The Onion Rates the Best Games of the Decade

[saejox]

15?

i can list a 100 and still miss many awesome games.

 

[Cilliandrew]

Wow, i am stunned as all get-out to see "Advance Wars" on there. Quite impressed.


"Vice City", "Left 4 Dead" and "WoW" would also make my list.

 

[Gasaraki]

OMG how could they not add barbie horse adventures!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111oneoneeleventyone

 

[olicon]

I was hoping for something a lot more.. stupid. It's actually an honest to goodness list!

 

[SantoUno]

List missing Oblivion, or at least Morrowind. List=Invalid

Alas, an non gaming site, even one as great as the Onion, can't hope to get it all right.

At least there's no Halo or Call of Duty 4. List=Somewhat redeemed

Oh for fuck's sake listing Halo or Call of Duty on those kind of lists isn't blasphemy or something. If one of them was one there it would be perfectly reasonable for obvious reasons. And yes even if you still disagree it's still subjective so that is just their list.

The only one that confuses me is Katamari on No. 2. I have no idea what that game is about but if it's really that great to get .2 I probably would have heard more about it.

 

[Fenwolf2003]

I'll change my 3 games I've never heard of to 2, since I remember SSX now, but Ico and Katamari Damacy I've never heard of. And which games aren't mainstream? Ninja Gaiden, Braid and Advance Wars. Final Fantasy is only popular within its genre as well, thinking about it now, is 'Sims' even mainstream? So thats 2 games I've never head of and 4 that aren't mainstream but may still be 'popular' to its fan base. And before you answer claiming 'Those four are massively popular', they might be, to their fanbase. Heck, Iron Man the game my be massively popular with its fanbase.

I see I've left out a main few words from my main post so I might as well do the edit here. I meant Bioshock was the only really mainstream FPS game. FPS games are still the most popular games (except for MMOs probably) and they have 1 single player, 1 multiplayer (something I don't like) and a RPG mixture. FPSs hold such a high portion of the market that it is stupid that out of 15 only 3 of them are 'kinda' an FPS. As I said before, to not include COD, Halo or Half Life is just stupid when there are at least 3 RPG games which are popular but not THAT popular in the whole community.

But heck, as I said at the bottom of my original post its just my opinion, so I don't see why you seem to take such offence by it. We might just have a different opinion of 'best'. You might think best means most artistic or whatever, while I think best means, most popular. Since if something is the most popular it simply is the best game since the majority of the people agree about its worth.

Might as well say it again though, so no one else will take random offence. Just my opinion on all of the above. Peace out

 

[ShankHA32]

I dont see how people can see the list as a satire with Ico on it. If this were a satire it would certainly not pick Ico to be on the list.....it lacks that humongous kick in the balls that some of the other games that made the list had.

Stating MY personal opinion on the list is meaningless.
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Okay i really liked Fallout 3.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

Bioshock number 1? Really?

But then again...it is the Onion.

My thoughts exactly. I found the plot to be rather ridiculous, and the twist overall rather lame. Gameplay was the typical tried-and-true affair, the only thing it really had going for it were the pretty graphics.

"Would you kindly..." Take that back.

It was a good game.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

"Would you kindly..." Take that back.

It was a good game.

Points for the reference, but I just don't feel it was the best game of the decade.

 

[Gaderael]

No Oblivion.
No Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time.
No Call of Duty (1 or 2).
No Unreal Tournament 2004.
No Total War.

List does not compute.

 

[SkullCap]

Okay jokes over, where's the REAL list?

I mean the snowboarding game is on that list, surely its a joke right?

It's not? ...........*sighs*