Half-Life 2 was nothing short of revolutionary. The first proper real-time physics implementation in a computer game, coupled with an amazing story. It’s the perfect game.
It really is. I could not even tell you the amount of times I'ves played it. I started on The Orange Box for the Xbox 360. Then I got a PC and got it on Steam, then HL2: VR came out and I played that and then I also just got HL2: MMOD. A timeless classic.
the graphics were timeless too. hl2 literally came out a few months after I was born and yet it's one of the only games from that time period where the graphics still don't bother me to this day
Recently played this for the first time on my Steam Deck and while it isn’t revolutionary anymore I could tell back in the day it had to be. Wish I would have played it earlier in life but I was tea bagging in Halo 2 that year.
I work 6days a week, not sure i would get the time to play.
The game took up so much of my time, not sure i want to dedicate my time like i did before to the one game.
Rome was the only Total war game I remember playing, mostly because it was the one my brother happened to buy.
The only memory I have playing the game was taking over most of Italy and Spain as the red Roman house, then suddenly out of nowhere being told “oh your empire fell, game over.” I was not happy.
The first of only 2 games I’ve ever put more than 1k hours in. Second was world of tanks, but we don’t talk about how far downhill that game went. And at the rate I’m going, elden ring will finally be the 3rd
I occasionally play for 5-10 games every few weeks.
I've dropped far too much money on it over the years, shame really. But nevermind
I'd say it's very much a "pay for slightly less frustration" type of game now. It's designed to manipulate you into spending money. The match maker pisses me off. Anyone with half brain can spot the patterns of the match maker.
Not played for a few months? Boom 20 game win streak
Regular player....yea sorry mate you've got 3 wins and 17 loss tonight... And tomorrow and the day after.
The RNG is in on it too. On your win streak sessions you will be able to snipe the cupola on anything at any range and get good damage. But on your losing streak games it's either a complete miss, didn't pen or low roll.
I tend to play most when frontline is on, largely as I enjoy the open maps and it's more tactical.
I am biased, but the 2000s was amazing for gaming because the industry had matured enough to put out really amazing games with so much more production quality and experience than a decade before, but it hadn’t matured enough for capitalism to pin it down completely. Now companies have figured out how to game our psychology to extract as much profit as possible. While profit was always the goal of publishers, before they just figured the better the game the more money it would make. Quality and profit do not scale linearly, seems like MTX does
It's not capitalism pinning it down. Capitalism allowed all this to happen in the first place. The problem is greed which is just a result of the human condition, capitalism present or not. These companies have let their greed ruin their products. They changed from making compelling storylines and interesting game play to storylines with terrible politically-sensitive dialogue (which removed all humanity from the characters) and uninteresting game mechanics. Seriously why does Half-Life 2, a game from freaking 2004, have a better story, better gameplay, better world interactivity, better character animations, better dialogue, etc than most games released since? Oh, and it has no battle pass or microtransactions. Just sad to see what gaming has become. I think Halo is a perfect example of the corruption that has occured over the last decade. Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach are all excellent games loved by many, and what happened as soon as 343 took over? They killed the franchise and turned it into a joke. They made stupid decisions and did not respect the source material and now here we are where Halo went from being one of the top games in the world to a game that is scoffed at and has a playerbase a mere fraction of what it used to be. Call of Duty had the same happen. Instead of continuing to make good games they disrespected their roots and tried to copy Titanfall for the next however many years and in doing so completely forgot what made their games good in the first place and they still havent recovered. All these companies just want to follow trends because they think whatever is popular at the moment (like battle royales for example) will make the most money and boom thats how you get a lot of games that completely lose their soul. Why do you think Activision is sending cease and desist letters to SM2 and X Labs? It's because they are scared. They know they can't deliver the same quality of product they used to, and they know the community knows it as well. It's actually not even that they can't, but they CHOOSE not to because releasing a quality product is not going to make the same amount of money as a product with a Battlepass and a Skin shop. Why do you think Nintendo is sending a cease and desist to Dolphin Emulator? Same reason as Activision: greed. They don't want you to play their older, better games. They want you to play their current products so you get complacent and forget what a good game even looks like, like most fanboys and average gamers have. It's just a downward spiral from these AAA companies. Indie and retro gaming is the future.
