PAX East is one of the first game conventions of the year and we had a team of boots on the ground. Once the dust settled on the weekend, we compiled a 'best of' list for MMORPG.com. See which games took our top honors in Best of PAX East 2012 Awards.

PAX (whether East or Prime) is the show for gamers, not press, but that doesn't mean the press isn't abound and scouting the next crop of games for what's going to be huge and what's going to be a dud.  At this year's PAX East in Boston, we saw every MMO available for our viewing pleasure, and we've cut it all down our definitive list of the best games on the show floor in the MMO space.  These kinds of things are always hard, because just about every game had something cool up its sleeve, but the following five games really stood out from the pack.

Editor's Note: Each game can only win one award, with Best of Show being awarded to the game we believe to embody the most out of each category.

Read the rest of MMORPG.com's Best of PAX East 2012 Awards.

Hard to understand how Guild Wars 2 does not even get a mention here?!  Were they not there?

They were not.  ;)

But they did one hell of a show stealer at the end of the Future of MMOs panel ;)

Who picks these?  Firefall and Tera for most anticipated?....and Raiderz for rising Star?  I've played Tera and Raiderz and....they are just more of the same and will come and go this year and be forgotten.  Firefall vids make it look dull and boring to me.  I guess if that's the only ones you had to choose from...then I have to say, minus the Neverwinter stuff and the developers Panel, PAX east kind of sucked this year.  

Nice to see SMITE get some recognition!

Originally posted by elocke

Who picks these?  Firefall and Tera for most anticipated?....and Raiderz for rising Star?  I've played Tera and Raiderz and....they are just more of the same and will come and go this year and be forgotten.  Firefall vids make it look dull and boring to me.  I guess if that's the only ones you had to choose from...then I have to say, minus the Neverwinter stuff and the developers Panel, PAX east kind of sucked this year.  

 

These awards are for PAX East 2012. It was a fairly light show MMO wise! Neverwinter really blew our socks off, though.

Boy, I have to admit, Neverwinter sure looks good.

Originally posted by Bunks

Boy, I have to admit, Neverwinter sure looks good.

 

Yeah been following it for sometime,glad they changed their minds about the game being a instanced love fest.

As for RaiderZ ,well IMO the combat beats Tera and the quest system and the skill based class system,the mobs have way better AI as well.

Neverwinter does look pretty awsome.  Can Cryptic really do it this time? Early signs are pretty positive. It may be the most legendary company bounce back in mmo history if they can pull this off.

Pardon me while I laugh at the concept that Cryptic could make a decent game.  You have to know that Neverwinter will self destruct as soon as it is available.

The Secret World could be a sleeper, just have trust issues with the developer at this point.

As to Perfect World making a decent game, I have great doubts the king of pay-to-win could produce such although I guess anything is possible.

The rest will have to take a wait and see attitude on them.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Pardon me while I laugh at the concept that Cryptic could make a decent game.  You have to know that Neverwinter will self destruct as soon as it is available.

The Secret World could be a sleeper, just have trust issues with the developer at this point.

As to Perfect World making a decent game, I have great doubts the king of pay-to-win could produce such although I guess anything is possible.

The rest will have to take a wait and see attitude on them.

 

Smite really was amazing. I'd never heard of it before but by Saturday it's lines were longer than league's. So glad I got to play it.

I have to admit that I didn't even think about NWN until now. But from those videos it looks pretty darn good.

Originally posted by BillMurphy

They were not.  ;)

 

 

Phew you had me a bit worried there I was like Y U NO LIEK THE GUILD WARS haha

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Originally posted by Ironclad
Hard to understand how Guild Wars 2 does not even get a mention here?!  Were they not there?

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I dont think GW2 need more hype game will sell it self and its good when smaller developers also get some attention.

They showed up on pax panel and specially last 10 min is awesome GW2 news:)

Btw i bought GW2 so dont attack me for GW2 hater now:P

Lets be honest here neverwinter brings NOTHING new.

Small parties raids hack and slash quests dragons again after already thousends of other D&D games another one lol.

But game looks nice and prolly will have some fun but its a game thats not new at all.

How can World of Warplanes get an award? It's not even out yet.

Originally posted by Classicstar

Lets be honest here neverwinter brings NOTHING new.

Small parties raids hack and slash quests dragons again after already thousends of other D&D games another one lol.

But game looks nice and prolly will have some fun but its a game thats not new at all.

Not everyone is craving something "new" just for the sake of being "new".  If the game is same old same old but a ton of FUN, I'm sold.  It's all about the fun factor.