HELLO. AND WELCOME TO VIDEO GAMES POLLS. Fourteenth Coint and Plick results (best games of 2020)

word by word, because everything letter was critical during that time:

yes, the affirmation,
i, the only one that knows me,
love, the only thing that matters,
that, so critical,
header logo, the "lead-off batter" of the 2020 coint and plick "line-up",
too!!, shorthand for a popular sequel

you're doing the best job Will M!

it's these so-called "gamers"...

I bet they all spell AND pronounce the subgenre "rougelike"

let me leave it here, because it's time to turn this night up to 11, but:

forks, if you don't join me now for this movement, it's never going to happen again. and we'll both have to live with this. i'm gonna hit the bathroom. just think about it and i'll be back in 10-15. can you pass me the laptop cord

has there been a rougelike game though? i admit that i'm drunk, BUT: imagine a game where you gently apply make-up, and it's really detailed and accurate? with different goals? it'd be cool!

i know that cosmo and vogue have little app simulators or whatever, but i'm talking like the gran turismo 4 of rougelikes

Why stop there... Gimme open world, every face, put make up on them, rougelike legion

I def think make-up sims should be renamed rougelikes.

I also love the header and I am deeply deeply ashamed I did not speak up earlier about its greatness. Forgive me.

I, too, think the header is very much "the bee's knees" (as a gamer would say) and hope to find a way to atone for my silence on this matter earlier.

In the spirit of videogames all are forgiven. An ""extra life"" if you will

only if they have to start back at "the campfire"

xposts

emil.y, you were eternally protected under the widely recognized "emil.y rules" mandate/celebration of 2008

methanietanner: i'm gonna be honest, i'm not so sure. i am like a very, very old dog. a VERY old dog. emil.y earned the redemption during their last playthrough. this is newgame+ for emil.y. but methanietanner, i am sorry. i am sorry. i searched. i saw. you post. i know you post. i have seen it, to the left, as well to the right. and there were good things in both directions, as well as the center, and forward and behind. and above and below. fuck! but you have never posted a new thread. i saw. i searched. and i just want you to know: i am wasted, i've had WAY too much to drink, I will drink more, i will NOT go down for the count, i'm smoking weed as well, I don't care, my dad's dying, he was a homophobic racist, and I WILL be the first person to respond to your thread if you happen to post one, and if you don't post one that's fine as well, and yes, it could be argued that I'm trying to create my own seemingly unsolvable problem of which I can be the resolver.

goddamn, that was good. do you take blueshield bluecross IL?

oomph, that was so much funnier in my head, then i read it again. sorry methanie, i like yr posts in general and did that in a dumb way. trying to be vulnerable and funny and also into videogames. covid people are supposed to just go away. booooooo! luigi's mansion 4

<3 Karl

:( i'm sorry

i just re-read everything again. i'm a fucking mess, sorry

for real, when i think about SO many different things, it somehow involves ILX/ILG. for real. sorry i'm being fucking weird - in a sense that doesn't probably make sense but more to ILG people, it's a fucking game to me. just living like this, knowing that other people are, and you can't tell the difference. they call it meatspace, but that doesn't seem right

OH FUCK, I'VE HAD PIZZA IN THE OVEN FOR LIKE AN HOUR

no joke, check this out:

https://i.imgur.com/lWLHIkt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/prtF3e1.jpg

would u

Oh man

flagposted that pizza

you better save one for this

https://i.imgur.com/mg7A33U.jpg

and THIS

Oh god, I completely charred a pizza overnight one time. At least the terrible smell of that meant that when my parents came home they couldn't smell all the cigarettes/illicit party stench. Tbh I'd probably at least try the hour-cooked pizza.

OH BOY. Karl Malone's Overcooked Pizza Challenge for game of 2021.

https://i.imgur.com/3GkRC9b.jpg

i have like 5 open challenges/confrontations going right now, no worries!

eat it Birdie! eat it in honor of the non-gamer cowards who refused to participate in this wonderful celebration! eat it so that we can move on!!!!

Birdie does not look impressed.

i passed that on to bird, but, uh,

https://i.imgur.com/7pRrXt5.jpg

i love this poll. i love the header. i voted early. i am a gamer.

*checks...*

this seems right, good name, yes, checks out

you done fucked up, KM

I was the one who nominated The Impossible Bottle then didn't vote on it -- because I hadn't gotten very far in it.
I also nominated & voted for the crossword puzzle and the virtual tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajhfn4E1cxo

this was all me btw

52 - Evan Birnholz’s December 27, 2020 Washington Post crossword, “5×5” - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2020 - 5 points / 1 Vote
37 - The Prestige Tree - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Synergism - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Speaking Simulator - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Ordinal Markup - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Lair of the Clockwork God - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - 8800 Blue Lick Rd. Virtual Tour - 10 points / 1 Vote

In every P&C poll there's a part when I go "Oh shit that's right, I did play one current game last year", still (like NV) it'd feel weird to just go 1000 points for this one game. That game was Origami King

And also Murder by Numbers.

37 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 10 points / 1 Vote
52 - Genshin Impact - 5 points / 1 Vote

voted for these

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a very very good metroidvania - if you like the genre at all you absolutely need to play it. not quite a Hollow Knight-level masterpiece but still so much better than 90% of what's out there. absolutely gorgeous too

Genshin Impact is a free-to-play action RPG that I definitely spent too much time with last year. it has remarkably interesting combat for its genre, all about rapidly switching between characters to do elaborate combos with abilities on cooldowns, similar to FF7R but much better realised. the world design is the real mvp though, it's very much ripping off Breath of the Wild with its climbing + gliding mechanics and does a great job at it. exploration is a similar joy to BotW as a result, with the world being dense with things to discover

irl lols @ Karl's call-out post and the burnt pizza aftermath. I am taking the mailman's words to heart and striving to be a better poster one day at a time.

I'm actually just finishing the first Ori this week - scribbling on the back of bills to get the sub-3-hour game - delighted but not surprised to hear that the sequel's good too.

It's incredibly fluid, both in the design and the play - coming back to an early section on a second playthrough, my speed was definitely increased by familiarity, but coming back later with all the skills, you flow through it like water.

HELLO AND WELCOME TO MORE VIDEO GAMES

https://i.imgur.com/8v7G81m.png
33 - Umurangi Generation - 11 points / 1 Vote

oh nice, this was one of my votes. This is a photography game with dreamcast aesthetics and good politics that is basically a masterclass in environmental world-building.

https://i.imgur.com/OPp1E9D.png
33 - Post-Void - 11 points / 1 Vote

another one of my votes, this combines the surreal neon vomit art style of a Hotline Miami with the nails hard FPS endurance runs of a Devil Daggers quite beautifully, plus it only costs 3 bucks on steam (i got it for 2 bucks on sale).

abanana, I like your gaming style.

Not sure either of these today seem that up my street - I always like the idea of photography games but end up not getting into them, and I'm just not into FPS generally.

of course i had an unplanned work zoom the second i posted the first game of the day

im done now tho ready to kinda work but mostly do this

https://i.imgur.com/jSO59HW.png
32 - Spelunky 2 - 12 points / 1 Vote