irstupid said:
JustThatGamer said:
One thing's for sure, few games own their genre by as significant a margin as God of War does.
In 2005 it smashed into a Japanese dominated genre, ate all the competition and defecated them into a pile of irrelevance, everything in the genre outside of GoW is dead/dying now.
In terms of acclaim the GoW Trilogy is untouched and 5 GoW's occupy spaces in the top 10 list of games in the genre. Hell, even the worst GoW's mostly better than everything else and that's made a lot of people salty.
Sales-wise? GoW3 alone sold ~6.5m, more than Bayonetta, Bayonetta 2, DMC4 and DmC on all platforms combined. Even Ascension has already sold like ~2.5-3m, more than anything outside of GoW in the genre.
Sure personal taste is subjective but overlooking objective facts and trying to claim anything but GoW/SMS owns the genre is like claiming an average kayak is more grand than the Oasis of The Seas...
As for the others; I disagree with #1 because Mass Effect and The Elder Scrolls games exist. Agree with #2 as The Last of Us alone is a stunning achievement. Though I'm not really a fan of fighters, I'd say Street Fighter deserves the nod so I agree with #3.
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This proves it guys. Wii Sports is the best sports game ever made. Look at those sales. Mario kart is the best racer ever made.
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Those are both party games, not simulations of the genres they are supposed to represent. Bayonetta and God of War are the best representatives of their genre. Bayonetta is the extreme of arcade style hack n slash gameplay in the genre and God of War is the perfect balance of story and gameplay.
