1 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Strongly disagree
2 Batman: Arkham City Should be higher
3 Portal 2 Should be higher
4 Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Don’t own a PS3
5 Battlefield 3 Just no
6 Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Depends on your standards if you look for innovation this franchise shouldn’t even exist anymore
7 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Agree
8 Dark Souls Agree
9 L.A. Noire Agree and feel bad because it was practically made with slave labour
10 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 See Battlefield 3
Also, almost total lack of indie games and clear consolecentrism.
My list:
1) Portal 2 (no need to explain this one)
2) Mass Effect 2 (Best of the series, great writing, great involvement in the characters, worth replaying over and over again)
3) The Witcher 2 (Great RPG, very european sensibilities, no squeamish bullshit or sex with your clothes on. An uncompromisingly adult-targeted game)
4) Bulletstorm (By far the best shooter of the last few years. Fun, fresh, with a sense of humour about itself and not about some foreign country/terrorist group/PMC trying to take over the States, as if anyone would want to do that)
5) Arkham City (Ensemble cast, legendary writer with enough funds to back the story up)
6) Terraria (Like Minecraft only legitimately well designed and without the outlandish system requirements)
7) Catherine (Another good narrative where sex is treated as an organic part of the narrative rather than a 1 minute bonus scene if you wooed the lovely lady enough)
8) Deus Ex: HR (Very good gameplay, shitty boss fights, shitty ending. Still worth playing for the gameplay and feel alone)
9) L.A. Noire (Very good idea, hampered by the limitations of digitalizing actors. Enaging in its own way)
10) Bastion (Great gameplay, masterful use of a dynamically generated narrator)