Vote: Top 10 games of Gen 7

Seriously, have most of you not played Red Dead Redemption? For shame.

Gen what now?

1. Bayonetta
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Nier
4. Hotline Miami
5. Saints Row the Third
6. NBA 2k11
7. Sleeping Dogs
8. The Last of Us
9. Red Dead Redemption
10. Assassin's Creed II

Note: The lack of Dragon Age: Origins makes me highly upset.

I remember Jeff and co. talked about the possiblity of making a list like that and at some point Jeff said that it almost becomes like making a "Top 10 most obvious games" or something similar.

Seeing the proposed lists so far i have to agree.

1 World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

2 Assassin's Creed II

3 Mass Effect

4 Batman: Arkham Asylum

5 Portal

6 Sleeping Dogs

7 Deus Ex: Human Revolution

8 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

9 Dragon Age: Origins

10 Portal 2

11 Team Fortress 2

12 Saints Row: The Third

13 The Walking Dead

14 XCOM: Enemy Unknown

15 DmC Devil May Cry

16 Gravity Rush

I've narrowed it down to 29...

1. Mass Effect
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Mass Effect 3
4. TES: Oblivion
5. COD:4 Modern Warfare
6. Fallout 3
7. Metal Gear Solid 4
8. Ni No Kuni
9. Gears of War
10. Super Mario Galaxy

This one's gonna be tough...but anyway:

1. Red Dead Redemption

2. Alpha Protocol

3. Saboteur

4. Alan Wake

5. Assassins Creed:Brotherhood

6. Mount and Blade: Warband

7. Mirrors Edge

8. Dead Rising 2

9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

10. Company of Heroes

Other than for the top 4 the order is a highly random, but I think I'll leave it at that for now. Left 4 Dead, Portal, The Walking Dead, Fallout: New Vegas and a whole bunch of other games also belong on a best of gen list, but that would ultimately amount to more of a top 50 list, which probably would be a bit excessive.

Oh god. I dunno. I could try and do this, but I can imagine the end result of this whole project is going to be some boring typical list of AAA games :/

1. Witcher 2
2. Metro 2033
3. Victoria 2
4. MGS:4
5. Skate
6. STALKER: SoC
7. Men of War
8. Dungeons of Dredmor
9. Gran Turismo 5
10. Dota 2

This took my too long to write and I don't even think it's what I actually think but whatever.

1. Witcher 2

2. Skyrim

3. Deus Ex Human Revolution

4. Bioshock

5. Mass Effect 2

6. Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl

7. Dishonored

8. Fallout New Vegas

9. Battlefield 3

10. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Hated having to narrow down to just 10, probably forgot some, and a sad number of sequels:

1. Fallout 3

2. Mass effect 2

3. Xcom: enemy unknown

4. Portal 2

5. Skyrim

6. Batman Arkham asylum

7. Assassin creed: brotherhood

8. Dragon age: origins

9. Last of us

10. Bioshock: infinite

Honourables: Red dead redemption, the walking dead, left 4 dead 2, Dead space 2, Dead rising 2, (too many "dead" games), fable 2, battlefield bad company 2, fez, spelunky, super meatboy, hotline miami, binding of Isaac, heavy rain and diablo 3.

Wasn't as difficult as I was expecting...

1. Fallout 3
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Bioshock
4. GTA IV
5. Uncharted 2
6. Super Mario Galaxy
7. Civilization V
8. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. The Witcher 2

That's awesome.

Can't wait to see the match-ups and the brackets.

I won't edit this even though I'll probably forget about too much stuff. What about stuff like the Orange Box or the Metroid Prime Collection? If that counts I have to change a bit

1. Portal
2. The Witcher
3. Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess (shut up, I really like the game! :P )
4. Metroid Prime 3
5. Dragon Age Origins
6. Fallout New Vegas
7. Mario Galaxy
8. Just Cause 2
9. STALKER - Call of Pripyat
10. Civilization V

Honourable mention goes to Binding of Isaac. I played the game for 200 hours but I just can't call it one of my favs

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Fallout 3
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Dragon Age: Origins
6. The Witcher 2
7. The Last of Us
8. Portal
9. Braid
10. Assassin's Creed 2

@abendlaender:

I'm not going to count Half-Life 2, since it came out in 2004, though I will allow any of the episodes, since they came out 2006+. Sorry. The good news is that you still have a free spot!

