My 25 Best Games of 2010
I'll be blunt and simple: I'm not a huge fan of GOTY awards. You have to try and narrow down all these lists to about five nominees or so, then try to narrow those down for each category until you end up with the Highlander scenario of "there will be only one". That pisses me off. How is anyone supposed to genuinely create those things? Have they literally played EVERY SINGLE GAME that came out in a year? Probably not. Most likely not. Fuck, I hope not!
In turn, I decided to wrangle up the 25 games that defined 2010 for me, package them up in a nice little list (courtesy of Giant Bomb's great list feature), and give a little flavor text to each. Will you guys agree? Oh, I mostly certainly guarantee you won't (especially when you see how low Mass Effect 2 is on the list). Will people call me a Wii hater because there are a total of zero Wii games on this list? Probably...but as someone who no longer owns a Wii, I can't say that I would feel right throwing any of them in when I haven't played them.
This is a list of games that I personally played in 2010 that I feel are the most exceptional of the exceptional.
Therefore, may I present to you (and yes, they are in order)......