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

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!

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37 - Paper Mario: The Origami King - 10 points / 1 Vote

I voted for Spiritfarer. It was the best hug simulator of 2020 in a year with very few real hugs.

Oh, I really want to play Spiritfarer, saw it a while ago and it looks like my jam. I think it's available on platforms I have but I'd spent too much on game things around the time I noticed it so couldn't justify another splash. I will definitely get it at some point.

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37 - Carrion - 10 points / 1 Vote

idk what this is but i am gonna summarize it as "the opposite of spiritfarer"

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37 - The Prestige Tree - 10 points / 1 Vote

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37 - Synergism - 10 points / 1 Vote

wasnt this the name of a karl malone original?

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37 - Speaking Simulator - 10 points / 1 Vote

Oh my lord that is nightmare fuel.

haha for a second I thought I clicked on the cursed image thread

not even the creepiest one i saw while i was looking for images, haha

ok 5 left today... whew... we can do this

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37 - Ordinal Markup - 10 points / 1 Vote

math-loving programmers should not be allowed to vote imo

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37 - Lair of the Clockwork God - 10 points / 1 Vote

if you thought evan birnholz's december 27th washington post crossword puzzle "5x5" stretched the limits of coint & plick, wait til you see what i post next

Despite having quit MPQ about 3-4 years ago, I gave it a point for old time's sake.

I hope it's the house tour, which I didn't vote for, but should have.

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37 - 8800 Blue Lick Rd. Virtual Tour - 10 points / 1 Vote

someone called it so i'm just posting it lol

I am enjoying the stretching-the-boundaries stuff being here. Anything can be a game if you approach it in the right way.

oh my god, i would have voted for 8800 Blue Lick Rd. Virtual Tour had i connected it to that experience. that was amazing

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37 - Tales from Off-Peak City, Vol. 1 - 10 points / 1 Vote

Finding the bathtub in that virtual tour was some of the best pure gaming I've ever done.

more like tales of the voluminous draw distance fog off in the night, is vol 1 of a couple posts i could make about that one, am i right

xp i was off in another 'room' when it happened, but the dawning realizing that there were so many racks of DVD porns was incredible too