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

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#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.

It's really more of just a really weird (tough) platforming game that borrows some elements from roguelikes (random levels, permadeath). The XBLA is much improved from the old PC version, especially in the controls department (though maybe it loses a little of the freeware versions charm).

#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.

It also came out for PC with controller support. $3.00 US.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221640/?snr=1_7_15__13

Hotline Miami made this nice little innovation on roguelikes in that once you finish a level, you've finished it at whatever score you got for that level. So you can keep dying and dying and dying but you don't have to start over from the very first level unless you aren't satisfied with your score.

haha ive been re-reading the old C&P and its fun as hell, but i really want to start putting all of my patented "lemme bitch about the wii in a sly and sideways way" pull quotes in one thread.

for example, from my madworld vote:

"Jjjusten: I make no attempt to hide how angry a Wii owner I am. I'm one of those guys that look at this particular console with a little more bile rising in my throat every week that a new fitness program or pet management simulator falls like a turd onto the new release list. So when MadWorld rolled out, I was very glad to see it. The game has its faults: there are times where the wiimote works against you rather than for you; songs are AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL and the game is SHORT. All those caveats fall away the first time you impale someone with a signpost, necklace them with a tire, jam firecrackers down their throat and THEN bisect them by slamming their body in a dumpster. Boss battles are even more insane. Anybody who whines like a baby about the lack of hardcore games on the wii that didn't buy this is a jerk and a traitor and I hope they realize that I will hold them directly responsible when "Wii Play Tamagochi Fitness 3" sells 40 billion copies."

wii was awesome, madworld a turd of a game though

OH HOLY SHIT MY GZEUS CHRONO TRIGGER XTRANORMAL STILL EXISTS! i was certain that had died, but a link in the chrono trigger thread still worked!

here for safekeeping http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/545351/wimps

xpost u monstar

I have a friend that's really into min-maxing and used to be big into nethack and etc. and likes to find games with tough mechanics and just burn through them. Spelunky got him seriously hooked. I, on the other hand, played maybe three games, died quickly each time, got frustrated and decided to play something that hits my reward centers more directly.

super mamc has now got me totally hooked.

I would have voted for Chrono Trigger if I'd finished it

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)

omg listening to that xtranormal link without reading the thread in a while and i'm DYING

so like... did ni no kuni come out in 2013 or

yeah

Get 30 diamonds in one game yah fuck u super monsters ate my condo

Any tips

the Peace tip that DJP gave me earlier totally changed my game, i always use that now

30 diamonds - you're gonna need some Blue power for time (as with any strategy really), more Green power for Double, but mostly you need to keep making Cat/Garbage condos most of all for the constant upgrades

annoyingly though, all the multiplier goals seem to be broken (reach 50x/100x in one game)

Yeah I had to pay for both of the multiplier goals, but only after I tried to do them without boosts or hats. Fucking bullshit

However I have hit the 1 billion high score now, so I have scraped my way into the top 20000. ffs

Can't hit 1 billion yet. Still at 800 million asjklfjskladfjkalsdf

Pushed over 3 billion this morning but I'm still nowhere near Dan.

The multiplier goals are totally broken, don't know why

buy the hats, they'll slowly push your score up

dled this but oh shit, is this a game I'm gonna have to shell out "real money" to do well at. b/c fuck that obi

nah you don't. i thought that at first too but you really don't have to

yeah you don't have to at all

I grabbed the game before it was free (;_;) and that is the only money I've paid for it

sorry I failed to get a vote in.
woulda gone for:

1000000
Dishonored
Walking Dead - though this does suffer from some of the same QTE lag annoyances that happen in Witcher 2 which I am currently crawling through

did not like ME3 or Diablo 3 - got burnt out on both after a couple hours. still have not fired up sleeping dogs.

most of my gametime went to LoL and word games on ipad/iphone :-/

surprised Dyad isn't on here. I should've voted.

it kinda flew under the radar here, even more than most PSN games

hotline miami! amazing!