Top 5 Games This Gen That Will Be CLASSICS.

OPs list is a victim of hype. He obviously just based them off their payed off scores.

Loco_Live

Because any game with high scores was paid for. :roll:

GTAIV, LittleBigPlanet, Sonic Unleashed (In my books), MLB10 the Show, InFamous, Uncharted 2, Tales of Vesperia, White Knight Chronicles (In my books), Naruto UNS (In my books), Warhawk, ESIV Oblivion and Braid.

Civilization IV

Team Fortress 2

probably SMG 1 and 2 but I've never played them so I can't be sure.

probably Portal 2 but obviously I haven't played it yet but I think that it isn't ridiculous to think that it might become a classic since our own experiences with other Vavle single player games.

maybe CoD4 but theres a lot of fans of other games in the series. (my favorite is CoD1 and especially it's expansion)

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2

2. The World Ends With You

3. God Of War III

4. ( when it's out ) Kingdom Hearts BBS ! :P

I think people need to differniate between awesome and classic.

-Call of Duty 4. It really changed the playing field for shooters wtih it's modern setting, custom classes and perks,and there were alot of avid players.

-Wii Sports. It's deffinetely not all that but alot of people played it and alot of the casual crowd bought the Wii for it. It's arguably what jump started the Wii craze. It wasn't ground breaking but a ton of people played it, had fun and talked about it, like Duck Hunt.

-Portal. Come on, it's the gaming equivalent of Ghost Busters. Full of memorable quotes and very funny.

-Gears of War. It really pushed the gitty atmosphere and ultra violence you see in a lot of shooters today. It really brought cover based shooters to light. The graphics blew people's minds when it first came out, it was the 360's killer app at the time and was the undisputed king of Live till Halo 3 came out.

-Guitar Hero III. The climax of the music game fad. Many will agree it's not the best but it was the best selling one, it's the most played one. Remember all those vids of guys playing Dragon Force on the highest difficulty?

Classics? It's tough to call in a generation of sequels and modified gameplay mechanics.robokill

I think Uncharted 2, SMG1-2, The next zelda game, and ME2-3 will be the Classics from this gen...

haha how is Bioshock a classic?...it was a dumbed down System Shock 2.

Console:

• MGS4
• GTA4
• SMG
• Bioshock
• UC2

PC:

• Portal
• Orange Box
• W.O.W and its' expansions
• Mass Effect 1 and 2
• Dragon Age Origins

Combined:

MGS4

GTA4

Uncharted

Portal

SMG

Games will be released that will overwright those games, just wait until the end of the gen to call out classics.

lets get real heavy rain wont be a classic, its a choose your own adventure with a lame story full of plot holes. Mass Effect series however are classics for sure

Gears of War 2 will be one

1) World of Warcraft - With more than 10 million players. The biggest, most profitable game ever. It's changed the gaming landscape forever.

2) Portal and/or Braid - Both games started a new trend and became the perfect examples of alternatives to long, big, high cost games. Both are fairly short, they are both low cost and both celebrated for having really clever puzzles combined with interesting story and atmosphere. They both really started the current wave of indie games being published through large publishing networks (Xbox Live, PSN and STEAM).

3) SMG or SMG 2 - It sounds like the second one is the better game, but the first was the original. But one of them deserves a spot on the list.

4) CoD4 - It started the wave we're seeing of 'modern' shooters. Where everyone else appeared to be stuck in WW2, it was also did a lot to re-define online game play with its persistent leveling system.

5) Guitar Hero 1/2/3 or Rock Band 1/2. I don't really know these so I'm not sure which one would become the classic. But it seems clear to me that they've helped define this generation. More than any other group of games they've pushed the peripheral market to become integrated into games; they've pushed gaming to become social activities outside the traditional mutliplayer settings.

6) The Sims 1/2/3. The Sims have helped breach the barriers between 'typical' gamers, they've become an iconic game title that generally doesn't appeal to traditional gamers. They game play, the setting and the whole idea of the game is highly original.

7) Wii sports. It's really the Wii more than Wii sports that deserve to be on the list but whatever. The concept of the Wii, both in the very broad market appeal, the idea of a console as being something healthy as opposed to begin considered unhealthy is very unique.

