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in my opinion, '98 was the best year for game releases. What's yours? (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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98 has some of my favorite games to ever come out, like:

Marvel vs. Capcom
1080 Snowboarding
NFS3 Hot Pursuit
Tekken 3
Starcraft + Brood wars
Commandos
Fifa 99
Pokemon
Fallout 2
Half Life
Ocarina of Time
Baldur's Gate

And many more

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[–] _pete_ 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

98 was incredible, besides all the ones OP mentioned they missed:

Metal Gear Solid
Sonic Adventure
Resident Evil 2
Sonic Adventure
Grim Fandango
Caesar III
Unreal

Surely one of the best years, only possibly beaten by 2004:

Half Life 2
MGS3
GTA: San Andreas
Ninja Gaiden
Halo 2
World of Warcraft
Doom 3
Killzone
Fable
Burnout 3: Takedown
Lumines
Far Cry

So many amazing games!

[+] SatouKazuma -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is an FTC?

[–] SatouKazuma 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're being serious, that's the US Federal Trade Commission, which is the agency in charge of regulating US markets, and suing to block mergers and other anti-competitive behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, not American, I was serious thank you for the info. (edit: forgot to say thanks)

[–] _pete_ 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think expectations have grown astronomically since 2004, budgets have ballooned, graphical fidelity and animation quality has skyrocketed, development team headcounts have gone through the roof and many games just have more systems than they did before.

Games are less frequent because they take a lot longer to make, I read the other day that Halo 2 was apparently churned out in 10 months, these days even games building on other games foundations such as Tears of the Kingdom can take 5 years to come out.

[–] SatouKazuma 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tears of the Kingdom taking five years actually kind of shocks me, because it doesn't play that much different from a re-skinned version of its predecessor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@SatouKazuma @_pete_ There are lots of things that go into games design that make it take that long in the modern day, so just because it plays very similar to its predecessor, there's still a lot of work to be done to get the game to the state that its in.

[–] SatouKazuma 1 points 1 year ago

I might be a developer, but I can't say games are exactly in my wheel house. With the new enemies and animations, however, I can't say I'm that shocked it takes a while.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did a quick search because I don't remember what year games came out. Lol.

Turns out IMDB had a decent list and 2004 was a fantastic year.

1.Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

2.Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

3.Yume Nikki

4.Half-Life 2

5.Silent Hill 4

6.Cave Story

7.Katamari Damacy

8.Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

2008 for me.

Fallout 3 GTA IV Burnout Paradise FarCry 2 Little Big Planet Dead Space Smash Bros Brawl Left 4 Dead Fable 2 Gears of War 2 Mario Kart Wii Star Wars: Force Unleashed Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Rock Band 2 Civilization Revolution Tomb Raider: Underworld Call of Duty: World at War

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

2001 - SSX Tricky was released. I played the hell out of that game. Still would today honestly, it had such satisfying trick mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The actually best year is always a personal point of view not because the titles but because the age. It is usual relate the best year of gaming to when younger you pick up the controller for the first times, and even some malicious titles are remember as good ones. Like Jurassick Park for PS1 I will remember it as epic even if isn't a big deal compared. As adult I feel time for gaming have stopped, gaming now is mostly behind microtransation and high prices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parasite Eve, Unreal, Shogo, RE2, SiN, Thief: The Dark Project, etc. Certainly an amazing year in gaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh I forgot about SiN! I've played that demo a million times when I was a kid haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

2011 hits hard.

Portal 2
Skyrim
Dark Souls
Crysis 2
Arkham city

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