It’s time for endless top 10 lists. So what makes my list special? The answer is that while other top 10 lists are merely the opinions of people, this list has been put together by teams of scientists working in laboratories for months on a new super computer to determine the definitive list of the 10 best games released in the decade based on their quality, design, and impact.
Here they are:
This game has sold over 47 trillion copies in over 5 million countries on 3 million devices. It has single handedly helped replace Solitaire as the game people spend crazy amounts of time on without admitting it.
Call of Duty 4 was the very first game that featured the player holding a weapon of some sort from the “first person” perspective and then shooting other people.
Or not. What made Call of Duty 4 special is that it helped mainstream these types of games in a way nothing before it had. Sure, you reading this have played Counterstrike endlessly. Heck, I probably shot you through a wall (damn punk buster). But normal people play Call of Duty. Even people who watch the footed ball sport game on TV.
Half-Life, Counterstrike, Portal. These are the games you must play to be a man – even if you’re a woman. Without their success, the 3D engine that powers them, Source, wouldn’t have been able to be used on other titles that we enjoy today. Titles that involve killing zombies. Moreover, the success of the Orange Box helped launch the increasingly ubiquitous Steam digital distribution platform.
Can you imagine life without Team Fortress? Do you want to live that life? I didn’t think so.
Without the Wii thousands of children whose parents happily let them watch hours of Sponge Bob would be deprived of playing video games on the basis of it not being “active”. Wii Sports helped get millions of Wii’s into people’s houses where children could quickly migrate to games that were more fun.
Okay: Watch this: JAR JAR. Note the involuntary tremor you just experienced. Knights of the Old Republic was so good that helped save the Star Wars universe. Moreover, apparently there was a way to win the game as a good guy…
JAR JAR!
Halo demonstrated that yes, a first person shooter on the console can be fun. Not for me. But for other people anyway and that opened the consoles to a whole new world of awesome games.
Allegedly not everyone plays The Sims to lock up their Sims in a room and watch them starve to death. At least, that’s what my team of therapists claim.
A court order prevents me from playing this game again but it and its similar “Rock Band” have become a genre of their own that has really helped expand the realm of gaming to another level.
This urban training tool took on a life of its own. Social services continues to complain that I allow my children to play the games but as my driveway full of stolen sports cars indicates, it can pay dividends.
Pretty much everyone has played this game at one time or other. Sure, games like Ultima Online and Everquest were first but nothing in that genre has had the impact of World of Warcraft.
Consider this, World of Warcraft allegedly grossed approximately $1 billion in 2008. If World of Warcraft was a country, it would be richer than Liberia.
Now, I’m sure this list doesn’t have every favorite game of all time. No Super Mario Galaxy? No Metroid Prime? What about Soul Calibur? Resident Evil 4? Don’t blame me, blame the scientists and their sentient machines!
See you next decade!
Great list, but you're right about your gross omission of Super Mario Galaxy
ahaha i like your writingstyle
None of Stardock's game's. LOL
Heh... never played any of those.
Made me laugh
1. Bejeweled ... sort of fun for a few days. But I like FreeCell better.
2. Call of Duty. Shoot other people? I would rather shoot monsters and demons. I can step out the door and shoot people anytime I want.
3. The Orange Box, such a deal. I keep making new year's resolutions to play half life 2, but somehow never get around to doing it.
4. Wii sports, wii anything. Got no wii, but I admire the technology.
5. KotOR, well StarWars just did a big thud with me, so no KotOR.
6. Halo, yes, we can both agree on that.
7. The Sims, terrible. I played it one evening. Only thing to exterminate was bugs. I didn't get no good drops from the bugs. I figure if they added weapons so you could farm your neighbors might be a good game.
