D-Pad's Top Games of the Year 2005

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Most popular video games of 2005 - Glitchwave

The most popular games of 2005, as voted by RYM users.
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Prior Winners:

2000 Top 10



1. Deus Ex
2. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
3. Final Fantasy IX
4. Perfect Dark
5. Skies of Arcadia
6. Resident Evil: Code Veronica
7. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
8. Jet Set/Grind Radio
9. Phantasy Star Online/Diablo II
10. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2




2001 Top 10




1. Halo: Combat Evolved
2. Grand Theft Auto III
3. Max Payne
4. Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
5. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
6. Final Fantasy X
7. Silent Hill 2
8. Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
9. Twisted Metal: Black
10. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3



2002 Top 10



1. Metroid Prime
2. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
3. Tie: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos & The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
4. Metroid Fusion
5. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
6. SoulCalibur II
7. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
8. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
9. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
10. Spider-Man


2003 Top 10


1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
2. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
3. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
4. The Simpsons: Hit & Run
5. Mario Kart: Double Dash
6. Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
7. Tie - SoulCalibur II & Deus Ex: Invisible War & F-Zero GX
8. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
9. Tie - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory & Freelancer & Project Gotham Racing 2
10. Tie - Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner/Anubis Zone of the Enders & EVE Online & Fatal Frame II

2004 Top 10

1. Halo 2
2. Half-Life 2
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
4. Doom 3
5. Dragon Quest VIII
6. Knights of the Old Republic II
7. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
8. Vampire: The Masqeurade - Bloodlines
9. World of Warcraft
10. Tie - The Guy Game & Cave Story
 
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  1. Destroy All Humans!
  2. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
  3. Resident Evil 4
  4. Jade Empire
  5. Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  6. Mario Kart DS
  7. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
  8. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
  9. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
  10. Worms 4: Mayhem
 
Resident Evil 4
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
F.E.A.R.
Burnout: Revenge
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
God of War
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Call of Duty 2
 
That was quick

1. Resident Evil 4
2. Quake 4
3. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
4. Ratchet: Deadlocked
5. Call of Duty 2
6. Mario Kart DS
7. Tekken 5
8. Shadow of Rome
9. Shadow of the Colossus
10. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Honorable mentions: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, God of War, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, GTA: Liberty City Stories, F.E.A.R., Age of Empires III, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Devil May Cry: Dante's Awakening, Star Fox Assault, Lego Star Wars
 
1) RE4 (by a country mile and probably the game of the generation)

2) Killer 7

3) Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Another down year looking back but RE4 single handily made it a great year.
 
1 lego star wars
2 mario kart ds
3 civ4
4 advanced wars duel strike
5 donkey kong jungle beat



ps: I didn't know there was a gauntlet game that came out in 2005 is it good?
 
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Explosive Zombie said:
You guys need to play more games
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I played a lot of games back then but looking back theres only a few titles I would go back and play again.

To go on a mini rant, I kind of think that having long lists of top games/movies/albums etc for a year doesn't make sense. There's top 50 albums of the year lists every year. 50 albums seems silly, that's basically an album a week. How are you going to listen and take in an album every week for the year? How many of those albums are going to be in your rotation going forward? Same thing with the Oscars, when the best picture category was 4-5 movies, it felt like you could actually watch all the films and they would all be pretty strong. Now it's 10+ films a year and some of them you wonder why it got nominated for best picture. I feel it's the same thing with gaming. I'll play a lot of titles in any given year but at the end I feel there's only a few that I'll mention that stand out from everything else.
 
Rock And Roll said:
I played a lot of games back then but looking back theres only a few titles I would go back and play again.

To go on a mini rant, I kind of think that having long lists of top games/movies/albums etc for a year doesn't make sense. There's top 50 albums of the year lists every year. 50 albums seems silly, that's basically an album a week. How are you going to listen and take in an album every week for the year? How many of those albums are going to be in your rotation going forward? Same thing with the Oscars, when the best picture category was 4-5 movies, it felt like you could actually watch all the films and they would all be pretty strong. Now it's 10+ films a year and some of them you wonder why it got nominated for best picture. I feel it's the same thing with gaming. I'll play a lot of titles in any given year but at the end I feel there's only a few that I'll mention that stand out from everything else.
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Here's my top 100 albums of 2020...

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Rock And Roll said:
I played a lot of games back then but looking back theres only a few titles I would go back and play again.

