Mass Effect 2 and Dishonored. The first since it felt like the most polished mass effect to date with a brilliant story and allowing you to make choices with real consequences in the game. The second for the freedom the gameplay afforded you as well as the atmosphere of the world. You could tell a lot of work went into making the worlds of both those games feel believable.

Highly recommend playing both games even though they play like two different companies designed it. The key factor is over-arching story which comes more into fruition in Dragon Age 2 than in Origins (however Dragon Age: Origins had the better narrative). If you like simplified fast paced gameplay DA2 might be for you but if you prefer tactical combat similar to KOTOR DA:O is definitely the preferred option. Both games however come with an incredibly atmospheric world and I enjoyed both more for the story and impact I was able to have in the games than just their individual gameplay styles.

I hear what you're saying with GW2 but it's worth keeping in mind that when making an MMO experience you can't expect events/quests to be unique. So even though they were boasting this epic gaming experience there's only so much you can do when you've got to create an online world where millions of players are going to be frolicking in (i.e. everyone should have the opportunity to experience an event). Shadow of Mordor doesn't have those restraints since it only needs to worry about a single person going through the game at any given time so hopefully they can pull this off instead of it feeling too scripted or mechanical.

Surprisingly I've never managed to break any of my controllers for any generation of consoles... o.0 It is surprising given the amount of time I spent on each console as well.

I think the hate's more related to the fact that Elder Scrolls fans probably didn't want anything multiplayer related. So I guess the hate is just fans being disappointed at the next iteration of the Elder Scrolls franchise, it'd be like turning Fallout into a Call of Duty clone (lets hope that never happens). Personally I wasn't going to pick this game up at launch but maybe 6-9 months after it came out to see how it is before passing any judgement.

That said the pricing for the game is pretty standard for MMO's given that almost all decent ones start with a full price and a sub and stay that way on average at least a year or two after release.

I get what you're saying since I'd have the same crap in MK9, if I played with less experienced friends they'd just choose noob and spam his stupid moves. However my whole point and I'd like to think what the others who replied to you were trying to get across was AI modes and difficulties exist in most fighting games OUTSIDE of vs mode and they basically give you a similar experience to fighting ai on vs mode.

I hear what you're saying and the numbers alone probably added a lot to the difficulty and complexity of WoW raids but you've also got to look at it from a server population point of view. When you have 5 man teams and 10 man - 25 man raids everything takes forever in a game that has a rocky population with people jumping in and out. WoW on the other had has a consistently high population from inception to justify the large raids.

Personally I prefer smaller raids since it makes it easier for people to learn from trial and error in a fight than having to read up and watch raid fights like you do in WoW. And it's also part of the reason the community's a lot nicer, smaller raids make it easier for people to be consistent in attendance which in turn makes it easier for people to bond with their guilds. I found it a lot easier to make a home in my Guild in SWTOR than I have in all my years playing WoW.

Also I found a balanced set of players playing SWTOR i.e. people who seemed to have lives outside the game with work, family and socializing, too many people who raided with me in WoW spent way too much time on that game, made it to every raid, inflexible raiding days, miss one raid and your spot might be gone the next week, etc.

Destiny, Dragon Age, Shadow of Mordor, also a couple of RPG's on Kickstarter I'm keeping an eye on like Massive Chalice and Pillars of Eternity!

Ok you really need to go into more detail because AI exists in single player for every single fighting game. Depending on the game you can alter the AI either in training mode OR during single player matches. And a couple of games I've done that in are Soul Calibur 3 and MvC3.

Why exactly is it important to have AI in vs mode? So going back to your original post about AI, stages and characters, most fighting games let you alter those in single player modes just not always in VS, but once again I don't see why having it in a VS mode matters?

I would hold off until Infamous Second Son, but if you're really intent on one of those 3 I'd reccommend Killzone. While the single player isnt anything special the use of abilities and perks in the multiplayer can make for a lot of fun! Out of all the three fps mp shooters out at launch I personally had the most with Killzone's.