What's the best year in gaming?

i miss childhood innocence

>Irrelevant ESL image
it's all so fucking tiresome

is that.... FRUTIGER AERO!!??

>>715826440 (OP)
In 2007, white losers were dying for Israel while white women were fucking hung dark alpha males and having mixed race babies due to a huge rise in immigration

>>715826440 (OP)
1998

>>715826440 (OP)
what i'd give to be stuck in a mid-late 2000s matrix world
>emulation readily available even up to ps2
>even of the era games don't suck ass
>actual stakes in console wars
>internet wasn't complete dogshit
take me back

>>715826440 (OP)
gotta be 2004
many big obvious ones but shoutout to butcher bay, nfsu2, gran turismo 4

>>715826440 (OP)
1998 or 2004.
2017 was looking optimistic but ultimately was a letdown.

2025 is the best year to be playing video games since we can play every game ever made on our PCs and lanky uniptimized shit from the 2010s should run butter smooth on our hardware with a compatability patch or 2.
We also have a ton of options for game engines to fuck around in. Some older games have been reverse engineered into source ports for us to experiment and expand upon.

>>715826778
The military is mostly black and hispanic so they were dying in more numbers than white soldiers.

>>715827057
Yep, it’s 2004. It was an insane year. 98-02 were all great too.

>>715826440 (OP)
31 BC

>>715827115
>lanky uniptimized
janky unoptimized*
Holy shit apparently I can't type

pick any year in this period

>>715826440 (OP)
1996-2006 was not only the peak of gaming, but the peak of humanity.

every new year is the best year for gaming since the amount of good games increases

I stumbled upon this but with 2016 in the image instead. Am I just precocious or are people really infantilized to have childhood nostalgia goggles into their teens and twenties? For me it peaks at around 5-7, then dips a bit, then drops fast starting with puberty. If I see a thing from 2014-2016 it's more like "oh hey" than me on the verge of tears from nostalgia. Did I grow up too fast or something?

>>715827329
98
>mgs, re2

Easily 2004, followed by 98.

Most teenagers are depressed and trapped in compulsory education. How could you miss that? Is it coming from people who have a hard time remembering their real childhood and need a substitute to cling to? Even my preteens felt different.

>>715827247
every game on the coloseum blows out all the shit you called "games" back then lol
>inb4 hippodrome fag starts getting uppity

>>715826440 (OP)
1196*

2004 as others have said, but 2019 is underrated, many of my favorite games of recent years came out then.
>Sekiro
>RE2R
>Outer Wilds
>Disco Elysium
>DMCV
>Shadowbringers

>>715826440 (OP)
>year
Can't choose one, I'd say 1998 - 2004 (2005 if we're pushing) was the golden age, and 2002-2004 was the absolute peak

This is the third thread I've seen in the past 24 hours with the same image being nostalgic for the fucking late 2000's.

Permaban zoomers already.

We haven't had a proper collage in 11 years now because this site's culture went to complete shit.

2025 and it's not even over yet

>>715828273
Cope, the 2000s were kino.

>>715827772
I recently read my diary I wrote when I was 9-11 and I was shocked to see how "depressed" I was back then. I literally talked about killing myself all the time. I can't even imagine a kid that age saying such a thing. I mainly just complained about how much I hated school. I don't remember that AT ALL. We really do have rose-tinted glasses about our childhoods. We choose to remember the good parts and forget the bad parts

>>715828480
>not a single good game
kek

>posted it again award

>>715828480

>>715828480
slop slop slop slop slop slop yeah looks bad

>>715827115
wtf was disappointed by 2017?

>>715826440 (OP)
The year I turned 12.
Just kidding, 2009 was a shitty year for games.

>>715828480
>all that UE5 slop
So it's between MK StraightLanes, FSR1-Bananza, UnfinishedRune, Metal Gear Stranding 2 Recycled Ring: Nightreign, and whatever Blue Prince is.

>>715828947
2008-2009 in general was the time when things took a sudden nosedive.

>>715828947
>turning 12 in 2007 is "oldfag" tier
>I was 24 and had been browsing here for almost 2 years already

>>715829050
How's life treating you, gramps?

>>715826440 (OP)
again?
>>715828273
2000s was objectively the last decade we felt hope for the world this isnt a zoomer thing but i wont lie that 2008 really did serious amount of damage that will never be repaired

>>715828530
I honestly believe most people are wrong about their memories/have shitty recollections because I am told that ages 5-7 you barely remember yet I know for a fact that was the peak of my childhood because I can piece certain things together and make a timeline of stuff. So stuff people would say I was too young to remember/enjoy I know I fully experienced and enjoyed. To me it 100% peaked pre-recession. Our memory gets fucked with by pretty pictures but they don't tell everything. My preteen years (10-12) were awkward as fuck so I dunno how people think they're golden. By the time I was close to 13 I was reminscing on my (actual) childhood

>>715829262
For the world? Sure. For gaming? Shit was going downhill by 2006 at the absolute latest.

