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

12 - XCOM 2 - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/1zwnDwG.png

(any pref for the last 11 -- tmrw or monday?)

tomorrow good for me

So PO-ed about Jackbox 3 being current gen only. I've been such a vocal champion of those games. They owe me a PS3 version. Or a writing job, at least.

reading thread. nothing to add. but thanks

xcom 2 is a game i'm saving for a rainy day. i know i'll love it, and i know what to expect, so i just kind of want to save it for a while.

i'm kind of curious about steep. i played the shit out of cool boarders 2 for psx back in the day, and the thought of open world sounds enticing, but something makes me suspect that steep is a game where you spend more time on loading screens than the actual game

i was obsessed with original skyrim but got sidetracked and never returned. like xcom2, i'm saving the remastered version for an appropriate time. preferably a time when i live in the woods by myself and drink constantly

Steep is the first game i've seen that makes me want a PS4 tbh

xcom looks really interesting.

skyrim was great first time around. coming back with the remaster was a bit of a letdown once you remembered that the dungeon/enemies you fight your first hour in are more or less the same as the ones you fight 25, 50, 100, hours in.

So PO-ed about Jackbox 3 being current gen only. I've been such a vocal champion of those games. They owe me a PS3 version. Or a writing job, at least.

― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Friday, April 21, 2017 8:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jackbox 3 is also on weird shit like... Apple TV.

ANYWAY HERE ARE THE REST

11 - Doom - 33 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/olZ3JQb.png

i want to play doom but i can't see myself doing it with a ps4 controller. i need the mouse and keyboard combo and my computer isn't good enough to handle it.

doom is a masterpiece

10 - No Man's Sky - 35 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/S6VasDM.png

9 - Witcher 3: Blood & Wine - 36 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/oSWxPyV.png

8 - Overwatch - 37 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/HorVwWU.png

shocked those two aren't at the top

7 - Firewatch - 41 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/gj1tMAb.png

firewatch: highest-rated -watch game of ILX 2016

(i was the #1 vote, i loved it, fite me)

6 - Marvel Puzzle Quest - 45 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/q7hBgsu.png

MOVING ON

5 - Salt & Sanctuary - 50 points / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ri8nNl1.png

4 - Stardew Valley - 75 points / 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/bYIUlOz.png

lol i only didn't vote MPQ because i thought you'd shit the bed again :P

mpq voters should just have their ballots destroyed at this point

Cosign

ban Roberto Spirelli and Jeff

it just looks like a hideously ugly Bejeweled knock-off.

I like the look of Stardew Valley tho

stardew valley is good - very cute and at least worth playing through one year. i couldn't get beyond that tho you exhaust the new stuff pretty quickly and outside building larger and larger farms (which just means more clicking since everything is > click here to plow this > click here to put seeds here > click here to water seeds here or > click here to milk cow > click here to put milk in cheesemaking machine) and an underbaked combat system (that reminds me a lot of princess maker).

3 - The Witness - 90 points / 2 First-place votes / 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8f4fOtV.png

i'd be cool to destroy mpq ballots if they didn't make up double-digit percentages of total number of ballots

2016 was not a great year for video games

I didn't vote since I only played around 5 games from 2016. The Witness was definitely my favorite.

i forgot to put it on my ballot but the witness rules

2 - Dark Souls 3 - 90 points / 2.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/f7q1m6t.png

1 - Inside - 94 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/9ehFq5R.png

Everything that got a vote:

