Vote: Top 10 games of Gen 7

1. The Witcher 2

2. Red Dead Redemption

3. Bioshock Infinite

4. Bioshock

5. The Last of Us

6. Deus Ex Human Revolution

7. Batman Arkham Asylum

8. Max Payne 3

9. Mass Effect 1.

10. Uncharted 2

1. Mass Effect 2 (I like Mass Effect 1 more, but 2 is the better game so I chose it)
2. Halo 3
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. Portal 2
5. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade (The pinnacle of WoW in my opinion)
6. Super Meat Boy
7. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
8. Bioshock Infinite
9. Dead Space
10. Bastion

This list as a whole needs more indie games. I played just as much if not more of them this generation.

Honorable Mentions:

• Rogue Legacy
• Mark of the Ninja
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Nier
• Saints Row: The Third
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown

• 1. inFamous

• 2. Halo 3

• 3. Super Mario Galaxy

• 4. Grand Theft Auto IV

• 5. Mass Effect 2

• 6. Batman: Arkham City

• 7. Saints Row 2

• 8. Deadly Premonition

• 9. No More Heroes

• 10. BioShock

Also made a worst list of this gen click here

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Dark Souls
3. Bioshock
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
5. Gears of War 1
6. The Walking Dead
7. Mortal Kombat 9
8. Fez
9. Far Cry 3
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

1. Portal

2. Journey

3. The Walking Dead

4. Saints Row the Third

5. Street Fighter IV, etc.. etc... etc...

6. Mass Effect 2

7. Uncharted 2

8. Batman: Arkham Asylum

9. Metal Gear Solid 4

10. Dragon Quest V remake

Looking through these lists, and thinking about my own top ten list, I came to a very strange realization. If I were to make a list of my top ten games of all time, not a single current gen game would be on it. Games like Diablo 2, WoW, Halo, Civ III, Morrowind, etc... would pretty easily beat out almost any game I can think of that came out this console generation. I'm not going to say that this generation was bad, but the only game I can think of that REALLY stands out for me is Dark Souls.

1. Skyrim - game that reminded me what was so great about this whole generation
2. Call of Duty 4 - Killstreaks? Holy shit dude.
3. Gears of War - Co-op was just a blast
4. Forza 3 - told Gran Turismo to shove its boring gameplay up its ass.
5. Uncharted 2 - beautiful and I actually liked the characters
6. StarCraft 2 - RTS gaming doesn't get better.
7. Portal 2 - just a perfect game really
8. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - or why I got a DS
9. Super Mario Galaxy - or why I got a Wii
10. Mass Effect - Fuck ME2 and 3

This was a tough one.

1. Bioshock
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Mass Effect (really the trilogy but 2 was probably my favorite)
4. Fallout 3
5. The Last of Us
6. Grand Theft Auto V
7. Skyrim
8. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
9. World of Warcraft
10. Borderlands

Aaaand some games that I feel awful about not being able to include in a top ten list

• Alan Wake
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Batman: Arkham City
• Bioshock Infinite
• Dead Space 2
• Def Jam Rapstar
• LA Noire
• Max Payne 3
• Uncharted 2
• Portal 2

In no particular order.

Demon's souls

Bioshock 1 (infinite was close to beating this one)

Batman Arkham Asylum

Bayonetta

Gears of War 1

Mass Effect 1

Dead Space 1

Witcher 1 (nr 2 was awesome too)

Bad Company 2

Total War Shogun 2

Nr11: Dragon Age Origins

Honorable mentions:

Borderlands series

Orcs must die series

Black Ops MP

DMC:DmC

Space Marine

Twilight Princess

Vanquish

Sleeping Dogs

Darksiders Series

Nier
The Darkness 2

Etc.

This is... kinda tough. Maybe something like this, although I feel like I haven't had adequate time to let some of them soak in just yet, while some of them I feel are just nostalgia for the things that I wasted time on in high school:

1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
2. Battlefield: Bad Company
3. BioShock Infinite
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. Far Cry 3
6. Journey
7. Bastion
8. God of War III
9. Halo 3
10. Gears of War

1. Mass Effect 2

2. Braid

3. Fallout 3

4. Portal

5. XCOM: Enemy Unknown

6. Supreme Commander

7. Rainbow 6: Vegas

8. Super Mario Galaxy

9. Rock Band

10. Uncharted 2: Among Theives

1. Spelunky
2. Journey
3. Portal
4. The Walking Dead - Season 1
5. Team Fortress 2
6. Half-Life 2: Episode 2
7. Super Meat Boy
8. Mass Effect 2
9. Super Hexagon
10. The Last of Us

1. Nier
2. Lost Odyssey
3. Xenoblade Chronicles
4. The Last Story
5. Skyward Sword
6. Dark Souls
7. Alan Wake
8. Super Mario Galaxy
9. The Witcher 2
10. Arkham Asylum

What a bunch of good games. Holy shit. I just want to play them all right now.

Honorable Mention: Final Fantasy XIII

Oh make no mistake I think Minecraft definitely should be on a top 10 list of most influential games this gen. I am just not sure it should be that high. That said I love mucking around on Cube World I just wish I knew more people who played it cause most people look at me with a blank stare when I talk about it.

1. The Last of Us
2. Journey
3. Dark Souls
4. inFAMOUS
5. Uncharted 2
6. Portal
7. Metal Gear Solid 4
8. Minecraft
9. Dishonored
10. Bioshock Infinite

A hasty list, but i think its close, will try to refine it sometime later. Distilling an entire generation into a list of only 10 is hard.

Replace Borderlands 2 with Metal Gear Solid 4

Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Spec Ops, Max Payne 3, Civ 5, Batman Arkham City.......so many good games this generation, that is something i think we can all agree on.

Another generation coming to a close. It had its moments I suppose. Considering I only bought a PS3 to play MGS4, I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out.

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

2. Super Street Fighter 4

3. Wipeout HD Fury

4. Borderlands

5. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

6. Resident Evil 5

7. Hotline Miami

8. DIRT 3

9. Dead Nation

10. Bayonetta

I'm not sure I'd call The Walking Dead influential, at least not yet. I'd probably replace it with Heavy Rain (or rather Fahrenheit, but that was the previous gen), which I think strongly influenced Telltale in the creation of Jurassic Park: The Game, a concept which they then refined for The Walking Dead. They are still essentially using the mechanics and narrative method that David Cage pioneered in his games, even it could probably be argued that Telltale are doing it better.

EDIT: Weird, seems like I got a cached page when I replied to this

The Shadowrun FPS was great, it didn't make my list, but it's good to see it getting some recognition!

1. Mass Effect

2. Portal 2

3. Batman Arkham Asylum

4. Dragon Age Origins

5. Borderlands 2

6. Red Dead Redemption

7. Super Mario Galaxy

8. Gears of War 3

9. Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

10. Uncharted 2

1.Fallout New Vegas

2. Rock Band 3

3. Saints Row 2

4. Skyrim

5. GTA 5

6. Fallout 3

7. Street Fighter 4

8. Dragon Age

9. Bioshock

10. COD Modern Warfare

Wow man I have to distill the last 6 years of my life down into this small window of time fuck man okay i'll do it

This list will most likely change

I'm putting my money on Dark Souls to win the whole thing here.

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2. Dark Souls

3. Red Dead Redemption

4.Metal Gear Solid 4

5. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

6. Super Mario Galaxy

7. Zelda: Twilight Princess

8. Rock Band

9. Lost Odyssey

10. Chromehounds (I really wonder if I will be the only person to put this)

This gen is so long that it makes it really tough. I really don't feel good about this list since I feel like I've barely scratched the surface on this gen compared to previous ones. There probably ought to be some DS games on this list since OP said they are fair game, but I just don't consider them to be the same.

Someone said that these lists basically become a what's obvious hits list when amalgamated to some degree and I agree with that. Where people's list might get really interesting is 11-30 or so and you might see significantly more variation there.

1. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
2. DOTA 2
3. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Batman: Arkham Asylum
6. The Witcher
7. The Walking Dead: Season 1
8. Street Fighter IV
9. Portal
10. Valkyria Chronicles

1. Rocksmith 2014
2. Fallout New Vegas
3. Left 4 Dead
4. Street Fighter 4
5. DOTA 2
6. Portal 2
7. XCOM Enemy Unknown
8. iRacing
9. Company of Heroes
10. Batman: Arkham Asylum

• Red Dead Redemption
• Dark Souls
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Skyrim
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Fallout 3
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Assassins Creed 2
• Mass Effect 2
• Portal

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. The Last of Us
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Portal 2
7. Journey
8. Persona 3 Portable
9. Skyrim
10. Rayman Legends

Picking ten was tough, there are so many games that I have loved this gen. It's honestly been my all-time favourite.

I could have pretty easily just made this a top 5, but I wasn't sure it was allowed:

1. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable
2. Skyrim
3. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
4. 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors
5. Journey
6. Digital: A Love Story
7. Gone Home
8. Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
9. Sweet Fuse: At Your Side
10. Puzzle Quest
11. To The moon

I know that Persona 3 probably shouldn't count, so if not, feel free to omit it at #1 and bump the rest of the list accordingly.