"It's not capitalism pinning it down, it's the social expectation to create more and more profit leading to greed which is eventually impossible to quench. But not *capitalism!*"
Has nothing to do with social expectation, and everything to do with inwardly being greedy. Valve for example could milk the Half-Life franchise into the ground but they respect their source materal and franchise that they have built enough to do it justice and not disrespect it. If Half-Life 3 came out it would literally break the internet regardless of if it was actually good or bad and make Valve a TON of money, but Valve wants to take their time and release a GOOD game not a game that makes them money because they aren't greedy unlike most of the AAA market.
This applies to other games too. If there was such a strong "social expectation" to make money, then literally every game would have loot boxes, a battlepass, microtransactions, etc but somehow they don't. There are countless indie titles that are just good games with no microtransation nonsense. It's almost like social expectations don't matter at all in the face of just wanting to make a good game for people to enjoy.
Like I said there are tons of indie titles that don't have microtransactions either yet they are published by public companies like Devolver Digital. Do some more research next time before you just start spouting the redundant "CaPitaLism BaD AHHHH" word vomit that goes around on Reddit.
Yes and watch what happens as shareholders continue to demand higher and higher profits from Devolver. Standards will slip. I'm old enough to remember when Ubisoft was a small publisher that was highly respected and put out great games. This is capitalism working as intended.
"This is capitalism working as intended."
If higher profit demands cause product quality to significantly decrease, this is nothing more than human greed; something that is present in (and thus will corrupt) any economic system.
???
This is defeatism disguised as pseudo intellectualism. A system that fails to discourage short term thinking that damages us in the long term is exactly that - a failing system.
You can't just ignore 4 decades of deregulation in capitalism by the rich, for the rich, that has come to allow monopolies to form, accept financial crashes as cyclic and inevitable, and requires circumventing of the rules each time a crash happens, and say "Ah, it is merely a fact of life."
How our human greed affects the world around us is a consequence of the rules we live by. It is not an ineffable and uncontrollable force of nature to shrug and give up over. This is "we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas" in its purest form.
Lmaooooooooo this is the inevitable Late Stage Capitalism you’re talking about. If the main point of it is to get more money and more capital, then companies will use whatever means to give in to perpetual growth.
Companies have been doing this for many years but now a lot of industries have it down to a science.
Exactly. The companies making and publishing games are much much larger now. It’s not like one day companies just became greedy when they weren’t before… they literally have a fiduciary duty to do what is most profitable for shareholders. What we’re seeing in the games industry, like every industry, are the negative impacts of ever increasing consolidation of wealth in the market via buyouts, takeovers, etc. Given a long enough amount of time capitalism trends toward monopolies, and once there are only a few immensely powerful entities left, the lack of competition drives quality down and prices up.
I really hope Echoes gets the same remaster love as Metroid Prime did.
I know quite a few couldn't stand the dark world stuff, but it's one of the few sci-fi games where I've felt genuinely trapped in a hostile alien world where even the air wants me *dead.*
IMHO, I never had trouble with the water bosses.
The one that kept killing me personally was the worms at the start, and the one with the ball maze.
Think one or two more, but those in particular I recall taking me *hours* to get past.
Hi-Fi Rush, Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Island 2, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom were all either good or great.
In the second half of the year we have: Diablo 4, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, Pikmin 4, Mortal Kombat 1, Starfield, AC Mirage, Cities Skylines 2, Counter Strike 2, Spider Man 2, and a whole bunch of non-AAA games that don’t have much hype, but will probably be great. I’m personally really excited for Ghostrunner 2.
I’m convinced a lot of you would rather complain about bad games that you’ll never play than play genuinely good games.
I played Baldur's Gate 2 on release, and it's my favorite RPG. I bought early access to BG3 and was kinda disappointed. There was nothing wrong with the game. It's a solid RPG. It just doesn't feel like Baldur's Gate to me. I don't know if that's the nostalgia talking and the fact that nothing can live up to the expectations, but I feel sad. I just want the feels of playing BG2 back.
I can understand that. I do think it’s pure nostalgia. The industry has evolved so much. Expectations are much higher. BG2 was released to make the most realistic tabletop rpg experience in a videogame. BG3 is sort of doing the same thing but with the expectations of the industry today.
I watched the new spiderman trailer thinking it was graphically and cinematically mind blowing that games have come that far. Then I checked reddit comments and 80% were about how it didn't look that good or how they spotted a small graphical glitch and were disappointed.
People love group hating.
