My Top 10 Video Games of the Decade – Addendum
Choosing the ten best video games from ten years’ worth of titles is hard.
I made such a list and did so with a lot of thought and honesty but two months after throwing them on the web and I’ve realized that I made a huge disservice to one game in particular. Now, I’m not going to knock one of the original titles off the list and I’m not going to try and figure out which spot this new title should take so let’s just call this is a Top 11 list for brevity’s sake.
This is the last change/addition I make to this list because it’s quite possible that I’ll never be completely satisfied with it.
Promise.
?. Devil May Cry
Seriously, why did I not put this game on the list? It was on the list of runner-ups but I, for reasons that escape me, decided that the game that literally changed a genre (perhaps my favorite game genre no less) into something amazing was not worthy of being on my top ten list. Devil May Cry 3 has a much better and more open combat system but the original Devil May Cry set the benchmark for action games for years to come. Without Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, God of War and, more recently, Bayonetta would have arguably never come to be. So what else does this game have? An amazing soundtrack, an amazing atmosphere and an unequaled (for the time at least) sense of flair and design. The combat is the real highlight here and what started as a juggling glitch in Onimusha (if I’m not mistaken) became the bread and butter of every close combat action games today. For being a game changer, a ton of fun and having a fantastic presentation, this game deserves to be on this list and it’s a crime that I omitted it.
There.
I had to give credit where credit is due.
My soul is at ease now.
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