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NeoGAF Games of the Generation Awards
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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Well predicting that top 2 was certainly easy!
Good picks everyone, and thanks Anihawk.
Can't stop grinning about how many people put Thousand Year Door on their list.
Good picks everyone, and thanks Anihawk.
Can't stop grinning about how many people put Thousand Year Door on their list.
Shunshine being 2 and jungle beat being 10 is just... no.
If only all the people that played sunshine had played jungle beat ;_;
GitarooMan
Member
I think it's really interesting because there is a sense of perspective that is often lacking when you are too close to something.
i disagree.
it is in the very least an objectively worse packaged game than many games on the list with regard to content - particularly vf4e, melee and sc2. beyond that, it's one of the least balanced games on the list - this isn't an issue for everyone. it was a dud at launch and despite its recent resurgence no, I personally would not put it in top 3. id put it above marvel 2 and soul calibur 1 though.
RadarScope1
Member
I was just wondering why ever happened this poll last night. Nice job GAF and AniHawk.
Agreed, it's definitely for the better...although I doubt the list would be much different if the voting had been done close to the end of that generation. These are all the usual suspects. Hell, some you'd expect to not show up 14~ years after the fact, like Final Fantasy X. I guess, deep down, someone people really enjoy their Final Corridor Fantasies.
RadarScope1
Member
No, these things need time not only for reflection but for people to play the games. While this particular poll could have happened a few years ago, the 7th gen poll doesn't need to happen any time soon. Not all of us play these games the day they come out. This is also why I appreciate the GAF GOTY vote takes place in late January. Even that feel rushed to me. I have kids, a time-consuming job, volunteer duties, blah blah blah.
sleepydeer
Member
Unreal Tournament 2004 is PC-exclusive, not multiplatform; Xbox got Unreal Championship 2 instead, which has 3rd-person and melee and different modes.
That should put UT2004 on the top 10 PC games list.
Great work putting all this together, AniHawk!
That should put UT2004 on the top 10 PC games list.
Great work putting all this together, AniHawk!
Aeriscloud
Banned
I actually screwed up my vote for KOTOR instead of KOTOR II.
Ganondorfo
Junior Member
Great list. Will Neogaf also do the Snes generation and the PS1 generation?
A lot of people didn't cotton to the Dark Aether world that caused injury when you ventured out of safe zones in the first part of the game and its black-and-purple aesthetics. I personally found it to be on par with the original, and loved the addition of the screw attack (although it came a bit late).
EDIT: Forgot to comment on the list. RE4 is my most replayed game next to the original Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros., and is a well-deserved #1 game of the generation. I still remember playing that Gamecube demo of the village area at an EBGames and just being gobsmacked by how atmospheric the whole experience was.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Thanks for your hard work, AniHawk.
Not to mention Eternal Darkness. Sigh.
Astral Dog
Member
Rightfully deserved, RE4 is a masterpiece of game design and innovation, incredible what they could do on a humble Gamecube in 2004, the game has surpassed many others that came after it, im just sad the team that made that game was fired like trash.
Metroid Prime deserves that spot too, 60fps, action adventure goodness, wrapped on a FPS.
Im surprised DMC 3 isn't higher.
Metroid Prime deserves that spot too, 60fps, action adventure goodness, wrapped on a FPS.
Im surprised DMC 3 isn't higher.
Yep. Props for the work.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
AniHawk, thanks so much for your hard work. And thanks to all the GAFers that voted. Great list overall.
To the PC crowd, just accept the results, and move on.
I'm doing the same. During that generation, I absolutely hated the GameCube as a console; as a matter of fact, I still do. But I have to recognize the undeniable strength of its software lineup. And I'm actually in the process of playing a lot of those games (the ones available on non-GCN consoles). And, as a player of "traditional" fighting games, I've come to terms with Melee ranking so high. During that gen, I actively despised Melee, but as I've aged I realized it's an amazing video game... just not for me.
So everyone, just rejoice that awesome games are being celebrated in this poll!
To the PC crowd, just accept the results, and move on.
I'm doing the same. During that generation, I absolutely hated the GameCube as a console; as a matter of fact, I still do. But I have to recognize the undeniable strength of its software lineup. And I'm actually in the process of playing a lot of those games (the ones available on non-GCN consoles). And, as a player of "traditional" fighting games, I've come to terms with Melee ranking so high. During that gen, I actively despised Melee, but as I've aged I realized it's an amazing video game... just not for me.
So everyone, just rejoice that awesome games are being celebrated in this poll!
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Gamecube stay winning
broncobuster
Banned
Nice list if only disappointing for missing Deus Ex in Top 10.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
The top three is probably as they should be, though any order you put them in would be fine. Looking over that list is just awesome. What an incredible, incredible generation. Probably the best in terms of overall quality that we've seen to this point.
