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IGN's top 100 games of last gen

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My Top 10 (one selection per series):

1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Portal 2
3. The Last of Us
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns
6. Bioshock
7. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
9. Dead Space
10. Bayonetta
 
Kusagari said:
Uncharted 3, one of the worst games of the gen, made it?

Lol
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Yep, because when I think of the worst game of last gen I think of Sonic 06, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, Vampire Rain and Uncharted 3.

Holy shit I WISH one of the worst games I played last gen was Uncharted 3.

Holy hyperbole Batman.
 
Well let's do my Top 20 too.

1)Super Mario Galaxy 2
2)Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
3)Portal 2
4)Professor Layton 3
5)Mirror's Edge
6)Super Meat Boy
7)God of War III
8)Wipeout HD+Fury
9)Braid
10)Bioshock
11)The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
12)Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
13)The Last Of Us
14)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
15)Donkey Kong Country Returns
16)Assassin's Creed III
17)Gears of War 2
18)Borderlands 2
19)Street Fighter IV
20)Grand Theft Auto V

Some of these games are really hated here I don't know why.

Also I regret not having played enough indies last gen. It's clearly going to change with the new consoles.
 
MagnitudePopPop said:
If the top 25 is anything other than:

1) Red Dead Redemption
2) The Last of Us
3) Skyrim
4) Fallout 3
5) Uncharted 2
6) Fallout New Vegas
7) Uncharted 3
8) GTA V
9) LittleBigPlanet 2
10) Arkham City
11) Infamous 2
12) Assassins Creed Brotherhood
13) Mass Effect 2
14) The Unfinished Swan
15) Catherine
16) Walking Dead Season One
17) Journey
18) Assassins Creed 3
19) Uncharted Drakes Fortune
20) Mass Effect 3
21) Dishonoured
22) Twilight Princess
23) Assassins Creed 2
24) Infamous
25) Bioshock Infinite

Then there opinion is DEAD wrong.
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Someone didn't own a 360 this generation eh?
 
Sometimes I forget how long this generation lasted...

Honestly the only thing I care about is seeing some combination of Mario Galaxy and Portal at the top. Ideally top two, top 5 would also be great.
 
These lists are always so hard. And I'm always forgetting something. But, I know I don't like IGNs

Here's a small top fourteen I quickly rattled off the top of my head spontaneously.


1). Demon's Souls
2). Mass Effect Trilogy
3). Fallout 3
4). Red Dead Redemption
5). Bio Shock
6). Skyrim
7). The Witcher 2
8). God of War 3
9). Bayonetta
10). CoD 4 MW
11). GTA 5
12). Gears of War Trilogy
13). The Orange Box
14). Bio Shock Infinite
 
VanCityGamer said:
Uncharted was by no means awful. Likely not worthy of the top 100, but not even close to being awful.

I expect two Naughty Dog games in the top 10 - Uncharted 2 and TLOU.
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Uncharted 3 gets irrational hate. You did cool stuff in that game. Uncharted was completely forgettable with lame level design. Can't remember one moment in that game. Uncharted was a bad game
 
Gears 1 totally worth putting on here, Gears 2, okay fine. Gears 3, ehh that's not a top 100 game of the generation by any means.
 
Gruco said:
Sometimes I forget how long this generation lasted...

Honestly the only thing I care about is seeing some combination of Mario Galaxy and Portal at the top. Ideally top two, top 5 would also be great.
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Yeah I agree.


The level-designers at Valve and Nintendo are true geniuses. The Last Of Us, Bioshock and Red Dead are all enjoyable but I want to see Portal and SMG win. They don't get enough credit IMO, even if they're recognized as great games by almost everyone who has played them, I feel like they are a bit forgotten these times, outhyped(?) by more narrative experiences.
 
My mind is completely boggled by Rainbow Six Vegas' placement. Maybe the multiplayer is really good, but I found the game to be very average at best and the less said about the ending the better.
 
FIFA 12 is a weird one. I play these games every year so they all kinda blend together for me, but I think a decent chunk of players feel the series hasn't been moving forward enough these last few years. I'm assuming 2012 was the year they implemented the new impact engine or something (the one which spawned all those YouTube videos of players rolling around together and making out)? Otherwise, I'm not sure what stands out.

edit: oh and Ketsui not being number one would be an outrage rabble rabble
 
Apdiddy said:
My mind is completely boggled by Rainbow Six Vegas' placement. Maybe the multiplayer is really good, but I found the game to be very average at best and the less said about the ending the better.
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Cliff hanger ending. Average at best shooting mechanics. Frustrating difficulty.

And to add, the game looks like shit and didn't age well. Ran like shit too. Screen tear galore.

But fun mp and maps.

Yeah, this title doesn't even chart in top 100 for me. LOL
 
In this thread we get salty over games we like not ending up higher on a website's top 100 list.

I'm mildly salty that Xenoblade is #80 while COD Black Ops is #79. Or that New Super Mario Bros Wii and Fifa 12 are even on this list what the fuck is this seriously
 
BinaryPork2737 said:
In this thread we get salty over games we like not ending up higher on a website's top 100 list.

I'm mildly salty that Xenoblade is #80 while COD Black Ops is #79. Or that New Super Mario Bros Wii and Fifa 12 are even on this list what the fuck is this seriously
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Haha

Yeah, this thread should be titled 'IGN writes some malarkey'.
 
J3ffro said:
Trials Evolution seems awfully high. I know, opinions and what not, but we are talking about games of an entire generation.
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Have you played it? The game is tightly developed, takes the mechanics and makes the most of them, and has a great content creation system that great new tracks are still released to by users. Not many other games of the last generation could make that claim. You wouldn't consider it worthy, while I consider it in the top ten easily if not the top five. I'm sure their writers had many of the same arguments for games.
 
Is this from an alternate reality where there are 79 games that are factually better than Xenoblade? Is it heaven?
 
Danchi said:
FIFA 12 is a weird one. I play these games every year so they all kinda blend together for me, but I think a decent chunk of players feel the series hasn't been moving forward enough these last few years. I'm assuming 2012 was the year they implemented the new impact engine or something (the one which spawned all those YouTube videos of players rolling around together and making out)? Otherwise, I'm not sure what stands out.

edit: oh and Ketsui not being number one would be an outrage rabble rabble
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Fifa 12 introduced Tactical Defending which was quite a big change imo.
 
TheBigG753 said:
My Top 10 (one selection per series):

1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Portal 2
3. The Last of Us
4. Red Dead Redemption
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns
6. Bioshock
7. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
9. Dead Space
10. Bayonetta
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Good list! Six outta ten of those are on mine too.
 
I think keeping Demon's Souls below Dark Souls has become the "cool" thing to do by all the mainstream sites since it is multiplat instead of exclusive to Playstation.
 
Bayonetta at 55..., also how is Flower at #64 and Vanquish at #95?

I'm just going to assume these editors got drunk and drew these titles out of a hat.
 
m0t0k1 said:
Well you can fill in your own list but tons of good games are missing but i have worked out a list with the games i could choose. Also sad about no handhelds list would almost consist of those if i had the chance.

http://ignconsolegameofageneration.ign.com/

1. Mario Kart Wii
2. The Last Story
3. Monster Hunter Tri
4. Tekken Tag Tournament 2
5. Bayonetta
6. Zelda Twilight Princess
7. Catherine
8. Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
9. Valkirya Chronicles
10.Yakuza 4
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7/10 of my top 10 arent even listed as options
 
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