Board 8 > SHINE's Top 10 Games, Top 5 Unplayed Games and Top 5 Old Games of 2017

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Done building my Game of the Year list for 2017. Been thinking about this more than other years as this was hands down the best year for games since 1998. So many games that could have won GotY in any other year, but they had the unfortunate luck of coming out in the same year as all these other amazing games.

I also built my top 5 games I didn't get a chance to play that I'm betting could have been a consideration for my top 10 as well as my Top 5 old games that got new versions this year because I don't think it would have been fair to include them in the top 10 which should be all new games.

Will start off with the two top 5 lists posting 1 from each every day, then doing 1 from the top 10 every day until the end of the year. Stay turned for #5 in the Old Games and Unplayed lists!

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I'll just post these right now

Games I had on my final lists but ended up getting cut

Tekken 7 and South Park: The Fractured But Whole got cut from my top 10

Night in the Woods and What Remains of Edith Finch got cut from my top 5 unplayed. Yes I realize Edith Finch is like a 2 hour game but I missed the deadline. As many pointed out to me in discord and on B8 those might not be my type of games anyway so I don't feel too bad cutting them now :D
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TOP 5 UNPLAYED GAMES OF 2017

5. Tales of Berseria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfp_ubBgbc

oh my god I'm so behind in Tales games. As you may or may not know I have to play a series in release order, regardless if the story of the games have anything to do with eachother. I'm more interested in seeing the evolution of the gameplay from game to game to see how it gets better or worse. Xillia was the last time I was up to date on the franchise. After that I got hit with the Symphonia HD collection and after playing through Symphonia 3 1/2 times to platinum it I just haven't gotten the courage to turn my dreams into reality and play ToS2 again to platinum that game, much less play Xillia 2, Zestiria and Berseria. I even imported the PS3 version of Vesperia this year so you can add that to my Tales backlog as well.

I hear from the people that have played it that it is one of the best in the franchise so I'm very excited to play it one day, but that day is not today or any time soon. If it can surpass Abyss as my favorite Tales game that would be awesome.
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that's a low bar
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tranny is not on the Abyss train :(
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TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2017 (aka the Falcom bracket)

5. Ys Seven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WywSVF4IFU

Originally released for the PSP in 2010 it finally got an HD re-release this year on PC back in August. The original version of this game was my overall favorite PSP game and finally having it on a modern platform. Truthfully I haven't been able to put as much time in this re-released version, just a few hours, but it was the Ys Seven I always knew and loved. Ys Seven changed up the traditional Ys formula by having multiple playable characters that you put into a party of 3 (attacker, tank, ranged, etc) and switched on the fly as you needed their skills as well as introducing resource gathering and crafting; elements that continue into the Ys series today. The music is also some of my favorite in the whole series.

The gameplay is where the game truly shines though. Your party members move at a lightning fast pace by dashing, dodging and rolling around your enemies while you swap characters mid-combo to obliterate your enemies. The feel of the movement is just really good and puts a smile on face whenever I play it. MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU FINALLY GET TO PLAY AS DOGI!

If I had a chance to play the PC version more it may have ranked higher this year, but it'll have to settle as the 5th best old game I played this year. Make no mistake though it is a sublime action RPG and a worthy evolution of Ys' thirty year legacy.
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I've only played four 2017 games so I definitely couldn't make a list of that.
I guess I could make a top 5 unplayed games list. Probably will if there's a more general topic towards the end of the year. Don't know why games were so unappealing to me this year.

oh another game that was in my top 5 unplayed games that I cut man I should have just done top 10 unplayed there's too many games this year

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
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TOP 5 UNPLAYED GAMES OF 2017


4. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2yszGNVGQg

Another victim of me wanting to play game series in release order. I've never been a big shooter guy. I don't care much for a lot of modern shooters, but I do love a lot of the older ones like DOOM, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem. There was a big stretch where I played no shooters though including new iterations of these games. I only recently started playing 2001's Return To Castle Wolfenstein and since then there was another last gen just called "Wolfenstein" and then this recent group of games that sounds like it'll be a trilogy that started with Wolfenstein: The New Order. Wolfenstein II seems like it's a direct sequel to that taking place right where the 1st one ends. Sounds like they might be saving Mecha Hitler for the 3rd game though so if that's true I want to get caught up on these games before that happens.

