2010 GoTY. What's Yours..?

[drwow]

Probably mass effect 2

I loved the turnaround from mass effect, they fixed just about every single problem the first had and turned into one of the best sequels I've ever played.

you can tell they tried really hard on this one, and it shows.

Red dead redemption for a close second.
the game play is pretty good and the story is fantastic, but I'm just not a huge fan of the euphoria engine.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Until GOTY time came around, I didn't actually realize how shitty this year was for gaming... The only games that came out this year that held my interest were Skate 3, Shaun White Skateboarding, BioShock 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, Fallout: New Vegas, and some indie titles.

As for GOTY, I'd probably say Metro 2033, just because it wasn't a sequel. Call of Pripyat was amazing, and Skate 3 greatly improved over Skate 2. New Vegas was pretty bad compared to Fallout 3, BioShock 2 would have been up there if it didn't crash 30 times while getting through the campaign, and I still haven't played much of Shaun White.

Hopefully next year will be better with Homefront, Red Orchestra 2, Portal 2, RAGE, BulletStorm, and LittleBigPlanet 2.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I can't think of a game to come oout in 2010 that I could call a 'game of the year'. Maybe Mass Effect 2, but not really.

 

[Alade]

Mass Effect 2

 

[JoshGod]

Its close between ME2 and RDR but, im gunna go for RDR, i despised the end of the game, but up until that point it was a great game, ME2 did feel any more enjoyable than ME, also the flaws from ME were not dealt with, just removed or replaced with something worse/no better.

 

[Buck Wilde]

Red Dead Redemption for me. Never have really played a great western game until then (everything beforehand was good, but nothing like RDR). I think it wins over the other games because of its great story, and how immersive it could be at times. Mass Effect 2 comes in at a close second though.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Single player improved AC2's formula (AC2 was one of my 09 GOTY). Fun missions despite annoying 'full synch' missions, good characters for the most part, the combat is actually fun now, the story in the future is starting to pick up, and (IMO) the best multiplayer of the year.

Runner up: Red Dead Redemption
See previous posts for reason.

 

[drisky]

Mass Effect 2 and Valkaria Chronicles 2 are very close, but I'll go with Valkaria since it is significantly more underrated.

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

for me it would either be the new dragon quest for the ds or pokemon heart gold.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Heavy Rain, hands down.

Alpha Protocol could maaaaybe make it here if it had actually delivered a stealth game like it promised. Instead, the best strategy is to shoot everything in the face with a large gun. Sigh. Or maybe I just didn't get far enough into the game. I'm so sad that it was so disappointing. "Stealth RPG" sounded amazing.

 

[Romblen]

I'm going to be unbelievably original here and go with Mass Effect 2. It took everything that was good with Mass Effect 1 and made it better.

 

[superline51]

Either Mass Effect 2 or Assassin's Creed 2, leaning more toward ME though. I'll be pissed if Black Ops wins. Yes, it sold a crap load of copies, but a game you can beat in less than a day should not win.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Starcraft 2, it was the only game I bought that was released this year.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Hmm...

Well for me it's between Bioshock 2 and Mario Galaxy 2.

I'd say mario, just about.

 

[pdgeorge]

This is a tough call.

Fallout New Vegas and COD: Black ops both have the advantage of following on from previous GOTY's (Fallout 3 and COD:MW1/2)

Problem is, neither of them were particularly great...

New Vegas was fun in it's own way but riddled with crashes/errors and was pretty much a re-skinning of FO:3.
Black Ops was... honestly not that great at all in my eyes. Previous COD games did things better, there wasn't anything "black ops" about the game in the slightest which was what I was looking forward to. Instead, when I picked up Mafia 2 for half price, that seemed like a better "black ops" sort of game. There was missions where you had to sneak and you would fail if you got caught. Whenever information about what you had previously dont was brought up you flat out denied any knowledge of it. Though honestly Mafia 2 was 'good' but had potential to be better (a lot better).

Honestly, I don't have a GOTY sadly. Each game was 'good, but not good enough'

 

[Nannernade]

Assassins Creed Brotherhood, it was Fallout but it disappointed me with all the glitches, invisible walls and such. If you're going to make a game take pride in it and take your time. =S

 

[moosek]

Red Dead + Undead Nightmare.

Runner up is Mass Effect 2 + Stolen Memories + Lair of Shadow Broker + That other DLC story that I haven't got to yet.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Red Dead. No other game created a stir like this did.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

civ 5, damn that game making me lose sleep

 

[MrMonocle]

Why hasn't anybody mentioned Minecraft yet? It has so many different ways to play, and with multiplayer, the game has so many possibilities. Plus, once it hits full release or even beta, the game is going to expand even more.