Topic: What was the best year for gaming?

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Im going to say the same year as Ian: 1998

1997 games were also out that year too and had a lot of replay value. So if you are playing those games and the 1998 games you're going to have a lot of fun.

In 1998 I probably had as good of a time as I'm going to have.

Was my post invisible? I crave attention!

I kind of feel like '97 and '99 were pretty awesome as well. Just that three year stretch of excellent gaming. Off the top of my head, shoutouts to Mario Kart 64, Blast Corps, GoldenEye and Quake III.

Although, I think my next choice would be 2004. It has a lot of the best games ever made and a large number of my personal favorites.

- Metal Gear Solid 3 was pretty godlike (the best in the series!)
- Halo 2 probably has a lot of haters here, but it's a great game, deal with it. It set an amazing new benchmark for console online play, really. And sexy LAN play too!
- Naruto GNT3 came out, an amazing 4 player fighting game with a ton of characters, good design, and all-round awesomeness! Although GNT4 came out the next year was an improvement in most ways...
- Astro Boy: Omega Factor on GBA. Developed by Treasure iirc. Easy to miss, but one of the absolute best games to come out for GBA. Seriously, like top 5.
- Half Life 2 and CS:Source. All hail the Source engine.
- Nintendo DS, the best portable system ever, released! The best 2004 games were Sprung and Band Brothers.
- World of Warcraft holy ****