With the HUGE announcement of Civilization V, I can't think of any other year that PC has had so many highly anticipated exclusives! In ORANGE are the BIG exclusives:

Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer
All Point Bulletin
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anno 1404: Venice
ArcMagi
ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead
Black Star Chronicles
Civilization V
Command & Conquer 4
Culpa Innata 2
Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising
Deponia
Deus Ex 3
Drakensang: The River of Time
Elemental: War of Magic
Football Manager 2011
Global Agenda
Guild Wars 2
Gray Matter
Heroes of Newerth
Jumpgate Evolution
Love
Mount & Blade: Warband
Naumachia – Space Warfare
Napoleon: Total War
Natural Selection 2
Need for Speed World Online
Red Orchestra 2
rFactor 2
The Settlers 7: Path to a Kingdom
Sacred 2: Ice and Blood
Silent Hunter V
Simon the Sorcerer 5
Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Star Trek Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Stargate Resistance
Storm of War: Battle of Britain
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online
Vampyre Story 2
The Whispered World
The Witcher 2
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

And it doesn't end here, we are seeing the launch of Onlive and the HUGE Battle.net 2.0!!!

You forgot to mention a big PC exclusive already released, Mass Effect 2.


And yes, this is a fantastic year for PC gaming.

Oh, is Diablo 3 scheduled for 2011?

Strongly doubt Deus Ex 3 and The Witcher 2 will come out in 2010.

Strangely there's not many games on that list that interest me other than Mount & Blade Warband. Plus STALKER to some degree.

Strangely there's not many console games that interest me this year other than Heavy Rain.

Not at all.
They were much better years in PC gaming. This year is still rather mediocre for PC gaming.

How so? This year PC has more big exclusives than any other year I can remember.

Big is relative and I would say there are only 5 or maybe 6 games on that list which really deserve that title.

2004 for example was lightyears ahead. Same goes for 2002, 2000, 1999, 1998 and probably quite a few more too.

you forgot this little STALKER mod ;)

http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha

this will rock too ;)

WOOT!

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=98472&page=1

Civ V made it a great year for me. Add a Sim City 5 and I would definitely agree.