Video
games can be many things to many people, so the idea of proclaiming a
single one as the best of 2012 strikes us as a little limiting. This
year, instead of screaming at each other for hours in a sweaty,
smoke-filled room until we emerge with a handful of winners, your
friends at 1UP have decided to forsake categorization and write about
the experiences that brought us the most enjoyment this year — and
that’s the point of playing video games, isn’t it?
Jeremy:
This year saw a remarkable number of games inspired by PC RPG classic
Rogue
hit the market, everything from zombie survival game DayZ
to
sci-fi strategy hybrid FTL.
For my money, none of them are a patch on
Mossmouth’s Spelunky.
Admittedly, Spelunky’s been around for a while as
a Windows game, but the Xbox Live version released this year feels like
a definitive overhaul — enough to count as a new game. Not only did
designer Derek Yu trick out the graphics, the game simply begs to be
played with a game pad.
