This next one is listed as top Wii Ware but is now available on Steam as well.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
#42: Bit.Trip Runner – WiiWare/PC – 25 pts – 1 vote - TOP WIIWARE EXCLUSIVEOfficial Game Site
http://www.bittripgame.com/images/screen-btr-01.png
silby: One of those games that people who don't know anything about zen will call "totally zen". Subverts the upwelling of anger that comes with a failure by only giving you four beats to yell at the screen before you start each level over again. Curious caterpillars and voxelated 49ers.
http://www.bittripgame.com/images/screen-btr-02.png
Destructoid review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7f7OZpuffM
http://www.thetanooki.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Bit-Trip-Runner-Commander-Video-640x321.jpg
Default Prime review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZ5NcXzrUI
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
jjj, did ppl actually know about yr Target registry? I for one did not until just now
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah idk, protip - target is kinda bullshit when it comes to registries - case in point despite all my efforts to the contrary, they appear to have decided to ship all our gifts to my house during the week we were on our honeymoon.
― Midworst (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
so they are all uh somewhere? maybe one of them is a ps3, and i hope the kid who stole it gets electrocuted
― Midworst (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
i should really get in on all this bit.trip stuff, ive dug the ones ive tried
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
#41: 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa – PS3/360 – 25 pts – 2 votesOfficial Game Site
http://digiex.net/attachments/downloads/download-center-2-0/xbox-360-content/demos/4099d1270738302-2010-fifa-world-cup-south-africa-demo-download-985985_20100309_790screen007.jpg
EZ Snappin: World Cup corrected the most broken bits of FIFA 10. Shame they broke new stuff in FIFA 11.
http://ps3.gamezone.com/images/sized/images/screenshots/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_South_Africa_-_360_PS3_Wii_-_4-630x354.jpg
Euler: My son is playing this. We played as Spain and lost to the Faroe Islands, which gave the bitter lolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4beVIEEgKM
Eurogamer review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpMMjz4yQPM
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
thanks again for picking up the ball and running with it poly. i'm just in over my head right now and ILX has to be a respite, not another project.You saw that I already got most of the top 7 or so finished, right?
― he he he what would i not eat? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yup, I see it.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, sorry. I'll do a couple now.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
I would totally be willing to take this on and post 5 a day for the next week. Just throwing it out there. :)
― Z S, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Be careful what you wish for.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
two way tie for 39
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
#39: Trainyard – iPhone – 25 pts – 3 votesOfficial Game Site
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//Trainyard_01.jpg
ledge: Made me realise my favourite puzzle game is one where everything is controlled and determined, not random like bejewelled, or dependent on perfect timing and touchpad control like angry birds or cut the rope. It's all about thinking, not doing. Also a beautifully produced game, with a lovely look and feel and wonderfully tuneful sound fx.
http://c1345842.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/assets/screenshots/images/001/357/540/original.jpg?1276365589
Euler: A problem with puzzlers on this platform is the small screen real estate but this one gets it right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtIb7NEYgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKWJs5huXyY
MattD: A really cute little train puzzle game with a feature I don't see in many; most of the problems have multiple possible solutions. You can upload yours to the online database and see how other solved any given puzzle differently or more / less efficiently. It gives it some sold replay value as well as cutting down on the frustration that often ensues from trying to find the exact right way to solve a problem
Wired review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYPly3D8Gs
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
If we were voting now for 2010 (heaven forbid!) I'd rate Trainyard much higher yet; I'd only really just started with it at voting time, but it's been a reliable standby ever since (still not quite finished with the bonus puzzles, but close).
― Euler, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
#39: Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes – DS – 25 pts – 3 votesOfficial Game Site
http://sfx-360.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MightAndMagicClashOfHeroes.jpg
Euler: En realidad I didn't play many 2010 games this year but I happily played a lot of this on a bunch of transatlantic flights so it ends up near the top kinda by default. (If this were "best of what you played in 2010" by contrast, the winners would be Pic Pic, Strategery & Civ Rev for iOS, and Assassin's Creed, but you go with the year you have not, not the year you had at some previous date.) But Clash of Heroes was worth the time because leveling! new units! fast improvement! kinda puzzly! plot a helluva lot better than Puzzle Quest!
