Missed this thread. Better drop in to pay respects to the eighth console generation.
Quick tier list this time of games that have come out during the eighth console generation (PC/Switch/PS4 included). I'll just drop the title and maybe a brief explanation in each tier. Each one of these games I have personally owned.
A-tier. These were my main titles this generation. On the list of best games I've ever played.
- GT Sport: The racing game I sunk the most time into, great racing memories and lots of liveries created.
- Assetto Corsa (PC/PS4): I've never played such a modular racing game as this, it can truly be whatever you want it to be.
- Modern Warfare (Remastered/2019): I'll put both CoD MW games here, played both to bits. Love them equally.
- The Witcher 3: One of the best RPGs I have ever played. Got me into the books, made watching the Netflix series even better.
- Titanfall 2: A little frustrating with the skill gap but still fun to run around and mow down AI enemies in an online match.
- NHL 2017/20: Last one I played was 04, making your own league is tones of fun.
- Ghost Recon Wildlands: A bit of a guilty pleasure, but it's just a fun open-ended tactical shooter in my opinion.
- Battlefield 4: One of the best multiplayer games I have ever played.
- Wipeout Omega Collection: It's a PS3 game, this is technically cheating by being here.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Best fighting game ever made, probably. Hundreds of hours wasted trash talking friends and getting sweaty palms.
- Dark Souls III: Best game once you get the hang of it. Interesting world and great customization for your playstyle.
- Alien Isolation (PS4): The best horror game I've ever played. A little frustrating but incredibly authentic to the first film.
- Halo MCC (PC): Gave me a massive tent in my pants when I played Reach for the first time again in years.
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Probably the best kart racer I've played besides Double Dash. Amazing game. Everyone should have it.
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: It's a top-tier Nintendo game. One of the most enjoyable Zelda games I've played. Not the best, though.
Honourable mentions that don't make the top of the list... Good games in general. (B Tier)
- Modern Warfare 2: Campaign: Seriously, no multiplayer? That pegs it down a tier.
- Minecraft PS4 Edition: Good to play with friends, but it gets old after a while. Get it on PC if you haven't already somehow gotten it.
- No Man's Sky Beyond: That's how you save a game. Very relaxing to just hop in a starship and go exploring at your leisure, too. Awesome update.
- Mass Effect Andromeda: Story was terrible, but underneath that was actually a solid third-person shooter with great mobility mechanics.
- Project CARS 1/2: Didn't quite make it into the favourites list. Frustrating moments and too many bugs soil the experience a little too much.
- LittleBigPlanet 3: The charm is still there in the multiplayer and the story mode is fun, but it isn't as good as 1 and 2.
- Ace Combat 7: Fun flight/dogfighting game, not enough content in it to justify full price.
- Battlefield 1: Wow this game is pretty and it plays amazing, not enough content.
- Kerbal Space Program PS4: Very difficult spaceflight sim. Replicating the space shuttle yourself and getting it into orbit is something else.
- Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order: Very authentic, plays well but replayablility is non-existent.
- Atelier Ryza: Criminally underrated JRPG on the Nintendo Switch.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Great card game sim on the Switch, fun to pick up and play a few rounds or play against my brother.
- Dark Souls II (PS4): Like DSIII but clunkier and less fun.
- F1 2018/19/20: Marginal improvements to each title, 2020 is the best one of course. Solid motorsport sim with fantastic career mode.
- Spider-Man PS4: It's a great open-world superhero game. Web-swinging done right and the story is really good.
- Undertale (PC): It's a funny and likeable story with a great soundtrack. It's a pretty simplistic game, though. Can get very hard.
- Stardew Valley (PS4/PC): Farming sims aren't really my thing, but my oh my, does this game have an amazing atmosphere.
- Divinity Original Sin II (PC): The Gamemaster mode is wild with friends. I love it.
- Bug Fables (Switch): A good RPG in it's own right with great writing and a likeable cast. It's too dependent on Paper Mario, though.
- Fallout 4: A good RPG in general, but has some issues with gameplay and performance.
- The Sims 4 (PC): 3 is better, but it's still a decent life sim game. Complete creative control is nice.
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Out of all the "advanced movement" Call of Duty games, this was the best one.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons: It's Animal Crossing. It's fun to interact and decorate, but it can get boring after a bit. Play sparingly.
- Destiny: The Taken King: Bungie's satisfying halo-inspired gunplay in an interesting science-fantasy world. A little light on content.
- Destiny 2: Same as before, but more of it and with some welcome refinements.
- Saints Row The Fourth: Saints Row but with superpowers. 3 is probably better, but it's a fun one-time romp.
- Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4: Best game in the series, really flashy and fun with friends who are also fans, but it's shallow. Great story!
- Call of Duty Ghosts: Kind of forgettable but I enjoyed the time I had with it.
Mediocre Games. Had promise but were ultimately let-downs or boring. Some other games that are good, but I just didn't care for: (C Tier)
- The Crew 2: I was interested by the open world professional motorsports premise, my gosh is this game boring. Cruising is OK though.
- Driveclub: Looks pretty but there's nothing to do and the handling sucks. I'll pass on this one.
