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Best games of the 10s

Another decade is over. Since the last time I made a list like this, I've gotten married, had two kids, moved two times and my job has evolved to something completely different.
Time to play games is naturally not as abound as it was ten years ago, somehow I even got suckered into a bunch of voluntary work these last few years. Had you told me that ten years ago, I would say you where mad. Life works in peculiar ways.

After making this list, I have to say 2014 was a pretty meh year. No game from that year made it onto this list. Dragon Age: Inquisition was close, but not quite good enough.

The best year of the decade had to be 2010. So many great games. Let's hope 2020 is as good!

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  • Huh. Would you look at that? This, specifically season 1, being number one surprises me, too. It's janky, doesn't look that great, it's episodic. But it's great. Another one where I may have been affected by being a dad. It builds the tension over the episodes, and it creates a bond between your character Lee and Clementine, the kid. It culminates with Lee, of course, being bitten. The pair share an incredibly sad goodbye, and it was painful to witness. That was my last experience with Walking Dead, as I could not bear to play the later seasons or watch the TV show after my heart got crushed in the season 1 finale.

    It proves Telltale's ability to create believable characters and a moving story, which makes it even sadder that the writers of this now works at Valve to create a VR Half-Life game.

    Game of the decade, Walking Dead season 1.

  • ME2 streamlined the gameplay a lot compared to the first, dropping the inane planet scanning and adding several great companions. It could have been the best game of the decade for me, had the third game stuck the landing a bit better than it did.

    I hope to see the trilogy remastered on a modern console one day, then I will play through it again with my kids. Paragon male Shepard all the way, don't try to tell me anything else.

  • Before making this list, I thought this would be number one for sure. It looks awesome, and the gameplay is fantastic. The only thing that disappointed me is the dungeons. They are so bland and boring, and I hope the sequel does something about them. If it does, it will easily be the best game of the '20s!

  • The Witcher is a game I have fond memories of. I bought the original at the time I moved in with the woman who is now my wife, and I remember playing it on my laptop in bed. I worked part-time, and she hadn't got a job after moving here yet, so we had lots of time to play games. Witcher 2 came out after I became a father, and the third came when we bought our first house. Thus it took a while before I could get into 3, but when I did there was no turning back. It looks spectacular, the music is great, the characters are varied and interesting. The DLC is some of the best add on content released, adding hours upon hours of content and great quests.

    Hopefully, we get to play as Geralt again not too long into the future.

  • David Cages gets a lot of shit. Maybe he deserves it, but he deserves a lot of credit, too. I remember the demo of Fahrenheit, where he put himself into the demo to explain the premise of the game. I loved that game, and I played their next game on day one. The pest game on PS3 in my eyes.

    Maybe it's because it came out at the same time I was expecting my first child, but this game affected me. I vividly remember having to cut my arm off to save the protagonists' kid, doing it as cleanly as possible. Then having a conversation with my sister, who hadn't found the clean instruments to do it with, and instead had sawed her arm off with a rusty saw.

    It may be janky as hell, cheesy and badly acted, but for me, it was the game version of Seven. I loved the story, the gameplay, and the decisions you could make. One of the best games I have played.

  • Not every game manages to be both a great single-player game and a great multiplayer game. RDR does, and it is easily one of the best games this decade. I would maybe tie it with its sequel, but I haven't played enough of that to include it here. I can't wait to dive into the multiplayer in RDR2, and hopefully, it gives me as many hours of fun riding around in my carriage throwing dynamite as the original did.

    Pacoluke, you out there still? I have a bullet with your name on it. And a stick of dynamite.

  • Obsidian took Fallout 3 and made it better in every way. Bethesda should have learned something from this, unfortunately, they didn't. That's why a spinoff from another studio makes this list, and not Fallout 4 or 76.

  • A sequel to one of the best games of the 2000s, perfecting the formula. Every Mario game should have a sequel like this.

  • One of the greatest coop games of the decade. We had lots of fun with its weird characters, outrageous dialogue and frantic gameplay.

    Mr. Torgue for president! Google him.

  • I hate this game. With a passion. My brothers both play this one still, but I refuse to touch it. Then why is it here?

    Well, there is a reason I hate it. I played almost six thousand battles in it, most of them are between 5 and 15 minutes. Do the math!

    I was never any good at the game, but it was great fun anyway, at least when I played in a platoon with my brothers. The greatest memory I have is when I had packed away my PC before moving, and I tried to play WoT on my wife's crappy laptop. It ran at 3 FPS (seriously!), so you can imagine how hard it is to play a fast-moving online game that way. To this day that battle is my best one, with 7 kills out of a team total of 15. Since I could not rely on the image of my enemy, I could only follow the path they were driving, and shoot where I thought they would be. 'Use the Force, Luke' - turns out my instincts are better than my hand-eye coordination.
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