I'm a little late to the party on this thread, but great list man! I agree 100% with your criticism of the AC series. I really hope they take a hiatus and just come back with one final awesome game. I am going to have to try Bioshock infinite. I loved the first one and thought 2 was a respectable sequel. I avoided Infinite because the setting deviated so much from the original and I was afraid it wouldn't be creepy enough. But what I've read about it, it might be creepier just on the subject matter or philosophical themes alone, as in rampant xenophobia and religious fanaticism in the game hits close too home. You could really imagine a future like that. The aesthetic of those games is reason enough to play them. I even used a quote in my thumbnail this week from the first Bioshock, it just had such an impact on me. That game really pushed me to research some of the philosophies explored in the game. The whole series is really such a cool interactive thought experiment about taking dogmas to their extremes and subjecting yourself to the end result.