1. World of Warcraft
2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3. Mass Effect 2
4. GTA V
5. Dark Souls
6. Red Dead: Redemption
7. The Last of Us
8. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
9. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
10. Batman: Arkham Asylum

Most surprising game this generation for me is Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. It's this generation's Secret of Mana for me. I've waited almost 2 decades for a game to kinda hit that same spot.

read dead

ac2/ac brotherhood

batman arkam city

mass efect 2

league of legends

uncharted 2/uncharted 3

gta 5

the walking dead

super mario galaxy 1/super mario galaxy 2

Witcher 2

That's hard, I could put 10 more but here it is:

1. Rock Band 2
2. Mass Effect
3. Skyrim
4. Bioshock
5. Bioshock Infinite
6. Saints Row The Third
7. L.A. Noire
8. Alan Wake
9. Batman Arkham Asylum
10. Red Dead Redemption

1. Dark Souls
2. Saints Row The Third
3. Hitman: Blood Money
4. Last of us
5. Max Payne 3
6. Far Cry 2
7. Uncharted 2
8. Mass Effect 2
9. L.A. Noire
10. Portal

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
3. Fallout 3
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Portal
6. Journey
7. Burnout Paradise
8. Assassin's Creed II
9. Super Meat Boy
10. Team Fortress 2

It wounds me to not have room enough to include Alan Wake, Borderlands, Braid, Dustforce, GTA IV and L.A. Noire; but I guess I'm happy enough with my list as it stands.

In no real order.... and might not be set in stone.

• The Elder Scrolls Skyrim
• Bioshock Infinite
• Red Dead Redemption
• Saints Row The 3rd
• Borderlands
• Gears of War 3
• Forza Motorsports 2/3/4 <--- you pick
• Xcom: Enemy Unknown
• The Walking Dead
• Mass Effect 2

• Valkyria Chronicles
• Journey
• Dark Souls
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Battlefield 3
• DiRT 2
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Mirror's Edge
• Burnout Paradise

Honorable Mentions:

• Fat Princess
• WipeOut HD
• DiRT 3
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Flower
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• Red Dead Redemption
• L.A. Noire
• Birds of Steel
• Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
• Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
• BioShock

I have a lot of catching up to do and I almost think its too early to make these lists... Having said that:

1. Fallout 3
2. Portal 1
3. The Walking Dead - Season 1
4. Metroid Prime 3
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Dishonored
7. Braid
8. Super Mario Galaxy 2
9. Donkey Kong Country Returns
10. Ghost Trick

Honorable Mentions:

• Year Walk
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (series)
• Elite Beat Agents
• Hotline Miami

My favorite multiplayer games this gen:

• Halo 3
• Gears of War 3
• Super Street Fighter 4
• Frozen Synapse

1. Dead Space
2. Alan Wake
3. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
4. Catherine
5. Bulletstorm
6. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
7. Binding of Isaac
8. Nanashi No Gemu
9. Deadly Premonition
10. Nier

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Mass Effect
3. Tomb Raider
4. Dead Space
5. Mass Effect 3
6. GTA 5
7. Uncharted 2
8. Muramasa Rebirth
9. Resident Evil 5
10. Red Dead Redemption

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ptys/lists/choice-of-a-new-generation/30132

1. Persona 3 fes

2. Minecraft

3. Bastion

4. Portal

5. Bioshock

6. The Walking Dead

7. Fable 2

8. Assassin's Creed 2

9. Halo 3

10. Fire Emblem Awakening

1. Mass Effect
2. The Witcher 2
3. Demon's Souls
4. Bayonetta
5. City of Heroes
6. Gears of War 2
7. Far Cry 3
8. Vanquish
9. Portal 2
10. Fallout 3

just based on what I spent the most time playing and enjoying

1 Saints Row The Third

2 Mass Effect 2

3 Borderlands

4 Dragon Age: Origins

5 Fallout 3

6 Skyrim

7 Mass Effect

8 Dark Souls

9 XCom: Enemy Unknown

10 Civilization 5

Honorable Mentions: The Sims 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Diablo 3, DOTA 2, The Witcher 2

1. Red Dead Redemption; 2. Mass Effect 2; 3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; 4. Assassin's Creed 2; 5. Fallout 3; 6. Bioshock; 7. Super Mario Galaxy; 8. Gears of War; 9. The Last of Us; 10. Dark Souls

1. Journey
2. Bastion
3. Uncharted 2
4. Portal 2
5. Halo: Reach
6. Burnout Paradise
7. Borderlands
8. BioShock
9. Mass Effect 2
10. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2. Dead Rising

3. Portal 2

4. Batman: Arkham City

5. Saints Row: The Third

6. Mass Effect 2

7. The Walking Dead

8. Red Dead Redemption

9. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

10. The World Ends With You

Well, I thought long and hard about it and here is my list (this took me way to long to make)

1. The Last of Us
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Rock Band 2
4. Metal Gear Solid 4
5. The Orange Box
6. Uncharted 2
7. Bioshock
8. Red Dead Redemption
9. Assassins Creed 2
10. Gone Home

Edit: dropped Fez, added gone home and switched a few things around (making a top ten list makes me sad...)