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/2009/12/custom_1260900505570_mightandmagicclash.jpg
abanana: puzzle rpgs still struggle with plot. but the puzzles were innovative here.
http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/100/1004030/might-and-magic-clash-of-heroes-20090715030430448.jpg
Will M.: I can't wait to try this out against other people whenever I end up buying the XBLA one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccV45fsoJI
IGN review
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
#38: VVVVVV – Flash/PC – 27 pts – 3 votesOfficial Game Site
http://www.merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/vvv2.png
a passing spacecadet: I have never had so much fun being so bad at a game. Thank you death counter for racking up just how bad I was. Thank you that one trinket with the 3-room-high jump which I spent over an hour swearing at. It was like being 8 and hunched over Jet Set Willy every evening for months all over again. Such beautiful wrist pain.
http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vvvvvv05.png
GM: No games hooked me as hard this year as genius throwbacks like ... VVVVVV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56c9NJO3ASM
Eurogamer revvvvvvview
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/gallery/files/9/8/0/0/vvvvvv_gleeee_original.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99qxCMb05g
http://distractionware.com/blog/img/2010/nov/vvvvvv.jpg
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
i very nearly voted for that
― nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
#37: Final Fantasy XIV – PS3 – 30 pts – 1 vote - 0.5 top game votesOfficial Game Site
http://au.playstation.com/media/DiKtuPTc/FinalFantasyXIV_Hero.JPG
Princess TamTam: a daring reimagining of what constitutes "good" and "fun" gaming... boldly elects to regress in quality from Final Fantasy XI... fearless in the way that all great art is, will one day be seen as a Duchampian lightning bolt that forced a reassessment of the status quo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwk3Ps3Jayw
Kotaku review
http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/242367_S/Final-Fantasy-14.jpg
Wikipedia:
Square Enix has sent at least two apologies to its customers, recognizing the poor quality of the game, asking for patience, and announcing free trial extensions and reshuffles in the development team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZ7B2XkzQc
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
just tried out trainyard recently - good stuff!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
i originally tried to give Final Fantasy XIV 100 points, but forks wasnt having it.
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha! when is it coming out on PS3, do they have a date yet?
― zappi, Thursday, 2 June 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Be careful what you wish for.― polyphonic, Wednesday, June 1, 2011
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
The gametrailers video for FFMMO is DAMNING
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
i'm serious, i'll do it if needed! i can take one for the ilg team
― Z S, Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
ffxiv was my most disappointing title of the year iirc
― Lamp, Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
Z S, I'll let you know but I think I'm fine for now.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
#36: Kill God – PC – 30 pts – 1 vote - 1 top game voteOfficial Game Site?
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/killgod.png
Bamcquern: kotm entry that may be my favorite bullet hell shmup because I don?t really play bullet hell shmups but also because I like the bullet patterns, the copy-paste aesthetic and that I can tell how good I'm doing based on how far through I've gotten through the Japanese song made up of three or four apparently not disparate musics
http://www.dumb.com/god/images/god.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGIMNplzAQ
http://neterubookstore.com/images/canmankillgod.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3eTsNEgmL8
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/target.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
If you can find a still from the game be my guest.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
haha, damn.
― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Two way tie for 34
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
#34: Sonic Colors – Wii – 30 pts – 2 votes - 1 top game voteOfficial Game Site
http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/Sonic-Colors-New-Trailer-Old-School.jpg
Autumn Almanac: Finally a good Sonic without filler. 3D Sonics always had tremendous potential; this is the closest the franchise has come.
