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gimli2112 · 16-11-2019 12:08pm

Deleted User wrote: »

We should be thinking about games of the decade now surely with a new one weeks away.

GOTD is easy. There can be only one it's TLOU......or possibly Bloodbourne

Potential-Monke · 16-11-2019 12:20pm

I think voting for GOTD will be hard, there has been some phenomenal games out in the last 10 years, so much that I've forgotten most of them. Right now, I would have said either God of War or Horizon Zero Dawn for GOTD, but when I checked this Polygon top 100 of the decade (which includes Flappy Bird, so taken with a bag of salt) it reminded me of other games which blew me away at the time, and I didn't realise they were from teh last 10 years! Simply from that list, I had forgotten about:

Mass Effect 2
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
TT The Walking Dead (Season 1)
The Elder Scrolls V
Superhot
Titanfall 2
Red Dead Redemption (the first one!)
Portal 2
The Witcher 3

That's just the ones from their list! I'm sure there's other in there that I can't recall.

Zero-Cool · 16-11-2019 12:32pm

The last of us, Witcher 3, mass effect 2. Would be interesting to vote on that

J Mysterio · 16-11-2019 1:28pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I wouldn't say it was too niche, just that it has a specific target audience

.... Uh...

super_furry · 16-11-2019 1:38pm

The Witcher 3, edging out Breath of the Wild and Dragon Age Inquisition for me.

Arcadeheroes · 16-11-2019 1:49pm

Demons Souls/Dark souls to me is the GOTD and perhaps the most Influential Game of the last 10 years.

Even 10 years after Demons Souls release many publishers/developers draw inspiration from what From Software created even creating a sub genre with a name which I dislike very much Souls-like

I remembered before Ps4 release Mark Cerny and Yoshida talked about the online mode in Demons souls was so Influential to the Social features Sony wanted to implement in the Ps4 and how Ubisoft wanted to use their games aswell for players to pass messages seamlessly in there games to feel more connected .

Rob2D · 16-11-2019 2:02pm

GOTD is for sure Dark Souls.

Potential-Monke · 16-11-2019 2:11pm

J Mysterio wrote: »

.... Uh...

Yeah, I realise how that reads now... I'm not good with words. Ah, maybe I should have said that it's not targeting a niche market, but the difficulty/patience required prevents it from reaching some audiences, especially those who like to take on other peoples opinions before actually trying it themselves.

Or, they're like me, who wants to enjoy it but doesn't get any enjoyment out of repeatedly dying, going the same path and killing the same enemies only to die again with the hope of figuring out something to help you die less. Too many games about for that lark!

And I really hope Dark Souls doesn't win GOTY, or any of those types of games. Not because they're bad, but there's enough of them out there already, we don't need more, and winning GOTD will potentially make other devs think this should be the norm!

Vicxas · 16-11-2019 2:45pm

Rob2D wrote: »

GOTD is for sure Dark Souls.

Dark souls would be up there alright, Bloodbourne as a dark horse too.

I'd say the likes of GTA V will win GoTD.

CastorTroy · 16-11-2019 3:08pm

Find it funny saying Sekiro too niche but then suggesting Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Aren't they all the same audience?

pixelburp · 16-11-2019 3:21pm

What about games that have retrospectively fallen off the list. Skyrim would have been on my itinerary of games of the decade, for a long while until I played games like BotW, making me realise that Bethesda's brittle and buggy games had a bit of Stockholm Syndrome about them...

Vicxas · 16-11-2019 3:24pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

Find it funny saying Sekiro too niche but then suggesting Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Aren't they all the same audience?

Not exactly, Sekiro played to a sub section of fans due to the heavy use of parrying and countering.

TitianGerm · 16-11-2019 3:30pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Right now, I would have said either God of War or Horizon Zero Dawn for GOTD, but when I checked this Polygon top 100 of the decade (which includes Flappy Bird, so taken with a bag of salt) it reminded me of other games which blew me away at the time, and I didn't realise they were from teh last 10 years! Simply from that list, I had forgotten about:

Mass Effect 2
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
TT The Walking Dead (Season 1)
The Elder Scrolls V
Superhot
Titanfall 2
Red Dead Redemption (the first one!)
Portal 2
The Witcher 3

That's just the ones from their list! I'm sure there's other in there that I can't recall.

HZD does not deserve to be mentioned in a GOTD list assuming it's a Top 10 or something like that.

