Ninth Coint & Plick: The ~60 best games of 2015 according to ILX

love fakeouts

Life is Strange wasn't available for mac, iirc, so even though I think I would love it, I can't play it.

I also love fakeouts.

re: life is strange... one of my favourite things is non-american representations of american coming-of-age stories... granted I am only halfway thru, i kinda lost some steam afte the xmas break, gotta go back and finish it!

Bloodbourne / Witcher 3 / MGS V / Rocket League should be top four but I don't know in what order

Her Story hasn't placed yet, right? But I imagine it'll probably be up next.

If only I'd remembered to vote MPQ it could've made it into the Top 10! Regrets.

nhex is my secondary nemesis

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#6 - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Kojima Productions
83 Points
5 Votes
2.33 First-Place Votes

too

fucking

low

Oh hai is it too late to update my ballot, just remembered that Duke Nukem 3-D was released for consoles in 2015, thx

i keep thinking i should play this but i haven't played a MGS game since the NES. does that matter?

surely undertale is still to come, yeah?

many xps, re: MGSV, no spoilers

this was my #1 FYI. it's unbelievable that it even exists really. the MGS series might be the best game series of all time and it's unbelievable that a team that pretty much defined a style of game that is now virtually outdated (high prod value narrative-driven linear AAA) managed to turn around and not only create an incredible open world experience, but do it without sacrificing ANY of the idiosyncrasies that made the original series so essential. i DID NOT EXPECT mgs5 to have a "psycho mantis reads your memory card" or "use a turbo controller and die" moment. I didn't think there was a way? but they did. the moment where you are madly completing missions trying to solve (INSERT MYSTERY HERE) and once you come to a solution you have to use the game's menu system in such an exhausting, labour-intensive way was fucking brilliant. annoying. but brilliant.

and mission 43 (if you've played the game, look it up, you'll know what i mean) was SO FUCKING INTENSE that i once cried DESCRIBING IT.

i keep thinking i should play this but i haven't played a MGS game since the NES. does that matter?

as you may have surmised from my above paragraph: you should play every one of these games and then also read every article leigh alexander has ever written about them

in the year 2027 when we finally get around to polling the best game of the 8th generation of consoles i will be on ILX screaming about the brilliance of MGSV

i will probably be screaming it into a virtual reality headset which will transcribe my madness to 3D letters which i will grab with my hands and put in a box on ILX which will look exactly the same

xpost Mordy, no it will probably be for the best, since you won't be used to sitting through hours of cutscenes.

this was my #1. gameplay wise it is easily the best controlling 3rd person game outside of a Mario. storywise it is incredibly underrated and ahead of its time. i really like how Kojima took this "ultimate perfect soldier" and made this game about playing as a disabled vet with PTSD.

it has been funny and slightly unnerving to see gamers rationalize all of the horrible things the lead character does in this game. i think Kojima knew this, and had long ago reconciled gamer bloodlust vs. his own anti-war anti-nuke messages that seem lost on that audience. hence why language is such a big theme in the game. this is a Japanese man making a game about US military dominance, about the roles of private forces in conflict zones, about Afghanistan -- a place we are stilled mired in. yet you didn't read anything analyzing this or wondering what this game says about our modern wars, it was all TMZ-style Konami vs. Kojima hype/hate. this dumb industry.

I just scanned through the rollout and... I basically gave up on games last year, apparently.

The only thing on the list that I played was Fallout IV, and I only played about an hour of it.

someday i will get around to playing MGSV, a friend lent it to me. maybe in 2019 when i get tired of playing Dark Souls 3.

The Final Word on ‘The Phantom Pain,’ a Video Game About Video Games <-- the only article worth reading that talks about the Koj vs Konami stuff. Posits that the game is a message in a bottle about that very conflict. Fuck I love this game

this really makes me wanna play MGSV now, will have to pick this up. should i play ground zeroes first? should i catch up on the ones i missed too (3 and 4)?

i'd like to play the older MSG's, Will, but most of them have not been released on the ps4 platform yet and i can't emulate like the ps, ps2 + ps3 games (which i take it are when the series actually took off)

i burnt out on MGS and transferred to witcher 3; think i'm ready to switch up again now

but mgsv is fucking awesome and loads of fun and kind of astonishing based on the 30 or so hours i dumped into it

I own all of the MGS games aside from the newest. I'm currently alternating between the first and VR Missions. I have not played any of the rest but am looking forward to working my way there.

(This is just my "thing" atm, as I am also playing FF 1 and just finished the first Persona. I like the idea of slowly working my way through the history of a game series I haven't previously experienced. Even if it winds up taking me 25 years to do.)

