Ready Player Seventy-Seven: It's the top games of 2017! Eleventh Coint & Plick RESULTS

Animal Crossing was my fault, it's not quite "i'm just throwing points out", I guess it's my MPQ of the year, I bloody hate it at this stage but I've put so much time into it that I felt like I couldn't' justify not giving it any points. The pic you've used makes it look a LOT better than it is. It's got maybe 20% of the charm of a real animal crossing game, and maybe 15% of the gameplay variety, and it's really just a reskinned cookie clicker or something but it's sucked me in and I can't get out.

https://i.imgur.com/tR4xYdl.jpg
69 - Resident Evil 7 - 6 points / 2 Votes
Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

> i'm waiting to jump into VR for when an actual must play game comes out

The Wipeout VR update came out this week and it will likely end up being my highest scoring P&C2018 game, you should totally jump in.

(oh yeah and RE7 too xp)

i find scary games much scarier than scary movies is it bc they require more active participation?

you can't lose a movie

https://i.imgur.com/QPkbdtO.jpg
65 - Calculator: The Game - 7 points / 1 Vote
iOS and Android

i didn't vote for this. i played it a little bit but it didn't really stick with me. i guess it's charming and if that's your kind of puzzle it's fun? felt a little too math homework for me. unless it gets crazy after like 20 levels or something.

https://i.imgur.com/bgL3fYI.jpg
65 - Cube Escape: The Cave - 7 points / 1 Vote
Browser, iOS, Android

^ free i think too

https://i.imgur.com/nH0KdlU.jpg
65 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - 7 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4

https://i.imgur.com/tor7CcG.jpg
65 - Mass Effect Andromeda - 7 points / 1 Vote
Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

my vote, also my disappointment. i sitll finished it and played a LOT of the content but i was ptretty unsatisfied. and i know it's very "food is bad and such small portions" but i am REALLY disappointed we never got DLC from it, i feel like some good bespoke dlc would've been real nice for a game that felt like it was just so largely paint-by-numbers with a few very memorable and satisfying missions sprinkled in here and there.

this series has been pretty boring to me for quite a while. i couldn't even finish vol 3.

https://i.imgur.com/cvAROGr.jpg
63 - The Norwood Suite - 8 points / 1 Vote
PC

would love to hear more about the above game

also -- at the end of today i'll post the disappointments of 2017, end of tomorrow: non-2017 games of 2017, and end of friday - the platforms poll

yeah that norwood suite game looks cool

https://i.imgur.com/ddgaMTy.jpg
63 - Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen - 8 points / 1 Vote
PS4 & Xbox One

My vote, game is neat maybe hasn't aged well though. Enjoyed the combat and the pawn/ai system is kinda inspired but the lack of fast travel wore me out before i got anywhere near finishing it.

https://i.imgur.com/1QX65dx.jpg
61 - Hidden Folks - 8 points / 2 Votes
iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows

Where's Waldo: The Game?

https://i.imgur.com/ASSDZ3q.jpg
61 - Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment - 8 points / 2 Votes
A million consoles

voted for Dead Cells, it's a pretty great rogue-like platformer, though it's still in development. very fast-paced combat and a wide variety of weapons

also played through most of Dragon's Dogma last year and it was alright but a bit clunky and the combat wasn't particularly engaging (though many have said it's the main draw idk?). the pawn system is interesting but there was way too much inventory management involving useless junk, and lack of direction with the world/mission design - a lot of areas you can just stumble across only to find they're completely pointless to explore if you haven't activated a relevant quest for the area etc.

the latest Shovel Knight expansion was great like the others

https://i.imgur.com/sOdauMu.jpg
60 - Statik - 9 points / 1 Vote
PS4 / PS VR

jesus i'm going to have to forget i ever saw hidden folks. that looks terrible but prob extremely addictive

is shovel knight on switch? i haven't played it yet and haven't determined the best system to play it on.

the game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in June 2014. The game was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017.

https://i.imgur.com/z9VXaUi.jpg
55 - Little Nightmares - 10 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows

Statik is my vote, it's a lovely little vr puzzle game. Your hands are trapped inside a box, the sticks and triggers and buttons on the dual shock all control various buttons/dials/sliders on that box, you have to work out the right sequence to free yourself. Presentation is a little too sub-portal but aside from that I'd hugely recommend it.

https://i.imgur.com/arlAw74.jpg
55 - Accounting+ - 10 points / 1 Vote
VR

what is little nightmares!

