The Renegade Ego GOTY: The only GOTY that truly matters.

(I didn't know anuses could stretch like that!) I will ne'er forget such a horrific sight, and I hope you say the same of this blog. That's right: it's GOTY time yet again, wherein I tell you about all the cool shit I played this year, but with a dumb thematic twist. This time, it's you. Yes, you're a dumb thematic twist. Specifically, each section is dedicated to a single user on Giant Bomb. Are they writing their sections? Of course not! That would've been a pain to organize! They can do so in the comments, if they want, but I'll largely be doing the writing. Consider it a poorly written love letter to the users of this site.

But before we kick things off, a bit of a disclaimer: I'm going to look at almost all the games I've played in 2012 for this blog. I know that sounds weird, but keep in mind that in the past, I've been pretty clear that there's a huge distance between writing a blog and posting it. In fact, I began drafting this in November, and by now, I'm probably writing something about how....dumb? Yea, let's go with dumb. How dumb Psychonauts is. (Hope you like your shit storm, future King. *laughter*) So where am I going with this? Well, I'm gonna give you a preview, of sorts, of the games I'll be considering for this that you may not know of. I may or may not actually use them in the awards, but keep in mind that they were at least considered:

• Magical Diary & Barbie Super Model
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance & Ganbare Goemon 3: No Way I'm Typing Out the Full Subtitle
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning & Final Fantasy Legend 2
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations & North and South
• Dear Esther & M.C. Kids
• Cogs & Money Puzzle Exchanger
• Penumbra: Overture & Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
• BioShock & The Little Mermaid
• Hydrophobia: Prophecy & Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%
• Sonic Adventure & Punky Skunk

Now I'm going to limit this to games I've played before December, because I have to stop somewhere. Alright, are we good? Let's get on with the show.

The @Jay444111 Award for Game of the Year

(Never forget, man.) I'll never forget the day you were banned. That's probably because I never remembered it in the first place, but still: NEVER FORGET! Anyway, I'd say this was an all-around great year for games, at least on my end. BioShock, Radiant Historia, Persona 2, Tear Ring Saga, Xenoblade Chronicles, and, of course, the GOTY: Katawa Shoujo. What? Did that surprise you? I mean, there's a reason I've been hyping it up and down the site(adel) so much: it's the game that's had the strongest emotional impact on me. I'd dare you to name more realistic, engaging characters in a video game if:

A.) I knew I wouldn't get a smartass answer in the comments, and

B.) If I'd ever heard of the games you'd inevitably recommend. What's this Spec Ops shit? Come back when you have at least three lengthy Japanese words in the title.

Plus there's Kenji, who fits in so damn well with the category's namesake. Never forget.

The [THIS PART OF THE POST HAS BEEN DELETED BY A MODERATOR] Award for Worst Game of the Year

(What just happened?) Are the mods preemptively editing all my blogs? Odd that this is the only category they'd consider, given everything else going on with this blog. I'm assuming that [EDIT IN YOUR OWN NAME HERE, MODERATOR OF CHOICE] was awesome enough to leave in all the other stuff. Instead of properly thanking them, I will translate that all into bile toward some horrible game I have prepared. Now what game deserves all that hate? The Haunting? The Last Story? The ALF? Ooh, I know: I Wanna Be The Guy! What a hateful piece of shit that was! I sure am glad that that's past me forever. Never again will I let a game abuse me so horribly until tomorrow!

The "Whoever the hell is first to comment on this blog" Award for Most Average Game of the Year DAMN IT!

(That fucking asshole stole my post!) I still haven't gotten that quest. *sigh* Well, at least there's always next time. I mean, the quest system's gonna be around forever, right, you guys? Wait, this is about the GOTYs. Better get back on track with this thing.

Now this isn't your average GOTY blog. For instance, it has a billion more images. But more importantly, I'm going to do this all scientifically. The average score this year was a very sexy 6.9, which acts as a nice transition into the next category. But we must focus on the now. Which game gets it? Well, it's a tie between Zen Puzzle Garden and Densetsu no Stafy 2. But fuck Zen Puzzle Garden and everything associated with Lexaloffle Games. I couldn't be bothered to write about the game when I actually beat it, so why start now? Densetsu no Stafy 2 gets the award. (Fun fact: this is the exact same average as last year. Seems I'll never stop having such a dirty mind.)

