When you see OOT's 99 Metascore, realize it's competition was this image
>>730825516Almost all of those are mid or aged like milk
>>730825586Cope
>>730825516GT, FFT and Pokemon were not 1998.
>Radiant>panzer Dragoon>Fallout 2>Starcraft>RE2>Tekken 3>Pokemon R/B>MGS>GT>Tenchu>Sakura Wars 2>MvcCapcom>FFTacticsImagine there are people denying current gaming isn't in a bad shape when they barely have a release of this level of quality, let alone a whole year like stacked like this.>>730825586Games don't age.
>>730825586>aged like milkSo they turned into a fine cheese?
>it's
>>730825930Yeah, it's fucking crazy. I'd kill for another game like Radiant Silvergun or Thief.
>>730825930Can't be helped.
whoa, this was the year I was born in.
>>730825625they were for NA and Europe
Keep these retarded threads on /vr/. There is not a single game released in 1998 that I'd put in my top 100.
>>730827295Modern gaming threads are doomed to be cesspools of shitposts or built around witnessing something negative for entertainment purposes or for losing an already low amount of hope. None stem from a good place. Older stuff threads are the only good thing to find in this board/v/ is cope.
>>730827512you always had to mentally filter retards. nothing changed in the past 10 years
>>730825930>>RadiantWorse version of ikaruga>>panzer DragoonRail shooter turned into a shitty rpg>>Fallout 2A shitty rpg>>StarcraftBlizzslop>>RE2A cinematic hallway simulator>>Tekken 3The most moronic normgroid fighting game series of all time until soul caliber released>>Pokemon R/BAn objectively worse version of the next gen full of bugs and ai that just chose moves at random>>MGSA literal movie that's cutscenes for almost half it's run time>>GTA shitty racing game with boring controls and tracks>>TenchuSlow ass stealth games are like ambrosia to normalfags>>Sakura Wars 2A shitty rpg>>MvcCapcomAn objectively worse version of mvc2, with its atrocious variable cross mechanic and boring meta>>FFTacticsA shitty rpg
>>730827741>nothing changed in the past 10 yearsThe state of gaming, it got far worse>>730828414You're trying too hard
>>730825516I unironically don't think 1998 can be beaten
>>730828528>You're trying too hardI'm being 100% honest, rsg is not even half as good as ikaruga, for example, and it's full of really awkward and inexperienced design decisions.
>>730828545>at least 7 masterpieces within a yearObjectively it can't be beaten.
>>730828605I've seen the yt video, your bait is too obvious
>>730828763Not a single one of those games is a masterpiece. Even OOT itself only has ONE dungeon in the entire game which is not linear, and it's the most hated dungeon in the entire game.
>>730827295except you included Thiefslop which is a shitty slow stealth game
>>730825516unc gaming
>>730828821>I've seen the yt videoWhat in the fuck are you talking about
>>730828889TDP is actually a dungeon crawler in disguise, and I like it less and less with each passing year. I find that /v/ always finds the laziest sloppiest game to play, like you could give them 99 masterpieces and 1 bad game and they'll play the bad game because it's easier.
>>730828763Yeah like>OoT>Suikoden 2>Xenogears>FFT>Half Life>Pokemon Gen 1>MGS1>Parasite EveI don't know the others well but these alone makes it incredible.For the anon that will reply to this post saying how these games are bad: It's ok to have shit taste <3
>>730828918your opinion is so common that someone made a video about it
>>730829331Okay?
>>730828851>Not a single one of those games is a masterpieceRE2, Starcraft.
>>730829442What's better, RE2 or REmake 1? Because there can only be one masterwork in an IP, and I don't think the one where you run down hallways to escape a lumbering retard is "the one". And just lol at praising starcraft
>>730827295No love for gunbird 2?
>>730829619>the one where you run down hallways to escape a lumbering retardSo its not the reddit demake then
>>730825516>thief the dark project>metal gear solid>tenchu>commandos behind enemy linesTake me back. Quite literally a revolutionary year. New genre of gaming was created.
>>730829721Do you really honestly feel like anything by psyiko deserves to be in the top 100 games ever made? There are a lot of video games, anon
>>730826928Then remove Suikoden 2 and Star Ocean 2, as those weren't released overseas until 1999.
