time he can always tag in during my absence.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
bummer. i hope this list finishes before we start soliciting ballots for 2011too late TACTICS OGRE 4 PRESIDENT 2011
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
honestly wish i had more time for this guys. candle already burning on both ends
― Special Fleshlights for their Patriotism (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Well, let's see if I can polish off the 53's at least
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
#53: Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi – 360 – 20 pts – 1 vote
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/33346/1349472-ketsui_large.jpg
We have the year 2054 and we are in the middle of a War. An Evil Company by the name EVAC is making massive Profit by, illegally, Producing and selling Weapon Systems. The United Nations discovered EVAC's doings and asked them to immediately stop all actions and to Destroy all Facilities. EVAC refused to take any action and now the United Nations started a preventive War against the evil Company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSLrU6jtjk
Trivia: The Evil Company's name EVAC is the word CAVE spelled backwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcBJUBc-3qY
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
#53: Guwange – 360 – 20 pts – 1 vote
http://javs.it/files/2010/02/Guwange.jpg
Despite being more well-known in the West for games like DonPachi and Deathsmiles, Guwange is one of Cave's most revered shooting titles in its native Japan. This is for two reasons: its medieval setting is a nice break from the usual science-fiction fare found in the genre, while its unique "shikigami" mechanic turns what could be a tedious shooter into an enthralling blend of frantic action and delicate positioning. - Kotaku
http://download.xbox.com/content/images/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a78/1033/screenlg2.jpg
Alan N: This was the year that I officially regressed into a moldy retro gamer. the focus is really narrow on my list: shmups, j-rpgs, and platformers. I'm basically OK with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaAYgvxyHCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0gGDRNCMc
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link