What are your top 10 Game of Decade (starting from 2010 to onwards)
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I get ya, nothing this decade compares all that well with the best of the previous.Squilookle said:
Still, if I am restricted to 2010 on
Skyrim (I bought a new computer... just for Skyrim. And it was worth it. I upgraded its GPU for Watch Dogs... not AS worth it)
Just Cause 2 (just stupid fun)
Far Cry Blood Dragon (I almost said 3, but it was only half fun. Blood Dragon basically WAS 1/2 of FC 3... so it wins)
Amnesia: Dark Descent (The first good survival horror in years)
Shadow of Mordor (The nemesis system was a really excellent innovation, I'd like to see something similar used elsewhere)
Elite Dangerous (finally, a decent successor to freespace or freelancer)
Telltale's The Walking Dead (Zombies done right, as a setting and not just as popup targets)
Stardew Valley (Someone made a relaxing video game... I didn't think that was possible. As a 3rd shifter this game has been a godsend)
Fallout NV
Fallout 4 (NV and 4 are interchangeable on the list, Fallout is my favorite franchise and any of them will near or be at the top my list of just about anything.)
10) Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
9) Torchlight
8) Gears of War 4
7) Heroes of the Storm
6) Halo 5: Guardians
5) Diablo III
4) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
3) Xenoblade Chronicles
2) Halo: Reach
1) StarCraft II
9) Torchlight
8) Gears of War 4
7) Heroes of the Storm
6) Halo 5: Guardians
5) Diablo III
4) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
3) Xenoblade Chronicles
2) Halo: Reach
1) StarCraft II
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh- Just Cause 2 and 3 were both fantastic and Black Flag/halo Reach was the closest I ever came to buying another AC/Halo game, Far Cry 3 is undoubtedly the best in its series and the two latest Wolfenstein games deconstruct a formerly one dimensional hero in exactly the way I always wanted a modern shooter to, but nothing has really jumped out and astounded me since... well, since The Saboteur in 2009 and Mount and Blade Warband in... wait- 2010? 2010!Kyrian007 said:
OK, Mount and Blade Warband it is then!
The thing is, it took me a couple of minutes to off the top of my head come up with a top 10 of the 2010's. If asked the same about the 90's or 2000's... it would take much longer to narrow it down to just 10. It would take me longer to narrow the 2000s or 90's down to 50 than it did to narrow the 2010's down to 10. There's just so many more really greats in the retro category than there are now.Squilookle said:
God games in the last 8 years.
Well....okay let's see.
10. Bioshock Infinite.
9. The Last of Us
8. Boarderlands 2
7. Dark souls 3 (my personal favorite souls)
6. Bloodborne (okay 2nd favorite then)
5. Tomb Raider (reboot. Fuck you this game is great)
4. Diablo 3
3. Persona 5
2. Horizon: Zero Dawn
1. THE MOTHERFUCKING WITCHER 3! (how the fuck has nobody brought this game up yet. I'm disappointed and ashamed of all of you)
Well....okay let's see.
10. Bioshock Infinite.
9. The Last of Us
8. Boarderlands 2
7. Dark souls 3 (my personal favorite souls)
6. Bloodborne (okay 2nd favorite then)
5. Tomb Raider (reboot. Fuck you this game is great)
4. Diablo 3
3. Persona 5
2. Horizon: Zero Dawn
1. THE MOTHERFUCKING WITCHER 3! (how the fuck has nobody brought this game up yet. I'm disappointed and ashamed of all of you)
because its not very good game.CritialGaming said:
its controlling and combat and core gameplay elements suck.
Wrong on all counts but I'm not getting into the merits of Witcher 3 with you. It'll be like discussing the nature of truth in Platonic Dialogues with my cat.B-Cell said:
Conversely, I think your list is pretty dope man. I'd replace Titanfall 2, Hitman, and Metro with GTA V, Fallout 4: survival, and the Left 4 Dead series (in no particular order).
