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

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

http://cdn2.gamefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/artemis.jpg?cda6c1

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://www.edownload.cz/sw/images/artemis-spaceship-bridge-simulator-patch_10.png

Dev Interview

http://img-games.lisisoft.com/img/5/0/5002-2-artemis-spaceship-bridge-simulator-patch-1.40-1.50.jpg

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

http://images.cyberimg.com/iphone/2013/01/08/Baldurs_Gate.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/186qrisi615osjpg/original.jpg

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

http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/214600-crusader-kings-ii-interview/crusaderkingscreen2-620x.jpg

Quarter to Three

http://vagary.tv/wp-contentnew/2013/01/ck2-2013-01-09-19-38-59-16.jpg

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.

check out the gameplay video!

truly twas a thing of wonderment

My vote. I guess it makes sense that a game so dependent on being topical (every episode was created the week it was released) was removed after a few months.

#60 (Tie): Doom 3: BFG Edition – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/doom3_bfg.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Creative Director Interview

http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/bethesda/doom3-bfg-edition/doombfg5.30.12610.jpg

DOOM 3 - does it own, pwn, or both?

diamonddave85: Back in the early to mid-nineties, my dad would take me to a ham radio convention every year where they would have booth after booth of shareware floppies that you could buy. My dad had heard about Doom from a coworker or something and decided to pick up Doom 1 & 2 so we could play together, much to my mom's horror. Playing doom with my dad is one of my earliest computer related memories and as someone who is now in computers professionally, it is one of my fondest.
I had gotten my dad a ps3 a couple years back for xmas (mostly for blu-ray and netflix) but he really didn't play many games on it. It would seem that most videogames these days don't really appeal to a 60 year old man (the exception being Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, which he played quite a bit). This year, I picked him up the BFG edition mainly because it came packaged with Doom 1 & 2. playing Doom again with my dad on xmas morning was well worth the price. Between that and playing Flower with my mom and sister for about 4 hours in one sitting, this xmas was one of the first times my family had bonded over videogames for a good 15+ years

Playing doom with my dad is one of my earliest computer related memories and as someone who is now in computers professionally, it is one of my fondest.

irl aw just now

JUMP TO 60? ARE YOU SERIOUS? THIS IS GONNA BE A SLOG

ALSO, S1OCKI, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED I OWN ARTEMIS AND WANT TO PLAY AGAIN. DO YOU KNOW TREK NERDS IRL?

btw the linked "gameplay video" on artemis is pretty good at representing how a bunch of kind of drunk people end up playing this game

i have watched this video 3-4 times and lived quite vicariously

because i don't want those tubes to EVER be empty

hahaha, yeah that actually looks pretty awesome!

ALSO, S1OCKI, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED I OWN ARTEMIS AND WANT TO PLAY AGAIN. DO YOU KNOW TREK NERDS IRL?

― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:55 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we gotta do this

my friend has a projector and a big screen in his loft... THINK ABOUT IT IMO!!!

http://kbhgames.com/8790/old-spice-%7C-dikembe-mutombos-4-1-2-weeks-to-save-the-world/

so far i appear to be stuck at the loading screen but maybe someone will be able to play it?

works for me, thanks for the link!

Good catch Will; I've altered the entry.
Couldn't find that damn thing anywhere!

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

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:33 PM (2 days ago)

Still waiting on the ACIII rant...

in the form of ASCII art

#60 (Tie): Double Dragon Neon – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/double-dragon-neon.jpg

Composer Interview

Dev PostMortem Podcast

Nightmare Mode

Original Dev, Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Interview

Soundtrack

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Neon.jpg

#60 (Tie): Final Fantasy XIII-2 – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://cdn2-www.playstationlifestyle.net/assets/uploads/2011/06/feature-FinalFantasyXIII-2.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://cdn2-www.playstationlifestyle.net/assets/uploads/2011/11/feature-Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Girls.jpg

Quarter to Three

Nightmare Mode

Hills and Lines in FFXIII- 1

Producer Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

”Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the opposite of Ernest Hemmingway”

Further Deep Thoughts (“The player must then have a fluency with the narrative as experienced and seek to find the moments when the game could end and then try to see if it might.”)

