@ChiefvsGordon: Yeah that's pretty annoying. I was even considering buying it later tonight, but I just decided to roll out of bed and pull the trigger lol. I was hugely surprised when I checked again a few hours later and it was suddenly at 50% off, not 75.

I'll just say I wasn't a fan of the amount of DLC there is available for BL2 (thus me just buying vanilla during the summer sale) but it's still a lot of fun. If you really can't wait, 7.50 isn't a bad price at all for what I think so far is a substantial, meaty experience. Me buying GOTY is my way of saying, All right, Pitchford, you won me over.

Lenova Y510p?

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/y-series/y510p/

No game - especially one with guns - is a billion times better than FEAR. Go back to your awkward controls and 30 fps slideshows.

This is actually a really hard list, since some games (like Simcity 4 and Unreal Tournament 3) didn't get good until people started adding lots of custom content.

For the sake of simplicity, I'll ignore the Sims entirely, since they've probably released new content at least once every year.

2000: NOLF. I was a big fan of Monolith games for a long while, and this was one of the reasons. Lovely graphics, and the guns had real power to them. Very fun - except the "insta-fail" stealth portions.

2001: Well...I....huh? Okay, let's say "Max Payne" it was pretty fun with cheat codes I guess.

2002: NOLF2. In hindsight, it was not as impressive technically. I did love using phosphorus rounds, but even to this day I have never had the game play smoothly, not matter what fraps says (turning off v-sync tends to make the game look like 10-15 fps)

Jedi Outcast was a close second, but there were some parts of the story I really didn't like.

2003: WHAT A YEAR!!!!! Can't pick a single game over all the others.

2004: AHA! That's easy! UT2004, right? Oh wait...ROME TOTAL WAR!

2005: See...well...? I guess I'll say it was Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It was the first racing game I ever bought. In the long term though, X3: Reunion is probably the one I've played the most.

...and then I remembered Guild Wars!

2006: Medieval 2: Total War

2007: Sins of a Solar Empire came out...but I'm going to give this one to Project Gotham Racing 4. Love that game. UT3 also came out, but I imagine most of the maps I use...did not.

2008: Aha...the windows port of Mass Effect came out! I couldn't play it at the time with my CPU, but it was still released in 2008.

2009: I promised I wouldn't ever mention the Sims (even thought this was when the Sims 3 came out), so ... uhh... Oh! Forza Motorsport 3!

2010: Mass Effect 2 AND GTA 4: Episodes from Liberty City. I'm not picking a winner. Just pretend one came out in 2009.

2011: Saints Row 3 and Skyrim.

And Test Drive Unlimited 2 was my most disappointing game ever.

Much like UT3, they changed the single player experience, without thinking that perhaps people played the single player on previous games because of what it was. A shallow "campaign" with annoying dialogue is not what anyone wanted, and the changes they made to the single-player races, was, in a word, abysmal. It's like someone in charge wanted to ruin the game, and everyone else was too busy or too stupid to notice.

2012: Mass Effect 3 and Max Payne 3. Honorable mention goes to Dead or Alive 5.

2013: Divinity: Dragon Commander

Damn hard list, damn hard. I don't have enough time to play games for thousands of hours and still pick favourites for every year.