Favorite year in gaming?

[MadeOfApples]

What is your favorite year in gaming?

I'm a little torn between 1997 and 1998. While 1997 saw the release of Diablo, Castlevania SOTN, Diddy Kong Racing, Goldeneye 007, Fallout, Age of Empires, FFVII, Wild Arms, and Crash Bandicoot. It also had the redicioulus yet fun Parappa the Rapper. PaRappa the Rapper.

1998 saw my favorite game of all time (Final Fantasy Tactics), Zelda: OoT, Pokemon, Fallout 2, Crash Warped, Starcraft, and Magic Knight Rayearth.

It was a great time to be a kid

[Aerith's Knight]

The year when Halo was released.



Fun times..

[JKTrix]

2008. Kinda funny how a chunk of the games you mentioned for '97 have related games 11 years later.

[Realm25]

Probably 1999, when I started really getting into Starcraft, and then in 2000 when I got hooked on Diablo 2 and tweaked out on it all day and night.

I'll always remember those times and those two games.

[Slothy]

1994 had my favourite game of all time; FFVI. 1992 had me getting my first console; the SNES. 2007 had the Orange Box. I refuse to choose between any of these, though I should probably add 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2008 for the years MGS1-4 were released. It's easily my second favourite series of all time, and all of those games are still sitting right up there with the Half-Life series for game design in my eyes. I'll stop listing years there though since HL and HL2 are covered as well.

[Markus. D]

2005-2008.

C_C!

[Dreddz]

1999-2000 are by far my favorite years in gaming. If you couldn't tell those were the Dreamcast peak years. And Deus Ex was also released which opened my eyes to PC gaming.

2008.

Really?

[Roto13]

*psst*

(He hasn't been gaming for that long, believe it or not. xP)

[Rocket Edge]

1998 saw me being introduced to FFVIII. This is my answer.

[Boney King]

1997-98. Because of:

- Final Fantasy VII
- completing Crash Bandicoot 3 and Spyro The Dragon 100% because they were awesome
- DAYS spent playing Tekken 3 with friends
- lots of demo CDs from magazines (which I never read)

[Lionx]

1997, Klonoa was released and i was happy The game lead up to alot of fun times and opened me up to things irl that would have been different otherwise too.

If it wasnt for that i would say...1992? Thats when Street Fighter came out and changed the world for me. Opened me up to alot of good friends(some dont even play SF but wouldnt have known otherwise without it) and for that i am very happy. Not to mention the competitive bug bit me, its intense..and HYPE!

[NeoCracker]

So many games scattered throught the years, how am I suppose to decide which year was great? I mean this year I've gotten Persona 3 FES, Mana Khemia, and the soon to be released Persona 4 and Valkeria.

SNES years had Earthbound, Lufia 2, Breath of Fire 2, FF VI and Chrono Trigger.

PS1 and 64 Era had FF IX, Dragoon, LEgaia, Zelda: OoT and MM/

I'ld go into more and later, but then I'd be dragging on.

In short, no way I could pick a favorite year.

[Moon Rabbits]

'94-'95

'91 was pretty good, too.

[Nominus Experse]

1997 - 1998
FFVII, Ocarina of Time, etc..

[Karellen]

2000 had Vagrant Story, Perfect Dark, Deus Ex, Diablo II, Baldur's Gate II, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Longest Journey and a whole heap of other crap I don't really care about but were phenomenally successful like The Sims and Counter-Strike.

I mean, come on.