CPX - TENTH ANNUAL COINT & PLICK 2016 nomination thread

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 :/

well they're super appreciated i think coint & plick (and generation polls, and other video game polling) probably the best polling on ilx, a place known primarily for its extraordinarily prolific approach to polls

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.

― Mordy

no, of course not. usually buying a game new is a sucker's bet- a good game doesn't rely on being topical or current, and game development heavily incentivizes releasing games that aren't finished yet. buying a game when it's new, in most cases, makes no more sense to me than buying a 3D TV or whatever the second it comes out - there's no real advantage to being on the bleeding edge except bragging rights. there are of course exceptions.

Yeah I am in this boat, hence my nominations (apart from WoW, teacher/mother/secret lover) being small iOS games that I can play in a few commutes.

Also if it's early enough to ask - since it sounds like people may be picking through the poll results for recommendations at various future dates, any chance of returning to putting the system(s) in CRTL-F friendly text with each entry?

mordy, xcom 2 is $12 in this month's humble monthly! + you get a bunch of other games with it
but yeah, i have a massive old backlog using the same principles, cheap cheap cheap
the only brand new games i generally get tend to be multiplayer because it actually does matter getting in early on those. though i got Overwatch six months late, would've have regretting it at release
(and the odd phone game)

Yep, I have the same approach as mordy, down to Xcom 2, which I plan on checking out once it's down to $11. I do deviate from the pattern with some brand new games if I'm pumped enough to check them out, though. Like no mans sky. Sigh.

I also wait until games are on sale. Still haven't played The Witness yet because the best deal is usually 33% off for a $40 game. It was 50% off right around Christmas and I probably missed my best chance.

Pocket Mortys

if someone wants to slip me a free PS3 I'd still love to play Tokyo Jungle and vote for it in whatever poll I can

(unless it's out on PS4? I might end up getting one of those in the next year or two)

mordy, xcom 2 is $12 in this month's humble monthly! + you get a bunch of other games with it

ok fine sold

there's no real advantage to being on the bleeding edge except bragging rights. there are of course exceptions.

The main one being if there's a big multiplayer component, I think? They're usually more fun close to release before everyone knows what they're doing, and later on it's just the hardcore players who are super good. Although a lot of these games probably get better over time through patches for balance etc.

Nuclear Throne came out Dec 2015 - can it count? (year of impact / dec release)

Shadow Tactics
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due

Ratchet and Clank 2016
Skyrim Remastered
Watch Dogs 2
Batman: Return to Arkham
Rise of the Tomb Raider

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor

if someone wants to slip me a free PS3 I'd still love to play Tokyo Jungle and vote for it in whatever poll I can

(unless it's out on PS4? I might end up getting one of those in the next year or two)

― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:55 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No PS4 afaik but it is one of the few PS3 games that you can also remote play on Vita.

xcom 2 runs v poorly on my mbp but it seems really fun maybe i'll just dish out for the ps4 version (and play it on my mbp w/ beautiful resolution and a controller)

took me a sec to understand you there, what a world we live in now

omg The Witness is on sale again. Now I just need $20.

i beat the original xcom last night (somehow the first time i played it i got up to the final mission before abandoning it so it took almost no time at all to finish it - and it was a cakewalk), restarted the 2nd one this morning. it really is so v good - the reviews are right that basically everything about the original xcom they improved on. and playing it thru the ps4 means that the graphics are crisp and it runs perfectly. i don't love the controller scheme quite as much as using a keyboard + mouse but it is good enough that it really doesn't bother me. i'm really glad it's good too bc i played stellaris last week and man is it disappointing. it's super buggy & boring. the basic framerate is like yr most conventional, standard 4x game but w/out any kind of propulsion or momentum. there literally feels like there's no reason to play. i have v specific complaints about it that maybe i'll save for when it places (either on the main poll, or the most disappointing game side poll or both). on the plus side despite its major flaws i do trust paradox to do right by it eventually. it's not totally bereft of interesting ideas.

framerate was def supposed to say framework*

i plan on playing xcom2 very soon as well (and the last guardian).

a lot of games i still want to play but no way i make it to all of them by voting deadline. if one of these is really good plz tell me and i'll prioritize it:

Axiom Verge
Crashlands
Dishonored 2
Doom
Hearts of Iron IV
Hitman
Oxenfree
The Last Guardian
The Witness

The Witness