Saints Row: The Third.
Yes, this game is offensive. Yes, it is absolutely weird and doesn’t make any sense.
Yes, this games has bad taste, childish humor, is sexist and everything. But it’s also a very well crafted sandbox game with a shit-ton of content to play with. Freedom in games is something very valuable and pretty rare (see Skyrim fanboys or see rollercoasters like MW3 or Rage).
In three iterations, developers have been smart enough to stop trying to make a highly customizable GTA clone and simply go for what people were doing with an open, urban world: messing with it.
It also feels really good to me as an old fart because that’s what games during the 8/16bits era were about; weird stuff, weird settings and themes that don’t matter as long as you have fun. The over dramatic tone and false maturity brought by a lot of games these past few years? Fuck that. I was watching Uncharted 3 and the last Batman, holy shit it’s so boring and pretentious and yet, doesn’t deliver much.
So honest AAA developers focusing on interaction, freedom, fun, listening to players feedback and bringing a big dose of WTF and chaos on the table, I say “yes, please”.