Game of the decade vote off?

[x Tame Impala]

Red Dead Redemption 1 or Arkham City for me

 

[God King Fudge]

My favorite games of the decades. Bolded are my favorites from each year:

2010: Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, Alan Wake
2011: Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, L.A. Noire, Uncharted 3
2012: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma, Persona 4 Golden (my personal game of the decade), Darksiders II, FTL, Borderlands II, Dishonored, The Walking Dead
2013: Luigi's Mansion, Bioshock Infinite, XCOM, The Last of Us, GTA V, AC: Black Flag
2014: Bravely Default, Danganronpa, Stick of Truth, Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs, Divinity: Original Sin, The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead Season 2, Alien Isolation, Far Cry 4
2015: Dying Light, Bloodborne, Witcher 3, Until Dawn, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Life is Strange, Tales from the Borderlands, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Game of Thrones (Telltale)
2016: Firewatch, I Am Setsuna, Uncharted 4, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
2017: Resident Evil 7, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Nier: Automata, Sexy Brutale, Prey, Pyre, Cuphead, Battle Chasers: Nightwar, The Evil Within 2, AC: Origins, Wolfenstein II, DOOM, Xenoblade Chronicles II
2018: God of War, Frostpunk, Moonlighter, Dead Cells, Monster Hunter World, Return of the Obra Dinn, Call of Cthulhu

Man. 2010-2013 produced some insane stuff. Lots of instant classics out of those years.

I imagine it's gonna come down to Skyrim, Portal, RDR or the Witcher. If I had to pick out of those I'd probably take Witcher.

 

[SeidoN]

2010: Mass Effect 2
2011: Portal 2 or Arkham City. Too close to call.
2012: Borderlands 2
2013: GTA5
2014: Shadow of Mordor
2015: Witcher 3
2016: XCOM 2
2017: Divinity: Original Sin 2
2018: Unsure. Very goods chance it would be RDR2 or Spiderman PS4. I havent played them yet but just based on what ive seen im confident it would be one of these two
2019 so far: Gears 5 for now. may end up being Borderlands 3 but im not buying till Steam release

 

[Beau Knows]

I'm surprised Zelda: BoTW hasn't been mentioned yet, it's certainly up there with the best RPGs of the decade.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

I'm surprised Zelda: BoTW hasn't been mentioned yet, it's certainly up there with the best RPGs of the decade.

It is my top game of all-time, took almost 20 years for a game to overtake Half-Life on my list.

 

[syz]

I'm surprised Zelda: BoTW hasn't been mentioned yet, it's certainly up there with the best RPGs of the decade.

Definitely better than western open world counterparts but still suffers from the same problems gameplay-wise, imo. To be honest I'd consider it the second best game Monolith worked on that year, behind Xenoblade 2.

Speaking of that year, it's still crazy how good 2017 was. Literally start to finish releases that were better than anything most other years.

 

[Frankie Spankie]

Witcher 3 for me, there have been some seriously great games in the past decade but none stack up to Witcher 3 IMO.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

I'm surprised Zelda: BoTW hasn't been mentioned yet, it's certainly up there with the best RPGs of the decade.

I'd vote for it, but most of this subforum doesn't play Nintendo systems.

 

[Fantomas]

The Last of Us.

 

[tealhockey]

off the top I think I would have nier: automata as game of the decade, fortnite (especially early/year 1), ffxiv. football manager, cities skylines, factorio and stardew valley were pretty good too. GTA 5 was cool. didn't play any switch or xbox so can't speak to that

 

[Turin]

It is more that people have realized how unimpressive Bethesda is when it comes to RPGs. Fallout 4 and 76 have really soured a lot of people on their games.

About time if you ask me but I really hate all Bethesda games made after Morrowind.

Because those games sucked. Skyrim, despite its flaws, didn’t.

 

[Turin]

I'm surprised Zelda: BoTW hasn't been mentioned yet, it's certainly up there with the best RPGs of the decade.

Great game, finally beat it. Wouldn’t call it an RPG.

The Witcher 3 is my vote.

My favourite are The Witcher 3, Persona 4 Golden (I don’t think should really count but whatever), Fallout: New Vegas, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Persona 5 and Skyrim. Honourable mention to TW2.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

My current selections (limited to Xbox 360, PC and PS4):

Top 9
-Vanquish
-Sekiro
-Mass Effect 2
-XCOM 2
-DOOM
-Horizon: Zero Dawn
-Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
-Dark Souls III
-Spec Ops: The Line

#1
-Dark Souls

Still have others to go through, but Dark Souls would be my #1 today. Flawed masterpiece.

 

[Dolemite]

BEST - Destiny franchise.


There should be a worst game of the decade and it should automatically be given to Anthem and Battlefront 2. Hell, just give the worst of the decade award to EA for constantly pushing unfinished, sub-par products out the door and Not learning from those mistakes.

 

[Commander Clueless]

I've tallied everyone's votes and the clear winner is Mass Effect 3.

Well done everyone!