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/sonic_colors_review.jpg
silby: Tolerable while muted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6-fzXlf8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAadsAR8rH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonhgARLb5U
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
is this "kill god"?http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/files/WAHT.png
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
#34: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 – PS3 – 30 pts – 2 votesOfficial Game Site
http://www.latinogamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image_pes_2011-12749-2028_0001.jpg
EZ Snappin: Huge step forward from 2010 that still has some issues but I'm playing at least one game a day.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MIlG9bZpU0U/TVocfsT5ELI/AAAAAAAAAQo/mZTq4vg2RfY/s1600/PES_2011_12.jpg
Daily Mail review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FNkit3wBc
PESFan review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-hVGx29IkI
Eurogamer again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT2qctMWl40
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
just finished playing 2 games. Still fun.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
#33: Rock Band 3 – 360/PS3/Wii – 30 pts – 3 votes - 1 top game votesOfficial Game Site
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rock-band-3-keyboard.jpg
JimD: I was out of practice by about five years until I got this and the pro keyboard. Now I can play again. So that's a pretty huge gift to get from a game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAy-NGf2VQ
Joystiq review
http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/Drum-Rocker-Pro-for-Rock-Band-3.jpg
Mitch Krpata: The best music game of all time just got better. But did we see its death throes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAaRPYKdkTM
Game Informer
http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/166366-134551-RockBand.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Qxuw8C16s
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
#32: Costume Quest – PS3/360 – 32 pts – 3 votesOfficial Game Site
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/costumequest_preview.jpg
Mordy: I really only played this for one night - the evening of Halloween - but what a night it was. Costume Quest is colorful and cute and just long enough for a single extended evening of play. Though it's hampered by a rushed third act and gameplay that is about as challenging as you'd expect (not very) it's really fun and irrepressible.
http://www.thatgamerpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/costume-quest-2010-08-11-01_173jv-1024x614.jpg
litel: Costume Quest is really, really fantastic.
forksclovetofu: Okay, I just beat Costume Quest and knocked out 100% of the trophies; it's actually three worlds, not four. It's a very likely one-sitting game, so be aware that you're plunking down 15 bucks for a short, sweet adventure that's wonderfully done but is NOT going to keep you busy even through halloween.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npbz3ZER0UU
polyphonic: Much more fun than Brutal Legend.
stevie: just hit the french fry costume bug in costume quest. and so now... the game is broken? don't think i'll be buying any further doublefine games, tbh. this is bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M49wErmsdQ
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ae0Pt6UDPgw/TLybnJZhXHI/AAAAAAAAB5c/53yPw85GIo4/s1600/costume+quest+double+fine+contest.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, 20 of those 30 rock band 3 points were from me, it was by far my GOTY. Game really deserved a lot better, both in this poll and at retail. Though I guess for anyone who wasn't interested in the pro instruments, it was effectively just shovelware.
― JimD, Thursday, 2 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
#31: Cave Story – Wii/DS – 33 pts – 3 votesOfficial Game Site
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/216/3/8/Fanart__Cave_Story_by_Risachantag.jpg
if: Playing this at a few years remove meant playing an old classic pretending to be a far older classic, but the gameplay stands the test of time. The controls are fantastically tight and the 2D exploring and light platforming/shooting captures almost everything that made Super Metroid great without resorting to plagiarism. The choice of which weapons to upgrade and the way that they detiorate again as you lose health adds an enjoyable extra element of its own. It also helps that the whole thing is ridiculously charming, from the music to the setting to the pixel drawings of each character when they speak.
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/916/916811/cave-story-20081007070409391_640w.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0CCkH49g0
Game Tunnel review
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/ul/76991-468x-Top%205%20Wii%20-%20Cave%20Story.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqo73tvtVw
Z S: played this on PC a couple of years ago, assuming it's just as good on DS
Eurogamer
http://www.deviantart.com/download/25366059/Cave_Story_by_eloretardo.jpg
Tiny Cartridge
http://www.spritestitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cavestoryquilt.jpg
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
I think Costume Quest was my first game to appear? Certainly one of the first (this poll has been going on so long I can't remember -- was Digital from this year or last?)
― Mordy, Friday, 3 June 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Stevie: just hit the french fry costume bug in costume quest. and so now... the game is broken? don't think i'll be buying any further doublefine games, tbh. this is bullshit.
