45 - SteamWorld Heist - 10 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/roxLEJy.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
45 - We Know The Devil - 10 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/zTtvbp2.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
xp shit that looks good, i have literally never heard of it
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
45 - Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission - 10 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/8JSdhIa.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
that's it for the 10/1 games!
43 - Superhot - 10 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/6oq9g5x.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
i still haven't finished superhot, but it is so good!
43 - Ratchet and Clank 2016 - 10 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/p1dHXGv.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
I know why, but it's not just me that thinks 10/1 should come higher than 10/2, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
disagree, imo it's more notable (especially in c&p where it almost never happens) if more than one person votes for a game
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
when you only have 16 ballots and half of everyone's ballot is pretty much unique there's not a lot to go on! anyway, here's a game that got more than 10 points
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
42 - Pokemon Go - 11 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/o70zK4l.png
my phone has an absolute piece of shit battery but i never stopped playing a game for that exact reason until pokemon go rolled around. what a battery vampire.
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
lol. nice try pokemon go.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
41 - Uncharted 4 - 13 points / 3 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/BWOesJ6.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
37 - Dishonored 2 - 15 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/WE6Aais.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
I was the lone vote for imbroglio. Imbroglio rules, although I burned myself out on it.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
37 - Pocket Card Jockey - 15 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/sC4TDu1.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
i dunno what pocket card jockey is, i kinda have a feeling i wouldn't get into it, and yet i love that lil picture so much
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
i liked the first dishonored but i haven't once thought about picking up the sequel. i don't even know why.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
37 - ABZU - 15 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/17an59Q.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I feel bad that I stalled out on Dishonored 2. It's really fun once you get into a level and pick it apart, but starting a new one can be kinda overwhelming with the amount of secret runes and paths to figure out. Gotta get back to that someday.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
37 - Total War: Warhammer - 15 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/bPEKQqm.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
35 - RimWorld - 15 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/8ejXM9G.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
another one of my votes, i had abunch of fun with this one!
35 - Pokemon Sun & Moon - 15 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/lltdjlc.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
34 - Pocket Mortys - 16 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/AtpeQNJ.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
i voted for RimWorld as well - there was a bit of a learning curve to it, and just as i was getting a handle on everything the difficulty ramped up as the invasions became more powerful and i wasn't quite prepared to fight back. it's a lot of fun though, and i imagine there are people who installed RimWorld a year ago who are still just as obsessed with it right now
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
in a lot of ways it feels like a more playable dwarf fortress to me, which is v v v v high praise!
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
33 - The Last Guardian - 17 points / 3 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/h4nXHph.png
pocket card jockey seems like my kind of lunacy, shame it's only on 3ds
― devvvine, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
29 - Mini Metro - 20 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/HHrhEK4.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
i voted for last guardian. at the time of my vote, i had just started playing the day before and was still enthralled. it would still make my ballot now, i think, but maybe with only 5 points instead of 10. the main attraction - Trico the dog bird dragon beast - is very well done. it is genuinely fun to just fuck around in a room, crawling around on Trico, petting it, watching Trico pace around the room, looking for food for Trico. it helps that Trico is very similar to my own dog, Bird. very similar mannerisms.
but the actual puzzles - not so much fun. and the controls are a goddamn shame. it's too bad, because the rest of the game is so well done.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
How do I filter this thread to iOS only games???
― Jeff, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
pocket mortys is a fun pokemonlike
i just started dishonored 2 - so far it seems much harder than the original?
does everyone know about the rimworld controversy? http://kotaku.com/rimworlds-gay-women-controversy-explained-1788555928
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
xp http://www.rubbercat.net/simpsons/jeremysiron.png
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
I got addicted to Mini Metro earlier this year, but then made the mistake of updating to ios 8.21 which hasn't been jailbroken and couldn't play all my leeched stuff anymore. As excellent as it is, you do reach a tipping point from whence it becomes near impossible to progress for longer.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
29 - Rusty Lake: Hotel - 20 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/5qyaFWJ.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
weird mordy, i hadn't heard about that rimworld thing :( guess i didn't play enough to notice either
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
just a curiosity imo - you really wouldn't know anything was up without looking under the hood.
nb i'm feeling protective of dwarf fortress which i think is a far superior game but rimworld was good for some lolz i liked making a freezer.
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah i didn't know about the rimworld controversy, either. many, many videogames have glaring problems with sexism and gender roles, of course, but i suppose games that simulate aspects of human relationships are different because you can actually addresses sexuality in the code. makes me wonder how games like The Sims evolved over the years.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
because you can actually ^look into how the game ^addresses sexuality in the code, i meant
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
29 - Watch Dogs 2 - 20 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/FxXkes4.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
rusty lake hotel looks neat!