Seconded. The Witcher series is really boring and slow. Its like an episode of Game of Thrones on 1/4 speed and without the believable characters, dialogue or world.B-Cell said:
Yeah I know. No guns, and too many women. Whatever dude.B-Cell said:
Huh? Boring and slow? I mean if you don't want storytelling, I guess it can feel slow. Actually I can't even grasp where in the world you are coming from with a statement like this. Unless you are only talking about the 1st game in the series.Silentpony said:
I "mentioned" Witcher 3 in regards to what Horizon did better than it like having a overarching story that actually fits the gameplay of an open world game that Witcher 3 didn't even accomplish. Yeah, Witcher 3 has better writing than Horizon but its main quest is pretty bad devolving not just into a save the world story but save ALL worlds story. Also, Horizon and Witcher 3 combat are complete opposites of each other where Horizon focuses and succeeds where it should (at monster hunting) and fails at human combat whereas Witcher 3 fails at monster combat when witchers are monster hunters. Even the humanoid combat isn't very good feeling like a weird mishmash of Arkham and Souls combat. And running Geralt around town isn't even good and improved movement had to be patched in. Witcher 3 fails hard in the gameplay department and I would've much preferred if Witcher 3 was just an adventure game akin to a Telltale game, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, David Cage game, etc because I didn't enjoy any of my time actually PLAYING the game.CritialGaming said:
I played the first one, and in terms of pacing and story telling, it was awful. Geralt as a character was stilted, boring, and just another grim grizzled handsome protagonist. The Order system, while...entertaining, didn't add anything because the characters were so unbelievable and thus unlikable, I never felt any attachment to them or whatever the plot was trying to be.CritialGaming said:
And the gameplay was virtually unplayable.
Second one, the gameplay was much better, in that it was only bad. Story wise, and character wise, it was just as bland, boring and poorly paced as the first.
I never played the third. And unless you're telling me Witcher 3 doesn't involve Geralt, any of his boring supporting cast, the drab lifeless world, and sports an entirely new combat system centered around an entirely new genre, I'm guessing its more of the same.
Here?s a scrounged together tentative list based only on what I?ve played, followed by what I?ve yet to play or started playing that could possibly supplant a few of the former entries:
Played:
God of War 3
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2: SotFS
Bloodborne
Horizon: Zero Dawn
A Wolf Among Us
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Uncharted: Lost Legacy
Darksiders
Journey
Started:
MGSV
The Witcher 3: Complete Edition
Shadowrun Returns
Deus Ex: HR Director?s Cut
Yet to Start:
Dark Souls 3
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
STALKER: CoP
Played:
God of War 3
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2: SotFS
Bloodborne
Horizon: Zero Dawn
A Wolf Among Us
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Uncharted: Lost Legacy
Darksiders
Journey
Started:
MGSV
The Witcher 3: Complete Edition
Shadowrun Returns
Deus Ex: HR Director?s Cut
Yet to Start:
Dark Souls 3
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
STALKER: CoP
How would you rate the God of war series? I've never played any of them, mostly because until now I didn't have a console they were on. I played Dante's Inferno and loved it. I assume GoW is basically that, but Greek?hanselthecaretaker said:
I thought Geralt was cool as fuck as a character. He's the Polish Clint Eastwood...
You have two options. Wait until I leave and try to murder Abigail... but then I'll come back. I'll slay every lice-ridden peasant... anything that moves and can't climb a tree. Or you can try to live honorable lives, clear your conscience, and start again. The choice is yours.
In fact, Geralt is what probably kept me going through all three games. The side characters were okay, or at least hot, when it came to the sorceresses.
But I thought the story in the first two games was a muddled mess. It was better in Witcher 3, but then that game just had way too many side quests (some of which were certainly well done) and an insulting amount of filler content (bandit camps and smugglers caches). The world was just way too big and a slog to explore.
And the combat/gameplay in all three games was just not very good. It got really boring and repetitive.
I will say that the graphics and art style in the 3rd game was spectacular. The world they built really looked great. Geralt looked badass.
I don't hate the Witcher 3, but overall it's a mediocre game in my book. I finished it. I'll likely never replay it.
You have two options. Wait until I leave and try to murder Abigail... but then I'll come back. I'll slay every lice-ridden peasant... anything that moves and can't climb a tree. Or you can try to live honorable lives, clear your conscience, and start again. The choice is yours.
In fact, Geralt is what probably kept me going through all three games. The side characters were okay, or at least hot, when it came to the sorceresses.
But I thought the story in the first two games was a muddled mess. It was better in Witcher 3, but then that game just had way too many side quests (some of which were certainly well done) and an insulting amount of filler content (bandit camps and smugglers caches). The world was just way too big and a slog to explore.
And the combat/gameplay in all three games was just not very good. It got really boring and repetitive.
I will say that the graphics and art style in the 3rd game was spectacular. The world they built really looked great. Geralt looked badass.
I don't hate the Witcher 3, but overall it's a mediocre game in my book. I finished it. I'll likely never replay it.
