Game of the Decade?

[Dosbilliam]

Fallout New Vegas, since it had something akin to an actual moral choice system. Let the well-meaning but slightly overbearing NCR take over, give the Mojave to the dictatorial Legion, let Mr. House give a nice "screw off" to the two former factions, or take over the entire place yourself to unknown consequences?

 

[Yellowfish]

I think that it's pointless. I mean, so many games were released in the last ten years, in so many different genres and forms. It's just not a good idea to pick just one game and say that it's the best thing the industry created in the last ten years. How about making a list of 20-25 absolutely-must-play games of the last ten years instead? That's way better in my opinion.

 

[teebeeohh]

I do not think Half Life 2 should of gotten the vote. I know that sierra is a lazy commie gaming industry but Tribes 2 would of gotten my vote a million times over. just as a examply.. I miss tribes so much..

OT: if anything ion the past 10 years. anything other then HL2. good game but not worth the reward.

tribes ascend not your cup of tea?

i am ok with hl2 for now but i believe that while you can pick a game of the year at the end of each year for game of the decade the impact something has long-term is a lot more important.
like how right now it looks like doom or quake should be game of the decade, just by how important shooter, online MP and games in first person are right now but maybe 30 years from those will all be things that died out quickly and we will all worship age of empires.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Well most of the last decade i was an rts player.. and the best rts ever created was warcraft 3. So Warcraft 3

For me personally it would be Warcraft III I think.
I have put down so much time into those two games and the story is really good.
My subjective opinion thou.

Your shared subjective opinion

 

[Verkula]

World of Warcraft. Too bad I would need another life to have the full experience, I just dont have time for it anymore.

 

[pointless vandalism]

Warcraft III and the semi RPG expansion. Such great fun and story. Also Rexxar is just great.

 

[gigastar]

I dont think there should be one.

Partially because of the huge list of titles over the years that could qualify for GotD. Not taking into account games that gained a cult classic status after an inital bombing.

Partially because we have come so damn far in technology terms over the decade that comparing the likes of... lets say Bayonetta to the original Devil May Cry just cannot be done fairly.

Mostly because no matter what is named GotD 70% of those who care will not accept that thier game of choice was not chosen.

Also whose idea was it to have a Game of the Decade award in 2012? He needs his clocks adjusting.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I'm confused. Of this Decade? Or just the last ten years? Didn't we do this two years ago, for a proper decade? And why did it go to Half Life 2? I mean, it's good and all, but why are we still trying to milk that teat? The more we say it, the less Gabe Newell puts out Half Life 3, because apparently we're satiated with it. And why are we paying attention to the Spike VGA awards? They hold about as much weight as a bent toothpick.

So far, since it's only been 2 years since 2010, I'd say Journey fits the bill.

Hear, hear! Find me a more meaningful game, I dare you.

 

[Black Reaper]

If we were to pick a game of the decade,what factors would be taken into account?,i doubt we would be judging by fun factor alone

If we are judging by fun,i'd say Hard Corps Uprising,otherwise,i say Tales of Vesperia

 

[Spartan212]

I'd have to agree with a couple others and go with World of Warcraft for GotD. I no longer play it, but that game has been an absolute beast since it was released. Any game from 2006(?) that can still hold 9-10 million subscribers can't be denied

And as others have said, it was the Spike Awards 10th anniversary, hence the "decade"

My personal game of the decade would be Mass Effect 2

 

[Smeggs]

Half-Life 2 as GotD?

Okay, I think Spike may be getting a bit ahead of themselves. HL2 is a good game, yes, but the best of the past decade? No. No, I don't think so.

 

[Full]

I don't think they were going for "Bes thng EVAAR" but more cultural impact. Half Life 2 pretty much skyrocketed digital distribution in games, as well as the huge mod craze that had simple programmers and animators turn into professional and employed people. It also helped keep the wheel spinning for the current generation of shooter tropes (that the original helped start). At least I hope, because if they were going for "best", those nominees were dog garbage.

I think that there is a common misconception with "Game of the Year" awards, to go off-topic a little. The recent Inside Gaming Awards went by "what would you remember the year for?" rather than the simple "Best of the best". In ten years, when you think of gaming in 2012, what will be the general thing to cross peoples minds? Halo 4, would be the answer, and I kind of agree.

 

[aguspal]

I cant quite decide, too many games in a decade.

But half life 2... cmon... Its one of the most overrated games that I have played, along with Dragon Age (Except HL2 is at least remotly good).



Stuff like Borderlands (mainly for 2) or COD (mainly for MW2) or Left 4 dead (mainly for 1) deserve more that spot. And even thougt I love those games, I am not quite sure if even THOSE deserve to be "game of the decade" either. But more than HL2 for sure.

 

[sXeth]

In ten years, when you think of gaming in 2012, what will be the general thing to cross peoples minds? Halo 4, would be the answer, and I kind of agree.

Oh, if we're going by that criteria, I'd say Diablo 3, as much as it fell flat on it face confused and bewildered in this strange new world of not-2000. Or that space shooting whatever game that everyone pitched a fit cause Bio screwed up endings like they always do.

 

[RandV80]

I would also go with Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[Wereduck]

I passionately loved HL1 but part 2 was pretty "meh" for me. I got distracted by another title about halfway through & never got back to it.
My pick? Saints Row motherfucking 2. A few months ago I started a new character for multiplayer with a friend who just got the game - we only played together once but it was weeks before I could take it out of the CD tray.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

You know what. I'm gonna say that Katawa Shoujo is my game of the decade. It is just an amazing emotional and beautiful game, almost life-changing really (particularly true for Rin's path). To anyone that hasn't tried it it's free so please just give it a go.

As for Half-Life 2. It's a great game but not nearly worthy of being called game of the decade.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I disagreed with all of the nominations except for Bioshock, ME2 and Windwaker. To me, game of the decade doesn't mean the most important game, it means the game that I spent the most time on and enjoyed the most. That means that my GOTD would probably be either:
Skyrim
Windwaker
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Borderlands

Sure HL2 moved the genre forward a bunch but I didn't really enjoy it THAT much. It was fun but I felt no desire to replay it.

RDR might have been a nominee from me if it weren't for the fact that I had a lot of it spoiled. It takes a lot of the power out of a story if you know a lot about what is going to happen.

 

[srm79]

I'm just glad a game like CoD wasn't nominated to begin with.

I hate to say it, but the original CoD (PC version, not the PS2 spin-off) actually was pretty ground breaking in its day. Prior to that, only MoH had gone near WW2 and even attempted to stay grounded in reality. Wolfenstein did it, but went all Nazi-zombie pretty early on. What CoD did for the first time though, was to truly make you feel like a small cog in a large machine, participating in some of the most famous actions in history. MoH still insisted on giving you one obligitary epic D-Day scaled level before leaving you to your own 1-man-army devices for the rest of the game. They tried to address this in expansions, I know, but it never worked the way it did in CoD.

I still have my copies of CoD and CoD 2, both of which get played regularly to this day. As single player experiences they took the FPS rule book and while not exactly throwing it away, at least gave it a comprehensive updating and kicked off the entire modern "military shooter" genre (not to be confused with the "modern military shooter" genre which only emerged as a result of running out of the battles everyone has heard of to set WWII games in.

Maybe not game of the decade material, but I always think people tend to forget how good the franchise used to be.

OT: For my money, it would be GTA: San Andreas.

 

[jacklemuff]

Team Fortrees 2 easily Game of the decade