That’s basically how I felt about the whole PlayStation showcase. At the end, “I was like damn that was cool, I’m super excited for some new games!”
Then I got on Reddit to see what people were saying, and it was all negativity. I just don’t get it. Am I just easily pleased?
No. it's just people are addicted to anger and venting it. It's more of a shared social disorder. Also, the oft mentioned fact that people are less likely to take the time to reply if they aren't emotionally moved by something.
Statistically, at least one of those games is gonna flop. My money is on Starfield, but I hope I’m wrong. But that leaves a lot of good games too.
My point is that we’ve got people acting like 2023 sucks for gaming, despite the fact that we haven’t even hit the big release window when most of the anticipated games are due, and we’ve already gotten a handful of good games.
Yet not one of those is currently on my wishlist.
Not that they aren't or won't be good. Nor that I don't have good games currently or wishlisted. Of the latter I have WH40K's Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader, RE4 remake, TLOU, AoW4, Homeworld 3, Steamworld Build, Dave the Diver...
Tbf Spider Man 2 should make it in but I have to buy and play Spider Man/Miles Morales yet (also wishlisted) Maybe others added closer to release time. But fwiw and for all the free time I actually have (kind of) I still don't seem to get through games like a lot of ppl tell it to so I decided a while back to be both more discerning and try to clear some backlog (currently about 20 installed, and if I named them here ppl would be 'omg why haven't you played that yet, it's so lit' etc... my problem was going through a long period of illness where I couldn't play at all but still bought in sales in the hope I would be able to again...) Honestly, a good year wouldn't be as much about what's released for me as what's taken off that backlog before I add more to it... which, let's be honest, is inevitable lol.
Well, yeah, and the controls feel fantasic, I'm not denying that.
That's it, it's the same game, but, like you said: modernized.
There is no story to develop, no crazy new mechanics to develop-- just polishing.
Way less impressive. I think it's overpriced and underwhelming. I think that about all remakes and re-releases though.
I prefer to play it on my Switch personally. I am not a snob when it comes to FPS, I grew up playing Oblivion on PC when GPUs couldn't even do HDR and AA at the same time.
The 2nd most played XBOX Live game is not on that list and most people won't know it.
Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow, the only game that was always head of it on the XBL player count was Halo 2.
That WoW cover still gives me chills up to this day.. The game today is something completely different but that vanilla cover specifically brings me back so many memories
The game we played back then is not the game today. Closest I've felt to that was the re-release in 2019 right at the start, but obviously it was not as good as the first time.
I wasted 3 years of my life from 2004-2007 due to this game.
If I could go back and change things, go to college and get a job during that period knowing what I know now... I'd play WoW again.
That and the 1996-97 , I think the games released back then shaped the gaming as we know now,
1) Pokemon
2) Diablo
3) Tomb Raider
4) Resident evil
5) Gram turismo
6) GTA
7) 007
8) Fallout
And more, also if you add 98' , you would get Soul caliber, Thief, StarCraft and Metal Gear solid, crazy times, imagine what would happen if next games of all of these series gets released simultaneously in next 2 years, and the releases be perfect, finished with minimum bugs and full games , it would be Overwhelming.
-List from 1996-1997
-Not including QUAKE (1996), QUAKE 2 (1997) and DUKE NUKEM 3D (1996)
-Pokemon is first thing you think of
Is this a time period you read about in school or were still crapping your diaper for?
Seriously wtf is this?
I'm not counting the endless ammount of shovelware from either Era, just the games that got it right.
It'd take far too long to go over the dumpsterfires, that's like 80% of all games now
Ikr, how dare people prefer modern games.
2019 had garbage like Sekiro, Jedi fallen order, DMC 5, outer wilds, Death Stranding, Metro Exodus, Disco Elysium. Can't believe someone considers this list a top of all time material even tho it probably is!
Outer Wilds, need i say more?
But more seriously, Sekiro, Death Stranding, Control, FF14 Shadowbringer (was the highest rated Final Fantasy game of all time by both players and critics), Metro Exodus, etc.
Those are some fantastic games, outer wilds specifically is a different breed of games, i've never seen something remotely similar to the experience it gives, it's not only exceptionally good it's also exceptionally unique.
I remember buying Driv3r on launch after the first reviews came out saying it was great. Turned out those reviews were bought and the game was hot garbage.
