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

I may have voted for Short Hike if I'd played it before I voted. Really nice lil' game. The flying mechanic is so simple but so good.

Wow, I did not expect my #1 to beat out Death Stranding.

Famous last words etc.

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5 - Control - 85 points / 2 First-place votes / 4 Votes
Playstation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

still really need to play this

finally! so i only tossed this 5 pts bc i assumed it would do well but i've since voted played much more of it and it deserved more points from me. the mechanics are legitimately joyful (flying! tossing objects around!) and the tone + setting is v X-files-esque without (generally going too overboard with the homage). the cigarette smoking guy maybe too far. i can't understand half of what the janitor is saying. half the guns work shitty and aren't worth bothering with. the game has bathrooms everywhere and nothing in any of them. you'd think they'd have enough bathrooms by now so do they?

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apparently not

it's fun to clobber monsters with giant slabs of casework and some of the puzzles + stages (inc apparently the one i'm up to which is supposedly the creme de le creme of the game) are legit innovative + exciting. many parts are authentically unnerving without needing jump scares. some of the music is fantastic, the sound design v creepy + great.

it's an imperfect game but it's a really great one

I've been super-intrigued by Control since I first laid eyes on it, which is not something I can say for AAA games generally. I should probably break down and get a PS4 or Xbone to play it.

inc apparently the one i'm up to which is supposedly the creme de le creme of the game

Just a pointer: this part isn't ~really~ a puzzle, you either can get through it or you can't, and the game will tell you that pretty quickly, so don't spend too much time trying to crack this nut.

Also, if you have a souped-up PC, that's probably the best platform to play it on, for the ray tracing goodness.

OTOH the PS4 version has a weird and hilarious DLC starring Kojima's voice.

This Fire Emblem has heart. The tactics themselves are way less relevant to victory (at least on normal+casual) than minmaxing your character builds, but I like minmaxing and getting people new outfits classes more than tricky tactics anyway.

i am up to it - i went once before and got stopped but i've since done the *stuff* that made it clear it's time xxp

i'm gonna play the fire emblem on hard+casual because i'm a casual gamer fronting as a hardcore one

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4 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 86 points / 2 First-place votes / 4 Votes
Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4, Xbox One

for those keeping track that was a run of 81-82-85-86 points O_O

Nice! \m/ xps

so sekiro looks cool but it's a dark souls / bloodborne game right? i just don't find that whole thing v enjoyable.

as per my previous post i don't enjoy fromsoft games though this one certainly looks pretty compared to dark souls

i watched dunkey play it zombie monkey boss looked dope

xp it's even harder than dark souls / bloodborne since it's not an rpg so you can't 'get ahead' of the difficulty curve via levels/build

uh oh I don't know what one of the games in the top 3 is :\ :/

i think i know all 3...

I was blanking on the third too but then I reviewed my ballot, and the only question I have is order.

i don't know the order but all 3 have been mentioned itt already

they're all indie games if that helps

Sekiro and Death Stranding were both games my bf played a lot last year, I threw the latter some points but not the former, it just wasn't as fun to watch. I know some people weren't so keen on the idea of me voting for something I'd not actually been at the controls for, but I do feel like it was a considered choice based on experiencing the game and not breaking the rules of the poll. Apologies to those who are still annoyed by it, though.

i think watching someone play a video game is totally legit reason to vote for it and was basically my reason for voting for mario maker 2 fwiw and i sometimes feel like i'm inclined to gatekeep in other ways (like i'm a little skeptical of the gaminess of certain walking sims)

my decision tree:
if you can win, it's a game
if you can lose, it's a game
if you wasd, it's a game
if you're playing pretend, it's a slightly weird game

If you can honk, it's a game.

if you can honk it might be goty

Thanks Mordy. I guess I have a bit of self-doubt caused by slippery slope arguments, like, would you watch a Let's Play video and still vote for the game? That seems dubious to me.

Also: HONK

i voted for 2 of the top 3, and i have a good guess at the third (which i'm waiting for a good sale on).

number 3...

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3 - The Outer Wilds - 93 points / 1.33 First-place votes / 6 Votes
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

walking sims are definitely games, visual novels are the frontier where things get messy

i never finished this but what a cool and ambitious thing it is for an indie game

I was VERY concerned about playing this, because games in first-person give me bad motion sickness, and then this game also has some zero-g navigation. But it never became an issue for me!

Furthermore, I'm not a big fan of puzzle games, and for the endgame I had to look up guides and walkthroughs, but for a lot of it I managed to figure out most of the solutions.

Ha wow given how many points I would have awarded death stranding my dumb non-voting actually really changed these results.

i am greatly looking forward to playing this game

xxp Good to know! Lots of first-person games give me motion sickness too.

i am glad death stranding did not win coint and plick

definitely the most impressive exploration/puzzle game to me since the witness

unless hypnospace outlaw counts as an exploration game which i guess it kinda does

ppl are very cagey about what this game even is, so I have no idea what it is!

I was concerned that Outer Wilds might have permadeath, but it doesn't really.

jjjusten how many wuld you have given it? :O 30?

ppl are very cagey about what this game even is, so I have no idea what it is!

― silby, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:24 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think the reason people are cagey is because the more you explain, the less you are surprised by it. i'll say this: it's a non-combat, walking/space-flying simulator where you have to figure out why a big tragedy is going to happen, and you get lots of tries to do so

it's kind without being cloying, its meditative without being boring, it's perplexing without being alienating, it just rules

ANYWAY, WHO'S READY FOR WHAT ARE DEFINITELY THE REAL TOP 2 GAMES