What is your game of the year for 2017?

[ShadySands]

I guess it's Mass Effect: Andromeda since it's the only game from this year that I remember finishing.

Edited November 22, 2017 by ShadySands

[Humanoid]

DOS2 is the only 2017 release I've meaningfully played thus far (well, one of two, but the other is a microtransaction-laden mobile game). I'm not comfortable giving out GOTY awards by default though, maybe I should go and finally play Thimbleweed Park to give it some semblance of legitimacy. Or I might just leave it vacant like the black hole that was gaming in 2014.

 

(During the last week of this year, I will finally play the Switch and its two big titles, but a week isn't enough time to award any game the GOTY award either unless I do so retrospectively)

 

For the record:

2016 - Stardew Valley

2015 - The Witcher 3

2014 - no award

2013 - Monaco : What's Yours is Mine

2012 - XCOM

2011 - The Witcher 2

2010 - Fallout: New Vegas

[Oner]

Ah, Stardew Valley was such a treat. I kinda want to replay it but it's also a massive timesink.

[Humanoid]

I plan on replaying it when proper co-op support is finally added sometime early next year. I've already done a solo run when it was new, and a glitchy co-op run with the makeshift multiplayer mod this year, so I've gotten plenty of value out of it already despite them taking almost two years to deliver the multiplayer functionality (that was always promised).

[Gorgon]

If everybody is saying Elex maybe I should give it a try.

 

 

I dunno, undecided on goty

[Malcador]

If everybody is saying Elex maybe I should give it a try.

Resist the peer pressure. Besides, unless you go the Razor1911 route, a bit tricky to 'try' it.

[Zoraptor]

Don't listen to the square. Sounds like a natural Berserker, that guy. All the cool kids are doing Elex!

 

And it's heading into winter in the northern hemisphere, cold increases are only natural.

[Sarex]

Haven't played that much, it's a toss up between TW: Warhammer 2 and Dishonored 2. I think I would give the award to Prey though, but as I only watched a stream playthrough of it and haven't played it myself I think that disqualifies it.

[Fenixp]

A tie between Prey and Nier: Automata I suppose. Both games are pretty much an exact opposite of each other, so that's a thing I can do, eh?

[marelooke]

Prey, if only because it's the one game that I played that gripped me enough that I actually finished, figuratively speaking.

 

D:OS2 and Nier seem rather promising, but Nier gets disqualified for being a sloppy PC port and Divinity I need to actually finish first. No basing review scores on only a partial playthrough here! (unless a game is so bad that I don't make it to the end of course, which isn't the case for D:OS2 unless quality takes a very steep nosedive later on)

Edited November 29, 2017 by marelooke

[Fiach]

Probably go with Prey or FF XV.

 

The other best games would all be reissues like Yakuza 0, Star Ocean TLH, FF XII Zodiac.

[Katphood]

You fellas might wanna watch this: 

 

 

#9 has spoilers

 

Edited December 8, 2017 by Katphood

[Oner]

^Spoiler warning for #9

[Mamoulian War]

Probably go with Prey or FF XV.

 

The other best games would all be reissues like Yakuza 0, Star Ocean TLH, FF XII Zodiac.

 

FFXV is 2016 though

[marelooke]

^Spoiler warning for #9

 

He spoils the start of Prey and arguably one of the (few) big jumpscares as well.

 

Anyway, most of those are console games (or console ports of varying quality) so not really relevant to me. And yeah, did manage to watch most of the video (skimmed through some of the console game due to not relevant to me) despite the...enthusiasm of the host.

[Huinehtar]

I would have said Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun, but it was released on early december last year.

 

Sorry, the backlog is still huge

[algroth]

Don't think I've played through a game that was released this year.

 

Same, though I am planning on getting through Hollow Knight and Torment: Tides of Numenera soon enough. As to which is the best game I've played for the first time this year, it's probably Undertale. That was an emotional rollercoaster and then some.

[Bartimaeus]

Yeah, Undertale was my GotY last year.

[ShadySands]

I forgot about Torment. Still, I think I liked Andromeda more.

[Bartimaeus]

Not exactly a resounding endorsement. I've still yet to try Torment...

[ShadySands]

It wasn't terrible but it wasn't exactly great either. I may not be the right audience for it as I've never been able to push through Planescape.

 

I can't think of another game I've finished from this year... still need to complete D:OS2, still need to install Elex... drawing a blank for any other games that came out this year

[Mamoulian War]

I forgot about Torment. Still, I think I liked Andromeda more.

Edited December 9, 2017 by Mamoulian War

[SonicMage117]

I would have said Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun, but it was released on early december last year.

 

Sorry, the backlog is still huge

It's okay, you're not the only one!

 

I don't mind that the game isn't from 2017, I just beat Vanquish, Bayonetta and Darksiders this year. So that's saying something

[Guard Dog]

Stellaris. Hands down. I spend more hours playing that than anything else. Except maybe chess.

[Blarghagh]

I don't think I have one. Cuphead wins by a mile for aesthetics (I'm an animator, duh) but I HATED playing it.