Your Top 10 Games of this Generation?

[AlbertoDeSanta]

I shall try.

1. Minecraft
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Fallout 3
4. Oblivion
5. Dishonored
6. Okami (re-release on Wii Loophole)
7. The Walking Dead
8. Pokemon White
9. Bastion
10. Left for Dead 2

These games have stood out for me. Either by their sheer brilliance, my desire to play them or their addictive nature.

Honorable Mentions:
Portal 2
Every Other Pokemon Game Released this gen
Fallout: New Vegas
Half-Life 2 (And it's episodes)
The Binding of Isaac

 

[Casual Shinji]

The thing is, there've been a lot of games this generation that I initially loved, but that have fallen out of grace over the years.

In random order:

Portal
Dark Souls
Journey
Pixel Junk Shooter
Mass Effect 2 (despite ruining the plot)
inFamous 2
Fallout New Vegas
Rayman Origins

That's all I can come up with right now. I'm tempted to include Uncharted 2, but I'm growning a bit down on that franchise as time goes on.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Call of Duty 4
Portal (I can never decide between the 2)
Oblivion
Bastion
Pokémon B/W2 (frankly, if I could put more than one pokemon game on here, that would be most of the list)
Mass Effect 2
Minecraft
Bioshock Infinite
The World Ends With You.
Dark Souls.

I guess that's about right, I'm sure I've forgotten something big though, will edit as it hits me.

Oh, and I Hope fire emblem awakening makes it onto the list, but it's STILL not out here. 3 more days.

 

[ShakalakaNoire]

1. Driver San Francisco (2011)
2. Team Fortress 2 (2006)
3. Just Cause 2 (2010)
4. Saints Row 2 (2008)
5. Portal 2 (2011)
6. Red Dead Redemption (2010)
7. Bioshock Infinite (2013)
8. XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)
9. Resident Evil 5 (2009)
10. Vanquish (2010)

Honorable Mentions: Pokemon Black/White 2 (2012), Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011), Hitman Absolution (2012), Rayman Origins (2011) and inFAMOUS 2 (2011)
I might put in my reasons later...

 

[Vetta E-dom]

My top 10 is pretty much just the good polished AAA titles for the 360 or cross platform, Halo, Battlefield 3, Deus Ex, Foreza, Mass Effect, etc etc .... So instead

Multiplayer that was great-

Spoiler

-Battlefield 3: Chaotic, fast paced, huge scale, varied Play styles
-Halo 4: New studio, really polished, pacing is a bit faster which I liked- Friends in Dev.
-Mass Effect 3: Great series, the servers seem a bit empty but really well done
-Forza
- Newer Pokemon titles Black/White and newer: Trading and such sooo much easier

Multiplayer that was bad-

Spoiler

-Counter Strike
-Brink: Love the concept art and such- Lots of friends worked on the character design etc
-Far Cry 3: some nice unique ideas but a bit clunky

Single Player-

Spoiler

-Deus Ex
-L.A. Noir
-Assassins Creed
-Mass Effect 3
-Forza
-Fallout 3
-Alpha Protocol :it has its issues but $4 that insane its well worth a play
-Bioshock series
-Just Cause 2

Best World Building/Art Direction

Spoiler

-Mirrors Edge
-Deus Ex
-L.A. Noir
-Bioshock
-The Saboteur
-Remember Me - Not out but the art direction looks great

Open World-

Spoiler

-Far Cry 3
-Just Cause 2
-Fallout 3
-Saints row 2
-Assassins Creed

Games on the list to buy

Spoiler

-Dishonored
-Sleeping Dogs
-Remember Me
-Bio Infinite
-Xcom

The list is pretty long but these are at the top

Others

Spoiler

-Harvest Moon : Me and the GF play this non stop together
-Lego Harry Potter/ Any Again Me and the GF play this and its some of the most fun I've had
-Final Fantasy Tactics A2
-RockSmith

 

[WhyWasThat]

Hmmm... I'm seeing a lot of Valkyria Chronicles here. Surprising. Perhaps I should give that game a look if it's really as good as people are claiming.

