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GOTY 2012

This is my list of the best games of 2012. There will be far more content about these games throughout this week.

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  • Like the journey that 2001: A Space Odyssey could never take us on.

  • The game that concludes the best trilogy of the generation on an absolute high-watermark.

  • A game that teaches you how to love, even if it does so by turning you and your partner into Pokémon.

  • The lost NES platformer that shows up some of its classic brethren. Looking at you, Sonic 2.

  • Few moments spent with this game were not in joyous rapture.

  • Easily my favorite shooter of the year. Some of the best performances ever. AND THAT ENDING IS SO DAMN INCREDIBLE. Made me want to read the comics.

  • Even if it's just replicating the primary relationship of Persona 4 in many ways, it's absolutely successful at the imitation. Kenny's pretty awesome, too.

  • An addiction that very nearly shames me. Pixel-perfect gameplay. High-falutin' moral statements. Hydrogen by M.O.O.N.

  • Terry Cavanagh just keeps on giving. His major project of 2012. The most precise I've ever felt playing a touch-screen game. And that music.

  • Technically a 2011 release in the States, but I didn't play it till this year, and it WAS released in Europe in 2012. Probably the most memorable multiplayer experiences of the year. A Monopoly-style game that doesn't lead to anybody wanting to flip the board, but a game that still captures the fun of the classic. The only game on this list that makes a board game classic feel useless in comparison.

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@Slag: Ha! That's actually pretty awesome. Glad it made the list at all, then.

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@Little_Socrates:

just realized I never responded to this. Thanks for the insight man. sounds like a fun game, but a game I'd rarely get to play then.

So looking at the data of the site's users GOTY lists,

of the 650 participants, you were the only one to include Fortune Street and it has the lowest score of any game tabulated. In other words it came in 331st.

Now that sir is a gutsy choice. granted it was a 2011 release but still.

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@ImmortalSaiyan: Journey is one I'm definitely going to write a lot about in the next few days, so I'll elaborate on that further!

@Slag: If you don't think you'll EVER get to play it with friends (or family, honestly, they're probably better at it than you will be) then skip it. The A.I. is actually pretty entertaining; there's a lot of writing meant to add personality to your A.I. opponents, but it doesn't match the thrill of yelling at your friends in the room. It's also got online multiplayer, so a handful of Bombers with the title could actually hop online and play with you if you sent the message around.

If you think you'll be able to play it with live folks even a couple times a year, I'd say it's totally worth it. The single-player is good enough that you could boot it up when you felt an itch to play, and it's the kind of game that everyone I know is always begging me to bring over to their house.

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In your opinion is Fortune Street single player fun/worthwhile?

That's why i keep holding off, I just few opportunities for me to get a good multiplayer game going

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Neat list and I like the captions. I wonder what you mean by that statement regarding Journey. Looking Forward to hearing more through thoughts on these games.