The Inaugural Game Of The Year Award Nominations Thread For The Year 2012

[Robsturgh]

The Edited Best Video Games of 2012 Thread! yaaay!

Ah, EWB, my old friend. The year has come and gone, so let us all unite in disagreement about the best of vidja games in 2012.

But first of all. Nomination time!

From what I've gleaned about you folk and your gaming habits, some of you play a lot of games and some of you don't. With that in mind, don't feel you need to fill the list, just put as many (up to 10) as you wish to. Scoring will be fairly standard: 1st place will get 30 points, 2nd = 20, 3rd = 10, 4th = 7, 5th = 6, 6th = 5, 7th = 4, 8th = 3, 9th = 2, 10th = 1. I'll close nominations sometime in January (whenever this thread dies basically).

As a side note, you are all the most disappointing game of 2012. (Except you GoGo. You're my 11th best game this year)

And with that out of the way. The category.


My top 10 games of 2012.


10. Black Ops 2
9. Torchlight 2
8. Hotline Miami
7. Sleeping Dogs
6. Pinball Arcade
5. Binary Domain
4. FTL: Faster than Light
3. Pokemon Black 2

2. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
1. Walking Dead

[Ruki]

Boo! I was hoping for just a "Your top 10 games of 2012" list, not award style break downs.

[Robsturgh]

Ah, I did have a feeling that might be the case. Would that be preferred by all? I can change it up if so.

[Your Mom]

I think it might be. But then again with this style I can shame AC3 for being so horrible.

[apsham]

I'm not that huge with the multiple categories but I'm fine with it in the end if that's the consensus.

I'm also going to hate this because I really didn't like the Walking Dead games.

[MalaCloudy Black]

#1, all categories: The Walking Dead

[King Ellis]

#1, all categories: The Walking Dead

It was your #1 letdown when your computer wouldn't let you play it.

[GoGo Yubari]

I actually like this format, it's just going to take more time to think through. Maybe if you narrowed it down to Best Game, Best Character, Biggest Letdown so I too can shame AC3 (while at the same time still giving Haytham Kenway his props).

[TKz]

Yeah, go for just a regular list man.

[MalaCloudy Black]

#1, all categories: The Walking Dead

It was your #1 letdown when your computer wouldn't let you play it.

>_> I wound up having to play it on my brother's PC. But definitely worth it.

[deli]

I think a regular list would be better. Even though I will still do it if it's in this format.

[Gazz]

Best Looking Game

5. Far Cry 3

4. Halo 4

3. Journey

2. Deadlight

1. The Walking Dead

Best Soundtrack

5.

4.

3.

2. Fifa 13

1. Journey

Best Character

5. Jimmy 'Offside Flag' Dean (Fifa 13)

4. Vaas (Far Cry 3)

3. Kenny (The Walking Dead)

2. Clementine (The Walking Dead)

1. Lee (The Walking Dead)

Best Story

5.

4.

3. Deadlight

2. Journey

1. The Walking Dead

Biggest Surprise

5.

4.

3.

2.

1.

Biggest Letdown

5.

4.

3.

2.

1.

Best Overall Game

5. Journey

4. XCOM

3. Crusader Kings II

2. Football Manager 13

1. The Walking Dead

[Sousa]

Do a more complicated list with like fifteen more categories (Best Rendered Foliage, Most Tedious Bearded Person, etc.).

[Robsturgh]

Next year I'll include a best use of Ellen Page category.

I'll shrink this down to a single list in a moment as that seems to be the general consensus. Gazz, if you want, you can extend your list to 10.

[GoGo Yubari]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (N)

[TKz]

10. WWE 13

9. Natural Selection 2

8. Far Cry 3

7. Black Ops 2

6. The Walking Dead

5. FTL

4. Mass Effect 3

3. Torchlight 2

2. Final Fantasy XIII-2

1. XCOM Enemy Unknown

[apsham]

10. Sleeping Dogs

9. Retro City Rampage

8. Far Cry 3

7. Fez

6. XCOM: Enemy Unknown

5. Rock Band Blitz

4. Scribblenauts Unlimited

3. Faster Than Light

2. Hitman Absolution

1. Black Ops 2

That's my list for now - Black Ops 2 is for sure the GOTY for me. Others might move around a bit here and there.

[TKz]

Totally forgot about FTL. Added that to my list. Also if we were doing biggest letdown, my nominations would be AC3 followed by Borderlands 2.

[Skummy]

1. The Last Story

2. ZombiU

3. Xenoblade Chronicles (from the, like, twenty minutes I've played >_<)

4. Batman: Arkham City

5. My Little Inferno

6. Final Fantasy: Theatrythm

7. Okami HD

8. Trine 2

9. GunLord

10. Tales Of Grace F

In no particular order. Other than number 1.

[TKz]

Arkham City, Xenoblade Chronicles, Last Story and Trine were last year, weren't they? The first Trine was definitely like, 2009.

EDIT: Last Story and Xenoblade came out this year for NA, thinking about it.