Eighth Coint and Plick - The 80 best games of 2014, as chosen by ILX

every couple of weeks the octodad theme pops up in my head and drives me nuts for a while

octo-daaaaaa-aaa-aaa-aaaaaad / nobody suspects a thing

i haven't listened to an insert credit podcast in a couple of months... did they stop or is my feed out-of-date?

damn, Hearthstone

What's yr battletag

Grinz

any plans for another one of these?

i'm out on this one this year as far as organizing but i would absolutely vote.

I probably have enough games to make up a small ballot this year if anyone does do one.

Will M, are you into doing it again this year? if not, i would be willing to run it. i mean, SOMEONE has to. it's the best poll of the year imo

I don't mind running it again!

We usually wait a couple of months though don't we? To allow for playing of xmas presents etc (I got fallout 4 for Christmas and it's not even made it into the disc slot yet).

can I vote for Red Dead Redemption this year? I'm finally getting around to it and it rules. next: Assassin's Creed 2 and then Fallout 3. I guess I'll be ready for Coint and Plick 2009, finally, in 2016.

although it "means something" that games that came out 7 years ago are still pretty much up to date wrt gaming mechanics, whereas compare e.g. Combat on the 2600 to SMB 1.

That's always my problem with year-end polls. I only have maybe three 2015 games and I don't think I've played a one. I have some very strong opinions about 2012, though.

Year-end polls should always be polls of what was released five years prior, imo.

otm

... i don't see why coint and plick shouldn't extend to games made between 2000 and 2015 but played in the past year? Just that much harder to make a consensus.

i don't see that working very well. besides, it's nice to have the poll as a time capsule of that particular year, even if like everyone else here I won't get to the best of 2015 until probably 2019.

Yeah, I wouldn't seriously promote the inclusion of pre-2015 games. Year end polls just always make me think a) there's no way anyone had time to really get through enough games/music/movies/tv shows to have a clear idea of what really stood out and b) there's no way anyone had time to really sit with any individual game/album/movie/tv show long enough to get a sense of how much they really like it or how it's going to hold up. How many year-end list-topping cultural products are justly forgotten just a few years later?

What if we did a Coint & Plick -5 where we polled 2010? And then next year we could do 2011? I dunno, I'd be into it

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What is the new FTL? I could do with it for my shit old slow pc.

Not sure what "the new FTL" means. If you mean game along its lines, the two games I've read about are _Renowned Explorers_ and _Convoy_. Explorers is the one I'm most tempted by, fwiw, but I don't know much about it.

The big hype of the moment seems to be _Undertale_, which at least LOOKS like it shouldn't require a powerful computer. I've bought into the hype and picked it up now, despite having no history with the NES sort of RPG that it seems to be based on, but hopefully I'll "get it" nonetheless. I have the impression that it's sort of a self-reflexive metagame, done in a funny, unpretentious manner.

I guess "metagame" is a poor word. I gather people use that term for when they make up their own goals in a game to make it more challenging. E.g. play FTL without ever pausing it or without buying anything in the stores.

"there are no good video games in 2015 c u next year"

i just dl'd Undertale but haven't play it yet.

good games in 2015 that readily come to mind: witcher 3, MGSV, Bloodbourne

Actually, looking through the stuff that came out in 2015, I'm realizing that pretty much all I've bought and played are reissues of super old games (RE, Duke Nukem). Plus I only own a PS3 (and a Vita for all of five days). Despite some releases I've heard good things about but haven't gotten around to yet (MGSV, Life Is Strange, Lego Dimensions), 2015 wasn't exactly catering to me.

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 came out in 2015 and got good mileage with my family yet again so I might wind up just voting for basically the same thing I did last year.

Marvel Puzzle Quest wins again

Uuugggggggh

I'll add Nuclear Throne, Invisible Inc, and Crypt of the Necrodancer.
My favorite is Afterbirth, the DLC for the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.

Ones I want to play: Undertale, Prison Architect. Curious about, but don't have the computer for it, I think: Cities Skylines.

I only played Bloodborne and some non-2015 games (Demon's Souls, The Swapper). Would really love to play Undertale and Talos Principle though.

recommend flywrench if you like extremely difficult twitchy geometric things

2015 games for me were Mortal Kombat X and Batman: Arkham Knight, neither of which really knocked it out of the park. Other than that, mostly mobile and older games as usual. I need to start keeping a game journal

There's never enough time to play all of the games of the year, but considering people didn't have enough time to play all of the NES games for that poll we can't exactly just say adding a couple years' lead time will "solve" anything. Maybe I'll set up something like a bonus question where you can put the best 1-3 games not from 2015 that you played in 2015 and they can get shouted out after the poll or something?

plz don't include pre-current year games, i don't participate in these but i like the general sort of desperation that makes up everyone's ballots and results in bizarre lists of games i've never heard of

not kidding at all C+P is great every year

Maybe I'll set up something like a bonus question where you can put the best 1-3 games not from 2015 that you played in 2015 and they can get shouted out after the poll or something?

that seems like a good compromise. Can't wait!

I will probably start setting up the nominations list next week, which can run into feb, then voting into start of march, and the rollout early march... i know it's late but games take a long time to play! i still have 5ish in steam that may place but i need to play

also it's early but everyone play life is strange, i want that game to place well

Oh, I looked at getting that. Might see how much that and Her Story are on Steam in a bit.

My top pick is probably going to be Sunless Sea, a slow-paced exploration game from the same universe as Fallen London/Echo Bazaar. A little of the old steampunk tendency (in case you're against that sort of thing) but great narrative work and tbh I really needed something of that relaxing pace.

Other things will probably be bits of IF... and Neko Atsume.

otm about sunless sea I kept thinking about how it's "slow play" in the best way (I love the brooding meditative silence). I got the merchant cruiser recently after three captain deaths and I feel like I still have 90% of the storylines to see

Oh, Life is Strange is PC only, no mac version. Bah.

Life Is Strange is getting a PS4 disc relase in January - I will probably pick it up then, bar some crazy PSN flash sale.

I definitely support using the inevitable nomination thread to needle each other into playing titles for the first three months of 2016 btw

Ninth Coint & Plick: Best Games of 2015 NOMINATION THREAD