Nothing. I didn't play a single game released in 2012, period. I mean, I played that Frog Fractions thing, but I haven't even decided what it is, nevermind if I like it, and 2k13, which sucked ass. Seriously. Shitty soundtrack, shitty control change, shitty online sign-up bullshit, shitty feel. Not even worth buying, I'll just stick to 2k12 at this rate. I mean, they didn't even get the real Ima Boss, just the fucking soundtrack. Could not be dumber.
Diablo III was great for two weeks, but not worth the praise it got. I hit Inferno with like 30k in gold, had to blow it all on repairs just trying to get through the town, and got fucked in the ass repeatedly by elite packs of Burrowing Leapers, to the point where I would have been reduced to reloading that section over and over for favorable drops, or going back and farming Act 3 or 4 hell mode or whatever was before inferno. A lot of this was timing, because I hit 60 right after CM wizards got nerfed into Oblivion, and literally during the attack speed nerf patch (like 1.03 or 1.04), but still, like I'm paying for a fucking full-price game, not access to the goddamn beta, which is what it ended up being. Oh, and then the build I was desperately trying to cobble together after the AS nerf, life-on-hit, got nerfed afterwards too. And besides all this, the single most infuriating mechanic for me was the fact that I couldn't find applicable gear in drops, and was REQUIRED to grind levels JUST to farm gold JUST to go to the auction house and buy gear. Like, half the fucking enjoyment I get out of ARPGs is finding gear, so after everything added up and I still was left farming GOLD to BUY gear, what remained of the game wasn't nearly enough to keep me playing.
I heard they've done a lot to patch it through and make it better, but I'm still not happy about the fact that it's a glorified beta (no PvP, will there ever be?), and I don't feel like spending 4 hours patching the client to go farm gold for items, even if everything is easier to kill and much more widely available. Probably won't be buying a new release from Blizzard again, I've probably spent more time playing The Force Unleashed by now than Diablo, and I just don't think it'd be worth the money since they never put shit on sale.
I guess if you want to count DLC Gods & Kings was good, and I liked Dawnguard a whole hell of a lot. Dawnguard was wayyyy better than anything in the main game: badass new follower, detailed, exciting new areas to explore, new weapons, new armor, new loot, new shouts, and I'll be damned if I didn't spend 10 of my 30 hours playing it just wandering the Soul Cairn, that shit was awesome. And I didn't even get into the Vampire Lord or Werewolf powers.
For 2011 games I just got around to playing MW3 was balls-out amazing, and UMvC3 is still great. Honestly in retrospect though, 2012 kinda sucked for releases. Not a single new game that I wanted to play badly enough to drop money on. Wait, did SFxT come out this year? If so that was pretty alright. Mostly because you could smash people's faces in with Akuma's super. It didn't get old the first 30 times I did it, and I don't think it'll ever get old, even though it wasn't enough for me to buy the game.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013. It's Magic The Gathering for like, ten bucks. Yeah you can't make your own decks or even edit land counts, but shit, 10 bucks. That's 2 booster packs and a soda. I will say that I wish the game AI was more challenging and less reliant on drawing godly opening hands to win, but it satisfied my itch pretty well regardless, even as-is.
Yeah, no one's gonna read this and it'll fall off in about an hour, but whatever. I post here for my own amusement.
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