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

that's a smile that says "i'm about to confound some folks and outrank a zelda game in a year-end kinda-about-video-games poll"

i did that crossword after it was nominated, and good lord is it a hell of a puzzle. (i actually managed to get most of the way through it before i just had to look up how to solve the end)

^^same here!!

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52 - Trackmania - 5 points / 1 Vote

(see noms, this made it in on a technicality that i cannot remember. re-release i think?)

me: says he needs to rollout faster
also me: doesn't

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52 - Teardown - 5 points / 1 Vote

i had to check if this was my 5 points (it wasn't)

almost made my ballot! really fun game that lets you break stuff. it's the mars game except it's actually what we wanted from the mars game! i should ahve included it, if i had given it some points it would've been ranked like idk 3rd overall or wahtever there was not a lot of consensus this year

Teardown looks fun! i'm waiting for a chance to play it

yeah, it definitely sounds cool, but I'm not so sure about the semi-voxely aesthetic in a post mincraft world.

it differentiates itself enough, somehow? idk how to describe but i wasn't really thinking about minecraft at all while playing. for one things the voxels are smaller, haha.

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52 - Noita - 5 points / 1 Vote

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52 - Half-Life: Alyx - 5 points / 1 Vote

fun fact: there are 16 year olds on the internet saying "half-life 3 when" guess how many of them were born when half-life 2 came out? that's right, none. or maybe i guess like half of them. none of the 15 year olds though!

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52 - Frog Fractions - Hop's Iconic Cap DLC - 5 points / 1 Vote

Ah, Frog Fractions, my beloved. I didn't get this so no idea what it entails but my love for FF will never die <3

i'm assuming that half life alyx will end up placing on the margins of some Best of the 2020s lists. it's supposed to be amazing

need to try out teardown, looks super fun

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52 - Cloudpunk - 5 points / 1 Vote

is that a parody game?

i don't think so! just another thing with the same aesthetic

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52 - Call of Duty: Warzone - 5 points / 1 Vote

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52 - Bugsnax - 5 points / 1 Vote

i certainly could have included warzone on my ballot as well, really enjoyed it. hadn't played a COD game for like over 10 years but boy for what they do they absolutely are still best in class

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52 - 51 Worldwide Games - 5 points / 1 Vote

@Karl this is one of the three

haha, nice!

Lol, I am imagining you tallying the results and just screaming "too low!" at this.

so is 13 sentinels at 12 or 14, then?

so is 13 sentinels at 12 or 14, then?

― chihuahuau, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:24 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you have the right idea!

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52 - Cyberpunk 2077 - 5 points / 1 Vote

lolll

great fakeout, for about 5 seconds i believed it could actually be true

i'm 100% dead serious

the rule of fakeouts when i run coint & plick is that they're near the end and they're pretty obvious

It's actually at 2076.

also, i gave it those 5 points!

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52 - Genshin Impact - 5 points / 1 Vote

My dumb ballot had a lot of 5 pointers because I spent a little bit of time with a lot of games. Just wanted to make sure some of these had a chance at 2 votes, but I guess 1 vote was all it took!

Warzone rules. The gulag is one of the best additions to any shooter in recent memory.

Bugsnax and Cloudpunk have some of the best writing of the year.

I voted for Alix despite not playing it but I did watch several full runs of it. It's incredible and I hope to be able to afford to play it some day.

speaking of "this is not a fakeout":

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51 - Marvel Puzzle Quest - 6 points / 2 Votes

Trackmania 2020 is a "remake" i guess but has a lot of new aspects. I really had a lot of fun with it. They updated it regularly with new tracks, and there are a zillion user-created ones.

i don't need to leave a long gap to talk about marvel puzzle quest, do i? nah

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49 - My Exercise - 7 points / 1 Vote

xp honestly, you do

i was sitting here trying to think of what to say

i guess i'll just repeat what i said elsewhere, and to be frank, what many are saying

MPQ community did 9/11

MPQ - do you see the last letter, there?

Re: My Exercise - the description is "let a chubby boy do his exercise and sink into a dog's body". ???

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49 - Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure - 7 points / 1 Vote

robert reich's games age like a fine wine

Fall Guys easily the game that made me the angriest of last year, it was my #3 I think?

FFS I SHD'VE MADE MY P5 ROYAL BALLOT YOU MONSTERS

Is P5 Royal massively different from the previous iteration? I mean, not that I stick strictly to first release dates either, more just wondering if there was anything hugely 2020 about it.

(I don't think I expressed myself well there. I know Royal was a 2020 release but I'm just wondering how much new content there actually was.)

i've only put a couple of (working) weeks in yet so i'm about a fifth in but yes it's definitely different enough, not sure in totally good ways always but fuck it it's Persona they stole my heart

Lots of interesting stuff on this list, I haven't heard of at least 50% of it. Good work will!

A little sad that we got stuff in the Top 10 with only 2 votes, but that's how this year went, I suppose. Let's try harder for 2021!

Though not totally unexpected, still surprised Hades beat Animal Crossing!

I voted TLOU2 for GOTY. I'm fairly sure it's going to be one of those games that sticks with me a long time. Also glad to see others saw Fire Emblem: Three Houses in the same light I did.

Who voted for Trials of Mana? Considering getting that on the cheap.

I did, it's a neat action rpg where you pick a party of 3 out of 6 selectable characters with their own interlocking storylines, the first one you pick being your main character and each party member can be leveled across 6 (?) different classes

it's relativley short, it took me about 30 hours for one playthrough and i usually take 2 to 3x longer than the consensus average. yakuza 7 was like 90 and i didn't even do all the side stuff nor the secret dungeon

the music is excellent, the english VA is charmingly weird in a 32 bit era way and online people making fun of it was what tipped me over to giving it a try

i played it on switch because i had just got one at the time but i regret it, i think the other versions are 60fps. still a fine port, nothing that ruined my enjoyment or anything

Nice job Will!

Yeah, thanks for this!

re: Yakuza,

i hit a wall real hard and haven't returned yet

Yeah we walled in Chapter 9 at one of the major boss fights and I don't have the patience to grind or replay the fight over and over so that might be it for me and this game. I think we just weren't levelled up enough, even with me insisting on doing as many side quests as possible.

I still gave it points because I love how bonkers these games are, but I think I prefer the non-RPG Yakuza system, and I didn't find Yokohama to be a super compelling as a setting - possibly just suffers from being a bit too spread out.

I voted TLOU2 for GOTY. I'm fairly sure it's going to be one of those games that sticks with me a long time. Also glad to see others saw Fire Emblem: Three Houses in the same light I did.

Twins!

I didn't find Yokohama to be a super compelling as a setting - possibly just suffers from being a bit too spread out.

otm, the city's way too big compared to how dense kamurocho and sotenbori are. so much pointless running around, i've used the taxi more times in 7 than in all the other yakuzas put together

i'd actually prefer the turn based fights if the ui wasn't a mess and animations were skippable or at least snappier

similar complaint applies to FE:3H monastery sections but at least the combat system's well implemented in that one

man i know everyone loves hades but i'm so hesitant to try it bc i suck at twitchy action and i don't like feeling stressed

It definitely has a cool way of taking the sting out of losing. It's fun to go back to the start and talk to all the npcs again and get your new powers.