The nomination period will begin in mid-December. Start compiling your lists and making decisions about your 10 favorite games from the past year, however DO NOT post them until the nomination period or they will not count. For more information please refer back to the previous year's poll: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=112564 ALL games from 2012 are available for nomination, but if you want some inspiration, here is an incredibly helpful post by Echoseven: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2548785&postcount=34 This post will be updated with instructions as the time comes closer. UPDATE 12/6/12: The nomination period will begin on December 20th, after the last release night of 2012, and will run until January 3rd, after the first release night of 2013. UPDATE 12/20/12: I am now accepting nominations for your top 10 games of the year! Your list does not have to be in any specific order. If more then ten are posted, I will only count the first ten games. Please do not edit your post after you have chosen your nominations. Also, for the time being, please do not post anything but nominations in this thread until the 3rd. UPDATE 1/3/13: The poll is now up. Please vote! The poll closes on 10 Jan 2013.
Wow, so this is for the heavyweights I guess... Can we nominate anything? Or just games that won game of the week?
TouchArcade Forum's Pick for 2012 Game of the Year! Echoseven's links from later in the thread: For anyone interested in a general list of what has come out this year, here are the "coming tonight" posts for the year so far: Nov 20 Nov 14 Nov 7 Oct 31 Oct 24 Oct 17 Oct 10 Oct 3 Sept 26 Sept 19 Sept 12 Sept 5 Aug 29 Aug 22 Aug 15 Aug 8 Aug 1 July 25 July 18 July 11 July 4 June 27 June 20 June 13 June 6 May 30 May 23 May 16 May 9 May 2 Apr 25 Apr 18 Apr 11 Apr 4 Mar 28 Mar 21 Mar 14 Mar 7 Feb 29 Feb 22 Feb 15 Feb 8 Feb 1 Jan 25 Jan 18 Jan 11 Jan 4 Here's a list of the front page's "best iOS games" monthly roundups: (note that not all months had one) October September August January Here's a compilation of the front page's review ratings, sorted chronologically: 5 stars 4.5 stars 4 stars 3.5 stars 3 stars Basically with those lists (and the [thread=119439]2012 GOTW hall of fame[/thread] you should have a comprehensive list of anything worthy of note.
TouchArcade Forum's Pick for 2012 Game of the Year! Nominee List Stopped after crex 10000000: 18 Activision Anthology: 2 Adventure Bar Story: 3 Agent Dash: 1 Air Mail: 1 Angry Birds Space: 1 Angry Birds Star Wars: 13 Anomaly Korea: 2 Ant Raid: 1 Apocalypse Max: 3 Arranger: 1 ARC Squadron: 12 Asphalt 7 Heat: 9 Autumn Dynasty: 8 Avernum 6: 2 Avernum Escape From the Pit: 3 Bad Piggies: 4 Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition: 5 Bar Oasis 2: 1 Bastion: 37 Battle of the Bulge: 3 Battles and Castles: 1 Beat Hazard Ultra: 1 Beat Sneak Bandit: 8 Bee Leader: 2 Bladeslinger: 2 Blast-A-Way: 6 Blood Roofs: 6 Bloons TD 5: 2 Bubble Pig: 1 Bug Princess 2 Black Label: 3 Carmageddon: 3 Chaos Rings 2: 8 Coaster Crazy: 1 Cool Pizza: 1 Crazy Taxi: 1 Crow: 1 Cubed Rally Redline: 3 Cytus: 1 DARIUSBURST SP: 7 Dead Trigger: 4 Deepworld: 1 Defender Chronicles II Heroes of Athelia: 1 Defender of Texel: 1 Demon's Score: 1 Devil's Attorney: 6 Dondonpachi Maximum: 2 Dondonpachi Resurrection: 1 Dot: 1 Dragon Island Blue: 2 Dragon Knight 4: 1 Drakerider: 2 Dream of Pixels: 12 Dynamite Jack: 1 Epic Astro Story: 1 Eufloria: 3 Fairway Solitaire: 1 Fancy Pants Adventure: 2 Fantasy Chronicle: 2 Fibble: 1 Fieldrunners 2: 12 FIFA 13: 5 Final Fantasy Dimensions: 5 Final Fantasy IV: 10 Final Freeway 2R: 1 Final Run: 1 Fire Busters: 1 Flying Daggers: 1 Football Manager Handheld 2013: 1 Forever Lost Episode 1: 1 Gasketball: 1 Gene Effect: 1 Ghost Trick Phantom Detective: 8 Girls Like Robots: 2 God of Blades: 6 GTA Vice City: 19 Granny Smith: 1 Great Big War Game: 4 Gridrunner: 3 Gunman Clive: 2 Happy Street: 3 He-Man: 1 Hero Academy: 4 Heroes of Order and Chaos: 2 Horn: 8 Hunters 2: 3 iBomber Attack: 1 Icy Tower 2: 1 Imperium Galactica 2: 1 Incoboto: 10 Inferno+: 3 Infinite: 1 Infinity Project: 2 Into the Dead: 1 Invader Hunter: 1 Jurassic Park The Game HD: 1 King of Fighters I: 3 Kingdom Rush: 13 Knights of Pen & Paper: 3 Letterpress: 5 Lili: 5 Lords of Midnight: 2 Lost Cities: 1 LostWinds 2 Winter of the Melodia: 5 Lunar Silver Star Story: 1 Luxor Evolved