Yeah, fanboys, I'm putting it in at 4! What are you going to do about it? You going to cry? "Ooh, mummy, call the police! He only moderately lavished it with praise! Bring me my coat that looks good from the back, 'cause I'm going to do some serious shunning!" Yeah, whatever it's fine. And hey, no one had done Dark Souls in a science fiction setting the opportunity was there! But sci-fi Dark Souls that's annoying and stupid and plays like you're trying to unjam a kitchen drawer was probably too much innovation all at once, wasn't it, The Surge? It's The Surge I'm talking about. Hey, I get it, games industry: Dark Souls is hot spit on a cheerleader's lower-back tattoo, so obviously, you want to make games like it. (overlapping tracks of Yahtzee trashing a game)
#Htpreps 2017 best of the best full
After the peerless Saints Row series, their next game was going to be one to watch, and while they clearly went into Agents of Mayhem full of energy and ideas, all they did to follow through on that was to rotate their wrists for a while going, "Buhpidee-buhpidee-buhpidee-buh." Sorry to wound you, Volition, but be fair you wounded me first. Hey, weirdos of the future, have you elected a patron saint yet? My fifth best surprises even me I thought a fucking typing tutor would get into my Top Five before a fucking JRPG did, but here we are! Perhaps it's all the ways Persona 5 distracts from it being a JRPG: the style, the soundtrack, the investment in likable characters, the high school girls in vinyl catsuits sticking their bums in the air. (overlapping tracks of Yahtzee praising a game) "I'd have been practically lionized for my inappropriate behavior around women." "If only I'd been around in 2017," you're thinking. Greetings, weirdos of the future! You must be feeling like you were born in the wrong era. But as always, we can't call it a year until fifteen of the games I've reviewed have been arbitrarily compartmentalized for future reference by weirdos. It's been quite a year: a year of hot starts and egregious ends, of Nintendo bounce-backs and EA face-plants, of reading political news through the cracks between my fingers.