Even with its place cemented on my top games list, I'm still scouring the map in Horizon Zero Dawn for activities, just to make sure I experience as much of this game as possible. There's something to be said about the sense of accomplishment you feel after single-handedly taking down one of the larger metal beasts wandering the world after stealthily laying traps across its path and disabling its weaponry with carefully placed arrows.
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Guerrilla Games' big departure from its Killzone series is an open world, post-post-apocalyptic game where nature has reclaimed the structures of modern civilization and massive machines roam about like wild animals. The world, characters, and stories of Horizon Zero Dawn are just as compelling as the breathtaking vistas you seem to happen across during otherwise routine tasks.
Multiple times, I've completed a quest or finished looting a downed enemy only to turn around and take a moment to admire the colors spread across the sky by an approaching sunset or the shadows cast by a coming storm. I can't remember a time a game has made me stop and take a moment to appreciate its world before Horizon Zero Dawn. Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Kris Graft Horizon Zero Dawn by Guerrilla Games Gorogoa is one of the most brilliant intersections ever of artistic, design, and technical mastery, and everyone should experience it. Solutions were sometimes challenging to find, but they always made sense according to the rules that are established early on in the game. It’s one of those designs we should be talking about when discussing “game literacy.” There was such an obvious conversation happening between me and the puzzle pieces that it was blowing my mind. Gorogoa made me understand a new language when it comes to 2D spaces. A puzzle in a pure form that also tells a story in a powerful way, Gorogoa had me wondering how developer Jason Roberts was able to conceive of such a game, let alone extract it from his brain and execute the idea flawlessly. I’m so glad this game sneaked into 2017, and that I was able to catch it before making this list. During a year in which the world seemed hellbent on drawing lines, building walls, and picking fights, Everything was a constant reminder that all of it is noise. I have very fond feelings for Everything, in large part because I was in the right place at the right time to appreciate its vibe. It's a nice thing to do while you listen to some good Alan Watts talks. It's a great thing to leave on in the background during a party. It's a kind of koan you can roll around in. The latest game from David OReilly and crew is an attempt to express ineffable truth through an interactive medium. So all the different things that you see - a cat, a person, a tree, the sun, this floor - all these things are really the same.” They all have different shapes and different names, but they are all made from the same dough and they all taste the same. Many different kinds of cookies are made - lions, tigers, elephants, houses, people. Soensa said, “Everything in the world comes from the same one thing. “Where does your mother come from?” Gita was silent.
“What happened to Katzie? Where did he go?”
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It's the story of a seven-year-old named Gita confronting the death of a beloved cat, and since space is effectively free on the Internet I'm going to take the liberty of reprinting it here: The whole article is worth reading, and at the end they closed it out with a coda excerpted from the book "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn." Everythingby David OReillyĪ few years ago, some of the folks who made Panoramical published a deep dive into how that game affords players control over imagery and sounds "as a conductor in a quasi-totalizing fantasy of cyborg unity." If you have strong feelings about this list, tune into the Gamasutra Twitch channel today at 12 PM PT/ 3 PM ET as we gather to reflect on 2017 and give each of these games its due. Each is accompanied by a few thoughts from a Gamasutra staff member who felt strongly enough about the game to put it on their list of the year's best. Here then, in alphabetical order, are our picks for the top games of 2017. Game developers know better than most that constraints breed creativity, and in forcing ourselves to pick just ten (just ten!) games we had to think hard about which were most important to us, and the game industry as we see it. In spite of this fact, or perhaps because of it, the staff of Gamasutra have once again picked ten games that we think highlight some of the game industry's best work this year.
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