I’ve named about 3 games to my friends for my potential GOTY, but it turns out most of the ones I’m thinking of didn’t come out this year, and since I didn’t play a lot to completion, FFXIV: Stormblood it is!
Oh shit! That’s right, Slime Rancher actually released this year. Monument Valley 2 came out for Android too. Night in the Woods was great. What Remains of Edith Finch was phenomenal.
I guess for my list, it’s just going to be leaned away from AAA titles.
I’m a big fan of the “Whatever I played this year counts and you can’t stop me” method of GOTY lists. SMT nocturne was pretty high on my list last year
hi im hideo kojima and “game/film/album of the year” is a big bunch of bullshit. no please do not ask me to qualify this statement
I’ve got 2 days of professional exams at the end of November and then it is media catch up month.
I plan on playing through Nier, Wolf 2, and hopefully taking a big chunk out of Nioh.
My list in no particular order is BOTW, Odyssey, Dead Cells Total Warhammer 2. That’s all I’ve played this year.
Shout outs to Puyo Puyo Tetris for being the best couch competitive game I’ve played in literally years. My wife and I have had HOURS of fun with it.
dear mr hideo kojima,
please disqualify this statement.
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Question, OKAMI HD comes out on PC on Dec 12. Can it run for GotY?
I always say if its your GOTY, you make the rules.
2016 was more my year. But I did like these 2017’ers:
Pyre
Torment: Tides of Numenera
And am I a bad person if, after a year of patches and updates, I say:
No Man’s Sky?
I’m probably a bad person.
Free yourself from the tyranny of only putting new games on your GOTY list and put Tyranny on your 2017 list! Be free!
This is a weird year for me. I’m technically “behind” on nearly every big game (Nier, Mario, Zelda, Yakuza, Wolfenstein, Resident Evil, Horizon, Mario and Rabbids, Destiny, Persona, and there’s like a ton more). My only new AAA game I can think of from this calendar year was Prey, which I like and also love. The things is I don’t feel like I need to play any of those big games. Usually if I’ve missed out on a game for GOTY time I’ll try to catch up real fast so I can be part of the conversation. This time around I’m just shrugging. I’m sure I would enjoy a few of those games, but most of them are from genres I don’t care about and a few of them I kind of despise. It’s a strange feeling because I’m usually so enthusiastic about the big games and GOTY in general.
My list is almost entirely indie this year with Cuphead, Pyre, Heat Signature, and Steamworld Dig 2 all in pretty tight contention for the top spot. I’m going to revisit each of them for about an hour a piece at some point to really figure it out. Also man I really need to play Night in the Woods.
I’m gonna go and be a bit cliche and say Breath of the Wild for me. But for real, playing that game reawakened a sense of wonder and amazement I haven’t felt in any game since I was a child. Frankly, I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel so excited to explore a game anymore. Zelda really opened my eyes and once again got me excited for what games can do.
This year has been shit but the games have been lit.
Life is a garbage pit that I can’t dig a reason for existence out of but at least I can keep filling the hole where my soul is supposed to be with g a e m s yay
I’m not sure people are too excited for Remasters around this time of year, but if you haven’t tried Wipeout HD/2048 before the Wipeout Omega Collection released this year is atleast to me probably the best racing game ever made.
Hell, even if like me you’ve played it before, give it a shot. It’s a wonderful remaster!
(apologies up front if others have expressed this opinion many times now, it’s a long thread and I haven’t read much yet)
I realized this year that I don’t have to participate in GOTY stuff, and I feel so liberated. Last year, I crammed in a bunch of games in November and December trying to play a bunch of contenders before it was “too late”. And in a way that was a lot of fun: I spent most of December playing DOOM, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Hyper Light Drifter, Hitman and other games I loved. 2016 was a really good year for games, and catching up on what i missed was a great time.
However, this year, I realized it does not matter. At all. I’m not a games journalist. No one is paying me for my opinions on the best games of the year. No one cares if I don’t get to Night in the Woods until next February. This realization is taking a lot of weight off my shoulders, and it feels good. Right now my top 10 of 2017 is Nier, PUBG, Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire, and Tacoma. Those might be the only 4 games from 2017 I’ve played so far. And that’s fine. I do have a list of things I would like to play, but the list is for me now, not because I have an obligation to participate in GOTY talks. Right now I’m playing Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, and I’m thinking of either doing Night in the Woods or replaying Monkey Island next.
4 little small notes I couldn’t form into complete thoughts
In a year of depression and unemployment I am most certainly not ready for game of the year discussion. I played Zelda on my WiiU for 100+ hours over the year and it’s one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. That’s pretty much been my year in gaming and basically by default my game of the year.
Blessed be this year in games.
My GOTY list so far is:
1: Pyre
2: Danganronpa V3
3: Wolfenstein 2:The New Colossus
4: Night in the Woods
5: Divinity: Original Sin 2
6: XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (yes, I’m counting expansions)
7: What Remains of Edith Finch
I’m playing through Prey right now, and I’m planning to go through Nier:A and Tacoma as well before GB’s GOTY deliberations, mostly due to those being the games I least want spoiled. Either way, unless I’m absolutely blown away by Nier, my top 3 will probably remain the same.
Honestly, Breath of the Wild is still at the top of my list and I don’t see anything else really beating it. It’s one hell of game, really changes the way we perceive and play games. Haven’t felt a game shake things up in such a big way since Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. But Wolfenstein 2 and Assassin’s Creed Origins are right behind. Both games brought new experiences that created some of my favorite moments of the year.
Did you finish the game? Because I thought they explain the “why” pretty clearly. It wasn’t just random, it was directed.
And I don’t want to downplay the problematic NA appropriation, especially the use of the word “savage”, but the developers clearly took inspiration from prehistoric cultures from around the world. There’s clear European, Middle Eastern and Asian influences I can think of just off the top of my head*. Obviously, those cultures were allowed to, for the most part, evolve naturally as opposed to getting wiped out, which makes their use less problematic. But the assumption that any prehistoric tribal culture is based on Native Americans is it’s own weird sort of Euro-centrism. Prehistoric culture was tribal everywhere.
*It seemed like they were using the “geography is destiny” trope here, which, admittedly, is itself pretty lazy.
Re: the apoca-shitstorm tour - that one was so weird to me. The spoken parts were godawful, but the letters attached to them that you had to go into the menu to read were one of the more poignant things in the game.
I actually thought some of the small touches were my favorite part. Like the anthropologist who studied ancient coffee cups and determined they were ritualistic. There is a lot of stuff where their interpretation of our world is off by just a couple degrees. It really made me think about how much of what we think we know about ancient civilizations could be similarly just a bit off.
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have you checked out the expansion? i’ve had my eye on it and loved the main game so would love to hear if it’s any good.
