The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part One: 74-109

oh you

tbh I have no idea why I haven't already purchased Legend of Heroes: TITS

so, who voted legend of heroes? lamp? wanted to play that but didn't get around to it.

yeah... twas me... i thought i wrote a little thing about it for forx idk its pretty much good in exactly the way you would expect it to be and tiresome in the same.

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#76: Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets – 360 – 10 pts – 1 vote
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another shmup. btw, it seems to be impossible to find any high resolution images of this game on the internet.

i loved mortal kombat for several days, but then realized that fighting games just arent really my thing, and i am slow and old, so it went back to gamestop

anybody who is into fighting game stuff tho should pick it up for sure, it is crazy huge and FULL of content

i forgot that mortal kombat even came out

i remember a time when a new mortal kombat game was a huge deal. now it's like one step above shovelware

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#76: Okamiden – DS – 10 pts – 1 vote
Salsa Shark: Cutest game of the year by far. The art style is almost exactly the same as Okami and a lot of the scenery is taken from the Wii version (with some removals and some additions) so even though it's a completely different platform the two games still feel very, very similar. As for the differences: the paintbrush mechanism works much, much better on DS than it ever could on Wii or PS2, but despite this enemy battles were one of the biggest downsides to Okamiden. It's too easy and tempting to just do 'pause-slash' over and over to defeat bosses, and in fact in a lot of cases it seems to be the most effective option. It's a shame because most of the bosses are enjoyable at first... and then they become a bit of a slog. The other downside is that the DS feels way too restrictive for an open-world style game with large landscapes; as much as I enjoyed Okamiden overall, I really wished I could be playing it on a proper television, even if it meant sacrificing the stylus for the wiimote.

never sacrifice anything for the wiimote

i would rather use the POWERGLOVE than the goddamn wiimote

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#76: Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 – PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote
EZ Snappin: Another PES, another batch of small refinements to keep me engaged. This time it is the much better AI scripting, and, as I only play single player "be a pro" modes in sports games anymore, that makes all the difference. Not perfect (not with these floaty shots), but good enough.

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#76: Scribblenauts Remix – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote
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I really want TiTs

i have tried so hard to enjoy scribblenauts but it just doesnt click with me - i am glad to finally get the chance to try it thx to iphone port tho

It worked great on the iPad but I don't know, maybe the iPhone would be too small?

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#76: World Cruise Story – Android – 10 pts – 1 vote – Top Android exclusive
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agent hibachi: really, pick whichever game dev-style sim you feel like playing and drop a few bucks on it. i chose to herd doofy little pixelated tourists around a spreadsheet-driven world. i don't think it's possible to run your ship aground but a sick part of me wishes they would patch that in.

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#76: Zen Pinball – 360 / PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote

#76: Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets

another shmup. btw, it seems to be impossible to find any high resolution images of this game on the internet.

― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:38 PM

There are no high resolution images because those games have no high resolution assets. Their native resolution is 240 x 320.

My zen pinball vote was partly for the iPhone version, and partly for the 3DS version, and partly for the new tables in the 360 version. Between them they've eaten up hours of my time this year (without me ever managing to rack up any half decent scores). It's just pinball done incredibly well.

#76: World Cruise Story – Android – 10 pts – 1 vote – Top Android exclusive

lol something so sad about that

sorry, I fell asleep! now I'm that I'm back in this other world of the living, let me finish up with the last two for today.

Two way tie for #74

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#74: ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection HD – PS3 – 10 pts – 2 votes
CraigG: Shadow of the Colossus is one of my all time favourite games, and one of only a handful of games where I find myself wandering around humming the music (even in the years and years between when I completed it a couple of times on PS2 and buying this on PS3, and I never played it in between). Ico I only ever played the demo on PS2, so was glad when they HD'ed it too. It's a beautiful game, too. Again, I don't think there's much to say that wasn't said when it came out 10 years ago, or whenever that was!

polyphonic: The most artistic uses of 3D in a video game that I've seen. Two great games that are much improved in this edition.

