This Year

Has been crazy abundant with new releases and downloadable content for some of our favorite games. After going through review after review over the year, i'm here to show you the top 15 games pro gamers have been recommending to us! I really hope you enjoy the read - If there is anything you would have recommended to play, let me know in the comments!

Bayonetta

Bayonetta has an excellent combat system and it’s absolutely worth learning, but if you can’t or don’t want to, the game will help you out. In easy and very easy mode, aside from making all enemies weaker, you’ll be given a ‘relic’ to wear that causes mashing buttons on your controller to perform a random selection of moves without the need to learn their button combinations. This cuts out some of the pleasure of playing the game, but even setting combat aside, it’s absolutely worth playing Bayonetta for its world, characters and over-the-top setpieces and cutscenes.

Prey

Prey shines when you're unlocking the essence of the staff who wandered around the space station. Being centered on ordinary fears and activities means they ground every experience you have with the Typhon, because for each one you kill, there’s always another body lying on the ground. This might sound morbid, but it’s actually a good thing that each one is named, so you realise the human cost of all the powers you’re now playing with. You’ll believe that for many people, Talos 1 used to be home, scattered with audio tapes and the remnants of daily life.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Konami's Metal Gear Solid series is known for its stealth-based gameplay, but its spin-off, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, is a straight hack-and-slash action game starring stooge-turned-badass, Raiden. Developer Platinum Games bundles the game with numerous goodies not associated with the original console version, including graphical enhancements and three DLC packages that were separate console purchases—all at a reasonable price. In short, if you liked the console version of Revengeance, you'll dig this one, too, despite the occasional rough camera angle and frame rate drop.

Caveblazers

Dead Cells is a great roguelike platformer but Caveblazers is my favourite entry in the genre for years. Since Spelunky, in fact. It’s not as skill-based as Dead Cells, which does wonders with the timing of blocks and rolls, but it’s incredibly silly and packed with daft physics effects. I still haven’t reached the final boss and I don’t think I’ll be able to stop playing until I do.

Resident Evil 7

The latest entry in Capcom’s survival horror series is a wild departure from its past few predecessors, but in the end that only made it better. Foregoing the guns-blazing action mentality that had come to define the series for better or worse in the past few years, Resident Evil VII came at us with a much more subdued scare tactic. A first-person horror adventure trapped in a musty, rotted house with a family of musty, rotted maniacs? If that doesn't scream nostalgia, I'm not sure what does. Resident Evil 7 was a great return to form for the series and one that's well worth your time.

Nier: Automata

When Automata was announced, my reaction was an unenthusiastic shrug. But now, I can't stop thinking about it and the Drakengard series. Its gorgeous and distinctive character designs. Its smooth and satisfying combat that manages to make every fight a rush of adrenaline. Its strange, sometimes confusing storytelling that's always poignant and emotionally resonant regardless. Every time I think I'm done or I've seen everything, a new surprise pops its head up. Nier: Automata was a pleasure that I didn't see coming - but I'm so glad I gave it a shot. Its firmly imprinted itself onto my brain and it won't soon be forgotten.

Deadly Premonition

Cars that control like recalcitrant shopping trolleys, crashes, bugs, excessive QTEs and an early struggle to find its own identity. It’s a testament to how bloody brilliant Deadly Premonition is that absolutely none of that impacts my opinion of this as one of the best games of all time and thus also one of the best games of early 2017.

Endless Space 2

I knew it would almost certainly be good, given Amplitude’s past work, but I’m still not quite sure how good it is. It’s early days for me, having ignored most of the Early Access period, and I’m flitting between factions trying to find one that suits a first campaign. It’s probably going to be something simple, which seems wise, but the Ark-dwelling vampiric Vodyani are so tempting.

For Honor

Live by the sword, die by the sword, repeat with fervid excitement. For Honor has perfected the art of weighty melee combat, pitting history's most distinguished warriors - Knights, Vikings, and Samurai - against each other in large- and small-scale conflicts. Its team-based and one-on-one duels match the depth of a full-on fighting game, where mastering your favorite class and learning their best combos and matchups is essential to your PvP success.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

As we expected, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the Nintendo Switch's big launch title and it's certainly done well for itself. With good reviews pretty much across the board it's a must-have title and a great way to start off your relationship with the new Switch console.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds

It’s an FPS which sprawls across 64 square kilometres yet where one single square metre can be fiercely contested, where every encounter is tense, where patience and nerve are often more important than aim, and the mere sight of an open door is cause for concern.

Sniper Elite 4

I feel guilty about praising this when we live in a time of Hitman, but there’s no doubt about it: this is a rare return to the solid 7/10 action game of yore. Characterisation and storytelling might be piss-poor, and those x-ray gore shots are tiresomely childish, but SE4 simply offers fantastic (and fantastically large) stealth-action playgrounds to navigate around. Organic, reactive shooting is my kind of shooting.

Tekken 7

The legendary, the mighty, the all-round 'showing the young'ns how it's done' power of Tekken came thundering back into our lives in 2017, as Tekken 7 is everything fans, newcomers, hardcores and casuals have grown to adore over the last 23 years.

Nioh

As mentioned with developers Deck13 taking the Souls-like formula and rocketing off to space, Team Ninja gallivanted around the globe from western or eastern fantasy, delving into the sorts of ornate and feudal Japanese trappings we associate with Capcom's Onimusha series. With the game being in development for around a decade, and Team Ninja themselves also helming the stupidly hard-yet-fair likes of Ninja Gaiden, Nioh is 100% the gamer's game. The "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" game.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

The same 64-player, tactics-heavy shooting of the Red Orchestra and Rising Storm series, shifted from WWII to Vietnam. With automatic weapons in every hand, RS2 makes positioning, smoke grenades, and battlefield intel even more important.

Conclusion

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