-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Metacritic top 5 highest rated games of the decade
- Thread starter Bodatan
- Start date
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Niiiiiice
Mario Odyssey and Galaxy 2 soooo good
Mario Odyssey and Galaxy 2 soooo good
LostDonkey
Member
Wow. Not a single PlayStation exclusive. Thats very surprising.
Fbh
Member
Guess I was right in guessing this was going to be 100% Nintendo and Rockstar games.
The Rockstar games in particular I don't understand how they always gets such ridiculous high scores. The production values and attention to detail are definitely great but the gameplay and controls in both RDR2 and GTAV are pretty damn mediocre IMO.
The Rockstar games in particular I don't understand how they always gets such ridiculous high scores. The production values and attention to detail are definitely great but the gameplay and controls in both RDR2 and GTAV are pretty damn mediocre IMO.
Nemesis Prime
Member
Red dead 2 was great and the open world, immersive-ness, and story were unparalleled
But the mission structure was so dated and simplistic. Little room for personal experimentation and feels like it holds your hand too much. Needs a more open sandbox approach
But the mission structure was so dated and simplistic. Little room for personal experimentation and feels like it holds your hand too much. Needs a more open sandbox approach
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Your list is below average if it doesn't have Uncharted, you can blame the list owners for not having played Uncharted but every top game list should have at least a Naughty Dog game.
Psykodad
Banned
Malakhov
Banned
Really? I'm about 4 hours into act 2 and clocking 30 hours, yet I saw people mentioning act 1 is like 65% of the game.
Hopefully, though! I've tried so many games in the last months to get back into gaming and this one did it. A true masterpiece that represents everything that was great into turn based jrps in the 90s.
The hard thing will be to find something like this to play after I'm done with it
Last edited:
firegamer273
Member
deserving games tbh.
nowhat
Member
That's the thing. There's a ton of stuff to do in RDR2, no question. If you value your entertainment as $THINGS_TO_DO/$AMOUNT_PAID, it's clearly GOAT.
But the actual gameplay, it's not that great. It's downright annoying at times. And the main plot
really goes off the rails once there's that slave island excursion. It really didn't work for me after that bit, it just seemed so off
Mind you, other games can get too comfortable smelling their own farts with needlessly meticulous animations too. Yes, I'm looking at you Death Stranding and four (4!) cutscenes you have to skip just to get out of the shower.
Oh, and I also think BOTW is completely overrated. If it had been something not Zelda-branded, people would have been much more critical of the game.
Last edited:
Katsura
Member
Argumentum ad populum. Just because something is popular does not mean it's good
Lionel Richie
Member
Or Nintendo and Rockstar are the best developers in the world, which is not even close to being an unpopular theory.
Psykodad
Banned
Yes, who knows? I have nothing against that top 5.
It's all subjective anyway.
Cutty Flam
Banned
I felt like Super Mario Galaxy 2 was so easy that it was mundane despite literally being set in space; otherworldly planets
PharaoTutAnchAmun
Member
Yeah cous Nintendo games have the best gameplay EVER
molasar
Banned
It is your opinion not mine.Yeah cous Nintendo games have the best gameplay EVER
What new exceptional gameplay do Super Mario Galaxy 2, Zelda Breath Of The Wild and Mario Odyssey have which is their main selling feature?
And why Nintendo does not use their best gameplay ever and create some games for adult players with it?
Last edited:
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
Yeah but no.... there are far better games out there.
thequestion
Member
Astro Bot Robot Rescue PSVR, is the best “Mario game”, this generation. If Odyssey deserves to be in the top five (which it doesn’t) then Astro Bot definitely deserves to be there too.
Edit: if Konami had released MGV storyline free dlc (or even paid dlc), MGV would be in the top 5 - super fun to play/addictive gameplay loop/freedom of how to play/just plain awesome - but paper thin storyline for a MGS Kojima game. If only Konami respected the property more - would easily be one of the greatest games ever IMO.
Edit: if Konami had released MGV storyline free dlc (or even paid dlc), MGV would be in the top 5 - super fun to play/addictive gameplay loop/freedom of how to play/just plain awesome - but paper thin storyline for a MGS Kojima game. If only Konami respected the property more - would easily be one of the greatest games ever IMO.
Last edited:
D
Deleted member 471617
Unconfirmed Member
Quit BOTW after 22 hours and no interest in 3D Mario. GTA 5 was a 9.0/10 for me but nowhere near my top 20 for the decade and have only played past Chapter 1 of RDR 2.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I agree wholeheartedly.
The other big developers make it easy for Nintendo.
I've had a PS4 for about three years and I had been craving Nintendo games for a while. Games like Uncharted and TLOU are well crafted, have great graphics, but the most important thing which is the gameplay, just isn't there for me.
I just got a Switch. And I've been playing Mario Odyssey for the last week or so, and my God, what a breath of fresh air. The gameplay is absolutely perfect. Every inch of the gameplay is incredibly polished, and it ain't only about graphics or cinematics.
Last edited:
Grand Theft Scratchy
Banned
Top 50. Click the link.
The Last of Us and The Last of Us Remastered - the same game, really - are in the top 10 (95%). The top 5 games on the list all have an accumulative average of 97%. In fact, 12 out of 50 games in the full list are PlayStation exclusives (two of them are Uncharted games).
They didn't make the top 5 but it's not much of a difference going by the metacritic scores.
Last edited:
iBeastSlayer-
Neo Member
How RDR2 come in front of GTA5 ?
Starlight Lotice
Member
I would agree with SMG2 and perhaps Odyssey, but BotW is very conflicting with the general masses and GTA5/RDR2 were good on release.
