Your (underrated) GotY 2012

[Iwata]

So we all know the big contenders for Game of the Year... but what about "the other ones"? Which game would you consider slipped under everyone's radar and deserves the title of 2012's Unknown Gem?

 

[DustyDrB]

Well, my actual game of the year is Mark of the Ninja. So...it still applies.

 

[chaser5000]

Fall of Cybertron, it's a great game no one seemed to notice.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Katawa Shoujo. Because the escapist and 4chan are the only places that know about the game.

 

[hazabaza1]

There hasn't been enough talk about Journey this year.
inb4 daystar

 

[shrekfan246]

There hasn't been enough talk about Journey this year.
inb4 daystar

Seconded, mostly because The Walking Dead gained a pretty large amount of steam for being a Point&Click Adventure game.

 

[hazabaza1]

There hasn't been enough talk about Journey this year.
inb4 daystar

Seconded, mostly because The Walking Dead gained a pretty large amount of steam for being a Point&Click Adventure game.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I fucking love TWD, but everyone is talking about how great it is. I figure Journey needs some more o' dat lovin'.

 

[Shinsei-J]

Journey because, yeah, Journey.
Haven't played it? PLAY IT!
Runner up for me is Skullgirls, after that whole sexism controversy it didn't really get any love.
Sad, because it's a really awesome fighter.

 

[Zhukov]

I would say Journey, but that's already been mentioned three times which suggests that it's not as underrated as all that.

 

[Marter]

Pokemon Conquest was this year, right?

That thing is just so much fun. And I think it would count as "underrated."

 

[scorptatious]

Hmmm.

It would either be Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, or Journey for me.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I'm already gonna say ZombiU. It's not the GOTY (we're talking underrated here), but it's fucking incredible. Every aspect of that game, including the Wii U controls, are designed to create tension and fear, and it actually works. My only justification for the hate is that too many reviewers have been babied.

 

[AldUK]

Gonna 2nd Katawa Shoujo, in a genre almost exclusive to Japan, a bunch of anonymous took a joke concept and created a beautiful, heart-wrenching game.

I still think TDW deserves GotY but KS isn't far behind.

 

[Samus Aran but a man]

What are the big contenders? I'm not sure any game this year was GOTY material. I was disappointed by a lot of highly anticipated games :-(

I enjoyed XCOM: Enemy Unknown the most. I suppose I'll say that.

 

[T_ConX]

Hotline Miami, Katawa Shoujo, and Virtue's Last Reward aren't getting anywhere near the attention they deserve...

 

[TrevHead]

Runner up for me is Skullgirls, after that whole sexism controversy it didn't really get any love.
Sad, because it's a really awesome fighter.

Imo the whole sexism thing with Skull Girls was WAYYY overblown, yeah it had 2D boobs (sigh) wow never seen that before in a videogame. There were also lots of ppl taking a dump over it due to it not having a fully fleshed out training mode despite it been a XBLA game and having a tutorial mode which was totally original.

Skull Girls is my runner up too, damn solid fun imo.

My GOTY is FTL though. Such a simple game but I had 10 times the fun than most AAAs I played this year.

Which game would you consider slipped under everyone's radar and deserves the title of 2012's Unknown Gem?

Akai Katana 360, which despite buying at launch 7 months ago I never made the time to get into. It's only now that i'm playing it properly and wow what a colourful and unique scoreplay game it is.