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

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14 - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 30 points / 2 Votes

I spot an infuriating placement. Do I get a prize?

hahaha bingo!

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13 - Among Us - 30 points / 4 Votes

Seems sus

still need to play 13 sentinels but everyone i know who has has only superlatives for it

lol i've often thought about playing the Aegis games

but still so many Ateliers i haven't gotten to

sorry this call is lmost over

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12 - AI Dungeon - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote

lmao I didn't realize votes were still allowed for MPQ, I would have voted

haven't played this, but it looks like it can be played in browser so I'll drop the link https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing

ok i am finally 100% here good lord that took a while

so yeah among us, glad to see it rank high... a simple and goofy game but it reallllly made for some fun twitch-watching as well as a very good time with pals as we all kinda got good at it at an equal rate. never really felt like it was about winning or losing so much as it was about laughing at people's inability to lie. we've all played the kinda mafia werewolf things before but this one was just snappy and complex enough that it was endlessly entertaining. i'd probably still be playing it all of the time if my buds were still playing it. i've played on some pub games because i am a sicko and they are never good!

also, how about the fuckin ai dungeon screenshot eh

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11 - Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered - 33 points / 3 Votes

if i didn't have 6 games on the go right now and/or this game was on sale for $20 i'd grab it immediately, i'd love to get in there and fuck around with a tony hawk remaster. just too many games!!

also, how about the fuckin ai dungeon screenshot eh

Indeed! How about when this is done we really annoy imago and start a 'Games About Farting' thread?

Sludge Life has a dedicated fart button, I forgot to mention this yesterday.

tony hawk is so fun

Yeah I really need to get that Tony Hawk, spent so many hours with those on the original PS - especially 2.

i played a lot of tony hawk 3 and underground, and the mechanics came back to me so quickly

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10 - Mortal Shell - 34 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 2 Votes

was shocked when this placed number 10 because despite how much i like to think i have heard of a lot of video games... i had never heard of this video game. seems like the kind of things my souls-liking friends would talk about a bunch!

(im assuming it's that kinda game)

haha, i gave it the other 4 points. i assume forks was the #1!

I need to spend more time with it. I kind of hit a point where I was a little stuck, and then i took a nap and drifted off into the gates of hell, at which point i was forced to abandon all hope

When I played Among Us, it was all right, but if you find the right stream, it can be gripping and hysterical. Case in point, pretty much all of Outside Xtra's Among Us streams are worth watching, but I think this is the one with the most "UH WUT" play of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFFmZUVQNA

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9 - There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension - 35 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes

sorry this is taking me so long haha extremely having to work today has made this tricky! but im done so lets finish this eh

I've been meaning to play the free gamejam version of this on steam.

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8 - Crusader Kings III - 40 points / 3 Votes

i sure did vote for this, what a good time. i never had the energy to get into any of these, but a combination of it being free on XGP and being extremely (relatively) accessible (for these games) meant i ended up playing in it for ages. i barely even cared about the conquest! i was in it for the ~FAMILY DRAMA~

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7 - Paradise Killer - 43 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes

I voted for this, but only gave it a few points because I haven't gotten super far in the story yet, but what I have played I've liked a lot.

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6 - Final Fantasy VII Remake - 45 points / 4 Votes

there's the third one from my secret list from day 1!

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5 - Yakuza Like a Dragon - 50 points / 2 First-place votes / 3 Votes

lol did i lose everyone on account of taking so long

WELL, we're almost at the end, which means it's time for the last side poll of the thread...

TOP 10 GAME-RELATED CONTENT (OPEN-ENDED POLL)

Some of these we've already seen of Forks's excellent year-end tv/streaming poll but many of them we did not! Since this is the games poll we get lots more games content! Twitch streamers! Podcasts! Other YouTube channels!

Some solo first-, second- and third-place votes tied at 8th, 5th and 3rd respectively, but three voters each (in the same configuration as well -- two firsts and a second each) gave us two consensus winners. And, at least in 2020, they included the same person! wow! congrats to tim.

T8. Vektroid - link
T8. Playstation Accesslink
T8. Jacob Geller - link
T5. Gary - link
T5. Matt McMuscles's "What Happened?" series - link
T5. Outsidexbox / Outside Xtra - link
T3. Videogamedunkey - link
T3. Wario64 - link
T1. Action Button - link
T1. Insert Credit Podcast - link

xp

my #1 (out of the 3 2020 games i'd played when i voted)

honestly a bit disappointing, yakuza revealing its true form as a turn based RPG sounded great to my ears, especially since i'd played DQ XI in late 2019/early 2020 and it became probably my all-time favourite jrpg, but the combat in Y7 never felt as good as DQXI and the ui issues were aggravating

still, it's a yakuza game, i enjoyed it despite not living up to my expectations but i've already put serious time into about 5 of those and if i was submitting my ballot today the top spot would have gone to 13 sentinels instead, which i began playing in the meantime

xp to the media... Plenty of honourable mentions for me in this category that i couldn't include in my top 3:

- Hbomberguy had only one 2020 video game video, but it's real good and about New Vegas!
- AOC playing Among Us with Hasan, Contra, Ilhan Omar, Jagmeet Singh, The Serfs, XQC, Hbomb and others was a distinctly surreal experience
- Limmy's Twitch, or if you live in the exact opposite sleep schedule like I do, the highlights on his YouTube
- Speaking of, plenty of comedians ended up moving to Twitch to play games. Some of these are pretty good! I've enjoyed watching john hastings (nb: irl friend).
- after the AOC thing I checked out xQc, and while it's not always for me, him trying to speedrun Who Want To Be A Millionaire while knowing very little of anything about anything had me scream-laughing by myself in my house
- speaking of blaseball, fans of the Seattle Garages made an album and it's... pretty good!
- fumble dimension from Kofie and Jon Bois is an utter delight

name some others gamefreaks!

it was also my #1 (yakuza)! although i hit a wall real hard and haven't returned yet, i should do that soon. i was so excited, and spoilers start now, when i got to majima... but then he stomped me multiple times and i realized i had to actually grind and i just haven't gotten around to it. if anyone is gonna kick my ass though, it should be him...

same here, and i agree the storytelling nailed it by making that fight such a difficulty spike

reaching top floor at yapi's (sp?) arena is enough, worked for me but even so not at the first attempt, i finally was forced to put a bit of thought into the combat vs playing on auto-pilot like i had until then. the boss run for that section is such a PITA too

There Is No Game is really funny and full of surprises. I'd recommend it as a group activity on Zoom or etc.

I was surprised by how funny Crusader Kings 3 was to me. The interfamily squabbles and scenarios that develop are great. It's a storytelling machine.

Paradise Killer was my number one at the max points available. It's set in a hellish dayglo cult society, who kidnap, enslave and sacrifice humans to eldritch gods, and you're a detective who has to solve the murder of your occult council. The detective game is fairly simple, you interview people and find clues and bring them all together in a trial (the in-game tracker is very good in a way I'd not seen in a detective game before, so plus points for that). The world is massive and immensely fun to explore while collecting blood crystals for optional extras, and chatting with the weird demon who keeps popping up is A+++ fun.

In terms of games I didn't vote for, I very much enjoyed the original There Is No Game and may well pick up last year's one at some point.

Also, you totally get to boff a couple of characters if you want to, hehehe

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4 - Fall Guys - 58 points / 6 Votes

I probably should have put Fall Guys at #1 since it's the 2020 game I played the most.

I'd actually compare it to Trackmania or Astrobot's time trials, where you could see new strategies develop in real time if you played it day to day.