>>730825930I always like to compare the industry of the 20th century to today as a measure of peaks, valleys, and plateaus. We don't receive series/genre-defining classics like we once did, but I genuinely believe that the sheer number of good games released yearly has gone up with time. Note I don't say the average went up, mobile markets and the lowest barrier of entry for game dev ever have made sure of that, but if you went by the amount of games you could play in a given year that you could walk away from satisfied, I think today is the best for that. But because most people play 1-5 new games per year, they're still yearning for the era where the cream of the crop were truly excellent, and that's just not the case. I think 5th & 6th gen have the best averages overall, but 6th gen didn't have as many genre-defining games as 5th gen did.tl;dr the industry did get worse but you can still find plenty of good new games if you're not looking for something life-changing.
>>730827295Would believe discussion of old games on /vr/ is significantly dumber there than on /v/?
>>73082551698 or 04 is the GOAT year. 94, 97, and 01 not far behind as well
>>730829948It's the same exact retards. If they can't stay there then delete the board so it's stops functioning as a nest for more retards to spill in here. Every time I go there I am dissapointed.
>>730828414>look at me I'm the color of poo
>>730825516Remove the shmupslop. That shit is for trannies and they are the Diablo 2 of arcades.
2000 or 1996 for me
>>730829619RE2. Remake is the masterpiece of remakes.
>>730829865>but I genuinely believe that the sheer number of good games released yearly has gone up with timeYou're just clinging to illusions of your expectations. It's dead, Jim.>I think 5th & 6th gen have the best averages overall. but 6th gen didn't have as many genre-defining games as 5th gen did.That'd be a good argument, and I'd agree with it.
>>730829840For some it would be.There are a lot of subtypes of shmups.It really depends on type of player, but some would see a value in it that no other shmup and such could properly represent.
>>730830510Psikyo games are too hard for me. I'm trans so I can only play easy Cave games.
>>730830510I'm asking you, not theoretical players
>>730825516All of this looks like dogshit slop even when compared with 2025's release of games. No wonder OOT won GOTY.
>>730825930>Imagine there are people denying current gaming isn't in a bad shape when they barely have a release of this level of quality, let alone a whole year like stacked like this.Expedition 33 came out last year which absolutely smokes and destroys everything in that list.
>>730830707It has far more genre variety than your meme games of 2025 that you'd sell as "highlights" of the year.
>>730830442>You're just clinging to illusions of your expectations. It's dead, Jim.I played 37 games released in 2025 that I considered 7/10 or better. Even with only four of them hitting 9/10 or better, that's a good year for me. In 2024 & 2023 the number was about the same give or take a few. Maybe three games in that bunch of years are in the running to be in my favorites, but I still played a lot of distinct games that I came away from happy. I'd also definitely say that the past few years were better than 2020 & 2021 overall as well, those two have a few really strong highlights but fewer games that I enjoyed.
>>730830291>turns a non-linear game into a linear game>masterpieceNope. You never played RE1.
>>730830790Meme game. People is projecting their hatred towards AAA using that game as a vessel in very fucked up way. game is a deritative FFXIII
>>7308307072025 is a weak year
>>730825586Zoomer troon detected
>>730830858I only see someone that tries to justify their purchase without realizing it. Only time proves if those games were any good and last decade shows the precedent and it doesn't bode well. Gaming simply isn't as good as used to, not even to do with intended audiences.
>>730825516The best year. EVER. In the history of vidya.Yes. The best year EVER.
>>730825586lets see your list of favorites then
>>730831105Do you retards not know how dates work?
>>730830689I honestly havent put in enough hours in the various games to really form a full opinion on the matter, but I can personally see dragon blaze getting there.
>>730831105>einhander>musashi>final fantasy tactics>heart of darkness>Metal slug 2/X>OoT>Pokemon Charizard>SF Alpha 3>the first rogue squadron>Tomba>Skullmonkeys>Motherfucking Soul Calibur
>>730831206Point the flaws, smartass
>>730831148I only play Fortnite.
