Not seeing 2015 with higher votes is mind boggling. This gen was pretty bland up till that point and then boom, witcher 3, bloodborne, and mgs:v in the same year. Its no competition. Do people really love BOTW that much for 2017 to be so high.
I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones for me. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.dude 2017 had Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Hollow Knight, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Nier: Automata, Nioh, Prey, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Pyre, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Evil Within 2, Crash N. Sane trilogy, Assassin's Creed Origins, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Cuphead, Gravity Rush 2 and more.
There's sooooo fucking much to love about 2017. It's the definition of quantity AND quality. To attribute all the love for 2017 to *just* BOTW is a fucking insult
2017 has quality AND quantity. A bunch of the 2017 games listed are on a similar level to the three 2015 games you mentioned. Hollow Knight, for example, is miles beyond "pretty good". It's a bona fide masterpiece.I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones for me. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.
Idk man, I am more of a quality over quantity game and nothing in 2017 comes even close to Bloodborne, MGS:V, and W3. I guess you can make the arguement that 2017 had a higher number of good games, but I'd say 2015 had over higher quality of games.
I can only think of BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey from 2017 are up there with the three I mentioned. The rest are all pretty good, but never reach the same highs.2017 has quality AND quantity. A bunch of the 2017 games listed are on a similar level to the three 2015 games you mentioned.
It's all opinions at the end of the day.I can only think of BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey from 2017 are up there with the three I mentioned. The rest are all pretty good, but never reach the same highs.
I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones for me. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.
Idk man, I am more of a quality over quantity game and nothing in 2017 comes even close to Bloodborne, MGS:V, and W3. I guess you can make the arguement that 2017 had a higher number of good games, but I'd say 2015 had over higher quality of games.
Oh yeah, that game absolutely should be mentioned.Put some respect on PUBG. 2017 game that's sold more then anything else on that list.
Ayy bro that's more power to you. I haven't a lot of time to play games in the last few years so a game has to be truly special to be meaningful to me. Looking at my library, I have wasted so much money buying games that I end up dropping at the half or so mark. I think its a combination of little free time and being spoiled by Fromsoft games or gamer fatigue.Hollow Knight, Nier: Automata, Breath of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Mario Odyssey, and Cuphead are all 10/10s. Pretty much everything else I listed are all at least 8-9s. That's an insane level of quality across the board, and they also cater to all different types of gamers, whereas in 2018 for example, the three biggest games (Spider-Man, RDR 2, and God of War) all catered to the same type of gamer.
Every year has a couple of standout masterpieces surrounded by a lot of mediocre-good games, what's truly special is to have a ton of masterpieces surrounded by good-great games.
if it weren't for ME: Andromeda, Destiny 2, and Battlefront 2, 2017 would be a flawless year
2017 had at least five games that will stick with me for the rest of my life. That's why I picked it. 2015 had one. So, I agree with your reasoning on picking a favorite year.very surprised 2017 is beating out 2015. When I'm thinking about the best year I'm not looking for a year whose average quality was high I'm looking for the year where I played games that delivered so strongly they stick with me even now. I've played a lot of these games but nothing tops playing both The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne in the same year.
Not seeing 2015 with higher votes is mind boggling. This gen was pretty bland up till that point and then boom, witcher 3, bloodborne, and mgs:v in the same year. Its no competition. Do people really love BOTW that much for 2017 to be so high.
Push the videogame medium forward? How so?RDR2 is the only game to push the videogame medium forward quite a bit this gen, so 2018 gets my vote.
Hollow Knight, Nier: Automata, Breath of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Mario Odyssey, and Cuphead are all 10/10s. Pretty much everything else I listed are all at least 8-9s. That's an insane level of quality across the board, and they also cater to all different types of gamers, whereas in 2018 for example, the three biggest games (Spider-Man, RDR 2, and God of War) all catered to the same type of gamer.
Every year has a couple of standout masterpieces surrounded by a lot of mediocre-good games, what's truly special is to have a ton of masterpieces surrounded by good-great games.
if it weren't for ME: Andromeda, Destiny 2, and Battlefront 2, 2017 would be a flawless year
BotW feels more like a living world just based on its physics system, player interaction with the world itself, and how weather affects the environment. It's running on Xbox 360 level hardware (Wii U is its base), yet feels more "alive" than anything else this generation. It's remarkable.It improves realism of Npc's and environments.
It does this by
Theres no other game this gen which feels like a "living breathing world" this gen. Other games this gen just feel like better versions of what's been done before rather then feeling like somthing new.
- Improving visuals + audio
- Animation
- The way npc's react to you and the world
- How npc interaction is an integral to the gameplay.
I feel like Witcher 3 did all of this, without being an absolute chore to play. RDR 2, a video game, takes so much control away from the player during missions that at times, it barely felt like a video game. Dunkey said, it best " the game rides your horse for you, the it aims your guns for you, it practically plays itself for you". For every step RDR 2 took to push video games forward, it took one back. Things like lengthy animations and excessive realism is antithetical to video game enjoyment in my opinion. I really hope more games don't follow this style.It improves realism of Npc's and environments.
It does this by
Theres no other game this gen which feels like a "living breathing world" this gen. Other games this gen just feel like better versions of what's been done before rather then feeling like somthing new.
- Improving visuals + audio
- Animation
- The way npc's react to you and the world
- How npc interaction is an integral to the gameplay.
For me, 2017, because the game of the generation is BOTW.
Also strong hitters like Odyssey and Horizon