- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
Let's have a GB Roundtable: What are the best games of this console generation?
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:35 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:35 am
Best First Person Shooter: Battlefield 3 (I wanted to give this to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for blazing the trail of how I play military FPS games. It popped my cherry online and really was a building block for how modern military FPS games are modeled. The thing is Battlefield 3 took everything that is good in FPS games and made them better and left out a lot of cheese. Plus, there is immense value and replayability in BF3. All hail the king.)
Best Third Person Shooter: Ghost Recon Future Soldier (This game is incredibly solid, but has a very small community. I don't have a lot of experience with TPS games, so I guess it's GRFS by default.)
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Saints Row (I don't have a ton of experience here, either, but I had to go with the one RPG I had the most fun with. I also bought GTAIV and found it solid, but a bit...I don't know, cumbersome?)
Best Sports Game: MLB The Show (Easy choice.)
Best Racing Game:
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: MLB The Show (I haven't played The Last of Us, so I can't nominate it. Although I suspect this is a runaway.)
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive:
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront (Obviously.)
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Battlefield 3
Edited to add:
Best Indie Game:
Most Overlooked/Underrated Game (AKA "The Moped"): Medal of Honor Warfighter
Best Third Person Shooter: Ghost Recon Future Soldier (This game is incredibly solid, but has a very small community. I don't have a lot of experience with TPS games, so I guess it's GRFS by default.)
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Saints Row (I don't have a ton of experience here, either, but I had to go with the one RPG I had the most fun with. I also bought GTAIV and found it solid, but a bit...I don't know, cumbersome?)
Best Sports Game: MLB The Show (Easy choice.)
Best Racing Game:
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: MLB The Show (I haven't played The Last of Us, so I can't nominate it. Although I suspect this is a runaway.)
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive:
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront (Obviously.)
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Battlefield 3
Edited to add:
Best Indie Game:
Most Overlooked/Underrated Game (AKA "The Moped"): Medal of Honor Warfighter
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 12:25 pm
27
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:36 am to The Sad Banana
This should end well
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:39 am to The Sad Banana
Best open world game should go to red dead IMO
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 9:41 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:42 am to The Sad Banana
quote:
Best First Person Shooter:
COD4: MW - opened up pandora's box for every FPS multiplayer game out there today. Great gameplay (still the most fun COD for me). Blazing trails + done exceptionally well = best FPS for me
quote:
Best Third Person Shooter:
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
It had everything. Action, fluid game play, great story, great graphics, great cinematics. It improved upon the first game tremendously. Might be my fav of the whole generation
quote:
Best Open World Role Playing Game
Skyrim - no argument needed IMO
Honorable mention to inFamous 2
quote:
Best Sports Game:
NBA 2k13 - IMO the best sports game - highly debatable
quote:
Best Racing Game:
Gran Turismo - just because
quote:
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive:
The Last of Us - nuff said
quote:
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive:
Mass Effect 2 - It was exclusive when it came out. It was the only reason I still had an xbox at one point. One of the greatest games of the Gen easily.
quote:
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront (Obviously.)
No arguments there
quote:
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation:
Mass Effect 2
Honorable mention to Uncharted 2, Halo 3
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:50 am to The Sad Banana
Best First Person Shooter:
Halo 3 (solely for the MP side)
Best Third Person Shooter: Does TLoU count as a TPS? If so then that is my answer
Best Open World Role Playing Game: RDR, honorable mention Nino Kuni
Best Sports Game: NHL 13
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: TLoU
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Alan Wake
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Halo: Reach
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: TLoU, honorable mentions: Bioshock: Infinite
You should add best Indie game.
ETA
Best Indie Game: shadow complex
Halo 3 (solely for the MP side)
Best Third Person Shooter: Does TLoU count as a TPS? If so then that is my answer
Best Open World Role Playing Game: RDR, honorable mention Nino Kuni
Best Sports Game: NHL 13
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: TLoU
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Alan Wake
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Halo: Reach
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: TLoU, honorable mentions: Bioshock: Infinite
You should add best Indie game.
ETA
Best Indie Game: shadow complex
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 10:39 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:53 am to The Sad Banana
Biggest bust:
Homefront
Homefront
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:57 am to The Sad Banana
quote:
Best First Person Shooter: Call of Duty: World at War
Best Third Person Shooter: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It encompassed a genre that I love and did it in an exciting manner that kept me going until the credits rolled.
Best Open World Role Playing Game: This is a very narrow specification, if it was just RPG I'd say Witcher 2. Open world RPG I would lean towards Skyrim
Best Sports Game: NBA 2k13
Best Racing Game: Forza
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: The Last of Us
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Dead Rising
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Mass Effect 3
Posted on 7/8/13 at 9:59 am to The Sad Banana
quote:
Best First Person Shooter: COD4:MW
quote:
Best Third Person Shooter: Last of Us
quote:
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Oblivion with Red dead nipping at the heels
quote:
Best Sports Game: MLB The Show
quote:
Best Racing Game: im no queer
quote:
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: Last of Us
quote:
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: meh
quote:
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Assassin's Creed
quote:
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Last of Us
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:12 am to The Sad Banana
such a loooong generation.....i've seen several nominees i agree with, it'd be impossible for me to decide on some of these categories.
