I can barely remember what I've played this year. After the first item on the list, I'm taking shots in the dark. Doesn't matter that this post is long, as there's a 99% chance 0-2 people will ever read it.
#1) League of Legends (PC): This game ate my life the summer it was in closed beta a few years ago, and I continued to play it obsessively. Now a days, I still play it somewhat regularly. The groups I've played with have come and gone, but I'm still there. You'd think I'd be a master at the game by now, but I'm not. It's a wonderful game. It fulfills my competitive streak and the game plays out differently every match, but keeps a familiarity. It's very challenging and ever changing. Just got to watch out for you and your buddies playing it more to win than to enjoy it; then you need a break. It's a multiplayer only, DotA-like game if you didn't know.
#2) L.A. Noire (PC): Grabbed it from Amazon for $5-7.50ish. Really enjoying it so far. It kinda feeds two needs, videogames and watching crime dramas. Two birds, one stone. I wonder if I could buy the DLC and play it separately or if I'd have to reach the point in the game again where it shows up... Don't see it having any replay value, but that's fine. It can be tedious or a bit slow sometimes.
#3) Skate 2 (Xbox 360): Bought it used recently, because I adored Skate 3, but couldn't find it when I again felt the itch to play. It's basically Skate 3 with new areas to skate and somewhat rougher gameplay (the off-board walking is crap in 2, so very much improved in 3). It's like being stuck on the hardcore mode of Skate 3, which is good and bad. It's very fun just like 3 but its personality is significantly more grating to my ears. I highly recommend turning dialogue volume completely off, so you don't have to endure the constant whining of your camera man (that follows and annoys you everywhere you go -_-) and the other 258 douches in this game. No, you're not cool or interesting just because you went to jail. I really don't like the main character you have to play either, you're some horrible jerk who went to jail and is now out, whoop-de-doo. No, random loser #2053, that doesn't make me wicked-sick. I also don't care about how you spend your time sticking it to the man. Love watching skateboarding, and playing skateboarding games, hate the portrayal of skating culture and its riders in this game.
#4) Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSP): Bought it for a long car trip and vacation. It's so similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, but I guess that's alright, I love FFT. It even fixed annoying problems of FFT, like making status-altering spells slightly better than useless; now, they're at least useful as an option for characters to contribute to the fight when they're out of melee range. It also doesn't have the incredibly frustrating slowdown problems FFT's PSP version had. The jobs aren't as interesting as FFT's, a lot are very very similar with minor differences. The stories were even markedly similar. Anyways, it was enjoyable, but I've stopped playing it since I got back from vacation. Some of the game's graphics are oddly blurry or really low res. It's just pixel art, so I have no idea why the PSP would need them compressed or whatever THAT much.
#5) Crysis 2 (PC): After trying to play it for more than 15 minutes at a time, the game finally stuck just last week. I played it through to the end for the first time. I really don't understand why people didn't like that everything shared the same resource pool, ever heard of weighing and managing your options? Although, I thought sprinting (at the speed of a normal person...) draining your energy was a bit silly.
Probably could be somewhere on the list: Alice: Madness Returns, Anachronox, DotA 2. Like I said, I'm just guessing on #2-5.
