[BenoitRen]

[Glam Grimfire]

the wii had some pretty legit titles though what's even the deal
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[Talbain]

[cavefish]

Max Payne 3
Dark Souls
New Vegas
Dishonored
Dog Days
Mass Effect 3

[tiburon]

halo 3
vanquish
portal 1
cod4 modem warface
one of the gears games (gonna default to gears 1)
canabalt
hotline miami
papers please
pac man ce dx
barkley shut up and jam gaiden
mass effect..2? 1!! (2)

terminally flawed games i want to like
far cry 2
halo reach
assassins creed 2
kane & lynch 2

might be on this list had i played them:
sin & punishment 2
xcom xenocombat evolved
bangai-o spirits
luftrausers (dammit vlambeer let me play this on osx 10.7 !!)
dark/demon's souls
strania (not enough experience w/ this one)
cod blops
zelda link between worlds (not last gen!)
shadow complex
pathologic
kof xiii

yea... i like shooters... idk
Wii's greatest value imo is Virtual Console
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[MattCD42]

Spider man: Web of Shadows
Infamous
Spider-Man: Shatter Dimensions
Batman: Arkham Origins
Batman: Arkham City
Infamous 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Spider-Man: The Edge of Time
Injustice
Amazing Spider-Man 2
Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel vs Capcom 3
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[meauxdal]

gears 2 and 3 are better than 1 by manner of horde mode

all 3 campaigns are garbo
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Klonoa
Sin And Punishment
Mario Kart Wii
Super Smash Bros Brawl
NIER
Red Dead Redemption
The World Ends With You
Pokemon Black 2/White 2
Tokyo Jungle

This is really hard
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[OGC]

[Pom]

Nice thread, as I am just getting reunited with my old PS3 after several years. One game I’m looking forward to trying is Dark Souls 2, but should I start with Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, or go straight into DS2?

[Felix]

Definitely play DeS and DkS first. They're better, the evolution of the series is a lot more interesting that way, and DeS is a little unforgiving and graphically rudimentary if you play it last, whereas DkS2 is easiest to appreciate for its mechanical refinements

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

Start with Demon's

Yeah exactly what Felix said

[tiburon]

[Talbain]

[tiburon]

funny thing is it's the shortest speedrun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgN-m-pUtt4
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[Pom]

[Talbain]

[jodeaux]

in no paricular order:

Nier
Dog Days
Blast Works (for the rest of the kenta cho games as well)
Dark Souls
Valkyria Chronicles
Ninja Gaiden II
Bangai O Spirits
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes
import Tuner Challenge (only included as a sort of lifetime achievement award for the tokyo extreme racer series as a whole)
Sega Rally Revo
Gears 2
Binary Domain
Killer is Dead

[allensmithee]

[Family Computer]

Dead Rising 1
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Deadly Premonition
Dark Souls
Fallout: New Vegas
Bullet Witch
Dishonored
Vampire Rain
Dragon's Dogma

had to choose between 360, Wii and DS titles since I only briefly owned a PS3. Interestingly enough I did not list any Wii or DS titles lol
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[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

I'm not gonna make any claims to the "top" games of the previous gen, but uh, here are a few that I liked:
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Crysis
- The Darkness
- Canabalt
- Uncharted 2
- No More Heroes
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow/Order of Ecclesia
- Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (the control scheme makes that big a difference)
- Jetpack Joyride
- Ninja Gaiden II/Sigma 2
- Portal
- Hotline Miami
- Metal Gear Acid 2
- Tokyo Jungle
- Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth

Haven't played yet:
- The Last of Us
- Tactics Ogre remake
- The Walking Dead
- Journey
- Lost Odyssey
- Red Dead Redemption
- any Gears game
- any Souls game
- Dead Rising
- New Vegas
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- The Last Story
- Xenoblade
- anything PC and/or Xbox-exclusive
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[Rud31]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

I take back what I said. This would totally be on my list of best games of the past generation and it was totally on the Wii!
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[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

Rudie your enthusiasm for that game has made me curious to play it. I sort of had my eye on it when it came out and it looked intriguingly quirky, but the internet's response was lukewarm so I ended up holding off. If I could get it for cheap somewhere (and didn't have a colossal backlog of games already) I might give it a try.
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[Rud31]

>:|
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[Pijaibros]

[1CC]

[firenze]

What the fuck is wrong with people, nobody mentioned Street Fighter IV yet??? EASILY the best game of the generation to me.

