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

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!