IGN's best PC games of 2010

[MicoSelva]

I haven't found a topic on the subject, and it's rather lulzy, so here are some RPG-related highlights. Each category had five nominees. I marked the winners in bold.

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BEST STORY

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Assassin's Creed II
BioShock 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2 <- Right...

FUNNIEST GAME

Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Dead Rising 2
Deathspank
Poker Night at the Inventory
Sam & Max Season 3 -- The Devil's Playhouse

MOST INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY

Alpha Protocol
Mass Effect 2 <- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nimbus
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Splinter Cell: Conviction

BEST CHARACTER

General Knoxx (Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx)
Illusive Man (Mass Effect 2) <- Illusive Man. Best character. Really.
Mr. House (Fallout: New Vegas)
Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell: Conviction)
Sofia Lamb (BioShock 2)

BEST VISUALS

Assassin's Creed II
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Mass Effect 2
Napoleon: Total War
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

BEST SOUNDTRACK

BioShock 2
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Mass Effect 2
STALKER: Call of Pripyat
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

MOST BANG FOR BUCK (?)

Bejeweled 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

BEST SCI-FI GAME

Mass Effect 2
Assassin's Creed II
Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy
Supreme Commander 2
Transformers: War for Cybertron

[Wait, there's Transformers here but no StarCraft II - what the fuck?]

BEST HORROR GAME

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
BioShock 2
Fallout: New Vegas <- Wait. F:NV. Horror?
Metro 2033
STALKER: Call of Pripyat

BEST FANTASY GAME

Arcania: Gothic IV <- OH YEAH.
Darksiders <- Darksiders is a PC game now?
Divinity 2: Ego Draconis
Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

BEST BLOCKBUSTER GAME

Assassin's Creed II
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Splinter Cell: Conviction
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

[Why does this category even exists? So that high budget game win SOME rewards/nominations even if they are shittier than cheaper made games?]

PC GAME OF THE YEAR

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Civilization V
Mass Effect 2
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

 

[Jools]

Do I really want to comment?

AC2 Sci-Fi? Just because of that 2% background Sci-Fi settings?

AP and ME2 running for innovative gameplay? The former is vastly inspired by Splinter Cell Conviction (the gameplay is, especially, and SPC was released earlier), the latter is... is... I don't know, but someone explain me how it is innovative? Not the slightest bit of it can be called "innovative", not even by the most shameless bioware fangay.

And yeah, you can find Darksiders on PC. The Swashbuckling Harbour has a nice 12Gb release of it. Calling it a "PC game" makes me cringe tho.

As usual, you can't spell "IGNorance" without IGN.

 

[Konjad]

IGN

derp

 

[Yeesh]

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

BEST SCI-FI GAME

Mass Effect 2
Assassin's Creed II
Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy
Supreme Commander 2
Transformers: War for Cybertron

[Wait, there's Transformers here but no StarCraft II - what the fuck?]

Well, there are no space elves in Transformers, for one.
But the line between Science Fiction and Space Fantasy has been blurred by mainstream a while ago, so who knows. I may not care much about AC2, but it seems to be the only one to have at least something to do with Sci-Fi on that list, anyway.

 

[SolipsisticUrge]

How did New Vegas not win best horror game? WTFRAGE

 

[Jools]

ME2 should actually be in the "horror" games list, as the main character is technically a zombie.

 

[racofer]

ITT we discover that Bioware molested MicoSelva at some point of his life.

 

[Gerrard]

BEST SOUNDTRACK
STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Seriously? I mean the outro music is fucking awesome and pretty much one of the best ending songs ever, but the rest?

 

[Raapys]

BEST SOUNDTRACK
STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Seriously? I mean the outro music is fucking awesome and pretty much one of the best ending songs ever, but the rest?

Pripyat theme <33333

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxcCve7alGU

 

[Quilty]

At least Amnesia is getting the recognition it deserves. It's a good game.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

What, no Nintendo games on the list?

OH SNAP THESE WERE PC GAMES OH HAHAHAHA

 

[DraQ]

BEST SOUNDTRACK
STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Seriously? I mean the outro music is fucking awesome and pretty much one of the best ending songs ever, but the rest?

Pripyat theme <33333

 

[grotsnik]

At least Amnesia is getting the recognition it deserves. It's a good game.

Yeah; nice to see it receiving some award-love, in spite of the list's other stupidities.

 

[Epsilon]

Indeed if I had to pickout a game that actually deserves consideration for best something of the year, it'd have to be Amnesia.

 

[Konjad]

Indeed if I had to pickout a game that actually deserves consideration for best something of the year, it'd have to be Amnesia.

No love for New Vegas? :<

 

[MetalCraze]

I like how there are two console games in "PC Game of the Year".
If anything that list proves how hard modern games suck - because there are either primitive console shooters or a dumbed down strategy game

Indeed if I had to pickout a game that actually deserves consideration for best something of the year, it'd have to be Amnesia.

No love for New Vegas? :<

Let's see. They took Fallout. They dumbed down the shit out of SPECIAL. They turned it into a shooter. They added retarded writing and lulz to it. Love!

 

[CrimsonAngel]

And this is why IGN is the Asshole of the industry that only mainstream care about.

 

[DriacKin]

I agree with the Skyway. It was sickening how much IGN is overrating New Vegas.

 

[CrimHead]

Actually they took Fallout 3 and added good writing to it.

And that's p. much it.

So it still has the same shit engine, shit interface, shit combat (OH SHIT I BETTER START BACKPEDDLING LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER AWAY FROM THIS FAGGOT WITH AN IRON PIPE EVEN THO I GOT A LMG), shit character customization, shit difficulty, shit...

BUT VAULT DWELLER APPROVED C&C!!!11 BEST GAEM OF ALL TIEM

Totally on par with Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, and Planescape Torment.

TOTALLY.

 

[Oesophagus]

In what way does ME2 have innovative gameplay?

 

[SimpleComplexity]

You hide behind a box and pop up to shoot enemies which also hide behind a box and pop up to shoot at you.

 

[Jaesun]

Putting the IGN in Ignorance.

 

[Melcar]

It just sucks ass.

 

[DriacKin]

Actually they took Fallout 3 and added good average writing to it.

Fixed.

 

[IronicNeurotic]

Totally on par with Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, and Planescape Torment.

TOTALLY.

Yeah, all those games have shit combat, shit charachter customization and shit interface.

 

[Oesophagus]

No, seriously, it looks as if the cockgobblers guys at IGN decided that they're gonna give ME2 the most awards, and then just randomly picked the categories. Either this or they're trying to actively troll the codex.