At the end of last year, we ran a huge series of features listing our top 100 most anticipated titles for this year. There was one article for every position on the list and it almost killed poor Lee, who compiled and wrote it all.
[drop2]This year, we’re going to format the feature slightly differently. We’re going to break the list down into manageable chunks of five and summarise them. Hopefully, this means that it’s not only less laborious for us to compile but more accessible for you to read and offer more of a chance for you to discuss the titles listed.When we get to the final top ten, we’ll break them down again and post them individually so that we have the chance to write a little bit more about them and also so that the most highly anticipated games (by you, hopefully, as well as by us) are given a little time in the spotlight for us all to discuss them.
Once the full series has been published, we’ll post the list in its entirety and perhaps take a little look at one or two odd titles that didn’t make the final chart. We’ll also give you the chance to vote on that top 100 list and compile those results into a kind of big Massive Poll to see if you arrive at a similar top ten to ours.
Here’s how we compiled the chart: The list of all games that have been confirmed or heavily speculated for 2012 was sent to everyone on staff here at TheSixthAxis and we asked them to rate how much they were anticipating them on a scale of one to ten. Those ratings were counted up and used to find the final chart positions of each game. In last position, falling well outside of the top 100, was a game called Victorious: Hollywood Arts Debut, which only managed to interest a single member of staff more than the bare minimum.
There is likely to be the odd game announcement between now and the end of this list which we will, of course, have missed (especially when the VGAs air with all of their exclusive trailers) but that is, unfortunately, unavoidable. There might also be the odd title that you think should be on the list but was not included. I’ll stress that we only included games that were either announced or inevitable and highly likely to arrive in 2012.
We’re kicking off the list tomorrow, counting down from 100 to 96, and there are a couple of really interesting projects already cropping up so we hope you join us and join in with the feature by talking about the games we’ll be showing off.
IAmJacksMedullaOblongata
The Witness best be high up this list or I’ll leave none.
;)
Spotter5
Starhawk will be number one ;)
MICKY17
+1. Completely agree as the beta is stunning at the moment, and it could have another 12 months of dev time.
TSBonyman
Journey was a surprise but having played the beta i can see that there is something magic about it, especially how the online works.
Still, The Last Guardian is locked as my most anticipated game – whenever it does get released! :) I was happy to read that Ueda-san twittered a few days ago that he is hard at work on the game still.
TSBonyman
um.. forgive my ignorance .. i think i meant tweeted, not twittered. :p
Mickey2010
Cool love these articles they were excellent reads last year! lets see where my most ‘Anticipated’ titles are on the list Max Payne 3,Mass Effect 3,Tomb Raider,Hitman and Starhawk!!
kivi95
How about the games that will be revealed at VGA?
MICKY17
It does state in the article that games announced at the VGA’s won’t be included as the list has already been written. I guess it would be more hassle to fit those games into the existing list.
Awayze
Call Of Duty. Enough said.
MadJunkBoy
wooo! loved the last list=) think starhawk, last guardian and DS3 will be high on the list… but also journey, GTA V(if released next year) mass effect 3 and max payne 3….
hmmmm many games with a 3 released next year… Portal 3 or half-life 3 maybe :P
kivi95
Same like this year then..
MadJunkBoy
yup
my guess to the top 5 would be:
1: Starhawk 2: Journey 3: the last guardian 4: Mass Effect 3 5: GTA V(if released)/Dead Space 3
but we’ll see…. soo looking forward to this list… =)
MICKY17
No Bioshock Infinite in your list. Technically that’s a third game as well.
kivi95
Think Halo 4 will make it into the top 5.
MadJunkBoy
No I don’t think that halo 4 will make it top 5, top 10 maybe but not top 5…
But I totally forgot about bioshock infinite, that one will be im 3rd place in front of the last guardian and mass effect 3…
Hopefully I havn’t forgot about any game so I won’t have to change my list again :p
Jakster123x
Here we go again
marblepebble
SSX, TombRaider and Journey are my top 3, I think. (But I bet I’m forgetting something…)