GAME INFORMER BEST GAMES OF 2017 PC

By far the most prolific platform was the PC, which was home to 55 games out of the 100 on the list. Overall the list tended to favor newer games, which I think is to be expected. The list spans a surprising 36 years, with the oldest title ( Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord) from 1981, and the most recent ( Zelda: Breath of the Wind, Horizon Zero Dawn and Persona 5) all from 2017. Long before I got to the top of the list I made my guesses which titles would be in the Top Five, and I was right about four (and I should have guessed the fifth). They’ve paid homage to all the great RPG franchises, including Ultima, Final Fantasy, Fallout, Persona, Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Diablo, Dark Souls, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Xenogears, Dragon Quest, Disgaea, the Chrono series, and many others. The editors have done an excellent job and, minor irritations aside, I agree with their selection. I’m pretty old-school in my RPG-love but, somewhat to my surprise, I found myself nodding along as I made my way through the list. I read them for the surprises, to see what games I’ve overlooked, and which ones history has judged kindly. Pieces like this are always controversial of course (where’s SSI’s Eye of the Beholder, or Dungeon Master? Or Oblivion?) But we don’t read these big survey articles to agree with them… or at least, I don’t.

GAME INFORMER BEST GAMES OF 2017 PC

The June issue has the usual assortment of highly readable articles, including multi-platform news, reviews, and previews, plus features on the best indie PC titles, the bankruptcy of accessory maker Mad Catz, Microssoft’s lagging First Party development, and a peek at their upcoming 4K console Scorpio.īut the big draw this issue is a massive 34-page feature on the Top 100 RPGs of All Time. I own several gaming systems, and I like to keep on all of them, and Game Informer delivers. While I subscribe to other gaming periodicals ( PC Gamer, The Official XBox Magazine), they’re each devoted to a single platform. It’s my favorite of the current crop as well. I’m told Game Informer is the top-selling video game magazine in the US, and that’s not a big surprise.

Charles, and I spent much of it on the porch, listening to the rain and reading the latest issue of Game Informer. I felt it put an unexpectedly absurd, dadaist twist on the game, but although I was taken aback at first I came to appreciate that.)It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon here in St. that one's ending didn't make me feel the same way either. (And as much as I loved MI2 to pieces when I was a kid. That's something you don't get a lot in games. Thimbleweed Park gave me something unexpected, something that really hit me (that REALLY hit me), something to chew on instead. If I want Hollywood happy endings (or Hollywood sad endings, for that matter) I'll go to the movies and watch the latest romantic comedy, or romantic tearjerker. The ending we got raised questions rather than answering them.īut like I said, that's actually really good, as far as endings go. There would've been a sense of finality to those endings: all threads wrapped up properly and tied off neatly, as it were. Same if the world of Thimbleweed Park had just gone up in flames. If the characters had just died, I'd have just chalked it up as a sad ending. (Delores in particular, who I found not entirely unlike myself, though I never got to work for MucusPhlegm!) It's no surprise that I ended up relating to them. I think that really speaks volumes about your and the entire team's ability to tell stories, too you created relatable characters in a relatable world. Qualitatively speaking - it obviously wasn't the 'and they lived happily ever after' sort of ending.īut yes, very forceful and very good, and it took me quite some time to fully appreciate it and digest what had happened there, in the game. I wouldn't say I liked it, but it was a good ending.

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