1998 and 2007 are considered some of the best years in gaming what other years would you add?

For me in no order here's some of the years I picked what are yours?

2005

• Resident Evil 4
• SWAT 4
• Battlefield 2
• Indigo Prophecy
• F.E.A.R.
• Condemned Criminal Origins
• Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

2013

• Tomb Raider reboot
• Bioshock Infinite
• DMC
• Remember Me
• Metro Last Light
• Splinter Cell Blacklist
• Batman Arkham Origins
• Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
• Assassin's Creed Black Flag
• Saints Row 4
• The Last Of Us
• GTAV

Not really. 2007 is not widely considered one of the best years in gaming. That statement only holds true for 1998, which is indeed widely considered one of the best years in gaming.

As for my picks, I'd say the top five years in gaming: were: 1992, 1997, 1998, 2001, and 2017.

1992 was pretty awesome... Euro launch of SNES, with loads of brilliant games releasing that year: Super Mario World, Link To The Past, Street Fighter II, Super Probotector (aka Contra), Super Castlevania IV, Pilotwings, F-Zero, Super Mario Kart, Desert Strike, Lemmings, Sim City and plenty more. What a savage first year!

Plus Sonic 2 over on the Mega Drive, if you really must include the SNES' rival :P

@Jag85: Huh? 2007 is absolutely put on a pedestal, and for good reason. Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Portal + the rest of the Orange Box, COD4, Halo 3, Crysis, The Witcher, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, I'm gonna stop listing there but you get the idea, Jesus what a year that was :D

@locopatho: Nearly all of the 2007 games you mentioned are... shooters. That's the problem with 2007. It's certainly a memorable year for shooters, but it's a forgettable year for almost everything else. The only games on your list that are not shooters are Mario Galaxy (platformer) and The Witcher (RPG that is vastly inferior to its sequels). 2007 had a serious lack of variety and diversity. It was a year dominated by shooters and motion-control shovelware, with very little else to offer. In contrast, 2001 and 2017 were full of variety and diversity, with great games across numerous different genres.

@locopatho: "Super Mario World, Link To The Past, Street Fighter II, Super Probotector (aka Contra), Super Castlevania IV, Pilotwings, F-Zero, Super Mario Kart, Desert Strike, Lemmings, Sim City and plenty more."

Umm.. yeah. '92 was a beast, lol. I don't really know which game came when, but '92 is a clear contender, if not winner.

Gaming has been generally good. You can always find good games. The issue is when folks place too much stock in the highly marketed ones their disappointed dominates there overall experience.

2002 was special for me.

Metroid Prime

Metroid Fusion

Zelda: Wind Waker

Mafia

GTA: Vice City

Splinter Cell

Eternal Darkness

Warcraft III

Neverwinter Nights

TimeSplitters 2

Morrowind

Battlefield 1942

Super Mario Sunshine

Freedom Force

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

Animal Crossing

And quite many more worth to mention.

2004

• Half life 2
• Doom 3
• Riddick EFBB
• Hitman Contracts

the year was full of masterpieces

@locopatho:

1992 was a great year for Sega systems:

• Sega Mega Drive - Streets of Rage 2, Sonic 2, Another World, Chase HQ 2, Desert Strike, Double Dragon, Landstalker, Langrisser, Lemmings, Puyo Puyo, Smash TV, Shining Force, Sunset Riders, Lost Vikings, TMNT Hyperstone Heist, Thunder Force 4, Turbo OutRun, Wonder Boy in Monster World, World of Illusion
• Sega CD - Lunar: The Silver Star, Prince of Persia, Rise of the Dragon, Road Blaster, Robo Aleste, Sega Classics Arcade Collection, The Secret of Monkey Island, Time Gal
• Sega Master System - Ninja Gaiden, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Back to the Future 3, Bubble Bobble, Darius 2, Land of Illusion, Lemmings, Master of Darkness, OutRun Europa, Prince of Persia, Smash TV
• Sega arcade systems - Virtua Racing, Arabian Fight, Columns 2, Golden Age: The Revenge of Death Adder, Holosseum, OutRunners, Puyo Puyo, R360, Sega Sonic the Hedgehog, Title Fight

@ghosts4ever: the original Far Cry as well

1997 was pretty good for me.

