Torrim

@shivermetimbers: Except...the $60 upfront?

Except that, I guess when you get determined to be fraud, it's pretty total to everything you were ever involved in.

Since when has a game franchise with critical acclaim been handed over and reimagined from the ground up and also gotten the same level of praise

USA USA USA

Most consoles have a sweet spot of a handful of years before the transition to the next, and the XBox's generation seemed to last forever. But goddamn there were some great games spread evenly throughout it's life. Oblivion and Gears in 2006, Half Life Orange Box and Bioshock the next, then Mass Effect, Dead Space, and I'll throw in Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 by 2008 and that alone would have been a good run for any console. But then 2009-2012 gave us Uncharted 2, Far Cry 3, Red Dead Redemption, and Mass Effect 2, along with Assassin's Creed hitting its stride. It was just a generation that kept giving.

The transition wasn't really all that tough either. Lots of games like Watch Dogs and Destiny, controverisal in quality as they were, kept a tail onto it where at some point we were wondering if we would just have to take our consoles out back with a shotgun old-yeller style.

But in the end that span of time was a product of both the financial crisis putting a damper on the ideas of new, expensive consoles right around the time they should be dropping. This generation could be even longer, what with how phones have changed the way consoles might iterate. I bought an X Box One X for my new TV and it's amazing and feels like I just bought a new console and without hardly any drawbacks.

Sorry, I just saw 7th generation and a list of games and suddenly had a though that the pool to pick ten games from was massive. I doubt I could think of 10 gamecube games, despite Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime being two of my favorite games of all time.

Burnout 3 was great in spite of its awful soundtrack. Paradise was much better, but still mostly terrible.

@someoneproud: EA has made some of my favorite games in the last ten years or so. Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2, along with Titanfall 2 a few years ago. Sure, they are their own worst enemy generally every other year, but sometimes they get their act together for just a short amount of time enough to not murder a game into corporate hell every once and a while.

Their catalog is like being trapped in one of those money blowing phone booths except It's filled with two or three thousand dollar bills and the rest knives. Sharp, sharp knives.

Crash and Sonic on a nintendo platform.

it is almost as if my 7th grade console allegiances meant nothing

EMPLOYEE FLAGGED

So, I had a relationship of four years end and I felt similarly. In some ways I was just sort of waiting for things to turn back up and for her to call me again and blah blah. Turns out, space and distance and time let these issues resolve themselves. Sure, feelings came back every once and a while, but a mere two years later getting out of that relationship as the best thing that ever happened. I was able to see clearly the problems that we had and that my efforts (or lack of effort) to resolve them were always going to be fruitless.

Sometimes you don't know you can do better for yourself until you try.