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#74: Wonderputt – In Browser – 10 pts – 2 votes
forks: everybody should try this, it is fucking great

I completely forgot Wonderputt! Great game.

i liked it when i played it but the fact i haven't thought about it since says something

IS THE ahem, is the ico collection good? i heard some complaints. from various quarters.

Wonderputt is kinda the golf version of that guy who made all those little browser based evolve RPG toys. very pretty and cool looking, but not really much of a game (and now that i mention that guy, i realize that i don't remember his name or any of his games' names and can't find him in google)

found it - this guy: http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/v3/index.html

yeah those grow games held my attention briefly too but they seemed like mostly just trawling thru trial and error

really striking visuals tho iirc

I couldn't deal with Wonderputt at all. It's beautiful, but I couldn't get anywhere with it.

The Eyemaze Grow series contains some of my favourite web games ever. But yeah, I get that they're not really 'game' games. I suppose the thing I like the most is that failure is often just as awesome as success.

I almost voted for Kingdom Rush, but to be honest, I found it more annoying than a lot of TD games - if I get stuck I do like to be able to improve through grinding in that sort of game. Puzzle-based stuff I don't mind agonising over but anything aside from that I do like to be able to force my way through if I have to.

holy crap ok maybe we're moving a little too fast now. the space between entries was to give us some room to talk, ya know...

honestly i'm kind of i'm the only one who voted for MK! along with Portal 2 it was the major AAA release in the early half of the year. if you have ANY fond memories of MK 1-3 you gotta play it, it's just ridiculous stupid fun in the single player modes, and the multiplayer is better than all the old MK games (not saying a lot there i know but still)

i mean, is there any other fighting game that unifies every single character into one coherent story mode, forcing you to play as everyone through the same plot? and they don't even cheat by making you replay events, the story keeps moving on as you move from chapter to chapter. yes, it is the dumbest story ever, but i'm still in awe of how hard tried with it (I heard MK vs DC might've done this but i didn't play enough of it to see
)

Scribblenauts: neat, worth a buck i'd say

Zen Pinball: i'm totally obsessed with this on xbox now, and the iOS version controls surprisingly well

second paragraph: kind of surprised

holy crap ok maybe we're moving a little too fast now. the space between entries was to give us some room to talk, ya know..

Yikes, sorry! Yeah, agreed it was a little fast today, but I wanted to move us forward in the results since I had been slow recently. Once we get into the top results, I'll definitely slow it down a bit (while trying to remain consistent in the rollout).

This is good. All good.

it's cool man! i'm happy you're back yo

trying to remember how many of my awesome choices i have left - spoiler: if i had played it before C&P voting i would have had rage in my top 5 for sure, but i have the feeling it might not place. DONT ANSWER THAT, i hope i am wrong, but if im not, its really worth a shot, dudes that kept saying that it is a short game are doing it wrong, because i am 15 hours in and havent even gotten to the second major settlement yet. and oh shit does it look O_Omazing.

see now if it does place you can farm this quote

So many games I have never heard of! <3 this

i voted for wonderputt! totally playable and fun imo. i want a sequel immediately.

i would have voted for ico/shadow of the colossus if i had a ps3. i'd love to play sotc again, and i've still never played ico.

I got ico/shadow of the colossus at xmas time. I've only played a small bit of shadow of the colossus and it's certainly beautiful but I have definitely had issues with the camera that make the game more frustrating than it needs to be.

i didn't mind it the first time around (on ps2), but maybe i've been ruined by decent game UI by now

this reminds me of my reaction to the beyond good and evil 360 port - super excited until i spent a bunch of time staring at walls or getting nauseous as the turn ratio ratcheted out of sync.

i couldn't hang with that one either

yeh i was a bit disappointed when i replayed SOTC over xmas
the clunkiness of the controls didn't help, but i think the main problem was that the game is at heart a puzzle platformer, and once you know how to do the puzzle part the rest of it becomes kind of rote - there was only one colossus i didn't immediately remember how to beat :/

#76: World Cruise Story – Android – 10 pts – 1 vote – Top Android exclusive

lol something so sad about that

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i know, i would have played it ON IPHONE but i needed that 4G mang

it is literally the only game installed on my phone so it is sad, lol and appropriate

The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part Two: 51-73