1 - Inside - 94 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Votes
2 - Dark Souls 3 - 90 points / 2.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes
3 - The Witness - 90 points / 2 First-place votes / 7 Votes
4 - Stardew Valley - 75 points / 6 Votes
5 - Salt & Sanctuary - 50 points / 3 Votes
6 - Marvel Puzzle Quest - 45 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
7 - Firewatch - 41 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
8 - Overwatch - 37 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes
9 - Witcher 3 Blood and Wine - 36 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
10 - No Man's Sky - 35 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 2 Votes
11 - Doom - 33 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes
12 - XCOM 2 - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
13 - Devil Daggers - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote
13 - Plants vs. Zombies Heroes - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote
13 - Rez Infinite - 30 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote
16 - World of Warcraft: Legion - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
16 - Rusty Lake: Roots - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
18 - Skyrim Remastered - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
18 - Steep - 30 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
20 - Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
20 - Street Fighter V - 25 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
22 - Hitman - 25 points / 3 Votes
22 - Crashlands - 25 points / 3 Votes
24 - Severed - 25 points / 2 Votes
25 - Titanfall 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes
25 - Picross 3DS Round 2 - 22 points / 2 Votes
27 - Nuclear Throne - 21 points / 2 Votes
28 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 20 points / 2 Votes
29 - Mini Metro - 20 points / 1 Vote
29 - Rusty Lake Hotel - 20 points / 1 Vote
29 - Watch Dogs 2 - 20 points / 1 Vote
29 - Teeny Titans - 20 points / 1 Vote
33 - The Last Guardian - 17 points / 3 Votes
34 - Pocket Mortys - 16 points / 1 Vote
35 - RimWorld - 15 points / 2 Votes
35 - Pokemon Sun & Moon - 15 points / 2 Votes
37 - Dishonored 2 - 15 points / 1 Vote
37 - Pocket Card Jockey - 15 points / 1 Vote
37 - ABZU - 15 points / 1 Vote
37 - Total War: Warhammer - 15 points / 1 Vote
41 - Uncharted 4 - 13 points / 3 Votes
42 - Pokemon Go - 11 points / 2 Votes
43 - Superhot - 10 points / 2 Votes
43 - Ratchet and Clank 2016 - 10 points / 2 Votes
45 - Imbroglio - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - Lego's Marvel's Avengers - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - Planar Conquest - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - Jackbox Party Pack 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - Rodeo Stampede - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - SteamWorld Heist - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - We Know The Devil - 10 points / 1 Vote
45 - Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission - 10 points / 1 Vote
53 - Battlefield One - 9 points / 1 Vote
54 - Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor - 8 points / 1 Vote
54 - The Playroom VR - 8 points / 1 Vote
56 - Really Bad Chess - 6 points / 2 Votes
57 - Battle of Polytopia - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Disney Magic Kingdoms - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Dragon Quest Builders - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - EDF 4.1 - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Spaceplan - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Bullet Hell Monday - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Human Resource Machine - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - King Rabbit - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Pony Island - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Stellaris - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Job Simulator - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - Pinball FX2 VR - 5 points / 1 Vote
57 - The Lab - 5 points / 1 Vote
71 - Disney Crossy Road - 4 points / 1 Vote
71 - Harvest Moon - 4 points / 1 Vote
71 - Let it Die - 4 points / 1 Vote
74 - Glittermitten Grove - 3 points / 1 Vote
74 - Stories: The Path of Destinies - 3 points / 1 Vote
76 - Owlboy - 2 points / 1 Vote
77 - Hero Slide - 1 points / 1 Vote
77 - Twilight Struggle - 1 points / 1 Vote

My ballot:

17 /// XCOM 2
16 /// Nuclear Throne
15 /// Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
10 /// Titanfall 2
9 /// Battlefield One
8 /// Hitman
8 /// Stardew Valley
7 /// Inside
5 /// The Witness
5 /// Stellaris

18 /// Doom
17 /// Stardew Valley
12 /// Titanfall 2
12 /// Overwatch
12 /// Hitman
8 /// Dark Souls III
8 /// Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
6 /// Witcher 3 Blood and Wine
4 /// Let it Die
2 /// The Last Guardian
1 /// Really Bad Chess

Thanks for doing this Will!

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

No repeats in "non-2016 game of 2016" category. The list:

Trapball
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Assassin's Creed II
10 Second Ninja
Tearaway Unfolded
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Witcher 3
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014)
Puyo-Puyo Tetris

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)

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

the ballot I didn't send in:

1 // Crashlands

the from software & borderlands blocs will run this poll by next year at this rate of vote decay

Nah we're gonna get better

2016 wasn't great. non-election years should be better

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.

I would have really gone in hard for Total War: Warhammer and MiniMetro had I voted.