The @SexyToad Award for The Sexiest

(Sexiest what, you ask?) Just the sexiest. And what is the sexiest, you ask? Certainly not SexyToad. That's not an insult against SexyToad, but more a compliment to the epitome of manliness that is Tatsuya Suo. There's not a dry pair of pants in this entire blog. That includes me. I know that there are only five girls on this site and absolutely none of them read this blog, but I stand by what I say.

The @sonic_hedgehog Award for the Accidentally Best Game of the Year

(What?) What do you mean "there's no room for ironic appreciation in this blog"? Well, it's my feature, so I get to decide how things turn out. For instance: Dead Rising 2. There. That didn't even take me a lot of time to think up. The first game was so infamously terrible that it led to my only ever locked blog. Obviously, things weren't going in favor of this game actually being good, which is why it's so surprising that Dead Rising 2 is actually a decent game. Who thought that focusing on the combat above everything else would actually improve the game? Everyone. Everyone thought that, which is why Capcom did it. Special mention goes to Galerians for almost getting this award. Sadly, it forgot the "being good" part of the equation, condemning it to a life of relatively well-deserved obscurity.

The @Mento Award for Most Compulsively Screenshotted Game

(Trust me: I will not treat Mr. Denton too well.) He'll learn not to....something. I don't remember why I kidnapped him; I just know that he is now in my clutches. None of this explains where this thing is going. You think it'd be an easy choice, since I know that Persona 2 took up the most screenshots this year. But this category's gonna be different. You see, unlike everyone else, I will let the namesake of this category decide which game gets it, from any game I have screenshotted this year, even if it was just once. Will you do the honors, @Mento?

What a show!

The @Animasta Award for Best Girl Game

(I'm prepared to handle you, Animasta.) You think you can tangle with a Lunarian monarch? Hell, I can take you on while continuing this blog! Now that said, this is probably going to be the easiest category to consider out of all the others. I only have about six games to look at, and only two of them are any good: Magical Diary, in which I rub my body with butter for the Canadians; and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, in which my mom tells me that men like to fuck furries. I think it's obvious which game wins this: Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure My Little Pony Crystal Princess: Runaway Rainbow. There has never been such a compelling character as can be seen in Tra La La.

The "Of Course I'd Put Myself Here" Award for Best Blog

(Because duh.) Like the general GOTY award above, this was a pretty good year for blogs. I'm pretty sure you know where this is going already. My Katawa Shoujo blog gets the award, but I'm not going to tell you why. I will someday, but not today. I can't make everything obvious to you. Speaking of which...

The @Cloudenvy Award for Most GIF-Worthy Moment

(I know what you're all thinking right now.) "What am I listening to, and can I charge it with sexual battery?" "How is this any different from the Mento award thing from before?" Well, I decided to limit this to specific events in a game, so the game itself isn't getting the award. Or something like that. Ask the past version of me about it or something. Now I'd like to give this award to some Katawa Shoujo butt-fuckin', but doing that with this music would certainly put me on some sort of government watchlist. I'd also love to give it to the Jack Frost conversations of Persona 2, and I almost did, but I remembered something better: My Time in Shimmeroiled. Never before have I seen so many dead dwarfs and existential terror in one place. Truly, I am a god among men.

The @ArbitraryWater Award for Best PC Game

(Surprisingly, that's one of two images in this blog I didn't make specifically for this feature.) The first was Jay's campaign poster, in case you're wondering. Now, I'd like to give this award to Might and Magic VII because I know ArbitraryWater's reading this and the conversation would inevitably turn that way, but as always, that game demands all of the screen space, making it difficult to do all the other things I do while playing a game. I'd also like to give this to Katawa Shoujo, but I told myself that I'd mostly limit this to one game per area. Trust me: if I didn't, we'd be swamped with Katawa Shoujo/Innocent Sin love.

