that's not meant to be my final list.. just sharing my thoughts
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 1 March 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not gonna list my ballot as it feels like jumping the gun, but I will say that I am leading the Shadow of the Colossus bloc to what I hope will be well deserved victory
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 March 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It's kind of annoying (for me) that I haven't played games like Jak 1 &2, Sly 1 & 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, and all the SSX sequels because they may have definitely been better than the sequels I played. I almost feel like you should lump together SSX, Jak, Sly, and Ratchet and Clank for those reasons. But then who's stopping you from not lumping sequels together for all the respective games
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 1 March 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
haha considering how um 'independent' ilg poll results often are im not even gonna try to predict any results. my ballot it still in the early stages - i figured id just write down all the games that i think are worth voting for and stoppped after like 40. right now my cut-off is like:
16 metal gear solid 2: substance17 capcom vs snk 2 18 we ♥ katamari 19 growlanser: generations20 sly 2: band of thieves
srsly getting this down to 15 feels sooooooooooo difficult
― (Damn) (Lamp), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hey I was serious about State of Emergency!― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:02 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:02 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark
fuck you
i unironically wish physical harm upon you
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
if san andreas doesn't win, can we just close down ILG
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
better gta than shadow of the colossus 4 sure altho im hard 4 vice city
― (Damn) (Lamp), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
san andreas is the platonic ideal of gaming
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
can't vote San Andreas (never played) but I'm sure Vice City will be in my top 15kinda sucks once again that I know sequels/prequels are good but I don't know if I'll list anyI think that games with sequels/prequels will score lower because split votes amongst the series for reasons like I said
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 1 March 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
vice city felt more visceral to explore & the missions were better designed i think? tbf the both kinda blur 2gether in my mind a little w/ the exception of the music
― (Damn) (Lamp), Monday, 1 March 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm hoping to at least check out Persona 4, Bully, Dragon Quarter, ZoE2, and Transformers for this ballot.
also idea: what if we signed up to write something about one game each to try to rally support for it before the vote? e.g. I would write a quick case for God Hand (duh), Lamp could do one for P3FES, the ILX Britishes could argue over who gets to do the soccer game, etc.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 1 March 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
good idea! a "make your case for:" thread.If will's down for it, I'll volunteer for several.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 March 2010 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I think SA and VC are going to split the vote giving the top spot easily to SOTC. (How you could guys not even play San Andreas after Vice City? SA had so much more going for it in general, minus 80s nostalgia)
― Nhex, Monday, 1 March 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't play any of the GTAs on any system in between III and IV tbh, but then again in between the death of the Dreamcast and the ascent of the DS I didn't really care too much about games.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 1 March 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
despite enjoying my fuck, canks, what's wrong with State of Emergency? I played it for about an hour once, thought it was pretty fun, never wanted to play it again but w/e. I'm not VOTING for it, for crying out loud, just naming a game that I thought was decent on a system I o/w completely missed (though gonna remedy that I hope; looking for the poll for some guidance eventually, at least re. rpgs).
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
How you could guys not even play San Andreas after Vice City? SA had so much more going for it in general, minus 80s nostalgia
i played the f outta both of them but @ some point gta: sa became a chore, a parody of irl saturdays spent doing shitty little errands: buying stuff @ the hardware store, getting groceries, picking up your dry cleaning. vice city u started to feel like u had the run of the place p quickly & the missions didnt get as tedious & repetitive. gta: sa is a rad game & a respectable top pick but <3 vice city.
im def willing to stan 4 x jrpg
― wfw panda (Lamp), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
we should be limited to one game each though; that way we're forced to focus on one maximally interesting game. also ppl may be more inclined to jump in and participate if their game of choice hasn't already been written up.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll do mr mosquito
― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Monday, 1 March 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
alright, i'm committing for Colossus then.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 March 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
RE: Make Your Case Thread
MAKE IT HAPPEN MR. TOFU
director's commentary: I almost wrote "fappen" accidentally, which I almost changed to "HENFAPPEN" but i figured that'd be dumb
― I'm not fat - I'm a macrogastronomist (Will M.), Monday, 1 March 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
as previously mentioned, I got God Hand
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 1 March 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take Bully or the Warriors
― antexit, Monday, 1 March 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
actually the Warriors. Someone else can have Bully
do we really want to entrust sotc to forks?
― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Monday, 1 March 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
you go to hell pal.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 March 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
MAKE YOUR CASE: A Thread for Defending an Individual PS2 Game
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 March 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
: P j/k j/k
― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Monday, 1 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to change my nomination from Madden 2002 to Madden 2004.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Monday, 1 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
polyphonic, why not '08 then? The gameplay's virtually identical*, and you get the whole extra amazing mode.
*: Unless you are a vision cone stan
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 1 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't play 08 on the PS2
Vision cone is an abomination.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Monday, 1 March 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
can we poll ps2 save game icons next pls
― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
why is there not a website with a searchable database of those
― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
man, is there a website with gifs of those?would be so awesome XP great minds think alike
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I never finished P3FES bcz i discovered it as P4 was just about to come out and switched all my attention over to that. Fully intend to go back to it when i finish but i think i prefer P4's tvworld dungeons inspired by characters psych. issues to the single mega random dungeon. Prefer the world of P3 though. The sequence early on when yr out and everyone turns into a coffin ws fucking great. P3&4 must have some of the most enjoyable fmv sequences of any games.
― toastmodernist, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
err, shoulda gone on the name yr case thread really.
MAKE yr case. ffs codeine.
I must not have explained this thing pretty well because like 4 people I e-mailed sent me "sorry I don't have time before March 14th" messages, and another two sent me their ballots-- my reply that "it's only nominations right now" got a reply from one of "oh, so I can add to that list? I switch a for b and c for d, then"
― Quantic Dream, So Hard To Beat (Will M.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link