Re: Yet Another 'Best Year In Gaming' Thread

On 1/22/2025 9:04 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 So, here's another thing to discuss:
 "14 reasons why 2007 was the greatest year in video games"
https://www.xda-developers.com/2007-greatest-year-for-video-games/
 Those reasons being, in part, stuff like "Metroid Prime 3", "Crysis",
"God of War 2", "Bioshock", "Halo 3" and "Team Fortress 2". It's that
sort of article.

Well, GoW 2 I remember being good, but the rest of those I don't really have any particular interest in, and I can only really give my nonobjective opinion.

But then, which year does? That's much harder to say. There are a lot
of years that stand out, but which gets the nod as 'greatest'?

- 1993, maybe, the year of "Doom" and "7th Guest"; other hits include
"Mortal Kombat", "SimCity 2000", "Wing Commander Privateer", "Gabriel
Knight", "Syndicate", "X-Wing", "Sam and Max", "Master of Orion",
"Cannon Fodder", "Mega Man X", "Dark Sun", and "Day of the Tentacle".
It was a great year.*

MoO, Syndicate, Doom, Privateer, Dark Sun - The most I enjoyed of the other years listed, so I'll give it to 1993.
I did look through some lists of other years best games that had some of my favorites, but nothing stood out.

- Certainly 1998 often gets the nod: it's the year of the original
"Half Life!" But also "Descent Freespace" and "Baldurs Gate", and
"Ocarina of Time", "Policenauts", "Xenogears", "Spyro the Dragon",
"Banjo Kazooie", "Rogue Squadron 3D", "Diablo", "Tribes", "Pokemon
Red/Blue/Yellow", "Starcraft", "Thief", and "Unreal.

Wow, Diablo and Starcraft?  Those feel like they're 10 years apart. Diablo being the one 10 years older.

What year would you put as "greatest in gaming"? Or is it a fool's
choice?

1993 I guess.  I swear we had a recent year that was really good, but looking back it was probably just that I played a bunch of games that came out earlier that I loved all in that year.
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