The graphics are so polished and beautiful you feel like you're in Star Wars. Star Wars Battlefront II could have been the gold standard for Star Wars video games. Mass Effect could have been an amazing 10/10 GOTY game with a vast open galaxy and scope, but it was hampered by an untested rookie team and an unfinished release.

Wrong studio for the job, rampant microtransactions, game design flaws, and various other real life hindrances lead to two beautiful amazing games with so much potential still failing. Poor business decisions lead the developers to fail to deliver a game worthy of top ten, or for many, worthy of their wallets at all. Mass Effect Andromeda and Star Wars Battlefront II are both games than in another universe deserve to be on this list. They were mostly left off because I have either yet to fully experience them to my satisfaction to rank them or haven't played them yet at all however, they may be on other Game Infinite members' lists at the end of this article. There are so many great games this year, that an entire runner up list exists. Some may eventually be added to my list of favorites. Just to showcase how much 2017 was such a great year, there are some honorable mentions that I suspect many will have on their top ten lists. Plus with the rise of VR has given us another glimpse into the future with more amazing AAA VR releases and announcements.

Other amazing changes like Xbox Game Pass, aka 'Netflix for Games', and Geforce Now for high end pc stream gaming on low end Macs and PC's, both arrived bringing us a good peak at the future of subscription based gaming. Both these consoles broke many records, as well as brought us many amazing groundbreaking games. Whether we want to game in full 4K on Xbox One X or exploring Hyrule on the go with Switch, we were able to do so. We received two new consoles in the form of the Nintendo Switch and the Xbox One X bring us the most versatile and most powerful console's respectively. This year was a treasure trove of amazing updates to the gaming industry. 2017 has been one of the best years in gaming ever.

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