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

(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

i always found TTA way too long and fiddly for a tabletop game, makes sense that it would work better as an app

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33 - Mario Kart 8 DX - 17 points / 3 Votes
Nintendo Switch

sexy brutale so good, surprised it hasn't been more popular round here. is the switch version still borked?

it got a performance patch at some point but i heard it's still iffy. it's on my to-play list but my steam queue is quite a lot longer than my switch queue

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32 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - 20 points / 1 Vote
Windows, Xbox One

despite never playing this one, i almost voted for it solely from enjoying wathcing others play it on youtube, which would've made it the first time i ever voted a game based on that criteria

it was a lot more fun to watch than to play in my experience. i think i logged like 5 hours before giving up on it as Not For Me

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30 - Northgard - 20 points / 2 Votes
Windows, Mac

TTA is a fantastic tabletop game. i'm sure the mobile version is super good if it's anything close to that (which it seems to be)

i thought splatoon 2 would be top ten, given the number of switch owners here and the popularity of the game.

I'm the one who voted for both Lone Echo and Superhot VR. Kinda hoping there'd be more VR representation this year.

Lone Echo is a first person adventure game set in space, with you playing a robot. As most of the action takes place inside a weightless space station, they've solved the VR locomotion problem the same way actual astronauts have solved it, by grabbing onto walls and flinging yourself wherever you want to go. It's very intuitive and very fun and doesn't get old even when the activities it makes you do are fairly straightforward. The game looks amazing; the first time I spacewalked was brainexplode.gif. And there's something about VR NPCs, especially one acted so well as there is here, that does create a weird sort of emotional bond that I haven't really felt in the same way in flat games. Brains are easily tricked.

Saying all that, VR is definitely still not ready. You need an actual gaming PC to run it (okay PSVR, but that's kinda different), it takes up a lot of room and there's faff setting it up. Most games on the platform are either ill-fitting or paper-thin; it doesn't help that VR is still a niche-within-a-niche so doesn't get as much press as it could. Not to mention you've gotta be kinda techy to set it up and my days fucking about with autoexec.bat and config.sys stand me in good stead. But oh, when VR works, it's still unlike any other gaming experience.

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30 - Universal Paperclips - 20 points / 2 Votes
Browser

lol nice

xp re: vr yes when it works it truly is a thing of beauty, and boy howdy i was a SKEPTIC going in too. i hope to build a rig that can handle it in the next year or two (it's $$$ tho!) and maybe shop around for a more comfortable headset... the oculus didn't fit over my glasses super well? maybe i could've fiddled with it a bit more. i was so sad when i tried without my glasses (after all ,the screen's right there, i should see perfectly right?) only for it to be blurry (no stupid, you're still trying to focus far away).

re: universal paperclips, y'all wild for this one, it's like... fine? not anywhere near as good as the potato one from last year.

Never played PUBG but I enjoy watching Aculite's videos. It seems like it requires a lot of practice before it starts getting fun.

i didn't see universal paperclips on the noms list, whoops! i would have thrown it a few points. if you've never played a clicking game, just run away, get away from me satan. but if you have ever lost a night to one of those kinds of games, you will almost certainly 'enjoy' universal paperclips.

man i was at work and started, but then when it was time to go home i stayed another hour, then i realized so i just locked my machine, and when i came back the next day, omg i was in driftwar hell. my drones were down to zero bc they sucked so bad. had to rebuild like 1000 by hand

Ah Northgard, I was one of the two voters for this one. I really love it, I believe it's recently developed a single player campaign story which I've yet to look into - I play it multiplayer usually.

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28 - Rec-Room - 21 points / 2 Votes
VR

I'm the one who voted for both Lone Echo and Superhot VR. Kinda hoping there'd be more VR representation this year.

vr has shown up a significant amount. def trending up

Catching up on my pity votes from yesterday:

54 - Everything - 10 points / 2 Votes
I think I gave this one point but figured it was worth a shout out. Sort of ambitious and lazy at the same time, which I can relate to. Probably works better as a screensaver, so just put it on auto-play and leave it running while you fold laundry or raise your kids or whatever.

61 - Hidden Folks - 8 points / 2 Votes
Where’s Waldo but you need to tap around to find/reveal dozens of tiny little characters. Very charming illustrations and all sound effects are made by one guy using just his voice. Playing it on an iPhone 6 probably ruined my eyes once and for all.

65 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - 7 points / 1 Vote
I liked that this was pretty short and efficient, especially after the padded length of the last Uncharted game. Also liked two women as the protagonists. Remember nothing else about it.

72 - Assassin's Creed Origins - 5 points / 1 Vote
Boring characters, story, quests, especially here in our post-Witcher society but wandering around Ancient Egypt (and a little Ancient Rome) was novel enough to keep me playing to the end. Riding a camel through oases and climbing pyramids and fighting hippos was a nice change of pace from beige post-apocalyptic rubble or, worse, LA (where I live).

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28 - Metroid: Samus Returns - 21 points / 2 Votes
Nintendo 3DS

northgard looks great, i never even heard of it

i was so sad when i tried without my glasses (after all ,the screen's right there, i should see perfectly right?) only for it to be blurry (no stupid, you're still trying to focus far away).

Whoa