The Games are Evil Game of the Year Awards

Since no one wanted to participate in the Reader’s Choice Game of the Year awards (*glaring at all of you*), I’ve hijacked the EvilCast’s GOTY awards from episode #61 and have declared them in my somewhat official capacity as a director (or something like that) to be the Games are Evil official GOTY awards.

If you haven’t listened to the podcast yet, Ross was in charge of collecting the nominations and declaring the top ten games of the year. All four of us submitted–in secret–our personal top ten games for 2010, and then calculated our collective top ten by assigning points to all of the ranks. (Number one game received 10 points, number 2 received 9 points, etc.)

Now if you have listened to the podcast, you already know what won, but here is the final tally anyway, along with our individual ballots. Get ready to prep your hatred for our decisions below…

Ross Polly’s Top Ten

1) Assassin’s Creed 2
2) Red Dead Redemption
3) Mass Effect 2
4) Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
5) World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
6) StarCraft 2
7) Call of Duty: Black Ops
8) Civilization 5
9) Heavy Rain
10) Dragon Quest IX

Blake Grundman’s Top Ten

1) Red Dead Redemption
2) MLB 10: The Show
3) Mass Effect 2
4) Halo: Reach
5) Heavy Rain
6) Pinball FX2
7) Super Mario Galaxy 2
8) Rock Band 3
9) LIMBO
10) Call of Duty: Black Ops

Chris Nitz’s Top Ten

1) Bayonetta
2) Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
3) Civilization 5
4) Starcraft II
5) 3D Dot Game Heroes
6. Super Street Fighter IV
7. Valkyria Chronicles 2
8. Dragon Quest IX
9. Heavy Rain
10. Halo: Reach

Keri Honea’s Top Ten

Aaaaaand drumroll please…

The Official Games are Evil Top Ten Games of the Year

1) Red Dead Redemption
2) Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
3) Heavy Rain
4) Bayonetta
5) Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
6) Mass Effect 2
7) Starcraft 2
8) Civilization V
9) MBL 11: the Show
10) Halo Reach

So hey, we agreed with Spike’s VGA awards for the number one game of the year! Maybe that means RDR really is the best game to come out this year? Either that or we just all like riding horses and shooting things.

Thank you 2010 for a great year of great games!

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