I was thinking about this last night, so here it is: my list of Most Disappointing Games of 2012. 2012 has been an unusual year in gaming, at least for me...there has been a lot released, and I haven't gotten to play as much of it as I would have liked. I have yet to try Resident Evil 6, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning or Lollipop Chainsaw, to name but three that caught my eye for one reason or another. There has been plenty to intrigue me, but little to excite me. I am by nature extremely difficult to please, and I often end up disliking games that get high review scores, because official reviews always judge a game by how similar it is to a previously successful game or how pretty it is...this is why Zelda and Mario titles get constantly high scores. I look for something different in games; being easily compared to a past game, to me, is the first sign of a lower score. I work in opposition to the general consensus, I suppose.

Note that I've said "Most Disappointing" and not "Worst" for this, because some of these games aren't technically BAD, and there are definitely worse games...Final Fantasy XIII-2 was released this year, as the most obvious example, and I would be obliged to put that on here if this was a "Worst games of 2012" list. No, these are all games I purchased and played, expecting to enjoy, and was extremely disappointed by, for reasons I will elaborate on below. They are in order of least to most, and I suppose I should add a disclaimer at this point that this is all my opinion. If you don't like it, I honestly don't give a damn; go write your own list on your own journal if it bothers you that much. I have attempted to justify my choices where possible.

There will be a "Most Enjoyable Games of 2012" (spoiler: Atelier Meruru wins) and "Most Anticipated Games for 2013" (spoiler: Atelier Ayesha wins) list to complement this, and I might do an anime list as well at some stage...although that will probably be limited to three instead of five, because I haven't watched a lot of different anime this year and I can't say I'm looking forward to much for the next year either. That said, awaaaaay we go. Enjoy!

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Going to make this a weekly thing, so long as I keep gaming enough for more than a single paragraph and can think of what to write. It has a nice ring to it...and stops me cluttering up my journal during the week with random updates. Organization FTW. Etc.

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