For the record, I have a few multi-platform titles on here. I'm just gonna throw them under the console I have them for. Also if I didn't do that, I'd have almost nothing for 360, and we can't have that
PS3- Yakuza (Haven't played enough of them to say for sure which one I like best, but all of them with the exception of 6 are on the PS3 in Japan, so I'm just including it on here generally
) : It's like a Streets of Rage RPG meets Yakuza dramas. It's amazing and brutal with immensely satsifying action, and I love it to death.
- Infamous 2 : My personal favorite "do the missions in the city"-style of game. Great fun combat and a fantastic story as well.
- L.A. Noire : Phoenix Wright meets 1940's Americana and it's exactly as awesome as it sounds.
- Nier : My favorite 3D action RPG ever, although it would appear that Automata may very well be taking that title soon!
- Rayman Legends : If Woolly World is the standing champ of 8th gen modern platformers (if we're going to be sticklers on where it is gen-wise
), Rayman Legends/Origins definitely take the cake on 7th gen by quite a fair ways
- Tales of Graces f : My favorite Tales game I've played so far. I absolutely loved all the characters, the villain was great, and the combat system was crazy fun as well.
Wii- Castlevania Judgment : A very fun 3D-fighter with a great, campy theme. Perhaps not the best balanced fighter in the world, but fantastic fun to play for even this non-fighting game fan.
- Ghostbusters the Video Game : The other console versions may have prettier graphics, but not only the does somewhat deformed graphics style here still look nice, this one is the only one with a co-op campaign mode! A great addition to the franchise (essentially a 3rd movie), and a very fun shooter.
- Fortune Street : Monopoly with a stock market, more or less, and it actually makes that game a good deal of fun. The Dragon Quest and Mario licenses make this a very fun game, albeit a bit of a long and technical one for a party game.
- Punch Out!! : A fantastic and proper update to the original. This is like, THE way to do a modern revival of an old series.
- Mario Party 9 : Nintendo really needed to reinvent the wheel after they lost Hudson Soft to make Mario Party titles, and I think they did a damn good job. 10 is definitely better, but 9 is a fantastic re-imagining of the series and makes it an actually fun party game (as opposed to before where skill basically made the person who owned the game always win, so no one ever wanted to play).
Xbox 360- Blur : My favorite non-Nintendo racer I've ever played. It's fast, it's arcadey, and the powerups are very technical. A fantastic game with an intense sense of speed.
- Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom : The best non-Nintendo Zelda game I've ever played, and also perhaps my favorite adventure game of this generation, as you'll notice none of the Wii Zeldas made my list
- Binary Domain - If Yakuza were a shooter, I suppose it'd be this (or Dead Souls, probably
). Fantastically meaty combat against robots who die in a very pleasingly dynamic way. Great fun.
- Dishonored : The successor that the original Thief series deserved. A fantastic action/stealth game that is oozing atmosphere in spades.
- Blood Bowl : It's not a perfect game by any means, nor is it a perfect version of that game, but DAMN do I love me some Blood Bowl. I like the variety and AI teams in Legendary Edition on PC better, but this version is damn good as well, as it has all the races you really need, tbh.
. The Conduit 2 definitely looks better, had a bigger budget, and the same great controls but by that point my interest in the system was starting to fade.