@TaoranPrince @The_Last_Ride You mean X360 GotY. The Best RPG Honor went to Guild Wars 2.

I'm thinking it'll come down to Guild Wars 2, Halo 4, & Mass Effect 3; with Dishonored, Journey, & XCOM being three potential spoilers for the big honor. Personally, I'm hoping for either Guild Wars 2 or Mass Effect 3.

The margin of victory for GW2 over XCOM had to be pretty slim, to me. Great choice by GameSpot.

Chris didn't mention the intriguing storyline behind the Halo: Infinity Spartan Ops co-op episodes? Shame. Still, 343 definitely didn't drop the "Bungie Ball" when they took up the Halo lore & really made a high-quality campaign to usher in a new story arc. The daily, weekly, & monthly challenges help keep its multiplayer appealing to me--something that I can't say, unfortunately, for Black Ops II. Borderlands 2 is great in its own right, w/ a great antagonist, and the nice humor, but I find it best played in marathon gaming sessions, w/ others. I never tried Natural Selection because I use my PC these days primarily for MMO's; may try Far Cry 3 sometime in the Spring of 2013, if we're still around, of course.

Not enough major MMO's to have their own category, and if there was such a category, GW2 would definitely win hands down over WoW: Mists of Pandaria, The Secret World, Rift: Storm Legion, & TERA. All the other new MMO's that may've come out this year are not well known enough.

Maybe it wasn't the greatest year for the genre--a solid year, for sure, but it was definitely a great year for the MMO's, and GW2 is proof of that.

I knew it would come down to ME3 & GW2, and this is a big plus for NCSoft & ArenaNet as they roll out their annual Wintersday (Holiday) events for both GW1 & GW2. While I can't say the final part of the ME Trilogy was crappy, as @Prats1993 put it--I felt the end to 3 was fitting enough, given the big picture, even w/ the "Extended Cut", I do agree w/ the way Guild Wars 2 was designed to take what worked in the first game, tie its story from 1 to 2 in a way, and redefine the way a MMO can be w/o being a "World of WarCraft Copycat". GW2's story missions are immersive, you have a wide variety of characters & classes to play in several different starting paths, and a wide range of different approaches to the story quests, and the dynamic events are a blast.So congratulations to NCSoft & ArenaNet for winning this honor, and earning my vote for 2012 New MMO & PC Game of the Year.

Tough, tough choice here. It comes down to ME3 or Halo 4 for me. Either way, this was a big year for the Xbox 360.

Torchlight II could be the sleeper in this category, but I see it coming down to the Best New PC MMORPG of the Year--Guild Wars 2, and the Best Console RPG of the Year--ME3....and I can't choose either of those two, because they're so equal to me.

The Halloween-themed Mad King Thorn events had always been a major staple of Guild Wars events, and I'm glad Arenanet decided to feature it in the sequel. Hopefully, if we're still alive & kicking after 12/21, we'll see them do a Wintersday holiday event.