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

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'