Top x Games of Last Gen

tiburon · Joined: 26 Sep 2012

http://www.ign.com/top/games-of-a-generation

this is a really shit list. you can do better!

- Must be during the 360/ps3/wii era. PC games should also fall within this era
- backwards-compatible games and remakes from previous generations don't count, unless they bring something new to the table. use your judgment
- have fun!
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Felix · Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 5:37 pm

nooooooo list thread

here's mine, in no order, because I actually have my own lists kicking around:

Red Dead
Civ IV (this is close between PS2-gen and 360-gen) *
Verdict Day
Meat Boy
Trine 2
Sanic Kart 2 *
FIFA 12
La Mulana *
Rockman 4 MI
Meteos (DS is that gen, right?)
Puyo Pop Fever / 20th Anniversary
S&P2
New XCom
Magicka
Diablo 3 Console
Witcher 2 *
Mass Effect 3
Fight Night Champion
Wii Sports (Resort)
New SSX
Bangai-O Spirits
Anarchy Reigns
Afterburner Climax
Wipeout HD
Sonic Generations
HookChamp
Revengeance
Red Faction Guerrilla
Saints Row 4
Modern Warfare
Trauma Centre
Grow Cube/RPG/Valley/Island/Tower
Knytt Stories
Gears *
Dog Days
Vanquish
Portal *
Geometry Wars
Everyday Shooter
Auditorium
Spelunky *
QWOP
Valkyria Chronicles 2
Angry Birds
Demon's Souls *
Dark Souls *
Flower
Journey
3D Bionic Commando
Uncharted 2
Murderdad
Nimbus
Trials Evolution *
Rock of Ages
English Country Tune
Hotline Miami
FTL
Papers Please

that's 58 titles. that's probably too many? I went and added an asterisk to the ones I think are actually top of the tops

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 6:13 pm

mushihimesama futari
eschatos
dodonpachi ressurection/dai-fukkatsu
akai katana
king of fighters xiii
fist of the north star: ken's rage
saints row 2-4
fallout 3
might and magic clash of heroes
virtua fighter 5
virtua fighter 5: final showdown
gigantic army
armed seven
reccettear
tokyo jungle
earth defence force 2017 (i haven't played 2025 yet)
afterburner climax
radiant silvergun (justification: playing with ikaruga scoring, a feature that was only added for the hd remake, improves the game significantly)
chieri no doki doki yukemuri burari tabi
minecraft

if we're counting the original ds, i'll do a list for that later.
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Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

I dunno

Crusader Kings 2
Souls series of games
Crackdown
Fallout New Vegas
Portal
Waking Mars
Nidhogg
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Knytt Stories

that pretty much covers it

There are gaps there moreso from not having played the games in those gaps (though I didn't like Papers Please).
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tacotaskforce · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Logical, Practical

Terraria is a good game.

Yeah I guess I just don't have any passion for this shit anymore.
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CONSUME_PRODUCTS · Joined: 29 Jan 2012

demon's souls
dark souls
dog days
nier

idk, bad generation

Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

Not a great one, and of course the all ambitious-if-cheaply-produced PC and smartphone stuff makes the borders of 'last/current gen' a bit fuzzier

Top of head:

Knytt Stories as urindieplatformspiel, still into what it did a lot
Portal was tight
Gears 3 multi was lot of fun for several months but the solo in all of them was rarely above irritating and/or bloated
For raw time on the the internal clock I have to endorse Dork Souls
Echochrome
Modern Warfare is sort of vital to the discourse, for good or ill

I don't think any single title has been as interesting as the noise

dementia · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

some cool 360 games I always see get overlooked are Strania and Culdcept Saga.

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

I'd like to hear defenses of DDP DFK and Strania. DFK is my least favorite DDP.

If Felix is putting Rockman 4 Minus Infinity on a list (heck yeah!) then I get to put Gunlord (NeoGeo, Dreamcast). It's probably the best last Dreamcast game since...Under Defeat? Sturmwind gets an honorable mention for being delayed for god damn years and coming out and actually be suprisingly good.Mode

At this point most people know my love for Deathsmiles, Dog Days, Nier, Red Dead Redemption. 2010 was a heck yeah of a year for games.

