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The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you’re experiencing and think back to the games you played during the summer, the spring and yes, 2011′s early months.
This year has been good to gaming. Hold on, let me restate that. This year has been amazing to gaming. To me, it feels like this year was this generation’s swan song, the last push of gaming before all the developers go find some foxhole to hide in while they develop games for the PS43 or the XboxKickflip.
Oh look. Somebody is voting for Skyrim as Game of the Year. How shocking. Truth be told, I very nearly voted for something else. Total War: Shogun 2 had me hooked for most of the year, and its near perfection of the series’ blend of strategic planning and real-time tactics seemed to make it, for eight months of the year, a shoe-in for my vote.
What was the best game of the year, according to those of us here at Kotaku? We don’t know. We don’t know… yet.
