Or you could just say bullshit to the years revolving around religion and use a standard method of following time, which is that when you reset back to zero it becomes the new time period.

When it's 00:01 (24h clock) or 12:01am do you still think it is yesterday just because it isn't 1 o'clock yet?

Just because there wasn't a year 0 according to religion, doesn't mean there was not a year before year 1.... which means it is a perfectly valid decade ending at the end of year 9.

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Actually come to think of it, with recording years, there is no setting back, it is a continuous count upwards, thus the definition use of a Decade is just whichever is easiest to understand and use, that being the 40s, 50s, 60s etc.
(crossed out definition because a decade is any period of 10 years you like)

lol? I doubt you have played much Morrowind or Oblivion. U shuld give them a proper chance and u'd be convinced they're the game of the decade, with Fallout 3 not much behind.

I admit I wouldn't be able to make a complete and fair list though, no.

Two things:

1. Thanks to this thread, I'm buying Valkyria Chronicles TODAY.

2. The decade debate. Can we at least agree that it has been just about 10 years since January 1, 2000 and not worry about the beginning of the calendar? In that context, it's a decade. Period.

Yeah, I actually noticed.  I would have thought that they would have at least included Halo: Combat Evolved.  I guess not :(.

Valkyria Chronicles in the Top 10 is really questionable. It's basically saying he can't find one game each year that's better than Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Chronicles is the best game released in 2008.

I'm surprised to see Mother 3 on it. Now I need to find a way to play it.

No Eternal Darkness on the list is disappointing.

The list is extremely Japanese centric. There are some massive omissions from that list that I won't even bother to mention as any experienced gamer can see them. Of course since the majority of members on this website have a niche taste in games it will be praised but I disagree strongly with the list as it doesn't cover equally a wide enough spectrum of gaming.

It covers an extremely wide spectrum of gaming, and this is written by an American website.

I would personally have fit Combat Evolved and the original Gears in there somewhere, but looking at the games on that list, it would be difficult to decide which ones to take out. They are all, without a doubt, excellent games.

The whole list is shocking

No MGS4?

No Halo?

GTA revolutionized a genre, and so low? San Andreas lower then Left 4 Dead is shocking!

Only one game from each series could make the cut - I suppose they just liked MGS3 more than MGS4.

MGS3 is on the list. Many preferred it to MGS4. Especially Subsistence.

Halo is a fantastic game, yes, but look at that list, and tell me what it should replace.

Yes, San Andreas is a bit low, but being one of the THIRTY best games of the last ten years is quite an achievement.