The Power Review: Japan has their RPGs, Europe has their RTSs, and USA has their shooters. But, why?
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
not neccessarily true
killzone 2 did sell more in europe than they did in america afterall
I'm English and the FPS is my favourite genre. Guess I'm an exception to the rule then.
can lead to offensive assumptions, but marketing trends, like the FPS fascination, is at least based off of some viable evidence I suppose. As an American, I can vouch for fitting some of the pattern, though, RTS games and action-rpg's are equally up there for me, depends on the game. Even an average FPS is NO match for Red Alert or Zelda gaming.
I honestly think a good portion of these trends obviously has to do with the culture of the dev companies, most RPG's come out of Japan, many RTS's and racing titles come out of Europe, and a lot of shooters are pumped out of the US, of course there are exceptions all over the grid to this, but it's generally true, at least in my opinion. Each territory seems to create games that they themselves enjoy, as do their peers. Nothing wrong with diversity though, either, like Geurilla Games, Bioware, etc...and the likes, who defy this pattern, too....
I just love a good game, whether Miyamoto made it, or Santa Monica made it....
...and I generally hate FPS. They're too similar in gameplay from one to another, too simplistic in gameplay, and it generally seems to be the genre with the sh*ttiest plots.
I know some 17 year olds who say FPS is the best genre and they want to join the military ASAP so they can "kill people". They say it with the straightest faces and most serious tone of voice ever. I'm not kidding.
I just love the skill involved in FPS. CSS is still my crack. I even go back to 1.6 now and again.