It's standard open world fare with awful voice acting that took away from the over all package for me. I enjoyed it but it's not brilliant.

BOTW, Bloodbourne, RDR, Mario Galaxy (or was this out before 2010?), Mario Kart 8, Forza Motorsport, Mario Odyssey, Dark Souls, GTAV, TLOU, Minecraft (even if I don't see the appeal), Witcher 3, Persona 5 would all be well up the list and I'm sure there's even more recent ones I'm missing.

dreamers75 · 16-11-2019 3:48pm

Arma 3 >>>> everything else.

J. Marston · 16-11-2019 4:36pm

HZD absolutely is brilliant. Not game of the decade but it's a fantastic game.

The voice acting is a strange criticism of it too. It was very good, in my opinion. Ashly Burch is very good and Lance Reddick is awesome. Ted Faro's VA was good too.

Potential-Monke · 16-11-2019 4:40pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

HZD does not deserve to be mentioned in a GOTD list assuming it's a Top 10 or something like that.

It's standard open world fare with awful voice acting that took away from the over all package for me. I enjoyed it but it's not brilliant.

I'm the opposite. Very few games have I enjoyed from start to finish, and this is one of them. The lore, the idea, the gameplay, the enemies, the voice acting were all superb for me. That, along with God of War, has kinda ruined gaming for me as they have set such a high bar. But again, it's all personal opinion. Loads of people love the souls-esqe type games and I don't. Similarly, there's massive love for Dishonored 2, and I thought it was pants.

TitianGerm wrote: »

BOTW, Bloodbourne, RDR, Mario Galaxy (or was this out before 2010?), Mario Kart 8, Forza Motorsport, Mario Odyssey, Dark Souls, GTAV, TLOU, Minecraft (even if I don't see the appeal), Witcher 3, Persona 5 would all be well up the list and I'm sure there's even more recent ones I'm missing.

Which is why it would be impossible to say, for definite, x game is GOTD. It's way too personal. The only way to really do it is to go by sales, but that presents its own issues too, such as platform exclusives not selling as well due to being an exclusive.

J Mysterio · 16-11-2019 5:38pm

Honourable mention for Rainbow Six Siege

martyos121 · 16-11-2019 11:27pm

Played a wide selection of games in the last decade from an equally wide array of genres, and Witcher 3 blew them all away by a fair distance for me. That’d be my GOTD without a moment’s hesitation and not a hint of recency bias. PSA: Haven’t gotten around to Breath of the Wild yet, so put an asterisk beside this opinion.

I’ll be interested to see what actually wins such a title from a mainstream publication though, I fear it’ll be something insulting like Fortnite or god forbid, Candy Crush. :eek:
We all know better of course, but still, it’s not a good look.

Liamalone · 16-11-2019 11:46pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Wow I almost feel bad having converted 2 years worth of live to gamepass ultimate for €1 said no one ever. Savage value.

How long ago did you do this might I ask? A friend just got an Xbox and if he could do the same it would be great.

17-11-2019 12:22am

Liamalone wrote: »

How long ago did you do this might I ask? A friend just got an Xbox and if he could do the same it would be great.

During the summer but there have been offers since. Might be worth asking over in the gamepass thread in the Xbox forum as I've not kept up to date with the deals.

pixelburp · 17-11-2019 11:16pm

One of those games I thought was "released" years ago, yet Factorio is finally hitting public 1.0 release and coming out of Early Access; though I'm sure there have been crazier offenders of perpetual beta games ...

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-321

Jerichoholic · 18-11-2019 1:46am

pixelburp wrote: »

One of those games I thought was "released" years ago, yet Factorio is finally hitting public 1.0 release and coming out of Early Access; though I'm sure there have been crazier offenders of perpetual beta games ...

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-321

Super Indie Karts being one.

Will they ever finish it?

J Mysterio · 18-11-2019 1:54am

Project Zomboid another.
Going since 2013.

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 10:00am

J. Marston wrote: »

HZD absolutely is brilliant. Not game of the decade but it's a fantastic game.

The voice acting is a strange criticism of it too. It was very good, in my opinion. Ashly Burch is very good and Lance Reddick is awesome. Ted Faro's VA was good too.

I found it just bog standard open world fare as well. Done well but not anything special.

I had no problem with the acting, the big issue was the script which was god awful. The actors did their best but I felt sorry for them having to utter some of that terrible dialogue.

