Coint & Plick X: The 50(ish) best games of 2016

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

in a lot of ways it feels like a more playable dwarf fortress to me, which is v v v v high praise!

33 - The Last Guardian - 17 points / 3 Votes
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pocket card jockey seems like my kind of lunacy, shame it's only on 3ds

29 - Mini Metro - 20 points / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/HHrhEK4.png

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.

How do I filter this thread to iOS only games???

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

xp
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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.

29 - Rusty Lake: Hotel - 20 points / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/5qyaFWJ.png

weird mordy, i hadn't heard about that rimworld thing :( guess i didn't play enough to notice either

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.

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.

because you can actually ^look into how the game ^addresses sexuality in the code, i meant

29 - Watch Dogs 2 - 20 points / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/FxXkes4.png

rusty lake hotel looks neat!

Which of the pictured figures is Poochy?

29 - Teeny Titans - 20 points / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/8Y6Y1Hb.png

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.

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)

28 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 20 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JW8aJrf.png

27 - Nuclear Throne - 21 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/j33Z6r1.png

2 of mine. nuclear throne is really good. mankind divided is okay but nothing special.

25 - Picross 3DS Round 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/5FY4MFO.png

25 - Titanfall 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/aMzcvd8.png

gonna drop a too low here, titanfall 2 is so great

everywhere overwatch fails wrt unlocks/leveling/game matching titanfall does perfectly

24 - Severed - 25 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/0Tc7Ptw.png

22 - Crashlands - 25 points / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/942Ddvq.png

22 - Hitman - 25 points / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/rkD0ZL6.png

Aaaaaand that's it for today. Gonna start tomorrow with a tie for 20th!

Yaaay I think I voted for something

uhh... did you?

Just to say my easily pleased contrarian heart is delighted by the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided / Nuclear Throne / Picross 3DS Round 2 / Titanfall 2 run, and I haven't even played any of these games.

glad i checked in on ilx today to see the results.

I TOTALLY FORGOT I WAS SUPPOSED TO FINISH THIS TODAY

20 - Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/Bp5GHSX.png

20 - Street Fighter V - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/3kq2vL2.png

sry my buddies for the lateness. may finish tonight not sure (may just drop 10 and save 10 for tmrw or monoday)

18 - Skyrim Remastered - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/xjHlUk2.png

i didn't realize street fight v was a 2016 game, it seems so old already

18 - Steep - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/eqUYL6X.png

it is over a year old, but that's more due to me taking forever to collect/release this EOY!

has anyone made a plugin yet that autoposts ilx poll results to a thread? :P

lol I just assumed if crashlands got 3 votes then that must have meant I remembered to vote; I only really put time into one nominee because I only play games that are either old or terrible or both

nope, 3 other ppl voted for it! never got a ballot from you (double checked and panicked when u said your voted, hence my confused response)

16 - Rusty Lake: Roots - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/0eFKEvj.png

will i really appreciate u running this and i kno it's a huge pain in the ass esp when it seems like there aren't too many ppl into it. but not knowing the OS for these is killing me.

16 - World of Warcraft: Legion - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
http://i.imgur.com/FYpwkTR.png

xp i'll re-include em next yr, sry

I hate the dogs in Inside, they terrify me.

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.

I love the Abe's Oddysee style mind control puzzles as well.

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.

fyi there's an extra lil puzzle in rusty lake: cave. when you're in the sub, go to some familiar landmarks! p cool.

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.

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