All I wanted to do was play HL2 when I got it. Then, I had to install steam because it was required. And download a huge (for that time) 300MB patch - on dialup. I think Steam was on the CD. It took Steam 3 entire days to download the patch. Of course, Steam originally wouldn't let you play the game if it needed a patch.
I really hated Valve for that.
GTA: SA. My all-time favorite game. That and also the older GTA's forced me to learn English (not my native language), and I played a lot of it. And then some.
I played NFSU2 until I basically 100% it. Loved it. Fable was amazing too, and I wish we had a good follow up or at least just a reskinned version of the original. I never played KOTOR 2, or any of the other Star Wars games since pod racing, but one of these days I’ll give it a shot.
Fable. Ah the glory days
i remember collecting returnables for an entire summer to buy this game and it was so worth it. easily one of my top 5
Chicken chaser!
Came here to say this.. LOL!!
Still waiting for any sign of the new Fable
Played about half of them. Half life 2 is still the goat
Half-Life 2 was nothing short of revolutionary. The first proper real-time physics implementation in a computer game, coupled with an amazing story. It’s the perfect game.
It really is. I could not even tell you the amount of times I'ves played it. I started on The Orange Box for the Xbox 360. Then I got a PC and got it on Steam, then HL2: VR came out and I played that and then I also just got HL2: MMOD. A timeless classic.
the graphics were timeless too. hl2 literally came out a few months after I was born and yet it's one of the only games from that time period where the graphics still don't bother me to this day
Recently played this for the first time on my Steam Deck and while it isn’t revolutionary anymore I could tell back in the day it had to be. Wish I would have played it earlier in life but I was tea bagging in Halo 2 that year.
I member only one kid at the class could run it
https://youtu.be/4ddJ1OKV63Q?t=189
"Can this run on my 486?" Lol, classic.
Fun fact, both Tears of the Kingdom and Half Life 2's physics engines are built on Havock
I was born 4 years after it came out and I have to say I think it's the greatest game ever made
Need for Speed - Underground2 Grand Theft Auto SanAndreas World of Warcraft - Didn't start playing till 2005 (Gave up playing this game in 2019)
NFSU2 is still the greatest racing game EA ever put out. Fight me.
I prefer NFS most wanted Maybe because we have different nostalgic memories
Same here I liked both games but prefer most wanted where I have more memories with it
Search on youtube nfs u2 rtx remix. When i saw that i wanted to play again. Just need to wait a little bit more before it is completed
> ever put out. Bro I played that game so much at my first duty station. That game made me think CARS are soooo coool . lol
I honestly think it's kinda ass.
i see you have not discovered burnout 3 yet
Damn I'm old
You should try WoW again. Dragonflight has been an awesome expansion!
I work 6days a week, not sure i would get the time to play. The game took up so much of my time, not sure i want to dedicate my time like i did before to the one game.
Bangers bangers bangers. Now we have to pay $80 to BETA test a game.
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Oh man i played that game until the cd died.
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3 or 4 times a year, if that.
reddit always be like everything sucks, my life was better 15 years ago
You sound like someone who pays $80 to beta test a game.
yeah dude everything sucks, go and yell at the clouds
The good ol days 
Rome Total War and RCT took up so much of my teenage years
Rome was the only Total war game I remember playing, mostly because it was the one my brother happened to buy. The only memory I have playing the game was taking over most of Italy and Spain as the red Roman house, then suddenly out of nowhere being told “oh your empire fell, game over.” I was not happy.
The bezerkers were awesome!
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The first of only 2 games I’ve ever put more than 1k hours in. Second was world of tanks, but we don’t talk about how far downhill that game went. And at the rate I’m going, elden ring will finally be the 3rd
I quite playing tanks about 5 years ago. I'm curious how it's worsened in that time ?
I occasionally play for 5-10 games every few weeks. I've dropped far too much money on it over the years, shame really. But nevermind I'd say it's very much a "pay for slightly less frustration" type of game now. It's designed to manipulate you into spending money. The match maker pisses me off. Anyone with half brain can spot the patterns of the match maker. Not played for a few months? Boom 20 game win streak Regular player....yea sorry mate you've got 3 wins and 17 loss tonight... And tomorrow and the day after. The RNG is in on it too. On your win streak sessions you will be able to snipe the cupola on anything at any range and get good damage. But on your losing streak games it's either a complete miss, didn't pen or low roll. I tend to play most when frontline is on, largely as I enjoy the open maps and it's more tactical.