There's no question for me that Dark Souls is game of the decade. It's the game that made gaming exciting again and nothing really has come close to it's quality. I think a good argument could also be made for Minecraft. Nothing else I can think of right now or that has been mentioned comes close to those two.

Kiith · 18-11-2019 10:09am

Witcher 3 or Breath of the Wild for me. Both of these set the standard for open world games, which i have probably enjoyed more then any other type of game for the last decade.

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 10:32am

Breath of the Wild is a total game changer for open worlds, or at least should be, but I feel that there's room for improvement there and the next game built upon it's foundations could be something really special.

Witcher 3 is an amazing achievement, but it's still kind of that western RPG template that's been around since the infinity engine days just done extremely well.

I just think they lack that certain something that made Minecraft and Dark souls so special and game changing. I also like the fact that both games represent don't have the cinematic aspirations of most other games and for me just pure distillations of, well, videogames.

They're the only relatively two big titles I'd choose but would be happy to see a great indie game get it either as this decade has seen the rise of indie gaming and it's really saving videogames as they were in danger of becoming so corporate and boring.

Sonics2k · 18-11-2019 10:59am

Witcher 3 will win it for me. For a lot of people, they went in to it blind with no real knowledge of the previous games, I personally thoroughly disliked the gameplay of the first two and never finished them.

While the narrative idea of the Hero Saves the Girl thing is bloody old, the Witcher 3 carries it damn well and has some truly amazing characters, like the Bloody Baron. imo just that story line itself should win GOTD because it has so many logical twists and turns.

While the combat wasn't fantastic, it certainly isn't bad and doesn't rely on stupid, lazy QTE's.

It also looks bloody beautiful.

Kingp35 · 18-11-2019 11:04am

God of War would get my GOTD.

I reckon a lot of the mainstream publications will give it to Minecraft. I have zero interest in it but it became a sensation and is still popular almost ten years on so it would be hard to argue with.

pixelburp · 18-11-2019 11:07am

J Mysterio wrote: »

Project Zomboid another.
Going since 2013.

That's also still in Early Access? :eek: Last I'd read, it had added working cars to its maps; I'm guessing it could be one of those developers that can't stop adding new stuff, pushing the release back. The "Star Citizen Effect" you could call it

Penn · 18-11-2019 11:27am

I'd probably have to give it to The Last Of Us.

Enjoyed The Witcher 3 but too many flaws imo to give it GOTD. HZD is a great game but even God Of War would be above it imo.

18-11-2019 11:38am

In not particular order Top 5 games of Decade

Mario Odyssey, The Last of Us, Zelda BOTW, Doom 2016, TitanFall 2

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 11:54am

Couldn't give it to Last of Us and God of War either. They're just standard action games with cutscenes in between. It's not an elegant way of telling a story in a game and even then the best of those, Last of Us, has issues in regards to its story. There's been better storytelling in the indie space. Would be more inclined to go with one of Paltinum's better games because the game part of those is better than either Last of Us or God of War.

Doom 2016 is a good shout. That is just pure distilled videogame joy.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 18-11-2019 11:54am

In No order, based mostly on the amount of time I spent on them which is my own rough barometer of quality

Black ops 2
PUBG
Destiny (1&2)
Dark Souls
Red Dead Redemption

blockfighter · 18-11-2019 12:06pm

My GOTD nominations

:
Zelda BOTW, Witcher 3, Mario Odyssey, Rocket League,

18-11-2019 12:20pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Couldn't give it to Last of Us and God of War either. They're just standard action games with cutscenes in between. It's not an elegant way of telling a story in a game and even then the best of those, Last of Us, has issues in regards to its story. There's been better storytelling in the indie space. Would be more inclined to go with one of Paltinum's better games because the game part of those is better than either Last of Us or God of War.

Doom 2016 is a good shout. That is just pure distilled videogame joy.

I can agree on this bit.
Mario Odyssey gave me a similar feeling to Doom 2016 (pure distilled videogame joy) although radically different games I know but the premise of why I enjoyed them so much was the same.

SomeSayKos · 18-11-2019 12:38pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Breath of the Wild is a total game changer for open worlds, or at least should be, but I feel that there's room for improvement there and the next game built upon it's foundations could be something really special.

.

I love breath of the wild but the weapon degradation in the game really annoyed me. I don't mind a degradation system per se but weapons broke way too frequently and I thought it took away from the experience overall.

pixelburp · 18-11-2019 12:41pm

SomeSayKos wrote: »

I love breath of the wild but the weapon degradation in the game really annoyed me. I don't mind a degradation system per se but weapons broke way too frequently and I thought it took away from the experience overall.

