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