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

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

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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

https://i.imgur.com/1EDNxAI.jpg
50 - Gran Turismo Sport - 12 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 4

aaaaaaaaaaand that's a ball game for Wednesday!

DISAPPOINTMENTS OF 2017 - no repeats this year. Here are the games some of you loved to hate.

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (1)
Fallout 4 VR (1)
Marvel Puzzle Quest (1)
Mass Effect Andromeda (1)
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp (1)
Marvel Puzzle Quest (1)
Fire Emblem Heroes (1)
Everything (1)

TOMORROW:
28 more games (ranks 48 (tie) to 22)
Non-2017 games of 2017 results

FRIDAY: 21 last games!
Platforms of 2017 results

50 - Gran Turismo Sport - 12 points / 1 Vote
51 - Nioh - 11 points / 2 Votes
51 - Tekken 7 - 11 points / 2 Votes
51 - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 11 points / 2 Votes
54 - Everything - 10 points / 2 Votes
55 - Meshi Quest - 10 points / 1 Vote
55 - NBA Playgrounds - 10 points / 1 Vote
55 - Picross S - 10 points / 1 Vote
55 - Accounting+ - 10 points / 1 Vote
55 - Little Nightmares - 10 points / 1 Vote
60 - Statik - 9 points / 1 Vote
61 - Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment - 8 points / 2 Votes
61 - Hidden Folks - 8 points / 2 Votes
63 - Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen - 8 points / 1 Vote
63 - The Norwood Suite - 8 points / 1 Vote
65 - Mass Effect Andromeda - 7 points / 1 Vote
65 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - 7 points / 1 Vote
65 - Cube Escape: The Cave - 7 points / 1 Vote
65 - Calculator: The Game - 7 points / 1 Vote
69 - Resident Evil 7 - 6 points / 2 Votes
69 - Thimbleweed Park - 6 points / 2 Votes
71 - Robo Recall - 6 points / 1 Vote
72 - Monster Slayers - 5 points / 1 Vote
72 - Hob - 5 points / 1 Vote
72 - Steamworld Dig 2 - 5 points / 1 Vote
72 - Assassin's Creed Origins - 5 points / 1 Vote
72 - Animal Crossing Pocket Camp - 5 points / 1 Vote
77 - Dead Cells - 4 points / 1 Vote

side note, i think the rankings this year are suuuuuper satisfying in a way i didn't feel in previous years!

I’m glad to see there’s still a bunch of one-off votes for stuff I’ve never heard of.

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


Nier is awesome and is on my ballot. But Nioh is the action-y samurai game who different stances which is sort of souls-like and made my team ninja (ninja gaiden), right? It’s supposed to be really good, I think it made a lot of year-end lists

I just had an iPhone autocorrect meltdown, sorry. Kept changing ninja gaiden to ninja Caiden and ninja garden

I put in a vote for Nioh as one of the few games I played, even though I bailed on it without getting very far. The combat is deep and there are some cool mechanics, but getting overloaded with different versions of identical weapons/armor and picking through them felt like spreadsheet work, and then I couldn't find my way out of a level where every quadrant of it looked copy/pasted, and I just went back to Dark Souls 3.

Would play Ninja Garden.

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

Nier is awesome and is on my ballot.

ah my bad! i said that because i kept fucking them up all year. haven't played either of them, but i really wanna play nier, and i think i almost accidentally bought nioh when i saw it on sale.

not quite the same, but this year, while doing the rankings (mild spoiler both of these games are ranked) i kept fucking up "Prey" and "Pyre" even though I definitely played one and not the other; wonder if any voters were as dumb as me lol

I completely know what you mean, I also mixed them up all last year! Also they were both in that zone of being a new franchise/sorta big budget but not action platformers

Bigger budget than a Celeste’s kind of indie game, I mean

This fucking iPhone is going down the toilet

51 - Tekken 7 - 11 points / 2 Votes

This was one of mine - illicitly acquired out of curiousity, but still a fine fighting game. It is freaking enormous though, because they've figured out (and play off) the fact that Tekken is also a soap opera, so you can earn coins to unlock every single cut scene from every single Tekken game.

65 - Cube Escape: The Cave - 7 points / 1 Vote

This is a fine, minor game from Rusty Lake - their 2018 game is currently waiting for challengers to take some of its 30 points off (which probably won't happen, because I'm really bad at playing current-year games).

65 - Calculator: The Game - 7 points / 1 Vote

Yeah no this is exactly what it seems, it gives you a bunch of buttons like "21->12" and "add 3 to the end" then it's up to you to get from one number to another in a fixed number of moves. It services my kink well and I'm not shocked I'm the only voter.

only played Shovel Knight from the list so far. Thimbleweed Park is for sure on my must-play-someday list because I grew up on the Monkey Island 1/2 and Indy graphic adventures.

Nioh looks very cool and im intrigued. i hear it's one of the better attempts at doing a Dark Souls style game. wonder how the level design is...