So what gets the coveted award in what's likely the blandest category? BioShock! You may not know it, yet (assuming you skipped past the intro because look at the pretty pictures), but I've reignited quite the love affair with this game. Cool story, cool power ups, cool dead cats, c-FUCKING WHAT!? WHY DID YOU KILL THAT CAT, BIOSHOCK!?

The @ZombiePie Award for Best Use of Zombies

(Let's get it out of the way immediately: ZombiU isn't making the list.) It just seemed incredibly obvious. Plus I don't own a WiiU and have never touched one, so there was never a chance of it landing here. So what is making the list? Some Call of Duty game? I doubt it. BLOPS was just action movie bullshit, and while Modern Warfare 3 was fun action movie bullshit, I don't remember too many zombies from it. I'm also disqualifying survival horror games, because I can't say that they used zombies best when most of them aren't even remotely scary. So what game used zombies the best? Dead Rising 2, right?

The @Claude Award for I aM lEfT oF yOuR mInD

(The boundaries of temporal existence mean nothing to me now.) I will not be, but I am. I shall forever am. ˙ʇsıxəs ʞɹɐp əɥʇ səsɐɹə ʇodɐəʇ pəddɐupıʞ əɥʇ ફેરવેલ, ખસેડવાની તાકાત.

(I didn't know anuses could stretch like that!) I will ne'er forget such a horrific sight, and I hope you say the same of this blog. That's right: it's GOTY time yet again, wherein I tell you about all the cool shit I played this year, but with a dumb thematic twist. This time, it's you. Yes, you're a dumb thematic twist. Specifically, each section is dedicated to a single user on Giant Bomb. Are they writing their sections? Of course not! That would've been a pain to organize! They can do so in the comments, if they want, but I'll largely be doing the writing. Consider it a poorly written love letter to the users of this site.

But before we kick things off, a bit of a disclaimer: I'm going to look at almost all the games I've played in 2012 for this blog. I know that sounds weird, but keep in mind that in the past, I've been pretty clear that there's a huge distance between writing a blog and posting it. In fact, I began drafting this in November, and by now, I'm probably writing something about how....dumb? Yea, let's go with dumb. How dumb Psychonauts is. (Hope you like your shit storm, future King. *laughter*) So where am I going with this? Well, I'm gonna give you a preview, of sorts, of the games I'll be considering for this that you may not know of. I may or may not actually use them in the awards, but keep in mind that they were at least considered:

• Magical Diary & Barbie Super Model
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance & Ganbare Goemon 3: No Way I'm Typing Out the Full Subtitle
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning & Final Fantasy Legend 2
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations & North and South
• Dear Esther & M.C. Kids
• Cogs & Money Puzzle Exchanger
• Penumbra: Overture & Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
• BioShock & The Little Mermaid
• Hydrophobia: Prophecy & Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%
• Sonic Adventure & Punky Skunk

Now I'm going to limit this to games I've played before December, because I have to stop somewhere. Alright, are we good? Let's get on with the show.

The @Jay444111 Award for Game of the Year

(Never forget, man.) I'll never forget the day you were banned. That's probably because I never remembered it in the first place, but still: NEVER FORGET! Anyway, I'd say this was an all-around great year for games, at least on my end. BioShock, Radiant Historia, Persona 2, Tear Ring Saga, Xenoblade Chronicles, and, of course, the GOTY: Katawa Shoujo. What? Did that surprise you? I mean, there's a reason I've been hyping it up and down the site(adel) so much: it's the game that's had the strongest emotional impact on me. I'd dare you to name more realistic, engaging characters in a video game if:

A.) I knew I wouldn't get a smartass answer in the comments, and

B.) If I'd ever heard of the games you'd inevitably recommend. What's this Spec Ops shit? Come back when you have at least three lengthy Japanese words in the title.

Plus there's Kenji, who fits in so damn well with the category's namesake. Never forget.

