A decent year. My personal pick would be Dark Souls 3 with Titanfall 2 and Doom as runner ups.

Regardless of how others vote, I'm convinced this is the real reason they had to delay Persona 5 in the west:

DOOM for me this time.

Touch choice. This was one of the lesser years in terms of game quality in my opinion. Persona 5 is probably the best game on an objective level, but I haven't gotten very far into it yet. Titanfall 2 is the best of the games I've beaten from 2016. Pokemon Go, for all its flaws, was an experience I'd never had before and never will again on so many levels and easily the game I put the most time into.

Worst year for me since 2012 but I did really enjoy Uncharted 4. It's the second best game in the series after Among Thieves; the main thing I remember not liking about it was that you had to play as kid Drake too much, something that was actually handled wonderfully at the beginning of Uncharted 3. I only played it the one time so I'm looking forward to playing it again at 60fps.

I'd probably give Doom runner up.

Fumito Ueda is my favorite designer, so even though The Last Guardian has some weird flaws, it's still one of my favorite games for all the things it does right

Oh, the Witness is also a strong runner-up for my game of 2016

This is a year I can't say much about. Like I wrote last year the cracks have started to show again in my interest in gaming. Small cracks still though, and developing slowly, much more slowly than they did in the early 2000s, but WiiU and Nintendo by extension were basically on hiatus at this point because I was waiting for the "NX" and Zelda U. Like all us Nintendo fans were probably. On PC I kept playing what I had been playing with little change, every once in a while.

This year from the poll I only played Uncharted 4, and from the other list only Super Mario Run believe it or not. A mobile game. I'm almost ashamed of myself. That game was fun for like a half hour and then I never touched it again. This year was also when Planet Coaster released. Now, earlier Atari had announced the return of Rollercoaster Tycoon with RCT World. I was obviously extremely skeptical because this was going to have nothing to do with the originals and there had already been too many of my old favourite franchises butchered to count. This was proven rightly so when the first pictures and trailers were shown. It looked like nothing. So like SimCity 2013 this became laughable rather than sad, and Planet Coaster (made by the RCT3 devs) subsequently conquered the entire genre. The game itself is good as well. It is quite accessible, you can build what you want to build, there's loads of content, especially with the DLC and it has charm. However I wouldn't play it as much as I would have liked. I just couldn't bring myself to learn how to build what I wanted. It felt like a chore and I just wasn't motivated anymore. I guess I'm getting old.

Uncharted 4 on consoles though, was a lot more familiar. Just a great adventure game with some great locations, great puzzles and action, a fun story with fitting characters. It looks good, it sounds good, and I could just pick it up and play, and play it until it was done. If I have to critique it, I'd say it was a little too long, it overstayed its welcome and I almost lost interest, but I finished it. Still that was a personal feeling. An easy winner to me; my vote is Uncharted 4.

I voted for Overwatch. I've sunk so many hours into that game.

I do hope this round goes to a runoff because DOOM (2016) deserves to be in the poll options.

There were a lot of strong contenders released in 2017, and they won't all fit into the poll.  For example, I remember several people voting for Divinity: Original Sin in 2014.  Well, most people consider the second game to be even better, but I doubt it will make it into the poll, because there are so many strong games in 2017.

I expect it to be more like the 1991 vote.  There will be a bunch of impressive games and yet one game will still clobber them all.