Yup, every time I got invested in my session, a weapon would break and a little part of me bristle in frustration. It's the sort of thing modders would have patched out within 30 seconds of release, and it's a shame Nintendo never did so themselves- unless those hating the degradation are a vocal minority. It's certainly the one element that prevents it being a total, unreserved best of the best for me

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 12:44pm

Weapon degradation seemed like a pain at the start but I found myself with too many weapons the majority of the time. If you let go of your hoarder mentality and just use the weapons and not worry about hanging on to them you'll enjoy it more. I feel BotW would be a lesser game without the weapon degradation which is why it's left in it.

18-11-2019 12:45pm

For me if the degradation was removed it would remove a certain aspect of the exploration.
Constantly finding new and unique items and knowing when you can sparingly use them was actually a positive for me.
Combat always felt fresh because of this.
Throwing weapons was a part of combat too I used more and more because of this.

TitianGerm · 18-11-2019 12:53pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Yup, every time I got invested in my session, a weapon would break and a little part of me bristle in frustration. It's the sort of thing modders would have patched out within 30 seconds of release, and it's a shame Nintendo never did so themselves- unless those hating the degradation are a vocal minority. It's certainly the one element that prevents it being a total, unreserved best of the best for me

I didn't like that weapons broke at first but then I realized that they actually wanted you to try out different ones and not just rely on one or two of your favorites. It's not like there was a shortage either so when something did break I just grabbed something new from an enemy/ground/chest.

Mickeroo · 18-11-2019 1:12pm

There's always the master sword too, or whatever it's called.

SomeSayKos · 18-11-2019 1:30pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

There's always the master sword too, or whatever it's called.

yeah, but that 'breaks' too and it goes into a cooldown timer.
-
Just for the record, I'm not saying the weapon degradation shouldn't be in there at all. My point is that weapons break too quickly.

PopePalpatine · 18-11-2019 1:36pm

Kingp35 wrote: »

God of War would get my GOTD.

I reckon a lot of the mainstream publications will give it to Minecraft. I have zero interest in it but it became a sensation and is still popular almost ten years on so it would be hard to argue with.

There's just one problem with your prediction, and he spends his days retweeting alt-right bullshït.

pixelburp · 18-11-2019 1:36pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

I didn't like that weapons broke at first but then I realized that they actually wanted you to try out different ones and not just rely on one or two of your favorites. It's not like there was a shortage either so when something did break I just grabbed something new from an enemy/ground/chest.

SomeSayKos already said it, but I'd probably hate it less if the degradation was a little slower; you make a good point about the gameplay aesthetics it's trying to convey but the weapons I do pick up break 1 or 2 battles sooner than I'd otherwise reasonably expect.

The sequel will be interesting in that respect, cos how those mechanics are changed - if at all - will speak to Nintendo's own perspective on the mechanic.

TitianGerm · 18-11-2019 1:38pm

pixelburp wrote: »

SomeSayKos already said it, but I'd probably hate it less if the degradation was a little slower; you make a good point about the gameplay aesthetics it's trying to convey but the weapons I do pick up break 1 or 2 battles sooner than I'd otherwise reasonably expect.

The sequel will be interesting in that respect, cos how those mechanics are changed - if at all - will speak to Nintendo's own perspective on the mechanic.

Maybe the better weapons should have a longer life, maybe include a small number on the top of the weapon icon that shows the weapon health and have someone who can repair your favorites.

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 1:39pm

Just remembered the real reason Last of Us doesn't deserve game of the decade.

Sure it wasn't even the best game of the year it was released.

#pikmin3needsmorelove

Mickeroo · 18-11-2019 1:40pm

I'm not a fan of it either, was annoyed when they introduced it in the Souls games too.

Shiminay · 18-11-2019 1:41pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

There's just one problem with your prediction, and he spends his days retweeting alt-right bullshït.

If you're talking about Notch, the creator, he's no longer involved and they've taken his name off the game in recent years because he's such a liability.

RobertFoster · 18-11-2019 2:53pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just remembered the real reason Last of Us doesn't deserve game of the decade.

Sure it wasn't even the best game of the year it was released.

#pikmin3needsmorelove

#pikmin4switch

Retr0gamer · 18-11-2019 3:07pm

Surprise release surely with a conversion of 3 to switch to drum up hype? Please Nintendo?

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