Games that define consoles

[oOYoDaOo]

Gamecube would have to be the Metroid Prime series for me. I don't think you can have Resident Evil 4 as it was not as exclusive and for me, its not something you would immediately associate with the Nintendo brand. Another possibility would be Wind Waker, pretty much encapsulated for me the whole Gamecube experience.

 

[PiKe]

3DO: Need for Speed

 

[shorttricky]

Xbox 360 - Gears of War
Xbox - Halo
Playstation 1 - Tomb Raider
Playstation 2 - Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Playstation 3 - Uncharted
Super Nintendo - Mario Kart
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic
Master System - Alex Kidd
PC - Doom

 

[Dutch Guy]

Gameboy - Tetris

 

[FTM]

Atari Jaguar - Alien v predator

 

[HeX]

Atari Jaguar - Alien v predator

I always enjoyed Doom on the Jaguar, it was almost as good as on PC and had different levels! Sucked that it didn't have the awesome Doom music though.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

I couldn't decide for some of the consoles so had to put a slash.


Xbox 360 - Halo 3
Xbox - Project Gotham Racing
Playstation 2 - Grand Theft Auto 3 / Gran Turismo 3
Playstation 3 - Metal Gear Solid 4 / Uncharted 2
Nintendo Wii - Mario Galaxy / Wii Sports
Nintendo Gamecube - Legend of Zelda / Metroid Prime
Super Nintendo - Super Mario World / Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Sega Mega Drive - Streets of Rage 2 / OutRun / Super Hang On
Master System - Sonic The Hedgehog / Alex Kidd / Lucky Dime Caper
PC - Half life / World of Warcraft

 

[Semiskimmed]

holy crap, not many racing fans in then?
ill do a short one,
xbox/360 - PGR series
Playstations - gran turismo series

i do agree with some posted abvoe though like the halo's and gears of wars!

 

[HeX]

Surely if you were going to go by a racing series for xbox/360 you would have chosen Forza...

 

[The IPB]

Xbox 360 - Gears of War
Xbox - Halo
Playstation 2 - GTA
Playstation 3 - Metal Gear Solid 4
Nintendo Wii - Wii Sports
Nintendo Gamecube - Super Smash Bros Melee
N64 - Goldeneye
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic Series
Master System - Alex the Kid
PC - World of Warcraft

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Surely if you were going to go by a racing series for xbox/360 you would have chosen Forza...

PGR is the second best selling launch Xbox game, after Halo. So no, plus it came out in 2005 when the Xbox was way into it's life, too far in to make a massive impact imo, and it was overshadowed by GT3 and 4.

 

[GTanny]

Xbox 360 - Gear of War series
Xbox - Halo
Playstation - Metal Gear Solid
Playstation 2 - Gran Turismo 2
Playstation 3 - Little Big Planet
Nintendo Wii - Wii Fit
Nintendo Gamecube - Luigies Mansion (didnt own one so this is what sticks in my mind when i think of it)
N64 - Goldeneye
NES - Castlevania
Super Nintendo - Super Mario World
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic The Hedgehog Series
Master System - Alex the Kid
Saturn - Die Hard Arcade
Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi
PC - Half life

 

[Clarkson]

Xbox - Halo
Xbox 360 - Gears of War
PS1 - Gran Turismo/Tomb Raider
PS2 - GTA San Andreas
PS3 - Uncharted 1/2

 

[ttaM]

Xbox 360 - Halo Series
Xbox - Halo Series
PS1 - Crash Bandicoot (I really cannot work out what games around the time defined the playstation)
PS2 - GTA/Metal Gear Solid
PS3 - Unchartered (Really not sure again, whenever I personally think of the ps3 I think of GT5 but that isn't even out yet!)
Nintendo Wii - Wii Fit
Nintendo Gamecube - Mario Series
N64 - Mario 64 (Zelda, Goldeneye)
Super Nintendo - Mario Series
Sega Mega Drive - Sonic
Master System - Sonic
PC - Half-Life (Pick something out of a hat! There's so many.)

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi

YES!

It was one of the games that I had with my Dreamcast, along with Soul Calibur. I was amazed at the time that it actually had real places in the game like Pizza Hut and KFC. Oh the soundtrack was great as well even though it was only about 4 songs long.

 

[KNiVES]

Dreamcast - Soul Calibur
Xbox - Halo: Combat Evolved
360 - Gears of War
PS1 - Final Fantasy VII/Gran Turismo/Metal Gear Solid (impossible to pin down on one)
PS2 - This one is actually hard simply because of its phenomenally outstanding repertoire of games. I'd probably pick GTA3
PS3 - Killzone 2 (for better or worse, that trailer didn't help)
Gamecube - Resident Evil 4
Wii - Wii Sports
PC - Doom

If you want to boil it down by format:

Sony - no idea
Microsoft - Halo
Nintendo - Mario
Sega - Sonic
PC/Windows - Doom

It's odd that Sony doesn't really have a distinguishing series or character, but that's just down to its versatility, breadth and range of its games and first party titles. Someone mentioned Final Fantasy earlier, but that's a PC & 360 series too, and has been ever since 7 which came out over ten years ago.

 

[PiKe]

Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi

You couldn't get that more wrong, it should be Shenmue!

 

[Dutch Guy]

It's odd that Sony doesn't really have a distinguishing series or character,

Ratchet & Clank perhaps

Or are they multi platform?

 

[GTanny]

Ratchet & Clank perhaps

Or are they multi platform?

early sony - Crash Bandicoot / Spyro / Croc / Lara Croft
Later Sony - Ratchet & Clank / Jak & Daxter / Kratos / Snake
Current Sony - Sackboy / Nathan Drake

I think its a good thing on sonys part they have so many individual characters, i think its also down to Gran Turismo being one of Sonys biggests games and you cant really have 'Dodge Viper' as your consoles main mascot really..... can you?

edit: i also think its part also that the later Crash / Tomb Raider games were pants and Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter never really took off as much as sony hoped

 

[pingwing]

Some of these are pretty obvious repeats but no one can help that

N64 - Goldeneye or either of the Zelda's (3d at its best)
PS1 - MGS
PS2 - GT4 (though gta3 is too close to call)
PS3 - It will be gt5 come the magic day
Any nintendo hand held - Pokemon
Dreamcast - Shenmue (most the other classics are arcade ports which is cheating a little....)
Mega Drive - Sonic 2 (and Knuckles)
Xbox - Halo