GOTY 2017 - bestest gaming year - The Bear and Badger

JRPC

Childintime wrote:

Weird - I seem to remember you being super up for Nier. You not got round to it yet? Or did I remember wrong?

Still desperate to play it and it's very much on my list. Sure I'm going to love it.

Waiting for a PSN sale really.

JonB

It's in the Black Friday sale but still £30. Has been available cheaper on disc before.

hylian_elf

Well worth every penny.

JRPC

Hmm £30 is the very top end of my normal sale budget and Persona is a few quid cheaper.

Ill have a think.

Vela

Reckon I can easily hit 10 games this year. I didnt play many, but I played some damn good games. Best year in a loooooooong time for me, game wise at least.

Only regret is not having time for Nier and the demo was shit-hot.

hylian_elf

Nier is top tier.

My current list:

Zelda
Mario/NieR
NieR/Mario
Nex Machina
Edith Finch
Destiny 2
Rime

Still to play/finish:
Hollow Knight
Samus Returns
Persona 5
Lost Legacy
Death of the Outsider
Splatoon 2?
More Arms?

Gotta cane it over Xmas break.

dynamiteReady

hylian_elf wrote:

10 is too many, as is the points difference between first and second with that system. No big deal though really. I can certainly come up with 5 good 'uns, maybe a couple more.

What do you think of Andy’s suggestion?

Wot? Pick a list, and order it?

The institution of original though, eh?

hylian_elf

Sometimes I wonder whether you bother reading posts properly or are just a bit dim.

I’ll go with the former.

dynamiteReady

Nah... Maybe I am being thick, and well, you said this is a discussion...

hylian_elf wrote:

Let's get this thing going and thoughts floating. Usual rules (modified for 10 rather than 5 entries as so many good games this year) below, but shall we discuss making it slightly different this year? Andy suggested allowing up to 10 entries, and you give each game a score between 1 and 10, can only use a number once. So you could have Nier, Nioh and Hollow Knight and give them 5, 6 and 10 respectively depending on how well you think of the game. That way someone's second best won't just get hefty points just for being the year's second best for that person. Discuss.

So... If I can only name three games... Using what I think you've suggested...

1: Nier = 10,
2: Hollow Knight = 8,
3: Nioh = 6

Valid? Because if taken as described above, that reads like a description of a standard ordinal system, I lie? Like:

1: Nier = 10,
2: Hollow Knight = 9,
3: Nioh = 8,
...
7: Some brass game = 4

Diluted Dante

New system

You list your games, I assign points to them based on how I am feeling at the time.

trippy

1. Superflight

I can't think of a game that captures flight better than this, which is handy given its name. It's like playing a dream, beautifully free-form and relaxed, bare bones but all the better for it.

At first the controls feel a little imprecise but they're actually great, and there's a wonderful sense of freedom and speed.

The graphics are perhaps more rudimentary than I'd like but they provide a fantastic sense of scale and at times it can be strangely beautiful. The procedural generation is real good, too.

It's genuinely wonderful and it's only two quid.

2. Breath of the Wild

Beautiful and gorgeous, it respects you enough to let you explore and nearly always makes it worth your while. Wonderful environmental variety, an excellent physics engine and gorgeous music and character design.

It values peace and solitude and that's a rare quality in big modern games. The way the sun shines on the grass, man. Fucking intense.

3. Pako 2

I love this. Great physics and wonderful level design. I was sad enough to dream about GTAV before it came out and my dream looked a lot like this. They're still tweaking it but it's already great.

4. Streets of Rogue

You can tell a fridge to run.

Facewon

Ooh, pako 2 gonna get votes from 2 people. Dark horse.

Also, that's good news on superflight. On my list.

Facewon

Wishlist.

Moot_Geeza

There's plenty of stuff to add as I inevitably amend the list throughout 2018, still looking forward to playing Edith Finch, Steamwold Dig 2, Golf Story and a few others, but I'm currently thinking:

1. Mario Odyssey [10]
[Thumper - Switch [10]]
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [9]
3. Yakuza 0 [9]
[Mario Kart Deluxe [9]]
4. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle [9]
5. Sonic Mania [9]
6. Nex Machina [9]
7. Cuphead [8]
8. Rime [8]
[Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment campaign [8]]
9. ARMS [8]
10. Unacharted: Lost Legacy [7]

Will add reviews when I settle on an order. ARMS has shot up in my estimation this week.

trippy

Facewon wrote:

Also, that's good news on superflight. On my list.

3.65 of your dollars, do it!

acemuzzy

Right then:

1 - Hollow Knight
2 - Zelda: BotW
3 - The End is Nigh
4 - Nier
5 - Mario Odysee
6 - Nex Machina
7 - Assassin's Creed: Origins
8 - Opus Magnum
9 - SteamWorld Dig 2
10 - Metroid: Samus Returns

Any complaints, read the fucking rules.

