Zelda: Breath Of The Wild And Pokémon GO Feature In TIME's Best Games Of The Decade List

That's wonderful, really. I don't have much respect for TIME though.

Fortnite and pokemon go in top 10 seems legit lol

That's a bad list tbh.

@Kalmaro : How dare you!

Yes to Witcher 3. SMO?

Think it would be too early to put Disco Elysium on the list. It seems like most of the list went with a safe bet by looking either at sales or on Twitch of what's hot maybe?

@tamantayoshi Fortnite is fun, but not one of the best games of the decade.

Fortnite is hardly one of the best games of the year, let alone the entire decade. But it's definitely one of the biggest games, made the most headlines, and has absolutely taken the school yards by storm. That's indisputable.

@Desrever I guess it comes down to what "best" means. By all accounts, it has been massively successful.

WE DID IT BOYS WE BEAT FORTNITE

I would not have had Elder Scrolls there, as for me it was barely different than Oblivion.

Fortnite the best? No, most popular ? Yes

I've never heard of or played Disco Elysium. So I can't speak for its impact. But I suspect everything else on this list are games that (along with and maybe or as a byproduct, huge sales) went beyond the gaming community and in some ways, out into pop culture. Obviously to varying degrees.

Best list or popularity list?

'Zelda: Breath Of The Wild And Pokémon GO Feature In TIME's Popular Games List.'

Fixed it for you.

That's a pretty good list. Disco Elysium is the only one that's got a question mark on it. Purely because it's so new. But hard to argue with the list besides.

Hollow Knight and Galaxy 2 for me.

This list doesn't make sense by any account. Is it by most popular games? Because I'm fairly certain Undertale would have made it on this list due to its massive popularity. Is it by the games that generated the most money? Because there are a ton of other mobile games that surpassed Pokemon go in terms of profit. Is it by fan favorite games? Still missing a ton of very popular fan favorites that would go on this list above others listed. It just seems like this list was made by them pulling in the janitor and asking him to quickly say the first 10 games he could think of. That's the only way this list would make any sense.

Not a bad list in terms of cultural influence and impact. I must be living under a rock though: What on Earth is Disco Elysium?

Time tends to put their lists more around cultural influence and impact not critical review or quality.

Which is why I do not believe Disco Elysium, a game that just came out in October and has had so little impact that even avid gamers who simply prefer a different platform, have not heard of it, like @Tyranexx and myself - belongs on this list.

Every other game on this list was massively popular and well known even people people who don't play games. Disco Elysium might get to that level eventually but it certainly shouldn't be on this list.

Skyrim doesn't event have its place in the top 1000 games of the decade. Witcher 3 deserves it a lot more

Other than Portal 2 and that last one I never hesrd of this is more just a list of the most popular games in the last decade. King of pointless.

@MadmanMike I agree, I would've switched disco out with witcher 3

I don't know if I'd call these all the "best" games, but maybe the most "influential" games of the decade.

That being said, I feel like Portal 2 (as good as it was) doesn't quite fit into either of those categories. And then I've never heard of Disco Elysium...

I think of the last decade as the one where indie games exploded in popularity. I haven’t played Disco Elysium yet , but I think it is an example of one that points to the potential of of small studios making more ambitious games.

I can see the reason why it was chosen.

Disco Elysium? Never even heard of it.

I can respect this list. Still want to see GTA V and Portal 2 on Switch. Hopefully Disco gets a console port, hearing nothing but good things about that one.

Pretty good list honestly, better than I'd expect from a non-gaming magazine. If you replace Portal 2 and Disco Elysium with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Undertale, this serves as a pretty good cross-section of the different types of games people have been playing for the past decade.

I think BOTW and FOrtnite are overrated af to be honest.

Praying for a Disco Elysium Switch port. Glad to see Dark Souls rightfully recognized too.

Pokémon Go isn’t even an actual game though.

im not taking a list with pokemon go seriously

For me the best 3 games for decade were mario galaxy 2, skyrim, bloodborne.
While i was playing these 3 games i was really excited. I spend hundred of hours with these three.

What a list lol

This looks more like a popularity list

@A_standard_idiot
Fortnite is absolutely one of the best games of the decade. Love it or hate it, it is probably one of the most innovative games of the decade in terms of ushering in new technologies and ways of experiencing online events/gameplay.

