Coint and Plick 2014 - The Seventh Annual ILX Video Game Poll

All 10pts:
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) (top game)
Euro Truck Simulator 2 (PC)
Gone Home (PC)
Hotline Miami (Vita)
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (360)
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)
Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
Tearaway (Vita)
The Last of Us (PS3)
The Stanley Parable (PC)

Gratz Will, THANKS Poly. I know I had a rant about iOS games that don't work offline but at least that stopped me playing MPQ for more than a day or two.

thanks poly!!

my boring ballot:

1) Dishonored DLC (Xbox 360) - 30 pts
2) The Cave (Xbox 360) - 30 pts
3) Tomb Raider (Xbox 360) - 10 pts
4) Batman - Arkham Origins (Xbox 360)- 10 pts
5) Flower (PS4) - 5 pts
6) Candy Box - 5 pts
7) The Stanley Parable (PC) - 5 pts
8) The Wolf Among Us - Episode 1 (Xbox 360) - 5 pts

emil.y told me privately that her 11th place game was Call of Duty Black Ops 2 in case you were wondering

Hahaha.

Maybe we should've been talking about making an ilx FPS instead of an RPG.

Top 20 best selling games:

1. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
2. FIFA 14 (EA)
3. Call Of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
4. Battlefield 4 (EA)
5. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft)
6. Tomb Raider (Square Enix)
7. FIFA 13 (EA)
8. Lego Marvel Super Heroes (WB Games)
9. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
10. The Last Of Us (Sony)
11. Batman: Arkham Origins (WB Games)
12. Call Of Duty: Black Ops II (Activision)
13. Just Dance 2014 (Ubisoft)
14. Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft)
15. Saints Row IV (Deep Silver)
16. BioShock Infinite (2K Games)
17. Killzone: Shadow Fall (Sony)
18. Need for Speed: Rivals (EA)
19. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (WB Games)
20. Skylanders: Swap Force (Activision)

(oh, that's just uk)

Top ten US:

Grand Theft Auto V
Call Of Duty: Ghosts
Madden NFL 25
Battlefield 4
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
NBA 2K14
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Just Dance 2014
Minecraft
Disney Infinity

i have played zero of those this year

nice work polyp. well done to the academy too, adorably ilxish results.

i hate when people call me polyp but thanks

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2014 Biggest Disappointment: Bioshock Infinite

i was pretty excited for this game tbh. just garbage. like it was designed by people who heard about the first game but never played it. much much less absorbing setting and much much more boring gameplay. i made myself play it for a while and then just quit and never thought about it again. - Roberto Spiralli

I like that everyone else is kinda catching on to the fact that Bioshock is dumb and bullshit and not fun and not clever. Well, not everyone. Legit facepalms all throughout the game on account of how bad the "gameplay" AND how bad the "story" are but these were SOMEWHAT redeemed by the LEGIT LOLS at how AWFUL the ending of the story is. Unbelievably garbage, like if Christopher Nolan got a concussion and tried to make a movie with Dreamworks. InSHREKtion. God this game was dumb. It'd be less annoying if it didn't, like, stand in close proximity to a good story though? Like it was irredeemably bad but given the setting and themes it wouldn't have even been hard for this game's story to be good. Cyndi Lauper was the best part of this game. Fuck this game. – Will M.

Others receiving votes:

Deadly Premonition:

The PC port of Deadly Premonition was my greatest disappointment of the year: unplayable on release, with a strange text glitch that rendered all UI text and subtitles as unintelligible symbols. It's true that the game did live up to its uncanny reputation in that regard, but I couldn't play for more than five minutes out of fear that my laptop would melt and congeal into an eldritch mass or begin emitting messages from the Black Lodge. – one way street

The Stanley Parable:

... which said all it had to say in about a minute and then just got endlessly clumsy, not helped by being able to get endings in an order which further ruined the experience (e.g. I got the museum one first) - if

Tiny Death Star:

the stores update too quickly! too many notifications! and the food stores are boring: shoulda been like "Ewok Barbecue" and "Yoda's Yogurt". shoulda been funnier. - Euler

Pokemon X & Y:

I guess I didn't like this series as much as I thought I did – diamonddave85

Nimble Quest

Ducktales: Remastered was just a nice shining turd of everything wrong w modern gaming. NES for idiots.

my ballot:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)
Batman Arkham Origins (360)
Luigi's Mansion 2 (3DS)
Steamworld Dig (3DS)
Tomb Raider (360)
Lego Marvel (PS4)
Pokemon X/Y (3DS)
Rayman Legends (Vita)
Doki Doki Universe (PS4)
The Cave (360)

nimble quest was my biggest disappointment, forgot to blurb it.

