IGN has published its games of the generation and also given users the ability to vote for theirs. As we already reported Super Mario Galaxy was the publications Game of the Generation. Now they’ve published their readers games. IGN says that over the last couple of weeks, over 65,000 votes have been cast by readers. Here’s their results as well as IGN’s for comparison.
Top 10 (Reader choices)
10.) Batman Arkham City
9.) Bioshock Infinite
8.) Mass Effect 2
7.) Assassin’s Creed II
6.) Bioshock
5.) Red Dead Redemption
4.) Fallout 3
3.) Grand Theft Auto V
2.) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
1.) The Last of Us
Top 10 (IGN Picks)
10.) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
9.) Journey
8.) Grand Theft Auto V
7.) Red Dead Redemption
6.) Minecraft
5.) Fallout 3
4.) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3.) The Last of Us
2.) Portal 2
1.) Super Mario Galaxy
Yes
Sounds like the readers just picked what they thought were the best games of the generation, not the games that defined a generation. How characteristically unintelligent.
Very sad…no one these days understands true gaming that defines a generation.
It may not be a bad or good game that could define a generation.
EXACTLY!! AGREED!!
I’d put Pikmin in the best games of last generation, along with Smash Bros and Zelda.
Pikmin and P2 were Games one the Generation before Wii, so they don’t count here. Please understand.
or not even the best per se but just the most popular
OK. Last of us is only so liked because if you hate it or say your opinion you will get down voted or some shit like that. It’s a great game but no where near the top ten. I would probably replace it with walking dead or skyward sword
Skyward sword? One of the most disliked Zelda games in the zelda series? Gtfoh XD
I have never read anywhere ever since the release of skyward sword that it was disliked in anyway so please explain
Last of Us is a piece of fucking shit
*brofist*
Not really. We should be able to recognise when a game is good, even if it is another console’s exclusive. And the story and characters of this one were plain awesome.
The last of us didn’t have any really interesting characters at all. They were pretty copy/paste post apocalyptic characters, see The walking dead. The best story elements in that game were the notes you found left behind from survivors or people who struggled through the outbreak of infected.
I disagree mate :) Never before I had played a game that made me care so much for its characters and the relationships arising between them and also the player. Those kind of experiences were reserved for very good movies or books right up to the moment this game came up (My opinion)
Anyway, it seems like majority of gamers found it as interesting as I did. Obviously people have different taste but in any case can this game be bad.
BuT tHeM NinTEndO cHAracTERs aRe sO InTEresTIng
It’s good but not top ten good top 100 maybe
Don’t be a heater
Be nice.
It’s uncharted in a city terrible ai. People just love cgi lol
Just curious, why did they choose Arkham Origins as the picture for this? I like the game and all just wondering…
That’s my fault. I was looking for a Batman Arkham City image in our image library and ended up with one from Arkham Origins. Sorry!
Oh ok, no prob, btw I never played the Arkham games until I got Arkham city for the Wii U. Loved it…
That’s arkham city, which is on the list
Oh yeah, it’s just that before you got here it was an image of Arkham Origins but it’s fixed now, you can go back to your regular scheduled program.
IGN’s top 10 are very good – their top 2 are my top 2. The user’s choice is a complete waste of time because obviously it’s just a bunch of popular stuff.
However, the reader’s choice list does a great job of summing up the last generation. Dull, bland, and with absolutely no variety…well except if you had a Wii, but the Wii is of course ignored despite being the biggest selling console of the generation.
So last of us is valid… But Mario galaxy is not. You know how I know you’re a fool?
The users list is quite shitty, honestly. And not for the lack of Nintendo games but how similar some of they are and the excess of violence in them. Top 20 is full of guns. It makes me sad to be part of “this” generation.
Never mind they changed it :D thx
Agreed! All of those games are great! If you haven’t played em, then you are really missing out!
