The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part Four: THE TOP TWENTY

thanks forks and zs, great job. gifs were outstanding. results pretty abysmal tho. surprised solitaire didn't make the top 5.

I don't remember my ballot anymore but I'm pretty sure I voted Dungeon Raid #1

hoping in 2012 to finally catch up with gaming 2009

^^ should read "console gaming 2009" fwiw

great job forks and ZS.

1) Resident Evil 4 HD (25 pts)
2) Portal 2 (25 pts)
3) Deus Ex: Human Revolution (25 pts)
4) Batman: Arkham City (15 pts)
5) Wonderputt (browser) (5 pts)
6) Dead Space 2 (5 pts)

Biggest disappointment: From Dust

Portal 2 (ps3): 30
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (wii): 20
Arkham City (xbox 360): 15
Bastion (pc): 15
Superbrothers Sword & Sorcery (ipad): 10
Aquaria (ipad): 10

Like I said above I would probably have put Minecraft top if I'd played it before the poll ended.

30 points: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
16 points: Stacking .
15 points: Tiny Wings
14 points: Glitch.
10 points: Grand Prix Story
10 points: Elephant Quest
5 points: : LA Noire

Arkham City 20
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 20
Marvel vs Capcom 3 20
Portal 2 20
Bejeweled Blitz 10
Glitch 5
Monsters Ate My Condo 5

my Glitch vote would have gone to Ticket To Ride, Dice Soccer or Yaniv had I played any of them before I voted

that portal gif is brilliant! i kinda forgot that game existed. voted for skyrim, battlefield 3, tiny wings

Yaniv absolutely going on my 2012 ballot.

BALLOT

ASSAF

good job, forks and ZS! I look forward to whining about next year's poll!

here's my ballot:

Binding of Isaac - Mac - 20pts
Bug Princess iOS - 15pts
Jamestown - Mac - 15pts

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Xbox360 - 10pts

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Mac via Cider - 10pts

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 10pts
Portal 2 - Mac - 10pts
Minecraft - Mac - 10pts

but if i'd gotten it before i voted, DARK SOULS would be my #1 by far

voted for: dark souls, skyrim, dead space 2, frozen synapse
forgot to vote for: outland
would have voted for if i had got round to playing it on time: dungeon defenders (PSN), portal 2
didn't vote for: pes 2012 (great game but online totally broken), fifa 12 (game is not the best but at least the online works), madden 12 (one 15y pass forward, one strip sack fumble returned for TD backwards)

Radiant Historia 26
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 21
Outland (PS3) 14
Escape from Puppy Death Factory 9
Marvel vs Capcom 3 (PS3) 7
Binding of Isaac 7
Where Is My Heart? 6
Tales From Space: About A Blob 5
Wonderputt 5

is Radiant Historia that good? kinda tempted to import before prices go crazy again.

If I had played the Ascension iOS card game before this past weekend I would have thrown it some points. Great fun.

15 Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS3)
14 Dark Souls (PS3)
13 MotorStorm: Apocalypse (PS3)
12 El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (PS3)
11 Dungeon Raid (iOS)
9 Rayman Origins (PS3)
8 Last Rocket (iOS)
7 Forget Me Not (iOS)
6 Radballs (iOS)
5 ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection HD (PS3)

Biggest Disappointment: L.A. Noire

requisites for contributing to next year's polling? did everyone w/ a write-up actually *play* all the games tallied here? i'd like to do at least one write-up... i'm opinionated enough about some stuff that i could write for pretty proper lengths and not concern myself w/ things like me3's intolerable ending. i am an a+ student.

I, for one, didn't play any of the games I wrote about

I only played the games everyone else wrote about.

i wrote the games that everyone else played

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH2SVes0E8

*applause*

oh.

I don't really understand what you meant there, kel

1. Portal 2, 18pts
2. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, 17pts
3. Bastion, 15pts
4. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, 10pts
5. Radiant Historia, 9pts
6. Child of Eden, 8pts
7. Super Mario 3D Land, 7pts
8. Pullblox, 6pts
9= LA Noire, 5pts
9= StreetPass Quest, 5pts

Thanks to everyone who had a part in running this (even whoever it was who spelt my name wrong every time). I really enjoyed it.

is Radiant Historia that good? kinda tempted to import before prices go crazy again.

lamp's comments on RH are accurate:

with radiant historia i think of that old vaudeville joke that the simpsons ripped off where homer tries to by the monkeys paw: it has an innovative and reasonably challenging battle system! thats good! but it still requires some tedious grinding! thats bad! it tries to tell an ambitious, complicated story about the cost of war! thats good! it does so with dialogue shorn of any nuance or ambiguity! thats bad! &c &c &c.

I still liked it a ton.

(i promise to play more games this year)

this might be a lie btw