Your Game of the Year?

Mass Effect 2

I'm just curious ...how can one just pick a single game of the year when there are so many truly fantastic games ...it's just nuts!
 
you kinda have to set specific criteria. emotional involvement? pure fun? groundbreaking design? perfecting of a previously established formula? epicness? amount of yoshi in the game?
 
it shouldn't be allowed to pick just one game of the year. maybe make it a group of five so you can say: these five titles are the crème de la crème of this year

Gotta go with Bayonetta on this one.

Mass Effect 2 all the way. Known this ever since I bought it.

Mass Effect 2 with Red Dead Redemption coming in a close second place.  
I mean I spent similar amounts of time with both games and overall the DLC for both games has outstanding. 
 
In the spirit of Giantbombs' unique types of awards, I think that Dragong Age: Origins and Awakening was my "TorMasturbas' 2010 game of the year from 2009". 
I've replayed All of the Dragon Age stuff 3 times since it came out, baring in mind it came out towards the end of last year.

MINECRAFT!!!!   

" @Inkerman:  Minecraft was released in 2009.  Mass Effect 2 is easily the winner in my opinion..  RDR was good but the storytelling wasn't quite as good.  A lot of it felt like filler, some of the characters and motives were questionable and it did essentially play like GTA but in a western setting, with much of the plot elements lifted directly from classic movies. "

Mass Effect 2.

Red Dead Redemption is totally my game of the year. It is a great game, and playing online gives me a reason to play through the game more than once. I am totally psyched that there is a double xp weekend going on right now. 

" @Inkerman:  Minecraft was released in 2009.  Mass Effect 2 is easily the winner in my opinion..  RDR was good but the storytelling wasn't quite as good.  A lot of it felt like filler, some of the characters and motives were questionable and it did essentially play like GTA but in a western setting, with much of the plot elements lifted directly from classic movies. "

AC taking it two years in a row for me.  ME2 and RDR are real close behind it though - any of them would make a worthy GOTY.

Starcraft by a landslide, the multiplayer... its just beyond anything else...  ME2 for second place.  
edit: i'm surprised that not many ppl are saying SC2, i guess Giantbomb is mostly console gamers. 

Mass Effect 2 takes the cake for me.

Probably Mass Effect 2.

Bayonetta.

" @WinterSnowblind said:

" @Inkerman:  Minecraft was released in 2009.  Mass Effect 2 is easily the winner in my opinion..  RDR was good but the storytelling wasn't quite as good.  A lot of it felt like filler, some of the characters and motives were questionable and it did essentially play like GTA but in a western setting, with much of the plot elements lifted directly from classic movies. "

Minecraft Alpha "

really tough descision, i would've said Mass effect a month ago but now it is definatly Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty, i have never been this into a multiplayer game, so well made and balanced and it is the first game i actually watch replays of.
 
so Mass Effect 2, gg but starcraft 2 wins

Mass Effect 2.

i think the most common top 3 will be mass effect 2, starcraft 2 and red dead redemption. personally, i think mass effect 2 deserves the award.

I loved Final Fantasy XIII even though it got a lot of hate, but Mass Effect 2 takes my GOTY vote. That game just blew me away with the gameplay, graphics and story.

SUCH A GREAT YEAR for gaming its so hard to choose.  Personally if were talking most polished experience offline and online its gonna be Red dead redemption.    But im also seriously torn between that and other titles.  I made a list of my fav games from 2010.   Ive got these titles in relatively the order that i think matters but havent put to much time into deciding what game needs to be where....
 

