My fav games this gen is Rage, Kameo, Far Cry 3, Tomb Raider, Metro Last Light, GTA V.
What are you're fav games this gen.
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Batman Arkham Asylum. If you asked me to pick ONE game of the generation this would be it. I've played it through at least half a dozen times, probably more. Arkham City is good too, certainly, but it's merely more of the same and in many ways loses impact in its shift to a larger open world with sidequests. Arkham Asylum is tight, beautifully designed, paced well, does a Metroidvania type ability system in a smart way, has simple but extremely satisfying combat, fantastic voice acting, clever unlockables and so on. Its only real flaw is a weak final battle but oh well. Borderlands. This one is weird because in many ways I think it's a janky game but it's oh so much fun to play I don't really care. The pacing is all over the place, the story is terrible outside of Tannis' recordings, and the 'millions of weapons!' thing just resulted in a ton of weapons that look and act almost the same. But shooting dudes in the head and popping them like gourds, unleashing a rapid fire explosive machine gun into Crawmerax while enjoying a minute-long bleed out and best of all - seeing the bastard die and then rain weapons everywhere. You know you've mined pretty much everything there is to get out of a game when the game's best loot is so mediocre compared to your own loadout that you just leave three quarters of it lying on the ground. Forza 4. And I guess by extension Forza 3 and Forza 2, although each of them has made the previous game obsolete. But there's nothing better for sim style racing on consoles (sorry GT5, you're mostly **** and Forza 4's car selection, rivals mode, and improved painting options just made for a hell of an experience. My only regret is that I haven't played as much of it as I'd like. 
Project Gotham Racing 4. Part of me likes this better than any other racing game this generation. It still looks beautiful, especially the weather effects. The car sounds embarass Forza 4's. It manages such a perfect blend of arcade and sim that it makes it hard to go back to pure arcade racers. And if anyone hasn't played it yet, it's also dirt cheap. Fallout 3. I think that New Vegas is the better game, but I've played a lot more Fallout 3. I blame New Vegas' bugs I guess. Either way I've got 1500 achievement points in the 360 version and got pretty close in the PC version before being interrupted by something else. Some of its DLC is pretty flaky (Anchorage and Zeta are boring and way too combat focused) but Point Lookout is fantastic and highlights what the game does best - atmosphere, crazy characters, and VATSing people in the head with a shotgun and laughing at the gibs that fly away in slow motion. Bioshock. Bioshock 2 is the better game but Bioshock did it first and I give it props for that. It's still something I don't really want to play through again because it's such a unique experience that I feel it would lose something the second time through (plus after playing Bioshock 2 its shooting just feels archaic). But its voicework, story, and especially atmosphere made for something truly special. Would you kindly indeed. Left 4 Dead. Again the second game is technically better but the first just feels more special somehow. Unlike Bioshock I'm not even sure how I'd describe this. Little things, like having to cock your shotgun if you reload it from empty, a slightly different feel on melee hits, a tighter selection of special infected and a more straightforward Game Director just made the game more fun for me. The second is fun too, certainly, and things like the three-shot assault rifle and (yum) desert eagle are sorely missed whenever I play the first game. Best zombie game of the generation, and crowning witches never gets old. 
Rock Band 3. Like Forza's entries the third Rock Band made the first two obsolete - but in a good way as you can play almost all of their entries. As a testament to my love of this series I need only look at my collection - I have probably ten physical Rock Band discs, from Beatles to (blech) Green Day, Lego, and the various track packs from country to heavy metal and the random ones too. Including actual DLC I've bought I think my Rock Band 3 track list is in the 400-500 region, though I'd have to fire up the game to see for sure. Anything I can import I have. Lego games. These are not good games. I know this. They have pretty awful level design, are too easy outside of some obtusely designed puzzles, and each game is basically the same grind for studs, multipliers, and characters. But I love them. They make me feel like a kid again. I've played almost every single one to completion, unlocking everything in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones and coming close in Pirates, Harry Potter and Batman (though I think Lego Batman is a legitimately poor Lego game). Sacred 2. I hated this game when I first played it. I love that it's one of the few console games that runs at 1080p but holy **** does it have some awful art design. Your selection of characters consists of some of the most idiotic looking things I've ever seen. Its customization system with skills and augments and abilities is incredibly awkward to use and so poorly explained by the game that it doesn't inform you that one skill (blacksmithing) is actually broken and does nothing and that everything is permanent and memorizing too many runs can actually backfire by increasing cooldown times. Even the weapon and armor pieces contain an incredible number of modifiers, from cooldown times to move speed to elemental weapon damage or skill increases. Like Demon Souls, you pretty much have to read up about the best way to customize your character before you even start or else you could find yourself 30 levels in with the most useless character imaginable. But the game is fun in spite (or because?) of it, offering such a vast open world with massive towns, quests galore and one of the few local co-op hack and slash RPGs out there. 
