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I can't remember what I've played this year.

Afterburner Climax was strawberry floating brilliant though, my GOTY for sure.

Am I missing something? Where's the voting thread?

I'm an idiot. Cheers.

Here's what games I've played this year are (not completed):
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Zero Gear (PC)
Mass Effect 2 (360)
Bioshock 2 (PS3, PC & 360)
MAG (PS3)
Dark Void (PS3)
Heavy Rain (PS3)
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (360)
White Knight Chronicles (PS3)
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3 & 360)
Yakuza 3 (PS3)
Perfect Dark (XBLA)
Winterbottom (XBLA)
Chime (XBLA)
Lazy Raiders (XBLA)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
Doom II (XBLA)
LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 (PC & 360)
Sin & Punishment: Successor of the Skies (Wii)
3D Dot Heroes (PS3)
Mega Man 10 (XBLA)
Afterburner Climax (XBLA)
Scrap Metal (XBLA)
Toy Soliders (XBLA)
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (PSP)
Limbo (XBLA)
Hydro Thunder Hurriance (XBLA)
Castlevania HD (XBLA)
Monday Night Combat (XBLA)
Lara Croft (XBLA)
Fable 3 (360)
Fallout New Vegas (360)
Deadly Premonition (360)
Alan Wake (360)
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (XBLA)
Resonance of Fate (360)
Sonic Colours (Wii)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Blur (360)
Dead Rising 2 Case Zero (XBLA)
Dead Rising 2 (360)
Super Street Fighter IV (360)
Pokémon Soul Silver (NDS)

This year is very good in my opinion, always having something to play

I've voted, but as I only played eight games released this year, it's a very one track set of votes.

My Top 10 Games this year.

1. Starcraft 2
?.WoW: Cataclysm
?. Mario Galaxy 2
?. K-On Houkago Live
?. Project Diva 2nd
?. Civilization 5
?. Donkey Kong Country Returns
?. Tatsunoko vs Capcom
?. Goldeneye 007
?. Recettear: an Items Shop Tale

Notable Mentions:
Perfect Dark (XBLA)
Winterbottom (XBLA)
Pacman CE DX (XBLA)
Super Street Fighter IV

There should be a best remake category so people can vote for the Sly collection.

My top 5 would shape up like this:

1) Super Street Fighter IV
2) Red Dead Redemption
3) Darksiders
4) Assassin's Creed 2
5) Super Mario Galaxy 2

I don't remember what games I have played got released this year...

But I do remember:

1) Super Mario Galaxy 2.
2) Mass Effect 2.
3) Dead Rising 2.
4) Super Street Fighter IV.
5) Alan Wake.

I would have put Red Dead Redemption on but I haven't really play it a lot to warrant a place on my list.

For me:

1. Minecraft
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Heavy Rain
4. Starcraft II
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Some really great games this year. Been hard to narrow it down to those 5.

My top five would be:

1) Fallout New Vegas
2) Super Mario Galaxy 2
3) Blur
4) Mass Effect 2
5) Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

Haven't played enough of Yakuza 3. I plan to because I now have HDTV

1. Bayonetta
2. Civilization V
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2
4. Rock Band 3
5. Blur
6. Mass Effect 2
7. Heavy Rain
8. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
9. Battlefield Bad Company 2
10. Splinter Cell Conviction

Not enough Blaz Blue love in them 'best fighter' lists.

Not enough Silent Hill Shattered Memories love in general.

Dalagonash wrote:Not enough Blaz Blue love in them 'best fighter' lists.

Its too complicated.

Bayonetta is a better choice. Definitely not enough Bayonetta all round in fact.

So much stuff I didn't vote for but wanted to. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Enslaved are the most notable absentees (though the former was out last year in the US and I can't remember whether or not I played it before the turn of the year), and I cheated a bit by putting Yakuza 3 in the Best Fighter category. And Limbo! Bloody hell.

My top ten would be something like this:

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. Vanquish
3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
4. Yakuza 3
5. Pokémon White
6. Trauma Team
7. Deadly Premonition
8. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
9. Fable III
10. Heavy Rain

Some of those wouldn't be on a list where I try to pick what I think are objectively the best games of the year - they're all just personal favourites. And I'm tempted to shift them about and find room for the likes of Limbo, Resonance of Fate and Persona 3 Portable, but for now that's pretty much how I feel.

I still somehow feel Nier should be on there. Although I only gave it a 6/10 for EG (I wavered between 6 and 7, and I think now I'd probably go for the latter mark) it's easily one of the most memorable games I played this year, with a stunning score and a great story. It's just a shame it's so poorly-designed in places and - once or twice - borderline broken.

Top 5 (No order)

Red Dead Redemption
Rock Band 3
Alan Wake
Mass Effect 2
Perfect Dark