serfraser,
@serfraser@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

Fish,

Then 2023 has got to be a pretty good year for you too, with the releases of Final Fantasy 16, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Diablo 4. I have enjoying Diablo 4 and am really looking forward to Baldur’s Gate 3 (I haven’t played the early-access).

DHYCIX,

Comparing these franchises then to now makes my head spin…

serfraser,
@serfraser@sopuli.xyz avatar

Indeed, it’s pretty surreal. Working on my D4 Druid as we speak, whilst happily awaiting BG3. The fact my daughter is due to arrive the same month it releases makes the nostalgia extra surreal.

Honestly haven’t given FF16 much thought tbh. Not played FF since 10. They’ve all looked kind of interchangeable since then. 9 was special for me.

RupeThereItIs,

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.

ExecutorAxon,

100%. The best year will probably be what you grew up with, which is why I was curious as to what other people thought

GiuseppeAndTheYeti,

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.

HiT3k,

2007 for sure. Mass Effect, Bioshock, Crysis, STALKER, The Witcher, Assassins Creed, and a bunch more I’m forgetting. I also played a ton on PSP back then that probably released that year that I’m forgetting.

TheOakTree,

2007 PSP games that stand out to me are Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, Monster Hunter Freedom 2, and Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron.

falsem,

2004 was also a really good year

ascagnel,

August-November of that year was headlined by a slew of all-time greats: Half-Life 2, San Andreas, MGS3, Halo 2, The Sims 2…

If you were into video games in any way in that time period, you had something great to play, regardless of platform.

captainkaba,

World of Warcraft too if you’re EU.

Leafeytea,

For my fellow space lovers: 2003

EvE + Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

You are welcome 😄

supersonicstork,
@supersonicstork@beehaw.org avatar

Jedi Academy was that year too! Though Need for Speed : Underground was probably the one I connected the most with

Ugetsu,

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.

shnizmuffin,
@shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

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

Dunstabzugshaubitze,

If it doesn’t run doom, is it even a computer?

Mutoid,

In computer science we should say that a machine is DOOM complete

ReCursing,
@ReCursing@kbin.social avatar

The original Doom and Doom II still unironically kick arse. There are updated engines that allow fancy things like looking up and down the the mouse but other than that (and maybe making the graphics prettier) there's very little you could do to improve those games

mikewavebird,

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??

apprehensively_human,

Not to mention Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the Dragon, Turok 2, and Gex: Enter the Gecko

Omegamanthethird,

Not to mention? Imo, Spyro, MGS, Half Life, and Pokémon should be the main arguments for GOAT. The rest mentioned are just supplemental.

sarsaparilyptus,

It reminds me of how Weird Al’s wonderful movie UHF didn’t do great in theaters, being released in the summer of 1989. That meant it was competing against the following blockbusters:

  • Ghostbusters II
  • Back to the Future Part II
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  • Lethal Weapon 2
  • Batman
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
heliodorh,
@heliodorh@beehaw.org avatar

Goddamn I was OBSESSED with Goldeneye.

banana_meccanica,

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.

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