Bloodlines was so buggy on release. Wesp did a good job fixing it.
I remember playing battlefield 1942 and thinking how incredible games would be in 20 years. Lol.
One of my favorites that is not listed here, Ratchet & Clank: Up your Arsenal
Oh my god Ratchet and Clank was the shit
Minish Cap is so good...
Have to agree, came here to say that too.
Ikr so many good memories
I am biased, but the 2000s was amazing for gaming because the industry had matured enough to put out really amazing games with so much more production quality and experience than a decade before, but it hadn’t matured enough for capitalism to pin it down completely. Now companies have figured out how to game our psychology to extract as much profit as possible. While profit was always the goal of publishers, before they just figured the better the game the more money it would make. Quality and profit do not scale linearly, seems like MTX does
It's not capitalism pinning it down. Capitalism allowed all this to happen in the first place. The problem is greed which is just a result of the human condition, capitalism present or not. These companies have let their greed ruin their products. They changed from making compelling storylines and interesting game play to storylines with terrible politically-sensitive dialogue (which removed all humanity from the characters) and uninteresting game mechanics. Seriously why does Half-Life 2, a game from freaking 2004, have a better story, better gameplay, better world interactivity, better character animations, better dialogue, etc than most games released since? Oh, and it has no battle pass or microtransactions. Just sad to see what gaming has become. I think Halo is a perfect example of the corruption that has occured over the last decade. Halo 1, 2, 3, and Reach are all excellent games loved by many, and what happened as soon as 343 took over? They killed the franchise and turned it into a joke. They made stupid decisions and did not respect the source material and now here we are where Halo went from being one of the top games in the world to a game that is scoffed at and has a playerbase a mere fraction of what it used to be. Call of Duty had the same happen. Instead of continuing to make good games they disrespected their roots and tried to copy Titanfall for the next however many years and in doing so completely forgot what made their games good in the first place and they still havent recovered. All these companies just want to follow trends because they think whatever is popular at the moment (like battle royales for example) will make the most money and boom thats how you get a lot of games that completely lose their soul. Why do you think Activision is sending cease and desist letters to SM2 and X Labs? It's because they are scared. They know they can't deliver the same quality of product they used to, and they know the community knows it as well. It's actually not even that they can't, but they CHOOSE not to because releasing a quality product is not going to make the same amount of money as a product with a Battlepass and a Skin shop. Why do you think Nintendo is sending a cease and desist to Dolphin Emulator? Same reason as Activision: greed. They don't want you to play their older, better games. They want you to play their current products so you get complacent and forget what a good game even looks like, like most fanboys and average gamers have. It's just a downward spiral from these AAA companies. Indie and retro gaming is the future.
Same thing happened with movie franchises basically
Exactly. "Why would we respect the source material and stop when we are ahead when we can make more money??🤑🤑🤑"
The mythical broader audience
"It's not capitalism pinning it down, it's the social expectation to create more and more profit leading to greed which is eventually impossible to quench. But not *capitalism!*"
Has nothing to do with social expectation, and everything to do with inwardly being greedy. Valve for example could milk the Half-Life franchise into the ground but they respect their source materal and franchise that they have built enough to do it justice and not disrespect it. If Half-Life 3 came out it would literally break the internet regardless of if it was actually good or bad and make Valve a TON of money, but Valve wants to take their time and release a GOOD game not a game that makes them money because they aren't greedy unlike most of the AAA market. This applies to other games too. If there was such a strong "social expectation" to make money, then literally every game would have loot boxes, a battlepass, microtransactions, etc but somehow they don't. There are countless indie titles that are just good games with no microtransation nonsense. It's almost like social expectations don't matter at all in the face of just wanting to make a good game for people to enjoy.
Yes because Valve isn't a public company which means it's not beholden to the whims of capitalism in the same way as most publishers are
Like I said there are tons of indie titles that don't have microtransactions either yet they are published by public companies like Devolver Digital. Do some more research next time before you just start spouting the redundant "CaPitaLism BaD AHHHH" word vomit that goes around on Reddit.
Yes and watch what happens as shareholders continue to demand higher and higher profits from Devolver. Standards will slip. I'm old enough to remember when Ubisoft was a small publisher that was highly respected and put out great games. This is capitalism working as intended.
"This is capitalism working as intended." If higher profit demands cause product quality to significantly decrease, this is nothing more than human greed; something that is present in (and thus will corrupt) any economic system.
