It’s now 2013, and so of course everyone has done their “Best of 2012″ lists. At Kotaku, we decided to do writer-specific lists this year.
You can read my list here. It wound up being a list of 11 games, with some honorable mentions that are most honorable, indeed.
The list, in no particular order:
• Thirty Flights of Loving
• Max Payne 3
• The Walking Dead
• Hotline Miami
• Gravity Rush
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• Journey
• Far Cry 3
• Botanicula
• Sleeping Dogs
• Persona 4 Golden
With honorable mentions to FTL, Mark of the Ninja, Dyad, Torchlight II, Dishonored, Papo & Yo, Super Hexagon and Sound Shapes. For more on why I liked those games, check out the full article. Short version: They’re all good!
We also did a site-wide Game of the Year award. I argued for why Journey should be our GOTY, but in the end we gave it to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and I’m just fine with that decision.
A pretty cool year for video games, all around. And while we’re only a week or so in, 2013 is looking like it’s going to be bananas. Hooray.
