LogFAQs > #939197438

No year that produced Xenoblade Chronicles, Dragon's Dogma, Gravity Rush, and Spec Ops: The Line (thanks for mentioning it!) should ever be considered a bad year.

P4G, VLR, Journey, and ME3 were also pretty good.

I've always been a qualty over quantity type, though. Some of those are among my absolute favorite games of the whole decade, all in the same year. To me that is better than having a dozen "decent" games.

And Xenoblade doesn't get nearly enough respect. Its seeding was blatantly low, as shown in how it did. Its problem is Nintendo's F'd up every single attemp to bring it to North America until now. First the die hards had to petition for it for over a year only for it to get a limited run GS-only release. Then exclusive to the "new" 3DS that almost no one had. Then on the Wii VC on Wii U, which would've been great....if people owned Wii U's (I did my part....).
Amazingly it took a whole decade for it to get an actual widely available release, as it will in 2 weeks. Probably at least 1/2 of the people voting for it never would've even known of the game if Shulk hadn't made it into Smash.