What Was REALLY The Best Video Game Every Year 1990-2021?
What Was REALLY The Best Video Game Every Year 1990-2021?
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You know this list is bullshit when they don’t even mention one of the most popular and highest ranked games of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 from 1992.
Yes Street Fighter II is a great game too but nowhere as high ranked or popular as Sonic 2.
GOTY 2002 was Kingdom Hearts, GOTY 2005 was Kingdom Hearts 2, GOTY 2006 was Sonic 06, GOTY 2007 was The World Ends With You, GOTY 2010 was Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, GOTY 2013 was Last of Us, GOTY 2015 was Life is Strange, GOTY 2017 was Persona 5, GOTY 2018 was Life is Strange 2, GOTY 2019 was Kingdom Hearts 3, GOTY 2020 was Persona 5 Royal, and GOTY 2021 was NEO: The World Ends With You
What’s the song playing during GTA III and GTA VC?
Ghost of Tsushima is truly legendary video game. Pinnecle of immersion 🔥 I was lost in beauty of ancient Japan.
So you are gonna tell us which games were actually ‘Game of the Year’ based on their lasting legacy… and you chose a demo for a game that was later cancelled for 2014?
While paradoxically, Silent Hill 2 was snubbed so you could cram five Rockstar games onto the list.
Interesting strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
id argue for ME2 but its a close call to be fair
I’d put spider man on here
🤣🤣🤣🤣 really PT?? Thats when this list crap it itselsf, is not a game you geek !!!
Quake 1 Expansion 2 (Dissolution of Eternity) called, it wants to talk to you about grappling hooks….
As much as I absolutely LOVE Metroid as a series, Metroid: Dread is basically just "Press the Counter Button: The Game". Definitely should have been Resident Evil Village in that spot.
Also, every year there are listed off truly amazing games that were released. But the top pick always seems to go to whatever open world game happened toncome out that year. Especially if it was made by Rockstsr.
13:25 shoot out to THERADBRAD
So you are saying Bully is better than Oblivion?
This list is so bad
Bruh Halo infinite isn’t even out yet and y’all just jumped the gun and made a game of 2021? Wtf lol
Was 1998 the best year for gaming? I’m leaning to a yes.
Mario?? Mario is not that good so not considered as GOTY
The thing I noticed most about these games was that RE4 was the only game my brother got into with me. Bully was the only game a girl I dated would play. Halo was the only game some of my friends would play endlessly. The great ones usually have something for everyone. God of War 2018 was incredible, but RDR2 is probably my favorite game ever.
Lol @ saying Crash was close to competing with Mario 64 at the time. Mario 64 was revolutionary; Crash’s learning curve was all over the place and its controls were horrible.
Great video will well considered and delivered opinions. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Oooof I can’t stand gta 3
Timesplitters 2 shits all over GTA.
Let’s cool the jets on calling BotW the best game of the 8th generation. I’m a huge Zelda fan, and I can name multiple games I enjoyed a bit more than BotW. There were times I actually got bored playing it and put it down for something else. Don’t give into the hype Scott.
No one:
Skyrim: it’s been a decade let’s release the same game again.
Objectively I can’t argue with Doom but my favorite game of 1993 was Shining Force 2. Still love to go back and play that
Quake III Arena? Wtf
Nah 2005: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Hands down.
This man loves his Nintendo… Especially when he puts Zelda over Metal Gear Solid, the game that started cinematic game stories… The worst take was putting Star Wars for 2003, man is smoking
We need a legacy of kain remake.
Titanfall 2 & Bully Shocked Me But I’m Happy 😂❤️ Personal Favs‼️
This list is just Rockstar Circlejerk: the video
skyrim was garbage compared to dark souls haha
I definitely think that Horizon Zero dawn should’ve been on there. It wasn’t even on anyone’s radar at the time, but man, probably top 5 game of the last 10 years.
I have no idea hap no FromSoft titles made it onto the list. But I agree with a lot of your list. Although No Mercy would have taken the spot you gave Tony Hawk pro skater 2
A good list for the most part but I would change a few either through preference or I haven’t played the game im replacing
94 – Tekken
97 – Goldeneye
06 – Gears Of War
07 – COD 4
08 – GTA 4
12- Borderlands 2
13 – GTA 5
19 – Star wars Jedi
21- Forza 5
2014 must be a very bad year, when a playable demo can be considered the best.
It would be nice to get a list from all of you at whatcultue games, especially Ewen ✌️
In no universe is Bully better than Gears Of War………
10:51 i’d personally substitute that one. No Grand Theft Auto IV. Yes Dead Space . . .
You had me on this list some games for some years I felt were more deserving to be here but I can easily see why those games were picked until you reached 2014 and selected P.T not that it wasn’t fun but it was just a demo, a demo for a game that never came out. You had Games like Far Cry 4, the new Wolfenstine series, Dark Souls and you picked a demo.
Good list, I agree with all but –
94 – FF6
98 – Half Life
99 – System Shock 2
2000 – Baldurs Gate II or FF9
06 – Oblivion
07 – Mario Galaxy
12 – Borderlands 2
14 – Divinity 1
16 – Uncharted 4
17 – Amazing year but for me it was between Zelda/Mario Odyssey and Divinity 2
18 – Red Dead 2
20 – Hades
21 – Psychonauts 2 (so far)
Great selections,thank you for the nostagalia trip
1991 was sonic’s year. ☹️
I’d put Dark Souls above Skyrim for 2011. It spawned a whole genre and arguably has a way bigger influence over modern gaming.
As a gamer since 1985, what a pleasant trip down memory lane.
Putting The Last of Us ahead of GTAV makes this list completely null and void
No Pokémon? 😂
Batman Arkham city was really the game of the year like 2011 was a good year for Batman
Titanfall 2 over Persona 5? Last of Us over GTA V? Tough sell
I gave it a like even though Metroid Prime couldnt even get a mention
My suggestions:
WarCraft II (1995)
Descent 2 (1996) – also: Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D
StarCraft (1998)
Baldur’s Gate II (2000) – but also Diablo 2
KOTOR (2003) – really difficult: Morrowind, WarCraft III, StarWars – Jedi Academy
Crysis (2007) – I think the actual game is still underrated and overshadowed by it’s graphical achievements
Doom (2016) – really really hard: Dark Souls III, Overwatch, Uncharted 4
Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)
God of War (2018) – 2018 had awesome games, like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Spiderman
Metro Exodus (2019)
Half-Life: Alyx (2020) – also Doom: Eternal, Last of Us Part 2, Mafia Definitive Edition
And yet I’m still missing games like:
Mass Effect, Command & Conquer, Half-Life, Vampire: The Masquerade, etc.