2017 is Looking Pretty Impressive for Gamers

Now, before you guys start flinging crap at me, I'm not going so far as to say that it will be "the best year of gaming ever" as so many have said in previous years, but merely that it's looking impressive.

First off we have all of the 2016 games that got pushed back such as Horizon and Mass Effect Andromeda among others. For Honor had a really fun Alpha demo and releases early next year. Sonic is making a classic comeback. Then Nintendo's new Switch system actually has potential this time around with the release of the new Zelda on both platforms.

Later in the year we have Red Dead Redemption 2 and possibly Shenmue 3 hitting though odds of both of those getting pushed to 2018 are pretty high. Then of course, everything between.

Next year marks Final Fantasy 7's 20th anniversary so having Remake land sometime next year is plausible. We may also see the likes of Ace Combat 7, God of War reboot, and Detroit BH.

It's shaping up to be a great looking year. We'll wait and see how the games turn out and what's going to be delayed but the potential is pretty high.

What are your thoughts?

The game of the generation, and the first game this generation by R* dropping in 2017, of course it's going to be the best year this gen.

My thoughts are...

Sea of Thieves, Scalebound, State of Decay 2, Halo Wars 2, RDR2, ME:A and Star Citizen on Scorpio. :P

P5 for goat

Yeah, lots of titles I missed. It's looking great no matter what platform you play on.

P5, Scalebound, Tales of Berseria, Horizon, DBZ Fusions, the new South Park, DQ11, a new Digimon, Vampyr and the Switch. Yeah, it looks promissing. I hope we get some other titles like KH3, FF7 remake, Ni No Kuni 2 or the Crash Remake

RDR2 will steal the show

I'm looking forward to For Honor and Prey a lot.

Besides that Vampyr and Horizon also look good.

Oh, and I want to know more about the Switch, of course ^^

Agreed. But I completely expect it to get pushed back to 2018.

can't wait 1 year and u wait me to wait 2 yrs :(

curse you :P

Will see the same thread in 2017 for 2018. :D

switch doesn't have any potential outside mobile gaming

Yeah, I'm more excited about the games coming out the first half of the year in 2017 than I am with the holiday games of this year. For Honor, Ghost Recon, Horizon are my top 3 right now. Can't wait to see more of Scalebound and Zelda looks great and of course Scropio and Red Dead for holiday of next year, it will be magical lol.

- Biggest team Insomniac has ever had working on a game

- Most ambitious Marvel game ever made

- It's been in development for "quite some time"

- It's not connected at all with the upcoming movie

- It'll focus on both Peter Parker and Spider-man

It's all about Sonic Mania and Zelda for me. It'd be nice if Shenmue III came out too (my guess is it'll be pushed back to 2019), but really, anything else is gravy.

In Sonic's case, there's no doubt it's going to end up being one of my favorite games of all time.

@Renegade_Fury: Mania looks great :-) I'm excited

It's the Sonic 4 we deserve. :)

It's crazy, they're even putting in scrapped Sonic 2 levels like Dust Hill Zone.

@EnergyAbsorber said:

- Biggest team Insomniac has ever had working on a game

- Most ambitious Marvel game ever made

- It's been in development for "quite some time"

- It's not connected at all with the upcoming movie

- It'll focus on both Peter Parker and Spider-man

FLOP in the making

For me it's looking pretty expensive, but with what is announced so far, here is what I am getting...

Hardware

• Xbox Scorpio

Xbox Games

• Crackdown 3
• Halo Wars 2
• Scalebound
• Sea of Thieves
• Astroneer
• Gigantic
• Cuphead
• Below
• State of Decay 2
• Forza 7
• Ashen
• Phantom Dust remake
• Red Dead 2
• Call of Duty
• Ghost Recon

Playstation Pro Games

• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• God of War
• Nioh

Zelda

FF 12 Zodiac Age

Handheld Skyrim

2017 looks amazing!!

EDIT: Squadron 42 ... how can forget this one!

Well... it can't be worse than this year... I hope..

Persona 5, the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the possibility of getting the Final Fantasy VII remake, and the Switch are going to make one hell of a year!

I think people are putting way too much faith in games like Horizon or Legend of Zelda.

I'm easy though, Persona 5, South Park: Fractured But Whole, State of Decay 2, that's a start. Best year? No, but a good year nonetheless.

