Uncharted: Golden Abyss was the best handheld game of 2012, according to the Golden Joystick Awards. The swish event – which took place in London this afternoon – honoured Sony Bend’s excellent PlayStation Vita adventure ahead of Super Mario 3D Land and Kid Icarus: Uprising. We reckon the Nintendo Life guys might have a thing or two to say about that result.
It wasn’t all good news for PlayStation exclusives, however. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception missed out on an award in the Best Action Adventure category. That accolade went to Batman: Arkham City, instead. Meanwhile, Journey lost to MineCraft in the Best Downloadable Game group.
Battlefield 3 took home the Best Shooter gong, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the biggest winner of the afternoon – netting awards for Best RPG, Most Memorable Moment, and the coveted Ultimate Game of the Year award.
We’ve included the full list of winners in the space below. Let us know whether you agree or disagree in the comments section.
Best Action Adventure
Batman: Arkham City
Best use of DLC
Portal 2 (Perpetual Testing Initiative)
Best Download Game
Minecraft (360)
Best Fighter
Mortal Kombat Komplete
Best Handheld Game
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Best Racing Game
Forza 4
Best RPG
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best Shooter
Battlefield 3
Best Sports Game
FIFA 12
The One to Watch Award
Grand Theft Auto V
Top Gaming Moment
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Throat of the World
The Golden Joystick Ultimate Game Award
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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I really, really enjoyed Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I felt like they did tailor it to the platform — less shooting, more exploring — and it looked absolutely ridiculously good. Probably not the best game in the franchise, but certainly one of the top titles on Vita.
Uncharted was awesome, i still play it. But i would make a case for Gravity Rush. As much as i dont like it i can see why Minecraft won. And i think it was fair for Arkham City to win since IMO Arkham Asylum only lost GOTY in 2009 beacue Uncharted 2 was amazing. If Those two franchises were'nt onthe same cycle The Arkham games would get GOTY everytime.
Yeah, Gravity Rush is the best portable game whatsoever...But i didn't play Uncharted:GA.... was about buying it, but someone told me that it is not so good compared to Uncharteds from PS3. So i am waiting for price drop or maybe i should buy second hand from e-bay.... But anyway, Gravity Rush is the best....
@Gemuarto You should definitely try it when you find it at the right price. It's not as good as the PS3 games — but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Those PS3 games are REALLY good after all.
i love mario 3d land but i have to agree that getting the uncharted experience on a handheld was excellent it deserved this.
hmm i prefer gravity rush more than uncharted GA...maybe its just me...
Gravity Rush is my favorite PS Vita game but Uncharted is excellent as well. I've played Uncharted, Kid Icarus and Mario 3D Land and I'd actually agree that Uncharted is the best of that group.
Arkham City was the right choice over Uncharted 3. The latter isn't a bad game but it was a step back from Among Thieves where as Arkham City improved on everything Asylum did right and delivered what I think is one of the 3 best experiences this generation.
@get2sammyb I'll definetly try it out one way or another =).
Love for Gravity Rush in this topic makes me happy =))))).........
There has been some great handheld games both on sony and nintendo this year, and in the next couple of months there are some big hitters on way.
lol I think not.
I'm confused...what calendar are these people working from? This year isn't over yet, and Super Mario 3D Land was from LAST year.
I still haven't gotten around to playing Gravity Rush, so I can't say how it compares to Golden Abyss...but the latter was quite good. Best handheld game of the year? I dunno about all THAT...but then I'm approaching this from a perspective that separates the "feels" of handheld and console games, and I can't consider GA a handheld game by anything other than a technicality. I blame my days growing up with a Gameboy for this.
I loved Golden Abyss, even though collecting all the items was a bit of a chore due to the randomness of the drops.
Personally, I think it's a travesty that Uncharted 3 lost out to a Crapman game - but then I've never been into superhero games. Or movies, other than Spider-Man. For me, Uncharted 3 is the best game of this generation - the only thing likely to topple it is The Last Of Us.
Good to see! Also, Skyrim: Ultimate GOTY? Did PS3 gamers miss out on this voting?
@Stuffgamer1 The Golden Joystick Awards are weird in that they basically track like, September 2011-September 2012. Or something like that. So, for example, Assassin's Creed III will be in the running for NEXT YEAR'S game of the year award.
I have uncharted, but I've been too busy to touch it yet cause I've been playing Resistance Burning Skies and Mortal Kombat (which is the best fighter, WHOO!!!) But now that I read this and peoples comments, I can't wait to play this game!
Is it funny that not one of Nintendo's games won? I'm not shocked at all Super Mario 3D Land was pretty good, same with Kid Icarus but Kid Icarus once you played through it once, got old pretty fast
Totally rigged! I see no Sega games!
This seems less like a "best game" award and more of a "game we arbitrarily picked out of a small pool of titles that where selected based on their mainstream visibility rather than on any sort of actual quality judgement" award.
Of course all game awards seem to be that. Its always "here's the games more people have heard of," not "here are the best games."
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