https://i.imgur.com/tR4xYdl.jpg69 - Resident Evil 7 - 6 points / 2 VotesWindows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
> i'm waiting to jump into VR for when an actual must play game comes out
The Wipeout VR update came out this week and it will likely end up being my highest scoring P&C2018 game, you should totally jump in.
(oh yeah and RE7 too xp)
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
i find scary games much scarier than scary movies is it bc they require more active participation?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
you can't lose a movie
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QPkbdtO.jpg65 - Calculator: The Game - 7 points / 1 VoteiOS and Android
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
i didn't vote for this. i played it a little bit but it didn't really stick with me. i guess it's charming and if that's your kind of puzzle it's fun? felt a little too math homework for me. unless it gets crazy after like 20 levels or something.
https://i.imgur.com/bgL3fYI.jpg65 - Cube Escape: The Cave - 7 points / 1 VoteBrowser, iOS, Android
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
^ free i think too
https://i.imgur.com/nH0KdlU.jpg65 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - 7 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tor7CcG.jpg65 - Mass Effect Andromeda - 7 points / 1 VoteWindows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
my vote, also my disappointment. i sitll finished it and played a LOT of the content but i was ptretty unsatisfied. and i know it's very "food is bad and such small portions" but i am REALLY disappointed we never got DLC from it, i feel like some good bespoke dlc would've been real nice for a game that felt like it was just so largely paint-by-numbers with a few very memorable and satisfying missions sprinkled in here and there.
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
this series has been pretty boring to me for quite a while. i couldn't even finish vol 3.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/cvAROGr.jpg63 - The Norwood Suite - 8 points / 1 VotePC
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
would love to hear more about the above game
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
also -- at the end of today i'll post the disappointments of 2017, end of tomorrow: non-2017 games of 2017, and end of friday - the platforms poll
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
yeah that norwood suite game looks cool
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ddgaMTy.jpg63 - Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen - 8 points / 1 VotePS4 & Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
My vote, game is neat maybe hasn't aged well though. Enjoyed the combat and the pawn/ai system is kinda inspired but the lack of fast travel wore me out before i got anywhere near finishing it.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1QX65dx.jpg61 - Hidden Folks - 8 points / 2 VotesiOS, Linux, macOS, Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
Where's Waldo: The Game?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ASSDZ3q.jpg61 - Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment - 8 points / 2 VotesA million consoles
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
voted for Dead Cells, it's a pretty great rogue-like platformer, though it's still in development. very fast-paced combat and a wide variety of weapons
also played through most of Dragon's Dogma last year and it was alright but a bit clunky and the combat wasn't particularly engaging (though many have said it's the main draw idk?). the pawn system is interesting but there was way too much inventory management involving useless junk, and lack of direction with the world/mission design - a lot of areas you can just stumble across only to find they're completely pointless to explore if you haven't activated a relevant quest for the area etc.
the latest Shovel Knight expansion was great like the others
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sOdauMu.jpg60 - Statik - 9 points / 1 VotePS4 / PS VR
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
jesus i'm going to have to forget i ever saw hidden folks. that looks terrible but prob extremely addictive
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
is shovel knight on switch? i haven't played it yet and haven't determined the best system to play it on.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
the game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in June 2014. The game was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017.
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z9VXaUi.jpg55 - Little Nightmares - 10 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows
Statik is my vote, it's a lovely little vr puzzle game. Your hands are trapped inside a box, the sticks and triggers and buttons on the dual shock all control various buttons/dials/sliders on that box, you have to work out the right sequence to free yourself. Presentation is a little too sub-portal but aside from that I'd hugely recommend it.
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/arlAw74.jpg55 - Accounting+ - 10 points / 1 VoteVR
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
what is little nightmares!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
Didn't vote for accounting+ but I'm sure it would've been on my list if I'd got around to playing it, love those guys.
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/iCoQ2fr.jpg55 - Picross S - 10 points / 1 VoteSwitch
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
Statik looks interesting, is it as short as that sounds?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0YIbB1A.jpg55 - NBA Playgrounds - 10 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4rLRQWA.jpg55 - Meshi Quest - 10 points / 1 VoteiOS, Android
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
five to go today!
