Craptastic year. Yay the list is in the correct order now. I was excited to see who number 1 would be. 
The 4th and 5th years of PS2 era were its best. The 4th and 5th years of last gen was 2009-2011 depending on how you look at when the gen started. Clearly the 6th year started the huge decline, we had two years of the industry stuck in a rut.
At least the next year's good...
Why is it bad? That's a solid list.
Well done, Edge. You've gone above and beyond with the gaming lists.
ZombiU is four Edge,# 4. That is not a good year.
I loved Zombi U.....idk what to say its one of my favorite launch games ever. It brought back the horror genre, but at the same time felt new and different. How can you not love looting your friends dead corpses?
Its a crime that they won't make a sequel.
Lets try to find 10 excellent games this year... ugh what a piece of shit year.
10. Resident Evil 6
9. Darksiders 2
8. Halo 4
7. Xenoblade
6. Final Fantasy XIII-2
5. Littlebigplanet Vita
4. Resident Evil Revelations
3. FTL
2. X- Com
1. Mass Effect 3
Honorable Mentions: Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, ZombiU, Nintendoland, Walking Dead.
What a piece of shit year. There are so many 8s on my top 10, RE6 made my top 10, what the hell. Damn Journey, Walking Dead bullshit. This year needs to be erased.
You make it sound way way worse than it was. It still blows away 2003.
Well 2012 finally saw some new hardware get launched. No, not the successor to the 7 year old Xbox 360. The Nintendo Wii U. The first HD Nintendo console was a welcome sight in 2012, and it had a surprisingly strong launch lineup. Of course the Dinosaur consoles had plenty of software to combat the threat.
Filed backwards to stop Dvader's whining...
10. Final Fantasy 13-2
9. Kingdoms Of Amalur
8. Far Cry 3
7. Sleeping Dogs
6. Diablo 3
5. Halo 4
4. Zombi U
3. Xcom: Enemy Unknown
2. Xenoblade
1. Mass Effect 3
HONORABLE MENTIONS 2012: