Best Game You've Played - 2012

[MayImilae]

The best game I've played this year is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Wins hands down, no contest. Wow what a game. Other good games I played this year are Metal Gear Solid 3 (yea yea late to the party), Skyward Sword, and Bastion. MGS3 has amazing sneaking/survival gameplay, but boring bosses. Like seriously, didn't Kojima check the speed that the first stage of rockets reach? Skyward Sword was rather dull for most of it, but the combat is just fun, and the last 6 hours or so is REALLY good, like classic zelda ocarina of time good. Shame it took so long to get the point though. Bastion's gameplay is a little simplistic, so it gets old pretty quickly, but the game is short and makes up for it with a fantastic ending.

Xenoblade Chronicles turned out to be a big disappointment for me. It just seems really grindy. Got to get X levels to pass Y areas. I'm very tired of grinds in RPGs; I was burned by it a long time ago with a Final Fantasy. Plus, the MMO inspired combat is not interesting enough to carry the game through that kind of grindfest. Oh well. I haven't beaten it, I'll pick it up and keep going through it later. Another big disappointment for me was Shadows of the Colossus. Sure it has fantastic music, and the gameplay is really interesting, but the game is more or less just a boss rush. Sure the bosses are cool to fight, but it's just... that's it.