Main things I hear about this game is it's way more difficult than its predecessors but has a lot of "Moment of the Year" type sequences which interests me. I'm sure I'll hear all about them in this year's Giant Bomb GotY delibirations.
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TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2017 (Still the Falcom bracket)

#4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWOrf1Y-Z8

Okay I'm cheating here not technically an old game because it got its first english release in 2017, but it's still a game that's 10 years old and I realized after looking at my 10 list that it was going to miss the top 10 so I figured I'd stick it here instead because I still wanted to acknowledge it.

As a man who loves the Ys series I kept hearing about Falcom's other series big series, The Legend of Heroes, had finally reinvented itself into something that was worth playing in its sixth iteration, the Trails series. I ended up playing Trails in the Sky FC and SC last year as well as the first game of the 8th iteration, Trails of Cold Steel. Now after those games Trails is almost right up there with Ys as one of my favorite active franchises.

3rd wraps up the loose plotlines of all our party members from the first 2 games while introducing new mysteries that it carries into the later games. It changed the format of the game from a traditional jrpg going from town to town as the story moved along to something more like Persona 3 where you went deeper and deeper into a single dungeon with a hub where all the characters hang out. There are a ton of sealed doors throughout this dungeon too that you can unlock to witness long 30+ minute cutscenes that reveal more backstory on characters or events that happened between SC and 3rd.

I don't know if I would say this game was better than FC/SC, but if you were a fan of those games and those characters you should definitely play this to see what they're up to and where it leaves them going into Legend of Heroes 7 and 8
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Top 5 Unplayed Games
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4. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4)
5. Tales of Berseria (PS4)

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4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (PC)
5. Ys Seven (PC)
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transience posted...

that's a low bar

fight me irl
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TOP 5 UNPLAYED GAMES OF 2017

3. Nioh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTH7Byv5vE

Nioh is a weird one for me because you would think I would immediately jump at the chance to play a Dark Souls type of game with samurais. However when I was in those early alphas and betas for this game I found myself not enjoying it so when the game came out for real I ended up just skipping it. Since then I've had multiple people tell me the final game is way better than those alphas and betas and that I definitely should be playing it and that's a top 10 game of the year. I fully intended to get to it while I was in my rush to finish up a bunch of games this month, but sadly it didn't happen. I'll be putting it on high priority for after my gaming schedule clears up.
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TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2017 (This is the end of the Falcom bracket I swear)

3. Ys Origin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAkVt6R4fo

Hey it's the Ys game I spent more time playing this year. Ys Origin was originally a 2006 release in Japan, with it coming to PC in 2012. I beat that PC version back then when I played through it with 1 character, but that was all. It got released on PS4 and Vita in 2017 and that's when I finally got into it and played through the game with all 3 characters to get the full story, but also 100% completed the game by doing it all again on Nightmare difficulty and completing the boss rush and arena modes. In total with a cleanup playthrough that was 7 times I played through this game in 2017 + the extra modes. Instead of a trailer the video I used for this one is one of my livestreams I did playing on Nightmare difficulty so check it out if you want to see what the game is like

Ys Origin takes place 700 years before the first Ys game and you play 3 characters with their own storylilne (although the 3rd character who you need to unlock by completing the other 2 is considered the canon storyline). Each of the 3 characters plays very differently so it's worth experiencing them all to get the full experience. It's very much a refinement of Ys 6 which came before it which took the classic Ys gameplay and incorporated jumping, attacking and field skills into the series. Ys 5 technically did some of this too, but that never left Japan and wasn't even a very good game so I'm just not counting that here.

As you would expect from Ys the action is fast paced and the music is fantastic. The game featured a chaining mechanic for defeated enemies that would boost your EXP and gold earned the longer you kept the chain going. Ys is a series where at times grinding is necessary and Origin makes this fun by challenging you to keep that chain going to keep your boosted rewards going.

