The Top 35 Games of the Generation

Fortix really? You're the first person to mention that. I can't say any of us at Analog Reviews were blown away by Fortix...

Yep, it's a travesty that we left those out...

Well, that's what we strive towards, and I'd say we're more objective than most. I personally don't really care who makes a game or what platform it's on. To give you an example, I bought both the PS4 and Xbox One day one for the sole purpose of reviewing launch titles. I think we actually say "We strive to provide unbiased, objective, and thorough video game reviews" on youtube directly. I guess I just left out the word "strive" in some of the giveaways.

Not a bad list at all, we have quite a few games in common (although they're in a different order.)

Bastion was great, so was Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (Wasn't a fan of MGS4 but MGS1 and MGS3 are among my favorites from earlier generations.)

I wasn't that big into Left 4 Dead though, it was fun to play with friends but I didn't find it to be exceptional in any way. Modern Warfare 2 had a solid campaign but I was never really a fan of Call of Duty multiplayer.

Ah that's cool. Portal 2 was decent but I didn't think it was that much of a step-up from the first Portal game. We would have added The Orange Box to our list but we decided not to count that as one game. Okami was last-gen since it was released for the PS2, but that was a great game.

We felt Bad Company 2 had better multiplayer than Battlefield 3. It had better maps with more destructible environments, a great Vietnam expansion and was a lot more innovative when it first came out.

There isn't a single Battlefield game with a decent singleplayer. Bad Company 2 probably comes the closest though to having an enjoyable campaign.

Yeah, that's generally how most people divide games, it's based on the console generations. This list spans 2006-2013 but we included quite a few PC titles as well. Last generation would have been from 2000-2005 for example and would include games like Half Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Resident Evil 4, etc.

I realize there aren't really clear generations for the PC as new video cards and other components are released every 6 months or so. For the purpose of the video, we're going with console generations.

Yeah, The Witcher 2 was great and often overlooked. It's the same thing with Dark Souls, a lot of other reviewers praise Skyrim when both of the aforementioned games were released the same year and are better in my opinion.

Yeah, there were five of us who voted and worked on the video. My friend Josh did the voiceover while I did all of the editing. I've told him a few times that it's pronounced "Smow and Ornstein" opposed to "Smog and Ornsteeeen" but he still butchered the pronunciation regardless. Mass Effect 2 was fairly unanimous for our top pick, it was our favorite installment from the trilogy with the best side quests, DLC, and story. I personally wanted to rate Dark Souls higher than RDR though.

Yeah, can't say we were blown away by any of those games really. Mirror's Edge was pretty cool. I'm personally not that big on competitive FPS games these days. I prefer the more retro FPS titles like Unreal Tournament, Quake III, etc.

CoD4 was one of my early reviews...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeB8EV4C8Yk
Not my cup of tea...

Walking Dead was a great game, it didn't quite make our list because your decisions didn't really seem to matter despite what Telltale promised. It's definitely a great game though and an enjoyable experience, we just wished we had more control over the story. We preferred New Vegas to 3 although they were both good games. I personally preferred the story and I really liked the factions such as Mr. House, Caesar, etc. The other guys preferred the multiplayer in Bad Company 2 to 3 but Battlefield was the only competitive FPS to make our list. Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl probably would have been #36 on our list and yeah, Minecraft is amazing :P.

Yeah, I think I prefer the older generations as well. I really liked the SNES and PS1/N64 generations.

Well, I already sort of covered the reasons why we didn't include Nintendo games in a different comment here. In terms of the handheld consoles, I really liked Fire Emblem Awakening for the 3DS as well as Dissidia Duo Decim and Crisis Core for the PSP. I'm not sure if any of those should be in the Top 35 though, maybe if we expanded the list to a Top 50.

My absolute favorite games for the PSP are Tactics Ogre Let us Cling Together and Final Fantasy Tactics War of The Lions. We couldn't include either of those since they're remakes of PS1 games. Both of those would definitely make it onto our list for the PS1/N64 generation though.

I agree with a lot of those, I really wanted to put Arkham Asylum on the list but the other guys outvoted me. We preferred the pacing of that to City though. Portal 1 maybe, Portal 2 meh. It wasn't a big improvement over the first game, and didn't really have the same level of impact.

Don't Starve was pretty cool but not top of the gen for me. I am kind of burned out on Zelda, they are still enjoyable games but the formula is wearing thin for me and I feel like each new 3d zelda game is trying to capture the magic of Ocarina of Time. World of Goo is a great time waster...

Khalaq beat you to that in another comment :P