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Your Game of the Year for 2010

The lists were numerous, but the results have been tallied and now we've got your top games of 2010.


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Seems like we'd get along, you and me. You guys know a good game when you see one, and after compiling all of the lists that you made and totaling up the points, BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is your Game of the Year for 2010.

Below, I've included the top 60 games, which is maybe a weird number, but it's the number of games that scored over 500 points in the voting. These results were compiled from the top ten entries on your "Best of 2010" lists. Games appearing in the first slot got 10 points, second place got nine, and so on down the line. The below list offers two numbers with each game, and those are the number of lists that included the game and the total number of points scored, respectively.

OK, enough setup. Check out the list! According to you, Picross 3D is better than Fable III! I totally agree with you! Exclamation points!!!

GAME (# OF LISTS, TOTAL POINTS)
  1. Mass Effect 2 (3841, 33897)
  2. Red Dead Redemption (3258, 25619)
  3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2061, 14075)
  4. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (1689, 11385)
  5. Super Meat Boy (1628, 9511)
  6. Halo: Reach (1675, 9419)
  7. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1334, 8184)
  8. Heavy Rain (1434, 7861)
  9. Fallout: New Vegas (1329, 7719)
  10. Sid Meier's Civilization V (1249, 6884)
  11. Bayonetta (1131, 6688)
  12. Alan Wake (1222, 6454)
  13. Limbo (1125, 5647)
  14. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (921, 5549)
  15. Call of Duty: Black Ops (1105, 5273)
  16. God of War III (980, 5039)
  17. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (829, 4062)
  18. Rock Band 3 (663, 3757)
  19. Super Street Fighter IV (665, 3754)
  20. Darksiders (766, 3517)
  21. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (684, 3349)
  22. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (519, 3199)
  23. Just Cause 2 (635, 2934)
  24. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (482, 2166)
  25. Deadly Premonition (438, 2150)
  26. BioShock 2 (523, 2111)
  27. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (462, 1882)
  28. Minecraft (331, 1859)
  29. Dead Rising 2 (420, 1858)
  30. Final Fantasy XIII (423, 1809)
  31. Vanquish (296, 1464)
  32. Costume Quest (327, 1400)
  33. Gran Turismo 5 (247, 1229)
  34. Kirby's Epic Yarn (261, 1158)
  35. Donkey Kong Country Returns (217, 1031)
  36. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (199, 973)
  37. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (177, 959)
  38. VVVVVV (183, 956)
  39. Monday Night Combat (218, 933)
  40. Picross 3D (198, 930)
  41. Fable III (223, 894)
  42. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (191, 889)
  43. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (171, 884)
  44. Alpha Protocol (186, 855)
  45. Metro 2033 (181, 823)
  46. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (161, 819)
  47. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (193, 817)
  48. Game Dev Story (208, 790)
  49. Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver (178, 783)
  50. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (177, 780)
  51. NBA 2K11 (126, 663)
  52. FIFA 11 (131, 656)
  53. Singularity (165, 627)
  54. Dance Central (147, 617)
  55. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (123, 602)
  56. Blur (145, 579)
  57. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (109, 555)
  58. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (116, 511)
  59. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat (97, 502)
  60. Mafia II (122, 502) 
  
So you're going to sit there and tell me that Deadly Premonition is better than Final Fantasy XIII? Whatever, man, you guys are out of your minds. But that's why I dig you guys. We'll have further opportunities for this sort of voting in the near future, so keep an eye out for that and thanks again for voting for your Best of 2010!
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No no more heroes 2, thats a surprise, but hey i've never played it and its on the wii. plus i am glad to see Deadly Premonition in the top 25 i like that game it was fun.
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Edited By seanwithoutyou

rb3 made top 20 and my choice was #2. it was a good year.

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I'm glad to see Blur made it on the list somewhere.  Such an awesome game.

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god help me. i just got deadly premonition and im really enjoying it. i mean the game play is pure shit, but my god  the story and characters are pure fucking gold.

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*whispers* I actually liked Mafia II.

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Just noticed this list doesn't have Modnation Racers on it. I am incredibly disappointed. That game is awesome.

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Limbo is one of the worst games ever. Only thing it has is artistic style. The ending was terrible, the puzzles were mind-numbing, I'm surprised it got that high. 
 
I guess it was all hype. What a joke.

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mass effect 2 initially disappointed me by the lack of rpg elements,so it cant be that. I will go with Red Dead. Very nice surprise.

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Very good list. I'm glad you guys expand past the typical Top 10 only lists most sites have. Glad to see some indie gems like Super Meat Boy up there.

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Nice to see Heavy Rain in the top 10 and that Enslaved made so many lists!  
 
That's some interesting data, though.

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Geez, kind of a shame that Chaos Rising was in the deep end of the list. That expansion was pretty awesome with a campaign which was shorter but a lot more focused than DOW II. 

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A great list overall - but I'm not sure on Fallout: New Vegas.
 
The game was well written, good pacing, interesting characters, and a great environment.  But the bugs... MY GOD THE BUGS.  A major title release like that should have been held back to fix all the problems.  Releasing it like they did was unacceptable.

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I would agree, great game! Red Dead is a very, very close second though, especially with the Undead DLC.

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I really don't understand the love for Heavy Rain. It's way too serious for  how goofy and nonsensical the plot is. The atmosphere is really well done, and a few scenes are pretty exciting. But personally I thought the characters were too poorly written and blandly acted for me to care about what happened to them. To each their own, but I personally hate David Cage's games. I don't feel it deserves the huge amount of praise it's getting. The game I played did not deserve 10/10 scores. It's FAR from perfect. Perfect is the last word I'd use to describe Heavy Rain. 
 
Maybe my priorities are just weird? I do like Deadly Premonition. It too is a big mess of  a game, but at least it's a charming and self aware mess. It doesn't claim to be a work of art or a serious adult story like HR. DP just stands on its own as a love it or hate it experience. No pretense involved.

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Vanquish is surprisingly low. Hm.

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@ThePilgrums said:
" I really don't understand the love for Heavy Rain. It's way too serious for  how goofy and nonsensical the plot is. The atmosphere is really well done, and a few scenes are pretty exciting. But personally I thought the characters were too poorly written and blandly acted for me to care about what happened to them. To each their own, but I personally hate David Cage's games. I don't feel it deserves the huge amount of praise it's getting. The game I played did not deserve 10/10 scores. It's FAR from perfect. Perfect is the last word I'd use to describe Heavy Rain.  Maybe my priorities are just weird? I do like Deadly Premonition. It too is a big mess of  a game, but at least it's a charming and self aware mess. It doesn't claim to be a work of art or a serious adult story like HR. DP just stands on its own as a love it or hate it experience. No pretense involved. "
I think people like Heavy Rain for what it represents as well as what it is. It's basically trying to be a proof of concept for story and game as a single intertwined thing.
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Happy with this list, even better with Mass Effect 2 at the top <3  
And seeing Black Ops bested by Mario Galaxy 2 is a bonus too. 

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Forgot to check on this list sooner. Love the list, kind of ecstatic that Super Meat Boy made it in the top 5. Just further proof that this website is amazing.

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An interesting read, a year later. I really hope they have this feature this year as well, I'm already preparing for my own list.