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Jesus Christ 2017, calm the fuck down. It's only fucking April and you're giving us awesome game after awesome fucking game. I mean jesus. I'm going to talk about just some of the amazing games I've played this year.

Nier: Automata

 Watch the above video. It pretty much sums up why you need this game in your life.

 No seriously, this game is proof that Platinum Games haven't slouched. Gameplay is as fun and insane as ever, and with Yoko Taro at the helm, the story and experience is downright bizarre. It's also surprisingly affecting, tugging on heart string after heart string while refusing to do anything conventionally.

 I mean, seriously, this game swaps genres every 20 minutes. One second it's a spectacle fighter, the next it's a shmup, the next it's a 2d platformer. And it all works! Not to mention that you have to beat the game twice to unlock the rest of the game, and it totally works because the game is only around 15 hours long and you play a different character with different movesets and different perspectives on events each time and JESUS FUCK THIS GAME IS AMAZING!

Resident Evil 7

 Where the original Resident Evil cribbed from Romero, the latest installment takes directly from Sam Raimi and Tobe Hooper. It's an insane ride that is campy, fun, and somehow also creepy, with some of the most effective villains in the series.

 In the first hour, you get your fucking arm cut off with a chainsaw! How awesome is that?!

 It's also surprisingly like the original, and it's the best in the series since 4. It just sucks that the ending is meh but you kind of expect that with this series.

Persona 5

 It's Persona 4 but better in every conceivable way. Persona 4 is in my top 10 games of all time. Does this say anything about the quality of this fucking game?!

 Seriously, this game goes to some dark places almost immediately, and does so with surprising tact. I'm only 30-ish hours in and unless it shits itself hard at the end I don't imagine any other game beating it as my GOTY. Although the next game is fucking close.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

 Again, the above video explains why this game is so awesome

It's because of the little things. Breath of the Wild could have just been another shitty Far Cry clone, but it went above and beyond with tons of little touches that make exploring the world utterly captivating. I mean, you can surf on your shield, but it will break if its not in good enough condition. You can freeze to death. You can ride a bear. You can crossdress and NPC's will talk to you differently. You can climb anything. You drown if you run out of stamina while swimming. There's all the physics! There's shadow of the collossus style bosses.

It's awesome guys... the best Zelda game ever.

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ITS ONLY FUCKING APRIL! I mean, we still have so many games to come. Seriously, this might go down as one of the best years for gaming ever.