Top games of 2018: Twelfth Coint & Plick RESULTS

#50. Two Point Hospital — 9 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/t0CoetK.png

glad you're still here mordy to get mad at us for not playing this and voting for it on time

more like 9 point hospital

I voted for Monster Hunter World, it has cats that cook for you!

#44. Atelier Lydie & Suelle — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/IUpXjwJ.png

Am I the only ilger who rates theme hospital?

It’s basically the same game but new and made in 2019 fyi

Two Point is on my list but I still haven’t gotten to it

one of several jrpg series that i'm probably the only fan of here esp with lamp not around

made in 2019?! brb i gotta delete this entire thread and re-poll

#44. Battletech — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/C5W3d18.png

battling is improper use of tech imo

#44. Forza Horizon 4 — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/baOBSfj.png

^ with soundtrack available on vinyl, released by hospital records!

it turns out the secret to making a fun open world game is the player is supposed to be a vehicle, not a human. i should fire this up again at some point, i never really exhausted it

ppl love battletech esp those nerds at three moves ahead but i haven't gotten to it yet

let's see if anyone wants to take credit for this one

#44. Genital Jousting — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/XhdqU1x.png

xp also an astoundingly pretty game, kinda goes without saying. this was my preferred alternative to RDR2 for that hi-fi graphics fix last year

important use of xp there as it turns out

#44. Swarmlake — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/CxevWVP.png

oops didn't mean to submit that yet. pretend i submitted that about 5 mins from now. like i spaced it out from the last one real nice

how "gamey" is forza horizon 4? i used to love racing games when they were like super off road and daytona but the genre feels like it heavily went in a realistic GT direction which doesn't appeal to me at all.

forza motorsport is the realistic GT forza series, the horizon games are open world arcade racers, they're a lot more gamey and fun

#44. System Syzygy — 10 Points — 1 Vote
https://i.imgur.com/WlpQ54o.png

that looks like a shareware game i played in 1995

that's where i am gonna stop for today!

And, today/tomorrow/Wednesday I will post the results of the three sub-polls. Tomorrow, platforms of 2018. Wednesday, disappointments of 2018. But today...

BONUS Q 1: Non-2018 games of 2018
(1 vote) Age of Wonders III
(1 vote) Breath of the Wild
(1 vote) Golf Clash
(1 vote) Hitman 2016
(1 vote) Nier: Automata
(1 vote) the Last of us
(1 vote) The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
(1 vote) The Witcher 3
(1 vote) Towerfall
(1 vote) Wolfenstein

and...
(2 votes! You win, Kiryu-chan~ ♥) Yakuza 0

#44. Atelier Lydie & Suelle — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#44. Battletech — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#44. Forza Horizon 4 — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#44. Genital Jousting — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#44. Swarmlake — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#44. System Syzygy — 10 Points — 1 Vote
#50. Two Point Hospital — 9 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Bad North — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. CrossCode — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Detroit: Become Human — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Heartbeat — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Iconoclasts — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Monster Hunter World — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Overcooked 2 — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. NGU Idle — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Pro Office Calculator — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. The Guides Axiom — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. The Room: Old Sins — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#51. Cuphead — 5 Points — 1 Vote
#64. Far Cry 5 — 4 Points — 1 Vote
#64. Hole.io — 4 Points — 1 Vote
#64. Valkyria Chronicles 4 — 4 Points — 1 Vote
#67. Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee — 2 Points — 1 Vote

ciderpress I'll play Atelier should I try that one or one of the Arlands, is there any difference between any of them

speaking of old games I bought Ikaruga on Switch last night

holy shit there was a cliff Johnson style puzzle game released last year? Woooooow thx ilg!

I also played System's Twilight in the 90's which based just on that screenshot was almost certainly a direct influence upon System Syzygy! It was a good game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%27s_Twilight

I found out about System Syzygy from andrew plotkin's blog (he created system's twilight and also he was the guy who turned mafia into werewolf).

I threw Detroit a vote but definitely don’t recommend it unless “Quick Time Event: The Game” sounds up your alley or you’re a Clancy Brown superfan. Humorless, self-important, cliche, very clownable! AND YET the gimmick of pressing a series of buttons to make characters do boring things like set the table or gather wood eventually made me care about them more? It’s like, I tucked in this orphan girl and told her a bedtime story you’re damn right I’ll murder every human between her and the android haven of Canada.

lol

(1 vote) the Last of us

HI DERE. If not for TLOU, I would definitely have voted for ace rhythm game Yakuza 0 (though if not for TLOU, I may not have gotten back into console gaming).

There's an iOS game called Calculator:The Game, it's got wacky buttons, so on the level I'm on now you start with 91 and your goal is to get to 19 in 6 button presses and the buttons available are '+5', 'Mirror' (12->1221) and 'Sum'

The Room is the OG very fancy looking room escape / object manipulation games, yes?

I did actually play System Syzygy last year, it was great but I would have completely forgotten about it if I'd voted (which I didn't)

Also I will probably repeat this later but I heart ILE as somewhere that loves games but will give an industry behemoth like MHW 5 points total (NB this is not in any way a reflection on the quality of MHW)

(xp @silby) if you're patient, wait for them to put Atelier Ayesha on switch which is both an entry point and the best game in the series according to several people i trust on this stuff (i haven't played it yet myself). if you're impatient, rorona is a fine entry point / litmus test, and totori is a bit harder but my favorite of the ones i've played

I can be pretty patient considering I still have to beat Octopath or at least beat someone's chapter 4 I'm so slow lol

holy shit there was a cliff Johnson style puzzle game released last year? Woooooow thx ilg!

― lumen (esby), Monday, April 15, 2019 4:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is making me immediately interested as well

though it also made me realize that i've stopped getting the monthly emails from cliff's mailing list that i've been on for years and he stopped updating his site, hope he's okay

Moved too fast! I haven't heard of like 90% of these!
hole.io was fun.
I loved Theme Hospital, flaws and all, Mordy. But I am a cheapskate who will wait for that game to go under $5 or be included in a bundle for pretty much any PC game.

that's fair. i don't regret paying for it - it had a good amount of content and my 7yo loves playing it too.

bad north reminds me of ftl a lot

None of my votes have shown up yet, but I played a bunch of NGU Idle after I saw it on the nominations thread. It's exactly what you'd expect an idle clicker thing to be in 2018 I guess? Both a parody of older idle clickers and a much more complex version of the same. It got it claws into me for a week or two but in retrospect I'd have been happier not picking it up in the first place.

NGU Idle was my nom and vote. I played it more than any other game in 2018, which was enough for me to give it a few points. It starts out very fiddly with the active game being much better than the passive game -- but there comes a point where the best strategy is to play it once briefly every 24 hours to collect some powerful tree fruit, then rebirth.

xxp

bad north like ftl is the kind of game I'll play for years cos I'm easily sated!

although a criticism is the random generating islands delays can be way too slow.

i'm back and ready for more countdown! Let's start with a game that barely missed being tied for 44th with a microslice of a first-place vote!

#43. Dragon Quest XI — 10 Points — 1 Vote — 0.1 First Place Votes
https://i.imgur.com/62j30AO.png

No one else played Dragon Quest last year?!?!?