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Which of the pictured figures is Poochy?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
29 - Teeny Titans - 20 points / 1 Votehttp://i.imgur.com/8Y6Y1Hb.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
xxp it is! It's also one of three games from 2016 that I played last year, so expect to see them skewing the results in another 10 points.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
also the watch dogs vote was me. i really had a great time with it. yeah it has a lot of "attitude" but i did appreciate how A) tonally consistent the whole thing was (even if it was puerile, it's rare to see a playyground game feel so... well-curated?) and the city is great (even if it's just based on sf) and has actually engaging content (looking at you, almost evry other open world game)
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
28 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 20 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/JW8aJrf.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
27 - Nuclear Throne - 21 points / 2 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/j33Z6r1.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
2016 was not a great year for video games
― Mordy, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
I didn't vote since I only played around 5 games from 2016. The Witness was definitely my favorite.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
i forgot to put it on my ballot but the witness rules
― devvvine, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
2 - Dark Souls 3 - 90 points / 2.5 First-place votes / 3 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/f7q1m6t.png
1 - Inside - 94 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/9ehFq5R.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
Everything that got a vote:
1 - Inside - 94 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Votes2 - Dark Souls 3 - 90 points / 2.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes3 - The Witness - 90 points / 2 First-place votes / 7 Votes4 - Stardew Valley - 75 points / 6 Votes5 - Salt & Sanctuary - 50 points / 3 Votes6 - Marvel Puzzle Quest - 45 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes7 - Firewatch - 41 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes8 - Overwatch - 37 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes9 - Witcher 3 Blood and Wine - 36 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes10 - No Man's Sky - 35 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes11 - Doom - 33 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes12 - XCOM 2 - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes13 - Devil Daggers - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote13 - Plants vs. Zombies Heroes - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote13 - Rez Infinite - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote16 - World of Warcraft: Legion - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote16 - Rusty Lake: Roots - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote18 - Skyrim Remastered - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote18 - Steep - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote20 - Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote20 - Street Fighter V - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote22 - Hitman - 25 points / 3 Votes22 - Crashlands - 25 points / 3 Votes24 - Severed - 25 points / 2 Votes25 - Titanfall 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes25 - Picross 3DS Round 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes27 - Nuclear Throne - 21 points / 2 Votes28 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 20 points / 2 Votes29 - Mini Metro - 20 points / 1 Vote29 - Rusty Lake Hotel - 20 points / 1 Vote29 - Watch Dogs 2 - 20 points / 1 Vote29 - Teeny Titans - 20 points / 1 Vote33 - The Last Guardian - 17 points / 3 Votes34 - Pocket Mortys - 16 points / 1 Vote35 - RimWorld - 15 points / 2 Votes35 - Pokemon Sun & Moon - 15 points / 2 Votes37 - Dishonored 2 - 15 points / 1 Vote37 - Pocket Card Jockey - 15 points / 1 Vote37 - ABZU - 15 points / 1 Vote37 - Total War: Warhammer - 15 points / 1 Vote41 - Uncharted 4 - 13 points / 3 Votes42 - Pokemon Go - 11 points / 2 Votes43 - Superhot - 10 points / 2 Votes43 - Ratchet and Clank 2016 - 10 points / 2 Votes45 - Imbroglio - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - Lego's Marvel's Avengers - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - Planar Conquest - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - Jackbox Party Pack 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - Rodeo Stampede - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - SteamWorld Heist - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - We Know The Devil - 10 points / 1 Vote45 - Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission - 10 points / 1 Vote53 - Battlefield One - 9 points / 1 Vote54 - Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor - 8 points / 1 Vote54 - The Playroom VR - 8 points / 1 Vote56 - Really Bad Chess - 6 points / 2 Votes57 - Battle of Polytopia - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Disney Magic Kingdoms - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Dragon Quest Builders - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - EDF 4.1 - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Spaceplan - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Bullet Hell Monday - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Human Resource Machine - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - King Rabbit - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Pony Island - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Stellaris - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Job Simulator - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - Pinball FX2 VR - 5 points / 1 Vote57 - The Lab - 5 points / 1 Vote71 - Disney Crossy Road - 4 points / 1 Vote71 - Harvest Moon - 4 points / 1 Vote71 - Let it Die - 4 points / 1 Vote74 - Glittermitten Grove - 3 points / 1 Vote74 - Stories: The Path of Destinies - 3 points / 1 Vote76 - Owlboy - 2 points / 1 Vote77 - Hero Slide - 1 points / 1 Vote77 - Twilight Struggle - 1 points / 1 Vote
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
My ballot:
17 /// XCOM 216 /// Nuclear Throne15 /// Deus Ex: Mankind Divided10 /// Titanfall 29 /// Battlefield One8 /// Hitman8 /// Stardew Valley7 /// Inside5 /// The Witness5 /// Stellaris
― Mordy, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
18 /// Doom17 /// Stardew Valley12 /// Titanfall 212 /// Overwatch12 /// Hitman8 /// Dark Souls III8 /// Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor6 /// Witcher 3 Blood and Wine4 /// Let it Die2 /// The Last Guardian1 /// Really Bad Chess
Thanks for doing this Will!
