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Which year was the best for gaming? (Last 5 Years)
- Thread starter MakgSnake
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dude 2017 had Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Hollow Knight, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Nier: Automata, Nioh, Prey, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Pyre, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Evil Within 2, Crash N. Sane trilogy, Assassin's Creed Origins, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Cuphead, Gravity Rush 2 and more.
There's sooooo fucking much to love about 2017. It's the definition of quantity AND quality. To attribute all the love for 2017 to *just* BOTW is a fucking insult
dude 2017 had Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Hollow Knight, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Nier: Automata, Nioh, Prey, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Pyre, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Evil Within 2, Crash N. Sane trilogy, Assassin's Creed Origins, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Cuphead, Gravity Rush 2 and more.
There's sooooo fucking much to love about 2017. It's the definition of quantity AND quality. To attribute all the love for 2017 to *just* BOTW is a fucking insult
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I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.
Idk man, I am more of a quality over quantity game and nothing in 2017 comes even close to Bloodborne, MGS:V, and W3. I guess you can make the arguement that 2017 had a higher number of good games, but I'd contest that 2015 had overall higher quality games.[/QUOTE]
There's sooooo fucking much to love about 2017. It's the definition of quantity AND quality. To attribute all the love for 2017 to *just* BOTW is a fucking insult
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I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.
Idk man, I am more of a quality over quantity game and nothing in 2017 comes even close to Bloodborne, MGS:V, and W3. I guess you can make the arguement that 2017 had a higher number of good games, but I'd contest that 2015 had overall higher quality games.[/QUOTE]
I guess so, but based from your 2017 lists, none of those games came close to the 2015 ones for me. Mario Odyssey is 10/10 sure. Re 7 was good but lost all its appeal towards the ship and mine section when it just became a clunky shooter. HZD to me felt like a copy paste ubisoft game with sony production values. Nioh, Yakuza 0 and hollow knight are pretty good.
Idk man, I am more of a quality over quantity game and nothing in 2017 comes even close to Bloodborne, MGS:V, and W3. I guess you can make the arguement that 2017 had a higher number of good games, but I'd say 2015 had over higher quality of games.
2017 has quality AND quantity. A bunch of the 2017 games listed are on a similar level to the three 2015 games you mentioned. Hollow Knight, for example, is miles beyond "pretty good". It's a bona fide masterpiece.
I can only think of BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey from 2017 are up there with the three I mentioned. The rest are all pretty good, but never reach the same highs.
Hollow Knight, Nier: Automata, Breath of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Mario Odyssey, and Cuphead are all 10/10s. Pretty much everything else I listed are all at least 8-9s. That's an insane level of quality across the board, and they also cater to all different types of gamers, whereas in 2018 for example, the three biggest games (Spider-Man, RDR 2, and God of War) all catered to the same type of gamer.
Every year has a couple of standout masterpieces surrounded by a lot of mediocre-good games, what's truly special is to have a ton of masterpieces surrounded by good-great games.
if it weren't for ME: Andromeda, Destiny 2, and Battlefront 2, 2017 would be a flawless year
According to my playtime, 2018. I feel like 2017 was better though despite me playing more in 2018.
2017 being so good is kind of a meme but it really was the best year for gaming this decade, probably (2012 is actually a challenger for it to me weirdly enough). Not only was it a huge year for releases but everything lined up and the big games all happened to be stuff that appeals to me. There's still releases from that year I want to play but haven't.
The year was also lowkey awesome for under-the-radar stuff too, somehow. DanganRonpa V3 is probably one of my favorite visual novel adventure games ever, Fire Emblem Echoes is one of the best games in the series, Etterna is an amazing update/fork to Stepmania, Puyo Puyo Tetris is still my favorite version of Tetris this gen even after Tetris Effect and Tetris 99, Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2 is an excellent conclusion to the DGS duology.....what an insane year. Of course there's also the big hitters of SMO/BotW/Persona 5/Nier Automata
The year was also lowkey awesome for under-the-radar stuff too, somehow. DanganRonpa V3 is probably one of my favorite visual novel adventure games ever, Fire Emblem Echoes is one of the best games in the series, Etterna is an amazing update/fork to Stepmania, Puyo Puyo Tetris is still my favorite version of Tetris this gen even after Tetris Effect and Tetris 99, Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2 is an excellent conclusion to the DGS duology.....what an insane year. Of course there's also the big hitters of SMO/BotW/Persona 5/Nier Automata
Ayy bro that's more power to you. I haven't a lot of time to play games in the last few years so a game has to be truly special to be meaningful to me. Looking at my library, I have wasted so much money buying games that I end up dropping at the half or so mark. I think its a combination of little free time and being spoiled by Fromsoft games or gamer fatigue.
Really close between 17 and 18 for me.
2017 had my GoTG so far in Yakuza 0 and 3 other fantastic games I enjoyed a lot in BoTW, HZD and Nioh.
2018 had 2 of my top 5 of the gen, with GoW and RDR2 and 2 other games I loved in Yakuza 6 and Spidey.
2015 would be a comfortable 3rd. Bloodborne, Tales From The Borderlands (technically ep1 was 2014, but every other ep was 2015 ) and Witcher 3 would make up the remaining of my top 5 of the gen so far (with BB and Tales, Witcher 3 is extremely close, but just the base game and HoS would probably be 6th), I just didn't really care for anything else that year and MGS5 was a massive disappointment.
Tough one, my immediate reaction was 2018, but fuck 2017 was real strong. Think I'll go with my immediate reaction.
