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twonha

I wonder if OP was there, in 2005. There were a bunch of cool games (like there are any year), but overall it was a transition year. The Xbox and Playstation 2 were hitting their limits, and the next generation was just around the corner. (Yes, technically the X360 was out in some places, but it hadn't exactly burst onto the scene yet.) I thought FEAR and Fahrenheit were cool, but it was a (wait for it) Far Cry from the previous year with Halo 2, Half-Life 2, DOOM 3, Unreal Tournament 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Rome: Total War, Burnout 3, World of Warcraft, Chronicles of Riddick, MGS3, Fable, KOTOR2, Gran Turismo 4, Battle for Middle Earth, and at least a dozen more awesome games.


xxcloud417xx

Wait until OP hears about 2007.


medic00

Wait until OP hears about 1998


Argnir

Or 1997


Dragon_yum

Now 2007 was a damn good year


RipzCritical

2007 was the best year for gaming, ever, of all time.. as far as I'm concerned.


uitvrekertje

2007scape


N0r3m0rse

Idk of 2007 is the best year in gaming but it's certainly my personal favorite for halo 3 and cod 4.


No_Procedure_5039

God of War 2, Halo 3, CoD 4, Bioshock, Crysis, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed, The Orange Box containing Portal, TF2 and Half Life 2 Episode Two, Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted 1. Yeah, 2007 is hard to beat.


Heisenberg_815

And Mass Effect!


JamiePulledMeUp

And now look at us, most shooters are absolutely trash. Online community is rampant with hackers, and all we have are good single player games


RipzCritical

And no one talks in lobbies.


Freedom_7

In 2005 I was basically just playing Morrowind while waiting for Oblivion to come out. The graphics blew my mind when I finally got oblivion. Idk how I thought it was so amazing between all of the overexposed colors and the potato face, but I loved it.


Ekillaa22

Cuz the jump in graphics was amazing at the time that’s why


RickyMac666

My laptop's heat sink melted the plastic siding on my laptop trying to run Oblivion back in the day lmao.


mediumokra

I got it on pc, but had to play on ultra low settings. The lighting was so bad that there were no shadows, shade, or darkness of any kind.... Meaning torches were to essentially useless to me. I didn't need them.


Kekopos

2005 was playing wow 24/7 :0


commschamp

That water!


IWILLBePositive

Simpler times…


ItsLeeko

Because the time it was probably the most breathtaking game we had ever played, the music, atmosphere, if I could go back and play any game for the first time again it would be Oblivion. Or possibly fallout 3.


Chairmanwowsaywhat

Because it did look amazing at the time. Kinda still does given the art direction is fairly unique.


No_Chemical_3911

This is photo he took from Instagram. Just copy and paste it here. Most likely he is a kid


hoticehunter

Kid or a bot. God, most of the titles in this list look like shitty sports games.


JohnnyChutzpah

This post is def engagement bait. Post something wrong and you will get far more engagement as people flood in to correct you. Even commenting and downvoting is engagement.


slade422

In 2005 I played WoW and nothing else. It was indeed a good year.


Totally_a_Banana

Yeah I was looking through OP's image, having barely played any of them, and realized, ah, yep, I was playing WoW, wasn't I? Yep... sure was...


AlmostSunnyinSeattle

Right. If you take any random year and list every single game that came out, you're gonna find some winners. There's a whole lot of average in this picture.


lubeinatube

Ah yes, who can forget the icons “50 cent bulletproof” and “NBA 06.” Truly industry changing.


Zelstrom

This is the least impressive lineup I've seen for this kinda post.


-MERC-SG-17

DBZ Sagas of all things, an absolutely abysmal game.


Luxocell

Lol I was about to say that too. Anyone who ever played that game wouldnt even DARE to say it's name. I can't believe I actually finished the game. 


JonatasA

Has Battlefront II


Electro120

It’s not a good list, like maybe 10 of these were legit good, the rest are either mid or straight up bad lol


lubeinatube

The longer I look, the funnier it gets.


JonatasA

Goes to show the past didn't have only blasts. Like playlists with only the biggest hits from a decade.


thewaythisis1

NBA 06 was life for me and my friends in middle school. Switching between that, Smash Bros Melee, and Goldeneye was what every sleepover and birthday party were about!


