POLL is YOU: Thirteenth Coint and Plick results (best games of 2019)

Maybe I’m unduly swayed by how it has taken over my house and in this particular weird moment feels perfectly suited to the moment and iconic. I am really looking forward to 2077 too.

I should live so long

animal crossing will undoubtedly win 2020

Never played an animal crossing, not sure it’s my bag

#1 will be parvel muzzle quest (marvel puzzle quest with a fake mustache)

really hated fallen order. i hated the v punchable main character, the controls that felt so spongey after sekiro. the sliding! it was interesting to me see how many of my favourite games were kind of *about* or distinctive for one mechanic done really really well (combat in sekiro, crossing rugged terrain and walking, Death Stranding).

Fuck, I got totally derailed by prepping for the whole Covid shutdown with my store and completely failed to vote in this, sorry guys

well join us now and at the end tell us the games that didn't place that you would've voted for!

Have we got more coming today?

SORRY EVERYONE. too much irl shit today and I completely space. Dback tomorrow for sure!

(irl shit was merely very annoying computer not working shit that will be fixed tomorrow, I know saying a vague "irl shit" right now sounds more scary than it should)

All good

I'm back! So many games got 10 points. Here is the first one.

https://i.imgur.com/tjm6GZ7.png
43 - Blasphemous - 10 points / 1 Vote

this looks like the most "all the popular trends in 2019" indie game. dark fantasy, sidescrolling, pixel art, Thoughtful Combat

i don't remember if i voted, or how i voted, but i think i may have voted for blasphemous! it's a decent game, with nice pixel art. "metroidvania", some interesting bosses...it's about what you expect. but that's the problem, because there have been a million good games in this genre lately, and a handful of reeeeaally good ones, so good-but-flawed games like blasphemous suffer in comparison.

i played all the way up to the final boss, died 4 times in a row, and quit. so yeah, i basically beat blasphemous

looks like it has cool environment/character art which is good enough for me, excited to play it in 10-15 years

not sure if anyone else played it, but to me it also seemed a bit unfinished and uneven, like a game still in steam early access

https://i.imgur.com/SVYSlR5.png
43 - Inmost - 10 points / 1 Vote

https://i.imgur.com/HfbVqp6.png
43 - Apex Legends - 10 points / 1 Vote

i don't know these games but ma following plz someone sell them to me

https://i.imgur.com/UWVyUQw.png
43 - Eastshade - 10 points / 1 Vote

apex legends is a f2p game so i can't sell it nor do i want to

eastshade was my vote though! it's kinda like an indie-scope elder scrolls game with no combat/conflict, you're a traveling painter and have to find and paint things for people and such

what do you mean it's an elder scrolls game

Oh, that sounds lovely. Windows only it seems, though, so no go for me.

xp just aesthetically, the world has the same vibe

looks like ps4 game maybe i will try it...

https://i.imgur.com/x06TLzf.png
43 - Luigi's Mansion 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote

riyl walking sims basically

luig3 is good i need to finish it at some point

good screenshot

a friend tells me luigi's mansion 3 is actually v good despite the tepid reviews i would like to hear from ilxors plz who have played it

i don't like walking sims but that game seems maybe like more than just a walking sim? seems to have decisions that influence the world and things to actually do?

not really iirc? most of the things to do are talk to people and do simple side quests. its v much in walking sim territory

xxp i promise once we get to something i've played i'll give my thoughts but it's gonna be a couple hours before that lol

https://i.imgur.com/4cr0clt.png
43 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote

still love this dumb series, obviously this is of no interest to anyone who hasn't played the previous ones as it's an ongoing story

ive tried to play the first one a couple fo times but i keep bouncing off... one day. (and by the first one i mean the trails in the sky one)

yeah unfortunately that first one is a real slow starter, the main plot doesn't really emerge until well into the game, so a lot of people bounce off. which, its a series that really asks you to care about the tons of incidental dialogue and character writing so starting with a litmus test is probably fine

a series that really asks you to care about the tons of incidental dialogue and character writing

aha, so, not 4 me probably. What's the combat system like

pretty standard turn based jrpg combat but it's on a grid/plane so positioning matters a little and AoEs have different shapes/radiuses

https://i.imgur.com/bEwOvmJ.png
43 - The Fog Knows Your Name - 10 points / 1 Vote

this is the first one today i haven't heard of

this looks like an emil.y one

https://i.imgur.com/5tJjD6w.png
43 - Unheard - 10 points / 1 Vote

it was the top-down silhouette of a person. in the pool hall. with the champagne glass

https://i.imgur.com/bPVY0M1.png
43 - Ape Out - 10 points / 1 Vote

ok, i really enjoyed inmost. a story told from three different angles at three different points in time to quite sinister and uncanny effect. three v different playing styles. a grim, disturbing palette. and a nice old “C64” platforms feel to it. first one i voted for i think.