What is your top 10 games of the decade? In no particular order.
After thinking about it for a short bit, mine is:
Red Dead Redemption 2
Mass Effect 2
Diablo 3
The Walking Dead
Bioshock Infinite
Dark Souls 3
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Life is Strange
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Alan Wake
Starcraft 2
DOOM
Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain
Portal 2
Skyrim
Borderlands 2
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Driveclub
Battlefield 3
Some honourable mentions, that I can remember are: DOTA2, Bioshock: Infinite, CSGO, Overwatch, Witcher 3, Mass Effect 2, Undertale, Trails of Cold Steel, Company of Heroes 2, Dawn of War II, Battlefield 4, Transistor, GTA V, Bastion, Transistor, Tomb Raider, Destiny, Dragon Age 3 and Rocket League, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Diablo 3, Warframe, Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code.
In no particular order*:
Destiny 1
Destiny 2
Singularity
Bulletstorm
Kingdoms of Amalur
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
GTA V
The Binding of Isaac
No Man’s Sky
Divinity: Original Sin
I think this was easier than a GOTY choice where there you mostly had to take into account the enjoyment factor, whereas here I find myself making choices based on what the game did for the industry, taking inovation into account.
In no particular order:
Dark Souls
The Last of Us
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild
Minecraft
Nier: Automata
DOOM
Persona 5
Outer Worlds
Titanfall 2
Assassins Creed: Origins
My Honourable mentions:
Overwatch, DriveClub, Witcher 3, Bastion, Destiny, Divivinity: Original Sin, Apex Legends.
I’m sure there’s plenty others though, but these are some that matched the criterias I’ve mentioned above.
Grand Theft Auto 5
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
StarCraft 2
Diablo 3
Witcher 3
Doom 2016
Divinity Original Sin 2
Dishonored 2
Batman Arkham City
Nier: Automata
Honourable mentions:
Control
Prey 2017
Factorio
And They are Billions which turned out not so great, but I did spend over 220 hours on it.
Lots of other awesome games I’ve left out, but I’ll be here all day.
Witcher 3
Bloodborne
Borderlands 2 (and 3)
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nioh
Xenoblade Chronicles (counting both as one entry)
Dark Souls (counting the series as one entry)
The Last of Us
Mass Effect 2
Assassin’s Creed (this is a hard one, pretty much all of them released in the last decade except Syndicate and Odyssey)
*Subject to change, but those are the ones that come to mind. If I had to pick one AC game it would be Assassin’s Creed III, but I love pretty much all of them.
Others that could be interchangeable with some of the mentioned ones:
Bayonetta 2
Destiny (series)
Spider-Man
God of War
Yakuza (series, but 0 and/or Kiwami 2 specifically)
Dead Rising 3
Dragon Age Inquisition
Dishonered 2
Dragon’s Dogma
PUBG
iRacing
F1 2019
Uncharted 4
Life is Strange
Red Dead Redemption 2
Skyrim
The Wolf Among Us
The Walking Dead (Telltale)
Minecraft
I am not sure of some of these games’ release date, but it is what I have played the most in the last decade. Minecraft, for example, can be Bedrock Edition, which came out like 2 years ago.
I also LOVE story games which is why Telltale games feature so much. I see @DohcWP also likes them!
Cities Skylines
Skyrim
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Borderlands 2
Portal 2
Alan Wake
Sleeping Dogs
Shadow Warrior (2013)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Portal 2
Hollow Knight
CS:GO
Apex Legends
Bastion
The Witcher 2
Guacamelee 1 & 2
Tales from the Borderlands
Hexcells (incl. Plus and Infinite)
Honourable Mentions:
Supraland
Dishonored
Dirt Rally
Witcher 3 (still must finish this, but when I do it will take the place of Witcher 2)
The Wolf Among Us
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Awesomenauts
Speedrunners
Batman Arkham City