Best Games Of 2010 ---===LIST NOT FINALISED===---

	1. Red Dead Redemption
	2. God of War III
	3. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
	4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
	5. Borderlands GOTY edition is a beast of a game
	6. Fallout: New Vegas
	7. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
	8. Super Street Fighter IV
	9. Split/Second
	10. ModNation Racers
	11. Alan Wake
	12. BioShock 2
	13. Bayonetta
	14. Rock Band 3
	15. Limbo
	16. Just Cause 2

" @SPACETURTLE: Is CoP better than SoC? I was playing SoC and I liked it, but I ended up stopping because I just found I was just getting lost and confused =[ So, is it ok to play CoP before I finish SoC? Are they actually very different? "

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
3. Halo: Reach
   

  1.       Red Dead

2.       Greed Corp.

3.       Heavy Rain

4.       Mass Effect 2

5.       Bayonetta

6.       Starcraft II

7.       God of War III

8.       Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising

9.       Need for Speed: HP

10.    Pac Man Extreme DX

11.    RISK Factions

I'm going back and forth between Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption but I think that Mass Effect will probably edge it out in my mind.

Fallout 3.

I wish I could say Mass Effect 2, but I can't. Awful story.

I honestly have no idea... There weren't that many amazing games this year.. But I guess I would say Red Dead Redemption. Bad Company 2 get my "best multiplayer" award, though.

Mass Effect 2 as well, seems like a long time ago though.

I can't really think of any one particular game that stood out, but if I had to really pick one, I think I'd go with Bayonetta. Great sense of humor, great story, great challenges, it was a blast to play and it's definitely the title of this year that I'm most looking forward to a sequel for. 

Mass Effect 2. Story was slightly lacking but I can't really complain considering it's the one that's supposed to lead onto the climax of the trilogy. Besides, the writing and gameplay were vastly improved.
Bayonetta is my runner up, although I've yet to play AC: B and whatever else I'll be getting this christmas.

Mass Effect 2 for singleplayer.
 
StarCraft 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were amazing multiplayer experiences.

Its a straight up tie for me. 
 
Either Red Dead Redemption or Assassins Creed: Brotherhood 
 
If I absolutely HAD to choose though... I would have to say Assassins Creed: Brotherhood. 
 
Requiescat in Pace 

So far BioShock 2.

I want to pick a sexy game that's underrated, like last year when 'Splosion Man was my favorite game, but I have to say Red Dead Redemption, no other game captured my quite like that one and I spent 62 hours on the single player. There has been a lot of great games, but no real surprises for me, which is disappointing in a way.

No joke, I played: Super Mario Galaxy, Sonic Colors, Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver and that's about it. 
 
So I'll go with Super Mario Galaxy 2. 
 
SMG2 was this year right? if it wasn't, Sonic Colors.

really close between Pokemon Soul Silver and Super Mario Galaxy 2. i have yet to play Sonic Colours, Mass Effect 2, Metroid: Other M or Kirbys Epic Yarn so i can't comment on those

" I wish I could say Mass Effect 2, but I can't. Awful story. "

" So far BioShock 2. "  

I can't say that there's a "best game" I've played from 2010 (I'm slow & haven't finished a lot of games this year) but Deadly Premonition, EA Sports MMA, Kane & Lynch 2, Halo Reach's multiplayer and Super Street Fighter IV all are memorable for different reasons.

" Everything is out, it's that time of year. What is your personal Game of the Year? Mine is Mass Effect 2. I can't recall any game that I truly invested in in the universe. I mean, I actually know all the races and major characters of the series and motivations. I almost want a coffee-table encyclopedia for Mass Effect. Miranda was kind of a bitch, but fuck her. Mass Effect 2 was well-produced and a truly memorable experience.   A close second is Halo Reach. That game encapsulated everything that is great about that series and arguably had one of the most bad-ass endings of the year. "

Mass Effect 2 without a doubt for me, although Starcraft 2 would come in a close second for me.

Personally, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Red Dead Redemption are front-runners for Game of the Year. I certainly enjoyed a ton of other games (Mass Effect 2, Casltevania: Lords of Shadow, Mario Galaxy 2 and others), but those two are the ones I consider to be the "best."

Mass Effect 2, no question.  My second would be Deadly Premonition, followed by Bayonetta.  I made a whole list but can't find it anymore...

ME2 GOTY GOTY GOTY

If Fallout New Vegas worked as intended, it would be a shoe-in. Unfortunately we all know how that turned out.
 
Gonna follow the herd and say ME2.