@tokyoslim said in Vote for the forum's Game of the 2010s Decade!:

I also disagree. There's a couple years on the list where the top 10 didn't even make my list. The best game in say for example... 2011, might not even be one of the 50 best games of the decade. It might have just been a shitty year. Decade is a completely different perspective.

I mean, yeah, some of he big obvious ones are at the top of my list. But my list is not mostly top 3's. By my count, 11 out of the 20 games on my list fell outside the top three for their respective years.

Only one of my top 20 is in the top 3 of any year, that said, I still stand by my prediction, though I might stretch it to games at or below 5..

Time will tell. Let's see if any game below number 5 in its respective year actually ends up in the final list.

Sent my votes in thanks to the reminders.

I'm not too enthusiastic in seeing the results in this one though as it's going to be a host of the the same people voting, therefore it'll just be a list comprising of a mixture of the top 3 from each year.

I also find The Witcher 2 to have better combat than 3. To up the game though and in keeping with the thread, I think The Witcher 1 has the best combat system of the three.

I've just hit act two. There's a lot I like in this game but also a lot of problems. I'll leave my overall impression for the end but to highlight one major criticism: it's a joke that you can't skip cutscenes.

I rarely come across it to be honest but the answer has always been the same: I simply want to complete what I payed for and at least consider it done.

Definitely Neir for reasons already mentioned.

Another one for me though would be Zero Escape. Being an Adventure/VN game, you might question it even having a traditional NGP, but these games play it into the narrative and have you using your newly gained knowledge of the story to your advantage in each new playthrough and in very creative and rewarding ways.

Almost 18 odd years ago I had this idea for a game I really wanted to make. It was just after playing Deus Ex a number of times and being really impressed that I managed to use my knowledge of how the story played out to actually dispatch Agent Navarre much earlier in the game and then have the story take that into account. I'd also just played Shadow of Destiny, a game where you frequently travel back in time to prevent your own death and use your knowledge of how it happens to accomplish it. My idea was probably far too ambitious though in that I wanted a story that could play out COMPLETELY differently as you frequently circumvented just about any of the major plot points because both you (and possibly your character as well) already know how this story plays out from your first playthrough of the game. I still feel the ZE series comes closest to this vision though so far.

@hanabi said in The EZA Community Top 25 Best of 2010!:

You're all sleeping on Recettear, just saying.

True though.

I'm picking mine up in the morning. I'm actually really excited, a feeling about a new game that I actually thought was kind of gone in me.