 

[CAMDAWG]

Not sure if a mod makes it count but whatever. Just glad to see someone else still enjoy this excellent game. ^_^

And don't get 5. It is crap. 1 unit per tile, extremely dumbed down diplomacy, laggy, buggy, many civs kept separate to be sold as DLC not in expansions.

WHAT?! I can see why they would try to limit, for realism, but 1 unit? At least make it two at a time so I can set up a defensive wall and strike through it, I'd even pull back the striking unit after hitting once. The civs as dlc thing is bad enough, though. How come FPS players didn't put up with that crap when their guns were being sold as dlc, but we're willing to put up with it with our player choices? Finally, the diplomacy is Civ 4 is already plenty dumb, how'd they make it even simpler?

I didn't really mind the one unit per tile rule so much. It was a new-ish direction, and I'm glad they at least tried it out. Just for clarification, you're allowed only one unit of a certain type per tile. Eg, you can only have one military unit on a tile, but you can put workers/settlers/other non-combat guys underneath. In the next installment, I'd like to see them strike a balance between this limit, and the stacks of doom from civ 4. Perhaps a system in which each unit has some sort of "size" value, and you have a limit on that? So you could stack a large number of, say, infantry on a single tile, but only a few tanks/giant death robots.

On the DLC civs, yeah, I was a bit grumpy about that, but a lot were added with the gods and kings pack, and were created to give bonuses for the new features in G&K.

OT:

1. Dark souls (criminally overshadowed around launch time by skyrim, which I consider to be greatly inferior)
2. Witcher 2
3. Demon's souls
4. Most of ME3
5. Dragon's dogma
6. Infamous 2
7. Borderlands 2
8. Portal 2.
9. MGS3 (not really this gen, but I didn't play it until the hd collection. I wish I had've played it on ps2)
10. FTL.

While there are plenty of games that I played more, and possibly enjoyed more than FTL, I think that as the foremost crowd-funded game we've seen, it represents an exciting new realm of game production, and thus deserves a spot on the list

 

[plugav]

I can name six.

Two most important games:
1. Mass Effect series (ME2 being my favourite)
2. The Walking Dead

Two most underrated games:
3. Dragon Age 2
4. The Secret World

Two most elegant games:
5. Bastion
6. Portal

I've played and liked other stuff, but I don't really have strong feelings about it.

 

[Razentsu]

One game per series.

• 
  1. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
  2. Mass Effect 2
  3. Katawa Shoujo
  4. No More Heroes
  5. Dark Souls
  6. Guild Wars 2
  7. Monster Hunter Tri
  8. Bayonetta
  9. Saints Row 2
  10. Pokemon Black/White

There are so many other games I want to list, though. T_T

 

[LiquidGrape]

I like this idea of distributing them into categories.

Spoiler: Award for ridiculously stylish innovation

Mirror's Edge

Spoiler: Award for successfully reviving a dead franchise

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Spoiler: Award for being a considerable improvement of a considerably inferior predecessor

Dragon Age 2

Spoiler: Award for making me sob like a child

The Walking Dead

Spoiler: Award for being a deceptive timesink

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Spoiler: Award for making me sob like an adult

Dark Souls

Spoiler: Award for invoking Syd Mead in all the right ways

Mass Effect

Spoiler: Award for saying what I've been saying all along

Spec Ops: The Line

Spoiler: Award for best skin-tight leotards

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition

Spoiler: Award for guilty power-fantasy trip

Saints Row 2

 

[fenrizz]

1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Portal
4. Fallout 3
5. Just Cause 2
6. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
7. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
8. New Super Mario Bros Wii
9. Little Big Planet
10. LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

 

[franticfarken]

I don't know if these games are listed in "this generation" or not but i'm just having a crack at fairly "recentish" games.

1) Call of duty 4.
2) Battlefield 2.
3) Crysis.
4) Just Cause 2.
5) Portal.
6) Katawa Shoujo.
7) Starcraft 2.
8) Mount and blade Warband.
9) Medieval 2 total war.

