User blog comment:Lancer1289/Defining a Decade/@comment-1596833-20101124042257/@comment-217683-20101124054413

I think the language being referred to is contained in the first line, second sentence of Hunter Zealot's comment.

As for Shepard... well, your reason for why Shep shouldn't be on the list is pretty much the exact reason Gameinformer gave for putting Shepard on the list. The amount of influence the character has on the Commander's actions, and the seamless integration of whatever choices you do make into the game. The level of plot control afforded to players through Shepard was one of the high points of video games in the last decade, after all, which is why so many games seek to emulate it.