Jennifer Hahn Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) What other game can you kill murderous teapots with a pepper grinder? None (as far as I know)! It’s creepy, ridiculous, frustrating fun. (Sorry.) Advertisementįurther Reading Alice: Madness Returns brings solid platforming, tedious lengthI thought it would be a waste of $2.98, but this platform/adventure keeps me coming back. Smash Bros.) and endless iterations in on-going series, the idea of an homage doesn’t really come into. Beyond familiar faces in new places (i.e. Other mediums use this freely (see the rumored Ghostbusters movies for just the latest example) but gaming seems somewhat hesitant. Modern pop-culture loves old pop-culture. With another five years ahead before this decade's a wrap, who knows how many more great titles will stand with these classics on the next such list.
The resulting list, below, is an expansive collection of the game's we'll collectively think about when we fondly look back on the games of the early-post-aughts (nope, that phrasing doesn't work either). We didn't allow more than two editors to pick any one game to ensure a list that wasn't just a bunch of repetitive selections of the same old titles.
These are personal picks that reflect the eclectic and wide-ranging tastes of our individual editors, not necessarily the games that will be regarded as the "best" by the critical establishment.
To that end, we asked Ars editors to pick up to five games as personal favorites from the past five years.įor this list, we were looking for games that have stuck with us over the years, the games we've spent countless hours immersed inside, the games we recommend to friends without reservation. Mid-decade breaks are a good chance for introspection and retrospection, so we've decided to look back at what the decade so far has brought to the world of gaming. Still, we're finding it hard to get used to the fact that we're about to be in the second half of the second decade of the "new" millennium. The passage of time being what it is, we guess this moment was inevitable. It may be hard to believe, but on January 1, 2015, we will be halfway through the decade known as the 2010s (the '10s? The teens? The twenty-teens? None of these sound right.).
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