You'd better believe that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines would be in my personal top 10 if we were counting PC games in 2004.

That is too many years of stuff to make an accurate list for me.

Currently sitting on a list of 158 games.

Interesting and somewhat unexpected (by me) trends so far, but I don't want to mention names and influence voting.

1. Dark Souls
2. The Walking Dead (Telltale)
3. Uncharted 2
4. Super Meat Boy
5. Batman Arkham Asylum
6. Minecraft
7. Hotline Miami
8. Amnesia The Dark Descent
9. Mass Effect 2
10. Red Dead Redemption

The order isn't precise, but I don't want to fix it right now. Dark Souls is definitely at the top. My list mainly has to do with games that innovated more than anything. Only honorable mentions I can think of is Assassin's Creed, Dead Space, and Skyrim.

It's interesting. It wasn't until about 2008 that I really thought anything good would come from this gen. Thank god for indie games keeping the bigger companies on their toes. It was getting pretty dire around 2007.

This is pretty tough but here goes

1. The Last of Us
2. Bioshock Infinite
3. Bioshock
4. Uncharted 2: Thieves Among Us
5. Red Dead Redemption
6. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
7. Rock Band 3
8. The Walking Dead
9. Saints Row: The Third
10. Batman: Arkham Asylum

...I feel kinda alright with this list.

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Bioshock
3. Borderlands
4. Uncharted 2
5. Yakuza 4
6. Gta V
7. Sleeping Dogs
8. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
9. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Batman Arkham City

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. The Last of Us
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Assassins Creed 2
5. GTA IV
6. Uncharted 2
7. Journey
8. Fallout 3
9. Portal 2
10. Call of Duty 4

... or something along those lines.

1. Uncharted 2
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Assassin's Creed 2
4. The Last of Us
5. Batman Arkham Asylum
6. Witcher 2
7. God of War 3
8. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
9. Saint's Row The Third
10. Tomb Raider

1. Dragon Age Origins

2. Borderlands

3. Fallout 3

4. Arkham Asylum

5. Mass Effect 2

6. Dark Souls

7. Gears of War 2

8. Saints Row: The Third

9. Sleeping Dogs

10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

1. Assassin's Creed 2
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Portal 2
4. Rayman Origins
5. The Last of Us
6. Uncharted 2
7. Catherine
8. Dragon Age: Origins
9. Heavy Rain
10. Valkyria Chronicles 2

Best rerelease goes to Persona 4 Golden. That game was FANTASTIC, but I can't count it as this gen...

I started making one of these a while ago. It's gonna be a little difficult putting them in order though.....sigh.

1. Dark Souls
2. Skyrim
3. Super Mario Galaxy
4. Batman Arkham City
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Uncharted 2
7. Xcom Enemy Unknown
8. Portal 2
9. Bioshock
10. The Last of Us

Here's the rest, in no particular order, of what I've I've considered some of the best this gen.

• Dead Space 2
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Journey
• Batman Arkham Asylum
• Ni No Kuni
• Bioshock Infinite
• Modern Warfare 2
• Civilization 5
• Red Dead Redmption
• Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts
• Prince of Persia 2008
• The Walking Dead
• Burnout paradise

There's more I could list as honorable mentions, but I think if I put anymore, it would go against the spirit of making a list.