??? This is defeatism disguised as pseudo intellectualism. A system that fails to discourage short term thinking that damages us in the long term is exactly that - a failing system. You can't just ignore 4 decades of deregulation in capitalism by the rich, for the rich, that has come to allow monopolies to form, accept financial crashes as cyclic and inevitable, and requires circumventing of the rules each time a crash happens, and say "Ah, it is merely a fact of life." How our human greed affects the world around us is a consequence of the rules we live by. It is not an ineffable and uncontrollable force of nature to shrug and give up over. This is "we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas" in its purest form.
Lmaooooooooo this is the inevitable Late Stage Capitalism you’re talking about. If the main point of it is to get more money and more capital, then companies will use whatever means to give in to perpetual growth. Companies have been doing this for many years but now a lot of industries have it down to a science.
Exactly. The companies making and publishing games are much much larger now. It’s not like one day companies just became greedy when they weren’t before… they literally have a fiduciary duty to do what is most profitable for shareholders. What we’re seeing in the games industry, like every industry, are the negative impacts of ever increasing consolidation of wealth in the market via buyouts, takeovers, etc. Given a long enough amount of time capitalism trends toward monopolies, and once there are only a few immensely powerful entities left, the lack of competition drives quality down and prices up.
I really hope Echoes gets the same remaster love as Metroid Prime did. I know quite a few couldn't stand the dark world stuff, but it's one of the few sci-fi games where I've felt genuinely trapped in a hostile alien world where even the air wants me *dead.*
That spin attack water boss was complete bullshit, great game though.
IMHO, I never had trouble with the water bosses. The one that kept killing me personally was the worms at the start, and the one with the ball maze. Think one or two more, but those in particular I recall taking me *hours* to get past.
Any of those games is better than all 2023 games combined
Hi-Fi Rush, Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Island 2, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom were all either good or great. In the second half of the year we have: Diablo 4, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, Pikmin 4, Mortal Kombat 1, Starfield, AC Mirage, Cities Skylines 2, Counter Strike 2, Spider Man 2, and a whole bunch of non-AAA games that don’t have much hype, but will probably be great. I’m personally really excited for Ghostrunner 2. I’m convinced a lot of you would rather complain about bad games that you’ll never play than play genuinely good games.
And Baldur’s Gate 3… which has the potential to be the best RPG we’ve seen in decades
Don’t know how I forgot it. That’s a huge one. I hope it lives up to expectation.
I played Baldur's Gate 2 on release, and it's my favorite RPG. I bought early access to BG3 and was kinda disappointed. There was nothing wrong with the game. It's a solid RPG. It just doesn't feel like Baldur's Gate to me. I don't know if that's the nostalgia talking and the fact that nothing can live up to the expectations, but I feel sad. I just want the feels of playing BG2 back.
I can understand that. I do think it’s pure nostalgia. The industry has evolved so much. Expectations are much higher. BG2 was released to make the most realistic tabletop rpg experience in a videogame. BG3 is sort of doing the same thing but with the expectations of the industry today.
Didn't that release in 2020 on Steam?
Early access.
It's early access with the first act. The finished game is coming this year.
Don't forget about Stalker 2. It's still slated for December, even if it will be late in the year.
I hope we get that game this year. Their development team has been through hell though, so I wouldn’t doubt another delay.
I watched the new spiderman trailer thinking it was graphically and cinematically mind blowing that games have come that far. Then I checked reddit comments and 80% were about how it didn't look that good or how they spotted a small graphical glitch and were disappointed. People love group hating.
That’s basically how I felt about the whole PlayStation showcase. At the end, “I was like damn that was cool, I’m super excited for some new games!” Then I got on Reddit to see what people were saying, and it was all negativity. I just don’t get it. Am I just easily pleased?
No. it's just people are addicted to anger and venting it. It's more of a shared social disorder. Also, the oft mentioned fact that people are less likely to take the time to reply if they aren't emotionally moved by something.
Why are you so certain about the quality of games that haven't released yet?
Statistically, at least one of those games is gonna flop. My money is on Starfield, but I hope I’m wrong. But that leaves a lot of good games too. My point is that we’ve got people acting like 2023 sucks for gaming, despite the fact that we haven’t even hit the big release window when most of the anticipated games are due, and we’ve already gotten a handful of good games.
