Every year I do this, time to look back at what I bought, what I played and the amount of money I spent. I find out a lot about myself when I do this. Last year, which you can read here, I got over 100 new games and spent nearly $2000. I have a feeling I got more games this year and spent more simply cause of all the new hardware I got. What I am interested to see is the average score I gave to the games I finished this year, I bet its far lower than last year. This was a down year for games, nothing really excited me except a very select few games.

Games I bought/receieved (this does not count Plus games as those are through a service):

360

• Rayman Origins
• Dead Island
• Dragon's Dogma
• Resident Evil ORC
• Madden 12
• Lost Odyssey
• Witcher 2
• Assassin's Creed Revelations
• Sonic 4 Episode 2
• Sonic 4 Episode 1
• El Shaddai
• Dragon Age 2
• Darksiders 2
• Deadly Premonition
• Max Payne 3
• Silent Hill Homecoming
• Silent Hill Downpour
• Resident Evil 6
• Xcom Enemy Unknown
• Kameo
• Dark Void
• Minecraft
• Halo 4
• Dishonored
• Far Cry 3
• Game of Thrones
• Sleeping Dogs
• Walking Dead
• Fez
• Super Meat Boy

PC

• Civilization V
• Binding of Isaac
• Hotline Miami

Mobile

• Mass Effect Infiltrator
• Angry Birds Star Wars
• The Walking Dead

Total number of games: 76

Estimated Cost (counting all deals and resales I did): $2,100

With all the hardware I bought this year that number could have been much worse but I still need to work on this.

Games I beat in 2012 by order of rating:

First Time Completions

• Mass Effect 3 - 9.5
• Rayman Origins - 9.3
• Skyrim - 9.3
• Halo 3 - 9.3
• XCOM Enemy Unknown - 9.3
• Dead Space 2 - 9.2
• Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker - 9.1
• Super Mario 3D Land - 9.0
• Halo 4 - 9.0
• Mass Effect - 9.0
• Resident Evil Revelations - 9.0
• Darksiders 2 - 8.8
• Resident Evil 6 - 8.7
• Dishonored - 8.7
• Goldeneye - 8.6
• Crysis - 8.6
• Halo Reach - 8.6
• ZombiU - 8.5
• Motorstorm Apocalypse - 8.5
• Dead Space Extraction - 8.2
• Shadow Complex - 8.1
• Gears of War 2 - 8.0
• NSMBU - 7.9
• Double Dragon Neon - 7.8
• Halo ODST - 7.7
• Bastion - 7.7
• Witcher 2 - 7.7
• WarioWare Inc - 7.6
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 7.6
• Sonic CD - 7.4
• Ninja Gaiden 2 - 7.4
• Shank 2 - 7.3
• Uncharted Golden Abyss - 7.3
• Alan Wake - 7.2
• Back to the Future the Game - 7.1
• 999 - 7.1
• God of War Chains of Olympus - 6.9
• Crackdown - 6.9
• Sound Shapes - 6.9
• CoD Black Ops 2 - 6.9
• Mario Kart 7 - 6.8
• Journey - 6.8
• Killzone 3 - 6.5
• Nano Assault - 6.5
• Kirby's Dreamland - 6.3
• Hamsterball - 5.9
• Zombie Apocalypse - 5.3
• Silent Hill Shattered Memories - 5.0
• Sonic 4 Episode 2 - 5.0
• Hydrophobia - 4.3
• The Simpsons Arcade - 3.9
• RE Operation Raccoon City - 3.5

Games Already Beaten:

• Mass Effect 2
• Afterburner Climax
• Batman Arkham City
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Silent Hill
• Resident Evil 5
• Uncharted 3
• Resident Evil 4 HD
• Sonic Generations

Total Games Beated : 61

Platform Breakdown:

• 360- 16
• PS3 - 15
• PSN - 10
• 3DS - 4
• XBLA - 4
• Wii U - 2
• Wii U Eshop - 1
• Wii - 2
• GBA/GBC - 2
• Vita - 1
• DS - 1
• PS2 - 1
• PS1 - 1

Genre Breakdown:

• Action/Adventure - 23
• Platforming - 9
• FPS - 9
• RPG - 4
• Shoot em up - 4
• Beat Em up - 3
• Adventure - 3
• Misc - 3
• Racing - 2
• Strategy - 1

As always, and will always be, action adventure is my most played genre. I played lots of platformers and surprisingly FPSs. I went a few years where I maybe played 1 or 2 FPS games, 9 is crazy for me. Lots of arcady shooters and beat em ups as well, this includes a lot of what I played on PSN.

Franchise Breakdown:

• Resident Evil - 5
• Halo - 4
• Mass Effect - 3
• Super Mario - 3
• Sonic - 3

It was a RE year as three new games came out and I replayed the two other modern RE games. Amazingly I did not play one old school RE game, should do that this year. Has anyone played four Halo games in one year, they blur together after a while. I had to catch up for Halo 4 so that is what happens. And as always I play my Sonic games.

Publisher Breakdown:

• Microsoft Studios - 8
• Capcom - 8
• Sony - 7
• EA - 7
• Nintendo - 6
• Konami - 5
• Sega - 4
• Ubisoft - 2
• Activision - 2
• Bethesda - 2

There are a bunch of others with one or other random small publishers. Microsoft Studios??? That is crazy, never thought I would ever play so many MS games but that is what a giant 360 backlog will do for you. Capcom had a strong showing though its almost all RE games. Nintendo not in the lead for the first time in a while.