Best of 2010
 

That's right, homies. It's December and with no major releases coming that anyone cares about (unless you're Ai and play WOW, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (<3)) it's time to decide which games were the best.

For me, the year started off pretty damn good with both Bayonetta and Darksiders, which I loved. They were so much fun. Then Mass Effect 2 comes out and that was also sooo goooooooooood. Then a bunch of stuff in the middle that were good like Red Dead and Transformers and Halo.

But then Enslaved comes and I fall in love with it and that's my pick for the year. What about you guys?

P.S. My pick for underrated game of the year is Lost Planet 2. For the lulz.

God of War III for me.

Followed by some Mega Man 10, mixed with a bit of Scott Pilgrim, sprinkled with some Sonic 4, with a Donkey Kong Country Returns on top.

Damn... I still haven't played any of the Mario Galaxies... :cry:

The best two games I played this year are Mass Effect 2 and Mario Galaxy 2. By faaaaaaar.

EDIT: My favourite downloadable titles were Limbo and Super Meat Boy.

Super Mario Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Epic Mickey, Red Dead Redemption/Undead Nightmare...man, there's just too much "good".

It's either Mario Galaxy 2 or DKC:R for me. I can't choose between those two. They're two of the best damn games ever made.

Yes I'm one of those Nerds who play WOW so Cataclysm is my fav.

Whoa, too many great games this year. Halo Reach, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Red Dead Redemption/Undead Nightmare, Sonic Colors, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and probably more that I can't think of. Not sure of Epic Mickey, haven't seen much of that.

Edit: How could I forget Splinter Cell Conviction.

Have you even played all of the games you listed, Turo?

Yes, just don't own some of them, my brother has most of them too. That's why I'm asking for them for Christmas, except for Epic Mickey, it looks like it's a terrific platformer, and I also like the art style it has. That one I haven't got my hands on.

GOTY: Mass Effect 2 / God of War 3

- We've got a tie here... Mass effect 2 had to be the greatest sci-fi space opera in gaming so far. Just a great world to dive into. The upgraded combat and armor tinkering sealed the deal for me.

God of War 3 really brought gaming to a new cinematic level for me. The graphics and presentation were stunning and the boss fights totally benefited from them. My jaw got the closest it ever has to "dropping", the first time I played the Hades boss battle.

_____________________________

To be fair though, I didn't get a chance to play some of the other great looking games I was really looking forward to this year.

Super Mario Galaxy 2, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Metroid: Other M, and even Enslaved, all had potential to be contenders for me.

Now, I'm just getting anxious, but most of the year I've been looking forward to 2011. Expect me to have a hell of a time choosing between Metal Gear Solid Rising, Marvel Vs Capcom 3, Crysis 2, Batman: Arkham City, Rage, and Final Fantasy 13 Versus ( assuming they all come out next year ). 2011 could be the greatest gaming year of my life! EDIT: Can't believe I forgot Bioshock: Infinite, Deus Ex, and The Last Guardian! Next year could be the best gaming year ever! 8-0!

...But yea, 2010 was superb!

It was the Cronos battle that got me floored.

You are definitely not alone there. I've noticed a lot of gamers LOVE the Cronos battle. To be honest, I don't remember it too well ( probably a good thing, seeing as I'll probably re-play the game soon:D )

But who can forget how visceral, shocking, and beautiful it is, the first time you leap onto Hades and start cutting out his heart!?

Snap, Pokemon was also this year. I put a huge amount of time into that game, so it's up there.

Like every year, I've only played a small handful of games that actually dropped in the year 2010, but let's see.

Tatusnoko vs. Capcom released in the US in January, so that counts, and I really f***ing love that game.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is definitely a contender considering that it's been out for months and I still play it quite often.

Dead Rising 2 completely blew my expectations out of the water.

aaand Kirby's Epic Yarn was nothing short of genius.

Other than that, I've got nothing.

Dude, I totally forgot about TvC! Thanks, sir.

Once you get your own Wii, you can get your own copy.

And you know this... MAN!

Well I'm glad no one said the new CoD.

For me it was Halo Reach. And also the new WWE Smackdown game.

I haven't played the new Mario Galaxy game and DKC:R doesn't interest me one bit, neither God of War 3. I haven't bought a PS3 game since I got Resistence 2 for 15 bucks.

I do want to play Mass Effect 2 though, really bad! But I didn't play the first yet, either, so I gotta wait until I get that. lol

EDIT: Best DL game was, by far, Crazy Taxi.

Crazy Taxi is like a hundred years old. Besides that, it doesn't count without The Offspring.

Can I say StarCraft II? I know PC games are frowned upon around here. :cry:

Yes, you can! It may have been mine if I had a pc that could even run Starcraft 1:lol:

I can't imagine you not having a computer that can run the first SC. The minimum requirements are ridiculously low.

90 MHz processor for Windows
120 Mhz processor for Mac OS
SVGA video card or equivalent
16MB RAM (32MB recommended)
DirectX version 2.0 or better
80MB of disk space

You HAVE to have at least that.

Then it's Star Craft II. First game I played start to finish in a long time.

No i do. I was exaggerating, but it still doesn't run it too well lol.

I've played too many games this year to even come close to deciding on anything definitively, and as usual, I've played so many games from different years this year that everything is always kind of just cluttered together for me.

If I had to start name dropping, I'd go with the obvious stuff like ME2, Galaxy 2, DA: Awakening, CivIV, Epic Yarn, Dead Rising 2. The list kinda goes on.

But I also really enjoyed a lot of under the radar games that nobody talked about, like Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Yakuza 3, Enslaved, Lost Planet 2 and Lego Harry Potter.

But, to me, this was really a year of downloadable games. I've been so enthralled and entertained by unique little games like Game Dev Story, Ancients of Ooga, Comic Jumper, Super Meat Boy, and Costume Quest. On top of that, there have been a number of fantastic established DL titles like Mega Man 10, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, DR: Case Zero, Pac-Man CE DX, Tales of Monkey Island 2 SE and Earthworm Jim HD.

I dunno, this was just yet another fantastic year of games. It's so hard to keep up at this point that I'm behind constantly. I'm still on the second last dungeon in Darksiders and I think I've played two hours of Lords of Shadow, not to mention all the stuff I have left in New Vegas. It's both expensive and extremely satisfying to be a gamer in this day and age.

Couldn't agree more. Between now and March, how am I supposed to justify buying Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, Marvel vs Capcom, Killzone 3, and maybe even Bulletstorm? Yikes...

By buying only Marvel and Dead Space.

Haven't played a whole lot of games released this year, but my favorite is definitely No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Craziness to the max.

The rest of the games I love from this year, I'd rank in this order:

Deadly Premonition
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Limbo
Heavy Rain
3D Dot Game Heroes
Super Mario Galaxy 2

I think that's all the games from this year I've played, actually.

I wanna include Silent Hill: Shattered Memories as well, since that game is awesome (aside from how the story falls apart and gets super lame at the end), but that came out last December...although the PS2 and PSP versions were released in January, so maybe I can include it. ;)

I wanna play Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn, but those will have to wait.

For me, Donnkey Kong Country returns.

Closely followed by God of War 3. Just love them both.