18 Best Video Game Moments Of 2017

14. Conducting The First Liberation - Pyre

Pyre's wondrous world of exiled criminals and wanderers posse'ing up to form teams that can compete for their respective individual freedoms is a compelling one - but a setup that doesn't really hit home until you have to start picking which characters you want to let go.

Chances are your best players are also your personal favourites, worth talking to at every opportunity just as much as they can dunk a ball and win a game the next. Learning more about each one reinforces why they matter gameplay-wise and also why they should go free - one hell of a moral quandary every time the Liberation Rites come around.

Completing your first one (providing you win) lets you set someone free, and once that's done, the entire group dynamic of all your characters changes forevermore. The story is fundamentally altered and all subsequent matches must be tackled differently, creating one hell of a sense of weight to every future bout.