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

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...

72 - Hob - 5 points / 1 Vote
72 - Steamworld Dig 2 - 5 points / 1 Vote

Steamworld Dig 2 is a very polished metroid-style platformer with really satisfying upgrades. one of the really worthwhile indie 'metroidvanias' i've played in what's become an overpopulated space. You don't have to play the first game first and in fact this one pretty much just obsoletes it by being the same but better in every way.

Hob is a top-down metroid/zelda-ish adventure game with an amazing set-piece world design gimmick that unfortunately seems to have flopped pretty hard and put Runic Games out of business. the best way i can describe it is that it's the metroid gameplay loop except that instead of upgrading yourself to progress, you're upgrading the entire game world.

51 - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 11 points / 2 Votes

The premier (only?) series for horny anime teens brutally murdering each other. These games are like Ace Attorney with all the dials turned up, plus a Lost-style meta-mystery layered on top. Everyone has a different opinion about which of the 3 is the best but you have to play them in order anyway so it doesn't really matter.

ciderpress do u have a "blog"

nope, ilx is my blog

plz blog more

i havent played any of the other games from today's list besides Thimbleweed Park which i thought started really promising and then went badly off the rails. i suspect i'll have some jrpgs to ramble about tomorrow though

I think I voted for all the games I played this year except one: Mass Effect Andromeda, which I got bored of extremely quick. Mass Effect 3 had a surprisingly fun co-op horde mode that I played a lot of, but this game's multiplayer was a big step back. The main story felt like more of the same ... pretty good but not my thing.

I'm playing Steamworld Dig 1 at the moment since it was a free ps plus game at some point. I figured I should "dig" into it before spending money on 2. It's somewhat fun but I'm not very far along. The art style is less ornate-looking than 2's.

I was one of the Tekken 7 votes - played it for a few hours at a local meet-up. Pretty good, maybe I'll pick it up when the complete edition with Noctis, Geese Howard and company are all in it together. Got overshadowed by the other major fighting games that came out this year though...

plz blog more

i didn't vote for DRV3 but it's the best of the series imo. the ending is completely bonkers in the best way possible.

Nioh was alright but not really on the level of Dark Souls etc. despite all the comparisons. The combat system is excellent - it plays sort of like a more technical/complex Bloodborne, but the biggest issue is the real lack of enemy variety - you fight the same types over and over again. The level design is fine but not quite as tight as the best of the Souls games.

oh and as Jordan mentioned the random loot system in Nioh just made for a ton of inventory management busywork more than anything interesting unfortunately.

I voted for GT Sport, it's the first Gran Turismo I've played in about 20 years (GT3 was the last) and I'd forgotten how much I like these games. In hdr 4k it's by far the best looking game I've ever played, and after playing (and boucning off) a few of the more hardcore forzas and dirts and things in the last few years, it's nice to go back to a game which does everything it can to pretend it's a hyper realistic driving sim, but which actually still cheats just enough in the handling model to keep it fun and playable without needing months of practice. Single player content was pretty slim at launch but they're regularly adding more in their frequent free updates, and tbh limited content suits me fine given my limited gaming time these days, means I still get to feel like I'm making some kind of progress.

Y'ALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS

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48 - Superflight - 13 points / 1 Vote

heh I've played this for like 20 mins it's chill

https://i.imgur.com/Wr3CZou.jpg
48 - Lone Echo - 13 points / 1 Vote

^ this is another one i know v little about, hope to hear more

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46 - Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy - 14 points / 1 Vote

(sorry the spacing on these is all wack, i am in and out of meetings and people are using my machine to make stuff haha)

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46 - Monument Valley 2 - 14 points / 1 Vote

(can you go back to including platform info plz?)

oh god right oik

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42 - Sonic Mania - 15 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows

Not my vote but I enjoyed my time with Sonic Mania ok. Hit a wall though which is the least fun experience in gaming. Not sure if I’ll try again.

when you say "hit a wall" do you mean sonic was going really fast but then bumped into a wall and oyu lost all that speed because if so that very specific feeling IS one of the worst in gaming (i have not played this game but i def played green hill zone a few times on my cousin's genesis)

More metaphorically in that I can’t beat the boss of Oil Ocean act 2 and it’s too irritating

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42 - Tales of Berseria - 15 points / 1 Vote
PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows

That’s quite a shirt.

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42 - Splatoon 2 - 15 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo Switch

not surprised that I'm the only voter for Tales of Berseria, am surprised I'm the only voter for Splat2n

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42 - Through the Ages - 15 points / 1 Vote
Android, iPad, iPhone

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40 - Wolfenstein II - 15 points / 2 Votes
Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

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40 - Doki Doki Literature Club - 15 points / 2 Votes
Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam

i'm a doki voter. it's a free visual novel and it's weird af.

Berseria is a really good JRPG with fun button mashy brawler combat and the best character writing in the genre. got a bit unfairly overshadowed due to the tidal wave of good rpgs last year

also doki voter! shit gets way wilder than it has any right to

ok this one and then i am going to go get some food

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39 - Puyo Puyo Tetris - 16 points / 1 Vote
Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows

^ have not played but i would DEFFO get hooked if i did i am sure. i mean fuck it's puyo puyo and tetris

when you say "hit a wall" do you mean sonic was going really fast but then bumped into a wall and you lost all that speed

lol I was also staring at this wondering the same thing

Voted for this, amazing tetris. Imported it a few years ago when it didn't seem like it was ever get a western release and been playing it since. Lots of odd modes and when you get a tetris the game does a great job of feeling as excited as you are.

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38 - Pinball FX3 - 16 points / 2 Votes
Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4

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37 - Superhot VR - 17 points / 1 Vote
VR

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34 - Yooka-Laylee - 17 points / 2 Votes
Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

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34 - West of Loathing - 17 points / 2 Votes
Linux, macOS, Windows

damn i'm disappointed that despite my feeble attempts to boost it, no one else got on the Through the Ages train. such a fantastic strategy game and perfectly implemented for mobile, with an AI that is way better than i've come to expect from similar games. the rare mobile game where i played it on the train and kept playing it when i got home. and even tried to play it on the walk in between.

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34 - The Sexy Brutale - 17 points / 2 Votes
PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One