MGS1, 2, 3 and Peace Walker can all be played on the PS3 and PS Vita (MGS1 can also be played on the PSP). I'm sure they'll eventually find a way to get them on the PS4.

but mgsv is fucking awesome and loads of fun and kind of astonishing based on the 30 or so hours i dumped into it

omg how far are you

u are in for at least one (1) traet

but more like 10 traets

that game is a traet

imagine i just held the entire C+P rollout hostage forever talking about MGSv instead of posting the rest of the results

so i've talked a bit about Life is Strange already, but something i haven't mentioned is how great it is to see a game with a strong focus on female friendships/relationships: not only chloe and max, but max and kate, chloe and rachel amber, chloe and her mom, etc. even victoria, the main female antagonist, can be interacted with in a thoughtful way, although since it's a choice game you can also take it full-tilt into bitchiness if you want. i also really appreciate that DONTNOD didn't reject the idea that chloe/max could turn romantic (and that even from the start, you could direct max to be like "uhhhhhhhhhhhh no" to warren).

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#5 - Undertale - Toby Fox
83 Points
6 Votes
1.5 First-Place Votes

Didn't get a chance to play Undertale before voting, but got it as a gift from an ilxor recently (thanking you!) and am really liking it so far.

i'm close to finishing the True Pacifist route and i'm scared to start the Genocide route, on the one hand i want to see the content but on the other hand we're all such good friends :(

really really want to play Undertale, i'm just not in the habit of sitting in front of my desktop PC and playing games. need to get around to it somehow.

^ this

If I haven't liked any MGS games up until now is there any reason to play MGSV? It's not a radical change or anything, right?

also re: undertale, color me impressed that you can call characters on your cell from, like, 3/4ths of all the rooms in the game, and you almost always get unique dialogue. it's the kind of thing they didn't have to include but it makes the experience that much richer.

Dowd: it depends on what you didn't like about them

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#4 - Her Story - Sam Barlow
88 Points
7 Votes

If I haven't liked any MGS games up until now is there any reason to play MGSV? It's not a radical change or anything, right?

yeah MGSV is radically different from previous games. controls like a dream, no more gameplay-interrupting codec calls, no more overly long cutscenes, mission structure pretty much just play whatever you want to, level design is open world so you can just ditch what you are doing and play around. what Symphony of the Night did for Castlevania, MGSV does for Metal Gear.

i bought Undertale but still haven't played it yet. i have heard good things. how is the music?

Undertale and Her Story are cool. pumped that they both placed top 5.

I talked abt Her Story upthread a little bit. But man. Playing this game I became distracted and kind of obsessed on a meta level. Who am I? Why does this computer have all of these files? Why do I want to sort through them? What room am I in, which flickering lights, a touchy CRT monitor, an outdated OS, etc.? What are the stakes for me? Is this a "cold case"?

I never "100%ed" this game so I can't say for sure if they ever answer these questions but from what I understand they never do. I'm very glad that they don't. It makes the entire thing feel... idk, unnerving. Like, the entire plot-out-of-sequence thing feels unnerving. And the plot itself. So fucked. It's such a cool and fresh way to experience a story.

I don't get the complaints about it. "I knew what happened and I was only 30% in." Great! Then quit playing or explore more. "I had to brute force..." no, you didn't because you don't NEED TO GET 100%. It's not necessary! The joy is in dancing around these interviews, hearing tiny clips... some of which are useful, some funny, some useless, some creepy as fuck (there's one where she puts her head on the table and just starts tapping her fingers in a weird way, it gave me the willies like nothing else).

idk guys what do you think should i post the top 3 now

Yes they do answer those questions! I never forgot that it was fiction or that she's an actor so I never really felt super immersed.

"I knew what happened and I was only 30% in."
Part of the fun is locating the achievement cards and trying to uncover all the videos, filling in the database with all the unwatched videos. It's a new type of puzzle in that sense.

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#3 - Rock Band 4 - Harmonix
151 Points
4 Votes
6.66 First-Place Votes
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#2 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Treyarch
151 Points
5 Votes
6.66 First-Place Votes
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#1 - Fallout Shelter - Bethesda Game Studios
151 Points
6 Votes
6.66 First-Place Votes

oh lol the one game I played this year that's on the list was #1

i really pooched it... i wanted to get 3 screenshots of in-app purchases for those 3 games, but since i couldn't find one for rock band i just used a funny photo, but as a trio my fake top 3 actually kinda loses its... point? and now it just looks dumb.

thread: what is your stance on fake top 3s before the real top 3s

asking for a friend

― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, February 19, 2016 1:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost

are these jokes?

it wouldn't be an ILX top game rollout if i didn't drop a fakeout

lol

correction: an ILX top (ANYTHING) rollout