1. Alan Wake
2. Halo Reach
3. Persona 4 Golden
4. Modern Warfare 2
5. Gears Of War 2
6. Fallout 3
7. Ass Creed 2
8. Ass Effect 2
9. Grand Theft Auto V
10. Batman Arkhym City

1-Black Ops II
2- MW3
3- FIFA 14
4- Madden 25
5- Forza 4
6- Black Ops
7- MW2
8- MW
9- Battlefield 3
10- Battlefield 4

I am probably missing some great stuff in this list, but if these are what came to mind first then they deserve to be on the list

• Halo 3
• Mount and Blade: Warband
• Portal 2
• Dark Souls
• Fez
• The Walking Dead
• Arma 2/3
• Dota 2
• To the Moon
• Borderlands

Well I started at 30 games and have whittled it down to 19 so far so I'm getting there. I want to play all the way through Red Dead Redemption to see if it would make my list, always have, but I can't stand riding a horse in that game. I don't know why, but it makes me quit a few hours in every time.

Hmmm, really tough especially when regarding sequels, I'll think about it.

1. Oblivion
2. Skyrim
3. Mass Effect
4. Dragon Age: Origins
5. Fable 2
6. Demon's Souls
7. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
8. GTA 5
9. XCOM
10. Dragon's Dogma

I feel like there's way too many games in my backlog to start doing this yet, but for the moment this is what I've got (will probably try to revise the order and some of the selection before the 5 days are up):

• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
• TES V: Skyrim
• Unreal Tournament III
• Dragon's Dogma
• The Darkness
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• TES IV: Oblivion
• Battlefield 2142
• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
• MAG

Some games I'm considering are also Demon's Souls, Battlefield: Bad Company, Mirror's Edge, The Orange Box and Red Faction: Guerrilla.

I'm going to try to go about this as objectively as I can, primarily because I would run into a problem at #1 if I was just playing favorites (for the record, Skyrim, Oblivion and New Vegas are all tied as my favorite game of all time, even though none of them are on the top of this list).

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Just Cause 2
6. Portal 2
7. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
8. Halo 3: ODST
9. Mass Effect 2
10. Peggle

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
• Bioshock Infinite
• Saints Row the Third
• Crusader Kings II
• Civilization V
• Mass Effect 1 and 3
• Portal
• Sam and Max, Seasons 1 and 2
• Spec Ops the Line
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Battlefield 3

1. Mass Effect 2
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
4. BioShock
5. Fallout 3
6. Dark Souls
7. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
9. Batman: Arkham City
10. Super Mario Galaxy

Goddamn this is difficult.

1. The Last of Us

2. The Witcher 2

3. Fallout New Vegas

4. Ass Creed Bro

5. Uncharted 2

6. Red Dead Redemption

7. Journey

8. Portal 2

9. Bioshock

10. Bastion

• Super Mario Galaxy
• Dark Souls
• Red Dead Redemption
• Halo Reach
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
• Mass Effect 2
• Fallout 3
• Bayonetta
• Borderlands

Honorable Mentions:

• Dead Space
• Sleeping Dogs
• XCOM Enemy Unknown
• Bioshock
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword
• L.A. Noire
• Bioshock
• The Witcher 2
• TES IV - Oblivion

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2. Dragon Age: Origins

3. Mass Effect 2

4. Red Dead Redemption

5. Tell Tales The Walking Dead

6. Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

7. Fallout: New Vegas

8. Ōkami

9. Tales of Vesperia

10. Super Mario Galaxy 2

This is a horrible nightmare and I despise you for making me choose from such a preposterously glorious selection. That said, here we go:

1. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2. Company of Heroes
3. Hitman: Blood Money
4. Civilization V
5. Neverwinter Nights: Mask of the Betrayer
6. The Witcher
7. FTL: Faster Than Light
8. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
9. Alpha Protocol
10. Prototype

Remains of the list that somehow didn't make the cut (but propably will next week, in another state of mind): Dragon Age: Origins, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Civilization IV, Bastion, Hotline Miami, Fallout: New Vegas, Tomb Raider, Alan Wake, Saboteur, STALKER: SoC, Burnout Paradise, Spec Ops: The Line, Torchlight 2, Mortal Kombat, World in Conflict.

Fuck, picking a "final" list actually makes me more sad and confused than anything else. Weird. Still, it's an interesting question to think about.

