Entertainment Weekly picks 10 best games of the decade

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#1 DontGetBigIdeas
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Prepare for mad, but frankly it's not a horrible list at all. No Halo or Call of Duty's make it, but neither does Metal Gear Solid.

Windwaker
Half Life 2
Wow
Shadow Of The Colossus
Wii Sports
Bioshock
Portal
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Arkham City


Edited list because people babbies.

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#2 GD1551
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Not bad, although I'd take off windwaker, wii sports and SOTC

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#3 Badosh
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Entertainment Weekly. lol.
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#4 TheEpicGoat
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What a garbage list.

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#5 DontGetBigIdeas
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Not bad, although I'd take off windwaker, wii sports and SOTC

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I think those are picked because of their value to gaming as an entertainment medium and art form. They have their place on the list, but I could see why they'd be first cast off -- even though I love SOTC.
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#6 heretrix
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I ain't mad at it. I don't fully endorse it either, but I've seen worse.

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#7 DontGetBigIdeas
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I ain't mad at it. I don't fully endorse it either, but I've seen worse.

heretrix
It's actually one of the more sensible lists from a major mainstream media outlet that doesn't frequently cover gaming.
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#8 locopatho
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That's actually a fantastic list. I think you need GTA3 on there, prob instead of Mass Effect, and it's pretty awesome.
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#9 Animal-Mother
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That's not too bad a list. Take off Wii-Sports and replace it with I dunno it's a pretty ok list.

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#10 locopatho
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For the lazy :P 10. Windwaker 9. Half Life 2 8. Wow 7. Shadow Of The Colossus 6. Wii Sports 5. Bioshock 4. Portal 3. Mass Effect 2 2. Red Dead Redemption 1. Arkham City
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#11 Badosh
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[QUOTE="locopatho"]For the lazy :P 10. Windwaker 9. Half Life 2 8. Wow 7. Shadow Of The Colossus 6. Wii Sports 5. Bioshock 4. Portal 3. Mass Effect 2 2. Red Dead Redemption 1. Arkham City

I don't think there is an order to the list, considering they are in the order of when they came out.
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#12 freedomfreak
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Pretty much what I expected.
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#13 Nintendo_Ownes7
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That's actually a fantastic list. I think you need GTA3 on there, prob instead of Mass Effect, and it's pretty awesome.locopatho
This was of the decade GTA III came out in 2001 and this list is from 2002-2012.

I would've liked to see Super Mario Galaxy 2. But it is still a great list I almost agree with every game listed.

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Definitely not the worst.

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#15 Ross_the_Boss6
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The list is fine.

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#16 GIJames248
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[QUOTE="heretrix"]

I ain't mad at it. I don't fully endorse it either, but I've seen worse.

DontGetBigIdeas

It's actually one of the more sensible lists from a major mainstream media outlet that doesn't frequently cover gaming.

This. I saw the title and was thinking "what crap, it will be all Halo and CoD with no Half-life, Windwaker, or team ICO games" and then I was amazed at the relative astuteness of the list. It has a good number of games on there that will be referenced at great advances and accomplishments of the media form.

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#17 PAL360
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Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

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#18 whiskeystrike
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Doesn't have my favorite games so it's inherently a bad list

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#19 Renegade_Fury
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Well at least there are two games on it that I like rather than there being flat out none like usual.

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#20 Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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Pretty bad list, to be honest.
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#21 GamingVengeance
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Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

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Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume
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#22 padaporra
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It's not a ranking, it's just the 10 best. They choose this 10 so people can vote which one they think is the best of the decade, and it will be announced in VGAs.
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About the list, it's pretty good.

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#23 heretrix
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[QUOTE="PAL360"]

Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

GamingVengeance

Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

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#24 DontGetBigIdeas
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[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"][QUOTE="PAL360"]

Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

heretrix

Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

And it influenced Six Axis and Kinect, as well as changing industry demographics.
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#25 Another-World
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Wow...this list actually is debatably good. Who would have thought it.
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#26 GamingVengeance
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[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"][QUOTE="PAL360"]

Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

heretrix

Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

Ya I agree
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#27 PAL360
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[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"][QUOTE="PAL360"]

Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

heretrix

Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

I disagree. Best games =/= games with the biggest impact. Going by that logic, 8 out of those 10 games should be called CoD.

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#28 TrapJak
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[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"] Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume PAL360

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

I disagree. Best games =/= games with the biggest impact. Going by that logic, 8 out of those 10 games should be called CoD.

Not really. If that was the case , only MW1 would be on the list.

