The editorial staff and most regular contributors of TheSixthAxis have cast their votes. We’ll be telling you what we think is our Game of the Year for 2012 very soon. But every year, when we run our Game of the Year series on TSA, we want to include our community in some way. With the hectic end-of-year workload we have – making sure there’s fresh material on the website, even when game releases and news slow down – that hasn’t been possible. This year, we’ve made it possible.
The categories are the same as the ones we used for the staff vote and, while it’s impossible to perfectly define modern videogames into easily recognisable boxes, we think they’re fairly representative.
There’s a category for each of the genres that we felt were well represented this year and, because some genres don’t have a specific category (Fighting and Platform, for example, because there wasn’t a great wealth of games in those genres in 2012), there’s a category called “Genre Agnostic”. This is the place for games which weren’t easily deposited into any of the other categories, for whatever reason.
Some games may appear in more than one category. Uncharted: Golden Abyss was a great Action Adventure game which some of our staff felt should be included in that genre’s Game of the Year discussion but it’s also a great handheld game. Football Manager is a great Strategy game but it’s also a Sports game. As I said, genres in modern games are tricky to define so we had to just do our best.
Likewise, it’s worth mentioning the Mobile and Handheld categories. I think that this might be the last year they’re worth considering as separate categories, because of the great leaps forward mobile gaming is making and its immense popularity. But this year, it didn’t feel right to consider games like Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation alongside games like Super Hexagon. So we did our best with defining categories.
There’s a space for you to enter any game title you wish (please try to be accurate with spelling, it helps with collating results!) but there’s also a drop down menu, which will hopefully make it nice and easy for most to cast their votes. The contents of the drop-down menus show every game nominated by a member of TSA staff for each category, they show what we considered for our voting but every gamer is different so feel free to add your own.
We’ll close voting on Friday the 28th, so you have time to consider any games you get for Christmas and I still have time to collate all the results before we announce your winners.
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MICKY17
Voting done, really want Borderlands 2 to do well.
Sitorimon
Hmm, very difficult as I found most of my fav games were racers or genre agnostics! Still I shared my love around like a right slapper.
heedbaw
Done, with most of my own suggestions. Seems I’ve managed to miss a lot of the AAA titles this year that are listed. Then after having a look most of my initial suggestions were released last year, so had to have a bit of a rethink.
Nate
Added The Walking Dead to the tablet section, as I played it on my iPad and it was still superb. Otherwise found something suitable in each category!
Roynaldo
Didn’t/couldn’t vote on a lot but in all honesty Borderlands 2 pretty much claimed them all. Amazing game of such huge proportion and hilarity. Doesn’t get much better.
gaffers101
Managed to vote in every catagory. I think I’ve had a pretty good year for gaming this year!
keaneplay
Catherine was my favourite game released this year, though I would have voted Persona 4 The Golden if it had been released in Europe this year.
samiro05
I would have voted for Hitman Absolution for GOTY but went with Tales of Graces F hoping that the release in the UK counts as a 2012 entry.
Ro6afc11
I’ve just cast some votes but going through the various lists makes me realise how few a games I’ve actually played this year. Sort of restricted my voting somewhat.