Valkyria Chronicles. Every site lists this as a JRPG, which it's really not. It's half action game, half strategy game, and is one of the few excessively Japanese games that I've actually been able to stomach. It looks beautiful, the strategy is simple but fun (and more fun when you level up scouts to the point where the game breaks), and the story is cliche but still amusing. It also has many reasons to replay, bonus missions, hidden weapons and so on. Also, John DiMaggio with his Randy routine. The Professor Layton games. I never really got into the Phoenix Wright series, the writing didn't do much for me and the 'guess the evidence' bits got kind of old fast, but Layton's kept me interested the entire time. I love the art style, the music, and all of the puzzles that aren't matchstick puzzles. It's not a genre particularly well represented these days and no one has managed to make a good knockoff of it yet outside of (maybe) Puzzle Agent. The Professor and Luke and everyone being silly and asking you to solve their puzzle before they tell you anything makes the games charming. "You know, this reminds me of a puzzle..." Super Mario Galaxy (and 2). Unlike Fallout 3 and Bioshock I have a hard time picking between the two Galaxy games. The second is the better game, but I hate its crappy Mario 3 style level selection and the Mario head ship. The first game also has a more interesting story to its benefit. BUT, the second game doesn't have manta racing or garbage clearing, which were utterly godawful. So I'm torn. Either way, the platforming is fantastic, the levels are imaginative and fun and you're never doing the same thing all the time, with the second game in particular throwing so many twists of the Mario formula at you that you simply cannot get bored. And holy **** is the music fantastic. Terraria. Like Minecraft, but fun! For creating stuff Terraria obviously isn't as good but there's more to find when you're exploring and more game elements to give you goals, crazy world events, secret bosses, and a ton of interesting items to find or craft. 
Mass Effects. I like the story of the first the best but the structure of the second. The third is a good game but not up to the standard of the first two (and I didn't hate the ending like everyone else seemed to). I think I like the games mostly for the interesting sci-fi world they created, which is hard to do as everything gets compared to Star Wars or Star Trek and usually have few defining features of their own. But characters like Liara and Garrus are memorable as hell and moments like fem-Shep (the only right Shepard) leaping out of the pit after **** Saren up and the music swells...it's moments like that where I love playing games so much. Binding of Isaac. I really like this game and I don't really know why. It's pretty maddening to play as it's a Flash game and chugs like mad whenever a lot of enemies and projectiles are on screen. It's got an extremely offputting design with you finding items like your mom's used pad or bra and powerups from pee to a coat-hanger (haha abortion jokes) and enemies that fire lasers from theri vagina-like bellies...it's just twisted. It plays like a twin stick shooter infused with old-school Zelda, it's hard as **** and it's also incredibly fun and rewarding. Tales of Vesperia. Best JRPG this generation, although this isn't great praise given how most of them have been utter crap Some of the story beats are silly and the way you need to follow a FAQ if you don't want to miss any side content is utterly maddening, but the characters are a lot of fun and the main character Yuri is unique in that he's a JRPG hero that isn't whiny or weak or obnoxious. He does kind of look like a chick but the similarities end there. Combat is quick in typical Tales fashion, but this game just works where I usually can't stand the Tales games. I think the cast of characters is the main reason for that, and having a story that doesn't trickle at a glacial pace helps too. And despite being too well hidden the side content is a lot of fun as are little perks like unlocking titles for characters (some of which have alternate costumes) or finding hidden events during boss battles.
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