Time names Guild Wars II best game of 2012

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woooo gw2 and xenoblade....

it's been such an amazing year for gaming.

Some pretty good games there. I'm surprised at the lack of Natural Selection 2 though. It's so much better than every other shooter I've played in recent years.

Seems to be a bit of Wii bias there.

Though honestly, both The Last Story and Xenoblade were freaking amazing.

Guild Wars 2 deserved to win imo. 

soo close Xenoblade :(

You're my goty <3

Not a bad list, but why is Time so interested in video games all of a sudden? I don't remember them doing this last year. 

While I have no problem with Guild Wars at the top of the list, I find it odd that an epic masterpiece like Mass Effect 3 was left off the list in favor of Papa & Yo. Come on now. That's just ridiculous.

Woah, Angryjoe is right.

There are so many flaws to Gw2 it's not even funny... And these flaws hurt the game. A lot. Makes me wonder if this reviewer knows what he's talking about.

Here are a few:

The fact that ANet decided to make the level adjustment feature made things good/bad... Mostly bad imo. There's no reason to go into lower level areas (other than finishing achievements). If you want to grind in these areas, you'll be sorry to find that you get no good drops. They're drops specifically for that low level area. So it's really a waste. This forces everyone to end up in the same place anyway? which leaves a very populated map with barely any monsters to kill.

I have 2 lvl 80s, a Guardian and a warrior. I tried my best to keep playing the game, but I just couldn't. There's nothing more to do. Beat the main storyline, PVPed throughout my levelling process, and now I feel like I've gotten everything out of the game. Btw, I did this all in 2-3 weeks after release. Really, there's no point in the PVE because, if you want to PVP, you can go straight into it a lvl 1, and be as strong as other players (this is a pro and a con, as gear doesn't matter, neither does getting dungeon gear other than appearances sake..)

What ANet should've done was allow armor upgrading, making it like every other MMORPGs when it comes to PVE SPECIFICALLY. But when it comes down to PVP or world vs world, armor should get balanced. This gives much a needed sense of progression (at lvl 80 specifically and throughout the game) and allows more content to be delivered. This is how Vindictus and Dragon Nest does it, and it works wonders. It gives you an incentive to do PVE, to get better gear, upgrade into better gear, etc.

Plus, I'd like to point out that the boss fights are very very tedious. Spam all spells, dodge if you see a red circle, heal if you get hit. That's it. No real strategy into killing bosses. If you've played Vindictus, you'll quickly learn that if you don't know the boss's (and there are many bosses) attack patterns, you.will.not.survive.

An example would be a boss wielding a large axe. He'd swing it 3 times in a certain way that only a certain direction of dodging will actually DODGE the attack, (in Gw2, as long as you're in the dodge animation, you're invincible unlike Vindictus). If you dodge into the axe, you're hit. Next thing you know he's swinging it like a madman when you get him to a low enough HP. He's going panic-mode, and you have NO IDEA how to dodge his erratic movements. THAT'S how a boss fight should be like.

In Gw2, it's pretty safe to say there's no varied attack pattern that you have to learn to succeed in defeating a boss. Just spam spells and dodge. It's made for casual gamers. And I'm not using that lightly. Gw2 is MADE for casual gamers, which is why the market loves it so much. The market is FILLED with casual gamers nowadays (like League of Legends.. lmao that game cracks me up when they say they're better than HoN/DoTa), that the old, difficult games of the past are just that: A thing of the past.

Wasn't mass effect 3 this year, 2012. Because I easily feel it beats all of the above top ten. 

It is quite a game, so it's a cool number one. The top 3 is pretty awesome in itself! :p

sweet

GW 2 is NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRR game of 2012!!! Come on, anyone claiming that is embarrassing themselves by failing to differentiate between base and disgusting addiction and a product that's ACTUALLY worthy of nomination let alone the award!

Did Makuch just list off the list twice? Right after each other? Anyway, decent list, GW2 wouldn't have been my top pick, but it would have been pretty height up there.

deserves it.

Of course it is best game of the year,would you expect anything less.

A non-gaming magazine rates games sensibly. Props!

Hm. Well that's different... I think i like it.

I'm glad all the games here deserved an honourable mention in a top 10 list, though I would prefer some other games to be on the list as well but hey you are only limited to 10.

Papo & Yo 6th on the list. I have nothing more to say.

Turrible list from a non-gaming magazine.

I agree guild wars 2 is awesome, the only thing i wish was different is if the PVE content was more like rift/swtor. But thats my opinion. Im glad CoD is nowhere to be found...

Sweet!

I think it's funny that Time rates video games. On a different note, GW2 is very good! I do agree with it being on par with being in the top 5.

It deserves the award imo, iv'e played the game for 110-120 hours and had a blast with it and theres still alot of stuff i didn't do in the game.

Thanks to its World vs World content and deep character customization, Guild Wars 2 is certainly among the best games I've played in years and the best MMO in more than a decade. I've sunk hundreds of hours into this game without paying any subscription fees. Due to finally tackling several postponed obligations, I haven't played in awhile -- but I will return soon enough. GW2 is my GOTY as well.

Guild Wars 2 deserves it IMO, good on you Anet.

When non-gaming magazines publish GOTY lists, I look at it like a paleontologist trying to perform open heart surgery -- sure, you're educated, but in the wrong field.

This isn't a "best of 2012" list. It's a list of the games the writer remembers seeing the most online advertising for, with a few Google searches to find some indie games so it looks like he has cred.