Coint and Plick 2013 - The Sixth Annual ILX Video Game Poll

btw enjoy your free tiki drinks while you can, kid - someday you're going to have to pay for those ingredients yourself, and good demerara is hard to find

That's Simons Quest, I think. 88-89 release. Played it too many times.

yeah its castlevania II iOS

ah, i should have recognized that, because i just busted it out two nights ago for the first time in forever! i'm not a big fan of simon's quest! there are too many infinitely frustrating obstacles that have nothing to do with skill. for example, not just once but several times in the first 30 minutes of gameplay, there are fake ledges - you walk over them and just fall through them. there's no rhyme or reason to them, you just have to get punished and then remember they're there on your next attempt. when that happened the 10th time i turned off my nes in disgust. as a 29-year-old in 2013.

oh my god mcpixel

thank you to whoever voted for this

#88: Nintendo Land – WiiU – 7 pts – 1 vote - Top WiiU Game (lol)

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Killscreen

Iwata Asks

Polygon Postmortem

Composer Interview (with tracks)

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Wii U

you mean to tell me i coulda put 8 points on the game party champions and it would have been TOP ILX C&P WII U GAME OF ALL TIME (for a year)????

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

why am i rooting so much for this system to bankrupt nintendo forever? i don't even understand it myself tbh.

i would like to cosign that (lol)

i'm also rooting for nintendo to fail. i kinda feel like their whole take on gaming atm is incredibly cynical and increasingly lazy idk. i've had some fun times w/ the wii so i don't want to totally write them off but

Because then you'd be able to play their games on other systems, which, due to having a library of decent games made by other companies, are worth owning? As compared ot a Nintendo system, which you only buy to play Nintendo games?

yes, otm

plenty of games by 3rd parties on Nintendo handhelds worth playing, almost all by Japanese developers though

Anyway it was me who voted for Nintendoland and, um, most of it's shit actually. I just threw it some points because the Mario Chase minigame is a really fun time, it's the best little whole-family-all-on-one-sofa-having-the-giggles thing we've played this year. But that one minigame definitely isn't worth buying the whole game for, and definitely definitely definitely isn't worth buying the whole console for.

all i played this year was FTL so i am just an observer but the encyclopedic style of the entries is a+ forks

so if anyone downloads the simpsons tapped out and wants to become friends with me in the game that is by no means totally pathetic and sad.

Ha

yo jjj i friended u in a game that is by no means totally pathetic and sad fyi

whats your username?

oh ha i am assuming you are a something unpronoucable that starts w/ an l?

yes that is me

and for some reason i can't add your city oh crul ringmaster world

ha this origin interface is kind of a shitshow huh

#83 (Tie): Assassin’s Creed III – PS3, X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Nightmare Mode

Quarter to Three

Experience Points

I Broke Assassin’s Creed III

Canon?

California Literary Review

Everybody Loves IAP

Gamasutra: An Assassin’s Revolution

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Assassin's Creed

EZSnappin: I posted my ongoing frustrations with this tower of disappointment and regret to ILX on what seemed like a daily basis. Coulda been amazing, but sure as fuck wasn't.

Zora: Oh, it got a few things right. The core climb-up-stuff-and-jump-off-it-again mechanic is still superb. Sadly, I had to stop playing it after I watched the Zero Punctuation review, and realised that the review was bang on, a lot more fun than the game and didn't take nearly as long to get through. It's just as well because playing AC games compels me to gorge on Toblerones and my arse is fat enough already.

#83 (Tie): F1 Race Stars – X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Art Director Interview

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if: Do you like Formula 1? Do you like Mario Kart? Do you like surprisingly well thought out single player career campaigns? Well, probably not many people are going to answer yes to all three of those to the same extent as me, but if you did, then you may well love this game. It carries through on its absurd mash-up ideas with gusto, and while I was initially disappointed to realise that it had only 11 out of 20 tracks on the F1 calendar, I got a lot of fun out of it regardless.

I loved the demo from Race Stars but haven't picked it up yet.

