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I'm not the best person to ask, as I'm usually this guy:
Credit: XKCD
Maybe not to the five year's degree, but most of the games I played this year came out in 2008-2011 (if you count the last expansion - a few years earlier by base game). The only game on the OP's list I've played was Halo 4... but that wasn't for very long. And I think Halo 2 and Halo 3 were better - and in some ways, Halo 1. There were several usability issues in Halo 4 I noticed the first time I played it that I wouldn't have let through QA - and worse, they worked better in previous installments. And while it looked quite good for a console game, it also showed the console's age with its sometimes-sluggish performance.
So my nomination is Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. It's gloriously, sometimes indecently, entertaining, and is even better with teams. I think it is the 2012 game that I've played the most, despite its October release date. And it does its one thing - medieval combat - really well. And I can even play it on my cutting edge mid-2007 laptop, so it fits my XKCD modus operandi!
Oh, by the way, I still haven't played all the Half-Life games - the Episodes have been sitting in my Steam library, and I'm stuck on the last boss in Episode Zero - so I'm going to be that guy in the comic strip sometime in early 2013. So, not too many spoilers, please!
It's listed 34th in the OP's linked list.
This probably is the only 2012 game that I'm particularly curious about playing. I haven't mainly because of an existing backlog of games that I already wanted to play.
Credit: XKCD
Maybe not to the five year's degree, but most of the games I played this year came out in 2008-2011 (if you count the last expansion - a few years earlier by base game). The only game on the OP's list I've played was Halo 4... but that wasn't for very long. And I think Halo 2 and Halo 3 were better - and in some ways, Halo 1. There were several usability issues in Halo 4 I noticed the first time I played it that I wouldn't have let through QA - and worse, they worked better in previous installments. And while it looked quite good for a console game, it also showed the console's age with its sometimes-sluggish performance.
So my nomination is Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. It's gloriously, sometimes indecently, entertaining, and is even better with teams. I think it is the 2012 game that I've played the most, despite its October release date. And it does its one thing - medieval combat - really well. And I can even play it on my cutting edge mid-2007 laptop, so it fits my XKCD modus operandi!
Oh, by the way, I still haven't played all the Half-Life games - the Episodes have been sitting in my Steam library, and I'm stuck on the last boss in Episode Zero - so I'm going to be that guy in the comic strip sometime in early 2013. So, not too many spoilers, please!
It's listed 34th in the OP's linked list.
This probably is the only 2012 game that I'm particularly curious about playing. I haven't mainly because of an existing backlog of games that I already wanted to play.
