Is 2015 the best year in gaming ever?

I give 2015 a 10/10 for games and announcements. Bloodborne, Arkham Knight, Mortal Kombat X, Witcher 3, Pillars of Eternity, OlliOlli 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, and more. Then there's FF7 remake announcement, Last Guardian, Shenmue 3, Horizon, and more. I'm also really looking forward to the holiday season - MGS V, Black Ops 3, Halo 5, Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Fallout 4, XCOM 2, Stacraft Legacy of the Void. I mean, was there ever a year better than this?

No, there have been better years.

I seen better years.

@speedfreak48t5p: most of the goodness of this year are announcements, so definatey not.

2011

With Persona 5 then yes. If Persona is delayed to next year then 2016 is the best year ever.

for xbox one its been the best

Terrible year

Nah, but it has a huge amount of momentum rolling into 2016.

Only if you are a new gamer and haven't experienced 1998, 2004 and 2007 before. 2015 is not even as good as 2011. Let alone the ones I mentioned earlier. As mentioned above, best thing about 2015 were the announcements, not actual games. There are some great games coming out later this year but not enough to call it the best year. It's funny that back in 2014, we thought it'll be best year in ages but once again a lot of stuff was pushed back to 2016 and same will happen next year as well.

For me best year is 1998; Metal Gear Solid, Thief: The Dark Project, Half Life, Panzer Dragon Saga, System Shock 2, Starcraft etc etc etc. Masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece. So far nothing comes close to 2007 (when it comes to recent years of goodness); Witcher, Supreme Commander, Mass Effect, Halo, STALKER, Crysis, World in Conflict, The Orange Box etc etc etc.

Nope. Still not finding many games to play. Slow year IMO. Also announcements don't count toward good year for gaming as you aren't actually playing them now are you?

If Persona 5 happens that might make this best year ever

2007 is the best yet.

I wouldn't call a year filled with sequels from decade old franchises the best year in gaming.

2008 is actually my favorite for having Left 4 Dead. I spent thousands of hours on that game and had more fun than I ever had with a video game before. However, 2007 had the Orange Box and that changed my whole view on video games. I played through Half-Life 2 and it's episodes, then I followed it up with Portal and TF2. It was a fantastic experience.

With all of that said, this is a great year for XB1. Halo, Gears, Forza, ROTTR, Fable Legends, and Rare Replay all come out this year. I wouldn't count announcements for future games.

Witcher 3, Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void, Fallout 4, Blops 3, Taken King, Halo 5, Rise of Tomb Raider, Batman AK, Bloodborne

yeah this is one of the best like ppl will be like remember 2015 years from now.

Welcome.

No definitely 2007.

Halo 3, Cod 4, Forza Motorsport 2, AC1, UC1, Bioshock 1, The witcher 1, Mass Effect 1, and Crackdown 1.

lol your avatar reminds me i left out mortal kombat x that game is sweet too

2004 had the most hype in video game history. PS2 was at peak popularity and everyone was going crazy.

GTA SA, MGS3, Halo 2, Half Life 2, WoW and tons more. The hype, commercials and mass marketing was huge.

2nd half of the year needs to hurry up and come

MGS5 will be the best game of the year and win GOTY. Trust me, I am accurate on these things.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/game-of-the-year-predictions-what-do-you-think-27040984/

It's good year 2016 will destroy it tho starting with Street Fighter V. Aaaah Yeeeeah!

Heh. **** no. It's no 1998, 2004, 2007 or 2010.

Best gaming year for announcements yes.

lmao no

its a great year especially after the shit show that was the last few years but its not the best ever. all the heavy hitters aren't even out yet.

Not even close.

No its not.

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One of the worst outside of a couple games.

Announcements don't count towards a great gaming year afaic but there have been some gems in 2015.

Oh, I highly doubt many people will think so considering it's pretty damn much an uncontested social consensus among gamers that the current gen is too lacking, that it's behind previous gens and too many remakes and rehashes and HD collections, and modern game design only caters to casual comatose vegetables, and 'this is dead' and 'this is ruining gaming, durrr'... anyhow, I'm having a damn good time so far, and I've been at this for decades, and even then it'd be a stretch to say 'yes' that this is the best year in gaming ever, so I'm saying 'no'.

If someone were to tell me they think 2015 is the best year in gaming I'd probably suspect something else is behind the sentiment, like maybe the person who said it now possesses a disposable income and the free time to game more.

You left out the best game of 2015..

I'm just going to use my cheat codes here and string 2004/2005 into one mega year.

And that's the best year ever.

Almost got the big four years right! :p

1998, 2001, 2004 and 2008 for me.

I think everyone can agree 1998 is the best year for gaming, EVER. Sorry for those of you on this forum that are too young to have experienced this year. (I was only five though, but still)

1998:

Legend of Zelda: OOT (widely considered the best game of all time)

--- already enough to consider this one of the best years in gaming ---

Half Life (generally conceived to be one of, if not the best PC game of all time

Metal Gear Solid (can be considered to be the best game in what many would say is the best franchise in video gaming)

--- By now you should be CERTAIN its the best year in gaming ---

Final Fantasy VIII

Fallout 2

Grim Fandango

--- Do I really have to mention more games? ---

Gran Turismo

Resident Evil 2

Tomb Raider III

Starcraft

BEST. YEAR. EVER.

Edit:

Can't believe I forgot other classics from 1998 like:

Pokemon Red & Blue

Baldurs Gate

Banjo & Kazooie

Thief: TDS

What a year... You could literally split 1998 in two and it would still beat almost any other year in gaming.

My personal big years were:

• 1999 - i was 8 and loved Unreal Tournament and Pokemon Gold/Silver blew my mind
• 2002 - Timesplitters 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, it was also a great year for the gamecube with Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine and Eternal Darkness
• 2005 - Shadow of the Colossus, Resi 4, God of War, DMC 3 are the PS2 hitting its end of life peak and I had a part time job so I could buy them all at launch. Mario Kart DS was incredible at the time, with its fairly well realised online play.
• 2007 - got a 360 and an HD TV. Was blown away by Portal, Bioshock, Cod4, Halo 3, Mass Effect, PGR4, Rock Band, Forza 2
• 2012 - my time available for games is so much less and Hotline Miami, FTL, Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja were big for me at a time when I only had a non-gaming laptop to game on

I'll decide after those games yet to come out do.

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You and I have never conversed before I think....................at least there's that.

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1998 or 2007

Depending on your preference I'd bet

MGS5/Persona 5

I'm going to take a stab and say you were referring to MGSV

Nah. Last year was better.

Nope, it's not close to the best year in gaming.

However, it's better than last year and the year is only half way done.

Nope. but far better than last year.

2016 has TLG, KH 3, FF XV and many other games i forgot about. so we'll see.

Tc must be like 12.

This year and era of gaming is terrible

Nope. That would probably be either 1997, 1998, or 2001.

2015 has some of the best announcements though, but with not much to offer in terms of actual game releases.

probably better than last year, but not nearly as good as 2004 and 2007. You could argue 2008 and 2011 are better years as well.

No Zelda this year? How could it be the best year?