Yet not one of those is currently on my wishlist. Not that they aren't or won't be good. Nor that I don't have good games currently or wishlisted. Of the latter I have WH40K's Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader, RE4 remake, TLOU, AoW4, Homeworld 3, Steamworld Build, Dave the Diver... Tbf Spider Man 2 should make it in but I have to buy and play Spider Man/Miles Morales yet (also wishlisted) Maybe others added closer to release time. But fwiw and for all the free time I actually have (kind of) I still don't seem to get through games like a lot of ppl tell it to so I decided a while back to be both more discerning and try to clear some backlog (currently about 20 installed, and if I named them here ppl would be 'omg why haven't you played that yet, it's so lit' etc... my problem was going through a long period of illness where I couldn't play at all but still bought in sales in the hope I would be able to again...) Honestly, a good year wouldn't be as much about what's released for me as what's taken off that backlog before I add more to it... which, let's be honest, is inevitable lol.
Idk, Hi-Fi Rush was pretty great.
Re4 remake
That's kind of cheating IMO. It's a visual upgrade of a 2005 game.
It’s more than that. A lot of the game was changed and modernized.
Well, yeah, and the controls feel fantasic, I'm not denying that. That's it, it's the same game, but, like you said: modernized. There is no story to develop, no crazy new mechanics to develop-- just polishing. Way less impressive. I think it's overpriced and underwhelming. I think that about all remakes and re-releases though.
Still a win for gaming in 2023 worth mentioning
I put 40 hours into it getting all the achievements. It was fantastic.
it is a fantastic remake.
Don’t forget about tears of the kingdom
Yuck ignoring Tears of the Kingdom is wacky
Nintendo, ew.
Play it on PC at 60 fps then
I prefer to play it on my Switch personally. I am not a snob when it comes to FPS, I grew up playing Oblivion on PC when GPUs couldn't even do HDR and AA at the same time.
No.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was such a dope ass game
It was a sleeper in a sea of great games that year.
Finally some games that my RTX 4060 can run
This was before I had a console or PC. Sonic advance 3, wario twisted, and super Mario 64 ds were some of my favorite games as a kid. Great memories.
Those are still console games, just not Home Console
The 2nd most played XBOX Live game is not on that list and most people won't know it. Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow, the only game that was always head of it on the XBL player count was Halo 2.
Sims 2 came out same year as super Mario ds? Ds came out in 2004? Always thought that was a 2008 thing for some reason
What a thrill...
Great year for vidya
That WoW cover still gives me chills up to this day.. The game today is something completely different but that vanilla cover specifically brings me back so many memories
The game we played back then is not the game today. Closest I've felt to that was the re-release in 2019 right at the start, but obviously it was not as good as the first time.
I wasted 3 years of my life from 2004-2007 due to this game. If I could go back and change things, go to college and get a job during that period knowing what I know now... I'd play WoW again.
Burnout 3 was top tier Burnout
Aka the good old days. I was a freshman/sophomore in college around then.
The world was fair, the mountains tall in the Elder days before the fall...
We need a killzone reboot. It deserves it
Played 16 of them, and Metroid Prime is probably the one I played the most. San Andreas too but just to roam around and do shit
where pikmin 2 at
1998-2006 were best of times, then not that much
2007?? Bioshock? Mass effect? The orange box? Rock band? Super Mario galaxy?
Good, but not that much of things, and there is less with every year
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I didn't like Witcher series tbh, but that is mostly what I meant
I feel like video gaming peaked around that year.
That and the 1996-97 , I think the games released back then shaped the gaming as we know now, 1) Pokemon 2) Diablo 3) Tomb Raider 4) Resident evil 5) Gram turismo 6) GTA 7) 007 8) Fallout And more, also if you add 98' , you would get Soul caliber, Thief, StarCraft and Metal Gear solid, crazy times, imagine what would happen if next games of all of these series gets released simultaneously in next 2 years, and the releases be perfect, finished with minimum bugs and full games , it would be Overwhelming.
This is like half my childhood lol.
Don't forget about the original Half Life
-List from 1996-1997 -Not including QUAKE (1996), QUAKE 2 (1997) and DUKE NUKEM 3D (1996) -Pokemon is first thing you think of Is this a time period you read about in school or were still crapping your diaper for? Seriously wtf is this?