I could never understand a borefest like Skyrim is fun. But that’s not the point. Anyways…
Super Mario Galaxy, Portal 2, and Journey deserve they’re spot in the list though.
Valve Glados, if you don’t mind me asking, what are your PC specs and how much did it cost? I’m trying to get a high end gaming rig. I’m willing to spend say $1300 or so.
I haven’t gotten to try any of the games on this list besides Super Mario Galaxy. I really did miss out last gen…
You really didn’t miss out dude. It’s a remarkably unspectacular list. In the reader’s choice column all 10 games are remarkably similar. Play 1 or 2 of them and you’ve played them all.
The best parts about these lists are that there are no Electron garbage in it…
Nevermind, I just remembered ME is from the Electrons…
Mass Effect is from Bioware not EA.
And Bioware was bought by EA if I am not mistaken
Yup. That’s EA for you. They’ll buy your favorite game developers and turn them into slaves. I can’t believe they got a hold of Plants vs Zombies. Even casual games are getting ruined because of them…
Aside from Super Mario Galaxy, these lists were obviously made by Playstation and Xbox fanboys.
Of course, it’s IGN…
Where’s mnn’s list? Fuck ign readers
These lists also proves to me why I’ll never buy a PS4 or Xbone. All of the games on those consoles SUCKS! Gamers (if that’s what you call them) are SO boring these days. If the game industry ever crashed again like it did in the 80’s, it would be because of all of these horrible games that people thinks are fun. Ugh!
Mario Galaxy is the one Nintendo game me and my babe do like to play together. He makes fun or me for wanting to buy Mario Kart 8 I mean it still looks fun..
http://youtu.be/dh_PZ9pKzVY
When will Nintendo bring out a new console? The wii has been out for years! The add on controller is to expensive!
You’re awful at trolling.
Here! Don’t forget your cookie.
Hit your wii with a tf2 wrench, then bam, new console.
Bring tf2 to wii u… and portal
Yes, we need a Nintendo/Valve Alliance…
Go fuck yourself how’s that one ballbag
Can’t really agree with either of the lists.
But would have chosen Arkham Asylum over the City.
IGN readers have a poor taste in video games. What else is new?
Yeah I know right, I personally don’t like them, late on news and their ads are usually longer than the actual video. What happened to Audrey Drake tho?
she left to work for nintendo actually.
Xenoblade: Chronicles is in the #60-80 range on both lists. I feel like if more people had played it, it would be higher on the list. Nintendo needs to cut it out with the limited releases.
Conspiracy Theory Alert: what if Nintendo purposely does this to make their less-known game franchises look more exclusive or for some other odd reason. The Mother series, Pikmin 2, and Xenoblade were all highly acclaimed, but they were all very rare in the US. I’m not saying I want to believe this is true, but these limited releases seem so fishy to me.
So many Guns in the Readers’ List.
It hurts like Headshot in the Knee.
Though I still agree with some Points of the Picks List, mostly because SMG is the best Game in the Main Series of Super Mario of 2D and 3D Platforming Adventures I ever played up to today and I played everyone of them besides NSMB2, U and SM3DW for now, (which are all from current and not last Generation). SMG2 could have been best if it was the first Installment of Galaxy, but it’s still a (great but not so revolutionary) Successor that has new Content and some Fixes in Detail built on Predecessor’s Glory.
Oh. I meant “except NSMB2, U and SM3DW”.
all of those games really are fantastic. all except minecraft anyway.
I love MInecraft! That game is awesome! Also, it is definitely a game of the generation whether people like it or not due to it’s popularity and the ability it has to move consoles and the fact that it has defined gaming since it’s release.
Minecraft looks like a fun game! Was gonna get it back when I had a PS3, but that game really looks like it was meant for PC. So I guess I’ll wait to get it after I get a gaming rig.
maybe. I simply don’t like it whatsoever.
Minecraft is infinitely better than the likes of Mass Effect and Batman and thoroughly deserves its place on the list.
