What's You Most Played Game of '09? Is It Your GOTY?

I was listening to the most recent Mobcast from the Bitmob site and there was an interesting discussion involving how we choose our "Game of the Year".  John Davison of Gamepro magazine said,

...people get into this weird different head-space when they start talking about Game of the Year, and feel they need to be honoring, like almost a different set of values. But, if it was just "what did you have the most fun with this year," it almost certainly won't be that game that wins. 

My most played game of '09 was an '08 - Fallout 3. Definitely my '08 GOTY.
 
Uncharted 2 is too short to be my "most played" of '09 but it is my GOTY.

Most played? Strangely enough, probably Infamous. Multiple playthroughs for the platinum, which I got twice.
 
And Uncharted 2 is my GOTY.

Tales of Vesperia is probably the longest amount of playtime I've put into a game this year, but yeah Uncharted 2 still sticks as my GOTY because I've also put in plenty of hours into that and also enjoyed every minute. Admittedly its startin to feel a lil stale, but its had a very good run.

Gears 1 followed by Gears 2 which may be passed soon by Uncharted 2.

The game I played the most this year was Mega Man 2... I've beaten it like 6 times now.  It's just one of those games that relaxes me for some reason. 
 
Definitely game of the year, in 89.

I've spent the most time in MW2, due to the multiplayer being very good. However i'd much rather see Uncharted 2 or Dragon Age get GOTY or even InFamous or Batman: AA. All of which I enjoyed alot more.

I sank about 250 hours into P4 between watching the endurance run and playing the game itself, but for obvious reasons it can't be GOTY for 09.

Sadly, the game I played the most this year is WoW. Even though I quit for good many months ago I still managed to clock in several hundred hours this year before pulling the plug. No other game I have played this year has managed to clock in near the 300 hour mark though Dragon Age: Origins is coming close and that is my pick for GOTY.

I dont really know, the single game I played the most has to be Persona 4 with over 80 hours and Im still not finished because I havent had time, I got it in March when it released here in Europe after watching a little of the ER so technically its a 2009 game for me 
 
The other two games I spent alot of time with is Persona 3: FES and Dragon Age, which Ive spent about 40 hours in each of them so far
 
But yeah I think my Game of the Year is Uncharted 2, loveable characters, great story, awesome online and just fun to play

I've always thought the more important distinction to make was between "favorite" game and "best" game. For example, I looooove Patapon. It does some things that make it super fun for me. But if you break it down, a game like...say...Prince of Persia is much better. It has far better graphics, story, gameplay quality, replay value, and so on.  So with that said, my favorite game of this year is the game I had the most fun with: Uncharted 2. The game I consider the best of the year (best graphics, pacing, storytelling, gameplay mechanics, replay value, etc.) also happens to be Uncharted 2.  
 
Last year, MGS4 was my choice for best game (actually I still think it's the best game ever made, even better than Uncharted 2) but my favorite was Resistance 2.   
 
PS: I also played Persona 3 FES for a really, really long time this year and I would've probably picked it for my favorite game of 2008 if I had played it back then. God, that game is awesome. Props to PenguinDust for the pic and the caption, there.

My most played game is actually Champions Online now that I think about it, but it certainly isn't my favorite game of the year. I think Uncharted 2, Dragon Age and Batman are all my favorites.

I would say Demon's Souls has received the most play time from me, and it might just be my personal GOTY.  I will however be picking a more realistic game of the year, one that I liked nearly as much and is something that is more in line with what the guys at Giant Bomb are going to discuss.  That GOTY game is probably DA:O  or Uncharted 2.  I would think Uncharted 2 has a much better chance at taking top spot but man did I love Dragon Age.  
 
 
Edit:  Keeng said it in a good way, a Favorite title and a Best title.  I like that.

my most played game is either modern warfare 2 or forza 3. it is what i've been playing for the past couple of months.

My most played game of 09 is probably The Force Unleashed, so no.

Most played game is definately WoW, doing 4hr raids 3 days a week and leveling 4 new characters to 80 and 4 to 70 has taken a lot of time, maybe even too much. I'm pretty burnt out now, just as the main point of the expansion was released. 
 
I also spent some real good time with Mirror's Edge, definately my favorite game from '08. I gave up when I came to the harder speedruns and time trials though, I'm not that much for racing etc, even though I do want 1000/1000 on it. 
 
Batman:AA has been a major game too, I played through maybe 70% of the story and collected something like 180 riddles, and then got a corrupt save >_> So I played through it again and I am working on getting the last 20 or so riddles, and also going through the hard difficulty. Amazing game, first when I saw the trailers for it I thought it was going to be another crappy cash cow. After playing the demo I was stuck though. 
 
My most played game after WoW is CoD:MW(No, I didn't leave out a 2 there). I didn't buy MW2 just yet, been running low on cash for a while now, but I'm hyped for getting it soon and therefore I have spent nearly a month playing it somewhere around 2-3hrs per day, and I also hardcore gamed it at the beginning of the year. 
 
Out of all my most played's, only one is from '09, which would make Batman:AA my choice of GoTY, but hey, I haven't played every game released this year, maybe MW2 really is that brilliant, maybe Borderlands is an awesome multiplayer experience, and maybe Dragon Age has some great story. But I haven't played them, and naming something you haven't played GoTY is retarded. 
 
So yeah, Batman:AA, because of its quality, WOW factor and easy, yet time consuming achievements is my pick of GoTY.

most played SF4
GOTY SF4

The game I played the most this year was Fallout 3, but my GOTY would probably have to Arkham Asylum.  

Street Fighter IV and yes, it is my GOTY.

