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

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

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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

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43 - Unheard - 10 points / 1 Vote

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

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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.

lol, i have voted for none of these! i have played none of these!

new board description imo.

i am curious about trails of cold steel because i am a nerd

Ape Out only getting one vote makes me sad as I've watched a lot of it, but never played it.

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43 - Golf Blitz - 10 points / 1 Vote

Forks the Legend of Heroes series is (at least?) six deep now -- Trails in the sky 1-3, and trails of cold steel 1-3. TitS (lol yes i know) are each like 50-70 hours, and ToCS are each more than that. IT's a commitment! But they are beloved by those who put the time in

is it heavy on crafting?

Apex is my favorite of the battle royale shooters, and thus I voted for it. I suuuuck at it but it is very very well made and cool.

Do you call it ApeLegs?

hehe i will now

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43 - Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove - 10 points / 1 Vote

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not much of a gamer, but eastshade is the walking sim on my wishlist, waiting for a sale. played cat quest 2, it was fun and diverting and i finished it. have the first trails in the sky on my to-play list, but i never really play games so...

toejam and earl revival is mystifying to me. has a new eek the cat cartoon been kickstarted yet?

whoever voted for Toejam and Earl please tell me about it, the first one is a legit top-5 alltime game for me

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42 - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - 11 points / 1 Vote

Whoa, Toejam & Earl! There's a wave of nostalgia.

I was, as silby guessed, the voter for The Fog Knows Your Name. It's a choicescript/choice of games story, and while I enjoy wasting some time with those types of IF, I usually find them fairly shallow and not actually that replayable. The stats and characters you build don't often actually make much difference to the story, despite ostensibly being the things that drive the game. This one, though, I played through a few times and found different scenes and vastly different endings, and also a bit of puzzle in terms of how to play to get a good ending. It helped that it had a compellingly mysterious spooky story at its heart, too.

I also voted for Unheard. It's a detective/logic puzzle, where you're undergoing an experiment and have to match voices to people in order to work out what's really happening. I definitely recommend it, my only real gripe was that it was a little short. It's on Steam, not sure about platforms.

i am curious about trails of cold steel because i am a nerd

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you can play trails of cold steel 1 without any prior knowledge of the series if the 'its like persona, but fantasy' angle appeals to you, but trails in the sky is the original entry point and is somewhat of a classic. especially if you've got the pc/steam version where they added a turbo button so you can fastforward through stuff like spell animations and the dozens of cutscenes of airships slowly taking off and landing which cuts like 10 hours off the game.

fog game got the cheers theme stuck in my head

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41 - Zanki Zero: Last Beginning - 12 points / 1 Vote

lol i wanted to play this but they didn't localize the vita version or make a switch version so i'm waiting in hopes of that

Finally something *I* voted for!

Zanki Zero is a weird game. It's from the same people as Danganronpa and the Zero Time games I think. As you would expect from the creators of those games, it has a lot of problematic/embarrassing anime trope bullshit, but it also has a pretty genuinely surprisingly twisty and turny story, and the heavy weight of a dead world hanging over it (surprised?). Gameplay is a little Etrian Odyssey but death in this game is a part of the whole thing -- without spoiling too much, dying is actually a necessity and "makes you stronger." If you've played and enjoyed DGR and ZT you probably already know about this game. It doesn't quite hit the highs of those series, but it is a worthy successor.

you just reminded me that i stopped putting the consoles. shit

its not actually by the same ppl as danganronpa/zero escape at least not kodaka or uchikoshi since they both left spike chunsoft to make their own studio. but its obviously leaning into that subgenre

ah ok! i thought it was the game they left to make, my bad. now i gotta look what they left to make!! haha

here are the platforms i've missed so far

43 - Blasphemous - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Macintosh operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows

43 - Inmost - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Macintosh operating systems

43 - Apex Legends - 10 points / 1 Vote
Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

43 - Eastshade - 10 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems

43 - Luigi's Mansion 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch

43 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows

43 - The Fog Knows Your Name - 10 points / 1 Vote
Android, Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS

43 - Unheard - 10 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems

43 - Ape Out - 10 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Macintosh operating systems

43 - Golf Blitz - 10 points / 1 Vote
Android, iOS

43 - Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Wii U, Macintosh operating systems

42 - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - 11 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows

41 - Zanki Zero: Last Beginning - 12 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Vita

And here's today's next game

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40 - Disco Elysium - 12 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

i think a lot of these consoles aren't correct. disco elysium not out on ps4 afaik nor inmost on switch or mac osx etc

I don't think that's on PS4 (or XBONE) yet? xp

ah fuck. i'm pulling from google results and it includes upcoming consoles i guess. XB1 and PS4 are 2020 releases.

legend of heroes for switch also 2020
ape out isn't even on the other consoles, dammit google (just switch/pc)
yep, the vita version of zanki isn't english

don't trouble yourself overmuch with the accuracy imo Will :)

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to Disco Elysium but it's not out on PS4 yet.

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39 - Resident Evil 2 - 14 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

anyway disco elysium i voted for it

i didn't get very far and i can't play rn (it's on the dekstop, which is my partner's work station, and we work opposite shifts, so i can really only get on it for a little bit at the end of each day) but i imagine if i had gotten to the end i would've ranked it super high based on what friends and trusted internet ~influencer~ have said about the way it wraps up. excited to beat it eventually!

i was pretty sure re was up to vol 56 or something but apparently only 2 anyway good for re here's to another 9 million years of zombie games

I mean main series is up to 7 (plus RE0 plus RE code Veronica) but remakes are uh... plentiful

RE1 has been remade... at least once? And RE2 now, and RE3 soon

and that's before you get into all of those shooting game spinoffs and stuff

I have fond memories of the original RE2(*) but considering my cowardice/aversion to horror and jumps scares, I am pretty sure I'm never going to play another RE game.

* I was playing the beginning of the game at a friend's house and there's a part where a licker jumps out of a window, which I knew ahead of time. But my friend's parents just installed a big surround sound system and decided to test it out during my gameplay. I asked why he was turning it on during the scary part, and he sez, "What scary part?" Cue licker crashing through the glass and EVERYONE freaking out.

Later on, there's a level in the sewer where you're chased by a giant alligator, and you have to shoot some kind of environmental explosive device. Every time, without fail, I missed the shot the first time, so I liked to say that to beat the alligator, I'd say you needed two bullets, one to miss and one to kill it.

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37 - Zozzled - 15 points / 1 Vote
Interactive Fiction

Got two left for today, then 35-16 tmrw and 15-1 wednesday if that works for y'all

altho if ppl wanna binge this list hard i'm not opposed to posting like 10 more today and 10 more tomorrow kinda thing

the CHOICE is YOURS (it's interactive) (like a video game)

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37 - Pikuniku - 15 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems