CPX - TENTH ANNUAL COINT & PLICK 2016 nomination thread

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STEAM:
Road Redemption (easy top 5 pick)
NeuroVoider
Hitman GO
Offworld Trading Company
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
RimWorld
Shadow Complex 2
Superhot

PSN:
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
The Last Guardian (I haven't actually bought this yet but figure it's probably worth nominating anyway)
Adventures of Mana
Invisible Inc: Console Edition
Alienation
Axiom Verge

oh and Twilight Struggle

also Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

games are basically the only thing 2016 has actually been good at

I cosign this 100%; I feel like 2016 wasn't the kind of year where I'd be

*where my ballot would be overflowing with must-have titles but rather the kind of year where everything I ultimately put on the ballot is just really strong. I currently have 7 titles that 100% have to be on my ballot but they all own immensely, and I am quite good with that number.

there's a Shadow Complex 2?

I meant Shadow Warrior 2

The Trail (mobile)
Steppy Pants (mobile)

Rhythm Heaven Megamix: a game that will 100000000000000% appear on my ballot. If you have a 3ds, get this game.

Damn, I wasn't even aware that game existed

so i should play 'inside' eh?

(Dragon Quest Builders is alright, btw, for a game that's basically 'Minecraft + graphics'.)

what was the name of that weird time freeze fps with like vector graphics?

Superhot?

that's the one. was it good??

oh i see you did mention it, i scanned the thread to try to remember the name

Super Mario Run

ABZU

Regarding the Winter Steam sale that just started
http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/22/14060214/best-new-steam-games-winter-sale
I picked up Stardew Valley earlier this year and Doom over the holidays (haven't played either), any of these others (or anything else) worth picking up?

keepling bluetooth headphones charged is a pain (not airpods, just cheap ones), but so far i'm happier using them than i ever was with wired ones -- less tangles, i can put on my coat, bag etc without worrying about them, i can leave them dangling around my neck when not in use, etc.

wrong thread but w/ u 100

Yah I got some recently and I'm really pleased.

Through a combination of luck and points and gift certificates, getting an MSI gaming laptop with a GTE 1060 in a few days. Will try out Total War Warhammer and see if I want to nom it. Will also follow any advice from this steam sale.

@nhex: I sprung for Owlboy, Grim Dawn, and System Shock Enhanced (Steam Controller map = take my money). I almost pulled the trigger on Steep (sounds like the skate to 1080 Snowboarding's THPS), Farming Simulator 17, and EDF 4.1; both look rad as fuck but that's like $100 for all three.

to return to the subject of nominating potential C&P games, GOTTA PROTECTORS is goddamn good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Apnsrwotc

Looks interesting! There's an entire 3DS digital ecosystem I'm entirely unaware of.

Oh yeah another one for the nom list, I haven't played:

River City: Tokyo Rumble (3DS)

Boring nom but pro evo 17

Animation Throwdown (Mobile/Browser)

Anyone play Witness?

<3
The Witness

Really Bad Chess (iOS)

Another boring nom but it is rather good: battlefield one

Euro Truck Simulator 2 won two Steam awards, lol wtf

I picked up ETS at some point over the last year or so and actually enjoyed it quite a bit; it's like a pacifist Grand Theft Auto

I'm going to post an alphabetized list of everything on this thread (to the best of my ability) shortly, before i do let me just add

glittermitten grove

^ above nomination INCLUDES all games hidden INSIDE glittermitten grove!!!!

ABZU
Adventures of Mana
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Alienation
Animation Throwdown
Axiom Verge
Banner Saga 2
Battlefield One
BoxBoxBoy
Bravely Second
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre
Civilization VI
Crashlands
Dark Souls 3
Darkest Dungeon
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Devil Daggers
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Dishonored 2
Disney Crossy Road
Doom
Dragon Quest 7 3DS
Dragon Quest Builders
EDF 4.1
Enter the Gungeon
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Farming Simulator 17
Final Fantasy XV
Firewatch
Football Tactics
Glittermitten Grove
GOTTA PROTECTORS
Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-
Harvest Moon
Hearts of Iron IV
Hero Slide
Hitman
Hitman GO
Human Resource Machine
Hyper Light Drifter
Imbroglio
Infamous First Light
Inside
Invisible Inc: Console Edition
Lego's Marvel's Avengers
Marvel Puzzle Quest
Mini Metro
MLB The Show 2016
My Name Is Mayo
NeuroVoider
Nintendo Classic Console
No Man's Sky
Obduction
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
Offworld Trading Company
Out of the Park Baseball 17
Overcooked
overland
Overwatch
Owlboy
Oxenfree
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
Picross 3DS Round 2
Planar Conquest
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
Pocket Card Jockey
Pokemon Go
Pokemon Sun & Moon
Pony Island
Pro Evolution 2017
Punch Club
Really Bad Chess
République
Rhythm Heaven Megamix
RimWorld
River City: Tokyo Rumble
River City: Tokyo Rumble
Road Redemption
Rodeo Stampede
Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake: Roots
Salt & Sanctuary
Severed
Shadow Warrior 2
Slain: Back from Hell
Sorcery Parts 1-4
Starbound
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
Steep
Stellaris
Steppy Pants (mobile)
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Street Fighter V
Super Mario Run
Superhot
Tales Of Cold Steel 2
Teeny Titans
The Last Guardian
The Sea Will Claim Everything
The Trail (mobile)
The Witness
Titanfall 2
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Tom Clancy's The Division
Twilight Struggle
Uncharted 4
We Know The Devil
Witcher 3 Blood and Wine
World of Warcraft: Legion
XCOM 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus

