Gonna go with "Other" since Fallout: New Vegas is the best RPG of that generation for me. So many hours of fun. The best story I've gotten from a Fallout game since the first one! Some very interesting quests and lore references to previous titles in the franchise. What a game!

No New Vegas is a crime.

StarCraft II easily. Amazing game that gets overlooked too much, in terms of pure gameplay it's leagues above another other RTS.

My top 5 for the year:

1. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
2. Super Meat Boy
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Red Dead Redemption

Also possibly the first year where I've played every game on the poll. Haven't noticed before at least.

Of these, Xenoblade Chronicles. But I would consider that my GOTY 2012, since it didn't come out in a form that I could play until then. New Vegas was the best game I played that actually released in my area in 2010.

Other Yakuza 4 it's one of the better games in the series. Another game that is not mentioned in the other category that I enjoyed a lot and currently replaying on the PS4 is Mafia 2.

Not a hugely interesting year for me, but I had enough to play from the previous years if I was playing at all because gaming wasn't really on the forefront of my mind due to increasing problems within my family. However from this year I did end up playing Red Dead Redemption, God of War III and Mario Galaxy 2. From the 'other' list I only played Bioshock 2. Besides those I also played Napoleon Total War and Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2.

Sadly I wouldn't really get into Napoleon, unlike Empire, Medieval II and Rome before it. I'm not really sure why, I was probably content with the earlier games, or it's because the campaign map in Napoleon is much smaller than Empire's. Bioshock 2 wouldn't grab me either in spite of it being a great game, and I found Red Dead Redemption to be boring like GTAIV so I dropped that quickly as well.

Mario Galaxy 2 was great however and completed it at some point. While gameplay and levels were obviously great, I disliked the simple Mario head hubworld with its simple stage select screen versus the Observatory from the first game and the lack of a nice backstory like the original's Rosalina story. The Force Unleashed 2 was more of the first game, which was fun and I guess satisfying. The story made no sense though in light of the canon Star Wars saga (when the expanded universe was still canon anyway). The game was ridiculously short though.

Then I played God of War III, because it looked cool and it dealt with Greek mythology. The storyline was fun and interesting and the action and setpieces were great. The game isn't enough to take a place amongst my all-time favourites, but it the best game of 2010. I vote God of War III.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is right now the 3rd best game ever for me, so it takes the cake.
The first Galaxy is fresher and has superior presentation in the hub and Rosalina's backstory, but the gameplay in Galaxy 2 is even better than the first.

I never saw the appeal for Mario Galaxy 2. That fire flower music was awful and loud. Otherwise it’s a great game.

Red Dead 2 was and is a perfect game in every way. Love it and would happily play it for the rest of my life on a deserted island.

Picking a runner up for this year is incredibly tough.

Xenoblade was my 2011 GOTY as I live in PAL territory, but considered as a 2010 game it's still hot on the heels of Galaxy 2 thanks to its inspired world, amazing soundtrack, likeable characters, and epic story.

DKCR I feel is somewhat underrated and one of my favourite 2D platformers ever thanks to its creative and dynamic level design.

Halo Reach is for me the greatest game in the series, which is saying a lot given I hold Halo 1 and 2 in very high esteem. With its elegaic campaign, top notch enemy AI and tightly refined gunplay, its a worthy swan song for the Bungie era of Halo.

Mass Effect 2, Black Ops, Goldeneye 007, and Vanquish are terrific as well. Then there's the honourable mentions like Red Steel 2, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell, Metro 2033, Bioshock 2... do this day it remains the year where I bought more games than any other.

Ultimately, I have to go with Xenoblade, but hot damn we had it good back then.

Decent year from my POV.

Fallout: New Vegas gave me hope that there will still be Fallout games that resemble the originals - though I find it to lack some of what made the FO1/2 great, it was much better Fallout than FO3.

Red Dead Redemption was both a treat and somewhat of a disappointment - as someone who grew up with Spaghetti westerns, I was over the moon with its world. But it retained the same GTA structure, which was already long in the tooth at that point  - so I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would.

Fable III was decent, but nothing extraordinary.

Mafia II was good, but for some reason, for me at least, it lacked the atmosphere I loved about the original.

SMG2 was quite good, but I didn't get sucked in as much as with the first one.

Darksiders was surprise for me - a lot of Zelda-alike gameplay, but I didn't care much for its setting (much preferred Darksiders II setting later on).

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was something that was fun to play - not the best game, but with a lot of charm.

Alpha Protocol was RPG I was looking forward to - it had similarities in gameplay with VtM: Bloodlines, but spy setting is not something I care about at all.

Costume Quest was a fun and cute Western JRPG.

Two Worlds II was a drop of water for the fantasy WRPG thirsty - it was at best a decent game, but it had a very interesting magic system that lets you create your own spells combining different "cards" to achieve a desired effect.

Heavy Rain was a fairly fresh experience that I somewhat enjoyed, but for me, as someone who still prefers their first game (Omikron: Nomad Soul) than anything that they've done after, proof that David Cage is sliding more and more toward "film director" role instead of game designer. Maybe Star Wars Eclipse will be back to roots for them (at least somewhat, from the very slim info there is about the game), which means (semi) open-world action-adventure.

Metro 2033 - I really liked this one. It was a combination of stealth, survival horror and FPS, with really great atmosphere. Good sequels as well, though they lost some (or even most) of that survival horror feel.

Mass Effect 2 was something that I didn't care much about at the time - ME1 was already weaker than KOTOR for me, and ME2 turning into more action than RPG game is not something that I really appreciated. I will have to revisit it at some point to see what I think of it from this perspective.

Xenoblade Chronicles is something I never played, but watched my older son play (he really liked it) - not my cup of tea, both gameplay and stylistic wise, but I can see why people like it.

Kirby Epic Yarn was such a charming and relaxing game, with gorgeous art.

Last, but not least, given it's my favourite game from that year, is LIMBO. Puzzle platformers were something I always liked throughout the decades I've been gaming, so with its great art style and brilliant atmosphere, it immediately got my attention. Quite short, but such a delight.

I'll be abstaining in this poll as well, since I don't really see an obvious winner, nin addition to my time with some of the potential candidates being too limited.