Post by Steve Farrelly @ 04:35pm 28/01/11 | 41 Comments
Here it is, the final piece of our three-piece Game of the Year Awards 2010 puzzle, the Game of the Decade feature.
We listed the Top 10 games you voted for released in the last decade, and compiled a feature outlining them all for you to use your weekend in either supportive comments, or plain disgust. We're pretty chuffed with the voting effort on your part though, and feel this list is pretty well spot-on in the grand scheme of all things.
And if you haven't yet, be sure to check out our Reader's Choice and Editor's Picks categories for Game of the Year Awards 2010.
Click here to check out Game of the Decade!
We listed the Top 10 games you voted for released in the last decade, and compiled a feature outlining them all for you to use your weekend in either supportive comments, or plain disgust. We're pretty chuffed with the voting effort on your part though, and feel this list is pretty well spot-on in the grand scheme of all things.
And if you haven't yet, be sure to check out our Reader's Choice and Editor's Picks categories for Game of the Year Awards 2010.
Click here to check out Game of the Decade!
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Posted 04:37pm 28/1/11
Posted 05:08pm 28/1/11
Pretty amusing that I haven't even played the number one game of the decade.
Posted 04:52pm 28/1/11
As for the rest of the list, I'm pleased to see a good list of games that I've enjoyed and respected over the years - nice voting guys.
Posted 04:53pm 28/1/11
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Posted 05:12pm 28/1/11
So far my playthroughs in NV have been this-
1) exploring the gameworld with no prior knowledge of locations and bonuses and stuff. I pretty much played it as an energy weapons specialist with medium speech skill. I also played with hardcore mode on and used fast travel as little as possible, so keeping myself stocked with food items and water were essential. I went with a Mr House ending due to the fact I saw that as the most sensible option.
2) for my second playthrough I wikied up and pretty much powergamed my way through it to see how much stuff I could break and change from my last playthrough. This playthrough opened my eyes to how varied the game was, and how many different paths you could take. I went with the Legion for the ending.
3) a******* option playthrough with a 1 intelligence and 1 charisma specced character using explosives and melee weapons. Discovering the low intelligence speech options was really cool. This time I went with Yes Man (the best ending).
4) I maxxed out charisma and intelligence and leveled up my speech and sneak options and did a playthrough where I did not kill a single person, robot or creature. It's amazing that in just about all the missions (including the final one) there is always a peaceful or non-combat way to complete it. Probably the only two missions I didn't complete because of the rules I was playing under were the bounties you get from the NCR dude at Camp McCarren, and the mission at Nellis for the boomers where you have to kill the ants. There may have been a handful of side missions I missed that don't have peaceful options though but I was pretty thorough. This was probably my favorite run through the game apart from my first one.
5) and right now I have just started a playthrough where I will kill every single human being on the map. I don't want to kill all the robots and friendly animals though some of them I like (Snuffles!) :S
To me the quality of the writing and the varied nature of the mission structure makes New Vegas an absolute classic game. The bugs are bad but patches have done what they can to fix some of them, and any bugs I have encountered (except for the CTDs... remember to save people!) are easily negated by the console. I pity the fools who play this on xbox 360 or ps3. I really do.
Posted 05:19pm 28/1/11
Posted 05:21pm 28/1/11
I'm also surprised that Oblivion beat Morrowind, makes me wonder if most would have liked it more, but put something else for their entry (I can't see many people having played both and putting Oblivion first, so perhaps people with more games under their belt had a better contender). In the name of justice I wish to propose an eventual game of the decade multi-vote, or scoring per game in a huge list with an NA for haven't played, or a head to head elimination game. :P
Also no KotOR, Civs, Jedi Knight, Sims, Pokemon, or Total Wars? Bah, bah I say.
edit: WoW totally rocked though and was even too good, twas my entry.
Posted 05:36pm 28/1/11
That's from my own experience. I'd like to see the numbers of people who got into gaming just for WoW vs any one of those other games.
Posted 05:40pm 28/1/11
I think it also deserves it just for fundamentally changing the face of MMOs, I mean MMOs up to that point had been grindy, clunky, really niche sort of games, with a market that probably numbered less than a million players all up. WoW blew all that out of the water, cracking the market wide open and bringing a tonne of new players into the fold, as well as showing up on the scene with a level of polish and storytelling and depth previously unheard of in the genre. Love it or hate it, its hard to deny the huge role WoW has played since its arrival.
I'm suprised GTA3 didn't get in there, I mean it pretty much defined its genre too, it started this whole "sandbox" style of game (or at least, in a 3d world, as we know them today). While Red Dead and Mass Effect 2 were good games, I have a feeling they only got in the list cos people played them recently and remember them more easily, or more fondly than stuff they played 8 or 9 years ago. Red Dead was a great game, but its just an evolution, GTA3 was a revolution. And for the same reason I would have expected Battlefield 1942 instead of Battlefield 2.