My other top choices would be something like:

STG division: Eschatos, and pick a Cave SH3 game I'm into at the moment - assuming we're allowing ports from 2004 arcade hardware to count as "last gen". Also rudie you're wrong, Daifukkatsu is great (yeah the auto-bombs and hypers are a bit jarring to get used to), but you like Bullet Soul so there's no accounting for taste :)

Kusoge division: Nier, Deadly Premonition

Portable division: Ys Seven

General: Sleeping Dogs, Bayonetta, Ridge Racer 6&7 (each of these - which are basically the same game - were far and away my favorite first year title for their system)

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]

I feel bad for forgetting to mention Ninja Gaiden II, but in my defense: did you remember that it was a game from just this past generation?
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[Rud31]

I kept asking why Daifukatsu is a one people like? Not that I thought it was bad.
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[firenze]

A few things I like about Daifukkatsu:

The aesthetics. Nice and easy to see everything, colorful bullets on fairly sleek modern backgrounds, great music (original is good, but the iOS arrange soundtrack is one of my all time favorites), I prefer the more ship-oriented focus to a lot of more character driven stuff (yeah there are robo girl transforming bosses, but it doesn't overdo the moe influence like SDOJ veers pretty close to doing).

The sense of power from the weapons. Not since Batsugun burst onto the scene have I felt quite the same sensation of being in control of such a lethal arsenal. Maybe it's the sheer power of the laser, maybe it's that little "kick" from engaging he hyper, but it just feels exceptionally satisfying to shoot stuff in this game.

I actually find the hyper shot bullet canceling pretty fun in the same way as the reflect mechanics in stuff like Takumi's games (Giga Wing, Mars Matrix), and hyper affecting shot/laser differently is a pretty cool mechanic to me. I appreciate that some people dislike DFK hypers though, but for me as someone who generally plays more for survival than score (I can rarely stay dedicated enough to any one game to get that kind of comfort needed to really shift to score play), it's nice to have that added element of defensive strategy in addition to just bombs.

I'm OK with the auto bomb mechanics here, still plenty of penalty for wasting all your bombs so it just lets you play a little more freely and take risks when you're playing for survival and you're down to 1 bomb in stock. Again though I get that some people are less fond of this mechanic.

What I dislike about Daifukkatsu: those god damned spinning lasers in stage 5...

[Wall of Beef]

[Family Computer]

[Guillotine]

I feel like Alpha Protocol is the game I got the most enjoyment out from this generation

Then Souls of course, mostly leaning to Demon right now

Honorable mention to Anarchy Reigns, the best online experience ever for the 1st month when people still didn't figure out how broken it was; I am certain there has to be a parallel universe where Sega is smart and competent enough to recognize the golden goose and people are buying X next-gen console because AR2 is coming out there, after all.

[Felix]

I wish I could get people to play AR with me. I still really enjoy playing free for alls with the AI which says a lot, but online only multiplayer on deserted servers is a real bummer.

[Guillotine]

Oh I'd love to but we never could play AC together right? I am on a stricter schedule right now as well.

Can't really recommend to go find veterans to play because the metagame is right now(...) actually based on slightly execution heavy glitches that of course make the game lose a good part of accessibility.

But sure, if you can find a few like-minded people just playing for fun and not trying to break the game at every occasion, this is the most punchy fun that can be had.