HD: 1 Mad Acorn: 1 Magic 2013: 3 Max Payne Mobile: 3 Metal Slug: 1 Metal Slug 3: 4 Micro Miners: 1 Middle Manager of Justice: 1 Mikey Shorts: 14 Mini Dash: 2 Minigore 2: 11 Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour: 21 Monster Flip: 1 Motorblast: 1 Mutant Fridge Mayhem: 1 Mutant Mudds: 8 Mutant Storm: 1 NBA 2K13: 4 Need for Speed Most Wanted: 17 New Star Soccer: 2 N.O.V.A. 3: 9 N.Y.Zombies 2: 3 Nihilumbra: 10 One Epic Knight: 3 ORC Vengeance: 3 Organ Trail: 3 Outwitters: 2 Partia The Broken Lineage: 1 Penny Arcade the Game Gamers vs. Evil: 1 Pinball Arcade: 3 Pixel Defenders Puzzle: 3 Plague Inc.: 7 PlicPlic: 1 Pocket Clothier: 1 Pocket Planes: 1 Polara: 13 Prince of Persia Classic: 1 Project 83113: 2 Pudding Monsters: 1 Punch Quest: 28 Puzzle Craft: 4 Puzzlejuice: 2 QatQi: 2 Raiden Collection: 1 Ravensword Shadowlands: 23 Rayman Jungle Run: 22 realMyst: 1 Reckless Racing 2: 4 Reflec Beat+: 1 Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot: 9 Rpg Dark Gate: 1 Rpg - Fantasy Chronicle: 1 Run, Roo, Run: 1 Saturday Morning RPG: 1 Score! Classic Goals: 2 Shadowgun DeadZone: 2 Shardlands: 3 Simpsons Tapped Out: 1 Ski Safari: 3 Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy: 1 Sky Gamblers Storm Raiders: 3 Skyriders: 2 Slender Rising: 2 SlingShot Racing: 1 Sneak Beat Bandit: 1 SOULCALIBUR: 2 Spaceteam: 1 Spectromancer: 2 Spell Sword: 2 Splice: 1 Squids Wild West: 1 Star Warfare Alien Invasion: 2 Street Fighter X Tekken: 2 Summoner Wars: 5 Super Crate Box: 11 Super Hexagon: 9 Super Monsters Ate My Condo!: 2 Super Ox Wars: 3 Supermagical: 1 Swordigo: 24 Symphonica: 1 Temple Run Brave: 1 Tentacles Enter the Dolphin: 2 The Amazing Spiderman: 1 The Dark Knight Rises: 3 The King vs Knights, Vikings, Wizards, and other Scoundrels: 1 The Last Express: 1 The Room: 14 The Sandbox: 1 The Walking Dead Assault: 1 The World Ends With You: 15 Theaterythm Final Fantasy: 2 TheEndApp: 1 Tiny Wings HD: 1 Tone Sphere: 1 Topia World Builder: 1 Trigger Fist: 2 Triple Town: 3 True Skate: 6 Vector for iPhone: 1 Vectrex: 2 Virtua Tennis: 1 VR Missions EXT: 1 Waking Mars: 21 Walking Dead The Game: 30 WarGames WOPR: 2 Where's My Perry?: 2 Wild Blood: 2 Wimp: Who Stole My Pants?: 5 Zombie Tsunami: 1 Zombiewood: 1
TouchArcade Forum's Pick for 2012 Game of the Year! Top 10 Games 10000000: 18 Bastion: 37 GTA Vice City: 19 Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour: 21 Punch Quest: 28 Ravensword Shadowlands: 23 Rayman Jungle Run: 23 Swordigo: 24 Waking Mars: 21 Walking Dead The Game: 30
-Final nomination list at the end of the thread- Games that could have make it, but ultimately arent GOTY material for one reason or another: Inferno+, Waking Mars, Outwitters, Bad Piggies, Bitless, PlicPlic, Mini Dash, Angry Birds Star Wars, Pudding Monsters, Minigore 2: Zombies, Monster Flip, About Love, Hate and the Other Ones. All of them have very good quality and all have rating of 4 or 4.5 out of 5 stars
Upcoming Possible Nominees: Forgotten Memories MC4 Ravensword: Shadowlands 2013 Infected Wars Current Nominees: NOVA 3 Walking Dead (favorite) NFS: MW Bastion (close second)
Feel free to chat about any games you feel are GOTY worthy. I'm just making members aware that nothing will count until the nomination period.
Well, in that case, here's some of the ones that I've thought of. Obviously, I'd have to narrow it down. I'm sure there's also games that I haven't thought of so it'll be good to hear some other people's thoughts to jog my old man memory: So far: Incoboto Mini Punch Quest Asphalt 7 Gene Effect Blood Roofs Polara Tentacles: Enter the Dolphin Rayman Jungle Run Orc: Vengance Inferno+ Swordigo Kingdom Rush Dynamite Jack VR Missions EXT Toon Shooters Epic Hearts Plus (way underrated action RPG IMO) Fantasy Chronicle Angry Birds Star Wars (yeah, I had to go there) Dream of Pixels Mikey Shorts Wimp Project 83113
If The World Ends With You doesn't win this, I'm going to quit coming to Touch Arcade. Spoiler I kid... but seriously, buy it.
Mikey shorts Real racing 2/3 Minigore 2 maybe... Dream of pixels Asphalt 7 NFS MW Angry birds Star Wars Bad piggies That's my list so far
Exactly what I was thinking... damn... I usually don't remember which games were from the current year with these things...
Haha exactly Its hard to nominate when you don't know if its been released in 2011 or 2012? I don't remember is Crazy Hedgy eligible