Halfway through the year, what's your top 5 GOTY? (poll is for your #1)

I have been very busy this year and definitely need to play catch up on some stuff, but here's my very short list:

1. Persona 5
2. Night In The Woods
3. Nex Machina
4. NieR: Automata (Not finished yet)
5. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (What?! Come at me!)

I've only played Horizon and Persona 5 this year and I like Persona more...

Persona 5 and PUBG

Ah shit, totally forgot PUBG...if a mod could go in the poll and add that, that'd be cool...

Injustice 2

Nioh

Hollow knight

Dead cells(if it counts)

Yakuza 0 (although i havent played it)

1. Zelda
2. Night in the Woods
3. Hollow Knight (haven't finished it yet)
4. Persona 4

I am still finishing Nier, which I'm not loving right now and am very excited to try Yakuza 0, so those two might get there.

Horizon was surprisingly boring to me. I like Nioh a whole bunch, but still prefer the Souls game over it.

Persona 5

Nier: Automata

FFXIV: Stormblood

Horizon: Zero Dawn

I think that's actually everything new I played this year, so far, but they'd likely be on my list any other year anyway. P5 just narrowly beats out Automata, which beat out the others by a large margin, but only because of how exceptional they are.

I should give an honorable mention to Yakuza 0, as even though I haven't played it yet, Beast in the East has been pretty rad. (And actually looks like one of the best Yakuza games.)

1. Yakuza 0
2. NieR: Automata
3. Nioh (Not finished yet)
4. Horizon Zero Dawn
5. PUBG (counts as 2017 release in my mind)

Despite me loving all the previous Persona games, Persona 5 did nothing for me. I just can't JRPGs anymore. Want to play RE7, Thimbleweed Park and Night in the Woods badly, but also promised myself not to buy any new games until I finish backlog. Will break that promise for new Wolfenstein or Mario though. Oh god what is going on this year?

PUBG, if it's eligible. Otherwise Persona 5. As a huge fan of the original Nier, I still need to get to Automata. I'd been waiting for them to fix the PC version but at this point...

So far I have only played two games that got released this year. Persona 5 and Horizon: Zero Dawn. I'm honestly a little dissapointed in both games for different reasons. Of the two I think Horizon is the better game but I also wouldn't call it fantastic. It's an okay game that follows the Ubisoft open world model which has been done to death by now.

The closest I've come to playing a 2017 game is watching Beast in the East so my vote goes to Yakuza.

Persona 5

Yakuza 0

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Tekken 7

For Honor

Persona 5 and Yakuza 0 are currently my main contenders with Horizon a couple of steps behind. Both are so incredible I don`t know if anything are going to top them for me this year. There are a lot of games a haven`t gotten around to yet that could probably knock the other games of my top five though like Nioh, Edith Finch and RE7. Zelda also looks great, but since I don`t own neither a Switch nor a Wii U and won`t be getting either anytime soon I won`t get to play it.

From this list, it'll be...

• Night In The Woods
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• Nex Machina
• Little Nightmares
• What Remains of Edith Finch

Number One spot is a struggle between Night In The Woods and Horizon, but I think NITW takes it in the end. Though I'm confident in saying that The New Colossus might also end up fighting for that spot later this year.

I've only played 4 of those games ( Horizon, Injustice 2, Crash Bandicoot Trilogy & Nier)

Horizon is not only my Top game so far this year, but its in my Top 5 All-time.

The tricky part for me is that a lot of my 2017 play-time so far has been catching up on older games; I bought a whole bunch of big 2015/16 games during the last Steam winter sale and even more just recently on the steam summer sale. And in fact, right now my top 5 games played of 2017 includes Firewatch, VA-11 HALL-A, and Dishonored 2. Doom will probably be there soon too, but I've only played an hour so far.

However, I have played some of the 2017 releases, though none of the console exclusives, and my top 5 of 2017 games right now is:

• Tales of Berseria (I thought I was done with JRPGs; I guess I'm not quite)
• Hollow Knight
• Nier: Automata
• Tekken 7
• The Infectious Madness of Dr. Dekker (the control scheme is a little annoying, but the FMV is as glorious as Contradiction)

1. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Nier Automata
3. Persona 5
4. PUBG (I know it is still in early access. But, even in this form it is AMAZING)
5. Thumper

FFXIV

Overwatch..... I mean Zelda.

1. Persona 5

2. Zelda

3. Nioh

4. Nier

5. Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age (I know it just came out but I also know how much I loved this game 11 years ago already, so...)

NieR Automata is basically as cool as I expected, Everything is a beautiful thing, Yakuza 0 is a shoe in when I play it (I'm already putting it in my top 5 preemptively), Fire Pro Wrestling World (if thats allowed, if not then Persona I guess), Fire Emblem Echoes is my favorite 3DS entry so far, but I heard about some pretty bad grinding later.