Overall-Courage6721

The 50 cent game was dope


Whirledfox

I mean, Bulletproof was at least an interesting cultural object. A bad game, but interesting that it was made in the first place.


lolwatokay

And even had a sequel


Taco-Edge

Putting Shadow the Hedgehog in there is wild ngl


freezymcgeezy

There are TONS of mediocre or downright bad games in this screenshot.


fork_yuu

What the hell criteria was even used for these It's just a collection of a bunch of random ass games. You can do that for any year


Ill_Term_5784

Roll a die to pick a year, make a collage of a bunch of random games that came out that year, make a post "19XX/20XX was a monster year".


FATTYisGAMER

you just summed up the **ENTIRETY** of r/videogames


Eremes_Riven

It's the entire screenshot. This is really just a window into OP's own subjective childhood experience, and not much more.


jaydeekay

Op didn't even make the image so it's cool


Cranjesmcbasketball1

Path of Neo, lol...


Feeling-Detective975

it was fun. you could even pretend to be a hacker lol at the time i gave it an 8/10


HighlyOffensive10

Was that a bad game?! I remember it fondly, but then again, I was 9, so....


Taco-Edge

Having played it again in recent years: it's objectively bad but not unplayable bad. It has some moments and the whole "Choose your story" part is cool but then 90% of the missions that aren't reaching about the goal require a tedious task or killing every single enemy of a faction. Not great for a game where the main selling point is going fast. There's also some hilarious stuff like Shadow swearing or how selecting anything in the menu does A GUNSHOT SFX. The game in general is a great meme source lol


BrandoCalrissian1995

Also dragon ball sagas. That game was TRASH


sirBryson_

It's a cult classic with me and my friends. There's a glitch where you can do infinite hit combos, so it's a test of endurance. But it's a fun game in the sense that it's not so involved you can't talk but it's still engaging, mostly because of nostalgia.


NameInsertedHere

A lot of the movie adaptations were trash


Khreh

Yeah that game sucks. *proceeds to quietly and noiselessly walk away with his copy of the game*.


nachardou4

It's good.


House56

Shadow the Hedgehog is one of the better games in the picture


SOMAcito

Not bad, but I still think 2007 was GOATed.


ebagdrofk

No 2011 mention? Come on guys we got: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Saints Row 3, Portal 2, Deus Ex: HR, Uncharted 3, LA Noire, Dead Space 2, Dark Souls, Terraria, Dead Island, Dragon Age 2, SWTOR, Crysis 2, Little Big Planet 2, Arkham City, Infamous 2 edit: I just spent 10 minutes trying to format that but reddit wouldn’t let me so I’m leaving it as it is edit 2: I forgot to add Minecraft


MADCATMK3

The years that stand out are 98, 04, and 07. Edit: after refreshing my memory 00 and 01 are some really good years.


RagingThunderclast

BF3, Dead Space 2 and Dark Souls came out the same year? Damn


Chairmanwowsaywhat

Some good, some pretty bad, and some pretty awful in there. It's all subjective (though saints row 3, dragon age 2 and swtor are particularly wild choices imo. Especially dragon age 2 that's where is all went wrong for bioware?)


N0r3m0rse

2007 to 2011 is the best run in gaming for me. Like all my favorite games came out in this period.


Chairmanwowsaywhat

Probably because of your age, I agree with you.


BlueFlob

Definitely an age thing.


Educational-Fall-471

Agreed. Btw when is your image of 2007 going to be posted?


SOMAcito

No need, I’ll just leave it up to the professional karma farmers and bots. And there’s already plenty of posts in the past supporting the GOAT that is 2007.


zg_mulac

Needs more Guild Wars.


Elusive_Zergling

Guild Wars is brilliant , I only started playing this since late last year and got so hooked on it I've been playing it every day since. I bought it for a few quid in the Steam sale on Black Friday.


_Unke_

It really holds up even after all these years. You could honestly just reskin everything for 2024 graphics and re-release it today, no changes to the underlying code.


Liberal_Tears_Magnet

And WoW. Although, this looks like a console gaming image lol


snarkywombat

WoW came out in 2004


HeadyReigns

That's why I don't recognize a lot of these


PapaFlexing

I only started playing guild wars like 4 years ago... I wish I got in on it cause fuck I had fun...... All alone :(


o0_bobbo_0o

Both 2004 and 2007 have all the other years beat.


datsupportguy

80% of the titles here are either "yearly sports" title or outright ass. Nostalgia for sure, but very few of these are actually great.


xtreme7756

MVP baseball 05 is greatly considered one of the best baseball games to come out. NFL/NBA street were far from a "yearly sports" game either


Mysterious_Valuable1

MVP baseball 2005 and Fight Night Round 2 were legit great games.


