4/14/2023 0 Comments Best games of 2017 prey polygon![]() Uncredited blurbs written by Garrett Martin, the same guy who wrote that mess you just finished reading. They can’t do much to fix the real world, though. ![]() Games aren’t just fun diversions or time-wasters, something to while away the weeks and months spent indoors, but have the power to make us think and make us feel, to help us see our world and lives in different ways, and to introduce us to new worlds that otherwise couldn’t ever exist. ![]() Some of them have helped us cope with the tragedy of this year, and some (like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which became a mainstream phenomenon in a way the series has never been before) were no doubt boosted by the shutdown. Yes, many of us had more time to play them than we usually do, due to the lockdown. Yes, there were games in 2020, and some of them were excellent. These year-end intros have always been a challenge to write (and, I’m sure, a bore to read), but this year celebrating a bunch of videogames just feels disrespectful. I know it’s a bummer to click on a list about videogames and immediately get reminded about COVID-19, but it’s impossible to write about anything that happened in 2020 without mentioning the pandemic, and that includes videogames. I’m not going to waste too much space here. 2020 gave us the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series X, the Xbox Series S, those fancy new graphics cards, and, oh yeah, a global pandemic that has caused so much pain, devastation and disruption.
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