The PS4 / XB1 generation was defined by these 10 games

A lot of great games came out during the PS4 and Xbox One generation. Here’s a look at some that defined the era.

The games released for the eighth-generation consoles were incredibly big, ambitious titles. Developers focused on giving the players as much freedom as possible to approach their titles, while those who stuck by creating linear, story-centric experiences have pushed the boundaries of imagination to astonish gamers with new ways to uncover captivating narratives.

The Play Station 4 and Xbox One generation is quite possibly the best one to date. Across the seven years of its dominance, the way players interact with games and with each other within the bounds of these games has changed rapidly. It was a transformative period, during which new genres have burst onto the scene, while others have all but disappeared from the mainstream.

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Death Stranding

Death Stranding remains a divisive title to this day. While the game’s fans praise the innovative approach towards combat and world exploration, others hate the game’s slow pace and unusual gameplay, playfully describing it as a “postapocalyptic FedEx simulator.” Regardless of the way it divided gamers and critics alike, Death Stranding remains one of the highlights of the last console generation, as it showed that there is still plenty of room for innovation in the seemingly over-exploited open-world genre.

When the news of Hideo Kojima developing a brand new IP first broke out, the entire project was shrouded with mystery. The only thing the gaming community was certain of was that it was going to be weird. As it turned out, that prediction was more than correct.

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What Remains Of Edith Finch

It is not a common occurrence for games that can be beaten in under two hours to send shockwaves across the entire industry, and yet that’s precisely what What Remains of Edith Finch managed to do. This “walking simulator” with a completely novel approach to environmental storytelling has pushed the boundaries of the kind of stories that games were able to tell.

Uncovering the unfortunate circumstances of the deaths of the Finch family members is a fascinating experience in its own right, but it also makes for a deeply emotional experience that provokes thought and fills players with an appreciation of their own lives, no matter how mundane they may seem at first glance. What Remains of Edith Finch is the ultimate proof that video games are more than mindless entertainment. 8
Cyberpunk 2077

At one point, it seemed as though the eighth generation was the pinnacle of what consoles could achieve. Players found it difficult to imagine what kind of a game could push these seemingly immortal pieces of seven-year-old hardware to their limits. And then Cyberpunk 2077 came along. CD Projekt Red’s overly ambitious title defined the absolute limits of the PS4/XB1 generation of consoles and will forever save as a warning sign to developers that it is never a good idea to forcefully launch a game on hardware that is clearly not capable of handling it. Cyberpunk 2077 is, without a doubt, a great game, but it’s just one of those “generation-defining” titles that should only be played on next-gen consoles.

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Horizon: Zero Dawn the Guerilla Games’ masterpiece doesn’t really bring anything new to the table in terms of open-world gameplay. However, a game does not get lauded as one of the best titles of an entire generation without being an exceptional piece of entertainment.

Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of, if not the best, open-world games released on an eighth-generation system. Having introduced incredibly satisfying bow mechanics that have been copied countless times since, as well as an easy to learn, but difficult to master combat system, this Play Station exclusive should serve as a shining example of how to design an open-world game without turning it into a repetitive grind-fest. 6
GTA 5

Rarely does a game released on a previous system get lauded as a current-gen-defining title, but GTA 5 was no ordinary game. Rockstar’s gangster simulator has, once again, redefined the dominant single-player open-world trends, freshened up the gameplay it was known for since the debut of GTA 3, while simultaneously revolutionizing the online multiplayer sphere. GTA Online became a mass-scale, record-breaking phenomenon that is currently enjoyed by countless players across three (!) console generations. Although many fans raised concerns about GTA Online being the reason why there is so little news about the development of the sixth title in the series, creating a game that sucked some gamers in for an entire console cycle is undeniably an achievement that Rockstar can be proud of.

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