i have played zero of those this year
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
nice work polyp. well done to the academy too, adorably ilxish results.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
i hate when people call me polyp but thanks
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
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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
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Ducktales: Remastered was just a nice shining turd of everything wrong w modern gaming. NES for idiots.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
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)
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
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.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
1. 868-HACK - 202. Saints Row IV - 153. Papers, Please - 154. State of Decay - 105. Spaceteam - 106. Ridiculous Fishing - 107. Rogue Legacy - 58. People - 59. Stanley Parable - 510. Card Hunter - 5
― Mordy , Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
yes bagman in the fight is key
― eric banana (s.clover), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
1. Gone home - 202. Gunpoint - 203. Assassins Creed IV -104. Lego Marvel SH -105. Tomb Raider -106. Thomas was Alone -107. Saints Row IV8. Stanley Parable9. Shadowrun Returns10. Guacamelee
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack! (Browser) - 20Cookie Clicker (Browser) - 10Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing (Browser) - 10Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (Browser) - 10Pom Gets Wi-Fi (PC) - 10Gone Home (PC/Mac/Linux) - 10The Last Door: Chapter 1 - The Letter (iOS/PC) - 10Paint it Back (iOS) - 10A Dark Room (Browser) - 5No 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.
― reddening, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link
thanks poly
Batman: Arkham Origins (PC) - 5 BioShock Infinite (PC) - 30League of Legends (PC) - 5 Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (Android/iOS) - 20Tomb Raider (PC) - 10XCOM: Enemy Within (PC) - 5Pikmin 3 (Wii U) - 10
from what i played since I'd give Rayman Legends at least 15-20 pts
― bnw, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
Well hey I've started ni no kuni and hey this is goddamn depressing
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
game takes basically forever to ramp up but hey thats a jrpg for you
― eric banana (s.clover), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
Ok and now it is tremendously charming
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:52 (ten years ago) link
someday i wanna go back to it when i have no job
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
cool list, thanks polyphonic and everyone who voted
― goole, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
'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.
― reddening, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
This is what I tell myself about every game
― Vinnie, Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Where's my family? I know! I'll sift through my dad's vinyl to find out.
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
'gone home to vibe out'
― no war but glass war (Lamp), Thursday, 13 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link