― You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Friday, 3 June 2011 07:27 (twelve years ago) link
wondering whether to lay my money on the line and say that whatever the top 5 games are, i will buy them (obv not if i already have them that would be really silly)
― remove this man from the internet (Ste), Friday, 3 June 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
well #2 is naughty bear so
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Rock Band 3 is really great; only got it this year so no vote for it from me, but keys are super fun, & the track list is great too; also love the new way of handing career progression; before I rarely went back & played the same songs again & again when doing career, unless they were ones with which I was already super familiar & loved; but RB3 kinda forces you to play songs again & again & that's a really good thing! use what you have instead of just rushing through once & then wanting more more more new.
― Euler, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
I refused to get RB3 because every RB guitar I have purchased (3) has died due to... being leaned against a wall
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 3 June 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I loved Guitar Hero 3 for the 5 hours that the guitar worked. Then a friend of mine came over and she got REALLY into billie jean, and that was it.
― Z S, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
the neck buttons can be popped off and cleaned if that's the problem
― nuclear power, jet propulsion, radar, laser beams, cordless phone (abanana), Friday, 3 June 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
#30: Minecraft – PC – 33 pts – 3 votes - 1 top game votesOfficial Game Site
http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/minecraft_scenery_picture.jpg
itt we minecraft
MattD: Like a box of cubic Lego. Minecraft's emergent gameplay is incredibly refreshing compared to most recent titles, which are full of pop-ups that prompt you when to press X to jump or B to trigger one of a barrage of quick-time events in which your character leaps, climbs and opines without any direct control or input. In Minecraft, you start with your bare hands. What happens when you punch that tree? What happens when you combine those blocks? What happen when you dig (too deep, too greedily). You will die to natural and man-made disasters, zombies, crumbling experiments, and exploding block monsters. You will probably set your house on fire. I enjoyed this game so much I set up a server for a few months so my friends and I could run rampant and explore each others creations.
http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Daily/2010/09-Sept/30/minecraft%20puter/minecraft_pig--article_image.jpg
CNET review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I
Jeff Vogel review
jamescobo: In all honesty my vote is more a recognition of Minecraft as a seismic event than it is of Minecraft as A Game Which Is Fun To Play; I'm not really one for building all kinds of crazy shit so I mostly just ran around getting killed over and over and over again. That being said, it's the biggest leap forward in terms of the sheer scale of the world games can present since GTA:SA, maybe even since Ocarina of Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTS9Z6PFh0
Will M: I haven't played it since they put monsters into the multiplayer game, but when it was a collaborative LEGO game without punishment, it was brilliant.
Zero Punctuation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uyxVmdaJ-w
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/papercraft-minecraft.jpg
http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Features/2011/04/Week%20of%20Hate%202011/5%20reasons%20to%20hate/Minecraft/minecraft--article_image.jpg
― polyphonic, Friday, 3 June 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i would have voted for minecraft, but i hadn't played it at the time.
there's a "peaceful" setting you can turn on in the options that turns monsters off. The very first time my meticulously crafted house was destroyed in the middle of the night by a gang of tnt dudes, i turned it on.
― Z S, Friday, 3 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
can i reserve the top 10? still slammed here (doing a conference call while i type actually) but would like to home stretch.
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 June 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
It's a deal.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 5 June 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
civ 5 was my vote for most disappointing game of 2010 - too easy, and too easy to run out of shit to do. it'll be better after a few expansions though
― Princess TamTam, Sunday, 5 June 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
What if you play it on the tougher difficulty levels?
― polyphonic, Sunday, 5 June 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
two things -- one, Civilization (Danny Kaye + Andrew Sisters) is one of my fave songs ever so awesome. second -- I haven't played Civ 5 yet (tho I've played so many epic campaigns on Civ 4). I've heard the AI is basically totally broken. True?
