By any metric, 2012 was an absolutely blockbuster year for video game fans. That year saw the release of some of the most heralded games ever. Heavyweight hits like Mass Effect 3, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Journey, Borderlands 2, Halo 4, Persona 4 Golden, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Diablo III all released that year. And yes, that list is excluding a number of other great titles — but that’s sort of the point. A litany of iconic franchises and beloved numbered sequels (too many to list without my editor accusing me of trying to pad this story out) all dropped in 2012… and yet it was a …