The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part One: 74-109

alternatively: good enough to purchase?

Yeah we're gonna be on 10 pts for a looooong time.

I solemnly swear that we will not.

Well I mean at the very least we will be there for like 30 entries.

re: aliens: infestation - I'm the one that voted for it but stuck it at the bottom of my list. it's fun but gets tedious. a little too much backtracking for my tastes and I wish enemies didn't always spawn from the same spots. it's no super metroid but it does have its charms. plus aliens and space marines and stuff.

I got Rayman Origins, played it for a bit with a friend. Now the game is absolutely gorgeous, and for that alone I don't regret purchasing it, but I don't quite see why it's a great platformer? Or does it get a lot more interesting after the first world?

The videos I've seen look attractive, but the game looks undesigned.

Yeah, as pretty as it is, there's no real coherency to the characters or world whatsoever. I have no idea what the heck I"m looking at half the time.

all those titles in the pirate kart are fkn hilarious

Sucks that a good-looking game like Aliens: Infestation has to be on a portable system.

lolwut

yeah, was thinking that the ds is really the perfect platform for something like 'aliens: infestation' as welll

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#76: Aquaria – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote
Official Website
Touch Arcade - ‘Metroidvania Goes for a Swim’
Metacritic
Gametrailers
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Jeff LeVine: I tried out the demo a while ago (a year ago?) and thought it was pretty neat. Very relaxing / very nice music / a little confusing.

got the PC demo of this and it's not chill enough imo. it's no Endless Ocean or Ecco

why dont we just skip down a bunch and list #51-100093 later? i mean even the action poll didnt try to do 109 entries

and that was for ALL ACTION MOVIES EVER and had like 100x more voters

but it's way more than 109 with all the ties, right?

you should run your own games poll and decide how you want to do it.

im too busy running your mom iirc

oooh. You got me.

i got your mom iirc

brilliant!

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#76: Atom Zombie Smasher – PC – 10 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
Metacritic
Gametrailers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CykKXFNiuQ
fennel cartwright: ludicrously compelling in its simplicity. Beautifully scaled down.

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#76: Bejeweled Blitz – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote
Apple Store
Touch Arcade
Metacritic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnSbUjmksI
DJP: I would have rated this game higher had I not given my finger vicious repetitive strain playing it.

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#76: Crysis 2 – 360 / PS3 / PC – 10 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
Metacritic
Gametrailers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2UCnblmOMY
jjjusten: bulletstorm demo for me was basically elevated thx to playing the crysis 2 demo just before it but i would be the first to admit thats kinda like giving a thumbs up to spoiled milk because at least it washed down the taste of that shit sandwich you just finished

lol is "#76" a 21-way tie?!?!

We're going to get through this, people. We're going to get through this.

Crysis 2 is visually so beautiful. The graphics, sheesh. But no one ever talks about this game so I guess the game must be boring or somefin

s10cks u gotta chill man, srsly

I voted for crysis 2 and I guess it's mainly because I never had a pc which could run crysis 1 and yeah, it's technically and visually amazing. And then I guess as a military-style shooter it's pretty vanilla. Stealthing kind of breaks it, you could speed run the whole thing in under an hour pretty easily if you just stayed cloaked, so any bits you do actually play, you need to actvely choose to play. But yeah, it held my attention and I finished it and it was a pretty fun time overall.

Quote for the back of the box right there.

Sucks that a good-looking game like Aliens: Infestation has to be on a portable system.

lolwut

―thomp, Friday, 9 March 2012 21:38

yeah, was thinking that the ds is really the perfect platform for something like 'aliens: infestation' as welll

― Alan N, Friday, 9 March 2012 21:45

Because I don't want the eyestrain or neck pain that a portable would give me. Portables are for children. Plus, why is a small screen better?

not 'better' but smaller screens are more... portable? the positives for a game designed to be played in bursts are p obvious. this was a fun game for me to play on the subway one time when i had an hr long ride last summer or a couple nights when i couldnt fall asleep, you know?

Yeah, I can see that.

Portables are for children

think the DS and its target audience kinda shattered that idea.

i'll give you the PSP

Awesome, you want my address?

Anything going on here?

ZS is getting his kicks offline.

are people going to get mad at me again if i once more suggest streamlining this thing a bit?

right with you

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I agree with streamlining

I agree with streamlining

so much that I felt the need to post TWICE

i mean not to beat a dead horse but when you have a 21-way tie for #76, maybe the list should start a little lower.

Further queries along these lines must be accompanied by a list of polls you have run on ILX, or a picture of you pissing up a rope.

so i guess the answer to my question was 'yes'

I don't think the problem is how many of the results are rolled out, I think the problem is that they're not being rolled out.

i think the problems are intertwined.

sorry guys

bought de blob 2 dead cheap as a result of this poll and have had tonnes of fun with it the last couple of days. i say keep the results maximal - i'm more interested in hearing about the great obscure stuff than which if the big titan games of last year was our very favourite.

nobody blames you Z S, we blame... the system