1996
It honestly felt like good games were just getting made every single year that my list had to be re-evaluated every Christmas on what to get next. Imagine having that kind of optimism for the future of vidya. It's something most don't ever get to sincerely experience.

>>715827368
This

>>715827368
>1986 - 2006
fixed

Why do people always gravitate over the age of 12? That's puberty age. The peak of the magic is like half that age. Again, did I just grow up fast?

2017-18 was a good time for gaming

>>715827247
>grug go rockstop
>ask for rockstation 3 game
>grug get called stupid
>rockstation 3 no has game
UNGA BUNGA ROCKSTOP

1998 was peak. 2004 was where things started to go wrong. then it fell off a cliff in 2007.

How the FUCK can I learn to be happy again. Whenever I try the world just disappoints me and I spiral back into a depression

>>715828909
>RE7
>NuZelda
>Mario Odyssey
It looked like a return to form for these franchises but they ended up shitting the bed really hard.
Also Mountain Blade Butterlord was supposed to come out that year but it didn't. And it ended up being shit anyway.
Kingdom Cum came out in 2017 and is now retroactively ruined by Vavra being a subversive kike.
Cuphead was good but retroactively ruined by its homosexual fanbase.
A Hat in Time was good.

2017 was probably the best year in recent gaming history but it's nowhere nearly on the same level as 1998-2004.

>>715829467
Growing up too fast is a meme. It's just the world being an unapologetic shit place to live in where playing video games was not exactly something you had in common with people in your office.

>>715829467
The magic starts dying in your late teens and is completely dead by your mid 20s

>>715829537
Learn to be happy without the world, which means it's your responsibility to make your life enjoyable and worth living.

>>715827057
It was insane how they would drop genuinely landscape changing game one after another throughout that year and still spoil us rotten with sequels to popular gemes from just right before it.
And even some of the oddball games are played and praised by zoomers today like Simpsons Hit and Run. Which you know you have extreme kino when a game transcends generations like LBP did in 2008

>>715826763
it's not

>>715829632
I don't have nostalgia for my teens at all. The only kind of magic I could see in that age is in the form of romance, but that still has a form of magic to me. I've always been a hopeless romantic.

pretty much every year between the mid 80s and mid 00s. high quality indies have kept it decent in recent years too but boy the late 00s to mid 10s or so was a disaster and for non-indies it's worse every year than the last by orders of magnitude

>>715829537
>Whenever I try the world just disappoints me
Growing up is learning that you have to bleed and sweat to get what you want if you weren’t born a super rich gigachad. It’s also learning that nothing in life is perfect and you can’t get everything you want (unless you’re a rich chad)

:)

>>715829537
>the world just disappoints me
The answer is in your post. The people are different now, you don't feel any connection to them. Everyone's just ragebaiting or falling for ragebait, constantly depressed from learning about tragedies around the world that they have no ability to do anything about, we're all oversocialized, on edge constantly, and it's not how humans are meant to live. It's the same reason the internet sucks so bad now and why it's actually preferable to go out into the world more, something I never thought I'd say. We used to go onto the Internet to escape the world for a few hours.

>>715829537
It's fatigue over the types of people we're forced to interact with on a daily basis.

>>715826440 (OP)
2007 was pretty fucked for me
our grandma with dementia had to move in with us, she would shit on the floor and walk around the house at night yelling for grandpa to help her
i remember one time being in my room and hooking a long ethernet cable into a windows 95 thinkpad and it actually worked. the first thing i did was browse /e/

>>715826440 (OP)
1998, 2004, or 2007

>>715829537
literally stop giving a shit about the world and be yourself
did the world or anyone ever repay you, like at all?
the world imploded on itself for the past 20 years it took down everyone's sanity with it, nothing is worthwhile in this terrible floating chunk of rock all we have is ourselves to survive with time eclipsing upon us

>>715829891
No you stupid faggot go to /x/ and check out LoA threads. Reality is only what you ASSUME it to be.

I ASSUME that you suck my balls, so how do they taste anon? You dumb fucking nigger.

As a 2001 born 2007-2008 are what comes to mind for childhood for me, because I was hyped as fuck for Spider-Man 3 and Super Smash Bros Brawl and a lot of things felt great. 2006 was pretty cool too. 2009 was still more good than bad but 2010 onward

>>715826440 (OP)
1939

>>715830091
>2007
Besides The Orange Box and STALKER what good came of this year? It's when everything started going to shit.

