Wow! IGN gives a big-name game a high score! That's totally unexpected, has never happened before, and must be completely on point (just like it was for Skyward Sword, Tomb Raider, and Halo 4)!

Wouldn't surprise me if they got the rights on the cheap at this point. It also wouldn't surprise me if Sony left some smaller team (like Sanzaru) to make a potential new Crash game, because I doubt it would sell all that well, and would essentially be a huge waste of time and money for both teams at Naughty Dog.

Favorite PS3 Game: Journey

Favorite 360 Game: Gears of War

Favorite Wii Game: Super Mario Galaxy 2

Favorite PC Game: Half-Life 2 (the first current-gen game, I'd say)

Top 10 Games or Series of the Generation:

No series this gen was consistently great, so I'll just list individual games I liked a lot that aren't the ones I just listed above.

-The Last of Us

-Bayonetta

-The Walking Dead

-Geometry Wars 2

-Dark Souls

-The Witcher 2

-Assassin's Creed II

-The Darkness

-Spec Ops: The Line

-Hotline Miami

Favorite Developer: From Software

Biggest Disappointment: Uncharted 3 or Gears of War 2

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Because I don't like them.

I have quite a few games that I think of as 10/10s. My criteria for the score isn't perfection so much as it is whether or not a game delivers a cohesive and powerful artistic statement on a level that's more or less unprecedented within the medium. Which is why I think of games like Planescape: Torment, Shadow of the Colossus, Journey, or Spec Ops: The Line as 10s, even if they aren't "perfect."

I'd rank them as such:

1. San Andreas
2. III
3. IV
4. Vice City
5. V

Why no interest in The Darkness? I'd say that takes the crown for best FPS story this gen. And while I'm thinking of Starbreeze, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay has a very cool, atmospheric narrative.

Yes. I'll only exchange it for hashtag functionality on status updates.

Not really, j/k...

maybe

I wrote an editorial about two weeks ago that I'd like to submit (if that's not too long ago):  "I'll Never Play The Hero"

It explores the reasons why a lot of recent action games have been centered around some rather villainous player characters.