What is your GOTY so far?

[Tharwen]

Spec Ops: The Line.

No other game has done nearly as much for gaming. Also, I haven't played Borderlands 2 or Dishonored yet.

 

[ElectroJosh]

Legend of Grimrock was fantastic and is the kind of RPG that hasn't been made for while - as was Torchlight 2.

I'll take them - the only other game I've really sunk time into this year was Skyrim (especially after the expansion came out).

 

[Pharsalus]

FF.... no, not even gonna get the windex for any of those interactive movies. Borderlands 2 perhaps, X-Com was the most anticipated but it just doesn't have the fun factor.

 

[lord Claincy Ffnord]

Dishonoured Effect 3 I really cannot pick between the two games as I love them both for vastly different reasons.

 

[Alternative]

Ive sunk days of playtime into Borderlands 2 already and while Dishonored gets an honorable mention so far im going with Borderlands 2.

Although we are just heading into the big month of releases.

 

[OpticalJunction]

guild wars 2 is most definitely the best game I've played this year. I can see myself playing it for years to come, too.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

XCOM: Enemy Unknown or Transformers: Fall of Cybertron for me Borderlands 2 is a runner up.

 

[Okulossos]

I would have placed Mass Effect 3 here, but I did not like the conclusion (even tough I would not say it is terrible, it's just not what I would have wanted). Still it is one of my top Games this year.
I would have loved to place XCOM here, but the technical flaws just break it for me. I still think it is ultimately a very, very good game.
I would have chosen Dark Souls prepare to die edition, but the game itself did not come out this year.
I would have chosen Diablo 3, but blizzard broke it by not including LAN support and by including that auction thing, which makes everything I hated about Diablo 2s online mode legit thus forcing me to boycott the game.

So that leaves me with :
-Torchlight 2
-insanely twisted shadow planet
-Space Sector
-FTL

All of Those somehow are not really AAA-material... I have somehow grown sick of most of those games which are either all the way Anime which I completely dislike, or another military shooter in which you "HU-AH" you way through repetitiveness while justifying your actions by being a Soldier from AMÖÖRKA BIATCH...

So na, gaming is going downhill fast, ultimately I head a lot more fun with games like capsized this year than with any AAA title.

 

[airwolfe591]

Im gonna go with FTL though Mark of the Ninja is a close second

I second this motion, both are great games, but FTL Consumed my soul for quite some time and is probably going to reclaim it shortly. Probably the most enjoyable game I've played this year so far.

 

[Tallim]

Frog Fractions, no contest.

Yes actually I think I might have to agree with you there. No game all year has stuck with me quite like Frog Fractions.

 

[Jason Rayes]

Mass Effect 3 came out in early March actually. Go much further back and its 2011. Sleeping Dogs is a newer release than ME 3 as it came out in August. Just to argue semantics, the OP is asking us to pick what we think is the game of the year, that includes pretty much all of it till now. Not "Games prior to March when Mass Effect 3 was released because its too new"

March? Damn, but hasn't time really flown this year... Ah well, whatever.

Point still stands that people are surprisingly malleable when it comes to 'GOTY' candidates. I remember a poll for the every escapist's best game done be a now-banned poster called urprobablyright that had portal as, like, the third best game of all time. Behind LoZ:OOT and Half Life 2 (HL2 was understandable as escapist used to be a heavily pro-valve website)

It isn't that good, but people all voted for it because it had been released with the Orange box only about a month earlier. A later edition of the same poll was done just after Skyrim was released, and shamefully I'm quite sure it won first place. Neither of these games are that good, in terms of impact, concept, execution, revolution factor, polish, etc. I mean Portal was great in many of those cases but it's story was weak, it's gameplay really short and it's variety disappointing. It wasn't the third best game ever made.

And so, the point stands that people who say Resident Evil 6 could very well be voting that way because they forget what games they played 8 months ago, it's kinda lame. It ruined those Escapist's Choice polls when people forgot the best games they ever played because they probably last played them half a decade beforehand, too.

(rambling and hard to follow? I've got a fever that would put a golem to sleep)

For having a fever, that was pretty lucid. Nothing that was obviously an hallucination at least. For myself I picked Mass Effect 3 because for me it HAS been the best game I've played this year, even some shaky spots and the ending didn't dampen my spirits for the end of that 3 game journey. My second choice was The Book of Unwritten Tales which mostly went under peoples radars. I chose these games not because I'm a pawn of public opinion, but simply because to me they are they games that stood out. Obviously a lot of people WILL put games that were massive big budget successes, but that's to be expected, those games sold well because of their huge dedicated fanbase, so there will obviously be lots of people who pick those. If I didn't already think I was pushing things by picking 2 games FTL would have been my third choice. As for Sleeping Dogs, bought it but haven't got a chance to really try it yet, so I felt it would have been unfair to put a game I haven't played.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I only got Dishonored and FTL this year I think. I liked Dishonored but probably got more enjoyment out of FTL. FTL it is, sadly I have yet to beat it. I swear the boss is almost impossible.

 

[Kingjackl]

I've had so much fun this year with Dishonored, Mass Effect 3 and X-COM, but I reckon it should be Spec Ops: The Line. I didn't enjoy it, but that was never the point and I think it's one of those surprise hit games that future generations should take notes on.

 

[Tallim]

Frog Fractions, no contest.

I'm assuming this is some kind of in joke, if so I'm obviously not in because I don't get it...

OT: Spec Ops: The Line definitely gets an honorable mention from me. Pity it came out the same year as ME 3 or it would have gotten my vote.

Frog Fractions is a game and it's a work of genius.

 

[Jason Rayes]

Frog Fractions is a game and it's a work of genius.

I played it. It was a game. Of Frogs. And Fractions. And WTF?

 

[Tallim]

Frog Fractions is a game and it's a work of genius.

I played it. It was a game. Of Frogs. And Fractions. And WTF?

Oh but it was fun, it was the most pure actual fun I've had with a game in a long time.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Alot of Great games you've listed everyone. I'm seeing dishonoured come up alot. A great game but I just don't feel its game of the year

Dragon's Dogma all the way.

Yes! Someone agrees with me

 

[Curtisin]

X-COM Enemy Unknown for me. Followed by Mass Effect 3 I think.