immediately seeing accidental dupes in there my bad

iirc in previous years we get a vote spot for a game that didn't come out that year? i'd really like to vote for witcher 3 which was def my game of the year... i'm just a year late to the party.

Yeah I'm gonna have the same this year, an extra slot for "game of not-2016" and "biggest disappointment". might even add some other "fun" cats

additions:

Battle of Polytopia (iOS)
Disney Magic Kingdoms (iOS)
Slide the Shakes (iOS)
Spaceplan (browser)

Mini Metro is awesome btw

well I'm very glad I played (100%ed even!) Inside after cavalierly writing it off for pretentious trash.

Subnautica

Though its another never quite finished Steam Early Access open world survival game, I think 2016 is its year of impact.

Was that good? It looked interstng

Ok kind of ashamed to be this guy but here we go:

Job Simulator
Tilt Brush
Batman Arkham VR
Robinson: The Journey
Tumble VR
Rez Infinite
The Lab
The Climb
Keep talking and Nobody Explodes
Eagle Flight
Pinball FX2 VR
Hover Junkers
Eve: Valkyrie
Sports Bar VR
Lucky's Tale
Tethered
The Playroom VR
Bound
Battlezone
Driveclub VR
Thumper
Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission
Rigs
Super Stardust HD VR
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Playstation VR Worlds
Harmonix Music VR
Superhypercube
Wayward Sky
Here They Lie
Pixel Gear
Windlands
Carnival Games VR
The Brookhaven Experiment
How We Soar
Werewolves Within
Fruit Ninja VR
Lethal VR
Crystal Rift
Holoball
Waltz of the Wizard
Rec Room
Space Pirate Trainer
Vanishing Realms
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Portal Stories VR
Star Wars VR: Trials on Tatooine

(I think I've played more new games this year than I have in a loooooong time thanks to Vive and PSVR. And I'm not even including non-game experiences like Google Earth VR or Allumette).

SteamWorld Heist (was 3ds in dec 2015, but like four other platforms in 2016)
King Rabbit (iOS)

bullet hell monday (iOS)

I'm going to close the nominations in about a week, fyi. Waiting until the end of year music stuff is outta the way. Let's say Feb 1 for now.

good, one week should give me time to finish this huge backlog of games i need to play before voting

srsly tho i've been meaning to bring this up somewhere + this seems as good a place as ever. surely i'm not the only person who basically ignores new games until they've come down significantly in price (unless they're truly special), right? this means that i'm rarely playing the game in the year that it was intended to be played but for some reason this doesn't bother me at all. unlike music where i feel a compulsion to "keep up," i really don't mind getting to a game 1-3 years late or even 5-6 depending on what it is. i still haven't played xcom 2 yet but altho i'm sure it's excellent i'm positive i can wait until it's $15 before i dish out.

i do the same thing sometimes, it doesn't happen as much with mobile and browser games which is probably part of why they place so well. Still, some voters still play the big ones, so they place sometimes...

Depending on time and interest, I'm considering re-polling old years in the future. Since this is C&P number 10, maybe do year 1 again in the summer/fall? I also wanna keep up the "generations" polls though, so not sure if it'll fit. These things take a lot of work :/

please add Steep

Without further ado...

Tenth annual Coint & Plick. Vote for the best video games of 2016! DEADLINE: MARCH 6

Voting deadline is tomorrow everyone get on it!

Coint & Plick 2017 - ILX's best games of the year - NOMINATIONS (Deadline: March 4)