Warlock suffers from what WoM did, there really is no personality. It works. It's okay. But it's a Civ 5 mod based on what feels like alpha Civ 5 technology.

Also whomever said Master of Mana, please keep in mind that Kael made FFH fun. He's good at what he does as evident from how FE has come out . Some people are blessed with knowing how to make 4x fantasy games work and its Kael.

edit: Know that my compliments don't come cheap obviously so feel really flattered, Kael . Though embarking and boats in FE is really terrible and unintuitive,

Naja, FE ist ganz gut gemacht. Leider spielen sich alle Fraktionen zu ähnlich. Es wäre sicher nicht falsch später neue Fraktionen mit gravierend anderem Spielablauf einzuführen. Die Milizeinheiten der Städte sind auch etwas zu schwach ausgefallen, aber ansonsten läßt es sich sehr gut spielen.

You know what's really sad? It probably will win Game of the Year because Blizzard has long arms and DEEP pockets yah know.

Slow down skippy. Let's enjoy what we have but lets not get crazy.

You are kidding right? I played Diablo 3 extensively and it's horrible.

For me it's Tekken Tag Tournament 2

and Dark souls PC (with required mod's of course)

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2012 for me

Fallen Enchantress - 86/100

Warlock: Master of the Arcane 84/100 (its good at what it does, but its not as deep as FE)

XCOM - 80/100 (there is not enough randomness or variation, so you can find optimal strategies fast - a real "sandbox" mode and it could have been 95/100)

Tropico 4 84/100 (great little gem)

Endless Space 70/100 (bland, missing personality)

Unreleased:

Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North (I love the new KB games to bits)

I second this opinion. In FE, there is obviously a lot of effort, and I applaud that, but there are better games out there.

For me, game of the year 2012 is Dishonored so far - it's a bit consolized, but brilliant.

Thinking of Diablo 3 I feel profound sadness. I mean, they aren't even 'dumbing down' for consoles, but they're still managing to dumb down their games. Blizzard used to have creativity, but these days they seem to be going backwards. Don't get me wrong - I'm still glad they exist as a primarily PC game developer, but their games no longer interest me. If Diablo 3 had been released by a different developer under a different name it would have gotten just slightly above average reviews (especially with the £40 price tag and always on DRM)... as it is it gets 9's and 9.5's across the largely paid-off board.

Torchlight 2 - excellent value for the price, a really nice game.

XCOM unfortunately didn't do it for me - I bought it, played it for a bit and got bored. The maps are so small, and they seem to repeat a lot (or look very similar) and the Alien spawns are so predictable - not just where and when on the map an alien will appear, but even how many of that particular alien will spawn. I'm sorry but that is really bad. In the original XCOM you never knew what was around the next corner, and sometimes even when the alien icon appeared (to suggest an alien was within your soilders' view) you could barely see it yourself because it was hidden in shadows. In the new XCOM I feel as though I know exactly what's around the next corner, and what annoying alien cutscene i'm going to get when it 'spawns'.

Dishonored is pretty good, a bit more original having an assassin style game in first person, but the graphic quality isn't great for a modern title and the textures are pretty low resolution. Still it's a nice new title (rather than yet another sequel), and i'd probably give it 8 out of 10.

Fallen Enchantress...? Just thinking about it makes me sad. You see it's easily the best game here (in my opinion), but because it doesn't have a big name title or history behind it (XCOM), and it doesn't have a bucketload of hype (Dishonored), and it isn't developed by Blizzard (Diablo 3) it probably won't do as well as these other games. It won't get the same publicity and it won't get the usual "oh my god the hype surrounding this game is so huge let's give it an extra 10% on the score" reviews.

But it's still the best game here - the care and attention to detail is clear for all to see.

Thank you for all your efforts - I look forward to seeing where the game goes in the future.

Game is fun but not Game of the Year fun. 

Yes I would rank Warlock above FE. However FE spell system is way better than the after thought spell system of Warlock.  One of the most disapointing aspects in Warlock was Spells. Hell I only use 3 spells in the game which is not good for a Fantasy based game. But everything else is pretty good.

That was a medicore game. It looked and played nearly exactly like Civ 5 and was a huge disappointment. It didn't do anything new or innovated, just changed the look and took out some of the good things from Civ 5 (which it already had few of.)

FTL is hard to say. It is a really strong and hella addictive game, but it lacks depth. The only thing you keep you playing is trying to unlock new ships and that is more of a gimmick than a mechanic. 

I can only conclude that any gamer who thinks that Diablo 3 is "crap" has become entirely too jaded and cynical toward his hobby.