GOTY 2017 Voting!!!

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Started by Legend, Feb 07, 2018, 11:34 PM

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Legend

1: Horizon Zero Dawn
2: Legend of Zelda
3: Nier Automata
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6: Mass Effect Andromeda
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8: *Everything
9: For Honor
10: Destiny 2

I have some empties in my list but I didn't want to rank things higher. Explanations in reverse order.

Destiny 2 was fun. I beat the campaign and that was that, but I enjoyed it.

For Honor was fun. I beat the campaign and played some multiplayer matches. MP isn't really my thing but I really like what they were going for.

Everything is a game I didn't play, but it had a really good 10 minute trailer. I'm voting for it just based off the quality of that alone.


Mass Effect Andromeda was really really good and I loved it up till the very end. The problem though was that the ending was extremely underwhelming and made everything else feel pointless. I did essentially 100% of the side content because I felt invested and wanted to have the best ending possible but it turns out
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there is only one ending and in that ending only one side character can die. Mass Effect 3 had a better ending even! At least that had late game content dependent on your actions.<br><br>This wouldn&#39;t have been too bad if a sequel was coming soon that could import the save file, but that seems very unlikely. It&#39;s as if this game was just the opening act of a story that they wanted to cut into a trilogy.



Nier Automata is really good and I like almost everything about it. I was very impressed with how they used cheap development things to make a AAA like game. Also the characters were really good and it was just a fun world. Went in completely blind so it was also fun trying to figure out what the heck happened. The open world was the average bland boring open world that is being shoved into modern games but somehow it worked pretty well here. I think it's because there weren't any collectables or such scattered around. Kinda more like a last gen map vs the modern "arena" like approach. Anyway the only significant negative would be the multiple endings.
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It&#39;s a really cool concept to have you have to play the game multiple times but I feel they could have done that a bit better. Also made it hard to know when to stop playing. Very rarely do I 100% video games so it was a bit awkward trying to decide when to stop playing. Afterwards I looked online and I saw more or less all the major things but without getting spoiled, there was no way to know if the game was done or not.



Zelda was an amazing game. I love so much about it and even though the puzzles absolutely suck at being puzzles, the shrines weren't too bad and some were interesting. Probably the greatest strength of the game is that it doesn't implode halfway through. It's fun to explore the world at the very beginning and at the very end. You don't start out with wonder only to be reigned in by mechanic limitations. However, that only applies to exploration. Quests were the opposite and lots were disappointing. I especially hated the ending to the house quest. That was so disappointing that I put the game down and didn't touch it for 8 months.

It's a game that I think is incredibly overrated. It's also a game that defies logic and simultaneously deserves all its praise. Very close to my goty.


Horizon Zero Dawn is a masterpiece. I loved it from start to finish, even though it wasn't perfect.
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Why did everyone die as soon as you found them? Going off memory, I think 4 seperate people died this way and it was kinda stupid. Also the end boss fight wasn&#39;t unique. It wasn&#39;t bad but it felt like they originally planned for something else. I also would have liked more control over the story. It&#39;s a linear game and that&#39;s great but the dialogue options should have had more of a lasting impact on relationships. Like I really wanted to get close to the king &nbsp;<img src="https://vizioneck.com/forum/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif" alt="&#58;&#58;&#41;" title="Roll Eyes" class="smiley"> &nbsp;


The lore was wonderful and I can't think of a game that did it better. Every twist and turn was almost perfectly executed. You kept trying to figure out explanations and the real ones always exceeded your predictions. Plus the game was in Colorado and it was really fun having it feel real.