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Pegultagol

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As for the year of games, going way back to check out 1999 is like reading about the Renaissance, the age long, long ago where classics were literally dropping per month, such as

Age of Empires II
Age of Wonders
Alpha Centauri
C&C Tiberian Sun
Dungeon Keeper II
EverQuest
Freespace 2
Gabriel Knight 3
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Homeworld
Jagged Alliance 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
NBA Live 2000
Outcast
Planescape: Torment
Quake III Arena
Rollercoaster Tycoon
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
SWAT 3
Team Fortress Classic
The Longest Journey
Unreal Tournament

2020 is just another year that could be spent playing these as tribute to the bygones era.
 

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People here seem to have pretty fucking short memories. Between 2005 - 2010 there were practically no PC exclusive titles released at all! Everything was console shit! So think twice before crying about what a terrible time we live in.

Compare this year to a year like 2008. The gaming highlights that year were games like Fallout 3, GTA 4, Left 4 Dead and Mirror's Edge. I can still remember playing Fallout 3 and considering during every loading screen whether I should slid my wrists rather than continue living in a shitty world where PC gaming was dead.
 
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People here seem to have pretty fucking short memories. Between 2005 - 2010 there were practically no PC exclusive titles released at all! Everything was console shit! So think twice before crying about what a terrible time we live in.

Out of the list i posted in the previous page, a large number are PC exclusive. Or at least were initially and only much later were ported to console, for example Crysis or Minecraft.
 

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Well your top 5 is shit, so I'll take your disagreement as a compliment.

And I've had to make you eat your own words over in the Epic Game Store-thread numerous times, so that doesn't even come close to make us even.

Feel free to fuck off anytime, no one will miss you.
 
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<grabs Unkillable Cat and hugs him until the butthurt goes away> why you always so ornery, bre? its ok to relax sometimes.

Compare this year to a year like 2008. The gaming highlights that year were games like Fallout 3, GTA 4, Left 4 Dead and Mirror's Edge. I can still remember playing Fallout 3 and considering during every loading screen whether I should slid my wrists rather than continue living in a shitty world where PC gaming was dead.

Fallout 3 and GTA IV might not be great games, but compared to this year, it's not even close. I mean sure F3 was a huge step down in many ways from F1/2, but it wasn't THAT bad. It was like Oblivion with guns, a sort of mediocre game you could play and enjoy to some degree. What the fuck do we have this year?
 

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The idea that 2005 - 2010 was the worst period for PC gaming still sounds right to me. Things definitely pick up in the early 2010s though.

2008 was pretty grim: I like Mirror's Edge but not much else. Even if you throw in some mediocre games like Dead Space, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead, there's really not a lot going on. Fuck GTA.

In 2020, on the other hand, we've had three games I've really enjoyed and plenty of mediocre-but-fun games bringing up the rear, far more than in 2008, and we're only halfway through the year.

Niches also feel like they're coming back as a thing. Everything turned into a homogenised mess in the late 2000s*, now we're getting some turn-based tactics and real-time tactics games for example.

*by which I mean there seemed to be about four or so genres that just got identical games made over and over - identical RTS games, identical FPS games, identical action platformers, etc
 

DalekFlay

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And I've had to make you eat your own words over in the Epic Game Store-thread numerous times, so that doesn't even come close to make us even.

Feel free to fuck off anytime, no one will miss you.

Only thing lamer than fucking Broforce as a "game of the decade" is taking mild jabs on the Codex so seriously.
 

TemplarGR

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Too many butthurt people on this thread. 2008 was one of the top years in gaming, in the whole history of the industry. And yes, Fallout 3 was a fucking masterpiece. In 2008, it was a great experience unlike any other. Just because it was not a pseudo-tactical isometric piece of garbage, doesn't mean it was a mediocre game. It was a GREAT game, and it won tens of GOTY awards across the board for a reason. Remember Bethesda was not a powerhouse before Fallout 3, Oblivion and Morrowind were successful on the market (Oblivion far more than Morrowind) but they didn't dominate the market. Bethesda didn't have the clout to actually BRIBE the publications to give them GOTY back then.

If you seriously can't understand that in 2008 AAA first person openworld RPGs, especially with guns, and a cool universe (Fallout), didn't exist, and Fallout 3 was groudnbreaking, then you were either a baby during that time or you have altzheimers today. Or you are just butthurt that not every RPG gamer (additional trigger mechanism) values autism over immersion and fun.
 

