#DID I SAY CLAY I MEAN CLANCY

[havinganfois]

Imagine your f/o holding you softly at night, or letting you hold them. And then imagine a pet laying right on top of you both, so neither of you can move a muscle least ye disturb The Beast

[headlesssamurai]

Favorite video games 2017

Good question. Favorites are always a tough one, because I don’t usually think of things in those terms. There’s, like, so much cool shit to like for its own unique reasons, the term ‘’favorite’’ sort of loses its true meaning in the spinning aether. But it ain’t like I never venture in that direction. It was beautiful but Horizon Zero Dawn was a full plate of meh, for me. I mean, I really wish I could’ve said something like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, or Mass Effect Andromeda, but the former went the way of Shane Black’s The Predator by going too far into campy territory and not making a better story than its beautifully glorious predecessor. And the latter I despised before it was ever released. Seriously… why can’t you assholes just make a new property called simply “Andromeda” with similar mechanics, sort of how Mass Effect succeeded the style of KOTOR? Why does everything have to be a sequel, you feckless fucks?! I mean the game also ate serious chode, but that’s besides the point.

Uh.

Anyhow, I’d definitely say NieR Automata was the most interesting game I played last year, in the same way that Valley was the most interesting game I played the year before. Starcraft Remastered was certainly the game I played the most last year, I could hardly resist. I don’t know, it’s a tough call though. I’d reckon my ‘’favorite’’ would probably be the one I enjoyed the most, eh?In that regard, I’ll call it that my favorite game I played last year was actually released the year before. Mafia III, hands down. I know it’s from 2016, but I didn’t play it until around autumn last year and– holy shit –what an amazing storyline. For real. That’s the sort of game I enjoy the most, a game with solid content and a great world with an awesome story to go with it, to the point where gameplay is actually the icing on the cake and not the other way around. Maybe it’s just that Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is one of my favorite books, but goddamn, Lincoln Clay is probably the baddest motherfucker I’ve gotten to play since Doomguy. Sure the game had a shit ton of technical bugs, but a great deal of them had been patched by then, and in my opinion most storylines in video games might as well be written on the back of a cereal box for all the fucks I’ve truly given. That’s not to say there aren’t standouts, like the Bioshock series, some Bethesda games, The Witcher III, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and so on. Still it seems only rarely do you get a game truly pushing a narrative that’s more than just charades, bearing palpable emotional grit and humanistic characters with which you find yourself empathically connected. Mass Effect used to do that for me once upon a time. I’m a lover of fiction, so when video games can transcend the mere interactive level of enjoyment and seize my attention for an actual story, I find that to be a wonderfully intense experience, and Mafia III did this better than most games I’ve ever played. It’s up there in the hall of fame of great video game stories, to be sure.So Mafia III, favorite of 2017, despite its being released in 2016. With honorable mentions for Prey, and Shadow Warrior 2, of course.

Plus, bugs or not, Mafia III flips the middle finger at all those Fortnite, Sea of Thieves, PUBG dumpster fire games with giant but ultimately hollow worlds of repetitious nonsense, further proving that it’s better to be deep than wide. That’s my sentiment, anyhow.

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