My most played has to be FIFA 10, tons of hours wasted with my roommates.  No way that its my GOTY though

I disagreed with John Davison's idea that what game you played the most is a strong indicator of what game should be your GOTY.  For me... I probably played Plants vs. Zombies the most, but I consider Uncharted 2 my 2009 GOTY.  A unit of time isn't equivalent between games.  I definitely had fun doing a 3 minute level in Plant's vs. Zombies, the the three minutes you spend in Uncharted 2 where you are going through a building that eventually collapses and forces you to jump through a window into another building was effin' crazy.  Those action set-pieces in Uncharted 2 are memorable experience that make this game deserve any GOTY praise it gets.

I've spent the most time with Uncharted 2, and Uncharted 2 is my GOTY.  So there.

I've played Fallout 3 the most this year and last year for that matter, but it is neither my '08 GOTY nor my '09 GOTY.
 
I haven't decided my game of the year 2009 yet.

I've played more Dragon Age than anyother game...but Uncharted 2 and Final Fantasy XIII are my front runners!

My most played game this year is WoW, I spent to much time leveling one character to 80.  

I've played Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Prototype the most this year.... 
 
Fallout 3 was my GoY last year, and I'm not so sure about this year. I've got a couple weeks left, and I'm getting Dragon Age tomorrow. So it will be between Dragon Age and Borderlands. 

I dumped 90+ hours into Persona 3 this year. 
Runner up would be 75 hours in Persona 4. 
But as far as games that came out this year are concerned, I'd say I spent the most time with MW2 and Pokemon Platinum, oddly enough. 
 
Still haven't decided on my GoTY, but this discussion over MW2's broad multiplayer component being better than Uncharted 2's stellar singleplayer has been the main stumbling block I've needed to get over to decide it.

My most played this year is Burnout Paradise (250+ hours).  Not my GOTY of this year, obviously. 
 
My GOTY is Uncharted 2, but I got it recently and have been busy with finals and such (15 hours).  
 
Infamous is probably second on my list and I have the second most time on that (60ish hours).

I played a lot of Fallout 3 and Street Fighter IV. Fallout didn't ,make it because I didn't think it really counted but Street Fighter IV is my game of the year.

Batman: AA for the mother-effing WIN, baby.  Too good, too good.

NBA 2K9. My brother and I play against each other all the time. It came out in 2008, so that disqualifies it. Either way it wouldn't be my GOTY, but probably the best sports game.

For a while, I was unemployed and hooked on LittleBigPlanet. Like, 7-8 hours a day. It's depressing to think of the hundreds of hours I spent in create mode without a finished level to show for it. Sigh.
 
But Uncharted 2 is easily my GOTY.

TES IV: Oblivion!  but i guess the GOTY will be MW2 or DAO or Batman  AA or Uncharted , out which ive only played Baatman AA, i have yet to get the other 2

My most played games are probably Fallout 3 and Lost Odyssey, and my GOTY is either Wii Sports Resort or Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

Probably Dragon Age: Origins. And I don't know about GOTY... It's a contender at least.

ODST and Dissidia.
But I don't think I'd say either were GoTY.

modern warfare 2

my most played game is without doubt Football manager 09, and lately 2010.
But thats far from being my choice for a GOTY, it's just some mindless fun using my mind, or something like that.
 
GOTY is probably Uncharted 2, with Batman close behind. Havn't played enough FF XIII yet to call it a serious contender for GOTY

Fallout 3 - Most Played 
MW2 - Most played game from 2009
Batman AA - GOTY 2009

My most played game this year was Persona 3 by the proverbial country mile. I clocked up about 150 hours on it. I can't think of anything else this year that would have gotten over 20-25. It won't be my game of the year though.

Thank you to everyone who's commented so far.  I think it paints a very interesting portrait of how many of us choose our "Game of the Year".  It would seem that the majority of us are a bunch of fickle mushheads*, myself included.  That was one of the reasons I wanted to explore this topic in the first place.  I can't count how many times I've ventured into threads which asked for a single example only to list 5 or 10 in reply.  It's hard to narrow things down.  Perhaps that's part of the avaricious nature of people.  We aren't satisfied with what we have and we don't like being limited in expressing ourselves.  In choosing our game our "Game of the Year," our criteria is often split into convenient categories differentiating "favorite" from "best".  The games that have been the most fun or the ones which freely consumed the majority of our time, weren't considered good enough to be worthy of "game of the year".  Why is that?  

Admittedly, a lot of games were ineligible because they were 2008 or earlier releases.  That's another aspect I found intriguing.  In addition to our collective love affair with all things "Persona", Fallout 3, Burnout Paradise, Modern Warfare 1, and the inescapable World of Warcraft continued to dominate our attention above more recent titles. What does that say about the games released between January 2009 and October 2009?  Street Fighter and Batman seem to be among the very few titles that captivated us during that period.  

In terms of sessions: Team Fortress II
In terms of overall playtime: Dragon Age: Origins
 
Neither of those is my GOTY, because I have none.

Hard to say which game I played the most, if you want to include multiplayer and things like that.  RPG's are up there, lots of multiplayer shooters, but I am TIRED of all of thie Uncharted 2 GOTY talk.  I loved it, it was great, but its just an extremely well done Tomb Raider game.  When it comes to GOTY, I think it has to bring something new to the table, so would have to vote for Batman:AA.  Will take it and its flaws over Uncharted 2.

Dragon age orgins, because I had to refomat and replay it. Is it my game of the year? no, batman arkham asylum is.

League Of Legends - I have no idea how much, but probably over 80 hours.
 
I've only played like 3 games from 2009, but yes, League Of Legends is my GOTY.

Halo 3 is actually my most played game this year, it still has fantastic multiplayer. But my GOTY 09 is undoubtedly Street Fighter 4 by a long way.