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TheHakku's Top 10 of 2012.

Here's my Top 10 of 2012. Please note: I wish I could list some awesome games here, but I just haven't gotten the time to play most of them. Games that are most likely appearing on your top games of 2012 somewhere. These include gems such as FTL: Faster Than Light, Hotline Miami and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I do actually own these games, and have heard AMAZING things, and I will have to check them out in 2013. I promise I will. 
 
Another mention that I absolutely love but forgot to even CONSIDER was Tokyo Jungle. That game is ridiculously awesome.

List items

  • While not considered by many to be a game as much as an "interactive story," The Walking Dead lands in my Number 1 spot. Game of the year, indeed. This game takes you on quite an enjoyable and emotional thrill ride over five episodic chapters, meant to be played per chapter. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be shocked! If you don't find yourself in tears by the end, you're most likely not playing the same game. This is Telltale Games' finest work to date. I can't wait for the eventual sequel.

  • I must say, I hated the notion of cel-shaded graphics since I first saw the DDR characters being rendered this way. ...Yeah, I went there. Borderlands 2 is a welcome, and fitting sequel to the original Borderlands. Incredibly fun, and with a more "satisfying" ending for some than the first game (though I thought Borderlands' ending was brilliant).

  • The "final" iteration of the Mass Effect franchise came out on my 24th birthday. Happy birthday to me! This is another game with an ending I thought was fitting. Maybe I just needed to play through ME1 to understand other players' frustrations. Though lacking in quantity in comparison to ME2, the quality, and fun tweaks still made ME3 a fun ride.

  • Combining basically two of my favorite things ever. Harmonix's FreQuency/Amplitude games, and the ever-expanding Rock Band library of songs. Beat matching is fun, fun, fun.

  • In the same vein as Rock Band Blitz, it's a music rhythm game. Tapping, dragging and bobbing your head to the beat, DJMAX Technika Tune is a fantastic game that takes the touchscreens of the arcades into the palm of your hands. The last iteration I played was Portable for the PSP, and that didn't disappoint, either.

  • Though there is barely any replay value to this game, your sole "Journey," as the title implies, is just that. You will come across companions along your travels, and by the end of the game, you may even be surprised by the amount of people you met along your personal odyssey. Take a trip. It'll be worth it.

  • Suda 51. Also boobs. And I guess a little bit of butt. This game looks orgasmazing. It also plays really well. Fun little game, that 'ol Lollipop Chainsaw, yep.

  • Pretty much this year's open-world GTA-styled, Saints Row-styled, but not at all Gangnam-styled video game. It's actually really fun and has a great story to it. ...But you can also go dragging people along until you can bash their skulls in with car doors.

  • THQ and Yuke's do right by WWE fans and WWE -game- fans alike with this game by almost bringing the "F" back, and giving us the greatest era of WWE history, the Attitude Era. Not only does this mean the story mode is fantastic, but the controls have been practically rebuilt from the ground up. Not since the WWF No Mercy days has a wrestling game been this fun.

  • There's a story mode in Dance Central 3. Also, not only can you play all DLC and all DC1 songs, but you will also be able to import your songs from DC2. By the way, Dance Central 3 has a story mode. Also, Gangnam Style is DLC. And it's amazing. In case you didn't know, there's a damn story mode in a Dance Central game.

  • Honorable mention at #11 on this list as an opportunity to list my 2011 Game of the Year of 2012. When I originally got this game probably a year ago, I played it once, made it to The Duke of Flies, died, and hadn't touched it for months. What a fool I was. This game is addiction. Once you get past the initial frustrations of dying, it's really an amazing game. You start to unlock more things, and get better at the game the more you play it. I just recently obtained Platinum God, and am still never going to let this one go. There's a reason why people are still playing this game and streaming it, over a year after release. Oh yeah, don't forget to pick up the Isaac "demake" remake, Rebirth, on every platform it becomes available on.
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