TLOU & GTA V Are The Arcadium's Game(s) of The Decade

[Take It In Blood]

I uh.... agree.

Screaming out Harlem World like u ain't just abandoned us

 

[TheGodling]

MGSV probably had the most polished gameplay I've ever seen in any game.

Even if the story fizzled out due to not having a real Part 3, the gameplay was so good it could be overlooked imo. It really set the standard in terms of how open world should actually be (freedom to perform missions how you want).

I agree completely with this post. MGS V gameplay is perfection, everything works exactly how a game should work down to the online components. Even the unfinished story can't tear down something that excellent.

My personal game of the decade though is Kid Icarus Uprising. Probably the most underrated game of the decade too. This is as perfect a Nintendo game experience as they come from the genuinely fun and well-written story and characters to the (again) pitch-perfect gameplay mechanics. For its style it is the perfect 3DS game but its on-rail shooter and third person action mechanics could work in any form. It is the game where Sakurai introduced the 'difficulty scale' mechanic (Fiend's Cauldron) later used in Smash Bros where you spend points to decrease or increase the difficulty and get extra awards accordingly, a natural and intuitive way of scaling the difficulty to your liking with a continuous push to challenge higher difficulties.

The game also features weapon fusing as a means of leveling up naturally by fusing earned weapons and combining strengths/weaknesses and special attributes to create the perfect weapon for your play style. The system is insanely deep with hundreds of possibilities, all starting with deciding which of the different weapon classes you want to use and what offensive or defensive powers compliment them. And the better your weapon, the higher the difficulty you can challenge to gain more rewards and power up your weapon further.

The result is a game with a story you could finish in probably a dozen hours or so, but I ended up spending over a hundred hours in because the game rewards you so much for challenging yourself.

 

[old pig]

GTA online...I’ve put too many hours into that shyt across multiple gens and consoles (PS3/XB1/PS4)

 

[Spliff]

GTA 5 was the last game everyone had to own.

Crushed all types of metrics. Steven Ogg's career skyrocketed immediately after.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Thread is fraud.
Where the hell is Death Stranding?

 

[Fctftl]

Feel like Nier:Automata deserves a shoutout

 

[Rain]

Thread is fraud.
Where the hell is Death Stranding?

 

[JA_Carter]

Only one game I’ve played since close to the start of the decade till the very end consistently and that’s GTA V

 

[ThirdAct]

2010 Red Dead for me.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

The Arcadium can’t even decide whether backwards compatibility or game ownership matter. Now we’re about to decide a “game of the decade”?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Is this thread just a shot at the Xbox stans?

Exclusives don’t matter right?
There are plenty of exceptional multi-plats on that list.

 

[luvaznpoon]

Skyrim, easily. The freedom and atmosphere in that game was unmatched. The music. The environment... I can still clearly remember heading through the snowy mountains when that music changed and a dragon pulled up.

GOAT videogame track too

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Fortnite Is Obvious But I Understand Why It’s Not On The List

 

[Kingshango]

GTAV is my answer

 

[42 Monks]

Factually, its GTA 5 with only Skyrim being close on the ballet.

Also BOTW wasn't even GOTY how the fukk is it on the list for best of the decade