>>715830227
Portal, BioShock, Assassin's Creed, Halo 3, No More Heroes, and Super Mario Galaxy

>>715830227

2002-2004 will forever be in my heart

There was not a single good game released in the entirety of the 2010s. 1998 was the best year for vidya followed by 1988.

>>715830227
2007 was a good year for games because the development of them took place in 2006.

>>715830301
>>715830359
good god he's right what a garbage fucking year

>>715830406
>heh heh look at me, I'm a contrarian

>>715830301
>bioshock
>good

>ass creed
> good

>halo
>good

>>715830381
>There was not a single good game released in the entirety of the 2010s
Automata

>>715830364
Based, but for me it's Outcast

>>715830442
Glad we agree

>>715830103
You are a retarded shitskin for unironically believing that shit. It’s like a jeet believing he’ll get bobs & vagene by imagining it hard enough. That LoA is a coping mechanism for retards like you

>>715830509
>muh depression and nihilism slop for fedora tipping weebs followed by shit gameplay
Play more games

>>715830630
>mom look im an ebin edgy contrarian
neck yourself asap

>>715830439
the only games on that list that aren't objectively garbage are crysis and portal, and the only other game i enjoyed from that year was soc (it's objectively garbage though but i like it)
everything else on that list is derivative garbage for children

>>715830587
Dumb nigger you bring about your own demise. Have fun sucking my balls in the 4D you demoralized homosexual.

>>715830509
>Shitmata
Kek

>>715830359
>ass creed
>bee movie game

>>715829537
take psychedelics

>>715830359
>Bee Movie Game
Kino

Saying "acktually the current year is the best because we can play all the vidya" is unironically peak midwittery.

>715830630
>715830761
>least obvious samefaggot

>>715828480
Based video games enjoyer

>>715828480
100% shit taste

>>715828480
100% based taste

>>715826976
>>emulation readily available even up to ps2
6th gen emulation wasn't actually usable until 10's.

>>715826976
Why would you use troonmulation instead of playing on real hardeware?

>>715829537
Stop being upset over things you have no control over, and accept the fact that the world will never, ever be in a satisfactory state. The most you can really do is set an example and be the change you want to see in the world, on top of being an influence to your friends and family.

>>715829537
You can't sorry, nothing will fill the void anymore

>>715828580
>>715828723
>>715828859
>>715831669
DAE hate videogames XD. So unique for a videogame board huh?

>>715831754
thanks for rewriting my memory. I can't believe I had vivid images of playing FFX on some shitty emulator in high school

>>715830381
Wargame: Airland Battle.

>>715831754
>>715832828
NTA but I remember PCSX2 was absolute dogshit at that time, it still is considering it uses dumb hacks and workarounds from that time for some games.

>>715826748
I hope they'll make creating threads on /v/ free again so we can both make something we enjoy instead of all these trash threads, amirite fellow tourist?

>>715826976
literally nothing is stopping you to do it all today

>>715833060
>actual stakes in console wars
>internet wasn't complete dogshit
good luck

>>715828480
grim

>>715829632
Just learn to be present. There's your magic.

>>715826440 (OP)
IS THAT SOME HECKIN' EPIC FRUTIGER AERO I LOVE IT!!!

>>715826440 (OP)
Can't pick a single one, but maybe 1999 or 2000.

1994:
Aero Fighters 2
Alien vs. Predator
Beyond Oasis
Blackthorne
Blood Gear
Brain Lord
Breath of Fire II
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Contra Hard Corps
Crusader of Centy
Darius Gaiden
Daytona USA
Demon's Crest
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Country
Dune: The Battle for Arrakis
Dynamite Headdy
EarthBound
Eco Fighters
Fantastic Journey
Final Fantasy III
Galactic Attack
Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishi Jūrokubee no Karakuri Man...
Gun Force II
Gunbird
Hagane: The Final Conflict
Kingdom Grandprix
Kirby's Dream Course
Langrisser II
Live a Live
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Mega Man X2
Mega Turrican
Monster World IV
Panorama Cotton
Pocky & Rocky 2
Pop'n TwinBee Rainbow Bell Adventures
Popful Mail
Pulseman
Robotrek
Rock n' Roll Racing
Samurai Shodown II
Shadowrun
Shining Force CD
Snatcher
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sparkster
Star Wars Arcade
Streets of Rage 3
Super Bomberman 2
Super Metroid
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Takahashi Meijin no Bōkenjima IV
Tekken
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
The Firemen
The Legend of Xanadu
The Ninja Warriors
Tokimeki Memorial
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
True Lies
Umihara Kawase
Uniracers
Virtua Cop
Virtua Racing Deluxe
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Wild Guns
Zed Blade
Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II

Runner up is 1998.

