On The Year’s Best Games

I’ve no doubt you have already looked at plenty of “best games of 2012” lists, and I’m sure you’re just as tired as I am of seeing a the same games in different orders. Now, Diablo III, Assassin’s Creed III, Mass Effect III, Far Cry III, Max Payine III, Halo IV, XCom, The Walking Dead, and Dishonored all have their merits. Well, maybe not Diablo III. But it seems to me that journalists should expand their perceptions beyond the horizons and consider titles that are new and innovative instead of the same old games that won “best game” previously +1. Certainly, Dishonored and The Walking Dead deserves to be in any top games of 2012 list, and while I wasn’t a big fan of XCom I can see why some find it a solid game. As far as all the sequels that keep popping up in these lists are concerned, I found them to be great games, but they were nothing more than “more of the same”. At times I even felt as if I was actually playing just extra stages of the previous title (Halo IV).

And so, in this list of “best” videogames of 2012, instead of repeating a justification of why Mass Effect III is awesome (it is), I’m going to give you some recommendations of awesome games you should have tried but probably didn’t.

Also, I’m aware that I put an image of Catherine, a 2011 game, on the image above. I also know it came out last year. But hey, I got it this year and it came out on Europe earlier this year, so meh.