Best [and Worst] of the Past Decade

[A Black Falcon]

Hmm, a short Best of the '00 Decade...

Only listing games that I've actually played...

Good
-Warcraft III
-Guild Wars and its expansions
-Eternal Darkness
-Fire Emblem games finally released in the US, and are exceptional
-Sony's PS3 strategy (what? I liked that they failed miserably! :D)
-Baldur's Gate II
-Neverwinter Nights 2 and expansions (esp. Mask of the Betrayer)
-Metroid Prime
-Capcom vs SNK 2
-Sting - Riviera and Knights in the Nightmare
-XGRA for being the most fun racing game of the 6th generation and F-Zero GX for being the one that would have been if it wasn't so incredibly hard and frustrating
-Panzer Dragoon Orta
-Zelda: Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (after playing them, see below)
-Skies of Arcadia
-Lots of other great games, might try listing more later (games I liked by platform or something? I don't know)
-WoW (I only played it for a few weeks during beta, but it's obviously great. I just don't like monthly fees...)
-San Franciso Rush 2049 (still the best racing game ever, N64/DC release in late 2000)
-Greyhawk: Temple of Elemental Evil (most accurate implementation of the D&D rules in a game ever)

Bad
-The collapse of high budget PC exclusive gaming
-Nintendo ripping people off (and profiting handsomely) by pricing the Wii at $250 to start

Disappointing
-Mario Sunshine (good game, but disappointing as a followup to one of the best games ever)
-Beyond Good & Evil (if you recall our many arguments about this one... :))
-Super Monkey Ball 2 - for erasing my main GC memory card
-Paper Mario 2 (the first one was great, somehow I didn't like the second as much)
-Zelda: Wind Waker (before I actually played it, and the triforce shard collection quest) and Twilight Princess (before I finally managed to get over how much I dislike some things about the plot, how much I hate fishing, and how linear it is early on and got past the second dungeon)
-Zelda Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks (good, fun games, but with lots of problems. They just aren't as great as the other Zelda games. PH has a horrible story too.)
-Mario Kart Double Dash - perhaps the worst Mario Kart game

--Jedi Academy (sequel to Jedi Ouctast, which is sequel to Jedi Knight, which is sequel to Dark Forces... so, Dark Forces IV.)

JO and JA were both so, so mediocre compared to JKII... not that I expected much better though, coming from Raven instead of Lucasarts (since LA had destroyed most of its internal development teams by that point).

Perfect Dark, RtCW, Half-Life 2 - Yeah, good games. Three of the best FPSes of the decade. I liked Tribes: Vengeance quite a bit too (not quite at a HL2 or PD level, but it was pretty good), but I was one of the only ones evidently...