PS3

• Uncharted 1, 2, 3
• Infamous 1, 2
• Resistance 1, 2, 3
• God of War 3, Ascension
• Ico & Shadow of Colossus HD
• Rachet & Clank - 4-5 games
• Heavy Rain
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Metal Gear Solid IV
• Killzone 2, 3
• MAG
• Demon Souls
• Probably 30-50 more that are exclusive and worth playing including the PSN (download only releases)

action -

Uncharted
Batman Arkham
Resident Evil 5/ 6
Assassins Creed
Castle Crashers
GTA / Red Dead
Vanquish
Castlevania
God of War
Bayonetta
Gears
Mass Effect
Dead Space

strategy

Starcraft 2
Valkyria Chronicles
Civilization
Total War

fps

CoD
Bioshock
Halo
Killzone
Borderlands
Deus Ex
Battlefield
Aliens vs Predator/ Colonial Marines
Left 4 Dead
Tribes
Portal
Half Life
Team Fortress 2

adventure

Minecraft
See a lot of "Action". Hard to really define "Adventure" these days.

platform

LBP
'splosion man
Limbo
Fez
Brain

There are many, many more games that could be added to this list. Things like Demons Souls/ Dark Souls. Fallout. Elder Scrolls. Fable. Hitman. Splinter Cell. Metal Gear Solid. Dragon Age. Walking Dead. Monkey Island. So many games...

Too many to list. Any game in your favoured genres with a Metascore above 65 is worth a look.

My recommendation is always to go PC/PS3 for HD games because that represents the largest range of games with only owning one console. OTOH if you can get a $99 360 (WITHOUT having to sign up for a 2 year subscription) then you might as well go all in to see the generation out.

So your decent PC doesn't run on Windows? Even if you run software to get your games on UNIX it's still Windows based.

@Topic: if you don't have very much time to play games one console is enough. And Wii has a lot of good games that last for a long time.

Good games for the other consoles have been named multiple times now.

Of course I'm running Windows. My gripe is 100% console related. I didn't really make myself clear so, sorry. I just don't like anything about Microsoft being in the console space. It's a big faceless organization. I have no idea who's at the helm in their console area. Nintendo has faces and even Sony has faces. I don't like the way they bought themselves into the console sector. I don't like their target (media hub). I don't like their IP's. I hate Halo (It's like an artificial life form bred in vitro and brought to life with an overwhelming marketing machinery). I hate their overpowering approach of pumping money into the sector until every competitor is dead. And because of this I blame Microsoft for the current state of the console industry. Nintendo couldn't keep up with the ridiculous arms race and pulled out early. Luckily it kinda worked out so far but I blame MS for the "weak" Nintendo consoles we have today. Sony was and still is foolish enough to think they can keep up with this shit and as a result of this they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Microsoft will not stop to pump money into this sector until every competitor is either gone or marginalized. They will not stop to heavily subsidize their consoles, they will not stop to moneyhat games and they will not stop to accelerate progression to a pace nobody else can stick with, not even game developers and publishers. People think progress is good and it is, but not at the current pace, its destructive.

This approach coupled with the fact that everybody except american citizens has to pay more money for a heavily crippled console. Therefore I decide to vote with my wallet and not buy anything MS console related EVER. I pride myself in the fact that my hands didn't touch a Xbox or Xbox360 controller yet and never will be. This is my own opinion and everyone is free to agree or disagree with it, but you will not change it. So don't try to reason with me, it's futile.

Nothing. But that's coming from a 'Nintendo Only Gamer'.

NintendoPie said: Nothing. But that's coming from a 'Nintendo Only Gamer'.

Excellent contribution, your wisdom knows no bounds.

Gaming, pretty much. Honestly, I love Nintendo (I was going to say "as much as the next guy" but I suspect there's a lot bigger Nintendo fans on here than me!) but I don't understand how they can prop up your gaming needs for a whole generation. They excel so well in certain genres but others have been almost completely ignored on the Wii - perhaps not so much on the handhelds, I don't follow them as much.

Anyway, judging from those lists you gave:

Action/Adventures (I'll lump them into one because sometimes it's hard to tell the difference) - Uncharted, Demon's/Dark Souls, Portal 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Journey, God of War 3 (and you can play the first 2 on PS2!), Metal Gear Solid 4 (same deal as God of War),

Strategy - Starhawk (weird one, but consider it. Online shooter with RTS elements), C&C Red Alert 3 (!)

FPS - Team Fortress 2 (PC), Left 4 Dead 2

Platform - LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time (play any of the PS3 games though, they're all good).

And if you like racing games, this gen has been pretty good for them too - Blur, Motorstorm, WipEout HD etc.

That's my admittedly PS3-biased view at it, anyway.

If you REALLY felt like you were missing out on something you really wanted, you'd have bought one by now.

I, for example, bought a PS3 (over a year ago) cuz, at the time, there was a serious shortage in RPG games on the Wii and the one that I really wanted to get (Tales of Graces) had just been ported over to PS3. ~I like Tales! (Wish I didn't, Namco's been so nasty with Tales and westerners this gen -_-)

I even seriously thought about buying a X360 at one point almost solely for Vesperia but seeing as how most games are multiplat between PS360 and I already played Alan Wake (biggest exclusive for me), I couldn't justify the cost (not just the console, but all the new controllers, equipment, subscriptions...etc).

Each person has their own killer app type of game and you should look and find something you think you'd enjoy!

Carl2291 said: NintendoPie said: Nothing. But that's coming from a 'Nintendo Only Gamer'. Excellent contribution, your wisdom knows no bounds.

Thanks. 

I was actually going to edit in something that would've been slightly helpful. But I might as well put it here, now:

FFXIII/FFXIII-2 and Tails of ___. That's all that I can think of that I liked/played/saw.