How great was 2017 in terms of gaming for the masses or more importantly you personally. Here are some hand picked passing thoughts from myself as how 2017 was for me.
* First and foremost was AMD getting back in the game with Ryzen. Yeah, I was a loyal blue banner boi but Ryzen really turned it around for me. I simply love my 1600x and she streams like a champ. I named her Suzi.
* As AMD made great stride with Ryzen, their GPU's still suck ass. Nvidia will always be my viewing portal.
* I finally got a NES classic through Thinkgeek of all places. I entered to win during some "key" giveaway and actually won. It sits nice next to my SNES classic which I actually got the day they launched. To bad I powered them up once and promptly went back to my PC. But I have, hot dam I have them...
* 2017 game of the year? Cuphead no contest. Breath of the Wild winning it on that show was a joke and payola still lives in this world. Whenever Nintendo rolls out Reggie Fils Ames its only for pre-thought out publicity. Yes I said it, those awards were fixed.
* Best game I played in 2017? Thats easy, Dragon Age Inquisition with all DLC. EA is easy to pick on but this game is a true masterpiece. Compare the DAI season pass to the crappy Breath of the Wild one? EA did it right.
* No, I'm not a Nintendo basher, Super Mario Odyssey is the second best game of 2017. The Switch has potential as a good tablet gaming device as long as you like or want Nintendo games. Have you even tried the terrible, depressing, laughable port of Skyrim? I'm only buying Switch games by Nintendo, everything else will be either a lousy port or crap shovelware, I have enough shovelware on Steam to deal with.
* Finally got a 144hz monitor, its so very true, you can't go back to 60hz. You really can't go back to consoles either. I'm starting to see why PC games thumb their noses at consoles now. YES its that much of an improvement. Save you pennies boys and girls and get the 144hz monitor as soon as you can.
* EA, the poster boys for greed will be the biggest headline remembered for 2017 as "The Gamers struck back!!!111" Get real, people still bought Battlefront 2, the wait times on queues are shorter than Overwatch and EA will still make bank on the game. You might not have micro transactions in BF2, but they will come back in some shape or form. You won nothing really, you all just think you did. And I still won a key to buy a Nes classic...
* And in closing what games am I still playing? World of Warcraft, you know its fun to play as a dps instead of tanking and healing all the time. Overwatch, yeah, I'm the tard playing as Bastion. Cuphead, its a polished Contra rip off, but oh so fun, hey, its nice to actually have a hard game that requires old school skills.
So those are my thoughts and opinions, what are your for 2017?