10. Bastion

9. Devil May Cry 4

8. Braid

7. Metal Gear Solid 4

6. Asura's Wrath

5. Infamous 2

4. Super Mario Galaxy 2

3. Uncharted 2

2. Halo: Reach

1. Mass Effect 3

That's a nice, 5 minute list. Damn, I just wanna keep adding.

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Bioshock
3. XCOM Enemy Unknown
4. The Walking Dead
5. Portal 2
6. Journey
7. The Last of Us
8. Super Mario Galaxy 2
9. Red Dead Redemption
10. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Close, but no cigar: Demon's Souls, Braid, Pokémon Diamond/Pearl, Far Cry 3, FTL, Fallout 3, Mario Kart Wii, Half-Life 2: Episodes One and Two, Left 4 Dead 2, Hotline Miami- I could go on and on.

There were so many great games.

1. Fallout 3 (In the top three of my favorite games ever, including Halo 1 and Kotor.)

2. Portal 2 (The further away I get from the game the more I love it. Co-op pushes it above Skyrim)

3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

4. Saints Row 4 (So good. The best use of licensed music in any game ever. Only Bioshock Infinite comes close)

5. Dark Souls

6. Bioshock 2

7. Just Cause 2 (Maybe the most open world fun in any game I've played.)

8. Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag

9. Journey

10. Grand Theft Auto V

There should also be voting for best protagonist and best character. My nominees

Best Protagonist:

Commander Shepard (female), Mass Effect Series

Ezio Auditore, Assassins Creed 2 and sequels

Nathan Drake, Uncharted Series

Lee Everett, The Walking Dead

John Marston, Red Dead Redemption

Batman, Batman

Best Characters (only one per series)

Garrus Valkarian, Mass Effect

Wheatley, Portal 2

Mr. Torque, Borderlands 2

Kinsey Kensington, Saints Row series

All of the little bastards in Little Lamplight I want to kill, Fallout 3

1. Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations

2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

3. Valkyria Chronicles

4. Crusader Kings II

5. Super Mario Galaxy

6. Dead Space

7. Assassin's Creed II

8. Portal

9. BioShock

10. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

For whatever reason I disliked a lot of the graphical style of this generation - everything has this sort of shiny, slick look to it that irks me. Games that don't have that are better to me, even though I don't care that much about graphics. There are also a lot of quote-unquote AAA games that I haven't played, either.

1)Mass Effect 2

2)Xenoblade Chronicles

3)Mass Effect

4)The Walking Dead

5)To The Moon

6)Fifa '10

7)Tales of Vesperia

8)The Last Story

9)Dark Souls

10)Fez

1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

2. 999

3. Ghost Trick

4. Demons Souls

5. Dark Souls

6. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

7. Skyward Sword

8. Hotline Miami

9. Dark Souls

10. Catherine

• Batman Arkham Asylum
• Burnout Paradise
• Bastion
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Team Fortress 2
• Street Fighter 4
• Rock Band
• Uncharted 2
• Mass Effect 2
• Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
• Amnesia
• Portal
• Saints Row 3rd
• Bionic Comando Rearmed
• Pixel Junk Eden
• Assassin's Creed - Brotherhood

1. Dark Souls
2. Demon's Souls

____All games below this line are garbage_______

This is hard, this gen was insanely long and had some great titles.... but here goes.

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Mass Effect 1
3. Dragon's Dogma
4. Demon's Souls
5. Persona 3 (I know it is a PS2 game but it came out during this gens time frame)
6. Skyrim
7. Saint's Row 2
8. Xenoblade Chronicles
9. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
10. Borderlands 2

If you feel the Persona 3 inclusion is cheating due to the PS2 issue take it off, bump the rest up one, and make 10: Stalker: Call of Pripyat

That is one big timeframe to work with. I think whatever I come up with might be wildly inaccurate, but here goes I guess?

1. Bayonetta
2. Journey
3. Dark Souls
4. Dota 2
5. League of Legends
6. The Witcher
7. Valkyria Chronicles
8. Red Dead Redemption
9. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
10. Asura's Wrath

Man, I had to resort to filler games in a top ten list over 8 years. That's just depressing.