Runoff Vote, Best Year in Gaming

[SvennoJ]

It was always 1998, but I'm changing to 2017 now.

BotW and Horizon ZD have become two of my favorite games while RE7 on PSVR brought gaming to a whole new level. All 2017 long was packed with great experimental VR games. And then there was Super Mario Odyssey as well, best 3D Mario so far!

Next to RE7 PSVR had

Dirt Rally, full game including weather races in non compromised VR
Mervils a VR adventure, Zelda lite in 3rd person VR
Psychonauts Rhombus of Ruin with amazing use of perspective changes
Statik brilliant puzzle game in a Portal aesthetic
Polybius 120fps psychedelic shooter making the OLED screen sing
Farpoint where just seeing my own shadow in the game was mindblowing
Star Trek Bridge Crew, a childhood dream come true and fun multiplayer
Arizona Sunshine, also supported the AIM controller
Cavernous Wastes, procedural Descent in VR, very addictive
Fantastic Contraption, better than Ultrahand building!
Superhot VR, be inside the Matrix!
Dino Frontier, short but so full of charm
The Lost Bear, cute 2D platformer while sitting in a theater that changes based on the action
Manifest 99, short story that left an impression
The Solus Project, amazing exploration, wish this would come to PSVR2
Dreamworks Voltron VR Chronicles, be part of the animation, wish it was longer
Light Tracer, excellent 3rd person puzzle platformer
Gran Turismo Sport, just time trials basically but already very good, GT7 has the whole game in VR
Skyrim, I spend 170 hours in VR in Skyrim, some of which just looking up at the stars while listening to music, so relaxing
Doom VFR, flawed yet awesome at the same time


How did I have time to play that all... Some I played later, like Prey, Nex Machina, What remains of Edith Finch and Cuphead.
2017 was stacked.