The top PC games of 2010

I still find absolutely nothing memorable about Starcraft 2. It's essentially the same game as 12 years ago, with new graphics. Gameplay is utterly conservative, the SP story is stereotyped and hackneyed, multiplayer is onedimensional and repetitive. If any other company had delivered this game and/or if it wasn't called Starcraft, it wouldn't even make the Top 25 for the year.
 
Fallout: New Vegas & Sid Meier’s Civilization V are the only ones that interested me. And frankly Civ V, although very pretty, felt stripped of a lot of the complexity that was present in Civ IV. F: NV though was very good and a worthy successor to Fallout 1 & 2.
 
the new medal of honour is 10 times better than black ops.... and why isn't borderlands on the list....

fallout is fail

(just my opinion)
 
LFX said:
the new medal of honour is 10 times better than black ops.... and why isn't borderlands on the list....

fallout is fail

(just my opinion)
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new M.O.H is worse than BO by a mile, both are rubbish compared to mw2 though.
 
rainynight65 said:
I still find absolutely nothing memorable about Starcraft 2. It's essentially the same game as 12 years ago, with new graphics. Gameplay is utterly conservative, the SP story is stereotyped and hackneyed, multiplayer is onedimensional and repetitive. If any other company had delivered this game and/or if it wasn't called Starcraft, it wouldn't even make the Top 25 for the year.
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+16 Bajillion million quintripidijillion. It's a remake, and not even a good one. Conservative isn't even the word for it, they've just ignored all the advances made in RTS games in the last 12 years, so it's R500 for a more-than-a-decade-old game with somewhat better graphics (because let's face it even Earth 2160 or C&C 3 looks better)

And Mass Effect 2? Puh-lease. I loved the first one despite its TV-game-ish simplicity, but the second one takes away the few RPG elements that were left, and adds more Gears of War and more stupid romancing stuff. And now there's ammo?? I mean come on.

Probably the only 3 that belong on those are Civilization V (which is spelled wrong in the article), Just Cause 2 and Sam & Max, although I don't know why they rank one episode seperately, it should be considered part of one game. And maybe New Vegas as well, maybe. I haven't played it yet but from what I hear and read, it's actually much less of "****-you" to the actual Fallouts than that incomplete Oblivion mod they call Fallout.

Yes I've ranted a bit but this kind of thing pisses me off, publishers bitching about "piracy killing the industry", when in fact it's crappy games and cash-in sequels that's killing the industry. Just to clarify, I've legally bought every single game I've played this year, mostly on Steam, Direct2drive or GOG.

Edit: Also, how can someone make a "Top 10 games of 2010" list without Metro 2033 even being on it? On paper, it doesn't sound too interesting, a very linear, old-school FPS, but it's frakking awesome (with all the bugfixes). Why? Because it's fun. Also, if you're a grapics nut, nothing currently released comes close to Metro 2033's visuals on DX11 with max settings, not even Crysis or Far Cry 2.
 
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Metro 2033 + Ukraine based development team. Hmmmm ... March 2010 ... uses an engine called 4A Engine.
I may have found my xmas gift. :D
(Edit: 7.25 GB on steam .. eeek)
 
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davemc said:
Metro 2033 + Ukraine based development team. Hmmmm ... March 2010 ... uses an engine called 4A Engine.
I may have found my xmas gift. :D
(Edit: 7.25 GB on steam .. eeek)
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Yup it's a big download, but worth it. Even at the current price of $26.79 it's still a bargain.
 
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And all three of them can't hold a candle to the original COD:MW.
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In my opinion Bad Company 2 over shadows all 4 those games. But maybe that's just me, heck before BC2 came out Operation Flash-point 1 was number 1 on my list.