>>730831372grim
>>730825516silvergun is so cooli wish i was good at it
>>730829052>99 masterpiecesNot a single one is a shmup, because the genre sucks.
>>730825516all made by white people every single game not a nigger spic or jeet ever touched any of the code for any of these games
>>730831437>silvergun is so coolit's the saturn grainy visuals, isn't it?
>>730831372joke completed, have a good night, everybody
>>730831476idk i only played the steam port
>>730831476>>730831536i loved how crisp looks on 360
>>730825516You cannot look at this image and tell me videogames haven't gotten worse. There is nowhere near as many 10/10 games being released each year now.
>>730831318All of those games are great, it's fucking crazy. There's more worhtwhile, good quality games in that picture than tere are on the three current gen systems combined. And to think every year used to be like that during the late 90's and early 00's.Fucking hell.
>>730827295Go fuck yourself. Good old games belong on both boards, your dogshit modern AAA sewage belongs nowhere.
>>730831318>>Motherfucking Soul Caliburgenuinely what happened to soul calibur? it was getting 10s across the board back in the day, SC2 was even bigger, and now its just fucking dead. i miss it. SC6 turns 8 this year and i thought it felt weird to me.
>>730831687repeat after me; gen 7's graphicwhoring was a mistake, I'm sorry
Isn't modern /v/ wonderful? All the games we used to have a billion high quality threads about are now verboten because this board is infested with underage third worlders that cannot stop smearing shit all over the walls.
>>730831774>genuinely what happened to soul calibur?Harada for the most part
>>730830269>taking a picture of your monitor with your phone
>>730831105All of these are pure shit and aged horribly, go back to your /vr/ containment board you boomer filth, and I could find a video for every single last one of them demolishing whatever dogshit cope you try to stammer out in defense of retroslop
>>730831784I usually draw the line at 2007, you'd have to convince me to play anything after that.>>730831774Tekken canibalized the genre. It's sad. I played the FUCK out of 2 and 3.https://youtu.be/-CWywLxwQw8
>modern slop: =(>uncslop: =)
why do boomers keep spamming dogshit off topic low quality threads when they clearly aren't welcome here?
>>730830269>1991 AlttP>1992 Sonic 2>1993 Motherfucking Doom AND Megaman X>1994 DKC>1995 Yoshi Island>1996 Duke Nukem 3D AND Crash Bandicoot>1997 SotN, FF7 AND Star Fox 64>1998 Ocarina, RE2, Sonic Adventure, Unreal AND Metal Gear Solid>1999 Ape escape, Smash bros, AND Crash Team RacingSee this, pc vegans and mutiplatfags? This is how gaming looks like with exclusive games; all competing, all improving and all around variety. And not even every game here is exclusive, let that sink in.
>>730832275Shut up nep.
>>730832275Kill yourself.https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/eV4odc0RMudBcT9cyOZllg/
>>730832362blame it on console manufacturers for turning everything into a dumbed down PC
>>730831325Stupid nigger>FFT>Grandia>Einhander>Breath of Fire III>Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon>tomba>Alundra>Azure DramsAll 1997 games>inb4 ITS THE HECKIN US RELEASE DATESIn which case, Grandia doesn't count at all since it came out overseas in 1999
>>730832390Why does the truth make you so upset? It's pretty pathetic watching an old man cry like a bitch about stupid garbage that doesn't matter.
>>730832071I'd recommend Wii and 360 and with 360 choosing titles carefully. Then jump console gens until it had enough games to worth the purchase. It's what I'm doing at least; I'm getting a Switch 2 after buying my xb360 that I bought in 2016 lmao
>waaah stop bullying me waaaah stop it my old games aren't shit t-t-they're actually good, you just have to get used to the taste of poop I said stop it!!!
>>730832409The blame is on third party devs and the general consumer with their dumb passive-agressive logic.
The sharty is desperate for (You)s, huh
>>730832450>one game is wrong and I will piss and shit my pantscool
>>730832369E33 and XC mog uncslop thoughbeit
>>730832571
>>730825516What’s that Chinese game next to Parasite Eve?