[Deleted User]

I haven’t participated in the 52 games thread, so I’ve done my first scan. In case it’s not obvious, Elf, I’m not voting yet. Just showing my working...

The Longlist (basically, what I’ve played)
1-2 Switch
Agents of Mayhem
ARMS
Butcher
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice†
Fast RMX
FIFA 18
The Flame in the Flood*†
For Honor
Golf Story
Graceful Explosion Machine
Horizon: Zero Dawn
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
MarioKart 8 Deluxe*
Matterfall†
NBA Playgrounds
Nex Machina
Overcooked! Special Edition*
Rime
Robonauts
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun†
Snake Pass (was nearly on the shit list, won’t make the short list)
Snipperclips
Splatoon 2
Stardew Valley*
Super Mario Odysssey
This is the Police*†
Thumper*

The Shitlist (stuff I’ve played that could never be GotY)
Blaster Master Zero
Disc Jam
Drawn to Death
Dreadnought (in fairness, I never got passed the disappointment of the beta)
Guardians of the Galaxy (I’ve never been back since the first episode)
Sonic Mania (I don’t know why I thought Sonic would suddenly be anything other than complete shit)
Super CloudBuilt

The Missed List
Absolver
Black & White Bushido
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Little Nightmares
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
The Sexy Brutale
The Surge
Tekken 7
Tokyo 42
Troll and I
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
wipEout Omega Collection
Wonderboy: The Dragon’s Trap

* Things I know Elf will disallow.
† I haven’t really played nearly enough, but I love what I’ve seen.

Facewon

acemuzzy wrote:

Right then:

1 - Hollow Knight

My man.

Facewon

trippy wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Also, that's good news on superflight. On my list.

3.65 of your dollars, do it!

Did it. And first steamworld dig. Seems the sequel is something.

[Deleted User]

Andy wrote:

Sonic Mania (I don’t know why I thought Sonic would suddenly be anything other than complete shit)

Don’t worry buddy - I’ve been there. Tried for years to force myself to like Sonic but I finally realised Sonic is fundamentally shit, and will always be shit.

That’s why when a Sonic game is lauded as nailing it, and “finally” being a return to “form” I know that it’s not for me - a return to form for Sonic is a return to being hard shit when it had previously been a different consistency of equally stinky shit.

Nina

Childintime wrote:

1. Nier: Automata
2. Yakuza 0
3. Persona 5
4. Emily is Away Too
5. Prey

That top 3 is the exact order I told to B when he asked what I'd want to play the most on the ps4. Hopefully I'll grab NieR for $25 this Black Friday.

I don't have a top 5 or 10 yet, but some good candidates are Zelda BotW, ARMS, and Splatoon 2.
300+ hours playtime from Zelda and Splatoon combined, and both are gonna climb when the DLC / December Update drops.

Do demos count? I'm pretty sure the Monster Hunter World demo is gonna be amazing.

dynamiteReady

Moot_Geeza wrote:

There's plenty of stuff to add as I inevitably amend the list throughout 2018, still looking forward to playing Edith Finch, Steamwold Dig 2, Golf Story and a few others, but I'm currently thinking: 1. Mario Odyssey [10] [Thumper - Switch [10]] 2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [9] 3. Yakuza 0 [9] [Mario Kart Deluxe [9]] 4. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle [9] 5. Sonic Mania [9] 6. Nex Machina [9] 7. Rime [8] [Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment campaign [8]] 8. ARMS [8] 9. Unacharted: Lost Legacy [7] Will add reviews when I settle on an order. ARMS has shot up in my estimation this week. I'm not putting Everybody's Golf or Horizon on there, neither were bad games but I had a few problems with them and don't just want to list everything I played. Little Nightmares didn't make it either.

I like Moot's system, but I'm not sure if that's what Elf/Andy was describing either...

Zelda a 9 though...

Fairy nuff'...

dynamiteReady

So far I have

1: Zelda Botw
2: Mario
3: Cuphead...
4: Arms

Cuphead's underrated... It's an evolutionary change in game design.
Through structure, it makes excessively challenging problems palatable.

That's quite fresh.
But we can change lists later right? Xenogears 2 hasn't dropped, and I've not picked up Tekken 7 yet...

Moot_Geeza

Childintime wrote:

Andy wrote:

Sonic Mania (I don’t know why I thought Sonic would suddenly be anything other than complete shit)

Don’t worry buddy - I’ve been there. Tried for years to force myself to like Sonic but I finally realised Sonic is fundamentally shit, and will always be shit. That’s why when a Sonic game is lauded as nailing it, and “finally” being a return to “form” I know that it’s not for me - a return to form for Sonic is a return to being hard shit when it had previously been a different consistency of equally stinky shit.

stonechalice

So this Hollow Knight is good then?

acemuzzy

Yes

Spoiler:

hylian_elf

Moron

dynamiteReady

So this system...

dynamiteReady

Can we just use a poll, like the rest of teh whirled'?

Moot_Geeza

That's your second yellow, now watch it.

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