Wyatt_Derp

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2020 may have cured me of my gaming addiction. So far this year I've spent far more money on food, ammo, and supplies than on gaming. At 42, some would say better late than never.

But Grand Tactician has yet to be released. The one game I've waited for all year will soon be out. Might have to adjust my schedule, depending on whether or not it's hot garbage.
 

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3) Fallout 3/ New Vegas
7) Starcraft II
9) Medieval Total War II/ Empire Total War/ Napoleon Total War/Shogun II Total War
19) Bioshock 1+2
20) GTA San Andreas and GTA IV
21) Civilization IV and V
24) Command and Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3
46) Plants vs Zombies
49) Minecraft and Terraria
58) Alan Wake
60) Crusader Kings II/ Europa Universalis III/ Victoria II and all other Paradox GS

I got rid of most the crap that was stinking up your list.
 
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TemplarGR

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I got rid of most the crap that was stinking up your list.

Fallout 3 was awesome, and is far better than any crowdfunded isometric crpg of this decade, including Cuckmaker. You know it's true, deep down. People will be playing Fallout 3 for years, and when a remaster is announced eventually people will be playing it in droves, while people already forgot about Cuckmaker, not even codexers care much about it.
 

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Problems with indie games. It is obsessed with the motivation to make something cool (for social media).
Even if they come up with new mechanics or really new ideas to add to the history of the game, they are hampered by the desire to increase retweets.

If this dimensional world goes into its worst scenario, eventually all video games turn into pornography dealing with the creator's nudity.
 

Walden

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2017 and 2019 were great years. 2021 will likely be great too, a lot of delays and good games on the radar. The only let-downs are the retarded console stuff, but at least we won't see a new medium defining game from ND. Hopefully.
 

TemplarGR

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2017 and 2019 were great years. 2021 will likely be great too, a lot of delays and good games on the radar. The only let-downs are the retarded console stuff, but at least we won't see a new medium defining game from ND. Hopefully.

No, really, they (2017 and 2019) were not great years. There were some games that were good, but most of them were niche and generally no exceptional RPG or otherwise single player game was released in those years. In terms of really good games and pushing the envelope, we got almost nothing. That's a fact. We got some indies, some me-too rpgs, the typical franchise continuations like Assassin's Creed etc etc.

The reality is that the most advancement this gen (2013-2021) in terms of game design happened around the late 2014-2016 timeframe. Afterwards we just got typical rehashes.

I have noticed something, console generations are very helpful at noticing the general trends of game design. 1 gen is the groundbreaking gen, and another is the "repeat the previous gen with more polish". Those kind of gens follow one another.

NES (8bit) gen: The start of your typical 2D platformers, top down zeldas, and pretty much most 2D styles of game began in this era
SNES (16 bit) : The same games as the NES era but with better sprites, more colors, and more paralax backgrounds.
Playstation (32bit era): The first truly 3D games, the first cinematic games, the first multimedia games, lots of new genres that didn't exist before
Playstation 2: A more polished Playstation with a DVD player. Most types of games were just PS1 games with better graphics, fewer new genres were developed.
Playstation 3: The HD generation. Lots of things changed this gen in game design, japanese developers took a backsit and western designers came from PC and established other styles of games, also the open world reigned supreme. We didn't get many new genres but we did get a radical game design approach in most genres.
Playstation 4: The HD generation+texture pack. We didn't get much improvement over the PS3 generation. Games are just more polished versions of the previous era. Every type of game that exists in the PS4 era can be found on PS3 as well, just with lower graphics.
Playstation 5: (speculation) we are going to get bigger and better developed open worlds, better physics, destructible environments, and in general the games will begin feel more like simulations and not just gamey. I believe that AI will be much more improved this gen also. Environments will feel organic, real, not just polygons with textures.

I think this gen is going to push the envelope in gaming a lot more than the PS4 gen did.
 

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What did Fallout 3 push forward, other than the date of my inevitable suicide? It's literally Oblivion and Oblivion is literally Morrowind, which isn't far off from Gothic.

Physics and destructible environments and such are definitely gonna be a cool thing of the incoming generation though, for sure. I'm hoping new tech unlocks the potential for entirely new genres, in the way that stuff like dynamic lightning did (Thief is the obvious example).
 

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