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:15 am to The Sad Banana
Halo 2
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:24 am to The Sad Banana
quote:
Best First Person Shooter: BLOPS 1 and BF3 tie for me on multiplayer but Borderlands 2 wins for a FPS story and pure fun.
MW2 wins for most fun multiplayer FPS
BF3 on console was fun until I played it on PC. No comparison so the console version lost some of its luster.
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War. All of them.
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Fallout: New Vegas and Assassins Creed II are a tie for me.
Fallout had some amazing DLC though.
Best Sports Game: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
Best Racing Game: For pure fun Need for Speed
For a technical aspect Forza or Gran Turismo - tie
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: Heavy Rain
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive:
1. Gears of War
2. Halo
3. Minecraft
4. Left 4 Dead
5. Trials HD
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: God of War: Ascension.
I liked and still play Homefront
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Hard to pick. Borderlands, Dead Island, Fallout, CoD have all given me hours of entertainment but Assassins Creed II had me immersed like no other and is one of the only games I got 100% completion on.
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 10:27 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:32 am to The Sad Banana
quote:COD4. Super addictive. revolutionary
Best First Person Shooter:
quote:ME2. got the biotics right and had a very good blend of story, action, etc
Best Third Person Shooter
quote:skyrim without a doubt
Best Open World Role Playing Game
quote:FIFA 12 or 13. 12 was a big step up for a franchise that was loosing a little luster. biggest sports game in the world.
Best Sports Game
quote:minecraft
Best Indie Game:
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:32 am to The Sad Banana
Best First Person Shooter: Battlefield 3
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: LotR: Conquest
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: LotR: Conquest
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:39 am to The Sad Banana
Best FPS: Halo 3- Really my first console game I really got into online. Bought with my xbox and meet a bunch of cool people and stuff. Kinda miss the days when I would hop on anytime and find people to play custom games with.
Best TPS: Heh. This is kinda tough. I'm going to assume that this doesn't just include shooters. If so then I would say a tie between The Last of US and Prototype 2. The Last of Us just came out so it still has that new game feel and that might be why I'm including it. But prototype 2 was just fricking awesome. A shame the studio who made it got closed down.
Best Open World Game: Fallout 3- The capital wasteland was quite an experience
Best Sports Game- NBA 2k12. Not a big fan of baseball, and even though I thought NCAA 12 was pretty good I really loved 2k. I also haven't played any 2013 sports games so I'm sure everyone elses answer is different
Best Racing Game: shite I don't know Mario Kart? Not much of a racing guy lol
Best PS3 Exclusive: The Last of Us. PS3 has some damn good exclusives but like I said earlier TLoU has that new game feel.
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Halo 3
Biggest Overall Bust of this Generation: This is kinda hard. I thought The WarZ situation was hilarious so I guess that one.
Best Overall Console Game of this Generation: Fallout 3- the game was just awesome. I wish I could erase all my memories of it and replay it. It was incredible running through the wasteland not knowing wtf to do.
Best Indie Game: This one is really hard. It's either The Binding of Isaac, Tiny & Big, or Minecraft
Best TPS: Heh. This is kinda tough. I'm going to assume that this doesn't just include shooters. If so then I would say a tie between The Last of US and Prototype 2. The Last of Us just came out so it still has that new game feel and that might be why I'm including it. But prototype 2 was just fricking awesome. A shame the studio who made it got closed down.
Best Open World Game: Fallout 3- The capital wasteland was quite an experience
Best Sports Game- NBA 2k12. Not a big fan of baseball, and even though I thought NCAA 12 was pretty good I really loved 2k. I also haven't played any 2013 sports games so I'm sure everyone elses answer is different
Best Racing Game: shite I don't know Mario Kart? Not much of a racing guy lol
Best PS3 Exclusive: The Last of Us. PS3 has some damn good exclusives but like I said earlier TLoU has that new game feel.
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Halo 3
Biggest Overall Bust of this Generation: This is kinda hard. I thought The WarZ situation was hilarious so I guess that one.
Best Overall Console Game of this Generation: Fallout 3- the game was just awesome. I wish I could erase all my memories of it and replay it. It was incredible running through the wasteland not knowing wtf to do.
Best Indie Game: This one is really hard. It's either The Binding of Isaac, Tiny & Big, or Minecraft
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:41 am to The Sad Banana
Best First Person Shooter: Battlefield 3
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War. Only really played the first one, and not a big fan of the genre, but the success of these games speak for themselves. FTR, putting TLoU in this category is a slap in the face of that game. I don't consider it a shooter, but JMO.
