EoFF's Top Games of the Generation: Revelations

[Hollycat]

Someone actually voted for RE6? whaaaaat?! That doesn't even make sense silly. Game of the Generation goes to good games.

[Bolivar]

And preferrably ones you agree with?

Too bad Heavy Rain didn't make it. It was an incredibly ambitious game with an insane amount of polish and overall achieved its goals in my eyes.

I also probably should get around to playing dark souls eventually.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Hurray, I wasn't the only one who voted for The World Ends with You! The other person who voted it gets a high five. As a side note, I lent that game to a friend about a year ago and haven't seen it since =(.

I probably should get around to playing the Demon/Dark Souls games. I own Demon Souls but only played it for a couple of minutes and then kind of forgot that I owned it.

[Del Murder]

I figured Dark Souls would be up there.

TWEWY is great. I just had some better games to nominate. The DS had a strong lineup in general.

[Pete for President]

Praise the sun!

To everyone who hasn't played Demon's Souls or Dark Souls yet and is deterred by their image of being punishingly difficult; that may seem true for the first few hours, but there are always people in-game to help you out in it's amazing multiplayer options and with Dark Souls being on Steam sales regularly (it was only $7,50 not too long ago) this might be worth giving a try nonetheless. And to think of it, the game is not that difficult. In this age, yes maybe, but I find the difficulty comparable to games like FFT and Vagrant Story.

I remember being in doubt whether to buy Dark Souls or not for weeks, and when I eventually did I doubted my purchase during the first couple hours of gameplay. With fear talked into me by the things I read online I nervously ventured into the first few levels, afraid of what horrors might await. The feeling stuck until I beat the first boss; the thrill of slaying a demon thrice your size with a trusty shield and sturdy sword after being slain yourself 3-4 times was very intense.

And now it's my favorite game of all time thus far. Praise the sun!

[Aulayna]

I didn't actually know we could nominate DS games as I wasn't really sure what generation that would be classed as.

[Loony BoB]

Dammit, Shauna. Some of the games I love haven't been revealed as not making the cut yet and you're getting my hopes oh-so-high.

[Spuuky]

So we're in the "top 5" at this point, right? I believe that game was #5, if you are revealing 20 games?

[Shauna]

I am pretty sure I said in my original post that PSP, DS, Wii, 360 and PS3 games could be nominated, and for the sake of allowing the PC master race to not be left out, games released on PC after ~arbitrary date~.

Dammit guys!

And yes, we are essentially in the "Top 5". I can't say that any one game from the tier of 7 nominations is #5 because there were 5 games with that number of noms.

[Shauna]

The Last Of Us
2013 – PS3
8 Nominations

Naughty Dog's PS3 swan song. Where the hell did this thing come from? It's a wonderful game for a lot of reasons that don't seem very wonderful. It's challenging, resources are fairly scarce, and it is one hell of a brutally violent ride through a post-apocalyptic, zombies with a bad fungal infection infested America. Humans are usually as bad as the monsters, sometimes worse, and you'll certainly question by the end whether or not you're the worst of all.

But behind it all is this story of a father who lost his daughter, a girl who might cure the zombie plague, and the journey that brings them together. If it sounds cliche, it's really not. These are broken people in a broken world doing the best they can and making their fair share of bad decisions and crossing into some moral grey areas along the way.

The game itself is great as well. Think Uncharted with fewer bullets, no climbing, more stealth and if the violence was less Indiana Jones and more Walking Dead. It all comes together tremendously well to create an experience that can go from nail bitingly tense, heart wrenchingly touching, and straight back to unsettlingly casual in its brutality. It's easily one of the best games on any platform this generation.

Dwarf Fortress (3)
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend (2)
Bioshock (2)
Halo Reach (1)
2nd Super Robot Wars: Original Generations (1)
Frog Fractions (1)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (1)
Tekken 6 (1)
Borderlands 2 (1)
Resonance of Fate (1)

Top 3 next. Which games could possibly be yet to come at this late stage of the event?

[Hollycat]

Was a very good game.

[Pike]

Have we had The Walking Dead yet? I'm calling that one as one of the impending winners.

Also good to see Darkest Hour and Dorf Fort.

I tried so hard to like Dark Souls, I really did. I put hours into that game trying to like it. But I finally stopped when I realized I wasn't enjoying it at all. Sorry guys!

[Spuuky]

Have we had The Walking Dead yet? I'm calling that one as one of the impending winners.

Also good to see Darkest Hour and Dorf Fort.

I tried so hard to like Dark Souls, I really did. I put hours into that game trying to like it. But I finally stopped when I realized I wasn't enjoying it at all. Sorry guys!

We already had The Walking Dead, yes, way back in the 5-nomination zone.

[Pike]

Oh. Disregard then!

Edit: Changing my bet to Fallout New Vegas.

[Spuuky]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure New Vegas will be one of them. I'd also be somewhat shocked if Minecraft wasn't one of them.