Didn't vote for accounting+ but I'm sure it would've been on my list if I'd got around to playing it, love those guys.

https://i.imgur.com/iCoQ2fr.jpg
55 - Picross S - 10 points / 1 Vote
Switch

Statik looks interesting, is it as short as that sounds?

https://i.imgur.com/0YIbB1A.jpg
55 - NBA Playgrounds - 10 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

https://i.imgur.com/4rLRQWA.jpg
55 - Meshi Quest - 10 points / 1 Vote
iOS, Android

five to go today!

that's gotta be a diner dash game right?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe the person who voted for it will explain?

https://i.imgur.com/fhOlD6t.jpg
54 - Everything - 10 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems

https://i.imgur.com/7zhWFXH.jpg
51 - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 11 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows

i'm less than halfway into this so far and ended up throwing it some last minute points (it's good to be the guy who runs the dang thing because i don't get mad at myself for changing my ballot lol). i LOVE danganronpa 1+2 and it took me a while to get around to 3, but chapter 1 was in and of itself a complete shockah to the point where i figured "yeah, this is gonna be another good one." i really want to find more games like this and like the nonary games (which were re-released last year and i would've voted for if i hadn't played the old ones in other years). any tips are highly appreciated.

honestly considering how much i loved DGR1, this might've ended up at the top of my list (or close to) had i finished it in time for this. i'll report back!

I voted for MeshiQuest ; it’s a squeenix food game. Is that diner dash style? Dunno. You have to cook things fast as the orders came in. I like its Japanese takes on food.

https://i.imgur.com/x9VZLQw.jpg
51 - Tekken 7 - 11 points / 2 Votes
Arcade game, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

Statik looks interesting, is it as short as that sounds?

Oh, I didn't explain the bit where when you get out of the box, you move to the next level and they put you in a new one. Not sure how many there are total, 10 or 15 maybe? I think it's still fairly short but not THAT short.

I really wanted to like Everything, loved the idea but the execution was so disappointing. Soon as I got inside a goat and the goat started flipping head over heels around the landscape instead of, you know, walking like goats walk, I was out really. The appeal of "you can be any object in the world" goes out of the window if they then fail to act anything like those objects should.

https://i.imgur.com/adAuS3u.jpg
51 - Nioh - 11 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows

Whoa, I haven’t played Nioh but I thought a lot of people loved it?

@KM You like me may be mixing up Nier and Nioh

wow yeah night in the woods is a pretty big snub - in any other year i might have tossed it a dozen points but it missed the cut this year

I even played that one a little, it's super cute and well-written, just not very game-y imo. Great if you like chill exploration/storytelling though.

id approach it as a visual novel, if you're expecting a game there's not much of that

Hollow Knight was my #1, the best metroidvania/exploration platformer ever made. incredibly expansive, beautiful, and atmospheric. unlike most games in the genre which have a fairly strict core/intended path, Hollow Knight is a bit more open, allowing for many different routes/orders of exploring areas/obtaining abilities throughout the game which is a refreshing approach. the soul meter mechanic is really clever risk/reward too, combining the Dark Souls estus flask (relatively low health pool that can be healed at the cost of staying still) with the Hyper Light Drifter 'refill projectile ammo by doing melee damage' mechanic.

also voted for Mario, Zelda, Nier, Prey and Persona.

thanks for the poll!

oh weird. my work time settings being off i think magically ported my messages several hours into the future
Injustice 2 was great btw
Zelda such an obvious winner, everyone should play that game for sure
So many cool looking indies that I'll probably forget about it immediately. so many past ones on the backlog

Breath of the Wild is a world I'll come back to any time I want to explore. No other open world game has come CLOSE to the freedom I feel. Sketchy to describe it this way, but it mirrors several dreams of feeling free I've had, where I'll float over hills and under waterfalls and through forests and every little detail is a delight.

Love Odyssey in many ways, but I've concluded that I do prefer the more linear 3D Mario stylings of Galaxy, 3D land and 3D world, simply for the replayability. I want to play Mario primarily to do creative, surprising obstacle courses in colorful worlds. Not to explore for secrets. There' s some very lovely pure platforming in Odyssey, but getting back to it feels a bit more like work than in the 'course'-based 3D Marios. Still a solid top 10 place for me last year though.

I didnt vote but I'm glad BOTW won. It has straight up spoiled me for all the other open world games I still dip into. Why cant I climb evry mountain and paraglide over evry stream in Oblivion or whatever dammit.

Thanks Will.

Like Karl, I'll be checking out some of these games I've never seen before.

Just catching up on this now. Thanks for running the poll, Will!

Yes, thanks!