― devvvine, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
The only game to get two "disappointment of 2016" votes was No Man's Sky. other disappointments:
- I didn't play enough games- Final Fantasy XV- people still play MOBAs and match three games- Stellaris
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
No repeats in "non-2016 game of 2016" category. The list:
TrapballThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HDAssassin's Creed II10 Second NinjaTearaway UnfoldedPro Evolution Soccer 2016Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasWitcher 3Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)Puyo-Puyo Tetris
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for ballots everyone, hopefully by the next time I run a poll I have a job and therefore am actually sitting at a computer for more thna 5 minutes at a time
i might actually hand this off next yr, doing two of these a year is kind of a pain (and i wanna keep doing the generational polls in late summer-early autumn)
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
lol at ds3 - 3 votes, all 1st place. i guess by this point you aren't playing the series still if you don't love it. cool with inside getting #1, wonderful game
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
the ballot I didn't send in:
1 // Crashlands
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
the from software & borderlands blocs will run this poll by next year at this rate of vote decay
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
Nah we're gonna get better
2016 wasn't great. non-election years should be better
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Sorry I didn't vote, but I seriously only played maybe 2-3 2016 games. Now that PS3 is almost dead and Vita is slowly slipping away (although it did just get a Salt & Sanctuary port), I'd guess I'm pretty much tapping out of contemporaneous C+P polls for the foreseeable future.
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link
I would have really gone in hard for Total War: Warhammer and MiniMetro had I voted.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
30 /// The Witness i think i have raved enough. i love this game, which is so much more than just solving a series of line puzzles on panels.15 /// Stardew Valleya slightly different spin on harvest moon. that's all i wanted, and it delivers! i heard a rumor about local multiplayer coming at some point and i really hope it's true.10 /// Salt & Sanctuarydark souls + castlevania. tbh i'm more excited about a S&S sequel than a proper souls sequel.10 /// RimWorldhigher learning curve than you'd think, but it's not terribly cumbersome to learn. just takes a bit of effort.10 /// The Last Guardiani mentioned this upthread. ultimately disappointing despite nailing the dogdragon dynamic.10 /// Imbroglioit feels like this came out ages ago. i would esp. recommend this game for people who enjoy building custom decks and optimization. i don't, but the default settings were enough to provide plenty of puzzle fun for quite a while.5 /// Insideit was really good. not best game of 2016 good.5 /// Dragon Quest Builderslighthearted minecraft style sandbox but with a nice set of structured goals.5 /// EDF 4.1only for local co-op purposes. this game is ridiculously stupid, relentlessly so. and all the levels start to blend together after a while. but man, when you are sitting there on the same couch desperately trying to fend off waves of giant ants it is sooooo much fun.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
my ballot is all ps4 except for rimworld (mac) and imbroglio (iOS)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
i didn't vote bc i didn't play that many new games. Dark Souls 3 and DOOM and No Man's Sky, that's it. i was looking forward to playing FFXV but they STILL haven't issued a PC release date.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 22 April 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I feel bad that I got two games to #16 just because I didn't play a lot of games last year. I promise that I'll play more this year, not just WoW.
*realises with horror that he's playing WoW while posting this*
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 23 April 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
I voted for all three games I played a ton last year:
SkyrimSteepNo Man's Land
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 April 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
i checked out the Rusty Lake games because of this thread, and played through all of them over the last week. so good! really clever and creepy. and i only cheated a couple times, i swear.
― goole, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
i did not, however, get through the final time-challenge sequence of (whichever one)
― goole, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
RL: Roots was even moving, if that edward gorey/wes anderson type of thing does it for you
― goole, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
Aw great, I'm glad of that - yeah all of the free games that Rusty Lake made before those two are also good, but Roots is the best.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
I have got into Inside this week. So many gruesome ways for the poor child to get killed! I like it's sense of mystery and total lack of daft voice-overs so far.
― calzino, Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
I hate the dogs in Inside, they terrify me.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 7 May 2017 10:23 (six years ago) link
The bastards are so fast, there is that bit where you can scare them off with fire - but then they start coming at you from both sides.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 May 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
I love the Abe's Oddysee style mind control puzzles as well.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 May 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
The worst dog part is where you've got to climb a fence, pull boards off a doorway and then run back to the fence before the dogs get you, and then do it twice more. I was a nervous wreck after doing that one.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 7 May 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
fyi there's an extra lil puzzle in rusty lake: cave. when you're in the sub, go to some familiar landmarks! p cool.
― goole, Thursday, 11 May 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
Shoulda participated in this, feel like I played more games this year than I typically do. Wouldn't have added too much that was novel though, DOOM and Dark Souls were my go-to's.
― circa1916, Thursday, 11 May 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
Coint & Plick 2017 - ILX's best games of the year - NOMINATIONS (Deadline: March 4)
― flippy bard (Will M.), Friday, 26 January 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link