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.

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??

For my fellow space lovers: 2003

EvE + Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

You are welcome 😄

Good answers but 2004 is the correct one

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

2000 had Diablo 2, so, 2000

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.

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...

1995, I got my PS1

The King of Fighters

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

I can't say if it was the best year as I haven't looked through every year, but 2011 was a pretty strong year that sticks out in my mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:2011_video_games&pageuntil=Don%27t+Take+It+Personally%2C+Babe%2C+It+Just+Ain%27t+Your+Story#mw-pages

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.

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(?)