The [THIS PART OF THE POST HAS BEEN DELETED BY A MODERATOR] Award for Worst Game of the Year

(What just happened?) Are the mods preemptively editing all my blogs? Odd that this is the only category they'd consider, given everything else going on with this blog. I'm assuming that [EDIT IN YOUR OWN NAME HERE, MODERATOR OF CHOICE] was awesome enough to leave in all the other stuff. Instead of properly thanking them, I will translate that all into bile toward some horrible game I have prepared. Now what game deserves all that hate? The Haunting? The Last Story? The ALF? Ooh, I know: I Wanna Be The Guy! What a hateful piece of shit that was! I sure am glad that that's past me forever. Never again will I let a game abuse me so horribly until tomorrow!

The "Whoever the hell is first to comment on this blog" Award for Most Average Game of the Year DAMN IT!

(That fucking asshole stole my post!) I still haven't gotten that quest. *sigh* Well, at least there's always next time. I mean, the quest system's gonna be around forever, right, you guys? Wait, this is about the GOTYs. Better get back on track with this thing.

Now this isn't your average GOTY blog. For instance, it has a billion more images. But more importantly, I'm going to do this all scientifically. The average score this year was a very sexy 6.9, which acts as a nice transition into the next category. But we must focus on the now. Which game gets it? Well, it's a tie between Zen Puzzle Garden and Densetsu no Stafy 2. But fuck Zen Puzzle Garden and everything associated with Lexaloffle Games. I couldn't be bothered to write about the game when I actually beat it, so why start now? Densetsu no Stafy 2 gets the award. (Fun fact: this is the exact same average as last year. Seems I'll never stop having such a dirty mind.)

The @SexyToad Award for The Sexiest

(Sexiest what, you ask?) Just the sexiest. And what is the sexiest, you ask? Certainly not SexyToad. That's not an insult against SexyToad, but more a compliment to the epitome of manliness that is Tatsuya Suo. There's not a dry pair of pants in this entire blog. That includes me. I know that there are only five girls on this site and absolutely none of them read this blog, but I stand by what I say.

The @sonic_hedgehog Award for the Accidentally Best Game of the Year

(What?) What do you mean "there's no room for ironic appreciation in this blog"? Well, it's my feature, so I get to decide how things turn out. For instance: Dead Rising 2. There. That didn't even take me a lot of time to think up. The first game was so infamously terrible that it led to my only ever locked blog. Obviously, things weren't going in favor of this game actually being good, which is why it's so surprising that Dead Rising 2 is actually a decent game. Who thought that focusing on the combat above everything else would actually improve the game? Everyone. Everyone thought that, which is why Capcom did it. Special mention goes to Galerians for almost getting this award. Sadly, it forgot the "being good" part of the equation, condemning it to a life of relatively well-deserved obscurity.

The @Mento Award for Most Compulsively Screenshotted Game

(Trust me: I will not treat Mr. Denton too well.) He'll learn not to....something. I don't remember why I kidnapped him; I just know that he is now in my clutches. None of this explains where this thing is going. You think it'd be an easy choice, since I know that Persona 2 took up the most screenshots this year. But this category's gonna be different. You see, unlike everyone else, I will let the namesake of this category decide which game gets it, from any game I have screenshotted this year, even if it was just once. Will you do the honors, @Mento?

What a show!

The @Animasta Award for Best Girl Game

(I'm prepared to handle you, Animasta.) You think you can tangle with a Lunarian monarch? Hell, I can take you on while continuing this blog! Now that said, this is probably going to be the easiest category to consider out of all the others. I only have about six games to look at, and only two of them are any good: Magical Diary, in which I rub my body with butter for the Canadians; and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, in which my mom tells me that men like to fuck furries. I think it's obvious which game wins this: Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure My Little Pony Crystal Princess: Runaway Rainbow. There has never been such a compelling character as can be seen in Tra La La.

The "Of Course I'd Put Myself Here" Award for Best Blog

(Because duh.) Like the general GOTY award above, this was a pretty good year for blogs. I'm pretty sure you know where this is going already. My Katawa Shoujo blog gets the award, but I'm not going to tell you why. I will someday, but not today. I can't make everything obvious to you. Speaking of which...