>>730832705Sakura Taisen 2
>>730832705Sakura Wars. Weebs pretend it is a big deal but it sold less than Donkey Kong 64 in Japan
I don't even know why I come to this shithole anymore. It doesn't feel like /v/ at all. I miss 4chan.
>>730832705Sakura Wars. SRPG/Dating Sim hybrid series from SEGA that wasn't really much of a thing outside of Japan. It got a reboot a few years back with musou gameplay and Tite Kubo character designs and that didn't go well.
>>730832809>>730832775>>730832748ok but who asked ?
>>730832790moot selling this site to a known conman was the biggest mistake he ever made
>>730832856>>730832705
>>730832809>>730832775Sakura Wars was really big for a otaku aimed game, 90s otaku market was really big even CAPCOM had their go at it.
>>730832790/v/ was all tendies back in the day
>>730832914? are you stupid
I think Half-Life is by far the most over rated game from that year. I played most of the major games from that year like OOT and RE2 and Fallout 2 and Starcraft and FFT and Tekken 3 and Pokemon Red and MGS and Thief and GT and Parasite Eve and Banjo and Crash 3 and TR3 and Tenchu and MvC and Half-Life was just boring compared to all of those games.
>>730832992You seemed to be lost and didn't know who asked so I pointed you to the post that made the question. Hope that helped.
>>730832790>can distinctly remember 90% of these>it's been FOURTEEN fucking years>modern /v/ doesn't produce even a fraction of as much memorable funny shit these dayswhere the fuck do I go now?
>>730832623>XCDecent game but I wouldn't say "mogs">E33lol
>>730832606>my reddit chart is wrong and I will be a retardcool
>niggas reminiscing over uncslop from last millennia>they're living in a time where they can play, make, or pay someone to dev games of the same scale
>>730832790>random qr codeI'm afraid
Old /v/ had way better taste in games, you zoomer retards only play the most abhorrent garbage imaginable
>>730825516>>730831105how many hours have been stolen by video games?you wasted so much life on woke button mashing instead of achieve things in the real world, fucking losers.
>>730831784What ruined it wasn't graphics but online. Deva could now easily patch their games, plus it allows for microtransactions
>>730833231>typed, as he made a worthwhile use of his time posting on 4chan
>>730833231how did auntie get nerd neck in 92?
>>730825516>Metascorefuck off you zoomer faggot
>>730833212But newfags on /v/ play old games, selectively, and that's the problem. Like when Nuclear Throne got its 100th update there were only like 5 people playing it, even though it's an old /v/ hood classic. And you're not even allowed to discuss 2hu anymore, and if you start calling retards secondaries the janny gets asshurt and deletes the threads even faster, only a handful of eceleb approved shmups are allowed. Stuff like that. Only the most cancerous bits of old /v/ survived and people think old games = old fag. No one is thinking about what they're consuming, it's just old = good.
>>730833423Metacritic is lowkirkenuinely kinda underrated, unc. I think it's going to have to go into S-tier.
>>730833470Slop-tier
>>730833278>What ruined it wasn't graphics but onlineNo, it was graphics. Development costs raising is instrumental in the downfall of the golden age of gaming.
>>730833465no one ever cared about reddit indieslop pixelshit retard
The real 1998 master piece
>>730833465This is true this is why I only post in the crypto diaper fetish threads. (The 24/7 "Peak" general threads that have stayed on /v/ for a year)
>>730833563The archives don't lie and /v/ used to love indies
>this indieslop from 2015 is for oldfags I swear
>>730833702>*eceleb watching redditfags loved indies
>>730833841I know exactly what's happening on /v/ today, it's flooded with undesirables off places like codex, kiwifarms, and rpg maker communities, not oldfags. And any young person who listens to the crap you sling will be exponentially worse off. Never listen to anyone who doesn't play any new games. You're just setting yourself up for stagnation and depression. Like the guy that's been making a mass effect thread every day for the last 10 years, you don't want to be that guy.
>>730828414>I know about these games from youtube Kill yourself and never post here, idiot
There was a time...In the era of great chaos...
>>730834067This game is a shit and it desperately needs an M2 port with an arranged mode to fix it.
