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).
― Mordy, Saturday, 22 April 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
3 - The Witness - 90 points / 2 First-place votes / 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/8f4fOtV.png
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
i'd be cool to destroy mpq ballots if they didn't make up double-digit percentages of total number of ballots
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:13 (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