8) GTA4 For taking the storytelling of GTA:SA so much further. The game set a new standard of voice acting in games and storytelling. Probably the first (but far from the last) game of this gen where there was a feeling of 'wow this could be a blockbuster Hollywood movie.

No to demon's souls. and MGS4 was pretty lame. L4D will be a classic

iBear-

Fallout 3, Halo 3, LittleBigPlanet, RDR, Demon's Souls.

Galactic Civilization 2 ( + expansions) Crysis S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC World in Conflict Uncharted 2

The only way games can stay classic is a good story. For example, what games are classics from a decade ago? Games like FF and MGS which rely heavily on story. This is because people will not remember games for anything else like graphics or gameplay because these things can always be done better. So from this gen we look at games like MGS4 as classics.gamebreakerz__

The only way games can stay classic is a good story. For example, what games are classics from a decade ago? Games like FF and MGS which rely heavily on story. This is because people will not remember games for anything else like graphics or gameplay because these things can always be done better. So from this gen we look at games like MGS4 as classics.gamebreakerz__

• Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2
• The Orange Box
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Demon's Souls
• Mass Effect

Also you could add Crysis.

Every generation has its classics, in the '90 there was the Ocarina of Time, Mario64, Planescape Torment, Starcraft, and Metal Gear Solid. From 2000-2005 there was Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, Half Life 2, KOTR, and God of War. So What games will we remember as this generations classics?

I will start by saying(in no order)

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (extremely fun gameplay that reminded us why we play games in the first place)

2. Metal Gear Solid 4 (concluded the epic MGS franchise with a bang, and amazing plot)

3. Uncharted 2 (pushed new boundaries for console graphics while maintaining an enjoyable storyline and fun gameplay mechanics)

4. Demon Souls (Extremely difficult for a generation of ridiculously easy games, yet so so satisfying and entertaining)

5. Bioshock (Gorgeous art style and showed the FPS genre that you CAN make a shooter with a solid storyline with epic twists)

Crispenz

SuBioshock and SMG2 are certainly good choices. Especially Bioshock, the atmosphere of that game was so perfect. UC2 and MGS4 I can buy (thing is remember that visuals don't make a classic, and part of each of their successes came on superb visuals. But they do have excellent gameplay and storyline, each of them.

But Demon's Souls will be forgotten about, heck it's mostly been forgotten already. How many people bought that game, under a million? People need to have played a game for it to be a classic. Replace that with Halo 3 (really the ultimate party shooter, seamless XBL integration, Forge, Theater, Custom games, split screen competitive online letting you play a FPS with friends in a way that simply has no match to this date). I didn';t even have an xbox until 2009, and yet I had so many amazing Halo memories from playing with friends.

Either GTA4 or RDR have decent shot at being somewhat classics, they are both such polished games. it depends on whether or not future generations improve on the sandbox forumula presented by GTA. If they can, it may well be forgotten as better versions pop up.

Gears of War might be remembered as a classic, but the 3rd person cover shooter genre that it basically spawned (don't get me wrong, it existed before Gears, but Gears refined and perfected it), and now it is just standard for TPS to basically imitate gears, from ME2, UC2, and etc. So as games are using Gears gameplay, it might seem dated by next gen.,

And finally World of Warcraft and the orange Box. WoW for being so successful that soooooo many people try and emulate it's success with WoW clones, and just being a general pop phenomenom. The Orange Box was just such an amazing piece of gaming, especially Portal. The atmosphere and creativity in Portal will not become dated.

lets get real heavy rain wont be a classic, its a choose your own adventure with a lame story full of plot holes. Mass Effect series however are classics for sure

GrannyGoat

Honestly I haven't felt that many games have been really amazing. Most were sequels or somethingMr_Cumberdale

Every generation has its classics, in the '90 there was the Ocarina of Time, Mario64, Planescape Torment, Starcraft, and Metal Gear Solid. From 2000-2005 there was Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, Half Life 2, KOTR, and God of War. So What games will we remember as this generations classics?