It's a good starting point for someone wanting to get into Ys (even if it lacks the series main protagonist Adol outside of the Boss Rush and Arena modes) and it gives you all the necessary information you need going into the original Ys 1+2 which ended up getting remade after Origin came out originally so those remakes assume you had played this. I'd still recommend checking out the Turbografix version of 1+2 first, but those remakes are still excellent. Really I just want people to play Ys games. I DEMAND IT!
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transience posted...

that's a low bar

you just hate it because it ruins your name

and also because it is a catastrophically terrible game
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transience fon Fabre
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Forgot about the SNES classic that might have to be number 0 for best old games of 2017
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SHINE, in what order should the Ys games be played? Release order, or is there a better one?
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I'm always an advocate of playing in release order if you can

although that would involve getting 1+2 on the virtual console, playing a rom of 3 (TG > Gen > SNES), a fan translated ISO/ROM of 4 (the TG and SNES 4's are completely different games developed by different teams and the TG game is much better) and a fan translated ROM of 5. The rest are available in other formats

The easiest way to experience them would be

1+2 on Steam
The remake of 3 (Oath in Felghana which was a traditional Ys game and not a Zelda 2 style side scroller) on Steam
Vita remake of 4 (Memories of Celceta)
Still would have to get a ROM of 5 for SNES but it's the worst Ys game so I wouldn't be sad if you skipped it
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim on steam
Ys Origin on Steam or PS4 (I stick it here because the gameplay is most similar to 6 and that's when it came out)
Ys Seven on Steam or PSP
Ys VIII on PS4 (or Steam next year)
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(also there's a sale on GOG right now for most of these games)
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that is indeed the right ordering of those Falcom games - Ys Origin is probably my favorite in the series, though I've yet to play 8

I suspect that will also be the majority of what I've played on these lists
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I really need to get back to Oath
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TOP 5 UNPLAYED GAMES OF 2017


#2. Yakuza 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ghK1zX0Rk

LIKE A DRAGON! It makes me very happy to see Yakuza 0 has seemingly made this series finally relevant in the west. For those unfamiliar with the series the games are an ongoing japanese crime drama starting in the 90s and going into modern times and Yakuza 0 is a prequel that takes place in the 80s when the characters were still fairly young into their yakuza careers. Kazuma Kiryu is awesome and is already nearing my top 10 protagonists of all time. The man is a badass one man army with a heart of gold and pretty much exactly what I want from the character I'm controlling in a game.

I had been collecting these games for awhile now and finally played through Yakuza 1 and 2 on PS2 this year. The games are free-roam beat'em ups with RPG elements and are very much the evolution of games like River City Ransom on NES or Shenmue on Dreamcast. The game's stories are separated into chapters usually and in some of the games you're switching which character you're playing as. They perfectly balance the dire seriousness of a crime drama story while also throwing in comedy and signature japanese quirkiness through its sidequests and minigames.

Despite being a prequel I didn't play it because as I said in an earlier post I like to play games in release order to appreciate the evolution of gameplay. If I skipped straight to 0 after only playing 1 and 2 I fear I wouldn't enjoy 3-5 as much as they may be missing some of the gameplay enhancements found in 0. It's that reason that I haven't played it and what helps me enjoy more games than I normally would.

Yakuza 6 is fast approaching in early 2018 and is supposed to be the end of Kiryu's storyline so I may have to quickly get through these games so I can experience that game's story with everyone else. At the same time there's already a ton of other great games coming out in early 2018 also that I've committed to so it's going to be tough.
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TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2017

2. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs4-5DxQKXI

Final Fantasy XII came out back in 2006. It was one of the handful of games I bought a PS2 for (the main ones being MGS 2/3 and Dragon Quest VIII). It was a vast departure of what people expected from Final Fantasy at the time, dropping a lot of the mechanics for an MMO-style auto attack combat system with "gambits" which essentially allowed you to program every party member on how to fight their battles. I found it to be very innovative and interesting approach to one of my favorite series. What the game lacks in story and characters it makes up for with just the sheer amount of content there is in the game both in the form of quests and character customization.