And ABOVE ALL ELSE
DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme 2!

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/735/735787/dead-or-alive-xtreme-2-20060927014205454.jpg

 

[havoc33]

Difficult, since I've yet to play some games that I'm quite sure belong in my top 10. But anyways, here goes:

1) Skyrim
2) Mass Effect 2
3) L.A. Noire
4) Yakuza 3
5) GTA IV
6) NBA 2K11
7) Super Mario Galaxy
8) Portal
9) Uncharted 2
10) Heavy Rain

 

[joest01]

Demons Souls
Arkham Asylum
Metroid Prime Corruption
Shank1 (Hard Mode)
Valkyria Chronicles
No More Heroes
Mirror's Edge
Raymans Origins

That's 8. Let me add two that are actually too recent and still need time to settle.
Bioshock Infinite (in terms of FPS I can see time sending it back behind FarCry2)
Guacamelee (not even finished yet and Shank and Rayman cast mighty shadows but I defnitely enjoy this!)

Not on the list but most time spent: White Knight Chronicles, Persona4

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

(Numbers are just for show... the orrder doesn't really matter!)
1. Skyrim (Yeah, I know... but what you gunna do!)
2. Enslaved: Oddessy to the West
3. Farcry 3
4. Final Fantasy Tactics: A2
5. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Much better than the real world Assault Horizon!!)
6. Batman Arkham XXXX (Both of 'em!)
7. Professor Layton (All of 'em!)
8. Dragon Age: Origins
9. Borderlands 2
10. Resonance of Fate (Possibly one of the coolest looking games to date... seriously... watch some HD videos! Those moves are ace, and the characters look awesome! Also an engrossing, albeit complicated, fighting system, which is so satisfying when you make a complicated tactical plan that works! Although it is the only game I know where you have to spend quite a bit of time in the training school if you don't want your arse handed to you every 5 mins!)

 

[Andy Shandy]

In no particular oder

Spec Ops: The Line
Bayonetta
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Mass Effect 2
Bioshock Infinite
Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise
Mirror's Edge
The Walking Dead
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Bastion

Not going to bother with an honourable mentions list because then I'd be here for years.

 

[The_Echo]

This isn't in any particular order. I can't rank them effectively. (For example, I could put Sly 4 at #1 for its nostalgia, or the KH games because I'm a fanboy, or Journey for its emotional impact.)

1. Journey
2. The Walking Dead
3. Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
4. Pokémon Black/White Version 2
5. Dark Souls
6. BioShock Infinite
7. Borderlands 2
8. Darksiders II
9. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
10. The World Ends with You

This generation's been very good, and there are so many other games I've loved (or will love, as I haven't played them yet), I wouldn't consider this list anything more than what I thought of first.

 

[Bat Vader]

I have played so many good games this generation that picking just 10 is going to be difficult. Here it goes.

1. Dragon Age: Origins: One of my favorite fantasy RPGs.
2. Mass Effect Trilogy: It would be number one but I like fantasy just a bit more than Sci-Fi.
3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution: The music is one of the things I love about this game the most as well as the characters.
4. The Witcher 2: Excellent game.
5. Dishonored: I love the art style and the characters as well as the choices you have.
6. Alpha Protocol: One of my favorite modern day RPGs of all time. There needs to be a sequel.
7. The Walking Dead: Great game. one of my favorites.
8. Crusader Kings II: Made better with the Game of Thrones mod.
9. Max Payne: Great and fun game. Absolutely loved the story and the conclusion.
10. Guild Wars 2: One of my favorite MMO's.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Vaguely in order, in the sense that the ones that spring to mind first are generally the ones I like best. Plus I'm gonna conflate some franchises into one entry because... I can?

- Bioshock + Bioshock: Infinite
- Portal/Portal 2
- The Walking Dead (the good one, obviously)
- Skyrim
- Minecraft
- Dark Souls
- Dead Space 1 + 2
- Call of Duty 4, as much as it pains me to say given what the franchise has become...
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Far Cry 3