Metacritic´s 20 Best Original Games of the 21st Century

Metacrtic:

We rank the highest-scoring "original" games (that aren't sequels or remakes or based on existing IP) released since January 1, 2000.

[Obscure_Observer]

YES!!!

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

Okami and Bioschock were truly amazing. Great memories of God of War and Perfect Dark as well, shame that these kind of games are so rare to be released nowadays

[LoveSpuds]

I have owned Okami on PS4 for yonks and never got around to playing, to my shame, it's sat in my backlog getting constantly overlooked.

Maybe it's time to pop that disk out of it's box🤔

[Bathyj]

Notice something about most of these games it's something I've mentioned many times before. Single player or at least very heavily single player focused.

[robtion]

True. That's because SP is better than MP.

[gamerz]

Fifteen of these games I agree are objectively great, but also personally didn't particularly enjoy. Just goes to show while review scores are very important, they don't paint the whole picture when in comes to individual taste in art.

[robtion]

True. I would like to see a list but ranked by user scores which hold more weight than critic scores for me. I find I enjoy a lot of games and movies that critics don't enjoy.

[Zodiac]

Does "existing IP" mean not using any already established characters from even other IP? Is Kingdom Hearts comparable with Final Fantasy?

[Chocoburger]

I've purchased 15 out of those 20 games. Not bad.

[jznrpg]

Half of these games I wouldn’t put on any top 20 list. Not that they’re bad games but some just scored well at the time but can’t compare to other games in the same genre or just aren’t as good as they were reviewed (imo of course)

[badboyz09]

okami my #1

[Michiel1989]

i mean it's total bullshit because Ni No Kuni ain't on there

[coolbeans]

Red Dead Redemption feels like cheating imo.

[Prayingathiest]

Some great games on that list just wish vagrant story was on there what a brilliant RPG it was

[anast]

Do a user score one.