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To Mods: maybe it's time to move this topic to the Hall of Fame.

@brannox said in The EZA Community Top 25 Best of 2012!:

Death Stranding may have the strongest case

I'm looking forward to play Death Stranding on my Game Pass... oops, Sony charge full price for their exclusives. So I'll be waiting for sale and playing The Outer Worlds and Afterparty instead.

OK @Axel, I'll let you do the honors.

P.S. Just for reference: 2018 GotY in February 2019 Q&A

Youtube Video – [06:18..]

@hazz3r said in The EZA Community Top 25 Best of 2012!:

It rubs me the wrong way that you’re submitting something to the Allies that someone else has worked hard to organise and put together. I appreciate it’s likely good intentioned, but it comes off a bit like you’re trying to take the credit / attention, and I think @Axel might be too polite to ask you not to. You should let him submit it to what he wants.

That's an interesting perspective. Sure, I always presented them with the phrase "EZA forum community have collectively picked..." and never credited @Axel personally but I never talked about myself either. I personally see my submissions as a news report on a story that deserves promotion. I also got the impression that @Axel don't have access to Q&A tier. And I can assure you that I don't need attention - I'm not a social person.

As I said previously I let @Axel to decide whether I should submit to Q&A or not.

P.S. I'm not sure how my post sounds, but I wrote is as a neutral explanation of my actions. No hard feelings or anything.

@bam541 Thank you!

@axel I planned to submit results to October's Q&A to inform most of the allies. But I think that doing both is a good idea since YouTube & Twitch has slightly different audience. Besides Q&A allows only 200 words while Community Showcase has 500 limit, so I will sadly have to omit this wonderful analysis.

What do you think?

P.S. I've considered Hitman: Absolution for my #8. It has problems, but I liked it.

@thedemonpirate Thanks!

@scotty Thanks!

Added "Easy Ally: Brandon Jones" episode.

I've build new PC this August to play Control, so it's hard for me to get excited about next-gen hardware since I already have one. Also this series of tiny announcements is weird. But I enjoy deep dive in game development like having to copy assets multiple times to speed up loading from disks.

Here are my 2012 GotYs:

1. Mass Effect 3
2. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
3. Spec Ops: The Line
4. Dance Central 3
5. The Walking Dead
6. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
7. Dishonored
8. Borderlands 2

I've previously explained all my picks but one: Dance Central 3. Dance Central trilogy were the only games I played on Xbox 360. Loved them despite not being able to dance at all. Also I love Kinect and I'm sad that this technology died. It had so much potential especially in VR era.

The Walking Dead was #5 on my list. I liked its story and it opened a new genre for me. Played all Telltale games that were released after that.

Mass Effect 3 has one of my favorite ending in videogames and I’m talking about its original ending. I’m still amazed how something can be both so simple and incredibly powerful at the same time.

Spoiler warning! Also long emotional post warning!

Through the whole game you are racing against time to build the ultimate weapon against Reapers and save the Galaxy once and for all. With incredible sacrifices (including the death of two companions you’ve took on the last mission) you reach your destination where you learn that your goal, the thing you were hoping for, the thing you’ve put everything on is simply unachievable. Yet in this moment of despair there is still a thing you need to do: you need to make a choice. A choice you not ready for. A choice you are not authorized to make. A choice only you can make.

This very moment is what makes Mass Effect 3 so special. In any other game you either reach one of the ending automatically based on your previous choices, or you mindlessly pick one of the options based on what type of playthrough (good/evil/etc.) you are playing. But in Mass Effect 3 you have to look back at your whole journey and think. Think about every choice you made and its result. Think about every fraction you’ve meet and your feelings about them. Think about who you are and in what future you believe the most. And once you realize that for his/her whole life Shepard was unknowingly preparing for this very moment you understand what choice he/she would make.

Like a true piece of art Mass Effect 3 speaks about real life’s problems. About how sometimes your hopes can be crushed, but you must still carry on. About how to make choices you are not prepared for. About starting a new when you can’t return to the past.

Sadly the Internet only wanted a generic game where ending is decided by flags in your savegame and there’s one “sunshine and rainbows” true ending that is considered a canon. And as a result many of those who haven’t played Mass Effect 3 think that it’s a bad game. I’m extremely glad that this community thinks otherwise.

P.S. I played multiplayer for almost two month and I liked it. It nothing to praise, but it’s definitely not an unnecessary filler.

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/

Dishonored is #7 on my list. Great graphics for that gen (although I played it on PC)! Also it have great stealth and interesting level design. Solving its environmental puzzles was very enjoyable. Sadly, the story is forgettable, otherwise it would be higher on my list.

4 of my votes haven't surfaced yet and we only have 3 spots left. I wonder which game will not make the cut: The Walking Dead, Mass Effect 3, Dishonored or Dance Central 3...

I like Walking Simulators and I like this game but for some reason it doesn't impress me that much. But I'm glad it got #4.

Again, played it as a PS Plus game for Vita. I liked it, but not enough for the top 8.

Summoning this thread to the top.

In mid-90s my parents bought me a book about video games. It had lots of short descriptions and two detailed walkthroughs. One of those walkthroughs was X-Com: UFO Defense. I had no PC at that time (and of course no consoles) so I’ve never played it. But I’ve read that walkthrough again and again imagining I playing it.

Flash forward to 2012. XCOM: Enemy Unknown comes out and gets great reviews. I start playing it and it is exactly the same game I imagined playing nearly two decades ago. I had absolutely magical experience going through its campaign.

It’s #6 on my list because while this magical experience is tied to this game it has almost nothing to do with game’s qualities. It’s a great game, but I played more enjoyable 2012 games.