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The Best & Worst of 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 I thought 2017 was a pretty good year for video games, despite the fact that I didn't play the majority of the GOTY frontrunners. I didn't play Persona 5, because one hundred hours is too much to ask. I never got to Nier Automata, for similar reasons. I didn’t play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, because I don’t have a gaming PC, and it appears to be broken on Xbox One. I’m not quite sure why, but Horizon Zero Dawn never appealed, so I gave that a miss. It's only in the last week or so that I started playing Zelda and Mario on my brand new Switch, though they've certainly made an impression in that short time. What I did play was a mix of old and new. I out-squatted a man for a wig, assassinated a herd of hippos, took a road trip with a crew of hair models, gunned down space fish, saved the humans, remembered how to parry, romanced a skeleton, descended into Viking hell, possessed

We've just moved into a new house. It's lovely and has lots of space, which makes it somewhat of a rarity this close to Tokyo, at least on our budget. I can finally unpack my games from the shipping boxes they've been hiding in the last eighteen months, and stop living out of suitcases. The only catch is that we are going to be internet-less for the next month or two. Apparently the people who lived here before us were Luddites, or were just stealing someone else's wifi, so there is no existing infrastructure for high speed internet. So we're limited to mobile data until at least the New Year, with which I can do very little. No streaming services, no downloading games and no playing online. Twitter still works though, so I'm going to work with what I've got. I've searched "video games" on Twitter, and used the results as inspiration for some ramblings. What could go wrong? "Do violent video games make people more violent in re