Final Fantasy VII

Tekken 3

Need for Speed 2

Original GTA

Tomb Raider 2

WCW vs NWO

Gran Turismo

And best of all, the awesome 4 player Split Screen living room parties with Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye.

@heathen75: Agreed. 1997 was great. I also think 2017 was one of the best gaming years recently.

2004 gta sa, mgs3, ratchet uya, jak 3, burnout 3

2005 shadow of the colossus, god of war, dmc3, chaos theory

Ninja gaiden black came out in 05 aswell I think

I'm a big fan of 2003. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Beyond Good and Evil, F-Zero GX, Mario Kart DD, Need for Speed: Underground, Freelancer, The first CoD, SSX 3, KotOR, Jedi Knight 2, Max Payne 2, Command and Conquer: Generals, GTA Vice City, Crimson Skies, Viewtiful Joe, Soul Calibur 2, Rise of Nations, NBA Street 2.

Yeah, good year.

1991 - the SNES launched in North America

1995 - Chrono Trigger released on the SNES

'91-'04, were all great years to me. After those, '10, '11, '17, and '18 were memorable too.

2017 and 2018 were ridiculously good. At a point, in the last two years, between indies and AAAs we had quality games coming out almost at a daily basis. My backlog just got huge.

Yup, I was going to say to replace Doom 3 with Far Cry.

I would not.

Far cry 1 suck (after first half) and Doom 3 was masterpiece from start to finish.

@ghosts4ever: Doom 3 was merely ok. Far Cry's first half was amazing and there really was no other game like it.

I have a fondness for 2009:

Batman Arkham Asylum

Little Big Planet

Uncharted 2

Demon's Souls

Peggle

Street Fighter IV

Savage Moon

Battlefield 1943

Flower

Ragdoll Kung Fu (best theme song ever)

Trine

Katamari Forever

Resistance 2

..

Not my favs but notable:

Borderlands

Modern Warfare 2

Infamous

Assassin's Creed 2

Killzone 2

Angry Birds

Plants vs Zombies

Spore

Resident Evil 5

Brutal Legend

Torchlight

Left 4 Dead 2

Minecraft

Bayonetta

League of Legends

2004:

Unreal Tournament 2004

Halo 2

Half life 2

World of Warcraft

GTA San Andreas

Doom 3

Prince of Persia Warrior Within

KOTOR 2

Burnout 3

Need for Speed Underground 2

Far Cry

Warhammer 40000

Rome Total War

Metroid Prime 2

Fable

Jak 3

Paper Mario

Star Wars Battlefront

Batlle for Middle Earth 2

Hitman Contracts

Rise of Nations thrones and patriots

MGS 3

Splinter Cell Pandoras tomorrow

Counter strike source

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

Ninja Gaiden

The Chronicles of Riddick

As you can see most of these games are sequels, but reinvented sequels on all the fronts of any genre and thus remain timeless. RTS, racer, multiplayer, MMO, Single Player campaigns their feature sets were all reinvented for ALL GENRES. It was the time gaming turned bigger, from bigger studios with better graphics and animations, higher budgets with a ton of features and graphics far beyond their predecessors dreams. Yea 2004, that was the year. 2005 is a close second, nothing beats the Launch of the Xbox 360. Kameo, PGR3, Call Of Duty 2, NFS MW, Perfect Dark 0 and Amped 3 were enough reasons to buy that beast back then.

2004, if only for the release of Half-Life 2 and Steam.

We also got:

• World of Warcraft
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.
• GTA: San Andreas (arguably the best GTA)
• Far Cry
• Rome: Total War
• Knights of the Old Republic 2 (the mechanically better but plot-inferior sequel to KOTOR 1)
• Counter-Strike: Source
• Star Wars Battlefront
• The Sims 2 (my fondest iteration of the franchise)
• Fable

@jahnee: beat me to it.

