Game of the decade (2000 - 2009)

[lathany]

GameFAQs are asking for up to fifteen nominations for "game of the decade". From the games I play, I went with (in alphabetical order):

DS - Hotel Dusk: Room 215
PC - Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
PC - Beyond Good & Evil
PC - Diablo II
PC - Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
PC - Pathologic
PC - Portal
PC - The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure
PlayStation 2 - Dynasty Tactics 2
PlayStation 2 - Final Fantasy X
PlayStation 2 - Jade Cocoon 2
PlayStation 2 - Shadow Hearts: Covenant
PlayStation 3 - Dragon Age: Origins
PlayStation 3 - LittleBigPlanet
PlayStation 3 - Valkyria Chronicles

Comments/views? No FPS or RTS on my list as I don't really do them!

Comments

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

If I were choosing I'd have to go for Grand Theft Auto in the top three. The Sims would be in there too.

And I do like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. My favourite collaborative game and my favourite of the FF series.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

GTA has good odds of making the top ten if not the top three, but I've never played it (or indeed played The Sims or FFCC). I don't expect The Sims will get too far, though; the reason being that the GameFAQs lot tend to represent a higher proportion of RPG and puzzle game players than the general gamer population. FFCC might do OK but it's somewhat less popular than FFX with the GameFAQs crowd.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Purely in terms of hours played, I'd have to nominate WoW and Counterstrike.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

:-) Nothing I've played, but I'd expect WoW to make a showing.

[dracunculus.livejournal.com]

My list would include Planescape: Torment, Grim Fandango, and Fallout, as well as Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age. For DS I would probably put Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Obviously I am highly biased toward RPGs!

[dracunculus.livejournal.com]

In terms of hours played, City of Heroes wins by...well, I've been playing that game for five years now, so I probably don't even want to know how many hours it's been!

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Planescape: Torment, Grim Fandango, and Fallout

I don't think any of those are eligible as they're all prior to 2000?

(Not that I've played any of them)

[dracunculus.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I'm old now.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I'm older. :-)

I'd have liked FFVII, Master of Magic and Secret of Monkey Island. MoM is 1994 and launches from a DOS prompt whilst Secret of Monkey Island is the Amiga (and only just in the previous decade - October 1990). Plus I played The Hobbit back in the early 80s (I never finished it), although I think I'd hesitate to name it Game of the Decade (although, it had its moments).

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask whether the re-release of Planescape:Torment counts, since according to Wikipedia the original was released at the back of 1999...

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. When I entered "Baldur's Gate", no version of one, including the compilations and releases on new windows versions, were tickable.

[kauket.livejournal.com]

I'd have Eternal Darkness and Batman: Arkham Asylum on the list. And, of course, We Love Katamari.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Heh. We Love Katamari is a great choice 'cos it was a new style of game.