The @Cloudenvy Award for Most GIF-Worthy Moment

(I know what you're all thinking right now.) "What am I listening to, and can I charge it with sexual battery?" "How is this any different from the Mento award thing from before?" Well, I decided to limit this to specific events in a game, so the game itself isn't getting the award. Or something like that. Ask the past version of me about it or something. Now I'd like to give this award to some Katawa Shoujo butt-fuckin', but doing that with this music would certainly put me on some sort of government watchlist. I'd also love to give it to the Jack Frost conversations of Persona 2, and I almost did, but I remembered something better: My Time in Shimmeroiled. Never before have I seen so many dead dwarfs and existential terror in one place. Truly, I am a god among men.

The @ArbitraryWater Award for Best PC Game

(Surprisingly, that's one of two images in this blog I didn't make specifically for this feature.) The first was Jay's campaign poster, in case you're wondering. Now, I'd like to give this award to Might and Magic VII because I know ArbitraryWater's reading this and the conversation would inevitably turn that way, but as always, that game demands all of the screen space, making it difficult to do all the other things I do while playing a game. I'd also like to give this to Katawa Shoujo, but I told myself that I'd mostly limit this to one game per area. Trust me: if I didn't, we'd be swamped with Katawa Shoujo/Innocent Sin love.

So what gets the coveted award in what's likely the blandest category? BioShock! You may not know it, yet (assuming you skipped past the intro because look at the pretty pictures), but I've reignited quite the love affair with this game. Cool story, cool power ups, cool dead cats, c-FUCKING WHAT!? WHY DID YOU KILL THAT CAT, BIOSHOCK!?

The @ZombiePie Award for Best Use of Zombies

(Let's get it out of the way immediately: ZombiU isn't making the list.) It just seemed incredibly obvious. Plus I don't own a WiiU and have never touched one, so there was never a chance of it landing here. So what is making the list? Some Call of Duty game? I doubt it. BLOPS was just action movie bullshit, and while Modern Warfare 3 was fun action movie bullshit, I don't remember too many zombies from it. I'm also disqualifying survival horror games, because I can't say that they used zombies best when most of them aren't even remotely scary. So what game used zombies the best? Dead Rising 2, right?

The @Claude Award for I aM lEfT oF yOuR mInD

(The boundaries of temporal existence mean nothing to me now.) I will not be, but I am. I shall forever am. ˙ʇsıxəs ʞɹɐp əɥʇ səsɐɹə ʇodɐəʇ pəddɐupıʞ əɥʇ ફેરવેલ, ખસેડવાની તાકાત.

@Video_Game_King said:

(I didn't know anuses could stretch like that!)

I feel like you misrepresented the content of that link.

@Ravenlight:

I'm not posting butt stuff on this site. I thought I made that clear in the @Cloudenvy category.

@Video_Game_King:

Yeah? Well maybe if I bothered to read the whole thing before commenting, I wouldn't have made a fool of myself, huh? HUH?

That's what I thought.

So Jay did get banned. I was wondering what happened to him.

@Ravenlight:

At least this way, you got to be the namesake of a certain category. Trust me: it took all my willpower not to post "first" here and screw this all up.

I refuse to read this because I don't have my own award.

I don't know who won any of the awards in this blog.

This is just... utter madness.

And I'm okay with that.

You're in rare form here, @Vagina_Game_King , and in a way, this post may represent the dark and seedy underbelly of Giant Bomb better than almost anything else this year.

@AndrewB:

Next year, then.

@Brendan said:

I don't know who won any of the awards in this blog.

Should I bold them, then?

@TruthTellah said:

This is just... utter madness.

I get that a lot.

@AndrewB said:

I refuse to read this because I don't have my own award.

I did read it, wondering if I got an award. Sadly, I did not. However, I actually did read it, and to prove that, I'll point out that:

Modern Warfare 3 was fun action movie bullshit

this statement is false. Modern Warfare 3 was not fun. It was bland as hell.

@AndrewB said:

I refuse to read this because I don't have my own award.

Oh, and I share this man's sentiment.

(Though, I did actually read it, as I can hardly avoid staring into the horrific maw)

@believer258 said:

Modern Warfare 3 was fun action movie bullshit

this statement is false. Modern Warfare 3 was not fun. It was bland as hell.

From what I remember, the game was pretty good. The scenario was dumb, but the action was solid.