Mass Effect and new Red Dead are big deals. But let's not count our chickens before they hatch.

I think we should play a game, what titles with a 2017 release date, will be delayed? Lol

Nah I'll be playing League of Legends

k bye

Too early to get excited. A good chunk of those 2017 blockbusters will probably never see 2017.

yeah 2017 looks stacked as long as games don't get delayed out of it

Horizon, Scalebound, Mass Effect, Crackdown, State of Decay 2, sea of thieves, RDR2 are all gonna be buys for me. plus scorpio is coming

?!?!?

Civ VI and FM17 beta just launched, we had TW Warhammer, XCOM2, Darkest DUngeon, great CK2 DLC, HoI IV, Stellaris, Battlefleet Gothic, Bloodbowl 2 and god knows how many others I can't think of off the top of my head.

No way is Shenmue coming out next year.

Most 2017 games I won't actually play in 2017 lol. Too much backlog.

I will drop everything for Zelda when that comes out.

Yooka-Laylee

South Park Fractured But Whole

And a few other on my radar- RE7, State of Decay 2, Scalebound

Ah yes. Problem is, other than having a small amount of interest in Civ and Bloodbowl, I have no interest at all in the others listed. Sure there were some good games released (as there is every year), but it's the fact that those are the best games people can come up... I know that opinions vary, but I feel it was a weak year... then again I feel it's been a weak handful of years.

My top games this year have been: Trackmania Turbo (no traditional MP but otherwise a great game), No Man's Sky (overhyped and repetitive although beautiful and hopefully the start of something good), The King of FIghters XV (horrible online), The Division (meh), Mafia III (meh), Prominence Poker (too many bad beats).

Well those are what I can think of. Oh yeah.. perhaps my favorite game released on console this year was 7 Days to Die, but it's still a complete mess... albeit fun when it works.

Sure, I haven't played every game that is out there, but I have played the vast majority of the ones that interested me and just about every one was a let down. I still have a few more games I would like to try though that released in the past few months.

Last year we got: Battlefield Hardline, Mario Party 10, Neverwinter (console), Mortal Kombat X, TES Online, Rocket League, Until Dawn, Super Mario Maker (GOAT), and Fallout IV among others.

Personally I didn't think last year was all that great either, aside from the GOAT, but it was still much better than this year in my opinion.

NiOh PS4 Pro
Tekken 7 PS4 Pro and PC (I will get both)

Those are probably the only new games I'll for sure be getting and they are more than enough.

maybe
Scalebound PC
Nier PS4 Pro

Ain't coming in 2017.

@fantasygamer said:

Squadron 42 - I just can't wait for this game!

Scalebound

Crackdown 3

Nioh

God of War

Red Dead 2

Spider-man

I want this.

Is there any gameplay footage ?

Persona 5 and Zelda for me. Also the Switch.

I like this thread.

Squadron 42 /Star Citizen...

ME Andromeda (if it turns out good)

Nintendo ****ing Switch

I'm as hyped as I can be.

I'm not thinking about it now, but the main attraction for me will be Mass Effect, once that comes out I'll be playing it for a while.

Don't lie to the ignorant.

You very well know Star Citizen ain't gonna be on any console.

Zelda and RDR2 are to colossal games. High hopes for Mass Effect too.

I will probably buy all of these at some point in 2017

Gravity Rush 2

Resident Evil 7

Kingdom Heart 2.8

Kingdom Heart 1.5 +2.5 PS4

Nioh

Persona 5

NieR Automata

Horizon Zero Dawn

Mass Effect Andromeda

Red Dead Redemption 2

Might be the best year yet this generation. I'm hoping Detroit Become Human, Gran Turismo Sport and Days Gone make 2017 as well.

I'm so picky my selection is limited but RE7 and if Cyberpunk makes it which I doubt then that too. Hellraid and Outlast 2 but who the hell knows about those 2.

Read Dead 2, NFS 2017 and Detroit:Become Human.

2016 did as well until almost everything good was delayed.

I don't disagree, and any time a new system launches (even if its' a failure) it makes things interesting.

Of course a bunch of stuff will probably be delayed.

Ps4 pro resident evil 7 horizon zero dawn tales of berseria yakuza zero mass effect andromeda vampyr the walking dead season 3 shenmue 3 detroit become human days gone spiderman Resident evil 2 remake RDR2 wildlands kindom hearts 1.5 2.5 2.8 hellblade