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

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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

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48 - Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 8 points / 1 Vote

xp

These were both votes of mine. My Exercise is a "game" that consists of pressing the spacebar rhythmically to make your character do sit-ups while things happen around you and you unlock secrets. I got it for 3 bucks and enjoyed it as an art piece.

Deathtrap Dungeon is just Eddie Marsan in a weird basement in a leather chair reading you out the contents of the Deathtrap Dungeon game book and it rules.

Ha, that sounds so good.

I don't play enough games to ever vote in these, but I enjoy watching the roll out. Avengers for PS4 was the first new game I've bought in over a year, I was really surprised by how much I liked that.... up to a point. I am def a casual gamer and given that I usually only play a few hours every other week or so, I usually play on easy levels for some beat 'em up fun. But I hit a mission about 1/4 of the way into Avengers that still has me stymied and I just cannot get past it. I was heartened a little when I googled and saw I was far from alone in hitting a wall with that particular level. I'm all for a challenge, but this just seemed an incredible spike it difficulty out of nowhere. A shame, since I was otherwise really digging the campaign more storytelling.

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47 - Spiritfarer - 8 points / 2 Votes

i threw this one 3 points, but it's one of those that i played for a few hours and then just stopped. i think forks was probably the other voter! honestly, i just started to feel like a jerk playing this game, because i could tell it was supposed to radiate warmth and i wasn't charmed or warmed or anything. i felt like a bastard! i had to stop

we've got another big log jam coming up, i think i'll try to clear that today, and give tomorrow and friday's games more breathing room.

spiritfarer holds the record for coint & plick game made closest to my home

BUT WAIT WHAT'S THIS

IT'S A COUPLE OF SIDE POLLS RESULTS TO BREAK THINGS UP? WHAAAAAAT?

TOP 5 PLATFORMS (OPEN-ENDED POLL)

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5. Twitch (got a single 3rd-place vote)
T3. PC
T3. Xbox Game Pass (each got a single first-place vote, but the XGP vote was me voting for it on PC? Anyway whatever!)
2. Racial Justice Bundle (one first-place vote, which I saw, then I changed it so I also voted for it because it was great)
1. Switch... shocker!

SIDE POLL 2/5...

TOP 1 ILG THREAD (OPEN-ENDED POLL, ONE RESPONDANT)

1. DieHARD GamePOLL - Console Poll, vol. 3 - 5th Generation RESULTS

aw shucks, thanks!

top 5 disappointments, top 10 content creators, and top *mumble* non-2020 games to come up in the following days!

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.