Was 1998 the best year in gaming?

• Half-Life
• Starcraft/Broodwar
• Ocarina of Time
• Resident Evil 2
• Metal Gear Solid
• Xenogears
• Pokemon Red & Blue
• Sonic Adventure* (Telekill caught my mistake! Sonic came out in 1999 for US. 1998 was Japan)
• Spyro the Dragon
• Baldur's Gate
• Fallout 2
• Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
• Marvel VS Capcom
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
• Grim Fandango
• Thief
• Turok 2
• Tomb Raider III
• Mario Party
• Suikoden II
• Banjo Kazooie
• Panzer Dragoon Saga
• Parasite Eve
• South Park
• F-Zero X
• Unreal

Damn, those were truly great times. Square knew how to make great RPGs. Kojima could write coherent plot lines. There were only 150 Pokemon. Sonic was fun. Companies came out with truly original titles. Sequels were actually good. Everything wasn't dominated by shooters. You can call a game Banjo Kazooie. Half-Life.

...Can you find a better year than that?

No

No, gaming got more mainstream after 1998 so 1998 is best year ever !

1998 was the year I've gotten PS1. July 28 with Resident Evil 2 to be exact and yes, I'd say years 1997-99 were the best PS1 years and I feel great nostalgia about it. Btw don't forget Medievil.

98 and 04 were both stand out years.

Yep,best gaming year ever for sure.

one of them and one of the shittiest was 2005 and 2009

Uh no. Quake 4 released in 2005, which makes it one of the best years in gaming.

All boring dudebro fps's LOL.

'98 is by far the best year of gaming

ravensoft made quake 4 which is y 2005 sucked......no idsoftware=no quake and the multiplayer sucked worse than quake 3 which sucked worse than quake 2.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOoOo

And Ninja Gaiden Black. And Resident Evil 4. And Shadow of the Colossus. And Dragon Quest 8. And Chaos Theory. And MGS3 Subsistence. And a crap ton of other good games in general.

all those games sucked

No surprise. Sniper is a mainstream brogamer idiot.

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through the years I've seen this post so many times on many different forums...

No it wasn't. I beleive no year was perfect. It was an entire era that was good. 1990-2008

Pretty sure you never played those.

Go back to Quake Online please

Then why do you have TF2 in your sig?

LOL, srs most sucks so hard to only have a PC for gaming.

TF2 is mainstream.

Slight correction. Sonic Adventure came out in 1999 at the launch of Dreamcast. 1998 was a good year though.

My personal favorite year in gaming thus far is 2009. Resident Evil 5 and Uncharted 2 came out. Both were really good with Uncharted 2 becoming my favorite game of all time and considering that Uncharted and RE are a couple of favorite series... or used to be in RE's case... it makes sense why I hold 2009 above other years.

Too young to appreciate or play any of those games.

The new Batman is mainstream

The new Wolfenstein is mainstream

I would say 1993.

Was also a good year with SNES still around.

But freshen up my mind, what classics did release then?

Yeah, Stalker, Crysis, TF2 , HL2 are too mainstream for my tastes,

in other words they suck

"It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre."

Indeed, there has to be more than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_in_video_gaming

'93 is not best year confirmed

To me it is so nah nah nah :P

Nostalgia is helluva drug.

But srs, can you elaborate on why you choose '93 as the best year in gaming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_in_video_gaming

Is indeed a very good year. But still no anywhere close to '98 imo

2005 if you ask me:-

-Resident Evil 4

-God of War

-Haunting Ground

-NFS Most Wanted

-Shadow of The Colossus

-Fahrenheit

-FEAR

-Call of Duty 2

-Quake 4

-Tekken 5 (2005 right? )

-Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

-Perfect Dark Zero

-Psychonauts

Plus, entering the seventh generation,with the mind-blowing Xbox 360.

98 must've been greet, but the thing is, I only owned an SNES back then, and missed all of those games at 98.Though I played those on the PlayStation in the next years.

Playing Doom. It was unreal for it's time.So many hours into that game. There didn't need to be any other games at the time, it was enough.

"Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system Windows 95, despite million-dollar advertising campaigns for the latter"

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software

The game also defined one of my favorite genre, the FPS.

There are other years with more quality games as a total, like other have posted, but none of those games impacted the industry as whole..in my opinion.

Otherwise I may pick 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_video_gaming

The second part of the 90's was indeed amazing.

Most of us were also a lot younger, I'm sure nostalgia has a lot to do with it too though.