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

might as well nominate the rest of my switch library

Splatoon 2 - Switch
Fire Emblem Warriors - Switch
Fast RMX - Switch
Kamiko - Switch

Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen - Console/PC

Metroid: Samus Returns - 3DS
Yooka-Laylee - console/computer

man, this year a well-reviewed Metroid 2D game came out and was promptly forgotten

i didn't like the visual style of it and heard mostly lukewarm things about the gameplay. also the DS not so exciting this year for obvious reasons

I love the fact that this year we get to nominate:

Starfox 2 - SNES

But also feel like we should be able to vote for the snes classic mini itself. Obviously most of the games are non-2017 games but using this console is definitely a 2017 gaming experience, and a bloody good one too.

A Hat in Time - PC/PS4/XB1

Dead Cells - Computer
Rain World - Computer/Console
Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment - Computer/Console/Handheld

Samus Returns was fine but it's only really notable as the first decent Metroid game released in a decade, it really suffers in comparison to the best of the series and similar indie titles (which I played a lot of this year)

cinco paus - iOS

But also feel like we should be able to vote for the snes classic mini itself. Obviously most of the games are non-2017 games but using this console is definitely a 2017 gaming experience, and a bloody good one too.

C&P should have an Un Certain Regard section for stuff along those lines.

We already have a Biggest Disappointment section, so why not?

What I'll do is add a new category for this year: best platform. the point is to vote for whichever platform offered the best entertainment this year. so no nominating the original game boy because you got one with a copy of daedalian opus on ebay or something.

Here are the nominees so far,
PS4
PS3
Xbox One
Switch
3DS
Vita
Mobile
Steam
SNES Classic

add some others if you want!

what is "ghost recon shadow warrior"? there's a 2011 release with a similar but not same name...

Here's the list, will update as stuff is added

Please make sure to give me the right names, spell it good, and tell me what to checkmark it under.

Switch has got to be the runaway winner in that category

it should be but do we all have one now is the question

holy moly i just re-read that sentence and it makes no sense. what i mean is, do enough people have a switch for it to win?

i understood if it makes you feel any better
and i think the answer is gonna be yes - the system has already outsold the Wii U's lifetime. but that's why we're polling, to find out, I guess!

what is "ghost recon shadow warrior"? there's a 2011 release with a similar but not same name...

― flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 8:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm an idiot, the correct full name is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands

does it seem like we have fewer games nominated this year than in previous ones?

Doki Doki Literature Club - PC

was that this year? i've heard good things about it...

https://www.facebook.com/events/374622429668654/

the number of nominations this year feels lower by volume but higher by overall quality. like my #10 this year would probably be better than my #4 or #5 most years.

i was thinking the same. i am interested in the idea of a new approach to voting because my points were going to get spread woefully thin this year

"steam" as a platform but mobile not separated into ios & android feels wrong.

splitting ios and android just feels meaningless, like, what's the significant difference? anyone who votes for one or the other is just voting for what device they have, not the relative quality of one or the other. "steam" is there because simply putting "computer" feels too broad, and maybe someone wants to nominate e.g. humble Monthly or GOG.com or Origin (lol) instead?

Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire - Mobile

Last year we had over 170 nominations, and we're only at 87 now, so might be less? but also every year less people have nominated and voted in coint and plick so it might be a function of that :(

im definitely gonna check out doki doki literature club some time soon, that sounds weiiiird and cool

I mean once everything I played on Switch is nominated that basically covers what I can vote for. It’s a shame if there’s less diverse types of games on our list I guess but I for one have had no enthusiasm for desktop gaming in ages and very little for phones.

i kinda feel like there's an ebb and flow to game 'diversity' - like years like this where almost anyone who wants one already has a Big 3 Console. when the ps5 comes out and there's a split in the market and people are looking to mobile and computer for stuff to play while they wait for the next gen to get "worth it" and get jaded with their "old gen" console, that's when the quality weirdness starts cropping up!

yeah, that's a good point.

Realm Revolutions - browser (computer/mobile)

not saying it's a great game but I played it too much not to nominate it

5 days of noms left!

I Love Hue (iOS)

Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (PC/Mac)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/03/bubsy-3d-bubsy-visits-the-james-turrell-retrospective-remastered/
http://bubsy3d.com/

Bubsy is so cool, you start in an art museum, looking at minimalist art, then it just goes completely off the rails. it is by the anarchic design team Arcane Kids, who previously made the cool and utterly bizarre Sonic Dreams Collection

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/17/jun/03bubsy.jpg

was that last year? man it was so weird and great

I bought a lot of Steam games the past three months, but on closer inspection I don't think many are from last year. None really worth nomming anyway.

xp originally 2013. didn't realise they'd updated it, is up there with frog fractions.

is the remastering significant enough to put it on the poll again?

Tales of Berseria - PS4/PC

xpost oops didn't realize it was a remaster

Northgard - PC

surprised nobody's nom'd the new Ys game; I haven't played it (waiting to get it on Switch later this year) but I've heard nothing but effusive praise about it

i heard the localization was so bad on initial release that they redid the entire thing recently including voice acting, so i think a lot of ppl held off on playing it because of that.

also the pc version got delayed and didn't make it out in 2017 so it's more of a 2018 game unless you were an impatient ps4 haver

hot take: this was a p good year for videogames

Any last minute requests? If not I'm gonna set up to take ballots tomorrow!

these strike me as being missing? didn't play most of them

Torment: Tides of Numenera
Resident Evil 7
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Tacoma
Destiny 2
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Divinity: Original Sin II
Polybius
Assassin's Creed Origins
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Slime Rancher
Tekken 7
Reigns: Her Majesty
Little Nightmares
Nidhogg 2
Call of Duty: WWII
Gravity Rush 2
For Honor
Halo Wars 2
Tokyo 42
Lawbreakers
Forza 7
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
The Evil Within 2

Gran Turismo Sport (ps4)
Wipeout Omega Collection (ps4)
Skyrim VR (psvr)
Skyrim (Switch)
Doom VFR (psvr)
Doom (Switch)
Statik (psvr)
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin (psvr)
Farpoint (psvr)
Star Trek Bridge Crew (psvr)
Superhot VR (psvr) [also maybe superhot non-vr, on ps4?]
Accounting+ (psvr)
Pokemon Ultra Sun (3ds)
Pokemon Ultra Moon (3ds)
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp (ios)

Haha wow this nomination list is basically a long list of PSVR games I've bought and not yet played. There were about 50 others released in 2017 too, most of which I've not even heard of but some may well be worth a nom.

Oh also

Pinball FX3 (on everything)

And

Rec Room (psvr)

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