Not a bad list all up though :P
Posted 05:41pm 28/1/11
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Posted 06:21pm 28/1/11
Posted 06:40pm 28/1/11
Nope, my school friends who aren't in IT nor really gamers (especially not PC) convinced me to get WoW a few years ago, when they somehow became addicted.
As a hardcore geek I've never been able to stay subscribed for more than 2 months at a time, because I burn through the single player content and aren't social enough to play the end game group stuff. :P
Posted 07:40pm 28/1/11
Surely we're all Valve fan boys here...lol
Posted 07:42pm 28/1/11
I voted for WoW even though I haven't played it for over 2 years now, and won't play it again.
You really have to think back to 2004 to really appreciate how damn good (and incredibly fun) it really was.
Also Oblivion and Fallout 3 in the top 10 is just ridiculous :P Both were way too clunky.
Half-Life 2 and Deus Ex are worthy additions though :)
Posted 08:47am 29/1/11
Warcraft 3 + WoW vs Oblivion AND Morrowind vs Mass Effect 1 + 2 etc.
Which is the better series?
Also - I am kind of glad Halo didn't make the list. As great as the first game was; I always thought the series was over-rated.
Posted 09:59am 29/1/11
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Posted 12:31pm 29/1/11
You of all people understand how anecdotal evidence works mr BH.
Posted 01:02pm 29/1/11
i got overwhelmed/bored playing through once
Posted 01:35pm 29/1/11
Posted 01:42pm 29/1/11
Posted 01:57pm 29/1/11
It's not hardcore at all, that's how it catches you. Girls i knew who never would have touched a PC otherwise somehow became addicted to it and with its incredibly slow learning curve for even 3rd generation of speds imbreding could even slowly work their way up. By the time they complete levelling they're emotionally invested into that character to not just give up, but then continue to work with their character to continue.
Secondly because its an easy learning curve you have much time to socially network with those you quest with, those other friends you know on the game, or just in talking to people in the game randomly (because it seems safe) and then you are invested in those people too.
In fact the only hardcore bit is right at the end. Even that was dumbed down for donkeys years.
It is the single closest thing that could be a facebook game WITHOUT being on facebook. Everything else is there.
Wow is a social network. Hardcore within wow is a subculture.
(Just on the basis of anecdotal evidence, I'm giving some, not to prove something, but to expand your perception of how people view this, and by doing this if even a couple of people view the game as "not hardcore at all" then it does actually ruin your point.. not to totally prove you wrong in a harsh way though, just as a counter to explain what you don't understand for not ever having experienced the game so probably couldn't know.)
Posted 01:53pm 29/1/11
Was this "Ausgamers games of the decade" really "ausgamers"? Or was it "How we perceive the whole world's gaming community's idea of the best games in the world.
I really feel that the best games of the decade don't seem to reflect strongly what the ausgamers community feel.
But then again I didn't vote so I guess that could be why.
(Although my understanding is the voting was only for readers choice anyway)
Posted 02:52pm 29/1/11
Posted 03:25pm 29/1/11
Billy - you'd be surprised the demographic of people who play WoW. I've met (through WoW) more people that are in non-IT jobs (dentists, teachers, tradies, etc), a pretty reasonable split of about 60/40 between male and female gamers and of course covering all ages. Actually most people I regularly play with online are in the 30-45 age range.
Posted 05:05pm 29/1/11
i prefered fallout 3
Posted 05:50pm 29/1/11
That said it's pretty easy to substitute the games chosen with their earlier iterations. Fallout:NV with Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2 with KOTOR, Red Dead with GTA3 and Battlefield 2 with Battlefield 1942. That'd make a much harder list to poke holes through.
Posted 09:45pm 31/1/11
MW2/WaW/BO are good arcade twitch shooters but lack the above.
Surprised at all the acclaim heaped on ME2 - thought the graphics were poor & recall spending more time looking at cinematic clips instead of shooting stuff.....what did I miss??
Posted 09:57pm 31/1/11
Personally thought it was good, but I don't think it was anywhere near top 10 of the decade, just one of the most recently hyped.
Posted 10:04pm 31/1/11
Yeah, I got Fallout NV on reports that it was basically more of the same and was pleasantly surprised that they'd improved things like weapon mods, specialised ammo, hardcore mode out of the box, and a radial wheel for interacting with companions. The special companion missions interact better with the overall storyline I think as well.
NV is also smaller in map size and is better for it but there's still plenty to see and do.
It's closer in tone to the originals and plenty of references, Fallout 3's story felt a bit too removed as a sequel because of the west coast setting.
Posted 12:56am 01/2/11
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