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#29 heretrix
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[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"] Wii sports is listed most likely because of the impact it had, atleast that's what I assume PAL360

It's a pretty good reason for it to be on that list imo. It is the primary reason the Wii did so well.

I disagree. Best games =/= games with the biggest impact. Going by that logic, 8 out of those 10 games should be called CoD.

Aside from it's influence, Wii sports was an excellent showcase for the Wii's motion controls and fun as hell. It's just as good as anything on the list.

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#30 SecretPolice
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The lack of the phenom trifecta known as Halo / Forza / Gears makes the list a fail list. :P

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#31 yellosnolvr
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i've seen worse, like ones that excluded hl2.
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#32 drinkerofjuice
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Replace Wind Waker with Resident Evil 4, and you got yourself a solid list.
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Better than IGN
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#34 madsnakehhh
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That's actually a pretty decent list, maybe i would personally put in there GTA San Andreas instead of Batman or Mass Effect 2.

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#35 Wasdie  Moderator
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Get rid of Mass Effect and Bioshock. No idea what to replace them with, there are a lot of good candidates. Definitely RE4.

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#36 BrunoBRS
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well wind waker and SotC are in the list, so they're forgiven for the crappy everything else :P
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#37 madsnakehhh
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Replace Wind Waker with Resident Evil 4, and you got yourself a solid list.drinkerofjuice

I forgot RE4...but i wouldn't take out Windwaker, that game is such an artistic acomplishment that it totally deserves to be there.

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#38 Capitan_Kid
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That list needs more OKAMI.
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#39 layton2012
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Not a bad list but it is missing Super Mario Galaxy...either one of them, but they got Windwaker, so I approve anyway.
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I ain't mad at it. I don't fully endorse it either, but I've seen worse.

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Yeah i agree... having Mass effect in there is nice to see. Rdr is exceptional... i enjoyed AA more than AC
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#41 FastEddie2121
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Looks like EW got a favorable link when they googled for the list.
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#42 RulerofGondor
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Wind Waker is ranked too low. Red Dead Redemption is ranked too high.
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Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

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You laugh at Wii Sports, and yet none of the games you listed had even a fraction of the impact on gaming that Wii Sports did.
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#44 glez13
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[QUOTE="locopatho"]That's actually a fantastic list. I think you need GTA3 on there, prob instead of Mass Effect, and it's pretty awesome.Nintendo_Ownes7

This was of the decade GTA III came out in 2001 and this list is from 2002-2012.

I would've liked to see Super Mario Galaxy 2. But it is still a great list I almost agree with every game listed.

Your decade seems to have almost 11 years for some reason... :?

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#45 Zeviander
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Without Bioshock and Mass Effect 2 it would have been a decent list. But no GTAIII is auto-fail.
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#46 glez13
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Without Bioshock and Mass Effect 2 it would have been a decent list. But no GTAIII is auto-fail.Zeviander

GTA3 is older than a decade.

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#47 BrunoBRS
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[QUOTE="Zeviander"]Without Bioshock and Mass Effect 2 it would have been a decent list. But no GTAIII is auto-fail.glez13

GTA3 is older than a decade.

the decade is from 2000-2010, so GTA 3 would apply. although the list goes as far as 2011, so i assume they went for 2001-2011. GTA 3 still applies though.

Wind Waker is ranked too low. Red Dead Redemption is ranked too high.RulerofGondor
they're not ranked in any order, they're ordered by release date.

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#48 Pikminmaniac
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You know what? That isn't half bad for one of these lists. Arkham City and Wind Waker are a couple of the only 10s I've ever given out.

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[QUOTE="glez13"]

[QUOTE="Zeviander"]Without Bioshock and Mass Effect 2 it would have been a decent list. But no GTAIII is auto-fail.BrunoBRS

GTA3 is older than a decade.

the decade is from 2000-2010, so GTA 3 would apply. although the list goes as far as 2011, so i assume they went for 2001-2011. GTA 3 still applies though.

This is listed from 2002-2012 since this is the end of 2012. so it wouldn't apply to GTA III only the PC version of GTA III was released in 2002.

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#50 PAL360
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Wii Sports :lol:

That list needs Skyrim, Halo CE, Gears 3 and Uncharted 2.

RulerofGondor

You laugh at Wii Sports, and yet none of the games you listed had even a fraction of the impact on gaming that Wii Sports did.

Yes, i laugh at Wii Sports, just like i would laugh at any kinect game, if they were on the list. It had impact, no doubt, but unlike the games i posted, it's far from one of the best games from the last 10 years.