- Star Wars Battlefront 1/2: Both games look great, but they lack depth and content. Battlefront 2 was probably the better of the two in the end.
- FIFA 16: I don't even like European football that much, but it was a decent sports game the few times I played it.
- Pokken Tournament DX (Switch): Graphics are great and it looks flashy as all heck, but the game is short and really shallow.
- BroForce (PS4): Has decent enough gameplay but it can get really frustrating and there are some really strange performance issues.
- Rocket League (PS4): I don't get the hype. It's difficult to get invested and and skill gap is huge for people who don't make the commitment.
- Call of Duty: WW2: Barely any content in this one, but the single player was alright. Died off pretty quickly. Play BF1 instead.
- Steep: Fun for a couple hours, but the novelty wears off. Good physics and good variety of transportation methods though.
- Lego Marvel Superheroes 2: It's alright for a children's game but fails to capture the magic of the older LEGO titles.
- One Step From Eden: Very stylish Mega Man Battle Network successor. Very difficult but ultimately lacks content or any incentive to keep playing.
- The Alliance Alive (Switch): Passable JRPG. Forgoes traditional mechanics in favour of a unique but somewhat confusing story.
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: Mass Effect 2 but worse. Very short, but solid gameplay. Ending was weak.
- Metal Gear Solid: 5: The opening was quite the acid trip. Not an objectively bad game, but not for me.
- Bloodborne: Harder than Dank Sauce 3. Aesthetics and combat differences are not for me, so I passed on finishing this one.
- Just Cause 3: This one bored me. Would rather play Ghost Recon. Probably not a bad game.
- Grand Kingdom (PS4): Turn-based clan war tactical RPG. Art style is nice but it ultimately just feels like a mobile game (because it is).
- Amnesia: Survival horror, has some dated graphics and the monsters aren't that scary IMO. Alien Isolation was far more effective.
- Ratchet and Clank: Unnecessary remake of the original. Gameplay is still good and the visuals are stunning. Movie tie-in was ass.
Bad games (maybe just my opinion more than anything objective):
- Pokémon Sword: Uninspired, poor business decisions, locking all the left-out Pokémon away behind paid DLC.
- Pokémon Let's Go! Pikachu: A lazy re-make of Pokémon Yellow but with the removal of wild Pokémon battles and it's insultingly easy.
- Fortnite (PS4): Started out fine enough playing with friends but got really sweaty and ruined the experience.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4: One of the worst CoD games I've ever played. Horrible MTX, unsatisfying gunplay, poor map design.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: Same as above, horrible MTX, slightly better map design, unsatisfying weapons, bad campaign.
- Sonic Forces: Aside from the meme factor of making your own OC, it's an on-rails platformer that's super short.
- Super Mario Party: It's just bad, guys. Sorry. Play the older ones instead.
- Portal Knights: A Minecraft-clone action RPG thing. I don't even know what this was and it was really boring for the hour I had it installed.
- Detroit: Become Human: Really pretentious story that's a poor allegory for racism in the United States. No gameplay whatsoever.
- SOMA: Survival-horror walking sim. Cool environment but a really pretentious story with an ass ending. Amnesia is better.
- Super Motherload: Sci-fi themed mining arcade game. Pretty boring if you ask me.
- Stories: The Path of Destinies: More like the path to quickly getting deleted. Super short and boring indie action RPG with "branching stories"
I think that's about it for the games I own through PS Plus, physical means, ones I've sold or the like. Now I'll do a shorter ranking of the games I don't own but have played through friends, borrowing, rentals etc.
A Tier. I would buy an entire console for these games, but I don't feel like it.
- Forza Motorsport 7: Probably the best driving game I've played that I don't own. I should buy it on PC now that I have a solid device.
- Doom 2016: Not sure why I never got this one, being a fan of Metroid Prime and FPS games. Should get it sometime.
B Tier. Ok games that I've happened to play. Wouldn't buy them myself most likely.
- Mortal Combat X: I'm garbage at fighting games like these, so probably won't buy it myself. Good fighting game, though.
- Injustice 2: Same as above, it's a good game but I suck at it.
- Dragon Ball FighterZ: Noticed a pattern yet? I'm garbage at it, but this game's art looks so good.
- Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection: Only played through 1, it was a good game but I don't think I'll go out of my way to play the series.
- Super Mario Odyssey: It's a 3D Mario platformer, so it's good. It just isn't that special.
C Tier. Games I don't want to go out of my way to play again.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider: I guess it's a good game, but I just found it really boring personally and don't want to play it again.
- Far Cry 4: I loved 3, so I'm not sure why I don't like 4. Oh well, moving on and not playing it again. Just isn't as interesting.
- Persona 5: There's a lot of hype behind this one, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
- GTA V: It's technically a PS3/360 game but it's really just boring like all of the GTA games to me. Online is cancer.
D Tier. Games I never want to see again for as long as I breathe.
- Kung Fu Panda: SoLL: Worst game I have ever played on the PS4, I hate you friend who made me play this with him. Curse you.
angerous Horizons and Microsoft Flight Sim.
