that looks like a shareware game i played in 1995
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 April 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
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
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
#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
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
ciderpress I'll play Atelier should I try that one or one of the Arlands, is there any difference between any of them
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
speaking of old games I bought Ikaruga on Switch last night
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
holy shit there was a cliff Johnson style puzzle game released last year? Woooooow thx ilg!
― lumen (esby), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
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
― Dan I., Monday, 15 April 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
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).
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 15 April 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― orifex, Monday, 15 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
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).
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
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)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
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)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
(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
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 April 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
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
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 15 April 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
― 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
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 April 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
that's fair. i don't regret paying for it - it had a good amount of content and my 7yo loves playing it too.
― Mordy, Monday, 15 April 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
bad north reminds me of ftl a lot
― Mordy, Monday, 15 April 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
xxp
bad north like ftl is the kind of game I'll play for years cos I'm easily sated!
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
although a criticism is the random generating islands delays can be way too slow.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
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!
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
#43. Dragon Quest XI — 10 Points — 1 Vote — 0.1 First Place Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/62j30AO.png
No one else played Dragon Quest last year?!?!?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
no one that voted!
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
0.1 first place votes? hrm!i wanted to play this but it got buried under everything else coming out. and Spider-Man iirc
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
I will play it eventually but not at full price
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
i played it! it's perfectly fine but left me a bit cold
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
felt like playing a jrpg greatest hits collection, every story beat was recognizable and i didn't find any meaningful throughline to tie it all together
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
when someone ranks 10 games at 10 points each, i give them all 0.1 first place votes. it's fun! we get some weeeird decimals sometimes
anyway sorry im back i had to do a real work there for a minute
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
#42. Blazblue Cross Tag Battle — 10 Points — 2 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/Vfbeunj.png
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
fighter?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
the only tag fighter i've ever gotten into
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
also deserves props for raising the profile of under night which is the best active fighting game right now as it turns out
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
It's fun! Wish I had time to play it beyond the demo, but it still made my list. There were SO many fighters this year.And yes, Under Night rules.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
yeah that demo weekend was so fun that it basically singlehandedly got me back into fighting games after like 10 years of ignoring them
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Is that the first to get multiple votes? WE'VE CROSSED THE RUBICON.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
#40. Lumines Remastered — 12 Points — 1 Votehttps://i.imgur.com/U3Rwgma.png
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
back to 1 vote! (sorry i spaced on this for a bit there!)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
hi I played Lumines for the first time last year, guess what it's good
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
much like tropical freeze, i think this is possibly the best game ever of its genre but it's not really a 2018 game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
yeah yeah :P
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
i'm fine with them being on the list i just play too many games so its a much needed point of disqualification for my own ballot
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
still think u should blog
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
#40. Northgard — 12 Points — 1 Votehttps://i.imgur.com/WiRgySe.png
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
ilx is my blog
i think i said that last time though, i don't have a new witty comeback sorry
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
that's my vote. northgard is an RTS but the way it's designed it's more slow and methodical. you can overextend and when winter comes it'll destroy you which means that strategic considerations for expansion are more importantly than inputs per second. it's v clever. i haven't played much multiplayer with it but the campaign is definitely worth playing through.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
veering into "someone really liked this" territory!
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
#39. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana — 15 Points — 1 Vote — 0.5 First Place Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/jKZtiWG.png