Is Uncharted the best series of the last decade?

Destiny and Division look really interesting for the new breed. Titanfall is a joke comparatively.

I really enjoyed Uncharted. I would have to rank it above most things but below:

Mass Effect
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Fallout

I'm not a big Gears fan. I enjoyed them at first but the later games didn't do much for me. Same with Halo. People rant and rave about it but the combat is very simple and meh. Loved the first one but the series never improves enough for me.

Honorable mention:

Witcher
Borderlands 1 and 2
Dragon Age 1
Never Winter 2

Hrm, best series of the past 10 years? I think "best series of the last generation" would be a more appropriate distinction.

Uncharted is definitely up there. If you included TLOU as part of that it'd far and away be #1 no question.

Mass Effect is amazing, but 3 had so many flaws that it really brought the series down for me (anyone who says that only the ending was bad is full of it).

I think though that I'd have to give it to Assassin's Creed for the Ezio Trilogy + AC4. The Ezio Trilogy is just an amazing saga that follows one hell of a guy's life. Following his start as a brash kid to his final days as a master assassin was one of the best journeys that I've ever had in a video game. Plus, Pirate's Creed was amazing it own right.

I gotta throw my hat in with the Mass Effect lot. It was the first set of games since PS1 that had me invest 100's of hours completing and I enjoyed just about every minute of it.

Runner up for me would be AC. If not for how much I loathed 3, the gap between would be far narrower but I have yet to play 4 so the bitter taste of 3 still lingers.

Uncharted is a very close third.

Intrinsic_sl said:

I haven't played The Last of Us yet so maybe this is a stupid or spoilery question but... Why is it being brought up in conversation about the bestseries? Isn't it just one game? Also not intended to be a douchey question, just curious if I'm missing something.

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It's basically an extreme refinement of all their work on Uncharted.

valve announces orange box 3 (skipping 2) at E3 - left for dead 3, portal 3, Team Fortress 3, and Half Life 3. Free with SteamBox, which Nintendo has signed up to develop exclusively for. world explodes.

Call of duty. Easily.

Really what it comes down to for me is Naughty Dog. In my mind they are pretty much the best in the business right now. The Uncharted series is a work of art. The Last of Us was outstanding. They are my current favorite developer and if they continue to design games at this level they will probably be my favorite of all time. Nothing on the PS4 excites me more than Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 right now.

If you haven't played Uncharted 1-3, and The Last of Us you are seriously missing out.

Shame Deus Ex was the only game in the series, because it blows a lot of other games out of the water

Did anyone mention Far Cry ? Sure, it has a few quirks, but AAA emergent FPS is pretty rare.

oh, if Metroid prime doesn't count.

Then Monster girl quest.

Lost Ranger_sl said:

Really what it comes down to for me is Naughty Dog. In my mind they are pretty much the best in the business right now. The Uncharted series is a work of art. The Last of Us was outstanding. They are my current favorite developer and if they continue to design games at this level they will probably be my favorite of all time. Nothing on the PS4 excites me more than Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us 2 right now.

If you haven't played Uncharted 1-3, and The Last of Us you are seriously missing out.

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It's because, to me, they make games for gamers. One of the last few in the business that actually do. It's amazing how that works.

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Sean_sl said:

I think though that I'd have to give it to Assassin's Creed for the Ezio Trilogy + AC4. The Ezio Trilogy is just an amazing saga that follows one hell of a guy's life. Following his start as a brash kid to his final days as a master assassin was one of the best journeys that I've ever had in a video game. Plus, Pirate's Creed was amazing it own right.

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This.

Zaphid_sl said:

Shame Deus Ex was the only game in the series, because it blows a lot of other games out of the water

Did anyone mention Far Cry ? Sure, it has a few quirks, but AAA emergent FPS is pretty rare.

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Yeah it's a shame there was never a sequel to Deus Ex. It would be cool to see what they could do with a modern engine, with bigger environments and a less cumbersome inventory system. The original is looking really dated, although I think there are fan projects that update the textures and models like System Shock 2.

(next Levine game, a real System Shock 3?)

Is it only for PS3?

Else, if PC games are in, do EU and HOI count?

Mist_sl said:

I get that DX2 was awful, but why all the hate for DX:HR?

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Most of the maps were smaller than my shed. The "city" map looked like something from Duke Nukem 3D. (but probably smaller) And there seemed to be 100x more need to play the inventory management minigame than the others.