Tim and company made a heck of a thing with Ziggurat.

Modern Warfare 1 and 2 for FP Shootmans.

Yakuza series in general for being the most pleasant time sinkers. Very rarely felt annoyed at how much of my time they wasted due to the small world size.

FF Type Zero and Resonance of Fate aren't games I've spent a whole lot of time on but think about a whole lot as great JRPGs.

I'm not sure I could put Sin and Punishment 2 on a list of the best as much as I want to. I certainly wouldn't put any of Nintendo's Wii output.
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Felix · Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 12:31 am

Nier was a deliberate omission from mine (even though I really dig the visual novel and isometric dungeons and the visual design of the bosses and even if the Kobo Abe stuff it pulls out in its first and last hour hasn't much been seen this side of Mother 3 and even if this comes across as me lacking an appreciation for Weird Japanese Games it still bugged me too much that it was a C game when it could've been a fantastic B game). See also: El Shaddai.

ditto Resonance of Fate, it was definitely inspired and worth the look that I gave it but structurally it didn't quite get far enough past the repetitive jRPG treadmill

Ziggurat was not a deliberate omission, though, that totally should've been on mine.

I enjoyed the Yakuza 4(?) demo I tried from PSN recently a lot more than I expected to (insofar as it's just the combat) which made me want to give the series another shot after I was appalled at how un-Nagoshi-like the first PS2 title felt eight years ago, but I cleverly told myself I'd wait for 5 which is apparently never being localized.

Felonious Monk · Joined: 30 Aug 2013 Location: Bat City

Espgaluda II Black Label
Race The Sun

and you know what, i had a much better time playing Oblivion than i did with many of the truly good games that came out last gen.

so there.

everything else is already on someone else's list.

username · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: parts unknown

Top games

Demon's & Dark Souls
Super Meat Boy
Red Dead Redemption
Pac Man CE DX
Mirror's Edge (time trials)
various Skate games
Rayman Legends
Hanano & Jelly no Puzzle
Picross DS
Slitherlink

Next tier down

Super Hexagon
Nier
Pixeljunk Eden
Wipeout HD (+ Fury)
Kirby Canvas Curse
Trauma Center
Space Invaders Extreme 1 & 2
random Professor Layton game
GTA IV
Dog Days
NBA 2k game
Portal if it was this gen
VVVVVV
one of the Super Mario Galaxy games
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Winona Ghost Ryder · lives in a monochromatic world Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Call of Duty 4
Cart Life
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (really for the Butcher Bay remake)
Crackdown
Dark Souls
Dishonored
Flower
Kane & Lynch 2
The Last of Us
Little King's Story
Papers Please
Portal
Red Dead Redemption
Skate 2

Flawed and infuriating games for me that I still sort of liked/thought were promising in parts:
Burnout Paradise
Far Cry 2
Grand Theft Auto IV
Mirror's Edge

Victor · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

I think skate might be the most viscerally compelling game of the last console generation and was immediately put off by skate 2 and never played skate 3. What am I missing here?

Ronnoc · Joined: 26 Feb 2010

The only Skate I liked was the demo of .skate.

I got stuck in every single Skate game because ollie height was based on how fast you can move your thumb and I couldn't pass a mission that required a higher ollie than I could physically do.

Good games for fucking around in, I guess.

Talbain · Joined: 14 Jan 2007

Stuff Capy made. Stuff From Software made.

Indie titles:
Banner Saga
Proteus
Nidhogg
Papers, Please
The Stanley Parable
Skullgirls
Windosill
A House in California
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tiburon · Joined: 26 Sep 2012

multiplayer counts! smash the tyranny of single player ratings!
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Felix · Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 4:25 pm

I just realized I forgot Armadillo Run, which came out in 2006

so with that and Ziggurat I'm at an even 60.

Laurel Soup · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Hitsville, USA

As the awful dude at the awful game store said I didn't have a "real" console this cycle, so my list probably makes me look out of touch.