#83 (Tie): Football Manager 2013 – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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The Managing

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Which football manager would you bring in to sort your love life out?

Hahahaha I forgot to send my ACIII hate rant in but seeing it down here is worth more than a thousand swears

#83 (Tie): Shen Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 – DS – 8 pts – 1 vote - Top DS Game

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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everything rad is good for you: a persona/shin megami thread

lamp: The Savior must have been / A silent Gentleman

Please rant now, jjjusten. It totally deserves it.

I will touch up the screed tomorrow and either send it to forks or post it here, w/e he prefers

#83 (Tie): Torchlight II – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Versus Diablo III

Nightmare Mode

PC Gamer Interview with Max Schaefer

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torchlight - a baby diablo

I'm good either way jjj!
more tomorrow.

I enjoyed the heck out of Torchlight. I expect I'll dig the second once it's on Mac.

^ditto

F1 Race Stars is another one that popped up on UK PS+ this week, the fact it's codemasters is enough to make it worth a try I guess, it's a very odd idea though.

hmm, i guess i was the only person who voted for fm2013 and torchlight 2? i feel bad for not having written something up now. um...fm2013 was the only sport-related game i played this year that i didn't hate? torchlight 2 i am surprised didn't get any more votes, maybe ppl are waiting for it to be bundled; i waited to pick it up 50% off. it's just a well-balanced, well-designed, good looking, fun to play game. retrospectively made me realize how little i actually enjoyed playing dIII.

f1 race stars is new to me, looks like fun

This is the first year in a few that I didn't buy the new FM, for some reason 2012 I fell completely off the wagon and only played it a tiny bit.

#60 (Tie): Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator – iOS, PC – 10 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

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WillM: Six of us got together and played this. We had two decent laptops, two not-so-decent laptops (supplied to public school teachers by a public school board, to give you an idea of the quality); an iPad; a fairly powerful PC, and an iPhone which didn't really work out as well as the iPad and was subbed for one of the bad laptops later in. Installing, setting up, all of that was painless. Learning to play was harder for some stations than others, and some required more upkeep than others, but six of us with varying levels of gaming "ability" and urge to play managed to have an absolute ball. I want to play this again -- a lot. This game makes me want to build a pretend space station bridge and put PCs in it. God. BUY THIS GAME. GET 5 MATES. PLAY IT AND PRETEND YOU'RE CAPTAIN KIRK. IT'S AWESOME. And it's nowhere near as hard as everyone says it looks.

#60: Baldur’s Gate – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

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diamonddave85: iPad UI and stability issues aside, this is one of the most fun and engrossing RPGs i've played in many years.

#60 (Tie): Black Knight Sword – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Is This the First VideoGame About Battling Old Age?

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Rolling guaranteed commercial failure Grasshopper Manufacture/suda 51 thread

jjjusten: It's a Suda platformer with all the batshit qualities that you would expect from such a beast, but missing the trademark "wait the actual game part of this sucks" us fans have come to expect. Why am I buying things from a wheel of mouths? WTF are these cat plants about anyway? What the fuck is that thing for? Yep, that's all here too. Great use of 2-d theatrical shift tricks, playable but by no means easy, weird as fuck. If you don't get sucked in by the demo, don't bother going any further and just go back playing BLOPS until your dumb brain slops out of your ears.

did they ever patch Baldur's Gate? I heard it had a bunch of problems but haven't kept up with the news.

i just can't conceive of how baldurs gate could be fun on a tablet

holy shit that star trek bridge guy game

#60 (Tie): Crusader Kings II – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

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lamp: "My name is slutbanger2K, king of kings:
Look on my unlocked achievements, ye Mighty, and despair!"

#60 (Tie): Dikembe Mutombo 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World – Browser – 10 pts - 1 vote - FREE

http://www.adzag.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dikembe-Mutombo.jpg

Play Online

Gameplay Video

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/images/Scramble/Scramble121212-1.jpg

Wieden and Kennedy Blog

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Whaaaaaat? You just made that Dikembe game up.

Nah, it existed, but was offline by the time I tried to play it.