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Skyrim or Fallout 3. Never got in to GTA. I know RDR gets a lot of love here, but I'm not going to vote for something I've never really played.
Best Sports Game: don't play sports games.
Best Racing Game: Burnout Paradise. I hate that this game kind of got swept under the rug. It's an arcade racer, but it's done so well and the open world aspect of it gets you lost for hours, looking for jumps or signs to crash through. The fact that you can take any route you want to in a race, as long as you get from point A to point B, took some getting used to, but it gives life to a somewhat boring genre to me.
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: The Last of Us. I don't think many will argue when the PS3's life cycle is over that this game was tops.
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Gears of War, with Halo 3 coming in a close second.
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront. Diablo 3 is right up there. Never played it, but from every review I've read and gameplay video I've seen, Duke Nukem should get some consideration.
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: The Last of Us.
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
I'll add one.
Best Co-op Game: Borderlands 2. This series is Diablo with humor and guns. Everyone needs to find a friend and try this game out. Seriously. It's way beyond good.
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War. Only really played the first one, and not a big fan of the genre, but the success of these games speak for themselves. FTR, putting TLoU in this category is a slap in the face of that game. I don't consider it a shooter, but JMO.
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Skyrim or Fallout 3. Never got in to GTA. I know RDR gets a lot of love here, but I'm not going to vote for something I've never really played.
Best Sports Game: don't play sports games.
Best Racing Game: Burnout Paradise. I hate that this game kind of got swept under the rug. It's an arcade racer, but it's done so well and the open world aspect of it gets you lost for hours, looking for jumps or signs to crash through. The fact that you can take any route you want to in a race, as long as you get from point A to point B, took some getting used to, but it gives life to a somewhat boring genre to me.
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: The Last of Us. I don't think many will argue when the PS3's life cycle is over that this game was tops.
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Gears of War, with Halo 3 coming in a close second.
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Homefront. Diablo 3 is right up there. Never played it, but from every review I've read and gameplay video I've seen, Duke Nukem should get some consideration.
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: The Last of Us.
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
I'll add one.
Best Co-op Game: Borderlands 2. This series is Diablo with humor and guns. Everyone needs to find a friend and try this game out. Seriously. It's way beyond good.
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 10:42 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:55 am to The Sad Banana
Best First Person Shooter: Bioshock 1
Best Third Person Shooter: Uncharted 2
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Skyrim
Best RPG: Mass Effect 1
Best Sports Game: NBA 2K11
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: Metal Gear Solid 4
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Halo 3
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Duke Nukem Forever
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Metal Gear Solid 4
Best Third Person Shooter: Uncharted 2
Best Open World Role Playing Game: Skyrim
Best RPG: Mass Effect 1
Best Sports Game: NBA 2K11
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: Metal Gear Solid 4
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Halo 3
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: Duke Nukem Forever
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Metal Gear Solid 4
This post was edited on 7/8/13 at 10:58 am
Posted on 7/8/13 at 10:59 am to The Sad Banana
You could have a thread for each category honestly. There is so much to discuss there and I haven't even played half of these games. I did just purchase Last of us on ebay so that will be here in a few days.
Posted on 7/8/13 at 11:00 am to The Sad Banana
Best FPS: Arma 2: Wasteland
Best 3PS: Arma 2: Wasteland
Best open world: DayZ(Arma2 wasteland MOD)
Best 3PS: Arma 2: Wasteland
Best open world: DayZ(Arma2 wasteland MOD)
Posted on 7/8/13 at 11:06 am to The Sad Banana
quote:
Best First Person Shooter: COD4 or Blops
Battlefield 3 is strong but 30 FPS knocks it below any COD not named MW3.
Best Third Person Shooter: Gears of War
Best Open World Role Playing Game: n/a
Best Sports Game: NBA 2K13
Best Racing Game: n/a
Best Playstation 3 Exclusive: moar cutscenes!
Best Xbox 360 Exclusive: Gears of War series
Biggest Overall Bust of This Generation: research before you buy
Best Overall Console Game of This Generation: Bioshock or Borderlands
Best Indie Game: Minecraft
Posted on 7/8/13 at 11:07 am to The Sad Banana
I don't really think you classify Saints Row or GTA as a RPG. It's an open world game, but I'd say it's an action or third person shooter.
Other categories:
Best Puzzle Game
Best Platformer
Best WRPG
Best JRPG
Best Strategy Game
Then you can get away from genres and into:
Best Writing
Best OST
Most Underrated
Most Overrated
etc.
Other categories:
Best Puzzle Game
Best Platformer
Best WRPG
Best JRPG
Best Strategy Game
Then you can get away from genres and into:
Best Writing
Best OST
Most Underrated
Most Overrated
etc.
Page 1 of 2
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News