#1: Spelunky
Problem here I think is that I played it ages ago, wasn't it a PC game/maybe freeware for a long time? Anyway I didn't feel it way back in the day. Maybe it deserved more time but tbh it's 2013 & I don't have time to be punished by a game. Roguelikes are for unemployed Will M.
#2: XCOM: Enemy Unknown - My #2 (20 pts)
God what more is there to say, so chunky and clicky and satifying
#3: Frog Fractions - My #10 (5 pts)
Shocked to see it place that high since it's basically just a really funny joke but… well, the joke is really funny
#4: Fez - My #6 (5 pts)
Another shock high placement, but boy it is a gas
#9: Super Hexagon
The learning curve for this game appears to be entirely learning how to press left and right at the right times so that all of your brain power goes into looking at what's coming up. I can't bridge that gap and am far too aware of the controls at all times. Give me this on a controller or keyboard and maybe it's a different scene but as of now I find this exhausting and unplayable.
#12: The Walking Dead: Episodes 1 through 5 - My #1 (25 pts!)
A masterpiece. TOO LOW etc
#13: FTL: Faster Than Light
This one is appealing, will definitely spend more time with it at some point, but definitely disappointed that it doesn't rip off star trek more b/c star trek is the best you guys
#14: 10000000
This game is about as fun as working in a call centre and pays almost as much
#18: Fallen London
Playe3d it before they changed the name and mostly got mad that it fucked with my Twitter, fuck you games that fuck with my SOCIAL MEDIA BRAND
#21: Mass Effect 3 - My #8 (5 pts)
MP made it worth ranking, and I didn't mention before but the music way better than ME2/almost as good as ME1!
#26: Puzzle Craft
Got this after it placed. Wtf it's like Tiny Tower but with a game in it. If I had never played Tiny Tower I'd like this but since I DID and I deleted it because THAT IS NOT A FUCKING GAME AND IT IS SHIT, this game makes me mad
#29: Fairway Solitaire
Got after placing. Spent about 20 mins with it. ICDGI
#30 (Tie): Wargames: WOPR
I got through a whole bunch of this, now I find it boring. Why the fuck did a Wargames game come out in 2012 anyway?
#38: Hotline Miami - My #7 (5 pts)
Not sure this'd place for me on Feb 20 2013, but, hey, it is pretty goddamn cool & needs more ILXors to try imo.
#41 (Tie): Dungeon Village
I bought this and realized I had just spent money on my 5th or 6th Kairosoft game, which I enjoyed the first time but exponentially less w/ each game I bought so I didn't play long at all.
#41 (Tie): Infectonator
Fun enough, I guess? More fun than some of the other micro-trans games on this list, anyway.
#41 (Tie): Rebuild
Played it last year on the browser, liked it, beat it, forgot it existed.
#44: Plague Inc.
Not sure how to do anything in this game other than almost win.
#45 (Tie): Triple Town - My #3 (15 pts)
The only match 3 game on this list worth a fuck, everything else can jump in my recycle bin or w/e iOS has
#54: New Star Soccer
I had fun with this but I had more fun with GORILLA.EXE 20+ years ago
#56: Minecraft
I voted for this 2010, forgot, voted for it in 2011, so you know I like Minecraft
#57 (Tie): QatQi
This game, man. I dunno. The coins and shit feel so arbitrary. I don't feel rewarded for playing the way I deem "good"?
#60 (Tie): Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator - My #4 (10 pts)
S1ocki, wasn't kidding when I said we sohuld play this, see if your friend w/ the projector is on board.
#60 (Tie): Dikembe Mutombo 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World
Gonna play this more but based on what I saw when I found that link for forks, I am gonna liiiiiiiiiike it.
#60 (Tie): Letterpress
Thanks ILX, found this after you turned me on to it, do we have an ILG GameCenter name sharing thing? Wanna play this with non-randoms.
#91 (Tie): 9 Innings Pro Baseball 2013
Just doesn't grab me like 2011.
#91 (Tie): DayZ - My #9 (5 pts)
Bonkers, and broken, and magical.
#91 (Tie): McPixel
Another "thanks ILX", this is a great goofy game. Reminds me of Panic for the Sega CD (I think?).
#91 (Tie): MLB 12: The Show - My #5 (5 pts)
The sports game against which all other sports games should be measured, fuk u if u EA
#91 (Tie): Sleeping Dogs
Barely missed my ballot. Unfairly maligned, TOO LOW!, awesome game.
#91 (Tie): Super Monsters Ate My Condo!
Got after placing. Fun but god it makes my phone hot/die fast, gonna be hard to find a way to play this w/o burns & battery burnout
#91 (Tie): Waking Mars
Got after placing. Seems really interesting. Didn't even know it existed, love Spider, thank you ILX!!!
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
next year, instead of "biggest disappointment" can we have a -10 vote slot that can only be used if accompanied by an angry rant? then we could have amusing entries with negative point values
Well then you'll have people claiming that their game won a moral victory, because it would have been #34 instead of #39 but for the HATAS. So yes, I am totally behind this.
Haha that said I'm curious about why you're hating on Pandaria, I haven't played it yet but I'm quite looking forward. It seems to have a more coherent vibe than Cataclysm's "Oh we'll have a sand level and a rock level and a water level and an unspeakable evil level"
Games from this list I have played last year are:
10000000 - and then after going to sleep at 4am two nights in a row I thought "Maaaybe it's time to reconsider my relationship with videogames"
Though I did play the demos of Quantum Conundrum / Diablo III / Star Wars: The Old Republic / Sleeping Dogs / Magic: The Gathering 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers/ Rayman Origins, which is roughly the order in which I'd be interested in playing them (will play / won't play line is probably between Sleeping Dogs and MtG)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
four months pass...