/vr/ - Retro Games

1998 was better. thief.

q2 also sucked dick

>>1722834
>FF VII
That's like saying Transformers made 2007 a great year for movies.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was 98.

In my top 10, 3 games are 1998 and three 1999.

>>1722879

Can I bottle your asspain and sell it?

>>1722834
>tfw I played all those games OP posted back then

Holy shit, man.

>>1722834
GTA, Quake, Tomb Raider, AOE, Abe, GT all had superior sequels in the next years.

>>1722834
1999.

No question.

>Resident Evil
okay
>deutsche Version
NEIN!

>>1722964

Was? Was ist das? Wow, was für ein Herrenhaus!

Das war zu nah. Sie waren fast ein Jill Sandwich.

Nah, I think 1993 was best year.
Lots of really great Amiga and Sega Genesis games. Also some great DOS games, including Doom.

>>1722914
lol

>>1722834

I agree. You're missing too many great games from your list though. (And so am I likely, because there are many.)
Cotton 2
DoDonPachi
Final Fantasy Tactics
G-Darius
Gradius Gaiden
Klonoa
Mega Man 8
Mega Man Legends
Mega Man X4
Mischief Makers
Raiden Fighters 2
SaGa Frontier
Shock Troopers
Silhouette Mirage
Umihara Kawase Shun

1994 was better.

>>1722936
> Exodus
> superior
It was really dang good but Oddysee was way better.

Donkey Kong Country
Super Fucking Metroid
Darius Gaiden
Bubble Bobble 2
Elevator Action Returns
Sonic 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Gunforce 2
Puyo Puyo Tsu
Kingdom Grandprix
Doom II
Heretic
Jazz Jackrabbit
Earthworm Jim
Killer Instinct
Kirby's Pinball Land NA release
Mega Man V
Mega Man X
Wario Land

All hail 1994, king of vidya years.

The only other year that comes close is 1987.

>>1722834
>Grand Theft Auto 1

what

>Quake 2, not Team Fortress 1

pffft

>>1722879
>That's like saying Transformers made 2007 a great year for movies.
Good god fail.

>>1722834
I think it has to do with the fact that I was 12 years old in 1997.

>>1722834
2004

>>1722834
It's a toss up between 1998 and 2004.

I'd go with 98'.

>>1722879
That's like saying HIV made 1981 a good year for health

1987 is still the best year ever.

Final Fantasy
Dragon Spirit
Maniac Mansion
Contra
Leisure Suit Larry
Mega Man
Megami Tensei
After Burner
Double Dragon
Castlevania US release
The Goonies II
Getsu Fuuma Den
Hoshi wo Miru Hito

>>1724425
All rehashes, not a single original franchise.

>>1724425
>Posts a list of great 1987 releases
>Doesn't include THE greatest game from that year
>Doesn't include one of the best shmups of all time, that came out that very year

You dun fucked up bro. You dun fucked up baaaad. Also, Twin Cobra is pretty cool too.

>>1722834
>>1723767

Why was 1997-1998 the best two years in gaming?

>>1724484
My bad, my bad. It was nowhere in the list I looked up.

It's the best game in that year, that's for sure.

>>1724487
Because you're a 90s kid.

>>1723028

Nice, I might do an update with these included.

>>1722834

You're not wrong.

>>1724484
Twin Cobra does rule.

>>1724487
To me, it's simple.
Pretty much all new console hardware uniformly failed to impress the public at large after the SNES was launched in 91, with very few and niche exceptions (like the Neo Geo consoles, which are really cool)

now there are others that are saying 1994 was the greatest year, well. It's pretty much the magnum opus year of the 16 bit console era, sure. But for 3 years after that, you have a pretty long dry spell of Sega disappointing everyone with the 32X and Saturn, Nintendo becoming a laughing stock with the Virtual Boy and PC owners looked down upon everyone with utter contempt as they enjoyed groundbreaking games like the first Quake and Mechwarrior 2.

Until Nintendo pulled it's head out of it's ass and focused on the 64 and Sony released the PS1 after it's fucked-up affair with Nintendo. Once these new machines with improvements in their technology that were actually significant were readily available and inexpensive - the games could finally express themselves in new and awesome ways the gaming public, both casual and enthusiast, were hungry for.

Something that this latest generation of "consoles" has absolute 0 of.

>>1722879
>dis fuckin guy
Keep on bashing the greatest JRPG of all tim you millenial babby.

>>1726895
I'm sorry, you don't spell Chrono Trigger by typing FFVII.

>>1726915
He said "greatest JRPG of all time" not "overrated Akira Toriyama shitfest."

no love for gearz? also circa
97'

>>1726915
>Trigger
>not Cross

>>1726945

Nope. '98 release in both regions. Still a good year though.

>>1726945
>>1727008
the rpg disappointment has been epic since the two consecutive xmas i got ff7 and xenogears

>>1722834
>RE: Director's Cut
>Good

>>1723140
Team Fortress 1 was actually released in 1996, very early in the life of Quake's modding community.

>>1722834
>mfw that picture literally shows 9 of my all time favorite games
You might be right.

>>1727007
>cross
>not a flaming mess

>>1726937

nice counter-argument, and I'm not even that guy, or fond of RPGs either

I was born in 1994

How was that year of gaming?

>>1728045
It was a hot mess, but what it did well was great.

>>1728197
see>>1723129

always remember that you born in the same year as Heretic

>>1722964

The German version was better than the US version since it was really uncut. The US version (only first press?) still had the black-white opening.

>>1728227
Actually not that big a fan of DKC, Sonic 3, Jazz Jackrabbit, Earthworm Jim or even Killer Instinct but...

>Super Metroid
>Heretic
>Mega Man X
>Wario Land

Feels good to be born in that year, man. Great games, all of them.

>>1725728
The Saturn was actually a pretty big success in Japan, it just couldn't find an overseas market.

Similarly, the N64 did very poorly in Japan, but was successful overseas.

PlayStation dominated the gen and was globally successful.

>>1722834
Pic related, one of the best fighting games ever made along with BR2 and 3