@Rhaoulos
I disagree. Skyrim feels clunky and tedious now, but at the time...it was still clunky and tedious, but you can’t deny that it was a fun and massively influential game, without it there would be no Witcher 3 (which is also clunky and tedious, it’s a great game, but it’s massively overrated).

Fortnite? Against all the incredible works of art in the gaming world?

Overwatch is trash.

Dork soles ftw! That and botw absolutely belong up there. Can’t say for the others as i don’t give a flying fartsicle. Wtf is disco elysium?

praise disco elysium. I wish more games went that route...

@HarryHyruleHero Yes I know, it's quite a kick in the nuts for CDPR,among others. (not that I think they'd care). How can one of the best games ever made be omitted for that rubbish 😣

I think this list is aiming at games that changed their genres or innovated with something new/different.

It’s understandable why they put Skyrim up there and not Witcher 3, even though the latter is better. They sorta blend together and are in the same field. While Skyrim was followed its predecessor in similar fashion, it still a very deep game for the time. It was later in the previous generation and made some innovations in the genre.

Pokémon GO was a phenomenon onto itself since it was engaging audiences to get outside and “collect” virtual monsters.

Do I really need to explain Breath of the Wild?

TIME doesn’t do games on a regular basis, plus you’re sampling a broad brush with games of the decade too. I wouldn’t read into their list much, TIME isn’t a gamers first choice for reading material.

No Persona 5? No The Witcher 3? No Super Mario Odyssey?
But a game appearently many have never heard of (Disco Elysium)
Yeah this list is BS

I'm okay with the games listed, but they left a number of equally qualified games out as a result of only naming a top 10. Where is WoW? Hearthstone? Smash? MK8?

No Witcher 3, hence BS my friends!

@mjharper yeah, Nintendo is under represented. And even with the criteria if the games being culture changing, why is Dark Souls on there?

GTA 5 and Minecraft because those two games are among two of the best selling games ever made.

Botw for how integral it has been to Nintendo's success for the past 3 years. And helped to reinvigorate the open world genre. A genre that Skyrim popularised.

LoL is possibly the most influential MMORPG since WoW.

Fortnite popularised the battle royal gaming.

Pokemon Go is the most popular mobile game ever made along with Angry Birds.

Disco Elysium is a mystery...

@mjharper WoW is quite a bit older than 10 years.

@Maxtremors yeah, but for me, its a solid 7.

It seems like they tried to list the 10 most popular games rather than the 10 best games. Otherwise PUBG would be on the list instead of Fortnite.

Pretty good list. Even if I don't personally like some of those games, most of them are groundbreaking and highly influential. The ones I would contest are Skyrim and GTA, because they are mostly iterating on what's been done many, many times. However, I recognize that Skyrim basically made RPGs a mainstream thing.

@rockodoodle Because Dark Souls has been on most game developers' minds since its release? Even if it's not as played as something like Fortnite, its ideas about challenge, storytelling and risk/reward can be seen in so many games, from Shovel Knight to Hollow Knight and Jedi: Fallen Order. I'm willing to bet even Breath of the Wild took a page from Dark Souls, with the way combat works and hand holding being almost eliminated. On top of that, Dark Souls spawned an entire genre of games that almost directly lift systems from it, such as Nioh, Lords of the Fallen, Salt & Sanctuary and Code Vein.

@hiptanaka well, maybe there is more to it than meets the eye, but culturally, don't you think more people relate to Mario Kart and Smash, if not any big Mario game?

@mjharper : World of Warcraft was released all the way back in 2004 (I remember it vividly as it the same year that DOOM 3, The Sims 2, and Half Life 2 was released, perhaps one of the biggest years for PC gamers).

Frankly, I'm amazed that it is still doing so spectacularly well, even seeing the latest expansion pack and the classic rerelease advertised on buses and trams here in Sydney.

@rockodoodle Maybe. My counterpoint would be that Mario Kart hasn’t done anything significantly new since the 90s. It’s basically the same game with a nicer coat of paint. Quality comfort food, perhaps, but not anything to be celebrated as ”of the decade”. I haven’t played much Smash, but it seems similar in that regard.

@hiptanaka well, I disagree about MK, especially that it hasn't changed since the 90s. And that u can play the identicle console version in handheld mode is pretty groundbreaking. Plus, I would say culturally, MK has had a far bigger impact than most on that list.

Disco Elysium should have been a little higher imo actually...

I wouldn't call the list "best games".

I mean: Fortnite, League of legends, that can't be right?!

Ah well, to each their own...