Game of their respective generation and reasons why

[Cloudman]

KLAMarine said:

Cloudman said:
This is truly a hard q. I'd have to look at a large number of games and try to pick one based on factors like: visuals, story, gamplay, etc. I would consider whatever games were considered perfect or the pinnacle of the generation, which would be no easy task..

Try to factor in historical significance. There are plenty games out there that are great but not all of them are groundbreaking, trendsetters, or genre-defining.

Yeah, that's true. Though I also question if games that set standards were overall still well made. An example would be Mario 64, which I think did so for 3D gaming, but I've heard people say Banjo Kazooie managed to improve on that. So I don't know what game I would give it to. I'd need to think it over.