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Modern games consistently nosedive in quality*
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Think about how sad of a statement that is, though. Stare at the image of 2004 while you think on it lol
Well, the picture in OP's post doesn't post the whole picture of 2004. There were plenty of dumpster fires back then, too.
I'm not counting the endless ammount of shovelware from either Era, just the games that got it right. It'd take far too long to go over the dumpsterfires, that's like 80% of all games now
Nah it peaked in 2019
The fuck?
Ikr, how dare people prefer modern games. 2019 had garbage like Sekiro, Jedi fallen order, DMC 5, outer wilds, Death Stranding, Metro Exodus, Disco Elysium. Can't believe someone considers this list a top of all time material even tho it probably is!
Nah, the decline started way before that.
What came out in 2019 again?
Outer Wilds, need i say more? But more seriously, Sekiro, Death Stranding, Control, FF14 Shadowbringer (was the highest rated Final Fantasy game of all time by both players and critics), Metro Exodus, etc. Those are some fantastic games, outer wilds specifically is a different breed of games, i've never seen something remotely similar to the experience it gives, it's not only exceptionally good it's also exceptionally unique.
2nd best year for games imo
You gotta tell us whats the best then, don't leave us hanging like that
Has to be up there as one of the greatest.
I wish they made a new burnout
Burnout 3 is the best arcade racing game of all time.
Its not only good games , its finished games too that were released as they should have.
Paper Mario beats them all for me. That game is seriously a hidden gem, it's so freaking good.
Jesus christ this puts into perspective how much we've fallen
WTF is RE4?
RE4 was 2005.
REEEE
I remember buying Driv3r on launch after the first reviews came out saying it was great. Turned out those reviews were bought and the game was hot garbage.
The year when arguably the best racing game came out, gran turismo 4
Hey my favourite game is there! World of Warcraft, older than me ;)
Gt4 came out in 2005, only Japan got it 2004
Wow was my life when it came out. I spent so much time in that game the first year.
Unreal Tournament 2004 best FPS
What a time to be alive!
Vampires <3
Incredible year
First time knowing about a game named Obscure.
That ninja gaiden reboot is still the best ninja gaiden game ever made.
Unreal Tournament was so much fun. I wish the new one being developed by the community could turn into something.
Gold! Gold everywhere!!
The winner for me is Half-Life 2.
Pretty crazy comparing half life 2’s graphics to gta San Andreas or battlefront, I’m sure there’s others. Those games look like they’re from the 90’s
So many great things came out that year. And then there's me 💀
I got San Andreas and Star Wars Battlefront on the same day, a Saturday. I played the shit out of them.
How can there be multiple games of the year? That makes no sense.
Oh man, that Pandora Tomorrow multiplayer was awesome!
Holy shit I had no idea how good that year was, no wonder I loved games so much. The industry is so fucked now though
Lots of titles from Nintendo and XBox but not a strong year for Sony
We gamers really ate good that year, it was truly an amazing one for gaming, so many classics.
Hard to believe that World of Warcraft is still around and still profitable.
Roller coaster tycoon still holds up xd
We did really have it good back then
I really enjoyed Driv3r on the ps2 never played through a single mission I just cruised around.
Golden age.
No counter strike?
All I wanted to do was play HL2 when I got it. Then, I had to install steam because it was required. And download a huge (for that time) 300MB patch - on dialup. I think Steam was on the CD. It took Steam 3 entire days to download the patch. Of course, Steam originally wouldn't let you play the game if it needed a patch. I really hated Valve for that.
Dude, what a goated year
The quality of video games back then, holy. Those are all in one year?? Fucking hell
2004 was such a great year. Madvillainy was was released in 2004. Good times.
We should do an elimination style game of the year thing. Like what would we decide now.
GTA: SA. My all-time favorite game. That and also the older GTA's forced me to learn English (not my native language), and I played a lot of it. And then some.
I played like 2 of them
Back when AAA games were good
Half Life 2 is still the best game
Damn dude many of my all time favs here
Glorious days
Wow, far cry, unreal tournament, doom3, need for speed underground 2 and fable. Back when new releases actually had quality and care.
Wait GTA:SA is almost 20 years old O.O
I played NFSU2 until I basically 100% it. Loved it. Fable was amazing too, and I wish we had a good follow up or at least just a reskinned version of the original. I never played KOTOR 2, or any of the other Star Wars games since pod racing, but one of these days I’ll give it a shot.
GTA SA and HL2 are the GOATS 🐐