[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2012: Results now in!

I played relatively few 2012 releases this year, so my list will be sparse.

Borderlands 2, 40 points - It's like they took Borderlands the first, and everything that made it so fun, and made it bigger. Then they added Tiny Tina.

Mass Effect 3, 25 points - Great gameplay, great music, great visuals, and an ok plot for the first 34 and a half hours. It is a disappointment when you stand it next to first two games, there is no denying that. Still, it is a fun game, especially when you consider how great the multiplayer is. I spent far more time on the multiplayer than on the single player campaign. For something that may have been tacked on, they did a great job there.

Forza Horizon, 25 points - The best, most fun open world racing game of the year is .... surprisingly not the one developed by Criterion. Forza Horizon managed to take the general concept of Forza, with its car customization, semi-realistic physics, and vast selection of cars and watered it all down enough to work in the open world, slightly more arcady setting. The physics are more forgiving than the main Forza games (and less irritating than Need for Speed Most Wanted), the customization is far less granular than the main Forza games (but there's more to it than NFS:MW), and the car selection is slightly off from the main Forza games, but it works. It is a poor man's Forza, set in an open world. It looks very good (and has about 99% less bloom than NFS) and has a far better soundtrack than NFS.

Torchlight 2, 10 points - Now this is a fun hack and slash with a little depth that definitely benefits from lower expectations than Diablo III. The worst part of this game was its release window. Eight months earlier, or later, and I'm sure it would have been a bigger deal. It has fun combat, a nice graphical style, and really good sound and music. Definitely worth the $20 that some Diablo III nerd put in my paypal account through DIII's real money auction house.

Other than that, it seems like 2012 was spent playing games from previous years, or playing "yearly updates". The quality of Borderlands 2 and Mass Effect 3's multiplayer make up for the lack of quantity of good games this year for me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.