Customization was one of the weak points in the original release however! Every character had a license grid that you used to unlock weapons, gear and skills for your character from points earned in battle. The problem was everyone had the license grid so by the end of the game all 6 of your party memebers were exactly the same. Shortly after the original english releas, Square-Enix put out an International Job Zodiac System version which introduced 12 unique license grids to choose from which allowed your to make your characters unique and fit into defined role which made the game infinitely better. The problem was this enhanced version of the game was only ever released in Japan!

The PS4 HD remaster released this year was finally our first chance to play this version in english. They tweaked it even furth by letting you pick 2 classes for character allowing you to use all 12 classes in a single playthrough if you wished. They also added high speed modes so that you can proceed through the game quicker making grinding EXP and LP painless for those who don't like doing that in RPGs. I was reading Jeremy Parish's ranking of the games yesterday and decided I'd share his thoughts on FF12 because he's better at describing why I would like it than I ever will be and reading it brought a tear to my eye.

Time has been kind to the divisive 12th chapter of Final Fantasy. This past summer's long-awaited HD remake (The Zodiac Age) helped cement the fact that FF12 was, indeed, a work far ahead of its time one that has become only more relevant and engrossing through the years. A decade ago, FF12's determination to blur the line between single-player and massively multiplayer RPGs made it quite controversial. Its elaborate Gambit system (which allowed players to effectively program the behavior of their party members) struck many as a game design crutch that surrendered the actual process of play to artificial intelligence. Now, however, the prospect of AI-controlled party members in an open-world real-time RPG has become commonplace. Yet nothing that's come after FF12 has matched the flexibility and precision offered by its Gambits.

Open-world RPGs continue to struggle to live up to all the things FF12 did right. Even simple little details, like differentiating between passive and aggro monsters on sight by the color of their health icons, don't always make their way into games (including the very recent Xenoblade Chronicles 2). Few open world adventures manage to balance free-form questing with a structured narrative as well as FF12, either; the game allows you to wander wherever you like, even if you end up way out of your depth. But if you know what you're doing, it often simply lets you go about your way, making possible some interesting breaks from the "proper" order of events.

FF12 is a game that trusts and respects the player in a way you rarely see, especially in a story driven JRPG. While it may not have the greatest story in the series much of the main cast exists at the periphery of much larger events the vast world and durable game design more than makes up for its shortcomings.

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The thing about Wolfenstein is

Despite having "II" in the title, The New Colossus is not the second game in this continuity. The New Order is actually a direct sequel to Wolfenstein (2009) which sounds like and was marketed as a reboot. It also is not, being a sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. There's also The Old Blood, the standalone expansion and prequel to The New Order. And that's not even getting into the older games which are not in canon, or are they?

It's basically the Kingdom Hearts of shooters.
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something something nazi something something DARKNESS
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ninkendo posted...

If I skipped straight to 0 after only playing 1 and 2 I fear I wouldn't enjoy 3-5 as much as they may be missing some of the gameplay enhancements found in 0.

I went from Kiwami to 2, 3, and 4 and had no problems with the gameplay differences

ninkendo posted...

Tekken 7 and South Park: The Fractured But Whole got cut from my top 10

wanna elaborate?
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there were 10 games I liked more

I was adding games month by month as they came out and when I hit November it bumped off a bunch of stuff
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Also in Tekken 7 I play almost exclusively as geese so I'm not even playing it like Tekken which probably made me enjoy it more then I should have
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TOP 5 UNPLAYED GAMES OF 2017

1. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuYYGwB_Rss

This one hurts. I was fully planning on playing Ys VIII this year and was catching up on the Ys games I was behind on so I could be caught up in time for launch.

Then it turns out switching from XSEED to NISA for the english localization turned out to be a grave error. So much so that fan complaints reached Falcom and they're forced NISA to do a completely new translation which now won't be out until next year. So while I have the game and I could play it at any moment I'm going to wait for this new translation and play it then.

