And IвЂ™m glad I did, because the game is probably best experienced in pairs. There is something in the gameвЂ™s specific combination of ambient sounds, level design, lack of soundtrack, and camera acceleration speed that ended up ticking all of the boxes for making me feel profoundly and disturbingly anxious while playing the game вЂ¦ Resident Evil 7 is so anxiety-inducing, I had to get someone to come play it with me. Nothing has bothered me as much as Resident Evil 7. I enjoy a good horror game, and IвЂ™ve played through lots of horror titles in a variety of different genres. I feel like I am playing a comic book, and thereвЂ™s very few games in the world that scratch that particular itch.- Cameron Kunzelman I donвЂ™t think anyone would suggest that this is breaking new barriers of storytelling, and the story and the way it is told is in classic comic form, but it works here. The fight resolves, and the process continues. Heroes enter scenes, they have goals, villains enter the scene to prevent them from achieving those goals, and then a fight breaks out. Injustice 2 has this beautiful wax and wane that has the exact same pacing as a comic book. ItвЂ™s a splendid homage, a playable history exercise, and an unexpected touchpoint for the expressive potential of hand-drawn animation in 2017.- Dan Solberg In a world of HD rehashing and the seemingly obligatory impulse to re-render old games with the latest in photorealistic graphics tech, it warms my heart to witness the stylistic human touch of Wonder Boy: The DragonвЂ™s Trap. Prey might wear its influences a little too brazenly on the sleeve of its spacesuit, but at its best itвЂ™s one of the most thoughtful games of the year.- Garrett Martin As Paste writers have explored, it winds up as both a surprisingly powerful evocation of mental illness and an important depiction of Asian-American identity in a medium largely devoid of that.

It follows in the tradition of games from Looking Glass and Irrational, games like System Shock 2 and Bioshock that use the interactivity of the form to present questions and choices that try to dig a little bit deeper than simply shooting everything that moves. (Just google вЂњsingle-player games are deadвЂќ and gaze upon the thousands of links to editorials from every videogame site ever for some background.) Prey may not have been a smash hit on the sales chart, but itвЂ™s another deeply satisfying, intellectually stimulating adventure from Arkane Studios, the designers that brought us Dishonored (whose spin-off title, Death of the Outsider, also almost made this list). It really is wonderful.- Cameron KunzelmanД«y the end of 2017 videogame publishers tried to convince the world that single-player games were dead. Instead, just pay attention to what everyone tells you, and eventually you get to see these micro and macro story threads build up into a beautiful latticework of narrative. I would strongly suggest that you donвЂ™t read anything about the gameвЂ™s story going in. ItвЂ™s bad in that I cannot even give you one single plot point, because if I did I think it would ruin it. ItвЂ™s good in that I can say that the grand narrative payoff for the game is exquisite. It is both a good thing and a bad thing that Torment: Tides of Numenera is novel-like in its ambitions and scope. HereвЂ™s whatвЂ™s good on Xbox One in 2017, starting with an enigmatic and intriguing new RPG. We took a look at all the games released on the Xbox One this year, both the exclusives and the multiplatform titles, to sum up the best of what the console had to offer. Also being the exclusive console home of the phenomenon known as PlayerUnknownвЂ™s Battlegrounds doesnвЂ™t hurt. With new hardware and at least one solid hit, the Xbox One ended 2017 on the upswing.

The Xbox One X came out too late in the year to really change that narrative, but it mightвЂ™ve started to close the gap. Like our lead editor Garrett, IвЂ™m not too invested in the so-called console wars, but as he noted in our PlayStation 4 round-up, the Sony console has traditionally gotten more attention from the games media. Cuphead has since gone double platinum, selling two million units since its debut. While not solely available on the Xbox One (players can also find it on PC), its absence on PlayStation 4 was deeply felt, scoring a win for the underdog upon the gameвЂ™s release in late September. On the other, Xbox One X, touted as the worldвЂ™s most powerful existing console, was released this year, updating the performance of many games in the consoleвЂ™s back catalog, and offering graphics natively rendered in 4K resolution. On one hand, the platform has been dogged by complaints of a thin library with too few exclusives, and for that, continued to live in the shadow of PlayStation 4 in 2017.

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