In DOS:II, despite the various storylines, you're more or less getting the main story chronologically, with some world history here and there to fill out the lore. I actually loved the story, but it's more of a personal taste. Really depends on what you mean by "looks horrible." It's a JRPG, so if you hate those, you're probably not going to have fun with it, but it's more action focused. New Category: Game You Kept Going Back To (Any Year)īest Graphics Split -> MOST PIXELS / Best AestheticĮh, it works for some people, doesn't work for others. Use literal black magic to solve Voting Thread Visibility Problemīest Sound Split -> Best Sound Design / Best Soundtrack Breath of the Wild and Persona 5 can, technically, be emulated). Also sorry, Night Moders.ĭespite my best efforts to lay out rules, there was some mixture of voters who did not read the rules, did not care about the rules, or lived in a reasonable bubble of ambiguity inherent in the rules (e.g. Why aren't the charts sorted, AHHHH MY EYES.īecause I'm really tired after all that data entry, I did the best with Google Sheets that I reasonably could.
I do make errors but I can also correct them! GOTY 2014: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Here's to an awesome 2018, and thanks to all who voted/participated! It pretty much reads like a disorganized letter to all Game Developers and Publishers, summarized thusly: Fuck Off With The Lootbox/MT Bullshit. "Loot boxes of any kind will never be acceptable." "You've gotta be fucking kidding me, right?" "There is no good use of lootboxes/microtransactions. People who answered with their threshold for lootboxes by game There were three subtypes of responses to this last category that was not meant to be taken seriously: Somewhat divisive title, I take it? Game Name I included Wolfie 2 because it managed to stand out a little bit here, while also showing up lower in the GOTY vote too. "EA sucks, nuff said." - r/pcgaming, 2017 And hey, look, quality DLC comes out! It exists! It doesn't have to be bad! Hear that devs?! I maybe a little regret not picking up War of the Chosen in the sale. Dark Souls III had the lead after I had tallied 200 votes, and then XCOM 2 and Dishonored crept up to shuffle things. This was the most exciting trend to watch as the votes were tallied.
#Best games of 2017 divinity original sin Pc#
That's what I meant earlier by "PC-ass PC game", which the winners of this category earn the right to be called. Thanks to all the devs, really, for we would not even have these awards or this sub without your hard work and dedication.
#Best games of 2017 divinity original sin series#
Hardware manufacturers, get us cheaper headsets! Game devs, get us that killer game! Anyway, the game that seemed made for VR that didn't come out in VR right away, takes the Best VR Award when it comes out in VR! Game NameĬongratulations to the Larian devs, whose game also took GOTY! Ninja Theory is known for Hellblade, Arkane Studios for the Dishonored series and Prey, and Team Cherry for Hollow Knight. Headline: VR is still not mainstream, not even within the PC Gaming niche only! In this context, the N/A votes constituted empty votes, don't haves, don't likes, can't affords in sum.
I normally don't include Not Applicable (N/A) votes, but there were very many of them in this category. In the end, an Early Access game that came out of seemingly nowhere and took the 2017 Multiplayer scene by storm does take an award here. Somehow, the Dubstep Grenade still made a showing, but it looks like Nier's soundtrack secures a very solid victory. There Edith goes, sneaking in there among the heavy GOTY contenders. Nioh poking his head in amongst the GOTY mirror list. One of the strongest leads of the entire Awards. Game NameĬuphead showed up early as a trend, and never relented. My biggest bummer of the year is I didn't play any indie games this year, but now it looks like I, or we, have a great shortlist. Scoring: 1st pick = 3 points, 2nd pick = 2 points, 3rd pick = 1 point. A "PC-ass PC game" has won! There is hope yet. The poster that really didn't want PUBG to win our GOTY can finally take a breath. There were 285 valid votes (only 3 fully disqualified). For my part, I had a good time poring over the results, watching trends appear, discovering games I hadn't heard of, etc.įrom December 13th, 2017 until January 5th, 2018, we accepted Awards voting in The Voting Thread.
That wouldn't solve input validation problems, but I'm still going to do that next year if I'm still around. Thanks for the waiting, and I have paid my penance for the stupidity of not automating the Awards with Google Forms.