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

Kid Icarus: Uprising (35 points)

I personally had no issues with the controls in this, but I can see if people do. But outside of that, this thing is fantastic. Humour, content, a multiplayer mode with both a high skill ceiling and dynamic gameplay, a fuckin' awesome weapon fusing system. THAT MUSIC.

Seriously, it's like a damn near flawless action game. It's an instant classic and I really wish they'd make a follow-up. Shame they already said it wasn't bloody likely.

MechWarrior Online (25 points)

When MW5 resurfaced late last year after a 30-odd month haitus since the initial reveal trailer, and then they were all "oh yeah, it's F2P. Oh yeah, it's done by an untested team. Oh yeah, they're sticking as close to tabletop stats as humanly possible."

Sort of shat my pants.

But Piranha is fantastic. They've crafted a game that's both insanely tactical and extremely granular. They've taken the most important parts of BT and faithfully reversed the trend that started with MW3 in turning MechWarrior into an arcade game. It's intelligent again and oh man. It's good.

It's still in open beta, but it's released on the open, and I think it's fantastic. Probably since I got into the closed beta right after getting back from the Meet, it's been my most played title this year. Hundreds of matches already.

Hawken (10 points)

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It actually looks and plays like this. UT, in robots the size of pickup trucks, deployables, items, skill trees. UE3 engine that makes the damn game look like some sort of crazy shit.

Also just recently in open beta, but from what I've seen since second alpha, shit is ridiculous and next year will be amazing for it.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (10 points)

MP was good but not as amazing as War's. Been dumbed down in many, MANY ways, and it suffers for it. Longevity for the title took a dump, and it became a lot more one sided.

That said, the SP Campaign was fantastic. No fluff, no padding, no bullshit. Just pure, unadultered joy from start to finish. Fantastic setpieces, great nostalgia runs, everything in it was spot fucking on. I can't get over how fantastic it was. The best shooter campaign of the last couple years, EASILY.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star (10 points)

I like how much crap this game gets for not being TTYD 2. It's an ADVENTURE game, and once you look at it like that it becomes sublime, subtle, and clever. It's never obtuse, but it does require you to not be an idiot. It's smart, it's perfectly bite sized, and it's insanely well executed.

People who dong on it are, quite frankly, dumb.

Borderlands 2 (5 points)

It is odd giving this only 5 points. It's hilarious, it's lengthy, and it's an awesome experience with friends. But...I was expecting all that. It lived up to my high expectations for it, my excitement. I played the shit out of it too.

But the lack of a post game worth anything and the weird choices for raid bosses and balance of legendaries made it hard to give more points to, because that's arguably just as large a segment of the title as the primary campaign, and it's sort of torpedo'd by it, personally.

I look forward to playing a lot of the DLC, but I don't think I'm going to run another character through it and go to the same amount of loot whoring I did with the first one.

Persona 4: Golden (5 points)

Playing this again reminds me why this game is so. damn. good. But it's also half a decade old, so I can't really give it more points. The changes made to it for the Vita version are all SPECTACULAR, though. Several are game changing, and all for the better. The new Social Links are interesting and everything's been integrated well. Very much the definitive version.

The new VA for Chie is a huge improvement too.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It is ridiculously appreciated. The core group of votes might dwindle, but it's still very nice to have an area where everyone throws down some thoughts. Despite us all sharing this hobby, many of us don't get a chance to discuss with each other. I see Tritoch and GB on Live, we use like every medium, Angel on AIM, Philia on backloggery, and CHz in chat. It's still very nice to have something where we can all put it in one spot. <3

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Radez, stop talking such sweet, sweet nothings. You're giving me a half chub.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.