The 2009 GWJ Community Game of the Year Awards! - Voting Closed

I'm sure my list would be different had I played more games from the past year.

1) Dragon Age
2) Batman
3) Torchlight
4) Team Fortress 2
5) Left 4 Dead 2
6) Plants vs. Zombies
7) Rock Band Beatles
8) Dawn of War II
9) Shattered Horizon
10) AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity

Honorable mentions to SoaSE: Entrenchment, Demigod and Zeno Clash

1.) Dragon Age: Origins
2.) Empire: Total War
3.) Batman: Arkham Asylum
4.) Demon's Souls
5.) Borderlands
6.) Modern Warfare 2
7.) Dawn of War II
8.) Assassin's Creed II
9.) Uncharted 2
10.) Brutal Legend

WoW gets its annual award for my most time sank into a game and ArmA and Trine would be #11 and 12 respectively on this list.

Pretty amazing year...

-League of Legends
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Torchlight
-Trine

Updated.

1) Dawn of War II
2) Dragon Age: Origins
3) Arkham Asylum
4) Torchlight
5) Plants vs Zombies

If including games I played in 2009 that were released in 2008:

1) Dawn of War II
2) Dragon Age: Origins
3) Arkham Asylum
4) Wrath of the Lich King
5) Dead Space
6) Torchlight
7) Mirror's Edge
8) Plants vs Zombies

Alright, this is the best I could do:

1) Left 4 Dead II
2) Torchlight
3) Borderlands
4) Uncharted II
5) Fallout 3 GOTY
6) Trine
7) Flower
8) Aaaaa... A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
9) Demigod
10) Plants vs Zombies

I feel like Mount and Blade: Warband beta deserves at least one spot in there, even if it's a beta.

Is it too late for me to flip-flop Dragon Age and Assassin's Creed 2 on my list, now that I've finished the latter?

Rat Boy wrote:

Is it too late for me to flip-flop Dragon Age and Assassin's Creed 2 on my list, now that I've finished the latter?

Nooohooo noooooooooooooo

No.

No way am I starting that precedent.

Mystic Violet wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

9) Space Invaders: Infinity Gene (iPhone)

Aww I knew I was going to forget something!

I made sure to rundown what I regularly play for my iPhone as I composed this list. Since I purchased my iPhone it's been my primary gaming machine. So if something really sticks with me it is bound to make the list.

Soosiz, Stick Wars, Ragdoll Blaster, Skee Ball and Jet Car Stunts would make a top 20 games of the year list for me, honestly. It's been a wildly prolific year for games on the iPhone. I nominate it "console of the year".

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
3. Assassin's Creed 2
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. Borderlands
6. InFAMOUS
7. Left 4 Dead 2
8. Torchlight
9. Flower
10. Resident Evil 5 (PC)

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Solium Infernum
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum
4. AI War: Fleet Command
5. Demigod
6. Hearts of Iron 3
7. Trine
8. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
9. Plants vs. Zombies
10. And Yet It Moves

Spectacular year for games, though perhaps not quite up to 2007 for me. I also played some great games for the first time that made it even better (Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, Max Payne 1&2, Sword of the Stars, Riddick).

Also, I can't believe AI War hasn't gotten any votes yet! If you call yourself a strategy gamer even remotely you owe it to yourself to check it out.

I played a lot of games made prior to 2009 this year, but of the recent releases and the time I've had with them I'd say:

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Beetles Rockband
3. Plants vs. Zombies
4. Torchlight
5. Assassins Creed II
6. Batman
7. Dawn of War II
8. AI War
9. Katsuro

Since I worked 2 jobs for the first 10 months of the year, I only played a few new games, so I'll just list the new games I did play that I felt were very good.

1. Borderlands
2. Torchlight
3. Brutal Legend
4. Dawn of War II
5. Plants vs. Zombies

We are forunate this year with it being a good gaming year and sooo much out that was good! Here is my 2 coppers worth:

1. Dragon Age
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
3. Torchlight
4. L4D2
5. Borderlands
6. Plants vs. Zombies
7. Modern Warfare 2
8. Prince of Persia
9. Aion (For the first 20 levels !)
10. Dawn of War II

Would have put Demigod on there somewhere but the first month of struggles killed that game for me in the end.

1) Dragon Age
2) Borderlands
3) Forza 3
4) DoW II
5) NSMB Wii
6) Shadow Complex
7) Torchlight
8) Red Faction: Guerrilla
9) Trials HD
10) Assassins Creed II - Just started it, but I can tell it is gonna make this list.

Updated.

Grouped by platform

1) Torchlight
2) Plants vs Zombies
3) Demigod

4) Wii Sports Resort
5) Mario Cart (New to me )
6) Lego Star Wars (see above)
7) Super Mario Galaxy

8) Uniwar
9) Peggle (ipod touch)
10) TapDefense

1. Plants vs. Zombies
2. Trine
3. Left 4 Dead 2
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. Torchlight
6. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
7. Punch-Out!!
8. Ghostbusters
9. Zeno Clash
10. Braid (PC)

Special Categories:

Top Game of 2008 of 2009 - Dead Space
Top Game of 2005 of 2009 - Civilization IV
GOTY.cx of 2008 of 2009 - Far Cry 2

1) Modern Warfare 2
2) Dragon Age: Origins
3) Assassin's Creed 2
4) Forza 3
5) Batman: AA
6) Red Faction Guerilla
7) Street Fighter IV

I can't think of three more that I'd put in a top ten honestly.

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Wow I think we're getting worse turn out for this then 2006.

Sinatar wrote:

Updated...

Wow I think we're getting worse turn out for this then 2006.

I saw the post and started to make a list, but then saw the counts and didn't bother.

1 plants vs zombies
2 Red Faction Guerilla
3 Demon's Souls
4 torchlight
5 Audiosur
6 Mirror's Edge
7 Braid
8 Batman: Arkham Asylum
9 House of the Dead Overkill
10 Scribblenauts

1. Modern Warfare 2
2. Altitude
3. AI War
4. Torchlight
5. Demigod (despite it's atrocious net-code - had some great games with this one)
6. Trine
7. COGs
8. Blood Bowl
9. Need for Speed Shift
10. Braid

Well, Rob did say this was a worse year than last year.

Sinatar wrote:

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Wow I think we're getting worse turn out for this then 2006.

People really really thinking their choices through?!

Here's my brief list:

1) Batman: Arkham Asylum
2) Left 4 Dead II
3) Rock Band: The Beatles
4) Tropico 3
5) Team Fortress II
6) X3: Terran Conflict
7) Plants vs. Zombies
8) Defense Grid

Updated.

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Uncharted 2: Drake's Fortune
4. Torchlight
5. Red Faction: Guerilla
6. Brutal Legend
7. Infamous
8. Left 4 Dead 2
9. Batman: Arkham Asylum
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Thin_J wrote:
Sinatar wrote:

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Wow I think we're getting worse turn out for this then 2006.

I saw the post and started to make a list, but then saw the counts and didn't bother.

I think the counts look pretty darn close to what they should be. The top is dominated by the games that dominated discussion here. The list tapers off into games that several people liked, all the way down to games that, well, one person liked. Am I missing something about the list, or not understanding your post?