Year-end games lists 2012

Entertainment Weekly

Best
10. Street Fighter x Tekken
9. ''Luigi's Ghost Mansion'' in Nintendo Land
8. The Unfinished Swan
7. Far Cry 3
6. Mark of the Ninja
5. Spec Ops: The Line
4. The Walking Dead
3. Mass Effect 3
2. Dishonored
1. Journey

Worst
5. Ninja Gaiden 3
4. Licensed Kinect Games (Star Wars, Harry Potter)
3. I Am Alive
2. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
1. Resident Evil 6

Time Magazine

10. Torchlight 2
9. Halo 4
8. LittleBigPlanet Vita
7. The Last Story
6. Papo & Yo
5. Assassin’s Creed III
4. Dishonored
3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
1. Guild Wars 2

Nothing from my list is on either of those lists.

I know bitching about lists is a fool's errand but koa: amalur is pretty good! And street fighter x tekken is laughably bad. That's the game that had DLC 'gems' which altered gameplay.

dishonored only game from above on my list

dishonored might be the only game i've played, aside from a small handful of non-essential iphone efforts. time to retire from the board?

nah that's a definitive gaming experience in 2012!

Games Magazine (the pencil&paper puzzle mag, not GamesTM)

Best Overall: Skyrim
Action/arcade: Arkham City
Mobile: Where's My Water? series
RPG/adventure: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Sports/sim: Ace Combat Assault Horizon
Strategy/puzzle: Quantum Conundrum

I have only played two of the games listed so far (Walking Dead and Xenoblade), partly because I never buy games at full retail price.

oh and Journey, which is great.

Forbes (!)

5. Mass Effect 3
4. Halo 4
3. Far Cry 3 / X-COM: Enemy Unknown
2. The Walking Dead
1. Dishonored

link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2012/12/11/the-best-video-games-of-2012/

2012: the year when I said fuck it, all the 2010 games I bought on sale in 2011 aren't getting played, I'm just gonna play minor iOs games

oh shit Fallout 3 was 2008 & AC2 was 2009, it's worse than I remember

Forbes could have just dropped ME3 and had five games in the top 5 but no.

Games Magazine (the pencil&paper puzzle mag, not GamesTM)

Best Overall: Skyrim
Action/arcade: Arkham City
Mobile: Where's My Water? series
RPG/adventure: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Sports/sim: Ace Combat Assault Horizon
Strategy/puzzle: Quantum Conundrum

so apparently some of these were so good that they traveled forward in time and got released in 2012?

Frog Fractions shits all over the rest of these.

ew

Oh goddamn how many megabytes of bug porn did I just make before I figured out you can buy the pad lock. Emily otm.

Ok guys it's that time of the year where I buy one Xbox 360 game. Do I go for CoD: Black Ops II (I have Battlefield 3) or Dishonored?

Dishonored

cod

higher $ per fun ratio

codblops2.

Need for speed: most wanted or borderlands 2 imo

Seriously. NFS:Most Wanted is one of my games of the year.

^^

if you can only buy one driving game

NFS:MW or forza horizon?

I don't own an xbox so NFS wins by default.

if you can only buy one driving game

NFS:MW or forza horizon?

Neither?

Isn't Need for Speed Most Wanted basically the same game as Burnout Paradise (i.e. the worst Burnout game), but now at 30 FPS instead of 60? I mean, BP did some interesting things and it wasn't horrible, but I'm not sure there's a need to play it again? Unless you never played it, in which case you could probably pick it up very cheap instead of the new version...

And Forza Horizon? I haven't really been following what this is about exactly, but I think it's supposed to be a more casual Forza, developed by a 2nd tier studio and set in a semi-open world? It also runs at 30 FPS instead of the 60 you get in the main/real Forza games by Turn 10. But one of the things though that really annoys me about Forza in recent years (and this game is no different) is how much content from the game ends up being DLC - I seem to remember reading this game would end up with over $60 US of DLC shit...

what do you recommend to someone who has not played any of the Burnouts

Probably the 360 version of Burnout Revenge... or Burnout 3 if you can stand going back a generation.

Both of which are downloadable on 360 apparently. $10 for the xbox one and $15 for the 360 game. I wonder how they hold up?

any racing games from this year you like JCL?

The easy answer abt nfs:mw vs forza is nfs if you like arcade racers and forza if you like sims. Also, I liked burnout paradise, but nfsmw is better in every possible way. It's an incredible game.

any racing games from this year you like JCL?

I haven't bought any...

I feel like it's the genre that has suffered the most because of the extended generation. The racing games now are all kind of the same (as games that have come out before), and in fact, many have gotten worse & less ambitious. I feel like there's not a ton of reasons to pick up these new games at full retail. Maybe when they get discounted heavily.

When the next generation starts, perhaps the genre can come back - hopefully the new consoles will be good enough to support improved, true 1080p graphics, 60 FPS and a full field of racers online (not just 8-12 or whatever of today's games). But honestly, I don't think there's a lot more these kinds of games can offer that hasn't been done pretty well already.

Ars Technica

20. Dustforce
19. Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm
18. FTL
17. Mark of the Ninja
16. Guild Wars 2
15. Letterpress
14. Uncharted: Golden Abyss
13. Hotline Miami
12. Super Hexagon
11. Spec Ops: The Line
10. Mass Effect 3
9. Fez
8. XCom: Enemy Unknown
7. Journey
6. Spelunky
5. Borderlands 2
4. FarCry 3
3. New Super Mario Bros. U
2. The Walking Dead
1. Dishonored