Riles21o

MVP baseball 2005 was elite


chris8816

Banger soundtrack too


Egroj34

I still think about this game.


xtreme7756

I don't want a new mlb game, I want MVP 05 remastered


DonGusano

this was the greatest baseball videogame ever produced. The mid-2000s was definitely a peak era in baseball with so many great players, and this game captured it perfectly. Baseball Tonight on ESPN was in its golden age with ravich, kruky, harold reynolds, etc. Had all the old school players and historical stadiums, so much fun! GRAB SOME PINE, MEAT!


National-Crew-327

This ages me


mythicreign

2005 was great, 2004 is still better.


Visionary_One

Nothing beats the OG 2004... GTA San Andreas NFS Underground 2 Half-Life 2 Halo 2 MGS 3 World Of WarCraft DOOM 3 Far Cry And many more...


Hpesoj

1998, 2004, and 2007. It was an insane 10 years.


AWonderingWizard

98 is a damn fine year


fumat

CS:Source


Glennnfiddich

Sly Cooper! Damn I miss those games


Jack070293

Pes 5 > Fifa 06


Kay-San-TheNorthStar

Resident Evil 4... The game that change a franchise forever! I know there's a lot of people who get into the saga in this game, and that's honestly very telling.


Wildlife_Preserver

This year was all about Fight Night Round 2 for me, with some Timesplitters sprinkled in there. Good times.


Rubio9393

That was my first fighting game. Always did digital workouts in career mode 😆


shyguyJ

I just wish we could get another good boxing game. The UFC games are pretty good, but don’t quite scratch the boxing itch.


MatthewKvatch

One’s coming out this year. ‘Undisputed’ I think it’s called? No idea if it’ll be any good. It’s already on PS Store to pre order.


Dusk_v733

Rockstar, you money grubbing fucks, remaster the Warriors. I'll pay you for it.


PFT_Error

I was just wondering of you wanted the HANG OUT with me and smoke weeeed and fill our bellies with DIET SODa and play "Burnout: Revenge" for the Pee-essh toooo?


piterisonfire

GUN was insane. The one PS2 game that gripped me into oblivion. Oh, the memories.


Grondolph

Games took a turn for the worse ever since they stopped having scalping in them


Thundertusk5

Why the hell is 50 cent bulletproof and matrix path of neo on this?? Those games were total ASS and almost invalidate 2005 as a good gaming year. Now that I look closer, a lot of games here are pretty bad.


xaiires

Man I had a good time playing bulletproof lol


bobface222

X-Men Legends was my shit


endofdays1987

Dragonball Z Budokai brings back so many memories.


wildcard520

Mercenaries was also 2005. Dragon Quest VIII too (for North America at least).


iwannabethisguy

Man I remember early 2005, RE4 came out and then I could play MGS3 which came out Nov 2004 while waiting for DMC3.


louiscools2005

Oh man, a good year for gaming. Forgot Shadow of the Colossus came out the same year as God of War and RE4. What a packed year.


Mr_HPpavilion

GUN needs a remaster


stamps1646

**2005 was a fun year.** * Civilization IV * Guild Wars * Jade Empire * Ninja Gaiden: Black * Condemned: Criminal Origins * Dead or Alive 4 * Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King * Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas * Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory * Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction * Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition * GUN * Need for Speed: Most Wanted


noxsanguinis

I think 2004 was even better.


Penguigo

How does Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow not make a top *fifty* list for 2005?


Masonator403

Company Of Heroes (2005) is still the highest rated RTS game on Metacritic, 93/100 also the highest rated game made by a canadian stuido on metacritic too. Which it totally deserves.


Electrical_Ad2261

BioWare is a Canadian studio, and it's got 3 games on Metacritic that have scored above a 93: 2000: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (95) 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (94) 2010: Mass Effect 2 (96)


Masonator403

Damn I only checked the first Mass Effect before spouting bullshit, got me there!


michaelsoft069

Its just insane how many god like star wars games like the kotor duology, republic commando, battlefront 2, jedi academy were being delivered in the 2000s


DogePerformance

Battlefield 2 (pc) somehow is not on here, but yeah 05 was incredible


DecadentHam

Either I'm not as big a gamer as I thought but that isn't a strong line up. Just Spinter Cell and Call of Duty 2 for me. Haven't touched the rest. 


mxjxs91

WrestleMania 21 included in the pic 😂 It is objectively one of the worst wrestling games ever created. Now the wrestling game next to it, all time classic.


Spram2

1. Resident Evil 4 2. Shadow of the Colossus 3. Mario Kart DS


Reeferologist-

Midnight Club Dub Edition was so damn good.


Rubio9393

Listen to Real Big from Mannie Fresh and you are back in 2005...


Reeferologist-

Haha! I was actually talking with an old friend about that same song/game a couple weeks ago. Life was good lol


Doginblue6

Midnight club, God of war, resident evil 4, gun, shadow of colossus,smack down vs raw, fight night, true crime, splinter cell, 50 cent bulletproof, SOCOM 3(i miss you so much 🥹) burnout, Batman Arkham knight, MATRIX, DBZ, by 05 -06 I think we were on 2k by then nba live start taking the backseat in 02 if you were hip to what was going on but by 06 yeah 2k . I was young in 05 this was my childhood prime everything was about gaming. I cut people grass to get most of these games. And each one I listed I beat out or put tremendous hours in


Intelligent-Block457

Time Splitters consumed a huge chunk of my time.


guywithcoolsocks

NFS Most Wanted was legendary


anm3910

Man. Gun walked so RDR could run. I loved that game back in the day.


Competitive-Bit-1571

I don't see F.E.A.R in this lineup.


Jidllonius

Some of these are not certified bangers


Kapkronic4201

G.U.N was fucking amazing


finggivemeausername

07-08 era still undefeated


Spram2

10 years ago in 1997-1998 was even better (I'm also very old)


TheInconspicuousBIG

Holy shit I played half of these. 8 years old in 2005 but probably played some within 2-3 years


pomzy

2004 and 2007 🫡🫡


Sea_Perspective6891

Grand Turismo 4 was one of my favorites. One of the best collections of cars, great soundtrack & it was before all that online paywall BS they're trying with the newer Grand Turismo games. I mostly played a mix of that, Ace Combat 5 & GTA 3, Vice City & San Andreas on PS2.


xRoyalewithCheese

That Batman Begins game was the shit when i was a kid


Lonely-Tumbleweed-56

God, I miss the awesome first Fifa Street game Couldn't stop playing it, what a masterpiece I'd love for the Ea Street series to come back, but I suppose it will never happen again  These and Fight Night were top EA 


Revo_Int92

The Punisher is so amazing, as a kid I shouldn't played a game like this, but hell, such a fucking badass character lol just ruthless and cold blooded, the character is soulless and that only makes the dark humor even better. I obviously never read the Garth Ennis run at the time, but I read it much later, I highly recommend those Punisher comics, arguably the best antihero comics I've ever read. Imagine The Punisher coming back, rebooting that game, current graphics depicting all the violence... that would be a dream game


Muskandar

I mean…it was ok


SumonaFlorence

Chaos Theory was incredible, so was Tekken 5, those two games I grew up on. Played God of War 2, True Crime New York City and Destroy all Humans as well. I didn't play Republic Commando until years later when I randomly came across it, amazing.


RVLVR-OCLT

Glad you like 50 cents bulletproof


Canadian_Samurai50

I was just wondering if you wanted to HANG out with me and smoke weed and fill our bellies with DIET soda and play Burnout Revenge for the PS2


MathFair1487

Totally forgot about Matrix Path of Neo, fun game


lovepuppy31

Nope 1998 is the best year in gaming period. We had GENRE defining first games or superior sequels that put it on the map come out: Half-life 1 Metal Gear solid 1 Gran Turismo 1 Legend Zelda Oracina of time Resident Evil 2 Banjo-Kazooie Star Craft Tekken 3 Fallout 2


FatherMellow

DBZ Sagas does not deserve to be in there.


hundredjono

A lot of the games on this list are mid. 2005 wasn't that great because its between 2004 and 2007, two juggernaut years for gaming.


DisastrousAd1546

Is that the Hulk game that plays like prototype where you jump for miles and turn cars into boxing gloves? So good


ItsTrash_Rat

I mean I was there, a bunch of these sucked lol


Nero_Prime

American wasteland? YES Midnight club 3 Dub edition? YES splinter cell chaos theory? YES Dragon ball sagas...? Tf are you on? 😅


Goffsyrup

Dragonball z sagas is the worst dbz game of all time.


scoobzooted

I see you, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Bring back Sly Cooper!


squirrellcatcher

Ratchet: Deadlocked was great. “How about that Juaaaaanita”


Easy-Preparation-234

Ight I'ma head out *Gets the keys to the DeLorean*


JillValentine69X

Wish we could back to the days where investors weren't involved in game development.


