Gaming

This is like arguing which cast of SNL was best. It's more about you & what age you where at the time, then the games themselves.

1998 was so sick. Just a few more:

• Metal Gear Solid
• Resident Evil 2
• Turok 2
• Thief: The Dark Project
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Goldeneye 007
• Tomb Raider III

The list goes on and on, I still play games from that year today.

My top 3 games of all time:

• Final Fantasy IX
• Baldur's Gate II
• Diablo II

All in 2000. Oof. I didn't even realise this until you asked OP. What a time to be 12 that was.

Honestly I genuinely think that 2017 might be the best year of gaming, ever. Breath of the wild, nier automata, mario odyssey, fortnite, cuphead, horizon zero dawn, hellblade: senua's sacrifice, destiny 2, xenoblade chronicles 2, prey, sonic mania, injustice 2, divinity original sin 2, nioh, splatoon 2, hollow knight, middle earth: shadow of war, night in the woods, pubg, pyre, yakuzas 0 and kiwami, even tekken 7's console release and persona 5's western release if you want to count those. And that's not mentioning the smaller indie games that were acclaimed within their circles like Absolver or the expansions for games that were critically acclaimed like Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire or Final Fantasy: Stormblood. Like, '98 is legendary for a reason but I think that as far as just, number of incredible games released we've never seen a year like 2017.

2004 was also a really good year

I mean… 2023 is shaping up to be pretty dope so far. FF16, Pikmin 4, Diablo IV, Armored Core (assuming it’s good), Tears of the Kingdom…

It blows my mind how many iconic games came out that year, looking at that list... Also Sonic Adventure, Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time all came out in the same year??

It's obviously too early because two of them aren't out, but this year could shape up to be way up there for RPG fans if we get what we're being advertised. Final Fantasy XVI is a significant step into action that's been pretty well received, Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot people have already seen and looks like it may well be the next-generation standard for crpg open world games, and Starfield is a new IP that looks to me like it might be modernizing Bethesda gunplay in their trademark massive scale 3D open worlds.

If Bethesda isn't completely blowing smoke we could very realistically have three absolutely huge different styled RPGs that are the new standards for their genres.

For my fellow space lovers: 2003

EvE + Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

You are welcome 😄

Here are some more:

• Falcon 4.0
• Rainbow Six
• Unreal
• Battlezone
• Gran Turismo

That´s actually insane for one year!

Back then, studios had to actually make new games to make more money. Nowadays, you make one game and then just milk it for a decade.

Good answers but 2004 is the correct one

Fallout 2 was 1998 as well. I loved that game, and I bought Louie Armstrong greatest hits because the song in the opening credits was great.

2000 had Diablo 2, so, 2000

My favorite was 1997, I only owned a PS1 at the time, and here's some really good games that was released that year:

• Gran Turismo
• Final Fantasy 7
• Castlevania Symphony of the Night
• Crash Bandicoot 2
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Parappa the Rapper
• Vandal Hearts
• Mega Man X4
• Breath of Fire 3
• Mega Man Legends
• MDK
• Oddworld Abe's Oddysse
• Tomb Raider II
• Grand Theft Auto
• Klonoa
• MK Mythologies Sub Zero

Some other non PS1, but notable games that came out that year:

• Diablo
• Mario Kart 64
• Turok
• Goldeneye 007
• Star Fox 64
• Fallout
• Panzer General II
• Age of Empires
• Mortal Kombat 4

1998 was also very good

It's harder and harder to get a year that can produce a large number of hits, especially since AAA has become so expensive and time consuming. Even great indies take longer than usual now. The explosions of hits released between late 2022 and this year, is probably caused by Covid delaying multiple projects.

With more game devs consolidation, and Embracer stumbling, I'm not too sure about the near future.

2003 or 2007 for me. The early Halo and CoD years were the formative years of online gaming while also having a single player experience that was as replayable as any of the 80's and 90's hit games.

1999 for me because of Age of Empires II and Quake III Arena

98 was very strong, but I would argue until like 2005 every year was pretty amazing.

I was born in 99’ so 2007 was my year.

'93 had Doom and we're still installing Doom on things.

2014 the year Titanfall came out, it was basically everything I wanted in FPS. I could wall run, shoot and then hop in my giant robot and rain hellfire down with a 40MM or hoop out and let it follow while I jump onto the enemies Titan, shoot it with my machine gun and then plant satchel charges. When the pilot hops out to try and kill me jump off set off satchel charges killing the Titan and its pilot.

I know I'm basic.

Oh boy, I'm going to have to think about that one...

We need something like boxofficemojo.com for games listing everything by year.

For movies, 1982 was HUGE.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1982/?ref_=bo_yl_table_42

For games? Imma need to do research...

Tekken 3 was good evolution of tekken games, big deal and very fun to play. I think 1998 is a console gaming year, cd-base, while still PC system have to deal with hardware improve.

2023 -Street Fighter 6 -being able to play Hunt: Showdown on Linux -Cyberpunk '77: Phantom Liberty -Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure -BattleBit -games I haven't played yet, but looking forward: Zelda Totk(?)