There should be a worst game of the decade and it should automatically be given to Anthem and Battlefront 2. Hell, just give the worst of the decade award to EA for pushing unfinished products out the door and Not learning from those mistakes.

Anthem is already the winner of this year's Fallout 76 award.

Speaking of that year, it's still crazy how good 2017 was. Literally start to finish releases that were better than anything most other years.

2017/2018 were golden years, for big names and indies alike.

2019 has been slow (At least for me personally), although it's starting to pick up now.

 

[NyQuil]

I actually stopped playing Witcher 3.

I keep meaning to go back to it - but I find it pretty repetitive.

I hit the Skellige islands which is fun but the fact that I'm overleveled for a huge number of quests at this point is a downer.

I'll pick it up again at some point.

At this stage though, I'd take Skyrim over Witcher 3, which I've played through beginning to end twice without getting bored. I'll admit that the mod community may have something to do with that.

 

[Commander Clueless]

I actually stopped playing Witcher 3.

I keep meaning to go back to it - but I find it pretty repetitive.

I hit the Skellige islands which is fun but the fact that I'm overleveled for a huge number of quests at this point is a downer.

I'll pick it up again at some point.

At this stage though, I'd take Skyrim over Witcher 3, which I've played through beginning to end twice without getting bored. I'll admit that the mod community may have something to do with that.

I really loved the Witcher 3, but I personally find the combat can become a bit of a slog after a while. At least for me. Still one of the best games this decade, though.

While I really enjoyed my main story play through without any real hiccups, I find myself having trouble getting back into Hearts of Stone.

I've heard Blood and Wine is great.


I put 100 hours into Skyrim and loved the crap out of it when it came out even without mods. Haven't really touched it since 2011, though. That said, it thrives on open world where others can suffer for it, but it lacks a little in main story (although I did think the main story line was very interesting).

 

[NyQuil]

That said, it thrives on open world where others can suffer for it, but it lacks a little in main story (although I did think the main story line was very interesting).

Some of the storylines are definitely better than others.

I have a friend who refuses to do Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild quest lines, which is funny because they are very well done. His hero would never do those things.

I'd say the biggest disappointment was the Civil War questline - which could have been done much better.

As it stands, there are mods out there that do a good job of shoring it up.

 

[S E P H]

There isn't a perfect game, but The Witcher 3 character movement is super bad and that deserves to knock the game down a couple of notches.

Also if the gameplay for Dark Souls is anything like Bloodborne combat where it's an extremely difficult buttonmasher, you lot are crazy for labelling it as the best game in the decade. If we're talking about the best and most smooth combat and controls it is easily Destiny.

The Last of Us.

Lol, no.

 

[Beau Knows]

There isn't a perfect game, but The Witcher 3 character movement is super bad and that deserves to knock the game down a couple of notches.

Also if the gameplay for Dark Souls is anything like Bloodborne combat where it's an extremely difficult buttonmasher, you lot are crazy for labelling it as the best game in the decade. If we're talking about the best and most smooth combat and controls it is easily Destiny.


Lol, no.

Dark Souls a button masher? Lol, no.

Is it difficult? Sure, but not crazy hard.

 

[The Burdened]

For me, it's Red Dead Redemption or Breath of the Wild.

Then again, over the decade I have missed out on most of the games people are mentioning as I have grown out of touch with games and will soon likely move on from them completely. I skipped this gen on PS/Xbox and if RDR2 didn't draw me back nothing will. Switch is prob my last console and I only have 3 games I care about that are coming out (Luigi's Mansion, BOTW2, and hopefully MarioKart but they're prob gonna ruin MK by turning it into Super Smash Kart)

I never cared for it, but Minecraft would have to be in consideration for Game of the Decade, no?

 

[AKL]

I recognize how great of a game Witcher 3 is, but I could never really get super into it. Something about the combat in the game just wasn’t appealing.

I’ve played hundreds of hours of Skyrim since it’s original release, but I don’t know that I’d call it game of the decade. I think there are better games that didn’t see as much commercial success.

I think some games that could be discussed along with these two are GTA V, BotW, Overwatch.

Playstation has had some great games come out this decade too but I find it hard to give game of the decade to a PS4 exclusive, just because I think part of the criteria should be commercial success and number of people who have played. Which is also why I don’t think BotW ultimately wins it.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I'd have to give it serious thought about the various games on my list, but Breath of the Wild is far and away my game of the decade.

After that, Skyrim, Just Cause 2, Civilization V, Risk of Rain, and FTL would all have to be in the conversation, and might very well make out my next five in some order, but I'd have to think about it.

 

[Pilky01]

Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Red Dead Redemption 2
Batman: Arkham City
Spider-Man
The Last of Us
Mario Kart 8

 

[NyQuil]

Part of the distinction is whether a game occupies a lot of your time or whether it's good.

There are gaming experiences like Bioshock Infinite that I didn't pour a lot of hours into and yet were almost perfectly scoped and paced.

It's no secret that I've dedicated a lot of hours into Bethesda games,the X-Com series and Civilization(s) but even I would be careful to equate that to quality.