TA Forum's Pick for 2012 Game of the Year! *** LAST CHANCE TO VOTE ***

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/showpo...5&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.

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Last edited by Red1; 01-06-2013 at 05:15 AM.

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 2012 GOTW hall of fame you should have a comprehensive list of anything worthy of note.

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Last edited by Echoseven; 11-24-2012 at 08:43 AM.

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

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Last edited by crex; 01-03-2013 at 03:20 AM.

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

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Last edited by crex; 01-03-2013 at 03:22 AM.

Wow, so this is for the heavyweights I guess...

Can we nominate anything? Or just games that won game of the week?

Any game released in 2012 is up for nominations.

-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

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Last edited by TheFrost; 12-20-2012 at 11:09 AM. Reason: Final list of nominations and the end

Upcoming Possible Nominees:
Forgotten Memories
MC4
Ravensword: Shadowlands
2013 Infected Wars

Current Nominees:
NOVA 3
Walking Dead (favorite)
NFS: MW
Bastion (close second)

Punch Quest
ARC Squadron
Street Fighter x Tekken Mobile

EDIT: Opps!! Didn't read the OP close enough. Guess we're not supposed to give our noms yet!