I give this blog the @pyromagnestir award for you didn't mention me so fuck you and fuck your blog!

And I downloaded and installed Katawa Shoujo a couple days ago King, are you happy now?

I probably shouldn't have read this so early in the morning.. o.o

To everybody complaining about not being included here: you do realize I can't include everybody, right? Otherwise, this would be long as hell. Besides, I tried not to include people I've included here (except for @Claude, because come on), for the sake of fullness.

@Video_Game_King said:

@believer258 said:

Modern Warfare 3 was fun action movie bullshit

this statement is false. Modern Warfare 3 was not fun. It was bland as hell.

From what I remember, the game was pretty good. The scenario was dumb, but the action was solid.

Yes, but it's the same action that has been done since Modern Warfare 1, and it was done better there.

@Video_Game_King said:

To everybody complaining about not being included here: you do realize I can't include everybody, right? Otherwise, this would be long as hell. Besides, I tried not to include people I've included here (except for @Claude, because come on), for the sake of fullness.

I'm just kidding a bit, I know you can't include everyone.

Reach for the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I approve of my category, beware of the incoming gif storm in 2013 considering that both Zenmonogatari and Kizumonogatari (I hope) will be out!

Also, I can't complain since you did link Platinum Disco.

I'm...not the sexiest? *runs away in tears*

@believer258:

I guess (it's been a while since I've played Modern Warfare 1), but Modern Warfare 3 still gets the job done.

@fuzzypumpkin:

I prefer shizzle.

@Cloudenvy said:

Also, I can't complain since you did link Platinum Disco.

I'd think that would be the number one reason to complain.

@SexyToad said:

I'm...not the sexiest? *runs away in tears*

You must face that inner truth you have been denying for so long. Look it in the eyes and ask yourself:

this post is toooooo crazy for my mortal mind to bear... *runs away laughing maniacally*

@Video_Game_King said:

To everybody complaining about not being included here: you do realize I can't include everybody, right? Otherwise, this would be long as hell. Besides, I tried not to include people I've included here (except for @Claude, because come on), for the sake of fullness.

I am mentioned in neither place so my award extends to that blog as well!

I should prob read this twice, no idea what i just read but koolbeans!

Jay444111 was banned, eh? That's probably for the best. Weird that I didn't notice. I'm just glad I was there for that trainwreck Enigma777 posted, that was pretty great.

Anyway, Katawa Shoujo as GOTY? ...sure, in some weird way, I can see it. It's no Persona 4: The Golden, but who am I to argue?

@TooWalrus:

I didn't play P4G this year. I don't even own a Vita. I do have a 3DS, though, so I'm pretty sure Fire Emblem: Awakening will be my GOTY next year.

@TooWalrus said:

Jay444111 was banned, eh? That's probably for the best. Weird that I didn't notice. I'm just glad I was there for that trainwreck Enigma777 posted, that was pretty great.

Anyway, Katawa Shoujo as GOTY? ...sure, in some weird way, I can see it. It's no Persona 4: The Golden, but who am I to argue?

I only know of what happened to Enigma777 from what I saw on his profile page, and wow.

@Video_Game_King You will rue this day for claiming that The Last Story is one of the worst games of the year. I'm not exactly sure how you'll rue it, but you will rue, and you will rue hard.

RUE, DAMMIT.

@Hailinel:

You will be the one to rue it! How can I rue it with such ominous music backing me up?

Wait, why was I tagged in this post? *5 minutes of reading later* Ohhhhhhh. Listen, while I am always for Might and Magic VII getting the recognition it so justly deserves, I can accept Bioshock as a perfectly valid answer. I also still think that picture you made is awesome, but I'm going back to my old icon.

Also, I was wondering what happened to Jay. I'm just sad it didn't happen sooner. Or later. Every forum needs its token 14-year-old.

Best GOTY.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Hailinel:

You will be the one to rue it! How can I rue it with such ominous music backing me up?

I fixed your link. I found one more appropriate for you.

@Hailinel:

It doesn't link anywhere :|.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Hailinel:

It doesn't link anywhere :|.

Hmm. Weird. Oh, well. Maybe it was a forum bug or something. But whatever.

