Game of the Year 2012: Ryan's Top 10

Hello

Is Super Hexagon going to show up on anyone's list?

yay Ryan!

Mistake made by Ryan at the 2 min mark! Flower came out in 2009, not 2010! I get iffy when someone gets a release date of a game wrong!

it feels like ryan is yelling at me.

TRAIN SIMULATOR 2013 WAS ROBBED, Alan Wake American nightmare was SOOOO COOL. DAT FMV. Alan Wake S2 Next gen launch title next year im calling it

Great list and all but how much coffee did Ryan chug? He looks way too amped up and it feels like he's shouting his list at me.

Wow. X-Com huh. I should realy install taht game already.

ANyone else having trouble getting it to load?  The ad keeps freezing a few seconds in.

No love for AC3? Bummer.

Calling it: Alex's top ten list will be the longest, followed by Patrick. Then Brad, Ryan, Vinny, Jeff and Drew.

My hope for Asura's Wrath grows.

Go Ryan Go!

@Colourful_Hippie said:

Great list and all but how much coffee did Ryan chug? He looks way too amped up and it feels like he's shouting his list at me.

Yup, sounds like Ryan to me.

OMG! Don't tell GB's 2012 game of the year will the TWD *_*

Nice, Blitz made my list too (#4). Really surprised how fun that wound up being - prior to release I figured it would be pretty underwhelming.

Holding out a faint hope that Mark of the Ninja somehow pulls a runner-up spot for GOTY. It was my #1. Guessing the three will be XCom, Hotline Miami, and TWD though.

@paulunga said:

@Colourful_Hippie said:

Great list and all but how much coffee did Ryan chug? He looks way too amped up and it feels like he's shouting his list at me.

Yup, sounds like Ryan to me.

Except that he looks like he's about to keel over halfway through his top 10. Ryan needs to take it easy.

HOTLINE MIAMI WHAT

Looks like Jeff will desperately try to cobble together an XCOM alliance to try and halt The Walking Dead juggernaut.

Hunked for Life

@Darro said:

Mistake made by Ryan at the 2 min mark! Flower came out in 2009, not 2010! I get iffy when someone gets a release date of a game wrong!

I'll get my pitchfork, you grab the torch.

Ryan cried during The Walking Dead? Huh. I can't picture a man like him doing so. Powerful.

3:40 Random dude in the background.

@Animasta said:

HOTLINE MIAMI WHAT

What what? It's pretty much the best indie game this year, if not in a while and overall just an incredible game.

@Darro said:

Mistake made by Ryan at the 2 min mark! Flower came out in 2009, not 2010! I get iffy when someone gets a release date of a game wrong!

Damn I was going to be the dick who posted this.

@simkas said:

@Animasta said:

HOTLINE MIAMI WHAT

What what? It's pretty much the best indie game this year, if not in a while and overall just an incredible game.

I have it #2 on my personal list, it's place on Ryan's list just came out of nowhere.

FUCK YEAH HOTLINE MIAMI!

@Ghostiet said:

No love for AC3? Bummer.

Not a bad game just not great I can see why he would leave it off.

Great list, Ryan. XCOM is amazing!!!

Yay! American Nightmare!

No Far Cry 3? Great on the Hotline Miami call.

@Electric_Zen said:

Looks like Jeff will desperately try to cobble together an XCOM alliance to try and halt The Walking Dead juggernaut.

I think Alex shows up for the last podcast, and I'm betting he's all about TWD.

So... was it a little too on the nose to use the clip of Jeff kissing the Earnhardt #3 necklace for Ryan's third game?

Thank God someone remembered American Nightmare!

Also GREAT top 4.

Cool, haven't played half those games.

Journey is a chillout session and a great game, but Hotline Miami is a great game that makes me want to take some mind-expanding bad stuff, put on music and punish my dong like I caught it breaking into my house, some of us like it that way.

Big ups for the Alan Wake nod.

And I told y'all fools that Asura's Wrath would be getting some love!

@Electric_Zen said:

Looks like Jeff will desperately try to cobble together an XCOM alliance to try and halt The Walking Dead juggernaut.

Not sure there will be anything desperate about it, everyone on the staff seemed to love it. Their talk on TWD on today's podcast covered a lot about their feelings, and they certainly aren't ignoring its flaws.

I love Ryan.

Ryan's list was the one I was looking forward to the most. His opinions matter more to me than anyone in the game industry's because his tastes so align with mine. Great list.

Another really solid list, will finally have time to get into Hotline Miami after New Year's, can't wait

I don't know if anyone has said this but Flower came out in 2009. Yeah, I am a fucking dick.

Mad props for Hotline Miami love, Ryan!

Crying over The Walking Dead? What? :/

Ryan seem exhausted.

Also, I think this list is telling to where games are going. Most of the games on Ryan's list are downloadable indie titles.

Capcom's Asura's Wrath? Asura's Wrath was developed by CyberConnect2...

@InfiniteGeass: Yes, but Capcom published it.

Wow, XCOM sounds like a legit GOTY contender. Just might have to play it...

@blueinferno said:

@InfiniteGeass: Yes, but Capcom published it.

They also made the last act DLC.

My head is now buzzing with a word soup. All these (formerly written, writerly) words SPAT out ...

... Ryan - the King of shouting words per minute: FASTER! TALK LOUDER!