No idea as I don't know when some of my favourite games came out I just play them.

Every year is a good gaming year....for me anyways. Sorry but I really don't remember what year was the best for gaming wise, but really, every year is going to be great for gaming all-around.

2019. Gears 5 + Outer Worlds.... need I say more?.. ;)

Eh.

Mario Galaxy - Platformer
World In Conflict - RTS
Portal - puzzle game
Virtua Fighter 5 - Fighting game (3D one no less)
Rock Band - rhythm/music
PGR4 - Racing
God of War 2 - beat-em up

It's an overrated year to say the least, but I don't think it's just the lack of diversity of genres. It has more to do with what games got gassed up, and how many of them really aren't all that great and have only become less n less special over time. Tho if we going down that path, I don't want to be the one who opens up the can of worms that is Ocarina of Time sucks.

On topic

2001 and 2004 are strong as **** years for video games. 2001 PS2 alone could carry that year, without Halo 1 from Xbox and fucking Rogue Leader and Smash Bros. Melee (a fighting game oh btw that still has a popular competitive scene going strong to this day, suck a dick nintendoboy you twit) from the Gamecube. A lot of these recent years don't stack up that favorably in the grand scheme of things.

Early 2000's for me. So, the Gamecube & PS2 I'd mainly say. I'm saying that because I look back on that time with the most nostalgia.

Recently though, my time with the Switch (2017-) has been great.

@locopatho: the original witcher game is clunky as fk. Decent but forgettable.

I would say my favorite years (bolded are my top 3):

• 1994
• 1998
• 2001
• 2004
• 2005
• 2007
• 2013
• 2017

Doom 3 sucked from start to finish and Far Cry was awesome from start to finish - the first FPS to replace linear corridors.

I've no real interest in making a case for it, I ain't a massive Witcher series fan in general, but I certainly recall PC gamers raving about is a GOTY contender at the time.

Perhaps it aged poorly, I don't really know.

sorry but Doom 3 didnot sucked. it was different but also masterpiece.

love the lighting, the horror elements they brought. infact it was better horror game than Resident evil.

I've been playing Far Cry for the first time recently. While the beginning and the occasional later open levels ARE awesome, most of the gameplay time is actually confined to dull, grey, linear corridors. I'm sure the game as a whole was mindblowing in 2004, and I'm sure you probably remember it as being non-stop awesome, but it's really not. I've been forcing myself through the boring linear parts in hopes of getting to the next open area, but I'm not sure if I'll ever manage to finish it. It can be a slog.

@ghosts4everis right...

Neither Doom 3 was different nor a master piece. It's total crap and full of cheap jump scares.

I'm judging the game relative to the period it belongs to. Why apply 2019's standards to 2004? Shenmue 1 and 2 were great for time but are now awful as Shenmue 3 shows.

2004 is still the best year in gaming history.

We were at peak PS2/Xbox/GameCube of the gen.

The hype was insane. GTA SA, Halo 2, Half Life 2, WoW and the best game ever Metal Gear Solid 3 all launched together and it was freaking nuts.

The commercials and hype bro’s, never seen anything like it.

Ur probably mistaking the original with the enhanced edition. The original game is very buggy and have cencored sex scenes and some pretty terrible dialogue. The enhanced edition apparently fixed all of these(nude scenes, rewrote dialogue, new quest, etc) and have an overhauled combat. That one is very highly praised but is in 2008.

shenmue 3 is ok. not crap.

Holy shit you're right, 2003 was amazeballs. Whole GameCube era was freaking awesome, actually.

LOL, exaggerate more. DOOM 3 was neither a "masterpiece" or "total crap".

@pc_rocks Yeah, it was filled with jump scares. But it still had a good level/sound/graphics design and gameplay.

@ghosts4ever No, it wasn't especially great at horror. It was mostly jump scares.

2013 the year SONY regained its rightful spot as THE place for both world class hardware and first party excluvies.

@davillain-: That's how I see it, I havent encountered a bad year yet.