I will start by saying(in no order)

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (extremely fun gameplay that reminded us why we play games in the first place)

2. Metal Gear Solid 4 (concluded the epic MGS franchise with a bang, and amazing plot)

3. Uncharted 2 (pushed new boundaries for console graphics while maintaining an enjoyable storyline and fun gameplay mechanics)

4. Demon Souls (Extremely difficult for a generation of ridiculously easy games, yet so so satisfying and entertaining)

5. Bioshock (Gorgeous art style and showed the FPS genre that you CAN make a shooter with a solid storyline with epic twists)

Crispenz

No to demon's souls. and MGS4 was pretty lame. L4D will be a classic

iBear-

[QUOTE="Crispenz"]

Every generation has its classics, in the '90 there was the Ocarina of Time, Mario64, Planescape Torment, Starcraft, and Metal Gear Solid. From 2000-2005 there was Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, Half Life 2, KOTR, and God of War. So What games will we remember as this generations classics?

I will start by saying(in no order)

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (extremely fun gameplay that reminded us why we play games in the first place)

2. Metal Gear Solid 4 (concluded the epic MGS franchise with a bang, and amazing plot)

3. Uncharted 2 (pushed new boundaries for console graphics while maintaining an enjoyable storyline and fun gameplay mechanics)

4. Demon Souls (Extremely difficult for a generation of ridiculously easy games, yet so so satisfying and entertaining)

5. Bioshock (Gorgeous art style and showed the FPS genre that you CAN make a shooter with a solid storyline with epic twists)

jasonharris48

Every generation has its classics, in the '90 there was the Ocarina of Time, Mario64, Planescape Torment, Starcraft, and Metal Gear Solid. From 2000-2005 there was Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, Half Life 2, KOTR, and God of War. So What games will we remember as this generations classics?

I will start by saying(in no order)

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (extremely fun gameplay that reminded us why we play games in the first place)

2. Metal Gear Solid 4 (concluded the epic MGS franchise with a bang, and amazing plot)

3. Uncharted 2 (pushed new boundaries for console graphics while maintaining an enjoyable storyline and fun gameplay mechanics)

4. Demon Souls (Extremely difficult for a generation of ridiculously easy games, yet so so satisfying and entertaining)

5. Bioshock (Gorgeous art style and showed the FPS genre that you CAN make a shooter with a solid storyline with epic twists)

Crispenz

Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 (both for slightly different reasons but it's not evendebatablethat these are going to be clasics)

Portal (came out of left field and had great critical success and everyone who played it seemed to love it)

Wii Sports (not because it's the best game ever but because it defined a generation)

Uncharted 2 (one of the best HD games this gen but truth be told it's just one of many great all-round HD games)

World of Goo (probably the most popular and critically acclaimed indy game this gen so I'm sure it will be talked about for years to come)

Probably not a perfect list but I think I'll go with those 5 for now.

Note: People choosing games that are not even released yet is just silly.

I'd switch out Bioshock with ME.lbjkurono23

this, otherwise the list looks pretty good imo.

Metal Gear Solid 4 (what a conclusion to the amazing franchise)
LittleBigPlanet (the amazing level of creativity!)
The Last Guardian (certain to be, much like SOTC)

Portal (original and just plain awesome)

TF2 (Honestly funnest MP this gen, i can see this game end up like CS)

STALKER series

The Witcher (amazing RPG)

Top 5 Locks despite what gets released between now and the end of this gen are

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Portal

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i think LBP2 is a chance and possibly Zelda Wii but still plenty of this gen to go

This has nothing to with opinions.

In no order.

MGS4
Mario Galaxy 2
Uncharted 2

These are the only ones so far thatI can see enduring. Two years ago I would have included Bioshock but that game hasn't stood the test of time. I feel like Mass Effect 2 might be a similar story but for now I'll list it alongside the others.

1. Uncharted 1 and 2 (yes i am including both)

2. Red Dead redemption

3.The last guardian (I belive it will be that good)

4.Deamons Souls

5.Mass Effect Series

I guess Portal is more popular than I thought. Good because that game is awesome.

In noorder fellow triforcers

Mario Galaxy 2

Uncharted 2

Mass Effect 2

Red Dead Redemption

Metal gear solid 4 guns of the Patriots