I don't even play this game, but I always hear how Overwatch is a top notch game, along with the updates it gets regularly that I am surprised that didn't get on there.
It is pretty sad to see 3 of those games are very late decade and is not more spread out (hell, I was shocked at how Minecraft isn't on there).
My personal list would be stuff like Trails, DanganRonpa 3, Yakuza 0 and the like but they would never be renowned by MetaCritic so this is an expected list.
I don't even play this game, but I always hear how Overwatch is a top notch game, along with the updates it gets regularly that I am surprised that didn't get on there.
It is pretty sad to see 3 of those games are very late decade and is not more spread out (hell, I was shocked at how Minecraft isn't on there).
My personal list would be stuff like Trails, DanganRonpa 3, Yakuza 0 and the like but they would never be renowned by MetaCritic so this is an expected list.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Game critics biased towards Nintendo(and a little bit Rockstar) titles. I played Galaxy 2 and turned it off after 2 hours. My nephews also didn't like it very much. Replace Mario name and character with Yooka Blabla, you got a 7-8 scored game in Metacritic, they will definitely find some cons.
When i look at Nintendo reviews, i usually cut 10 points from Zeldas, and 15 points from Marios.
First Rdr, Gta san andreas, Zelda Ocarina of time were deserved 10 though.
When i look at Nintendo reviews, i usually cut 10 points from Zeldas, and 15 points from Marios.
First Rdr, Gta san andreas, Zelda Ocarina of time were deserved 10 though.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Those rockstar games definitely don't belong there.
sid2vicious
Banned
Sonic attempted the same thing with Sonic Lost World, and it got 6-7 score review. Galaxy 2 was nothing special, I beat it with all the stars, and have no desire to pick it up ever again, unlike the originals which I always come back to every now and then. Same with the Zelda games.
Arachnid
Member
Every time I see even a passing mention of Bloodborne on the internet, I want to reinstall it and give it another runthrough. I can't believe it's already almost been five years since release man. That game was the reason I bought a PS4, and I hadn't even played Dark Souls at that point (outside of an hour or two of the first back on 360). Definitely my game of the decade.
Last edited:
Vawn
Banned
Perhaps because Horizon Zero Dawn is fucking awesome. It plays great, looks amazing, has an really cool atmosphere and a surprisingly cool futuristic sci-fi apocalypse story.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
I don't agree with the list!
Is there a similar list with user scores?
I won't argue against the Nintendo games, they are not my favorite games, but I get why people like them. However, rdr and gta... They just don't play that well... but people buy them over and over again, so who am I to tell them what to like
Is there a similar list with user scores?
I won't argue against the Nintendo games, they are not my favorite games, but I get why people like them. However, rdr and gta... They just don't play that well... but people buy them over and over again, so who am I to tell them what to like
Last edited:
Arachnid
Member
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I went in super hyped about a month ago (partially because of a friend who hyped it up to me and partially because I'm a fan of the voice actor for Aloy who made a freaking hilarious web series I grew up watching), but I feel like I'm forcing myself through while waiting for things to click. So far, the characters all seem to be written dumb to make Aloy come off as smart/witty (this has always been a huge pet peeve of mine in video games; it feels like the devs being almost patronizing) and the only somewhat interesting aspect to the story is Aloys past (I'm not sure if this has proper pay off, but the answer to where she came from seems obvious so far). Humanity getting wiped out by their own technology is nothing new, nor is the post-apocalyptic setting taken back by nature (the twist here being nature isn't really natural). Aloy herself isn't very likable yet either. I usually like the underdog angle, but when she's written to be overly confident, smarter, more talented, faster, and stronger than everyone else in the world, she doesn't really feel like an underdog. She comes off as a mary sue with no real depth.
The gameplay also seems pretty cut and paste from other games like Tomb Raider, Last of Us, Far Cry, or Uncharted. It's another open world climbing fest with floaty movement, emphasis on bow combat, enemy outposts, and towers you climb to reveal the map. The only interesting/somewhat unique aspect here for me the different machines having unique weak points you assess before fighting, but the game doesn't have enough monster variety/types (I think I've encountered like 10-12 different kinds of machines so far, and most of them are tackled in a similar fashion) to keep that aspect interesting.
Everything just feels too simple and by the numbers. It's the same thing that burned me out on Tomb Raider. I'm pretty interested in your perspective on what warrants the good reviews though. Maybe I'm just focusing on the wrong parts of the game. I had a similar problem with Dark Souls back in the day.
Last edited:
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
Only game i wouldn't place up there is Mario Odyssey, specially if u have SuperMario galaxy 2 next to it.
I'm not a GTA V fan either but i can see why it is one of the best games ever made.
I'm not a GTA V fan either but i can see why it is one of the best games ever made.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I'd put The Witcher 3 there. That wouldn't be my top 5, but all highly regarded games. I absolutely loved SMO. Maybe was my favorite SM game ever.
Grand Theft Scratchy
Banned
I should play The Witcher III. Everyone is always praising it here. I played the original Witcher though never completed it.
Personally, I think Sleeping Dogs was more fun to play than GTA V.
Personally, I think Sleeping Dogs was more fun to play than GTA V.
Last edited:
SleepDoctor
Banned
Haven't played anything Nintendo in forever but I'd probably put Witcher 3 over all those games tbh.
SweetShark
Member
It is so funny for me cause even if I play so many games, I don't even get close to play these specific ones.
SimonGosejohann
Banned
hahaha wtf, people are so deep in sonys ass, it can't get even more. what are you talking about? sonys games are the most overhyped games of all time