Comments for "GameTrailers Top 10 Years of Gaming" Video at VideoSift.com

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:00:08 -0700

I can wax nostalgic about video games for hours every day. My personal best years in gaming:

1983 - We got Intellivion for Xmas 82.. Played a lot of Lock & Chase, Astrosmash, Night Stalker, Sea Battle, etc.
1989 - The year I bought myself a NES.. Played Bionic Commando, Contra, Castlevania.. First job mowing lawns gave me income in addition to my allowance which went up to $10/wk. to blow on gaming magazines and the occasional game, as well as a decent budget for arcade games which were in their heyday... Golden Axe, Robocop, Narc, Hard Drivin, Stider, that was 1989 for me. Probably the single best year.
1992 - Now working one full-time and one part-time job for the summer, as soon as I wrote my final exams I I bought myself Genesis, then SNES the next day. Played a lot of Super Contra, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania 4, Super Battletank (first game with photo-real graphics on home systems imho), Populous, Strider, etc.
1994 - The year I bought my first PC.. played a lot of Doom 2, Alone in the Dark 2, Ecstatica, Tie Fighter, and countless demos from PC Gamer and other magazine pack-in discs
1998 - The year I got into multiplayer... played insane amounts of Quake 2
2000 - The year I bought my first true custom-built gaming PC.. played Quake 3, Deus Ex, Aliens Vs Predator, and in 2001 played tons of Tribes 2
2002 - At end of 2001 I bought another even better gaming box... played tons of RTCW, Medal of Honor, and ended the year playing BF1942 about four hours per day
2006 - The year I bought my first bleeding-edge custom-built gaming PC (dual GPUs, 30 inch 4 megapixel monitor, $150 mouse, etc.)... played BF2, Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, Prey, HL2: Ep1

2007 was a decent year, might look like a stand-out once I get some distance and perspective.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:11:29 -0700

Argh, Portal song stuck in my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Kerotan

Kerotan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kerotan) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:56:07 -0700

An accurate countdown.

And yes, 2007 was awesome.

By Mavmike

Mavmike (http://www.videosift.com/member/Mavmike) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:45:26 -0700

2007 - I'm making a note here: huge success.

In retrospect, it was a pretty damn good year for gaming.

By CaBhaal

CaBhaal (http://www.videosift.com/member/CaBhaal) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:16:51 -0700

2008 is shaping up to be even better than 2007...

By moonsammy

moonsammy (http://www.videosift.com/member/moonsammy) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:02:06 -0700

I don't care about any 2008 releases but Fallout 3. If that doesn't live up to the prior installments (or at least come *close*) I'm giving this whole year the finger. As hard as I can.

That said, there are obviously some great games this year. I'm just a raving Fallout fanboy, and will weep for the franchise if 3 sucks. I can't take another disappointment like Deus Ex 2.

By Kaigen

Kaigen (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kaigen) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:20:58 -0700

2007, while basically a good year, didn't have anything that I'm still going to be playing 10 years from now or would call a personal favorite short of Portal. BioShock would've been if it weren't for the awful, awful final act.

Good year, yes. Best? Not even close.

1998 ftw, yo.

By bovan

bovan (http://www.videosift.com/member/bovan) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:13:28 -0700

i liked 1996... Duke Nukem 3D.. C&C: Red Alert.. and.... Quake...
might not be many others, but all 3 are among my top 3 played games in the 90s..

But most importantly.. Voodoo Graphics came and showed us (well, me atleast) the light..
when i first saw glQuake (1997), after playing software mode in 400x300, it was a religious experience.. well.. as I imagine a religious experience to be..

By videosiftbannedme

videosiftbannedme (http://www.videosift.com/member/videosiftbannedme) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:53:07 -0700

2007, huh? Sadly, my PC was cutting edge in 2003/2004, so I didn't get a chance to witness the marvelous games this year. Oh well. Paying for college will do that to ya.

By Xax

Xax (http://www.videosift.com/member/Xax) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:58:23 -0700

On paper, 2007 seemed like a really great year: Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2, BioShock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4. But only Episode Two managed to make it into my all-time top 20. Maybe it's just too soon for the other games to bump older favorites.

I'd probably have to pick 1995 as the best year, when Chrono Trigger, Command & Conquer, and X-COM: Terror From the Deep (my introduction to the series) were released. It's hard to pick just one year, though. The best "era" I would say was 1997-2000, when my top 5 all-time favorite games came out (Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Half-Life, Fallout 1 and 2).

By complacentnation

complacentnation (http://www.videosift.com/member/complacentnation) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:04:51 -0700

1997 was definitely the pinnacle year in portraying what video games could become. Like someone said, GLQuake was a breakthrough in 3D graphics card support (obviously meaning that before it - the 3d engines were rendered in SOFTWARE mode), Quake II came out, Fallout was one of the most intelligent, dark and humorous games ever released - even to this day AND - the original Grand Theft Auto came out - so obviously 1997 should be 1.

There were so many great games from 1997 - here's an incomplete list of games from 1997 via Wikipedia:

* February 10 - Mario Kart 64 (N64)
* February 28 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (N64)
* March 20 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS) (Sega Saturn)
* April 30 - Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (PC)
* May 31 - MDK: (PC) (PS)
* June 26 - Dungeon Keeper (PC)
* July 1 - Star Fox 64 (N64)
* July 30 - Carmageddon (PC)
* August 25 - GoldenEye 007 (N64)
* August 31 - HeXen II (PC)
* September 7 - Final Fantasy VII (PS), (PC)
* September 19 - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PS), (PC)
* September 30 - Fallout (PC)
* September 30 - Total Annihilation (PC)
* October - Grand Theft Auto (PC)
* October 9 - Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (PC)
* October 26 - Age of Empires (PC)
* October 29 - Riven (PC) (Mac)
* October 31 - The Curse of Monkey Island (PC)
* November 14 - Postal (PC)
* December 6 - Quake II (PC)
* December 19 - Wing Commander: Prophecy (PC)
* December 23 - Gran Turismo (PS1)