Farroncest, some quirky kink, and one-sided Alyssa/Serah

http://download.gamezone.com/uploads/image/data/1044109/final_fantasy_xiii2_trailer_crop.jpg

S. Clover: The biggest gaming disappointment of the year for me was reaching the end of Final Fantasy XIII-2, and discovering yet again that I was underpowered / underskilled to defeat the final boss. I'm sick of fun, plot driven RPGs with arbitrary difficulty spikes.

#60 (Tie): Halo 4 – X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/06/04/halo4screen_610x369.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://www.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/halo4-leak.jpg

Zero Punctuation

Nightmare Mode

Quarter to Three

Brainy Gamer: High Noon for Shooters

Experience Points Podcast

http://www.fastcocreate.com/multisite_files/cocreate/imagecache/slideshow-large/slideshow/2012/10/1681797-slide-slide-20-halo-4-behind-the-live-action.jpg

HALO 4

#60 (Tie): Jet Set Radio HD – iOS, PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://cdn.techdeville.com/wp-content/uploads/jetsethub2-600x338.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://vgfaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jet-Set-Radio-HD-Achievements.jpg

Devs Look Back

Where Are They Now?

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#60 (Tie): LEGO Lord of the Rings – PS3, X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video (lol whatta maroon)

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/erikkain/files/2012/11/lego-lord-of-the-rings.jpg

Executive Producer Interview

Rock Paper Shotgun

Gay Gamer

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WARNING Lego Man Pedophile on the Loose

Final Fantasy XIII-2 worst video game name of the year

should have called it Final Fantasy XI

It's a sequel to Final Fantasy XIII - what else are you going to call it?

Also it isn't even the worst name in this thread so far (Black! Knight! Sword!) and we're only at #60

oh i dont know, final fantasy FOURTEEN maybe

But none of the main-series games are sequels to each other?

they should have called it final fantasy 13: chronicles of the windsweeper or something. it just looks like it's final fantasy 13's second disc or something!

But none of the main-series games are sequels to each other?

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope.

This list is already pretty bizarre!

bro-five to whoever voted for Double Dragon Neon. I had to double check my ballot to make sure I didn't vote for it, but I was pretty entertained by it. the ending song alone! (Thx for those links, forks, some good reading)

Chronicles of the pee pee ding ding

FF13-2 was my vote (eep). The story is still nonsense but the characters were a lot better. (In the first game the characters encounter a no-win situation, and then you get a lot of cutscenes about courage and family and all that Disney shit, ending with them choosing the no-win path which involves killing a lot of people.)

Double Dragon Neon was also mine. Not sure about the tapes mechanism -- it's a bit too much like cow-clicking -- but otherwise it's a lot of fun. Here's a playthrough from a big Double Dragon fan: http://youtu.be/In917B12R_Q

the previous FF was better in my book, not least because I could actually _beat_ it. the story was also less dark, and less weird.

#60 (Tie): Letterpress – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gamelife/2012/11/letterpress.png

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Letterpress.jpg

Dev Interview

Business Insider Tells You How to Win

So What Is This Again?

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#60 (Tie): Little Inferno – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://imagenes.es.sftcdn.net/es/scrn/6654000/6654993/little-inferno-06-700x437.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Blue Screen of Awesome - Playthru

Free Soundtrack

Developer Interview

Errant Signal

Quarter to Three

Now on iPad

http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/userfiles/image/little-inferno-2.jpg

Little Inferno

Forksclovetofu: Another game about games in a year where these were everywhere to be found, Little Inferno (along with 10000000 and Spec Ops) asks you if you really want to play at all. Fairly short but surprisingly twisted, with a depth that’s difficult to explain as (maybe just this once) the spoilers really are spoilers. All my DEEP THOUGHTS on completion were neatly echoed by Errant Signal's excellent video essay linked up top. This is a near close call as my favorite game of the year; now that it’s out on iOS, you really owe it to yourself to give it a whirl. Dream bigger!