>>715826440 (OP)
any year between 93 and 04 was the best year

>>715830103
>go to /x/ and check out LoA
Is this really legit
I feel like there is never any conclusive evidence for it, as nice as it sounds

>>715826440 (OP)
2004, and it's not even close

>>715826440 (OP)
probably 2018 or 2022 unless ur an insufferable old faggot

>>715826440 (OP)
1985. October 15th to be exact

>>715826440 (OP)
>1998
>2004
>2007
Any of these 3 years could be #1

>2011
>2017
>1999
>1997
>2008
These years were fantastic as well

>>715827368
There is literally NOTHING preventing us from having this again, or stopping the people that are forcing us from experiencing this again.

>90s
>Watch Captain planet and be a member of the end of history with the highest crime rates and LA chimpouts while Waco gets seiged like a good goy
>2000s
>Die in Iraq for Israel while blaspheming the lord and allowing obsenity to reach the mainstream
>2010s
>Watch Big Bang theory and Feminsiv Frequency on double monitors while hipsters lecture you about toxic masculinity and then have a complete violent chimp out over Trump winning
Unless you were born prior to 1943, your childhood is no better than the one of today

>>715840915
>October 15th
Sorry I was off by a few days NES released on October 18th 1985 which became the cornerstone holding up everything that came after in the west

>>715841046
The problem is there's so much garbage being released now relative to then, that gems have a harder time standing out unless they're marketed heavily, or a named streamer picks it out of a hat to try.

>>715829537
>Everything is an add
>Everything is terminally online and a subscription service
>Everything is atomized to the individual instead of sharing a comunial experience as a collective
>Wages for a lot of jobs that normally appeal to certain types of people that like manual labor were severed in half to foreigners so people who make too much money can buy more useless shit they'll likely never use
>Everything is multiple layers of intentionally fake (even movies barely have sets anymore and are 90% CGI)
>Eevrything is built to be as easy to use as possible with as little thinking as possible so even the dumbest motherfucker can succeed (which ultimately makes the goal a worthless endeavor)
>No sense of real life progression, and even fake progression is paywalled by FOMO
>Unironically own nothing, but will never be happy
People traded humanity for convenience and have never been more depressed.

1999 was an absurdly good year for strategy gamers.

>>715828480

>>715826976
If I could freeze things in terms of culture, media, games, all that, it'd be 2007-2012/2013. Maybe move it down to 2004-ish, not at all move it past 2013.

>>715829262
2008 was odd for me in that I was young enough to be insulated and my family well off enough to be as well. So whereas we really felt/feel the inflation era back then it was more familial crises we got going on.

>>715829537
I don't like people glibly using a pithy quote to sound wise, but look up the Gandalf quote to Frodo(?). The whole
>I wish I was not around to see such things/be in such an age
And gandalf telling him that is what all wish who live to see such times, all that is left to them is to do what they can with the time they are given.

For me, my imagination is my own and nobody can take that away. Music and that's all I need to work with it. The only threat to that is stressors of job/money/ect but if I can deal with those then I do not need any new books, any new movies, any new games.

So maybe you need to just focus on older books you like, older games, movies, whatever. Don't be on social media. Idle hands devils plaything, whenever I am productive doing something be it writing or modding I am happier than when I am browsing and listening to all the evils that >>715841787
correctly spelled out. And realizing those FOMO/FUD/add-inducing bullshit wants my attention. So why give it to them. Don't play their game and just leave their marketplace.

>>715826440 (OP)
Too hot
Boring vidya
Nothing to do
Internet sucked ass
Beginning of the worst music era
Everybody’s busy

Shit sucked back then

>>715831754
PS2 emulation was messy but functional in quite a few games provided you had the hardware to run it and could troubleshoot. Though I'm thinking of around 08/09, which isn't all that far off from then anyway.

>>715828480
I didn't like any of those, but Tainted Grail was pretty alright bugs and quality drops after act 1 aside.

>>715830024
>our grandma with dementia had to move in with us, she would shit on the floor and walk around the house at night yelling for grandpa to help her
one of things that really scare me about old age is shit like this. I wont have anyone to take care of me

>>715826440 (OP)
Music: 1987
Videogames: 1998

Simple as.

2020. Not because of the games themselves but having unlimited time to play them. Covid was cozy and I’m tired of pretending it wasn’t

>>715829537
>How the FUCK can I learn to be happy again.
Abandon modern vidya, re-embrace pre 7th gen gaming. It's that easy

>>715826976
>>715834378
There were no actual stakes in the console wars, and the internet not being "complete dogshit" ties into the fact that you were a child.

>>715830359
>Reflection of gaming being damaged by storyfags
>any good
Anon, I...

>>715826976
>>715843232
2006-2008 amish'ism

>>715845113
objectively wrong in all counts

>>715845556
Please tell everyone about the great "stakes" of the console wars that went beyond "My mother could only afford one"