What was the last truly great AAA game?

[anvi]

Probably something like Tiberian Sun, or Unreal Tournament.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

What about vanilla X2? I've been eyeing it for a while now, but the consensus here is unclear. I did enjoy the Enemy Unknown enough to finish it once and play a little Long War.

Base XCOM 2 has the best "prepare for battle" theme of all the nu XCOMs. I was legitimately pissed off that they replaced it with a new one for War of the Chosen. But I loved base XCOM 2 more than Enemy Unknown, and WotC just made it better overall (only the new soundtracks were forgettable).

Oh and WotC expanded a tiny bit on the legend that is Jane Kelly, arguably the most memorable random tutorial character ever. I never built a squad without her leading it.

 

[MapMan]

>elden ring first with 27 votes
et tu, codex?

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Titanfall 2, because it's the last one that did more than what was expected of it. Nobody expected it to have the level ideas it had. I'll always respect that more than something like elden ring, which is more of what you've seen before, but less interesting.

Stop trying to sound prestigious by constantly admitting you love shitty Xbox garbage

He's not wrong. Everybody expected that campaign to be a lazy tacked on piece of shit. It turned out to be pretty fuckin badass.

And the same can be said for Doom 2016. I know Doom purists here like to shit on it but I can't take morbidly obese diabetics seriously.

 

[Silva]

What about vanilla X2? I've been eyeing it for a while now, but the consensus here is unclear. I did enjoy the Enemy Unknown enough to finish it once and play a little Long War.

Base XCOM 2 has the best "prepare for battle" theme of all the nu XCOMs. I was legitimately pissed off that they replaced it with a new one for War of the Chosen. But I loved base XCOM 2 more than Enemy Unknown, and WotC just made it better overall (only the new soundtracks were forgettable).

Oh and WotC expanded a tiny bit on the legend that is Jane Kelly, arguably the most memorable random tutorial character ever. I never built a squad without her leading it.

The faction leaders are also surprisingly charismatic. I genuinely cared for that mutant hybrid grunt and that Dragunov chick til the very end.

 

[HereticGuy]

And the same can be said for Doom 2016. I know Doom purists here like to shit on it

I am one of those Doom purists, but I don't feel like to shit on Doom 2016. It is an allright game but I don't think people will remember it 20 years later as they remember the original. Doom is a superior game and I am not saying it with nostalgia tinted googles; I still play custom Doom 2 maps via LZDoom regularly.
Doom has better map structure, better art style and better atmosphere. DooM reboot has "plastic" feeling on it's art style; don't know how to explain it. And I much prefer Bobby Prince's Metallica / Slayer / Anthrax ripoff heavy metal soundtracks to Doom 2016's whatever the edgy music genre it is.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Doom 2016 is shit and you're all retarded.

 

[Bigg Boss]

It Takes Two is objectively the best AAA game released in the last 2 years.

I would also add As Dusk Falls, but not sure it's AAA. Still wanna mention it as the best iteration of Telltale/Until Dawn formula to date.

Don't you need another friend to play it though? Where would I hope to find such a thing?

 

[Terenty]

It Takes Two is objectively the best AAA game released in the last 2 years.

I would also add As Dusk Falls, but not sure it's AAA. Still wanna mention it as the best iteration of Telltale/Until Dawn formula to date.

Don't you need another friend to play it though? Where would I hope to find such a thing?

Well, if it makes it any easier only one person gotta have the game, the other one can play with a friend's pass. So basically you can invite any of your friends from steam

 

[HereticGuy]

Doom 2016 is shit and you're all retarded.

You have a furry avatar, your opinions are invalid.
I dislike Doom 2016 as well, but it's far from shit. Can't defend Doom Eternal though.

 

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Perhaps not truly great, but certainly the last AAA game I completed.
Prior to RDR2 there was also precious little for a few years.

 

[General Disarray]

Death Stranding

 

[toiletwino]

I'm surprised New World hasn't been mentioned. *barf*

 

[kangaxx]

I said Prey because it was my favourite on the list, but I wouldn't say any of them are "truly great". You need to go further back for that.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

witcher 3's dlcs

 

[Modron]

Whenever they last released a Yakuza game.

 

[karoliner]

You put Doom 2016 twice.

 

[lycanwarrior]

It Takes Two is objectively the best AAA game released in the last 2 years.

I would also add As Dusk Falls, but not sure it's AAA. Still wanna mention it as the best iteration of Telltale/Until Dawn formula to date.

ITT is only published by EA.

However it was developed by small indie company under the EA Originals program. EA doesn't even receive any profit from that program from my understanding. The program is basically for PR purposes.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

How did Metro Exodus even get listed on the list of nominees? The first hour of that game is virtually unplayable it's so bad. I heard it does get better once you get over that hidious, unsightly hump though. Or so I heard...

 

[Blaine]

The only possible non-meme answer is MGSV.

I liked Prey quite a lot, but great? No. It's very good, but doesn't attain greatness. The same goes for Alien: Isolation.

To address the elephant in the room, all NuSouls shite is shite. The "open-world" bandwagoning is just a cover for the fact that From is no longer capable of good level design (among other issues), which was once their greatest single strength.

Anyone who unironically voted for any game other than three I've just mentioned is beyond hope of redemption and should be humanely euthanized.

 

[Modron]

How did Metro Exodus even get listed on the list of nominees? The first hour of that game is virtually unplayable it's so bad. I heard it does get better once you get over that hidious, unsightly hump though. Or so I heard...

Did you not notice this was a SumDrunkGuy thread? Didn't exactly have the greatest taste in games and was exclusively a console gamer. Going to visit Jason_Liang poll threads next?

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I would say IMO the most recent, truly great AAA game is DMC5
Spectacle Fighters only need to succeed in 2 things - combat mechanics and enemy design
DMC5 is excellent at both

The only possible non-meme answer is MGSV.

You'll have to explain your standards
Because if by great you mean - the game is very good across all it's design elements and easily achieves it's intended experience
Then MGSV falls short

The gameplay is indeed great (even if too easy whithout mods), but the level design is mediocre and you can count with your fingers the number of missions that are truly good

Comparatively Elden Ring, is a game whose quality is consistently good
It's gameplay is an improved and expanded version of DS3 and in regards to level design, it's difficult to call it bad when the Legacy Dungeons (and similarly designed areas) are excellent
Yet you think the game sucks...

 

[rusty_shackleford]

thought MGSV was shit tbh

 

[Blaine]

Yet you think the game sucks...

Not exactly, no. I'll explain:

Let's say you eat at a restaurant and find your meal scrumdiddlyumptious, then return a few years later only to find that the food is merely very good. The spices aren't right, the ingredients aren't quite as fresh, the sauces seem a bit off; something is missing. Perhaps if you'd never been the first time, you wouldn't be so disappointed.

That is modern FromSoftware games in a nutshell. The top-tier level design and environmental challenge are either nowhere to be found, or else attenuated to a pale imitation, while their bread-and-butter action mechanics are getting stale and suffering from design by committee as they skew them toward what "players want" (players are terrible at knowing what they want).

I have yet to play Elden Ring, and I'm very sure it's leagues beyond literally 100% of American action-with-elements titles, but I've also played some of From's games past DS2 and I'm wise to how they design their games now.

As for MGSV, if not for Konami's meddling, it would have achieved true greatness. As it is, sure, it's only very good, technically... except that it's one of a rare and worthy breed (or subgenre, if you will), and arguably among the very best of that breed. For these two reasons, I bestow upon it the title of "great."

 

[mkultra]

Elden Ring. Probably the best game i've played in some 22-23'ish years.