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

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

NOTE: Coint and Plick does not advocate hifiving until the end of social distancing recommendations

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

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, April 6, 2020 12:56 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

this looks important whatever it is

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36 - Anodyne 2: Return to Dust - 15 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Macintosh operating systems

And that's the last one for today (unless a couple ppl demand OVERTIME MODE)

Zozzled is so fun. Steph Cherrywell's writing is full of wit and verve. You play a flapper who has to sort out a ghost problem, mainly by drinking them all up. You can make a dog fart!

I'm fine with however you want to roll stuff out, Will, no strong preferences.

i played pikuniku but i am too dumb to figure it out even though i like the art style

i played disco elysium for like an hour and never got back to it even though i loved what i played

this is why i don't really vote in these polls

anodyne 2 is really good but i have no idea how to explain what it is

actualy think i'll keep it spread over 2 days considering i could reallllly use the next hour to work on irl work! here's today's results

36 - Anodyne 2: Return to Dust - 15 points / 0.33 First-place votes / 1 Vote
37 - Zozzled - 15 points / 1 Vote
37 - Pikuniku - 15 points / 1 Vote
39 - Resident Evil 2 - 14 points / 2 Votes
40 - Disco Elysium - 12 points / 2 Votes
41 - Zanki Zero - 12 points / 1 Vote
42 - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - 11 points / 1 Vote
43 - Blasphemous - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Inmost - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Apex Legends - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Eastshade - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Luigi's Mansion 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - The Fog Knows Your Name - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Unheard - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Ape Out - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Golf Blitz - 10 points / 1 Vote
43 - Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove - 10 points / 1 Vote

6 of my 9 votes have placed and I was the sole voter on all of em so I guess a quick recap is in order.

Feather - Chill, relaxing flying game that needs more content but was fine for an hour or two.

Horace - only played a couple hours but so far its a platformer tutorial with a lot of long twee "emotional" cut scenes. Supposedly it changes it up a bunch as it goes on so my vote is more giving it the benefit of the doubt than anything else since what I've seen so far maybe isn't my bag, but certainly seems like something for somebody.

The Stillness of the Wind - sweet sad game that is basically just an expansion for the free game Where the Goats Are that you can get on itch.io here and which I highly recommend as far as free hour long games go.

Ape Out - Great melee based Hotline Miami-alike with responsive jazz soundtrack that is probably too short for its price, but played really well as a free giveaway.

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove - basically just a souped up remake of the original game with a couple aspects of the first sequel mixed in. If you love the first TJ&E (like I do, it's a top ten all time for me) then you'll probably enjoy it, but it doesn't offer a whole lot the original doesn't.

Pikuniku - Cute, clever story-based side scroller. Pretty delightful and sweet.

man i guess i did start to get around to playing more things last year. there’s like two real games i would have cited for here (and a lot of phone stuff i played for a minute and kinda hated)

i'm watching someone play "blasphemous" and while the art is technically well done the art _style_ is such fucking edgelordy bullshit, it's really annoying to me

dark fantasy is In ever since everyone got obsessed with dark souls

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35 - Supraland - 16 points / 2 Votes
Microsoft Windows, Linux