Although even with the translation it came with it sounds like the core game is the best Ys game to date so I'm hoping it can get a translation to match it. For now lets enjoy screenshots of the old translation





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OH SNAP

see this is a good thing I did these lists first because I just realized I completely forgot a game from my top 10

which means my current #10 is OUT

Goodbye Metroid: Samus Returns. I played both you and AM2R this year like a month apart. While AM2R was pretty good, it was also a cakewalk. Samus Returns provided the challenge I was looking for and really changed enough from the original Metroid II that it felt like an entirely new game. I feel bad for not giving it a proper write up so at least here's a cool ass picture from the story


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TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2017

1. Windjammers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnm3yQ7HUK4

The original flying disc game! Originally released in 1994 for the arcades and the NEO-GEO, I never even heard of this game until my good friends over at Giant Bomb started playing it semi-regularly on their livestreams about 4 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the following it got among the Giant Bomb community was in part responsible for DotEmu porting it to PS4 this year. I actually came across it for the first time when I went to PAX South this year. They had a room just with arcade cabinets and they had it there. I played a few matches against random guys there and did better than I expected. Then it came top PS4 later this in the year over the summer.

Windjammers is basically glorified pong. You have 1 player on each side guarding a goal and you toss a frisbee back and forth. It features a simple two-button control scheme, but deceptively deep gameplay mechanics reminiscent to a fighting game. The stick moves you around, while one button allows you to lob the disc around the court and the other allows for precision shots. Momentum plays a large part in things as well. Just tossing the disc might work, but youll stand a far greater chance of landing a shot if you go back and forth with your opponent and build up the discs speed. The faster it goes, the less of a chance your rival has to catch it. You can bounch disks into the air and if you can stand under them in time you can charge super moves to launch at your opponent. You can also curve your shots in a multitude of ways to try to fool your opponent. The goal is to be the first to score 12 points with there being 3 point and 5 point markers in the net to try to throw your your disk as well as 2 points for landing a lob on your opponent's side.

The end result is quick matches that are exciting and intense and really scratch the same itch that I get from playing fighting games. Winning a 1 on 1 match against another human is very satisfying and provides a momentary sense of superiority before you're immediately thrust into the next match. I ended up playing this for about 2 months or so online and I was consistently in the top 100 in the world on the leaderboard when I was playing.

The game was also my most satisfying platinum trophy of 2017. Not for the online but because of the Hard Mode in Arcade. I played that mode 2-3 times every day over the span of that 2 months memorizing the AI patterns and basically having to put together 6 perfect matches in a row to beat all 6 AI characters on that difficulty. It was far more difficult than any one I ran into online and definitely helped in training me on what to look for to win matches quickly and easily.

If you haven't played Windjammers please go check it out.
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Top 10
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Top 5 Unplayed Games
1. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA (PS4)
2. Yakuza 0 (PS4)
3. Nioh (PS4)
4. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4)
5. Tales of Berseria (PS4)

Top 5 Old Games
1. Windjammers (PS4)
2. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (PS4)
3. Ys Origin (PS4)
4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (PC)
5. Ys Seven (PC)

Actual top 10 tomorrow sorry again to Metroid: Samus Returns
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Lightning Strikes posted...

It's basically the Kingdom Hearts of shooters

Dont be talking about my Wolfenstein with that kind of mouth.
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Oh no poor Metroid
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Yay Windjammers!

Gewonnen!!
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ninkendo posted...

Games I had on my final lists but ended up getting cut

Tekken 7

son i am disappoint
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he hate me
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TOP 10 GAMES OF THE YEAR

10. Horizon: Zero Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xx3MdqdgM

Rounding out the bottom of the list was a game that almost didn't make it in :O

Horizon is the first open world game by Killzone developer Guerrilla Games. For a first attempt it's actually pretty good, but it fails in some key areas for me that prevented me from enjoying it as much as I had hoped. The game's strengths are definitely its visuals and the combat. This is first game I've played that really made me feel like my purchase of a PS4 Pro and a 4KTV was worth it. The HDR settings make the world beautiful to look at and sometimes I felt like I was getting sucked into the TV just gazing at it. Unfortunately it's hard to describe if you haven't experienced 4K and HDR for yourself because it's not really something describe the differences from HD other than "oh it's sharper!" "oh you can see a larger range of whites and blacks!" You don't really get the effect without seeing it for yourself.

