What’s your game of the decade?
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FGO for pure entertainment value alone, the stories just keep coming and I just keep on reading.
R6 Siege close second. Over 1500 hours between console and PC.
R6 Siege close second. Over 1500 hours between console and PC.
Horizon Zero Dawn is my pick. It was the full package with stunning gameplay & technology, a great story and protagonist with many heartfelt moments. Fantastic music.
If it wasn't for Demon's Souls that I played on February 2009 I might have said Bloodborne or Dark Souls.
Ask me on another day and I might say God of War (2018), Astro Bot or Resident Evil 7 VR.
If it wasn't for Demon's Souls that I played on February 2009 I might have said Bloodborne or Dark Souls.
Ask me on another day and I might say God of War (2018), Astro Bot or Resident Evil 7 VR.
Dark Souls for me, I've never been that wrapped up in a game since Halo 2 MP back on the OG Xbox. I even went back for NG+++
i absolutely ruined that game for a friend by watching him play for 5 minutes and in a joking way basically spoiling the plot without knowing anything about it.
Easily BOTW.
I'd say Earthbound too since I didn't play it until this decade, but I realize that's not fair :p
I'd say Earthbound too since I didn't play it until this decade, but I realize that's not fair :p
Played a lot of great games this decade, and I don't think I could pick a best one. But one that comes immediately to mind is Fire Emblem Awakening. The dialogue is pretty silly, as are the characters in general. But as a game it really renewed my love of that franchise. And going back to it from time to time is still great fun.
The Last of Us. Nothing comes really close for me. Tons of great games behind it, though.
2) BioShock Infinite
3) Rayman Legends
4) Forza Horizon 4
5) Tearaway
2) BioShock Infinite
3) Rayman Legends
4) Forza Horizon 4
5) Tearaway
Gonna have to go with Spiderman or Bloodborne. Both are games I've replayed more than once, and I almost never replay games that aren't Zelda.
Multiplayer: League of Legends. I probably have spent over half a year or more of my life playing it over the past decade cumulatively (which is 1/20 hours of my life during that span). I got pretty good at it during my junior year of college and made it to my promos into Diamond in ranked. Now I mostly just use it to chill with my friends and talk while playing the specialties modes. It is my comfort food as I am so familiar to it.
Single Player: Celeste/Cuphead. I sat here trying to decide which one to choose but that's foolish. I'll just pick both. They both scratch a very similar itch for me and drove me to my limits in so many good ways. Celeste even got me to the point where I was perfecting/speedrunning levels. Cuphead is maybe the most beautiful game I've ever seen. Both feature godly soundtracks.
Honorable Mentions: Ori and the Blind Forest, Dead Cells, What Remains of Edith Finch, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Virtue's Last Reward, Danganronpa v3, Uncharted 4, Persona 5, and Baba is You.
Games I Still Need To Try: WAY TO MANY
Single Player: Celeste/Cuphead. I sat here trying to decide which one to choose but that's foolish. I'll just pick both. They both scratch a very similar itch for me and drove me to my limits in so many good ways. Celeste even got me to the point where I was perfecting/speedrunning levels. Cuphead is maybe the most beautiful game I've ever seen. Both feature godly soundtracks.
Honorable Mentions: Ori and the Blind Forest, Dead Cells, What Remains of Edith Finch, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Virtue's Last Reward, Danganronpa v3, Uncharted 4, Persona 5, and Baba is You.
Games I Still Need To Try: WAY TO MANY
How do you mean that?
The support from evolution studios for this game was insane.
Do you mean by sony or the community?
It's currently a 3 way tie between NieR Automata, The Witcher 3, and FFXIV. Changes every other day
Bloodborne. Nothing comes close to what that game has achieved for me.
In terms of gameplay, world building, art direction, music, it boggles my mind to this day that a game like this was made.
In terms of gameplay, world building, art direction, music, it boggles my mind to this day that a game like this was made.
Same. With 2500+ hours logged, SFV has been my one and only mainstay that I've played almost every day since 2016.
Without thinking too much harder on the past ten years, my gut instinct tells me that Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is my second best of the decade. As it was on the WiiU as well as the Switch, it's still the finest 2D platformer I've ever played in recent memory. For me, it's gaming in its purest form.
The Witcher 3 is the first game that comes to mind and the more I think about it the more I'm certain of that choice (especially when the DLC is included). The transformation from the middling Witcher 1 to the decent second Witcher game and then they go and make something as ambitious as The Witcher 3 and nail pretty much every single aspect of it.
It's the only game of this decade that was an immediate add to my all-time top ten.
It's the only game of this decade that was an immediate add to my all-time top ten.
It's gotta be Bloodborne + The Old Hunters.
A lot of the time DLC feels superfluous. The Old Hunters takes an already excellent game and catapults it into "best of all time" territory.
A lot of the time DLC feels superfluous. The Old Hunters takes an already excellent game and catapults it into "best of all time" territory.
Dark Souls!
And some games I had fun like when I was a child, probably not the best games of the decade:
Honorable Mentions:
Etrian Odyssey III
Bayonetta
Dead Cells
Celeste
Super Meat Boy (underrated in this topic?)
Braid
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Amazing Bandwagon (xblig)
Score Rush (xblig)
I dont have a Switch or Wii U and havent played Witcher 3.
And some games I had fun like when I was a child, probably not the best games of the decade:
Honorable Mentions:
Etrian Odyssey III
Bayonetta
Dead Cells
Celeste
Super Meat Boy (underrated in this topic?)
Braid
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Amazing Bandwagon (xblig)
Score Rush (xblig)
I dont have a Switch or Wii U and havent played Witcher 3.
There's so many good picks in this thread, but I'll vote something that I'm sure no one else will:
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I'm a long-time classic Mega Man fan. MM2 is my favorite game of all time. I think MM11 is better. That's how much I love it. I can't imagine a better game made personally for me.
I'm a long-time classic Mega Man fan. MM2 is my favorite game of all time. I think MM11 is better. That's how much I love it. I can't imagine a better game made personally for me.
It's a toss up between Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and the Witcher 2. The follow-ups from FS / CDPR / ND improved on almost all aspects, but these games have stuck with me and I think of them often.
I can't pick one.
Top 5 in release order is easily:
Deadly Premonition
Nier
Destiny 2
Bloodborne
Breath of the Wild
Top 5 in release order is easily:
Deadly Premonition
Nier
Destiny 2
Bloodborne
Breath of the Wild
Last of us easily. Beaten it 7 times I think.
If I excluded that for some reason, it'd be a tie between GoW and RDR2.
If I excluded that for some reason, it'd be a tie between GoW and RDR2.
dig the Spider-Man pick. near the top for me as well despite the obvious flaws.
have to go with RDR2 though. unseated its predecessor as my personal GOAT and its highs are completely unmatched in the AAA open world space. how what must be the most expensive game ever produced in addition to being developed by hundreds of people can still feel so singular and cohesive in its vision is really something else.
RDR2's debut trailer is also my favorite of the decade.
have to go with RDR2 though. unseated its predecessor as my personal GOAT and its highs are completely unmatched in the AAA open world space. how what must be the most expensive game ever produced in addition to being developed by hundreds of people can still feel so singular and cohesive in its vision is really something else.
RDR2's debut trailer is also my favorite of the decade.
So many I could choose from:
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Breath of the Wild
- Dark Souls
- The Witcher 3