To go on a mini rant, I kind of think that having long lists of top games/movies/albums etc for a year doesn't make sense. There's top 50 albums of the year lists every year. 50 albums seems silly, that's basically an album a week. How are you going to listen and take in an album every week for the year? How many of those albums are going to be in your rotation going forward? Same thing with the Oscars, when the best picture category was 4-5 movies, it felt like you could actually watch all the films and they would all be pretty strong. Now it's 10+ films a year and some of them you wonder why it got nominated for best picture. I feel it's the same thing with gaming. I'll play a lot of titles in any given year but at the end I feel there's only a few that I'll mention that stand out from everything else.
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You can make top 50 albums for every year from 50s to 70s and they will all sound great today and have historic significance. Modern albums though? Loads of crap mostly, serving split niche audiences. With gaming I think it's similar. Late 80s to early 2010 are formative years where all important games were made. Right now we have tons of indies imitating old games, remasters of same old games and a dying AAA industry. We are revisiting these games constantly one way or the other, might as well rate them.
 
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Killer 7 shattered my 14 year old mind in 2005. Maybe the first surreal work of art I'd ever been exposed to. I bought that and RE4 at launch. It was quite the experience as a GameCube devotee
 
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Resident Evil 4
Civilization 4
Jade Empire
God of War
F.E.A.R
Psychonauts
Age of Empires 3

Resident Evil 4 - Perfection
Civilization 4 - One more turn.
Jade Empire needs a remaster and a sequel and or a amazing spiritual successor. Incredible for what it was, and a full realized version would have beaten out Resident Evil 4 as the generational game. Alas just a footnote before Biowares downfall.
God of War - Brutal and action packed, yet still different from its sequels.
F.E.A.R - Jump scares done right. Story is pretty messed up but good. Heard the expansions are way better than the actual sequels.
Psychonauts - Some of the most mind bending levels ever put into a game.
Age of Empires 3 is better then at first glance with hindsight though it still had the gigantic boots of 2 to fill. I've avoided the "modernized" remaster.
 
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Naruto: Gekito Ninja Taisen! 4
Harvest Moon DS
Resident Evil 4
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Mario Kart DS
Killer7
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Chibi-Robo!
Twisted Metal: Head On
 
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Killer7
Re4
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Oddworld Strangers Wrath
Star Wars Republic Commando
Devil May Cry 3
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Kirby Canvas Curse
Meteos
 
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1 Resident Evil 4
2 Guitar Hero
3 Battlefield 2
4 WarioWare: Touched!
5 Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
6 Shadow of the colossus
7 God of War
8 Mario Kart DS
9 Psychonauts
10 Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
 
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Also the greatest stealth game ever made.
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HariSeldon said:
I feel like there's a theme in there. Wouldn't hurt to try some other genres ;)
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Hey, don't just call it all Metal, it's Black Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Power Metal, Grindcore, Goregrind, Post-Metal, Folk Metal, Avant Garde Metal, Dark Ambient, Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal, Sludge Metal as well as sub-genres of those... like within Doom you'll get Death Doom Metal, Funeral Doom Metal and Traditional Doom Metal.
 
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@Explosive Zombie

Eternity of Shaog really is such an underrated banger of an album. Probably right up there on my top 5 "new classic" metal albums of recent memory

Like that, and...

Endless Wound by Black Curse
The Outer Ones by Revocation
Hidden History of the Human Race by Blood Incantation
Inevitability by Morgue Supplier

Just those albums which smack you upside the head immediately and you know you're in for a treat.

So much great modern stuff these days, man. Shit shreds.

Will never cease to amaze me how so many non-metalheads conflate the subgenres as badly as they do. Or labelling it all as "screamo" 😂
 
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1. Resident Evil 4
2. COD 2
3. FEAR 1
4. God of War
5. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
6. Condemned: Criminal Origins
7. Quake 4
9. Kingdom Heart 2
10. We love Katamari
 
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I'd just like to add Civilization 4 to my list, despite not having played it. But I feel it deserves a spot for giving us the most AWESOME opening song I've heard in a videogame.

 
The Warriors
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Shadow of the Colossus
God of War
Resident Evil 4
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Burnout Revenge
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Conker: Live & Reloaded
 
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Project Gotham Racing 3
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Forza Motorsport
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Serious Sam II
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Pariah
 
Final Results:

1. Resident Evil 4
2. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
3. Killer 7
4. Tie - Naruto: Gekito Ninja Taisen! 4 & Destroy All Humans & The Warriors
5. Jade Empire
6. God of War
7. Tie - F.E.A.R. & Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
8. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
9. Call of Duty 2
10. Mario Kart DS
 
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