YOU WILL RUE, WITH OR WITHOUT AN ACCOMPANYING SOUNDTRACK.

@Hailinel:

You have not demonstrated your power adequately enough for me to rue anything.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Hailinel:

You have not demonstrated your power adequately enough for me to rue anything.

I don't really need to do that. I my rue-inducing capabilies are AOEs. I don't want unnecessary collateral damage.

@Hailinel said:

I my rue-inducing capabilies are AOEs.

What? You become less and less rue-worthy by the post.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Hailinel said:

I my rue-inducing capabilies are AOEs.

What? You become less and less rue-worthy by the post.

I'm not the one you'll be ruing. No one ever said that you would rue me.

@Hailinel:

But the day I will be ruing will likely be associated with you, and very likely associated with something you do to me. How can I rue something you do if you yourself are not rue-worthy?

@Video_Game_King: If I told you that, it wouldn't be a surprise.

Well this is definitely one of the better game of the year blogs.

I feel like I just accidentally stumbled into the early 90s, where everything was nonsense because I was like two years old.

I wanna say The Last Story, just to trick you into inadvertently giving that game an award, but I'm not sure you had the means to take Wii screenshots? So I'll give it to Jelly Boy instead because we're the only people in the world to give that little crotch-puncher any love.

Oh wait, did I already deny myself the right to give out that award as my far slimmer comic persona? Okay, fine, but I don't remember doing so. (Great set of awards, as usual. Surprised you didn't give out a Pepsiman award for "most Japanese text I had to maneuver around" or just a Hailinel award for "most aggressively Japanese game", since you do seem to play a lot of those types.)

@Ravenlight said:

Do you hear that, @Hailinel? You'll never thicken my soup! MY SOUP WILL FOREVER FLOW FORTH, AND PROSPEROUS TIMES SHALL BE HAD BY ALL!

@Little_Socrates:

It's because of the early Psychonauts reference, isn't it?

@Mento said:

I wanna say The Last Story, just to trick you into inadvertently giving that game an award, but I'm not sure you had the means to take Wii screenshots?

Trust me: if I had the ability to take screenshots of my Wii games, this site would be flooded with Fragile Dreams and Trauma Center.

(Oh, and I was hoping you'd answer in comic form. That's why your answer in the blog itself is a comic.)

Surprised you didn't give out a Pepsiman award for "most Japanese text I had to maneuver around" or just a Hailinel award for "most aggressively Japanese game", since you do seem to play a lot of those types.

Oddly enough, I'm already considering doing this for next year, only the namesakes actually write their respective entries. What's so odd about this? Well, I already have @Pepsiman and @Hailinel planned for this. What are their categories?

• Pepsiman: Most Obscure Japanese Video Game
• Hailinel: Best Use of Very Angry Rabbits

You're in there, too. Your category? "Most Vomit Inducing Game". Here's the reason.

Sweet blog, King! Nice wrap up to a year of wanting nothing more than egos and games. Video Games.

@Claude said:

Sweet blog, King! Nice wrap up to a year of wanting nothing more than egos and games. Video Games.

For context: this message first appeared as a PM reply to my entire blog (IE the entire blog was a PM (because of the @reply thing) and he responded to that). I did not question a single moment of it, but he did. One cannot understand Claude.

@Video_Game_King: Well, unless there's another Telltale Sam and Max series (which'll probably have a "Save Sam or Max, the other will die" choice because that's what those dudes are about these days) I think this year was the one for angry rabbits. I'm also assuming there won't be another Rabbids game in 2013, which is probably folly.

As for a comic, let me get right on that? Sort of?

Meanwhile, I'll have to put my thinking cap on during 2013 for most vomit inducing. I will be finally playing that Chickenhead game, so maybe that'll work?

@Mento:

Don't worry. That'll be Hailinel's problem to worry about.

Also, don't worry about choosing the most vomit-inducing game. I've already played Alone in the Dark, so vomiting all around!

Neat-o blog here. I like the format of naming the awards after users. The awards seemed to take a back seat to the pictures but that is fine.

I'm not entirely sure what I just read. However, I'm entirely sure you must have dropped acid before writing it.