My Top Ten Games of 2005 list started on a whim on a bleak afternoon on January 3, 2006. I thought, hey, I like to write and I sure have played a ton of games so I might as well contribute to the gaming society by writing a top ten list. Yeah, that would be fun. I also like ranting about nothing, so I’ll just make every article a few pages long, with most of the text not even directly relating to the game at hand. So, I did. And it took me over thirty-two days before I was finally even able to write all of the ten articles for this “list.” I received a number of flaming comments for the number of delays I took over the course of writing this list as well as a nice share of friendly comments. And now, at 11:54pm on February 4, 2006, I bring to you a nice summary of the top ten games of 2005 according to me, Trent Polack.

I was going to write a paragraph for each of the games in this list, but a combination of laziness and … Well, mostly the laziness just advised me to make an actual concise list of all the games I wrote about. Click the title of the game to go to the far, far longer article.

• #10 — Dragon Quest VIII (PS2)
• #9 — Battlefield 2 (PC)
• #8 — Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Nintendo DS)
• #7 — Psychonauts (PC, Xbox, PS2)
• #6 — F.E.A.R. (PC)
• #5 — Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS)
• #4 — Guild Wars (PC)
• #3 — God of War (PS2)
• #2 — Civilization 4 (PC)
• #1 — Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, PS2)

And there you have it.