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Eurogamer’ Rob Fahey posted a grat examination of DRM, with a bit of critics over the recent Riccitiello’s outing about it

Today the list was closed with the last 10 spots. There are a lot of foreseeable games, even if the seventh spot for Halo 3, with all those heavy (but true) critics, is a bit unexplainable (I would have placed it in the 20-30 leg).

Mass Effect was another so and so game that made in the top 10. Not really up to par with their past titles, especially for the countless glitches, with or without the huge marketing efforts from Microsoft. I guess that Mass Effect and Halo 3 really showed the true power of X360: lower than promised.

Thank God Crackdown made 4! That was a really good, original and fun game.

Portal at number 1 is not a surprise, it’s a tribute to emo-gamers that overrated too much a nice tech demo. It would’ve been in the top 5 in my list. A clever idea based on something that even the first 3D portal engines in the 90s could do. But not in the first position. Not unless the 2 hours I spent on it came free.

Please take note on the seemengly casual statements that assert that games don’t have to be longeve. Of course, they don’t have to be too long for their pace (Doom 3, Quake 4, Half Life 2, any Halo, just to remain in shooters), longevity is another matter. It’s months that these generic assumptions are made by GI professionals. Prepare to see a lot of “masterpieces” compressed on less than 5 hours for €60. Prepare to see lots of paid add-ons to reach and ensure that “overrated” longevity (or just for economic justice, I guess it depends if you pay or not the game you play).

I’m waiting to see how many games unable to deliver a story because they are too short to provide both narration and gameplay will be defended by gamers as pure works of genius.