It really crushed me to have to cut amazing games like Super Meat Boy, Fallout 3, Gone Home, Limbo, Hotline Miami, GTA4 etc. But I feel confident in these games being on my top 10. The ordering gets a little difficult because some games I liked equally, but I caved in and ordered it properly, and I'm happy with the list.

And I'll say it again; The Last of Us is a powerful, emotionally affecting, morally devastating game. Especially the winter segment of the game where shit gets fucking thrown up in the god damn air.

I am absolutely stunned that it could have had enough of effect on me to push something like mass effect 2 down a notch and knock GTA4 off the list, but it did; it really did. It's a fine example of so many pieces coming together to form a master class example of what the interactive arts can achieve.

I threw this list together. This isn't a complete best games of the generation list, but here's my HEY GUYS THESE ARE SOME GAMES FROM THIS GENERATION THAT TOUCHED ME IN PLACES THAT I'D NEVER BEEN TOUCHED BEFORE AND I LIKED IT list presented more or less in the order in which they popped into my head:

• Bioshock
• Spelunky
• Portal
• Braid
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Fallout 3
• Batman Arkham Asylum
• Wii Sports
• Rock Band
• Mass Effect

Many of those games, most notably Arkham Asylum and Mass Effect and Super Mario Galaxy, arguably touched me in places I had been touched before, but they touched me in new, exciting ways which made me feel like I'd been touched for the very first time.

I guess if I had to order it in some fashion it would look something like:

1. Mass Effect
2. Rock Band
3. Portal
4. Wii Sports
5. Bioshock
6. Fallout 3
7. Braid
8. Super Mario Galaxy
9. Spelunky
10. Batman Arkham Asylum

Ordered by some rough estimation of freshness, mind-blowndedness, fun factor, tilt, the amount of money the developers of each game sent me to include them on this prestigious list, and most importantly the extent to which each game was able to fill the hole in my heart where friendship, love, and happiness are supposed to be found.

Welp. Here Goes...

1. Saints Row the Third

2. Mass Effect

3. Bioshock

4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

5. Assassin's Creed II

6. Gears of War 2

7. Red Dead Redemption

8. Uncharted 2

9. Skyrim

10. Fallout: 3

1. Dark Souls

2. Mass Effect 2

3. Rock Band 3

4. Persona 4/P4G (yes this totally counts, it my not have been on the consoles of Gen 7, but it came out well into the gen so I count it)

5. No More Heroes

6. Batman: Arkham Asylum

7. Saints Row: The Third

8. Bioshock 1/Infinite

9. Portal 1 or 2

10. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Back half of the list.

11. Mortal Kombat

12. Dead Space 2

13. Fallout 3

14. Bastion

15. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

It might be a little pre-emptive for this (Dark Souls II is still to come after all!), and I also think it's a little weird to include both 2005 and 2013 for PC games (2005 is basically the 2013 of "Gen 6," but I digress). But what the hell, let's do this:

1. Dark Souls
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Civilization IV
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
5. Elite Beat Agents
6. Super Mario Galaxy
7. The World Ends With You
8. Dead Space
9. Bastion
10. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

1. Bioshock

2. Mass Effect 2

3. Uncharted 2

4. Journey

5. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

6. Limbo

7. Alan Wake

8. Braid

9. Bayonetta

10. X-Com: Enemy Unknown

And too many honorable mentions to mention of course.

• Bioshock Infinite
• Last of Us
• Journey
• Skyrim
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Mass Effect
• Portal
• Spec Ops: The Line/Asura's Wrath
• Persona 4 Golden

No particular order

1. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

2. Mass Effect 2

3. BioShock

4. Borderlands

5. Red Dead Redemption

6. Halo 3

7. Dragon Age: Origins

8. Gears of War Trilogy

9. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

10. Scribblenauts

Honorable Mentions

L.A. Noire

Vanquish

Guild Wars 2

Fallout 3

Mass Effect

Fight Night Round 3

Games I Still Need to Play

Last of Us

Grand Theft Auto V

BioShock Infinite

Beyond: Two Souls