15 Most Embarrassing Video Game Moments Of 2017

2017 has been a great year for gaming. The Nintendo Switch took the gaming community by storm, and with that, came two releases that are frontrunners for many peoples' Game of the Year - Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild. Not to be outdone, Microsoft released the much anticipated Xbox One X this year as well.

On the software side, Sony's biggest new venture was Horizon Zero Dawn, which became a strong candidate for game of the year alongside some steady competition. Another candidate, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds came out of nowhere and became one of the most played titles of the year, alongside one of Steam's most lucrative.

With the amount of good 2017 had, it also had its fair share of bad.

Microtransactions popped up everywhere and peed off fans to no end, developers were seen as predatory and dishonest, and people said and did a lot of things they shouldn't have. There's never a shortage of controversy in the gaming world, and 2017 proved that in abundance, even if the majority came towards its back end.

Jonathan Jafari - more commonly known as JonTron from Game Grumps - had some things to say about immigration and race that did not go over well with a lot of people. It all started on Twitter, and then continued during a Twitch stream with Steve Bonnell, also known as Destiny.

JonTron started it all off by defending Congressman Steve King's controversial comments that immigration was ruining America, saying "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." Most weren't happy with him coming to the defense of a comment that was condemned as a white supremacist remark by all those who weren't white supremacists, but it doesn't end there.

On the stream with Bonnell, JonTron would go on a tirade about how Mexicans were trying to take back American land, and how white people were being oppressed by immigration and would soon become the minority race in the United States. He would also go on to say that wealthy black men commit more crimes in the United States than poor white males, down-talking Black Lives Matter and claiming that race plays no part in the judicial process.

People were rightly p*ssed off.

As a direct result JonTron had a voice-over spot in the game Yooka-Laylee removed from the game on a day one patch. He would also lose thousands of subscribers thanks to his tirade.

JonTron's response was a simple, "I said lots of stuff that could be misconstrued in all sorts of ways," with no formal apology.