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• #Best games of 2017 polygon series#

No, these thoughts don’t contradict each other.ĭespite carrying around a few extra layers of business, Doom Eternal feels good. It’s also 100% certified Doom, just like a pure unfiltered toot of the totality of Doom. I am not generally a Doom man-younger me felt the original sent games as a concept spinning off into the conjoined shitty paths of thinking violence equals maturity and that heavy metal made with computers is actually listenable-but Doom Eternal is one of the least Doom-like Dooms I’ve ever Doomed. These shark fights are the best thing about this weird, ambitious, and inconsistent game, which can veer from disappointing to exciting within seconds. Maneater reinforces the life-and-death struggle of these undersea squabbles by making me really feel them. When we’re evenly matched, these little duels can go on for minutes when I’m trying to eat up a beast that’s bigger or stronger than me, I have to resort to guerrilla tactics, ambushing them from out of the seaweed, and regularly making short tactical retreats to swallow down some grouper or catfish to regain strength. Every time I try to munch on an alligator or mako I have to beat my controller into submission, pounding on the shoulder trigger to take a bite, and then immediately smashing the right joystick to flip around and keep my prey in sight. Sharks might be efficient killing machines, but trying to play as one can be hell on your hands and your DualShock. I’ve never had to wrestle with a controller as strenuously as I do in Maneater. Uncredited blurbs written by Garrett Martin, the same guy who wrote that mess you just finished reading. They can’t do much to fix the real world, though.

Games aren’t just fun diversions or time-wasters, something to while away the weeks and months spent indoors, but have the power to make us think and make us feel, to help us see our world and lives in different ways, and to introduce us to new worlds that otherwise couldn’t ever exist.

#Best games of 2017 polygon series#

Some of them have helped us cope with the tragedy of this year, and some (like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which became a mainstream phenomenon in a way the series has never been before) were no doubt boosted by the shutdown. Yes, many of us had more time to play them than we usually do, due to the lockdown. Yes, there were games in 2020, and some of them were excellent. These year-end intros have always been a challenge to write (and, I’m sure, a bore to read), but this year celebrating a bunch of videogames just feels disrespectful.

I know it’s a bummer to click on a list about videogames and immediately get reminded about COVID-19, but it’s impossible to write about anything that happened in 2020 without mentioning the pandemic, and that includes videogames. I’m not going to waste too much space here. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.2020 gave us the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series X, the Xbox Series S, those fancy new graphics cards, and, oh yeah, a global pandemic that has caused so much pain, devastation and disruption. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.