What game from this past generation did you have the most fun playing?

[Scarim Coral]

Single Player- Time Splitter. What? I mostly played it on my own against the AI since Timesplitter was made before online multiplayer (well on the Gamecube version).

Multiplayer- Guild Wars. I did invest two years and more into that game and it wasn't the grinding.

 

[kommando367]

Single Player: Borderlands 2. There is just so much variety in weapons, enemies, and enemy behavior. I've probably put over 300 hours hours into that game and I still play it from time to time.

Multiplayer: Killzone 3 for competitive and Resistance 2 for co-op.

Killzone 3 gave more tactical options in multiplayer than any other FPS I played.

As an Infiltrator, you could dress up as the enemy, sneak into their base, plant 3 mines, and wreck their shit before they even know what hit them.

As an Engineer, you could set up the best defense ever with mines, an LMG, AND a sentry turret. If you had the
high ground, you were nigh-unstoppable.

The other classes can do a lot in the way of support too.

In Resistance 2, the 3 classes are designed to force teamwork and the 8 player limit makes it so that the cooperation of the 2-3 idiots that show up in every game is not needed.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

Single Player: Oblivion without doubt. Replayed it 50 times as it was my first 360 game. Bought literally all DLC.
Multiplayer: Halo 3. I made a lot of friends playing custom games on that (all long gone now). Most fun I've ever had in a game.

 

[The Enquirer]

Single player... ooh that's a tough one. I really liked the Batman Arkham games. Also Far Cry 3... Also Mass Effect 1 and 2 were great because of the near unlimited replay value...

Really I'm gonna have to go with Mass Effect for single player with the Batman Arkham games a very, very close second just because of the lesser replay. If I could only play each game once though I would have to say Batman would win out.

For multiplayer... I really honestly don't play much multiplayer anymore. If we are talking local multiplayer I'm going to have to go with an oldie, Call of Duty 4. For online multiplayer I'm gonna have to say Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2. I just liked the teamwork in them. It was a game where if people had mic's you would actually work together and that's something I find is becoming more and more rare in shooters.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Single Player: Skyrim. I literally get absolutely fucking lost in that world after about 20 minutes and it's awesome.

Multiplayer: Definitely borderlands 2. There are a lot of good coop games, but that's the only big scale open world game ive seen so far with splitscreen. Played the whole thing with my girlfriend, lots of fun.

 

[Robert Marrs]

Single Player: Bulletstorm. That game was so much fun and I developed a serious addiction to the echoes mode. Several hours a day starting over again and again because I messed one thing up. That game is amazing and worth picking up if you missed it.

Multiplayer: Modern Warfare 2. I loved it. Judge me all you want but that game has a special place in my heart. So many close friends made on that game, so many hours played. The laughing, the arguing, the trash talking. All so much fun and I miss it so much.

Oblivion, halo 3, mass effect 2, and left 4 dead all get honorable mentions.

 

[ArkhamJester]

Single Player:
Persona 4 Golden. I loved the original and this remake was even better with the extras they put in and as I've said more than once, the only reason I even bought a Vita.

Multiplayer: is a dirty word...

Hey don't ninja my response/ Well if I had to add something else...

Singleplayer: Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor (DS)This game changd how I look at RPG's no joke, this was my first SMT and it was bad ass. hard as tacks but oh so sweet.

 

[Miss G.]

Single Player:
Persona 4 Golden. I loved the original and this remake was even better with the extras they put in and as I've said more than once, the only reason I even bought a Vita.

Multiplayer: is a dirty word...

Hey don't ninja my response/ Well if I had to add something else...

Singleplayer: Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor (DS)This game changd how I look at RPG's no joke, this was my first SMT and it was bad ass. hard as tacks but oh so sweet.

I've had lots of fun with SMT Devil Survivor: Overclocked (3DS), I went Naoya's route, but I bought the 3DS to prepare for Pokemon. So, P4G was a system seller and worth the experience.

 

[Adultism]

I'd have to go with the remakes of Persona, 3P and 4G in particular for singleplayer. I had never played them on a classic console, only the remakes.

As for multiplayer I'd have to say that not much has peeked my interest this generation enough to give it say, with the exception of GMOD but PC gens are different that consoles.

Also a quick shoutout to HOTLINE MIAMI because it is one of the best games I've ever played and anyone who reads this post should go buy it on steam its 2.50 today because of a sale

 

[RJ 17]

Going with the "most fun", mine is actually the same for single AND multiplayer:

Portal 2

I really enjoyed the story throughout the single player and the puzzles were just as tricky as ever, yet made you feel pretty foolish once you actually figured them out.

As for the multiplayer, it was extremely fun to grief your partner (assuming you're actually good friends with them ) and since they're essentially immortal there's no REAL harm in doing it other than wasting some time. And a lot of the combos you have to pull off with both players working together were pretty neat.

 

[Angelous Wang]

Oblivion/Skyrim/FO3/New Vegas.

Hard to pick spent well over 500 hours of fun in each of them.

 

[DyqstARD]

Halo 3, Garrys Mod and Fallout: New Vegas, many hours well spent.

 

[MarsProbe]

Singleplayer: Bayonetta. Easy choice, no other game I played in singleplayer throughout this generation had as much pure fun crammed into it as Bayonetta. I literally never got bored with that game.

Multiplayer: toss up between Left 4 Dead and Modern Warfare 2. So many intense moments in L4D fending off the tank or points of unscheduled hilarity as the entire team fell off the side of a building. Not to mention the palpable sense of relief as you finally boarded the plane/boat/apc that took you out of there.

Say what you will about COD/MW, but despite how frustrating games of MW2 could get, when it went well, nothing could really match up to taking over the house in Estate and holding on to it for the duration of the match or the elation when you took out a pair of boosters with a well aimed Stealth Bomber run. It's the game we plowed the most hours into as far as multiplayer is concerned and with good reason.

 

[laggyteabag]

For singleplayer that would probably be Halo 3 -- no Bioshock -- no wait Infinite -- no Mass Effect 2 -- 3 -- ughh... too many to choose.

For multiplayer that would most definitely be Battlefield: Bad Company 2, my favourite Battlefield game to date.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Single Player: Skyrim.

Miltiplayer: Minecraft.

 

[loc978]

Single Player: Fallout: New Vegas with a laundry list of mods. I still haven't completed my Legion playthrough, though.

Multiplayer: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion... with the Sins of a Galactic Empire mod, mostly.

 

[jamail77]

Somebody already mentioned Batman: Arkham City so I feel obligated to list the next best games to qualify for your question. Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...The Last of Us, despite it's derivative and typical though well polished gameplay, and BioShock 1 (Damn it: BioShock was already mentioned. I haven't finished it yet though. I got it very late but I've almost finished it, I'm so close. I don't know why I don't finish it already!). Ummmmmm. Oh! I know! Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is the only KH game I've played and I really liked playing it for some reason. It was a fun game even if it wasn't the best game I've played. I don't think I can go through it again as I am now (Having not played in a long while though, I can't say for sure that the replay value actually is average just from memory) but it was fun while it lasted. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess were quite the experiences when I first played them. I think that's it.

On a strictly non-gameplay front I really liked Portal 2 and Portal 1 of course, but Portal 2 more. They did a good job with atmosphere and characterization, but in terms of "most fun (gameplay)" they just don't quite reach my above examples despite being fun and different from other games.