Yahoo's top ten games of the decade..... (WTF!)

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orangebandguy

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Weren't Yahoo involved with a scandal about a tech expert who didn't know that PS3 controllers can be re used after the batteries die?

Bloody hilarious.

Nice to see Half Life 2 up there and GTA 3. GTA 3 was brilliant so I don't begrudge it's no. 1 placement.
 

Heart of Darkness

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Zing said:
Heart of Darkness said:
Perhaps it's a list of games that shook up the industry? Then again, that doesn't explain why SMG is on there.
And Bejeweled...I didn't even know what it was, I had to look it up on wikipedia.
You're very lucky. You never knew about the life-sucker called Bejeweled. But it did spark the "casual games" trend, despite how much I hate the terms "casual" and "hardcore" and the casual/hardcore dichotomy.
 

orangebandguy

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Weren't Yahoo involved with a scandal about a tech expert who didn't know that PS3 controllers can be re used after the batteries die?

Bloody hilarious.

Nice to see Half Life 2 up there and GTA 3. GTA 3 was brilliant so I don't begrudge it's no. 1 placement.
 

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Maybe they're referring to influential games (possibly) in that case GTA would definately take the top spot, it defined 3D open world games. Or quite possibly, they did 10 minutes of searching for games from 2000-2009 picked 10 and called it a day.
 

CloggedDonkey

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Wow, that is just... wow. yes Wii spots was good and might get a spot as number 50 on a top 50, but not a top 10, and since when did Yahoo do this? HL2 needs a better spot, and why in gods name is Wii fit on there? thats like putting a turd in a pile of delicious pudding (think snack pack, not British pudding). I have a feeling that this is just the boss saying "let's get people on them interweb thing mad with this, and then boost the sails of all of these games." then his yes man replies "great idea sir!" for no apparent reason . but no this is just to boost some sails, which is weird because MW2 wasn't on there, and it sold millions in just a few days.
 

Korten12

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mario galaxy? wtf...? that game was not even that good. Mario sunshine was better...
 

Twilight_guy

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Yahoo is not know for gaming and thus would not have stories specializing in it. Their list is a good general view with less attention to the better and more hidden gems. Ignore it and scoff at the ignorance of anyone who tries to create a "best game of the decade" list.
 

TOGSolid

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You say they don't know gaming, but when you look at the list not from the perspective of one of us regulars, but from the perspective of the mass market and casual gamers it makes sense. It's a list of games that popularized and made gaming the massive force that it is today. That list is frighteningly accurate. Remember folks, we are the minority.

Though SMG is kind of a head scratcher.
 

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Half-life 2 was somehow considered worse than wii fucking fit! Oh well most of the truly outstanding games of this decade have missed out so they probably just dredged up some goit who's only ever seen his son play games, put him on the spot with a type writer and a time limit an asking him to throw together a list of this decades gaming top ten.
 

theironbat46

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I thought every one had sixty copies of MW2? Maybe Yahoo is lying, or everyone else didn't pass 5th grade math.
 

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Wow, I read the title as Yahtzee's top ten games of the decade, the list surprised me needless to say.

After re reading the title, wow, what a terrible list of games, blah blah blah, it's fucking Yahoo, it's like getting pissed off about Google making a top ten list of games, who gives a shit?
 

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To an extend i get the list, though i dont agree with it. I mean personally i totally understand why they put hal... Oh why bother explaining, i shall only get bitched at and called judas or something similar, like shithead... or unicorn molester...

Needless to say, i may disagree with the list though i can see where their logic comes from.
 

Bagaloo

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Well, actually...I pretty much agree with this list.

Think about it. Half-Life 2 and Halo, both great FPS' that gathered huge popularity and drew more people into gaming.

Wii fit and Wii sports. Wii Sports being the definitive title that came with the Wii, so pretty much its the game that introduced everyone to motion controls. Wii Sports because for a lot of people its revolutionised how they keep fit. Though a lot of you will argue that the latter is not really a game.

Bejewelled; POPcaps crazy addictive puzzle game. Again, a lot of you will brush this off as "casual", but a lot of people really love this game, and play it tons.

Guitar Hero was the first game to use the funny little guitar thing, and heck, it was really fun. While it doesn't boast the track list of the sequels, the original is there because again, it revolutionised how we look at gaming. Its not all about joypads and single player, suddenly it was really fun to set up little plastic guitar controllers at parties and rock out with your friends.

Same again with the Sims, first in the series, very unique at the time and incredibly popular.

GTA 3 redefined the 3d sandbox genre, or invented it depending on who you talk to. And it was really good.

WoW sorta speaks for itself. 11 million subs.

The only one I can't place is Super Mario Galaxy, but I've never played it.

Hardly any of these titles appeared in the latter half of 'the noughties', but that doesn't mean they didn't have a huge impact on gaming. Bigger than some of your more modern titles.
 
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No Timesplitters? Or Assassin's Creed? Or God of War?


Granted it is Yahoo so I can't say I'm suprised...
 

Hazy

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Wii Sports?

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[HEADING=2]FUCKING WII SPORTS!?[/HEADING]

Come on! They're bloody mocking us!

Sorry, Yahoo, but innovation =/= greatness. I don't even care that it came free with the Wii. It had 5 minigames, 3 of which were actually decent.
 

e2density

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WTF? Any game by the Wii doesn't deserve to be on that list.
And where is Resident Evil 4?!