Your favorite year in gaming

[SilkSkull]

What's your favorite year or years in gaming? Personally I think mine's gotta be 1996. You had Super Mario 64, Tomb Raider, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Civ 2, Quake, Parappa The Rappa, Resident Evil and Tekken 2. It was an absolutely revolutionary year for 3D games and a lot of the games released in that year I still go back to even today!

[Memory]

Probably 2002. That's when Metroid Prime, Wind Waker and the Resident Evil remake came out on GameCube. Three of my all-time favourite games.

[graveyardsoup]

I tend to get blinded by nostalgia so I was trying to think of recent years and 2019 has been one of my favorite in recent memory. Control (one of my all time favorites), Devil May Cry 5, Apex Legends, Death Stranding, Disco Elysium, and the Resident Evil 2 remake came out that year and all 6 of those have been some the games I've enjoyed the most over the past few years.

[SilkSkull]

Probably 2002. That's when Metroid Prime, Wind Waker and the Resident Evil remake came out on GameCube. Three of my all-time favourite games.

Never played any of the Metroid games but damn I might have to try Prime with how often people mention it

[SilkSkull]

I tend to get blinded by nostalgia so I was trying to think of recent years and 2019 has been one of my favorite in recent memory. Control (one of my all time favorites), Devil May Cry 5, Apex Legends, Death Stranding, Disco Elysium, and the Resident Evil 2 remake came out that year and all 6 of those have been some the games I've enjoyed the most over the past few years.

Resident Evil 2 remake was waaaay better than I thought it would be

[Memory]

Never played any of the Metroid games but damn I might have to try Prime with how often people mention it

Most of the Metroid games are great, but Prime is my favourite. You're in for a treat.

If you like the Resident Evil games, they're pretty similar in design where you start out in a large map with just a few paths open and you need to go down them to find new items that'll unlock other paths.

Resident Evil 2 remake was waaaay better than I thought it would be

The only thing I dislike about the remake is Mr. X being able to freely roam the police station now. He was more annoying than scary to me. If they made it more like Alien Isolation where you could sneak around him and hide in lockers or something it would have worked better. But as it is, if he's in the way of where you need to go you either pick a longer route or just circle-strafe around him and then run past. It really hurt the pacing in my opinion.

I do think it's funny that they took RE3's main mechanic and put it in the RE2 remake, and then took it out of the RE3 remake. :P

[Sam]

I haven't really played videogames for as many years as some of y'all (I have been into videogames since forever but I've never had a console until 2022 so I just watched everything on YouTube back then) so I can't really speak from experience but 2017 was really dang good in my opinion!

We got Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Slime Rancher Undertale, Little Nightmares & Super Mario Oddysey which are already 6 of my all time favorite games so that's more than enough for me to consider this my favorite year!

But we also had lots of other amazing games and even some games that maybe weren't that good in retrospective but which were a big part of my childhood and have a very special place in my heart (not gonna say which is which tho, I'm gonna keep you guessing) like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Night in the Woods, Nier: Automata, Your Turn To Die, Doki Doki Literature Club, Rain World, A Hat in Time, Dead Cells, FNAF 6, BATIM, Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion HD Renovation Granny, Getting Over It, etc...

[Watanabe_1994]

"Ooooh 2007 was a good year oooh no 1999 was!!!"
There is no good year.

I've played enough junk and indie pissware from 1980s-2020s to figure out that there is no good year or decade or golden age in gaming history. Good example would be in the 2000s WarCraft 3 would be released but stinkers like Terrawars: NY Invasion would be pooped out later on then later on something like Portal would be made so forth and so on. Its just sorting through a ewaste site like a 12 year old in Ghana to get that sweet precious metals or like LARPing as a homeless dude picking though a dumpster.