Honorable mention to SPACEPLAN, my favorite clicker game ever, Time Clickers btfo

There are still tons of games I want to play that haven't come out or that I haven't bought yet! Thinking about a list at the end of the year is going to be fun

It was Zelda, but then going back to Horizon firmly put that in first place. Haven't really tried Nier. I really did dig Ghostlands quite a bit but it obviously has a lot of flaws. Long way to go until December, though!

Nioh is my game of the year I did all the missions and have like 80 plus hours in it. The combat is so fluid and you can get into a great flow state with it.

Haven't played Nier and Horizon yet so as of right now it's Persona 5 for me.

Nier, Yakuza 0, Persona 5, Stormblood, and Nioh.

1. Prey
2. Zelda
3. Persona 5
4. Yakuza 0
5. PUBG

Nioh for me so far.

Still working on Horizon and Persona 5 in alternating bursts this summer.

Not doing Nintendo machines after my experience with the Wii U, so I'll miss out on Zelda.

That murder game.

I haven't played any games that have come this year haha. I'm still catching up from last year's games!

So far:

1. Persona 5
2. What remains of Edith Finch
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
4. Nier Automata

That's all from this year I've played, too. Persona 5 and Edith Finch were very positive experiences for me. Persona 5 is the first Persona game I've played in almost a decade at this point. It's made me look back with disdain at games like Dragon Age or Mass Effect that I tried to play to fill the same RPG with Friendly Party-shaped hole in my heart. None of them do it like Persona does it. Edith Finch is a wonderful little treat. I'm kind of eh on both Horizon and Nier, but haven't played them all the way through yet. I'm planning on playing Nioh and Yakuza 0 before the end of the year at least. PUBG looks fun, but I'm not a PC guy and I wouldn't have a team of friends to play with on a console anyway.

The top three are all real close then 4 and 5 are a bit of a jump lower:

1. Persona 5
2. Horizon Zero Dawn
3. Breath of the Wild
4. Dead Cells
5. Injustice 2

1. Nier Automata

2. Persona 5

3. Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood

It helps that those are the only three new releases I've played this year.

This has been such a good year and we're barely half done it. This is the first year in a very long time I've actually played a lot of new stuff, but that's partly because I bought a PS4 and a Switch (I've had an Xbone forever but barely anything comes out on it that I either care about or can't get on PC. I've literally only used it for Netflix this past year or so. I will probably mostly use it to play OG Xbox and 360 games at this point).

Before my top 5 I'd like to say that the Switch needs to get an award for merely existing. That thing has made me excited about games in a way I haven't been in a long time.

Anywho, my top 5 thus far:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - A game so good I played it twice. First on Wii U, then again on Switch when I got it. This game absorbed me for at least 3 months, and I still have the odd extra long session of it, especially when I settle in and play it while I watch something on Netflix. For people wondering since I've played both, the two versions are pretty much the same. There might be the odd extra bit of slowdown on Wii U and a bit better draw distance on Switch (which is the only thing I immediately noticed when I fired it up) so if you want to play Zelda but worry the Wii U version will a worse experience, don't. It's totally fine.

2. Persona 5 - If it was any other year, this would be #1. I love Persona games. They're such a unique experience. I'm definitely going back and playing through 3 and 4 again. This game gets this spot from music alone. Holy shit that song "Life Will Change" (AKA the song that plays when you're going to steal the treasure) is amazing. I love the characters too. Sojiro is a baller, and all the teammates are great.

2.5 Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic - Yes it's technically a remaster, but finally someone had the brains to say "rather than keep butchering RCT trying to create new versions, why don't we just release RCT1 and RCT2 on iOS?" and that's what they did (it includes all expansions, so there's somewhere around 100 parks to play along with custom parks). They rebuilt it from the ground up (since the original version was made in x86 assembly and not exactly portable) but kept it incredibly faithful to the originals down to the same bugs from the old games. There've been a few new bugs that they've crunched and now it's amazing. I've played easily 100 hours of this since March and I'm probably a quarter done it. It runs great and feels totally authentic and how it should. You can play it on iPhone but I 100% recommend iPad instead. It's a million times better on that bigger screen.

3. Dirt 4 - Once you fix the initially overly sensitive force feedback when using the racing wheel, this game is basically Dirt Rally with a Mitsubishi Lancer and unlimited stages. And that is about exactly what I wanted from a post-Dirt Rally Dirt game. Some of the generated stages can feel repetitive and sometimes the codriver calls can be timed badly but in exchange for unlimited stages, that's a small price to pay.

4. Snake Pass - I haven't beat it yet but fuck yeah this game is awesome. It's so relaxing to play. The controls are wonky at first but once you get comfy they're super slick.

5. Horizon: Zero Dawn - Truthfully I have barely scratched the surface of this game, but I already adore it. Persona put this game on the sidelines so now that I'm done round 1 of Persona (I'm going to start replaying it soon) I'm going to dig into this more.

Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (amazing!), GoNNER (just got this one yesterday. Seems cool!), Puyo Puyo Tetris for Switch (I suck at Puyo Puyo but it's portable Tetris that's really good so I love it), ARMS (pretty fun thing to play every once in a while), Thumper for Switch (a great port of a neat game. I need to play more of it).

Things I'm looking forward to: Splatoon 2, Mario Odyssey, F1 2017, Yakuza 0 (I bought it but Persona happened)

It has been a good year...Botw, Persona 5, Yakuza 0...It is an impossible choice but I guess if I had to pick one it's Botw. I just can't think of an argument that puts anything else ahead. Excellent year for games so far, the fact that some of us are already struggling to have a clear favorite should speak for itself.

In no particular order:

1. Gravity Rush 2
2. Nioh
3. FFXIV: Stormblood
4. Persona 5
5. Horizon

Though looking at it now, that'll probably be pretty close to the final order. Still have to finish Nier, Torment, and Berseria. Just got FF XII Zodiac Age and I'm loving that so far so that might rank pretty high. I have BotW but, for reasons I won't get into here, I'm not sure how interested I am in playing anymore of it. Etrian Odyssey V still has yet to come out, but I can easily see that invading my top 5.

Nioh is probably the most surprising pick for me. Given how little I paid attention to this game prior to release, the fact the studio's last action game wasn't great, and the fact I'm not a huge Souls fan, I hadn't even planned to buy it. Then the reviews started dropping and I swooped up a copy and I fell in love.

1. PREY

2. Zelda: Breath of the Wild

3. Gravity Rush 2

4. Horizon: Zero Dawn

5. Nier Automata

I really, really like PREY.

I guess out of the stuff on that list I've actually played and still want to play, Wildlands wins by default. That's both surprising and a little depressing.

There's Zelda at numero uno, and then there's a bunch of other crap I played and sort of liked.

And I played a little PUBG but I'm not counting that until it gets its real launch.

I guess Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada would file under "others".

@liquiddragon: Polls can't be edited.

My GOTY so far is PUBG as well.

I just actually made my mid(ish) point list two days ago! Here it is, with my addendum lists of 'haven't played enough' 'need to play' 'maybe play' and 'stopped playing.'

1. Horizon: Zero Dawn
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
3. Persona 5
4. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds
5. Nier Automata
6. Dead Cells
7. Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
8. Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire
9. MLB The Show 17
10. Mass Effect: Andromeda
11. Magikarp Jump

Not Played Enough

• Nioh
• Tumbleseed

Need to Play

• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
• Night in the Woods
• Hollow Knight
• Everything
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Prey
• Injustice 2

Maybe Play

• Gravity Rush 2
  • Likely Will Not Play
• Yakuza 0
  • Won't Play - Beast in the East
• For Honor
  • Likely Will Not Play
• Snake Pass
• Yooka-Laylee
• Flinthook

STOPPED

• Marvel Heroes Omega BETA
• Picross Makeout League

Not quite as many games knocked out as this time last year, but some of 2017's games have been meaty as hell - spent over 70 hours in 3 different games thus far.

@mike: oh weird...I made this poll a long time ago and I guess I didn't provide enough options and a mod (actually it was you lol) went in and added more

1. Prey
999999. Nioh

@liquiddragon: Yeah that used to work a long time ago, but more often than not the poll would end up breaking. Now they can't be edited at all.

1. Zelda.

2. Nioh

3. PUBG

4. Shadow Tactics Blades of The Shogun (Playing it on PC which came out last December, but it's getting a console release this year)

5. The actual gameplay in MLB The Show 17 is fantastic this year, but the microtransactions and sub par servers really hindered my social enjoyment to a point where I only play it single player. As of now, it's pretty much tied with Persona 5 for my #5. (I went into 2017 expecting Persona 5 to be my GOTY but I have a number of issues with it.)

Still need to play Night in The Woods, Hollow Knight, Neir, and Yakuza 0.

I am past the slow parts of Gravity Rush 2, so we shall see how that goes. Much stronger then the first one so far.

1. Nier Automata

2. Persona 5

3. Yakuza 0

4. Night in the Woods

5. Zelda BOTW

Wow, I have played very little that was a release from this year. Like, only Friday the 13th and that is not GOTY material.

Zelda, the demo for NieR, and Disney Afternoon collection are the only "2017 games" I have played. Zelda is my number one.

I didn't enjoy playing the demo of NieR and the aesthetics of that game turn me off. Essentially everything I've seen for myself doesn't look appealing, but the conversation around it is very intriguing. Maybe I'll play it, along with many other games that came out this year, sometime in the future. Horizon, Thimbleweed Park and Night in the Woods are among the games on that list.

No order: (Yet)

• Persona 5
• Prey
• Botw
• PuBg
• Horizon ZD

Also, I feel this too.

The only new releases I have played this year are The Sexy Brutale and PUBG. I would say PUBG is the best of the two. The Sexy Brutale gets the best style award.