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
that's gotta be a diner dash game right?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe the person who voted for it will explain?
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fhOlD6t.jpg54 - Everything - 10 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7zhWFXH.jpg51 - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 11 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
i'm less than halfway into this so far and ended up throwing it some last minute points (it's good to be the guy who runs the dang thing because i don't get mad at myself for changing my ballot lol). i LOVE danganronpa 1+2 and it took me a while to get around to 3, but chapter 1 was in and of itself a complete shockah to the point where i figured "yeah, this is gonna be another good one." i really want to find more games like this and like the nonary games (which were re-released last year and i would've voted for if i hadn't played the old ones in other years). any tips are highly appreciated.
honestly considering how much i loved DGR1, this might've ended up at the top of my list (or close to) had i finished it in time for this. i'll report back!
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
I voted for MeshiQuest ; it’s a squeenix food game. Is that diner dash style? Dunno. You have to cook things fast as the orders came in. I like its Japanese takes on food.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/x9VZLQw.jpg51 - Tekken 7 - 11 points / 2 VotesArcade game, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Oh, I didn't explain the bit where when you get out of the box, you move to the next level and they put you in a new one. Not sure how many there are total, 10 or 15 maybe? I think it's still fairly short but not THAT short.
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
I really wanted to like Everything, loved the idea but the execution was so disappointing. Soon as I got inside a goat and the goat started flipping head over heels around the landscape instead of, you know, walking like goats walk, I was out really. The appeal of "you can be any object in the world" goes out of the window if they then fail to act anything like those objects should.
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/adAuS3u.jpg51 - Nioh - 11 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Whoa, I haven’t played Nioh but I thought a lot of people loved it?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
@KM You like me may be mixing up Nier and Nioh
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1EDNxAI.jpg50 - Gran Turismo Sport - 12 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4
I even played that one a little, it's super cute and well-written, just not very game-y imo. Great if you like chill exploration/storytelling though.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 6 April 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
id approach it as a visual novel, if you're expecting a game there's not much of that
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 April 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
Hollow Knight was my #1, the best metroidvania/exploration platformer ever made. incredibly expansive, beautiful, and atmospheric. unlike most games in the genre which have a fairly strict core/intended path, Hollow Knight is a bit more open, allowing for many different routes/orders of exploring areas/obtaining abilities throughout the game which is a refreshing approach. the soul meter mechanic is really clever risk/reward too, combining the Dark Souls estus flask (relatively low health pool that can be healed at the cost of staying still) with the Hyper Light Drifter 'refill projectile ammo by doing melee damage' mechanic.
also voted for Mario, Zelda, Nier, Prey and Persona.
thanks for the poll!
― ufo, Saturday, 7 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
oh weird. my work time settings being off i think magically ported my messages several hours into the futureInjustice 2 was great btwZelda such an obvious winner, everyone should play that game for sureSo many cool looking indies that I'll probably forget about it immediately. so many past ones on the backlog
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 April 2018 07:30 (six years ago) link
Breath of the Wild is a world I'll come back to any time I want to explore. No other open world game has come CLOSE to the freedom I feel. Sketchy to describe it this way, but it mirrors several dreams of feeling free I've had, where I'll float over hills and under waterfalls and through forests and every little detail is a delight.
Love Odyssey in many ways, but I've concluded that I do prefer the more linear 3D Mario stylings of Galaxy, 3D land and 3D world, simply for the replayability. I want to play Mario primarily to do creative, surprising obstacle courses in colorful worlds. Not to explore for secrets. There' s some very lovely pure platforming in Odyssey, but getting back to it feels a bit more like work than in the 'course'-based 3D Marios. Still a solid top 10 place for me last year though.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link
I didnt vote but I'm glad BOTW won. It has straight up spoiled me for all the other open world games I still dip into. Why cant I climb evry mountain and paraglide over evry stream in Oblivion or whatever dammit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 7 April 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
Thanks Will.
Like Karl, I'll be checking out some of these games I've never seen before.
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 7 April 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
Just catching up on this now. Thanks for running the poll, Will!
― methanietanner, Saturday, 7 April 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Yes, thanks!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 8 April 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link