The combat on reminds me of a cross between 3D Zelda and Monster Hunter. You gather resources from the environment and defeated enemies to craft everything in your inventory. Weapons, armor, ammo, potions, traps, etc you name it you can make it. It also features the easiest crafting system ever. You just open your weapon wheel by holding a shoulder button and select the weapon you want craft ammo for and just hold the X button and you'll quickly craft all the ammo you need. It's fast enough that it keeps you in the action no matter what you're doing. Speaking of what you're doing in the action you're hunting giant robotic animals and dinosaurs. You can sneak around the environment and try to take out your enemies without them noticing or you can just assault them with elemental traps to try to incapacitate them. Each monster has various strengths and weakness so you need to scan them and attack them with the appropriate weapon and aim for the body part that it is weak to (for example an enemy might have a flammable tank on their back and you can shoot a fire arrow at it to blow it up and damage them if not outright kill them). The enemies just seem to get bigger and bigger as the game goes on and it feels good to take them down. There's also like 5 or 6 difficulty levels so you can adjust the game to your skill level if you're finding it too easy or too hard.

Now the parts that didn't thrill me too much was the story and exploration. I'm usually down for a post-apocalyptic setting where robots have taken over, but when it reduces humanity to cave people who have lost all understanding of technology which just annoys me. The main protagonist, Aloy, seems to be the only person in the entire world with the brains to understand what's going on while everyone else is helpless and she's just takes it upon herself to solve everyone's problems because they're too busy worshipping lost technology as gods when she should be focusing on her revenge for the people who murdered her foster father. It doesn't help when the voice acting for most of these NPCs is pretty bad, but at least Aloy makes up for it with her sarcastic responses to everyone.

The other issue I had was the map. It's not truly open world, it definitely leads you in a direction with impassable mountains on either side of you. The game even put up invisible walls on me once because I wanted to explore instead of continue the story and it was like "nah, son". The other issue is a lot of the areas just end up looking the same and don't really motivate me to check every nook and cranny. It ends up just being me walking to waypoint to waypoint on the map, checking out just that area and moving on, etc. In open world games I really want unique looking locations that hides secrets in every little area. The biggest rewards you get in this game are loot boxes with more money and resources and that's about it.
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Now the reason this game ended up making my top 10 was the DLC! The Frozen Wilds adds a whole new area to the upper right hand corner of the map and can be tackled at any time and it addressed both of my problems with the main game. I think they looked at Breath of the Wild and learned some lessons in open world design because the map is filled with ton of unique areas that I wanted to check out. They start out the DLC by highlighting this with the giant volcano in the distance that you eventually visit at the end of the DLC. The story also managed to grab my attention as Aloy tries to solve the mystery of the volcano and solve the internal struggles between not only the clans in the area, but the AI in control of everything in that area and the virus that had taken it over. It also brought in some cool past history stuff as it's revealed the are was actually what used to be Yellowstone Park so it gives a good reference point to a real world location and how it changed a thousand years in the future.

The DLC was good enough to boost Horizon to #10 on my list and if anything makes me look forward to whatever they have planned for Horizon 2.
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Top 10
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10. Horizon: Zero Dawn

Top 5 Unplayed Games
1. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA (PS4)
2. Yakuza 0 (PS4)
3. Nioh (PS4)
4. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4)
5. Tales of Berseria (PS4)

Top 5 Old Games
1. Windjammers (PS4)
2. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (PS4)
3. Ys Origin (PS4)
4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (PC)
5. Ys Seven (PC)
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The number 9 game is the one I forgot about that ended up bumping Metroid out of the top 10. What could it be?
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