2017 had my GoTG so far in Yakuza 0 and 3 other fantastic games I enjoyed a lot in BoTW, HZD and Nioh.
2018 had 2 of my top 5 of the gen, with GoW and RDR2 and 2 other games I loved in Yakuza 6 and Spidey.
2015 would be a comfortable 3rd. Bloodborne, Tales From The Borderlands (technically ep1 was 2014, but every other ep was 2015 ) and Witcher 3 would make up the remaining of my top 5 of the gen so far (with BB and Tales, Witcher 3 is extremely close, but just the base game and HoS would probably be 6th), I just didn't really care for anything else that year and MGS5 was a massive disappointment.
Tough one, my immediate reaction was 2018, but fuck 2017 was real strong. Think I'll go with my immediate reaction.
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very surprised 2017 is beating out 2015. When I'm thinking about the best year I'm not looking for a year whose average quality was high I'm looking for the year where I played games that delivered so strongly they stick with me even now. I've played a lot of these games but nothing tops playing both The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne in the same year.
2017 had at least five games that will stick with me for the rest of my life. That's why I picked it. 2015 had one. So, I agree with your reasoning on picking a favorite year.
Looking at my games it's 2017 (and I haven't played Nintendo games). It just had a lot of quality and quantity. Hollow Knight, Horizon ZD, Nier Automata, Persona 5, Yakuza 0, Nioh, Uncharted Lost Legacy, SteamWorld Dig 2, South Park TFBW, Specter of Torment, etc...
2015 had amazing games (Bloodborne gotg) but not that much quantity. 2016 was really strong too, a lot of good ones. Still missing some games from 2018/19.
2015 had amazing games (Bloodborne gotg) but not that much quantity. 2016 was really strong too, a lot of good ones. Still missing some games from 2018/19.
RDR2 is the only game to push the videogame medium forward quite a bit this gen, so 2018 gets my vote.
Personally, stating all these games are 10/10s are a bit much. The highest one for me is BotW and that's an 8.5. But that's just me.
It improves realism of Npc's and environments.
It does this by
- Improving visuals + audio
- Animation
- The way npc's react to you and the world
- How npc interaction is an integral to the gameplay.
2017 was incredible!
It wasn't a good year for my Xbox One though...
- Gravity Rush 2
- Yakuza Zero
- Resident Evil VII (especially on the PlayStation VR)
- Tales of Berseria
- Nioh
- Night in the Woods
- Hollow Knight
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- NieR: Automata
- Persona 5
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Tekken 7
- WipEout Omega Collection
- Arms
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
- Splatoon 2
- Pyre
- Sonic Mania
- Undertale (on PS Vita!)
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Everybody's Golf
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm
- SteamWorld Dig 2
- Golf Story
- Cuphead
- Gran Turismo Sport
- Super Mario Odyssey
It wasn't a good year for my Xbox One though...
BotW feels more like a living world just based on its physics system, player interaction with the world itself, and how weather affects the environment. It's running on Xbox 360 level hardware (Wii U is its base), yet feels more "alive" than anything else this generation. It's remarkable.
2016 for me. The Witness, Doom, Witcher 3 DLCs, Dark Souls 3, Deus Ex, Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, Dishonored 2, Inside, Uncharted 4, Firewatch, Infinite Warfare, Overwatch, Rise of the Tom Raider on PS4. Phew.
I have no idea how I even made time for all that (and others I'm surely forgetting).
I have no idea how I even made time for all that (and others I'm surely forgetting).
I feel like Witcher 3 did all of this, without being an absolute chore to play. RDR 2, a video game, takes so much control away from the player during missions that at times, it barely felt like a video game. Dunkey said, it best " the game rides your horse for you, the it aims your guns for you, it practically plays itself for you". For every step RDR 2 took to push video games forward, it took one back. Things like lengthy animations and excessive realism is antithetical to video game enjoyment in my opinion. I really hope more games don't follow this style.
2017 by a mile. In addition to Horizon ZD, Prey, Hellblade, and NieR, Nintendo came out swinging with the one-two-three punch of Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, and Mario Odyssey, plus some surprisingly strong early third-party offerings like Mario+Rabbids and Xenoblade 2. Not to mention the Switch itself! There's a reason everyone wants every game ported to that thing.
2017 on PS4 was wild. It was an onslaught of great games including Horizon, Nier, Nioh, Uncharted LL, Everybody's Golf, Wipeout Omega Collection, Gravity Rush 2, Persona 5, Yakuza 0, GT Sport, FF12 remaster, and probably still more I'm forgetting. And that's only the exclusives.
I really think every year since 2015 has been superb. If I was forced to choose, I'd give 2018 the slightest of edges over 2015, 2017, and 2019 because of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption II, God of War, Spider-Man, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The DLC/post launch support that most of those games received was nothing short of spectacular, and kept me playing them well after release.
1) 2015 (GTA V on PC, MGSV, Bloodborne, Fallout 4, Witcher 3)
2) 2019 (RDR2 on PC, Sekiro, REmake2)
3) 2018 (RDR2, AC: Odyssey, GoW)
4) 2017 (Prey, AC: Origins, Nioh)
5) 2016 (DS3, Dishonored 2)
2) 2019 (RDR2 on PC, Sekiro, REmake2)
3) 2018 (RDR2, AC: Odyssey, GoW)
4) 2017 (Prey, AC: Origins, Nioh)
5) 2016 (DS3, Dishonored 2)