It will always be 1998 for me. Zelda:OoT, Suikoden II, Parasite Eve, Half-Life, MvC et al...some of the best times gaming.

@Litchie: Yeah, gen 6 as a whole is probably my favorite time period in gaming, and 2003 might be the peak.

It's garbage tier in 2019. The game that invented QTE and a boring walking simulator/full of tedious fetch quests - the thing that you 'supposedly' hate in other games.

Graphics and sound but not to level design or gameplay. The flash light got boring after a while. Total crap may be exaggerating a bit but it was a bad game.

2003

2001, gta 3

1998, half life

1996, pokemon blue and red

1999 everquest

2000 sims

1993 doom

Whenever world of warcraft came out, and league of legends and the first BR game.

1992:

Alone in the Dark, Another World, Air Combat, Dune II, Dragon Quest V, Final Fantasy V, Final Fight Guy, Landstalker, Langrisser, Lemmings, Lost Vikings, Lunar, Monkey Island, Mortal Kombat, Ninja Gaiden, Puyo Puyo, Smash TV, Shining Force, Sim Drive, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Street Fighter II Turbo, Street Gangs, Streets of Rage 2, Sunset Riders, Turbo OutRun, Virtua Racing, Virtua Formula, Wolfenstein 3D, Wonder Boy in Monster World, World of Illusion, Ys III

1997:

Age of Empires, Alundra, Beatmania, Breath of Fire 3, Bushido Blade, Castlevania SOTN, Cool Boarders, Diablo, Ehrgeiz, Fallout, Final Fantasy VII, Fighters Megamix, GoldenEye, Grandia, Gran Turismo, GTA, House of the Dead, Lands of Lore 2, Lufia II, Mario Kart 64, MDK, Monkey Island 3, Oddworld, Parappa, Quake II, Rival Schools, Saturn Bomberman, Super Bomberman 5, RE Director's Cut, SF Collection, Soul Blade, Tales of Destiny, Tekken 3, Tomb Raider 2, Virtua Fighter 3tb, Wild Arms

1998:

Baldur's Gate, Cotton Boomerang, Daytona USA 2, Dance Dance Revolution, Fallout 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Fighting Vipers 2, Grim Fangango, Half-Life, House of the Dead 2, Lunar 2, Marvel vs Capcom, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Slug 2, Mizzurna Falls, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Parasite Eve, Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow, Resident Evil 2, Sakura Wars 2, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, StarCraft, Star Ocean 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III, Tenchu, Thief, Unreal, Xenogears, Zelda: Ocarina of Time

2001:

A Blurred Line, Burnout, Capcom vs SNK 2, Devil May Cry, Diablo 2, DOA3, Dragon Quest VII, Final Fantasy X, Grandia II, GTA3, Gran Turismo 3, Halo, Ico, Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Slug X, Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Phoenix Wright, PSO, RE Code Veronica X, Sakura Wars 3, Shadow Hearts, Shadow of Memories, Shenmue II, Silent Hill 2, Sonic Adventure 2, Soul Reaver 2, Super Smash Bros Melee, SSX Tricky, Tekken 4, The Bouncer, Virtua Fighter 4, WWF SmackDown JBI, Zone of the Enders

2017:

AC Origins, Bomberman R, Cuphead, Destiny 2, Divinity 2, DQXI, FF14 Stormblood, Fire Emblem Echoes, Fortnite, Gravity Rush 2, Hollow Knight, Horizon, Injustice 2, Mario Odyssey, MK8 Deluxe, Nier Automata, Night in the Woods, Nioh, Persona 5, Pokémon Ultra, PUBG, RE7, Rocket League, Sonic Mania, Splatoon 2, Tales of Berseria, Tekken 7, Trails in the Sky 3, Tokyo Xanadu, Valkyria Revolution, What Remains of Edith Finch, Wolfenstein 2, Xenoblade 2, Yakuza 0 & Kiwami, Ys 8, Zelda BOTW

@Litchie: If only they made a Timesplitters 2 remaster.