I guess I just prefer the slowed down, team based tactical shooters, to the one man hero run & gun Q3A style shooters, where you kill 70 people in one round but die 50 times as well.
 
rainynight65 said:
I still find absolutely nothing memorable about Starcraft 2. It's essentially the same game as 12 years ago, with new graphics. Gameplay is utterly conservative, the SP story is stereotyped and hackneyed, multiplayer is onedimensional and repetitive. If any other company had delivered this game and/or if it wasn't called Starcraft, it wouldn't even make the Top 25 for the year.
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The only point I agree with you on is the bad story and ye the characters are quite predictable etc.

I don't agree with you saying that it's the same game as 12 years ago, I played BW and the game is very different to SC2 in terms of game mechanics etc. It looks much cooler now yes ofcourse. I don't agree with you saying that the gameplay is conservative, it may seem that way at first but there is so much deep gameplay being unearthed by players day by day ... the multiplayer is the best in any game (IMO) and it is far from repetitive as till today there are more new strategies being toyed with and even though beginners may feel the need to stick to one formula of gameplay in each of their matches, there is a gigantic variety of options for each matchup.
 
LFX said:
the new medal of honour is 10 times better than black ops.... and why isn't borderlands on the list....

fallout is fail

(just my opinion)
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Borderlands was a 2009 game. Pretty sure it was in the top 10.
 
Cloudster said:
The only point I agree with you on is the bad story and ye the characters are quite predictable etc.

I don't agree with you saying that it's the same game as 12 years ago, I played BW and the game is very different to SC2 in terms of game mechanics etc. It looks much cooler now yes ofcourse. I don't agree with you saying that the gameplay is conservative, it may seem that way at first but there is so much deep gameplay being unearthed by players day by day ... the multiplayer is the best in any game (IMO) and it is far from repetitive as till today there are more new strategies being toyed with and even though beginners may feel the need to stick to one formula of gameplay in each of their matches, there is a gigantic variety of options for each matchup.
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What you're talking about is not deep gameplay, all they "discover" is new-ways-to-build-the-most-stuff-the-fastest. The fact that you used the word "formula" just proves the point. That's just do stuff in a certain order until you win, like those 3-move chess maneuvers. If you want to see actual deep gameplay, look at the first Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, or even the ancient Dark Reign or Total Annihilation games. The position of your units can turn the tides of a battle because of terrain, height, visibility etc, and you have to think as the game goes on in order to outwit and sneak up on your opponent. Also, even if everything I just said weren't true, or you didn't like it, multiplayer should never, ever, ever be a substitute for a piss-poor, short, single player game. Multiplayer games are fun because you play them with other people, you socialise in a sense. Games should be fun alone first, multiplayer comes later. Imagine if books, movies, tv series or music was crap when you listened to it alone, and only fun when your friends are around, would that make you call it the best book/movie of the year and spend twice the money on it? I think not.
 
@Cloudster @TJ99 that's exactly my problem with SC2 MP. There is zero depth in there. 99.99% of players will try to eliminate their opponent's economy in a rush. You rarely ever get to even build or explore the full tech tree because the units are too expensive and really not worthwhile. It's all about building stuff fast - miss a beat and you're done. There is NO way to recover from a bad start. There are few RTS out there where you are so dependent on your economy and on the first 90 seconds of the game, and even fewer where you have to build so much other stuff before you can start building what you actually need. I've heard people saying that SC2 MP is not a game, it is a sport. There's truth in that. I am at the point where I actually regret spending money on this title, and true to PC form I can't even sell or trade it away. I haven't finished the SP and never will, and neither will I touch MP ever again. A completely mindless waste of my money.
 
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Eish been a bad year. Sequels, sequels and more sequels


Sgt.Romeo9 said:
In my opinion Bad Company 2 over shadows all 4 those games. But maybe that's just me, heck before BC2 came out Operation Flash-point 1 was number 1 on my list.

I guess I just prefer the slowed down, team based tactical shooters, to the one man hero run & gun Q3A style shooters, where you kill 70 people in one round but die 50 times as well.
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Agreed. Unfortunately there seems to be limitless appetite for the same mind numbing run and gun games :sick:
 
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