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

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2 - Obligatory Quarantine Joke - 77 points / 6 First-place votes / 6 Votes

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1 - Second Quarantine Joke - 177 points / 9 First-place votes / 9 Votes

omg wow did april fools come early on march 26 or something! i feel bamboozled that totally got me

haha just kidding it didn't get me. i made the joke! i didn't trick myself. i bamboozled you AGAIN.

LETS DO THIS FOR ACTUAL

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2 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 109 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Votes

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1 - Hades - 168 points / 4.5 First-place votes / 7 Votes

FLAWLESS VICTORY

Thanks to everyone who voted and kept me company during this accidentally very long rollout!!!

DAY 3 RECAP - 100% COMPLETE

1 - Hades - 168 points / 4.5 First-place votes / 7 Votes
2 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 109 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 6 Votes
3 - The Last of Us Part II - 60 points / 2 First-place votes / 2 Votes
4 - Fall Guys - 58 points / 6 Votes
5 - Yakuza Like a Dragon - 50 points / 2 First-place votes / 3 Votes
6 - Final Fantasy VII Remake - 45 points / 4 Votes
7 - Paradise Killer - 43 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
8 - Crusader Kings III - 40 points / 3 Votes
9 - There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension - 35 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes
10 - Mortal Shell - 34 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 2 Votes
11 - Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered - 33 points / 3 Votes
12 - AI Dungeon - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
13 - Among Us - 30 points / 4 Votes
14 - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 30 points / 2 Votes
14 - A Monster's Expedition - 30 points / 2 Votes
16 - Two Point Hospital - 28 points / 2 Votes
17 - Blaseball - 24 points / 3 Votes
18 - Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - 24 points / 1 Vote
19 - Ghost of Tsushima - 20 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
20 - Streets of Rage 4 - 20 points / 2 Votes
21 - Disco Elysium - 20 points / 1 Vote
21 - The Longing - 20 points / 1 Vote
23 - Depanneur Nocturne - 16 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
23 - Wide Ocean, Big Jacket - 16 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
25 - War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius - 15 points / 1 Vote
25 - Trials of Mana - 15 points / 1 Vote
25 - Magic the Gathering: Arena - 15 points / 1 Vote
25 - Kentucky Route Zero - 15 points / 1 Vote
25 - Vain Empires - 15 points / 1 Vote
25 - Death & Taxes - 15 points / 1 Vote
31 - Sludge Life - 14 points / 1 Vote
32 - Spelunky 2 - 12 points / 1 Vote
33 - Post-Void - 11 points / 1 Vote
33 - Umurangi Generation - 11 points / 1 Vote
35 - Microsoft Flight Simulator - 10 points / 1 First-place vote / 1 Vote
36 - Murder By Numbers - 10 points / 2 Votes
37 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Tales from Off-Peak City, Vol. 1 - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - 8800 Blue Lick Rd. Virtual Tour - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Lair of the Clockwork God - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Ordinal Markup - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Speaking Simulator - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Synergism - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - The Prestige Tree - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Carrion - 10 points / 1 Vote
37 - Paper Mario: The Origami King - 10 points / 1 Vote
47 - Spiritfarer - 8 points / 2 Votes
48 - Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 8 points / 1 Vote
49 - Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure - 7 points / 1 Vote
49 - My Exercise - 7 points / 1 Vote
51 - Marvel Puzzle Quest - 6 points / 2 Votes
52 - Genshin Impact - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Cyberpunk 2077 - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Deep Rock Galactic - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - 51 Worldwide Games - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Bugsnax - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Call of Duty: Warzone - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Cloudpunk - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Frog Fractions - Hop's Iconic Cap DLC - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Half-Life: Alyx - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Noita - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Teardown - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Trackmania - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Watch Dogs: Legion - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Marvel's Avengers - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - The Impossible Bottle - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Evan Birnholz’s December 27, 2020 Washington Post crossword, “5×5” - 5 points / 1 Vote
52 - Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2020 - 5 points / 1 Vote
69 - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - 3 points / 1 Vote
70 - Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues - 2 points / 1 Vote

for everyone wonder if animal crossing or hades was gonna win... it wasnt even close lol

is Hades the greatest game of all time?!

Wow, no Doom Eternal?

Called it. I almost gave a couple of points to Last Of Us 2 in a "watched my BF play it and enjoyed doing so" style, but thought I had enough that I'd played myself to leave it.

Thanks, Will! A great rollout as usual.

Also, I appreciate that your joke placements were actually jokes rather than very confusing feasible placements. Thank you!

is Hades the greatest game of all time?!

― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, March 26, 2021 7:21 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is according to this certainly the greatest game of *a* time. that time is 2020. a bad time to be sure. but apparently a good game!

i got it at the same time as another game (actually i just looked it up, i got a buuuunch of games around then) so it kinda fell to the wayside. never got anywhere in it. once i clear some of the stuff off of my current list i'll have to jump back in!

Also, I appreciate that your joke placements were actually jokes rather than very confusing feasible placements. Thank you!

― emil.y, Friday, March 26, 2021 7:25 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's my style! no confusion! just dumb goofs!

that sure didn't stop me from being trolled by that cyberpunk placement, guess that means i'm a fake gamer

thnaks for the organising this, great work as usual!

thanks even

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.