8. Guitar Hero, oh noes!
9. Grand Chef Automat III? Not merely as much fun as stepping out your door and farming your neighbors.
10. WoW, yeah sure. But why you leave out Guild Wars, huh?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys killing my sims. I only play it to kill them. My personal favorite is indoor fireworks. Nothing says "Happy New Year!" like smoldering flesh
I might need to see your therapists
I can vouch for Halo. Halo may not have pioneered the FPS thing--Doom did. But what Halo figured out was to turn the Xbox into Xbox Live, split-screen the TV in 4 so that 4 players could play on a single console, and daisy-chain multiple Xbox's together to get 16 players on a match. That's some good stuff. We had Halo parties that ran all night. We'd often have 2 teams, so it was no problem at all having players on the same team share a TV that was 36" anyway.
I can vouch for Guitar Hero, too, but the problem is the video guitars are too different from real guitars. I wish they would put buttons on the play guitars in the same places where you would finger real guitars, so that by the time you achieved expert level in the game all you had to do was figure out how to play a stringed instrument.
Surprised Dance Dance Revolution didn't make it.
Orange Box came out of nowhere. The author may just be a bit biased, being the maker of Impulse.
I never played WoW either, but you have to admit--it deserves #1. Still, though, it's really not revolutionary. Halo, the Wii, Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Rev., etc.--those were revolutionary. All WoW did was marry Everquest with Diablo 2 and Warcraft 2, and Blizzard took the time to improve on a number of things from those. A lot of their younger audience didn't have experience with Everquest or Warcraft 2 so they don't care.
Played KOTOR this year and 100% percent agree with you about saving Star Wars...I wonder if the android they replaced Lucas with is aware of this.
only agree with kotor
No. His ability to percieve his surroundings is nill.
Since they're making an mmo based off of it, I'd say yes. Or at the very least he relized there are a lot more ways to milk KOTOR for everything it's worth besides just sequels.
Sadly I never got to pla kotor II, well since it doesn't have raven or bastila in it I can't be too sad.
No Company of Heroes?
Hayden Christensen did far more damage to the Star Wars franchise than Jar-Jar Binks ever did. Well, he and George Lucas, whoever thought the line "hold me like you did on Naboo" deserved to be in the final script should be shot.
But I also think Half-Life 2 deserved a mention in the list, separate from the bundle it later belonged to. To me, there's a clear "before" and "after" marked by Half-Life 2's release in the entirety of the FPS genre, from graphics and audio to gameplay and storytelling, differences far clearer than for Halo, CoD4 or other "hallmark" FPSs. In fact, the only two games I can recall having such a strong impact in the genre were DooM itself and the original Half-Life.
To be honest, SoaSE is in my top ten of the decade
And I agree with the Orange box and KOTOR, not where they are on the list but they are in my top 10 as well
I have no idea how 5 casual games ended up on the best games of the decade. That's like checking which artists made the most money to determine who the best musicians of the decade were.
Wait this is only which games where the most succesfull right?
Otherwise 90% of that list should be burned.
I've played only half of these, and I'll gladly go without.
Shit list! lol
I hate world of warcraft.
But I have to agree it is probably the most successful game out there, And if youve played it before you will know how greatly optimized and great the graphics look too. It also has many many quests. A HUGE world. And a massive Realm vs realm pvp. You can swim, you can fly, you can ride mounts, you can climb on top of castles, and you can get drunk. Theres just so many stuff you can do.
CoD4 is a rip off. It only made it on the list because so many kids LOVE it. It's nothing more than just a normal FPS game though.
Wii sports is amazing, no, Wii is amazing. Nintendo people are so smart. PS3 and Xbox went for better graphics, while Wii developed a new style of playing games.
Kind of like how Final fantasy improves graphic every new FF game, but the gameplay doesn't become better. Btw i do not play Wii, PS3, or the Xbox either. Im Computer all the way. uheeeheee
Computer Gamer fo' life!
Well, I had an accident at 6 that cut all the tendons in my right hand so...I cant use the right joystick too well. It's rather funny though. In halo, if im trying to track someone and they go to the right for too long I JERK really fast to the side.
So if you ever see Teseer in Halo 2, just run to my right.
Edit: Is -> If
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