If you listen to game journos it's whatever the current year their article was made in. I was going to try and pitch a year but I can't beat KH2 AND Splinter Cell. Fuck.
2007 >BioShock >Halo 3 >Portal >Super Mario Galaxy >Mass Effect >Call of Duty 4 >Crysis >Rock Band >God of War 2 >Uncharted >Assassins Creed >Team Fortress 2 >Half Life 2 Episode 2 >The Witcher >Skate >Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
The entire 7th gen run was something we'll never get again
>>723693372
But zero good jrpgs that year. All the games you listed would be so boring to me unless you like those genres besides maybe mario galaxy. Pretty sure that was the year of disgusting greys and brown colour palettes in games too.
>>723694192
Kingpin: Life of Crime. Do NOT buy the atrocious remaster. The game is already jank as all hell, it doesn't need Slipgate shitting all over the excellent presentation.
>>723693940
picking a best from this is pretty tuff. I think 98 and 2001 might be the most stacked though. a lot of my favorites are scattered all over
>>723694243 >2007-2011
that era was pretty good but i would not call it S-teir, maybe A-tier.
also lets not forget that the early 7th gen psn/xbox live era birthed all the slop that we have today.
>>723693940 >hardware and game dev had matured and become more sophistanced >budgets and scope had increased for bigger ideas, but not yet to greedy AAA slop levels >game design was not yet "solved", so lots of experimentation and different concepts, instead of just copying the same blueprints everywhere
>>723694769
While there were suits involved in this period, a lot of them were still cautious after getting burned in the first crash, so the people who actually wanted to make a game and not just a bump a company stock ticker were mostly in control.
>>723694768
idk mane. those specific zoomer core games were pretty damn fun. looking at that giant chart though there are plenty of years that are better
>>723692754 >Assassins Creed >Uncharted >BioShock >Call of Duty 4 >Rock Band
All this cancer started here with a bunch of mid ass shit. >Half Life 2 Episode 2
This was the last bit of half life stuff for the next decade holy fuck. >>723692754 >>723693745
I would actually say 05 isn't a bad contended. 1998 was a watershed release year for media in general >>723693940
Double checking this I actually wanna say 2002
>>723694243
For me it was when a lot of games started going downhill in the genres I like, namely AFPS and RTS. If anything I think 2011-2016 was the absolute worst period for games. MOBAs dominated, you had the SJW feminist screeching and gamergate, kikestarter scams with MN9 and Shart Citizen.
>>723692632 (OP)
96-97 >RE1 >Crash Bandicoot >Clock Tower >Castlevania: Symphony of the Night >Persona >Megaman X3 >FF7 >Gran Turismo >Final Fantasy Tactics >Armored Core >Dynasty Warriors
We're still eating off these individual games, the series they started or their derivatives and that was just one system. 98 is a good year too. some of them might have had earlier iterations in japan at some point but the point is that these releases is what made them famous to milk or copy
