Best Games Of The Decade

mrmorgan

GTA 5 has to be, it's something else.

the detail on the online map is just crazy

tjhook

I could only come up with these off the top of my head. They're not for everybody :P

In no particular order:

Hellblade - Senua's Sacrifice (I played in VR)
DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)
Elite Dangerous (Again, in VR)
Red Dead Redemption
Minecraft (I didn't play it, but I recognise the impact it had on others, particularly encouraging younger people to code)
XCom - Enemy Unknown
Kerbal Space Program
FIFA 16 *
Limbo
Rayman Origins


(* Not Really, just checking if you're paying attention)

H3llR4iser

No "list of the games of the decade" can be complete without Skyrim, folks. Imagine all the "I was an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee" memes and jokes we'd be missing out on. Which gets me thinking "it's time for TES VI!", but I digress.



As a big fan of the first Deus Ex game, I appreciated Mankind Divided, even if it's not on par with the very first game.



I am another rare person who doesn't get the love for The Witcher 3 - but maybe in my case it's the fact a game like that doesn't "feel right" with a pre-designed player character. I guess I'm pretty much too used to the Ultima/TES model.

tjhook wrote: »

Hellblade - Senua's Sacrifice (I played in VR)
DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)
Elite Dangerous (Again, in VR)
Red Dead Redemption
Minecraft (I didn't play it, but I recognise the impact it had on others, particularly encouraging younger people to code)
XCom - Enemy Unknown
Kerbal Space Program
FIFA 16 *
Limbo
Rayman Origins

The three I've put in bold there are awfully underrated games, probably suffering from their "niche" approach; DCS filled a gigantic gap that existed in terms of military flight simulators - people were basically still playing Falcon 4.0 before that.

Xcom...well it's XCom - while it doesn't instill the sheer terror of the original.



Kerbal Space Program...what other game will teach you orbital mechanics while shooting green dumb beings to space?

Retr0gamer

Except Skyrim isn't that great. Plenty of far more deserving RPGs and when the Witcher 3 and fallout new Vegas exists it doesn't deserve a look in in a Best Western rpg competition.

B.A._Baracus

Mankind Divided was amazing.
One the best looking cities i've ever seen. Reminded me of first play City 17 in Half Life 2.

Sonics2k

If there was a category for Love/hate Award, I'd give it to Skyrim.

Skyrim's combat is just so insanely average, barely improved from the older Elder Scrolls games. Quests aren't so much buggy as they are just plain broken, quite often conflicting quests don't correctly cancel each other out.

Hell, for years you couldn't alt+tab out of the game without it breaking the mouse pointer in the game, forcing you to restart the game.

There's also like 5-6 different voices in the game, which is pathetic for when it was released.

But on the other hand it's also extremely immersive, and with some decent mods it becomes a truly incredible experience.

GhostofKNugget

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Except Skyrim isn't that great. Plenty of far more deserving RPGs and when the Witcher 3 and fallout new Vegas exists it doesn't deserve a look in in a Best Western rpg competition.

It must win some sort of prize for most remasters and re-releases...

gimli2112

Sonics2k wrote: »

If there was a category for Love/hate Award, I'd give it to Skyrim.

That's not a bad idea for a thread. Maybe it's just because I recently completed Control which gave me that vibe. Battlefield 4 is one though that I've loved and hated like few others. Hate is wrong for it actually but it drove me insane at times.

Sagats_knee

Few I can think of -

Amnesia - The dark descent
Alien isolation.
Kingdom come, deliverance (better than Skyrim IMO).
Crusader Kings 2 (once the decent DLC is added).
Life is strange.
Hellblade; Senua’s sacrifice.
Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Honourable mentions

Arma2 Dayz mod, (absolutely broken but had immense fun playing solo before the hackers ruined it)
Elite Dangerous.
Battletech.
Rimworld.
Prey.
Soma.
Doom.

Potential-Monke

GhostofKNugget wrote: »

It must win some sort of prize for most remasters and re-releases...

Nah, Tetris has that and I don't think anything will ever come close to it!

But it should definitely get a prize for the most re-releases so close to each other.

Vyse Remastered

Don't know if it has been mentioned but my vote would go to Portal 2. Excellent game that still holds up today.

Honorable mention goes to Inside which improved in every way on the excellent Limbo.

Retr0gamer

I thought limbo was kind of meh. the puzzles later on were kind of poorly designed and it was the worst kind of pretentious where it looks fancy but says absolutely nothing. Much preferred Braid but even more so the limbo teams follow up Inside was way, way better.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Limbo and Inside are both overrated imo, visually stunning, but floaty, weak platform puzzling in both. There are certainly worse ways to spend 5 hours, but I fail to see how the critical acclaim is justified.