All the other nimblebit games have been stupid but addictive. This was just a dull as rocks ios also ran, all grind and no gusto. and hardly any charm.

I didn't feel right voting for Ni No Kuni higher b/c I've barely played it, much tho I love Level-5 and Studio Ghibli.

Limiting my voting to games I actually played(and mostly beat) makes an interesting contrast for the usual top-10 lists that incorporate all games on all systems.

I like the graphic used for the #1 pick.

1. 868-HACK - 20
2. Saints Row IV - 15
3. Papers, Please - 15
4. State of Decay - 10
5. Spaceteam - 10
6. Ridiculous Fishing - 10
7. Rogue Legacy - 5
8. People - 5
9. Stanley Parable - 5
10. Card Hunter - 5

yes bagman in the fight is key

1. Gone home - 20
2. Gunpoint - 20
3. Assassins Creed IV -10
4. Lego Marvel SH -10
5. Tomb Raider -10
6. Thomas was Alone -10
7. Saints Row IV
8. Stanley Parable
9. Shadowrun Returns
10. Guacamelee

Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack! (Browser) - 20
Cookie Clicker (Browser) - 10
Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing (Browser) - 10
Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (Browser) - 10
Pom Gets Wi-Fi (PC) - 10
Gone Home (PC/Mac/Linux) - 10
The Last Door: Chapter 1 - The Letter (iOS/PC) - 10
Paint it Back (iOS) - 10
A Dark Room (Browser) - 5
No One Has to Die (Browser) - 5

looking over it now, i see my ballot is split between shortish games whose concept/writing/humor i enjoyed, and more grind-y games that i fixated on for a month or two and then abandoned. that's probably due to low finances steering me toward games that are cheap or free. i'm interested in checking out some of the longer PC games on the rollout once they start showing up in bundles.

thanks poly

Batman: Arkham Origins (PC) - 5
BioShock Infinite (PC) - 30
League of Legends (PC) - 5
Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (Android/iOS) - 20
Tomb Raider (PC) - 10
XCOM: Enemy Within (PC) - 5
Pikmin 3 (Wii U) - 10

from what i played since I'd give Rayman Legends at least 15-20 pts

Well hey I've started ni no kuni and hey this is goddamn depressing

game takes basically forever to ramp up but hey thats a jrpg for you

Ok and now it is tremendously charming

someday i wanna go back to it when i have no job

cool list, thanks polyphonic and everyone who voted

'gone home' is 8 bucks on steam today, fyi. even though i voted for it, i think it counts as my 'disappointment' of the year; it just didn't quite live up to what i was anticipating. the ability to pick up objects was pretty pointless, no traditional puzzles, and i guess i just wanted more of a creepy/scare factor. i think if it had been a flash game i would've been supremely impressed by it, but as a downloadable title i just expected there to be more.

someday i wanna go back to it when i have no job

This is what I tell myself about every game

Yeah I mostly agree on Gone Home, the main flaw for me was the fact it gave me a specific character to play then didn't really let me play that character realistically. If the set up had been "you are just some dude exploring an abandoned house" then spending ages rifling through drawers and cupboards reading old receipts etc would've felt fine, but telling me I'm a sister who's home from college to find my family missing spoilt that, because I wanted to be calling the cops, not wandering down to the basement to search for old newspaper clippings about the previous owner of the house etc (or spending the first 15 minutes going around turning all the lights on ffs). Didn't feel like it needed a scare factor, but did think it was a bit cheap of them to imply early on that it was going to have one when it ultimately didn't.

Still voted though because once I'd got past all that I really really enjoyed the period detail, I'm the right age now to have been around the same age as the main characters at the time the game's set, and they just got a lot of the "being a late teen in the mid 90s" stuff dead right.

Where's my family? I know! I'll sift through my dad's vinyl to find out.

'gone home to vibe out'