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(?)
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.
Some notable titles (for me) were skyrim, portal 2, LA Noir, ocarina of time 3D, star fox 3D(do these two count? They were technically remakes for the 3DS), skyward sword, Dark souls.
Other titles that might be notable (there might be more that I don’t list, I’m just skimming quickly) Amnesia, battlefield 3, COD MW3, Catherine, Crysis 2, dead space 2, gears of War 3, hatoful boyfriend, little big planet 2, Mario kart 7, mortal kombat (2011), no more room in hell, red orchestra 2, saints row 3, SMT devil survivor 2, tekken tag tournament 2, terraria, track mania 2.
Again there might be some i missed(especially playstation releases, I think i maybe missed a resistance game or something) but those were some notable ones I saw.
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.
I agree. TotK is probably one of the few games I consider to be almost perfect. Hogwarts Legacy was also great, and I’m currently hyped for Starfield (hoping it lives up to the hype).
The biggest downer of the year is for me Kerbal Space Program 2, as the early access has been extremely bad in performance and low on content with no big content updates in the forseeable future.
Diablo 2 (still the best one, imho)
Q3A
Jet Set Radio
Baldur’s Gate 2
Deus Ex
Paper Mario
No One Lives Forever
Counter Strike
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver
Anyway, late 90s early 00s had a lot of banger years with awesome new IPs dropping regularly. The last 5-10 years have been amazing for indie games, but AAA games are just fancier versions of what we already have, for the most part.
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.
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.
As a person who likes that kind of music and knew it before playing Fallout, it was such a pleasant surprise to me to hear this older music pop up in a much-more-modern video game.
Think it’s worth saying that I hate FPSes but I have and enjoy Fallout anyways.
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