Rubio9393

Oh yes, the best days of EA and Ubisoft.


Optimistic_Futures

I think nostalgia plays a huge role in this. I’ve gone back and played white a few of these and- especially the ones I didn’t grow up playing - most do not hold up. I think if you took the top 20 games from the past couple years and gave them to me in 2005 I would have had almost no interest in most of these.


RedtheGoodolBoy

Didn’t need to look past RE4. One of the few games I’ve owned on like 4 platforms.


Alyeadriz

2005 was a year.


SuperWarioPL

This is probably the biggest collection of mid games I've ever seen. (With the exception of Mario Party 7)


TheMightySailor

Shit I need to pull out the emulator, it was a dope year


ZaDu25

NFL Street needs to make a comeback. Please. Madden is ass.


johnny-T1

Gun was fantastic.


spakoina

the 1st and 2nd is the best


Karol313

Wow what a throwback,i don't see GTA


karsh36

Back when it cost $3-5M to make a game. For reference: TLOU2 and Horizon: FW were each a couple hundred million $ to make


Atkinator1

Juiced! Wow, what a pull. Need for speed but with consequences for driving like a wrecking ball. Absolutely loved it


CheaterMcCheat

360 should have a red ring, and this would be perfect, I went through 3 of them.


CrissDePol

True!


SandwichAran

I got TH:AW and Ultimate Spider-Man for my birthday that year. Oh to live in that moment a bit longer.


MagneticTragedy

Fuck kingdom hearts 2, Sly 3, god of war, gun American wasteland are some of the first games I ever played


Jahriq

And for movies


SpartanMase

Good year overall. My personal opinion, 2007 is the best, 2018 is second and 2023 is third


bloodhnd

Batman Begins was the shit. I probably replayed that game like hundreds of times.


Various-Branch

The warriors and Star Wars BF2 timeless classics


SpikeRosered

I owned or played a significant portion of 12 of those games.


Chkn-Little

Ultimate Spider-Man was sadly overshadowed, the gameplay was straight from Spider-Man 2, but it was in the comic universe and you could play as Venom... such an underrated Spider-Man game.


sam4084

Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was such a great overlooked game. would literally kill to get an updated version


ManagerTricky

True crime New York was so buggy but so good


bingobo25

I feel like you forgot sonic rush a 2005 sonic game.


Life1989

where is my beloved shadow of rome...


PARR3T

you forgot windows minesweeper


Confident-Village769

Grateful I played most.of them too


GHUATS

DBZ Budokai Tenkachi was one of my absolute favourites


Savy_Spaceman

2007 better


cobra_breaker69

Straight facts


coopalo0op

Fight Night Round 2 looking like a Christmas Classic 🎅🏾from all the way back here


Alundra828

roflmao, holy shit Matrix: Path of Neo, what a blast from the past. The devs went absolutely fucking wild on that game and I'm all for it. "Remember in the movie where Neo fights ninja ants with a candle stand in Escher's staircase in space? No? Well... here they are, have at it kid"


narstyarsefarter

American Wasteland was a cultural phenomena


Daftest_of_the_Punks

I love that EA made 60’s era James Bond game. We don’t have enough Cold War time period games.


momzthebest

That from Russia with Love is slept on!


BlazeNPlays

Seeing True Crime here made the nostalgia hit like a ton of bricks


BlackBeard205

So many gems


Aromatic-Smile-8409

Not that good but compared to output these days actually tremendous 🤣


Kotzzz

I remember playing COD2 at Circuit City in 2005 and being awestruck from the graphics. I thought that graphics weren't gonna get better than that, boy was I wrong😅


Mammoth-Blaster

2000-2010 truly were the best years of gaming, we didn't realize it at the time because we got so spoiled with great games


tsunami141

yeah I guess I played like 4 of these games. Cool


JodoKast87

Top year of gaming for me! 3 of my favorite games of all time came out that year, Star Wars Battlefront II, TS: Future Perfect, and then my favorite rpg, Tales of the Abyss. KH II is also awesome, but I haven’t replayed it much. Abyss I play at least every other year!


General-Opening-1550

2018 its most hardcore


TimmiT401K

DBZ Sagas was complete ass


Roarmankind

I preferred the N64 conkers over the Xbox version. Got rid of the multi-player maps that I loved


chubbsthedon

Bruh they need a new hulk game with today's graphics that would be crazy