Sorry reddit, /v/ always hated SJW retards like Rami Ismail
It's obvious by how many posts itt are from /vr/
>>730834145The reason nuclear throne got a 100th update is because Rami stopped holding the IP captive and gave it back to the people who actually made it, which you'd know if you actually played games
>>730834006I'm unfortunately like twice your age nigga
Why does this troon seethe all day about video game threads and post seriously in every off-topic anime thread?
>>730825516True or false if any of these games came out for the first time today with modern visuals & nothing else they'd be front runner for game of the year
>>730833465>jannies keep banning only me and deleting my posts but everyone else is wrong
>>730833465>you're not even allowed to discuss 2hu anymorebecause it belongs on /jp/, newhalf
>>730834639This is untrue, as in 2011 ocarina of time was remade and it was a terrible year for games with shit like skyrim and bamham. And actually the best game of 2011 was GOOD. ASS. ESCHATOS.https://youtu.be/kqv4NiiVwI4
>>730834858/jp/ is for discussing onaholes. 2hu should have never left /v/, its a cornerstone of 4chan culture, excellent normalfag repellant, and a key stepping stone into shmups.
>>730834892>skyrim and bamham.these were both /v/'s GOTY that year btw
>>730835052You would poop your pants if you saw how hard 2011 /v/ was shitting on those games.
>>730835052normie masses have terrible taste and are stupid, in other news; water's wet
>>730834615Its hilarious how much you're fuming over him disrupting your circlejerk astroturf thread.
>>730834357>F2 and RE2 are shit, here are my N64 gamesYou're american and your parents couldn't afford a PS1 or a proper PC in the 90sThis is why you played inferior games on a shit platform that N64 isOnly americans who didn't have a PC are nostalgic about N64, FACT>twice your ageYou're 66?
Chasm The RiftIt's from 1997 though, sorry
FACT: /a/ has had zero impact on site culture in the last 10 years outside of /dbs/.
>>730834639True, Tenchu 1 would be huge if someone made it now
>>730835792If you think re2 is better than sm64 you are absolutely bonkers, here's a big pile of dusty playstations. It's funny, I know people joke about Sony and movie games now, but really ps has always been a cinematic movie consoles, because it's hardware lent itself best to jrpg slop.
>>730825516It was an amazing year for vidya.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKExiTWSKAA
>>730836208>If you think re2 is better than sm64 you are absolutely bonkersInsane N64 cultists say this unironically and want people to take them seriouslyI just hope you're trolling
>>730836208Also clean your shit, you're disgusting (a trait of mentally retarded people btw)
>>730829865Counterpoint for the modern gaming era.Covid fucked the whole thing over. AAA Games, if you care about those, take sometimes 5,6 and 7 years now. Things started during 2020's Covid interference were cancelled unless they were appeal to all cash grabs that could recoup the losses otherwise.There are still good games being made, to your point, but the echelon that used to give us great or better tier games got rocked hard by overspending and underperforming.We'll be paying for that ith mediocrity and samey feeling bullshit until the middle of this year into 2027 when they start releasing the new games made after all that shit.
>>730839478Why would I dust off a console I have zero reason to play? I have everything I need between steam for indies and ps4/switch for a handful of m2 shot trigger ports. Hell, all the worthwhile n64 games got recompiled. SM64 co-op DX is a literal masterpiece btw, on par with stuff like openttd and openxcom. Can't say that about any ps1 games.
>>730830269that is an awesome picture. not the chart itself but the way you took it
>>730832369>no neptuniatf you doing?
>>730830269the golden age, 1990-2010
>>730839923>Why would I dust off a console I have zero reason to play?>posts a dusty N64 he loves so muchYou're legit retarded
>>730840348>You're legit retardedThe irony of this with such poor reading comprehension.
>>730825516Those were good times. Everything felt so fresh and unique, there was always something cool around the corner. I remember buying Xenogears in a store just because it was made by Squaresoft, I knew nothing about it outside of that. I remember playing MGS over and over again to get all of the unlocks. Same with RE2, and playing the different combinations of disc A and B. I got FFT for my birthday, didn't quite understand it at first but I soon got really into it, loved the job system. I think I started playing Ultima Online around this time as well, plus a lot of Diablo.
>>730834143>This game is a shitstopped reading there