Rock Band 3
Dark Souls
Saints Row 2 (slightly edging out 3 and 4)
Left 4 Dead 1 (in introducing more reasons to break up the players in 2, I felt it lost the experiment in forced online co-op feel)
No More Heroes
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Fallout: New Vegas
Gone Home
Hotline Miami
Wii Sports
Bangai-o Spirits
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden

I'm still catching up on all those Wii RPGs, otherwise I'm sure they'd be there too.
iOS stuff isn't jumping out at me. I loved Sword and Sworcey, but never finished it. Draw Something was great fun but that was completely in the context of a since fading friendship. Ziggurat was really impressive, but I never broke through that score wall and got burnt out. I spent more time than I should have with those stripped down versions of Devil May Cry 4 and RE:Mercenaries that felt like they should have been the coolest PS1 games. That AR RPG game from Atlus that seemed like a hazy second hand glimpse into the future?
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Mikey · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: endless backlog

I don't feel like posting a whole list but I'm real glad The Club came out.

Winona Ghost Ryder · lives in a monochromatic world Joined: 04 Dec 2006

As a fan of PGR, The Club and Geometry Wars, I certainly believe the dissolution of Bizarre Creations was the biggest loss of the last gen.

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Felix · Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 7:37 pm

Laurel Soup · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Hitsville, USA

Can't believe I forgot the Club. I think that was my first last gen game. Bought it right after getting a shiny new laptop with decent graphics capabilities. Absolutely beautiful game. Didn't Bizarre do a 007 game on the DS that borrowed some aspects of it?
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Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Nier was a pretty mediocre game. I liked some small parts of it but overall the gimmicks of homages to many different genres in the various dungeons was overshadowed by the poor mechanics and the incoherent anime plot.
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Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Still, decent voice acting, sometimes fun writing, awful art direction/character designs/visuals

So I guess what I'm saying is it is most certainly a C-game instead of a B-game.
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Felix · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 12:08 am

Yup. But even most mainstream reviewers correctly identify it as profoundly likeable in spite of itself. Even where the plot is mostly jRPG crap apart from some more spirited stuff peppered in and at the end, the voice acting and the script seem better by contrast.

I actually don't think the art direction or the visuals are particularly bad, for that matter; they're one of the high points for me. the game is spare, and some parts are bland, but equally many are pretty dang interesting, and mid-generation spare was actually better than early-generation spare or late-generation spare.

Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

Blood on the Sand is my Nier I think

Pacman CE, yeah
Ridic Fishing
Increpareware

Felix · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 1:09 am

am I the only one who thought Pac Mac CE was pretty cool but CE DX was crap?

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Felix · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 11:51 am

hey, how many of y'all would be up for some multiplayer Anarchy Reigns? the servers are dead but I surprised myself the other night with how much I enjoyed fighting the CPU for an hour.

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i liked catherine
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Mr. Mechanical · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:41 pm

In no particular order, a list of last gen stuff I played that stuck with me for one reason or another:

Red Dead Redemption
Crackdown
Assassin's Creed II
GTA IV/V
Just Cause 2
Halo: Reach/ODST
The Last of Us
Ziggurat
Alpha Protocol
Cavesweeper
Minecraft
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Condemned: Criminal Origins
CoD 4: Modern Warfare
Gears of War
Dishonored
Skyrim
Fallout: New Vegas
Mirror's Edge
Portal /2
Saints Row 2
Red Faction Guerrilla
Don't Starve
Home: A Unique Horror Adventure
Knytt
QWOP
Dog Days
Retro City Rampage
Spelunky
Deadly Premonition
Space Invaders Infinity Gene
PacMan CE
Abban Hawkins and the 1000 Spikes
Deus Ex HR
Super Meat Boy
Shadow Complex
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
EDF 2017
Super Mario 3D Land
Zelda: Link Between Worlds
Oceanhorn
Infinity Blade II
Cthulhu Saves the World
Plague Inc

I guess it was a good gen. I'll probably come back to this as I remember more stuff.
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Trials Evolution

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bza · Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:35 pm

ArmA 2
Garry's Mod
Dark Souls
Minecraft
La-Mulana
Dog Days
Hotline Miami
The Void
Killing Floor
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Miasmata
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Pathologic
The World Ends with You
Pokemon B/W
Solatorobo
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
LocoRoco
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
999

is what initially comes to mind but i've probably missed a bunch
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