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Lazyaza

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Top 10 Games of the Decade

I figure since everyone seems to have made one of these lists I might as well do my own. So of the last ten years these are the games that I'd say were the most significant for me.  As for the order I did it by year of release not by which I thought was better/more significant.  They all did amazing things and will be games I remember my time with quite fondly.
 
In some cases the sequels to a few of these I would say I had more overall 'fun' but based purely on the unique experience these are the games more worthy of this list for me. 

List items

  • Jak and Daxter: the precursor legacy was a fun game but Jak 2 was a complete evolution from it, so much changed in the sequel and it was all for the better. Their is a reason it is on this list and my 'all time fav games' list; the characters, the story, the gameplay. It was like Grand Theft Auto but exactly how I would have preferred a gta game to be; big and imaginative with an even balance of serious and not so serious tone. Their were sequences where I was so invested in the game I would just stand in places like Haven Forest and be utterly immersed.

  • For a number of months I wasn't interested in Half Life 2 at all then one day I saw it in a store for cheap, bought it and my god. It still remains as one of those 'holy shit' momments in gaming for me. It was the first fps game I played where you actually interacted with characters and had story development with depth and atmosphere.

    While I easily label the episodes as vast improvements over the original gameplay and design wise HL2 had these moments and sequences of gameplay you just dont see in modern games anymore. You actually felt like you were on an epic journey through the entirety of it.

  • WoW was both one of the worst and best immensely unique experiences I've ever had with a game. I never did technically play it for 4 years, in fact at least a third of that time I wasn't playing at all but it was the space of time I had been playing on and off and I prefer to remember the better times I had with it. 40 player raids with a combination of people I knew in real life and complete strangers. Getting the best items in the game only to have an expansion come out and have all of them be rendered useless. Good times.

    It was my first mmo and will possibly remain my last mmo for some time as I just don't have the time, patience or finances to return to it or any game like it. If you ever do have the resources to invest deep in to an mmo I would recommend the experience but at the same time understand perfectly if someone utterly refused to try one, they can literally ruin peoples lives.

  • The original game was fun and different for sure but it had a number of problems, the 2nd introduced the rpg elements for the first time and had some interesting new gameplay additions but it wasn't until the third that I felt the RnC formula had been perfected. Even compared to the more recent Ps3 HD versions it still remains the best of the series in my opinion. The story and humor and the specific arsenal of weapons was at its best in this one.

  • One of the best game stories ever, so dark and messed up just how I like it. The weapons, gameplay and visual style were just so much better than those of the sequel. Everything just felt right in the game and it still pisses me off how much they changed and how blatantly obvious the sequel was just a recreation of this brilliant game designed for the console tards instead.

  • Starcraft 2 before Starcraft 2 is what this game was, my best friend and I played the original and its expansion like crazy. While this was never dubbed the true sequel to Dawn of War, Dark Crusade had enough new content and gameplay additions that it felt like one. It was the original Dawn of War but perfected with so many races to play as the sequel cant possibly live up to it until a 'Dark Crusade 2' is made which I expect wont happen till 2011.

    Also the multiplayer still remains infinitely superior to Dawn of War 2's, god I wish they had just copied it.

  • "Would you kindly?" If you haven't played Bioshock you are not a true gamer, period.

    The sequel will no doubt be fun and probably have a decent story but nothing, absolutely nothing will match the magic and magnificence this game accomplished.

  • Still my favorite first person shooter purely from a gameplay perspective. I could play it over and over and over just because its game design is so good it makes other games in the genre look like jokes. I lost count how many times I played through the campaign after number 10. lol You are basically the Predator and Rambo at the same time and can chose to play in either vastly different game style at any point in Crysis.

  • The first single player RPG I got heavily invested in as well as the first Bioware game I played. Its sequel will no doubt be highly refined in almost all aspects, probably in story too but since its a 2010 game the original will have to take this slot.

    The 360 version was glitchy, had terrible performance and horrendous load times. The pc version that I played however only crashed a handful of times, never lagged and always loaded super fast.

  • I feel bad for adding such a recent game to this list but Batman truly had an impact on me. As a stealth game it was better than anything featuring Snake or Sam Fisher and as a comic book / license / batman game it makes everything that has come before look like a steaming turd. When a new licended game is slated to come out I am always going to hope it gets 'the Arkham Asylum' treatment.
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