I no particular order:
1) Battlefield 3.
2) Halo: Reach
3) Titanfall 2
4) Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light
5) DOOM
6) Prey
7) Mass Effect 2
8) Subnautica
9) Deus Ex: Human Revolution
10) Guacamelee
So it seems I am a shooter hound through and through, as I was in the 2000s and the 90s. If there's one thing that perturbs me about my favourites it's how many of them come from studios or series that have been damaged by monetisation in subsequent releases. Mass Effect, Battlefield and Deus Ex to the point that I'm not interested in future games in the series.
It's interesting that there have still been plenty of fantastic games coming out, but that the ones I look forward to now are no longer the big tent pole franchises that used to hold my attention for months at a time, or in BF3's case for five years continuously.
I'm with you two. I played lots of great games in the last 8 years, it's just that most of them came out in the 90s/00s. While I enjoyed plenty of games from this decade, I'm struggling to think of any I'd consider truly great. (Though, these days, I'm doing well if I play a game within 5 years of its release date, so there are plenty that interest me that I just haven't gotten around to yet.)Squilookle said:
Portal 2 was damn good. It took the first as a solid base and added lots of cool things on top of it. The co-op levels in particular were very enjoyable and really made you think with portals. Though I think the writing wasn't quite as sharp as that of the first game.
Spec-ops: the line was a brilliant deconstruction of military shooters.
Bastion was a lot of fun. I still hear the narrator in my head sometimes.
I'm currently playing Xenoblade Chronicles and having a blast.
I've enjoyed what I've played of Cuphead so far. But, I think a lot of that is getting to play it with my friend. I'd probably find it a lot more frustrating if I attempted it solo.
Beyond that I dunno. Skyrim was ok. New Vegas was ok. Red dead redemption was ok. None of the Assassin's Creed games I played were as good as the first 2. Halo Reach wasn't nearly as good as the original trilogy. GTA V had its moments but was rather boring a lot of the time. Civ V was quite good, though IV is still my favourite. Skyward Sword was a big disappointment.
I sometimes wonder if video games just aren't for me anymore. But then I pop in an old favourite and remember just how much fun they can be.
10. Prey
I found this game to a fun pseudo-horror sci-fi game, but at the same time, that was my big gripe. The game tries to be a sci-fi game AND horror game at the same time, I felt the game had no idea what it wanted to be. Some of the equipment and powers were rather useless, and the enemy placements were all over the place. Regardless, a solid game
9. Dishonored 2
This game exceeds the first game in almost every way. The world is much bigger, you have more option to take out your target, and had multiple endings. Except from Corvo, I found all of the VA to be fantastic. Emily's new powers were really neat as well.
8. Battlefield 4 (Post-patch)
Okay, this game suffered A LOT when it first launched with bugs and glitches, but after the patches I found myself playing the game all the time with my friends. 64-player gameplay was still there and the squad-gameplay worked beautifully.
7. Skyrim
I first played this on Xbox 360. I enjoyed the vanilla game, then I moved on to the pc version. I loved the creativity and efforts of the modding community, especially ones involving quests and new areas.
6. Far Cry 3
FC3 was an enjoyable experience. The tropical islands were beautiful and I loved the open-world gameplay. Hunting was fun to as the pelts were used for upgrades, not just as a way to earn quick cash. Vaas was one of best villains at the time, and I would never forget the "Definition of insanity" monolog.
5. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
Sure, it was less assassin and more of a pirate game, but that did not stop me from enjoying this game. The naval combat was absolutely brilliant, and I loved hunting for whales and sharks. The assassin gameplay aspect was still there and fun, but at this point, it was copied over so many games it was nothing new.
4. Overwatch
Probably the only hero-based game I liked in recent years. The game isn't perfect, but it is filled with rich lore, heroes with fully developed characters, colorful and vibrant graphics, and some of the best supports from devs I've ever seen.
3. Dark Souls
Absolutely love the brutal gameplay and the cryptic lore of the game. Once you figure out how the game works, it's not that even difficult, except for few bosses here and there.
2. GTA V
I really like this game. The social satires in the single player are played out brilliantly. Just like Skyrim, the modding community has been really active and I see crazier shit every day. I love San Andreas and Los Santos, because it is filled to the brim with details and npcs just going about the day. I love the multiplayer section as well (When someone's not going on a rampage, that is). The game modes aren't restricted to TDM, but cycling, tennis match, darts, land, air, and water races, and heist.
1. Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC
Since the base game has already been mentioned, I will talk about the dlc. This expansion adds so much content, it should really be considered a stand-alone game. This expansion surpasses the first dlc in many ways. There are more hours of gameplay, more characters to meet, more quests to do, and Instead of being part of vanilla maps BAW has it's own area. Toussaint is an all-new area inspired by Italian countryside, and it is quite an eye-candy. The new area ditches the grim and dark aesthetic of the base game and instead goes for more vibrant, colorful views. The sunset has never looked so beautiful, and there are amazing gorgeous views. The quests are quite impressive. No single quest feels like a chore to play through. Each quest, even the side quests, and witcher contracts adds a new entry to your index. There's even a quest that references lady of the lake from the Arthurian legend which you'll get a cool sword from. There are also tons of new monsters to slay, each requiring different tactics.
I found this game to a fun pseudo-horror sci-fi game, but at the same time, that was my big gripe. The game tries to be a sci-fi game AND horror game at the same time, I felt the game had no idea what it wanted to be. Some of the equipment and powers were rather useless, and the enemy placements were all over the place. Regardless, a solid game
9. Dishonored 2
This game exceeds the first game in almost every way. The world is much bigger, you have more option to take out your target, and had multiple endings. Except from Corvo, I found all of the VA to be fantastic. Emily's new powers were really neat as well.
8. Battlefield 4 (Post-patch)
Okay, this game suffered A LOT when it first launched with bugs and glitches, but after the patches I found myself playing the game all the time with my friends. 64-player gameplay was still there and the squad-gameplay worked beautifully.
7. Skyrim
I first played this on Xbox 360. I enjoyed the vanilla game, then I moved on to the pc version. I loved the creativity and efforts of the modding community, especially ones involving quests and new areas.
6. Far Cry 3
FC3 was an enjoyable experience. The tropical islands were beautiful and I loved the open-world gameplay. Hunting was fun to as the pelts were used for upgrades, not just as a way to earn quick cash. Vaas was one of best villains at the time, and I would never forget the "Definition of insanity" monolog.
5. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
Sure, it was less assassin and more of a pirate game, but that did not stop me from enjoying this game. The naval combat was absolutely brilliant, and I loved hunting for whales and sharks. The assassin gameplay aspect was still there and fun, but at this point, it was copied over so many games it was nothing new.
4. Overwatch
Probably the only hero-based game I liked in recent years. The game isn't perfect, but it is filled with rich lore, heroes with fully developed characters, colorful and vibrant graphics, and some of the best supports from devs I've ever seen.
3. Dark Souls
Absolutely love the brutal gameplay and the cryptic lore of the game. Once you figure out how the game works, it's not that even difficult, except for few bosses here and there.
2. GTA V
I really like this game. The social satires in the single player are played out brilliantly. Just like Skyrim, the modding community has been really active and I see crazier shit every day. I love San Andreas and Los Santos, because it is filled to the brim with details and npcs just going about the day. I love the multiplayer section as well (When someone's not going on a rampage, that is). The game modes aren't restricted to TDM, but cycling, tennis match, darts, land, air, and water races, and heist.
1. Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC
Since the base game has already been mentioned, I will talk about the dlc. This expansion adds so much content, it should really be considered a stand-alone game. This expansion surpasses the first dlc in many ways. There are more hours of gameplay, more characters to meet, more quests to do, and Instead of being part of vanilla maps BAW has it's own area. Toussaint is an all-new area inspired by Italian countryside, and it is quite an eye-candy. The new area ditches the grim and dark aesthetic of the base game and instead goes for more vibrant, colorful views. The sunset has never looked so beautiful, and there are amazing gorgeous views. The quests are quite impressive. No single quest feels like a chore to play through. Each quest, even the side quests, and witcher contracts adds a new entry to your index. There's even a quest that references lady of the lake from the Arthurian legend which you'll get a cool sword from. There are also tons of new monsters to slay, each requiring different tactics.
See I never liked Clint Eastwood. He always seemed like a parody of himself, rather than a true badass. More Leslie Neilson and less Schwarzenegger. Movies like Good/Bad/Ugly or Dirty Hairy I just can't take a single line of his dialogue seriously.Kerg3927 said:
The only movie of his I liked was Gran Torino, and that's because it was a deliberate deconstruction of a war-hero trying to get over his PTSD and racism, and he's specifically not a huge, macho 'take on all comers' guy.