― Mordy, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
no, it's not broken. before they patched it the AI didn't seem to understand how combat works when positioning its units, which was a big early gripe, but they fixed that. i haven't encountered anything egregious since.
i disagree with PTT's comments but there is something of an issue with game balancing that i don't think is fixable the way the game is designed. i tried playing a game on slower speeds and you really do end up with nothing to do for stretches. i played one game on marathon - i was on a continent with 2 other civs. early on i had totally explored everything i could access and was still a long way off transoceanic travel. i expanded a bit and conquered one of the other civs, but i reached a point where to do anything more would've killed my civ because of happiness constraints that i was powerless to remedy without access to other civs, luxuries, etc. i did literally f all for a few hours waiting to crawl along the tech tree before i canned it.
but if i play on normal speed, or even better, fast, it's usually p frantic, with plenty to juggle exactly as you would hope. and if you keep to normal or smaller sized maps, the strict happiness-forced restrictions on growth at the highest difficulties levels are mitigated somewhat. but it's definitely contrary to how i have played civ in the past tho.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
― polyphonic, Sunday, June 5, 2011 4:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i beat it on emperor, which i could never do with the previous games
the combat is good and the design is good - which is why i think it'll be a much better game with a few expansions under its belt
― Princess TamTam, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Which games are you all most surprised didn't make the top 20?
― polyphonic, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
I thought ACII: Brotherhood would've been in the top. Really one of the best open worlders out there. They've really got a handle on this engine and bugs were few and far between.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
we can't tell without seeing the top 20... unless you mean out of games that have already placed... in which case... none of them...
― Princess TamTam, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
xp all i heard about it really was the PC DRM was atrocious
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Games I was at least a little surprised didn't make it to the top 20, given either general popularity, or even just their popularity on this board: Starcraft II, Assassin's Creed, Super Meat Boy, Dead Rising 2, Minecraft
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
esp. the Crafts, Mine and Star II
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
observations/predictions looking at the ballot as we move into the home stretch:
- by my count there's four missing heavy hitters from the iPhone alone left: 9 Innings, Angry Birds, Carcassonne, & Game Dev Story (which I assume will set the record for "most quotes & screenshots included with a C&P entry")
- shocked to see Mario Galaxy 2 cracking the top 20, that game seemed completely unnecessary to me after the first one
- looks to me like the big multiplatform titles left are New Vegas, ME2 (listed as 360 on the ballot but wasn't this on PC too?), Bayonetta, Just Cause, Blur (maybe? the only racing series I pay attention to is Motorstorm) and Pac-Man CE DX (which I think will end up placing really high since it was still fresh in everyone's mind when voting was going on)
- looks like a potentially strong finish for the DS - still no sign of DQ9, Picross 3D, Pokemans, Strange Journey, Golden Sun (maybe?), or Miles Edgeworth (ditto?)
- hoping Joe Danger makes it into the top 20, that game is fun as shit and I wish I could have found room for it on my ballot
- lol zero votes for Peace Walker
- I never would have picked Bejeweled 3 to be top PC/Mac exclusive but it looks like the only remaining candidate. ditto for Heavy Rain (COME ON) as top PS3 exclusive.
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
chatter on the DS thread was pretty low this past year, I have a feeling only DQ9 and Pokemon will show, if even
Peace Walker was last year? feels like much longer ago
heavy rain not a surprise, there are still some fans here
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for civ 5 on my truncated ballot this year partly to acknowledge that i spent a bunch of time playing it & partly because it gave me a lot of pleasure. im not really sure how i feel abt the game design itself if only because like 15 years of playing civ has created this impossible mental tangle of 'how a civ game should be' that no civ game every really manages. but i liked the basic feel of 5, the look of the maps in particular, but the interface and the streamlined cityscreen. i had a fair amount of fun playing the game, especially at first, almost uncompetitively & just letting the game wash over me - the simplicity & the downtime were enjoyable to me idk
otoh it is too easy & too neutered - i never really felt the same sense of possibility that earlier civ games gave me, there are really only a few ways to win & only a few ways of managing your empire. its much too limited a game to be truly challenging or worth thinking abt imo
― SEX-MEN: Worst Ass (Lamp), Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
xpost 3D Picross got votes on 2009's poll in import form so there's definitely some sentiment for it
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 June 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
civ 5's ok but its no epic mickey or final fantasy xiv
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 6 June 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol i wonder if i can find my 'most disappointing' writeup for final fantz
also iir my ballot c u shld be pretty pleased by whats still 2 cum
― SEX-MEN: Worst Ass (Lamp), Monday, 6 June 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
when are we doing most disappointing?
― Mordy, Monday, 6 June 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
nobody voted for carcasonne btw
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 June 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link