Defined a generation of elementary school students?
It’s nice to see Journey recognized on a list like this, though I don’t understand why it’s on a list of games that reflect the generation. I certainly would have WANTED for Journey to define a generation, but that would require a massive audience (it would have to be the majority, in fact) of people who appreciated the sort of thing, and many, many more games that followed suite, aspiring to something higher than fun. Unfortunately, those among the community who want something more like Journey, and the games/developers who reflect that demographic, have taken a far back seat to frat-boys (and those wanting to be them) with fps and sports games, as well as casual fitness and party players. They’re the ones who have truly defined this last generation.
Hell yeah…
At least Galaxy made it! :D
lol @ readers choice. the only 2 games that deserve to be on the list are FO3 and the original bioshock.
I’m actually flabbergasted that Wii Sports isn’t on a list. It WAS the entire last generation to millions of people.
Most of the people who played Wii Sports were families and casual gamers. These are mainly just picked by gamers of IGN. So that could explain why.
sigh, looks like the readers voted based on graphics and nothing else.
Isn’t cod 4 an original Xbox game
My list:
10. Mass Effect
9. Portal 2
8. Super Mario Galaxy
7. Pokemon X&Y
6. Assassin’s Creed
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
4. League Of Legends
3. The Last Of Us
2. Wii Sports
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Those are the games everyone played in the last generation. Honorable mentions to DOTA2, Elder Scrolls, and Bioshock.
Pokémon X&Y are not last Gen.
No More Heroes? MadWorld? No more heroes…mad world…
The fact that only Super Mario Galaxy on that list is on a Nintendo platform, shows how bad 3rd party support was on the Wii. Let’s hope the Wii U and its successor gets better 3rd party support…
Saying that only one 1st party title made the list to justify the need for more 3rd party titles confuses me, especially when there were many 1st party games alone that were worthy. As for 3rd party support on Wii:
+2 No More Heroes (Ubisoft)
+2 Red Steels (Ubisoft)
+2 RE Chronicles (Capcom)
+2 The Conduits (SEGA)
+4 Sonics [Secret Rings, Black Knight, Unleashed, Colors] (SEGA)
+3 House of the Deads [counting what’s on the compilation] (SEGA)
+NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (SEGA)
+Tenchu: Shadow Assassins (Ubisoft)
+Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Ignition Entertainment)
+Heatseeker (CodeMasters)
+Ghostbusters (Atari)
+Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes (Capcom)
+Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
+Epic Mickey (Disney)
+FF Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Square-Enix)
+Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Aksys)
+Mushroom: The Spore Wars (South Peak Games)
+Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
+SEGA Superstars Tennis
+Okami
There are plenty more, but those are from my own Wii library (w/ the exception of Sonic Black Knight. There are also a few obscure titles I excluded). Alas, many of those games stopped w/ one or 2, & some of those franchises have been put on hold (some since the 6th gen). Creators & studios have left. & while some 3rd parties have large catalogs, their output has shrunk. Games like RE, FF, Tomb Raider, Castlevania, & MGS are barely recognizable. Genres seem to only survive through Indies. In the midst of all that, I doubt Wii U will be able to garner appropriate 3rd party support; unless it has Wii sales numbers & is treated like a Nintendo console & not a Twin (or would that then be ‘Triplet’?). I mean, right out of the gate Wii U hosted mostly multiplats meant for the Twin demographic. Unless established IPs like Red Steel, PoP, Crazy Taxi, & NiGHTS returns; or are revived like Skies of Arcadia, Sphinx & the Cursed Mummy, & the mainline RE series; or are completely new, retail “AAA” titles (Watch_Dogs does NOT count), Wii U & the gaming industry as a whole will continue to decline in variety & quality. Gamers will continually be replaced by casuals who go gaga for hardcore dev’s audiovisuals @ the expense of hardcore gameplay & inspired æsthetics.