Aside from some low Dreamcast games the list is damn solid. It's nice to see how much the recognition the GameCube gets these days. GCN and PS2 both have 3 games in the top 5 - two exclusives each and RE4.
Interesting to see how far some games fallen; GTA, GoW, GBA games in general and Halo.
Interesting to see how far some games fallen; GTA, GoW, GBA games in general and Halo.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Gosh damn, Okami doesn't get the love it deserves. I tried promoting it all around the community forums and it didn't do shit.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Given that we seem to all agree that we could have theoretically done this list earlier, when do we think we'll get to the next generation? 2018?
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Another thing... Capcom was absolutely STELLAR. Was it really all Mikami, Kamiya, Inaba, and Minami that were responsible for their greatness?
sketchsanchez
Member
Kinda bummed that Freedom Fighters wasnt as loved as I hoped.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Itsuno is still there, they aint thrown him in a janitor's closet like Iga yet(or all their non-MGS creating devs)
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
I am satisfied with the top 2, and happy F-Zero GX got so high. Hate the MGS series with a passion so I don't agree with either of those games being on the list. But otherwise it's a decent list.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Too many cutscenes? Dislike of stealth games? Just curious...
Nocturnowl
Member
I think it's almost as great personally, it's like Prime pulling no punches with stronger visual design and complexity.
The Dark World aspect is an understandable hurdle for some, either you gel with the oppressive health draining atmosphere and what it represents or you wonder why the game is making you stand around in bubbles twiddling your thumbs (or thumb in Samus' case).
It's key collecting structure is unfortunately a bit formulaic so the game misses out on that flowing world exploration vibe that the original has going on and instead feels a touch segmented which is where I mainly find it to fall short of the original.
Left off my main list for varieties sake, for Metroid there could only be one.
hmm wonder why?
FUCK
I just realized all my votes never got in because I left the tab up and didn't hit enter when I was done. ;_________;
That said, there's a ton of right on that list. Good to see the ever eternal Melee up there and GAF starting to show more love for Metroid Prime 2 and Windwaker as someone who lived through the day and date criticisms of both as "lamer Halo 2/CELda".
Yeah, I seriously don't know how I haven't played it yet when it gets such raving reviews and I had a Gamecube.
I just realized all my votes never got in because I left the tab up and didn't hit enter when I was done. ;_________;
That said, there's a ton of right on that list. Good to see the ever eternal Melee up there and GAF starting to show more love for Metroid Prime 2 and Windwaker as someone who lived through the day and date criticisms of both as "lamer Halo 2/CELda".
Yeah, I seriously don't know how I haven't played it yet when it gets such raving reviews and I had a Gamecube.
It was my #1. Keep fighting the good fight.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Higher highs, lower lows. It's one of those "harder to understand/appreciate" kind of games. The quality is absolutely there though.
Tales of Symphonia got snubbeeddddddd
Aside from that a really great list. I think the lack of PC-centric titles is also simply because the noughties were something of a lull for PC gaming; console gaming took over strongly that decade, it's only been on the rebound the last five years. At least that's how I experienced them. If 99 was included, Unreal Tournament would surely have been in the top 5.
Aside from that a really great list. I think the lack of PC-centric titles is also simply because the noughties were something of a lull for PC gaming; console gaming took over strongly that decade, it's only been on the rebound the last five years. At least that's how I experienced them. If 99 was included, Unreal Tournament would surely have been in the top 5.
That's a great list, aside from the fact that BGII and RE4 should swap places.
One is the most ambitious Western RPG ever created, one is a good, albeit astoundingly overrated, action horror game.
Not a fan of RPGs? Prime still wipes the floor with RE4. I can't fathom how RE4 has such an incredible following, I played both in the last three years: Prime's still the unachievable height of level design for action-adventure games in general and for metroidvania games in particular, RE4 is good but there's nothing unique or mindblowing to it nowadays.
Also Halo 2 and MGS2 IMO are much inferior to lots of games outside of the top 25. Both are kinda disappointing coming from their respective starting games in the series.
One is the most ambitious Western RPG ever created, one is a good, albeit astoundingly overrated, action horror game.
Not a fan of RPGs? Prime still wipes the floor with RE4. I can't fathom how RE4 has such an incredible following, I played both in the last three years: Prime's still the unachievable height of level design for action-adventure games in general and for metroidvania games in particular, RE4 is good but there's nothing unique or mindblowing to it nowadays.
Also Halo 2 and MGS2 IMO are much inferior to lots of games outside of the top 25. Both are kinda disappointing coming from their respective starting games in the series.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I completely forgot that Symphonia was from this era. I wonder if more people played the PS3 collection and forgot about it as well.