m0ney on 11 July 2014
I have to go with 1998 - thanks to insane tech progress a ton of groundbreaking PC games were released and new genres were born. The FPS genre alone was taken to another level(s) with the holy trinity of Unreal - Half-Life - Thief. I just checked 10 of my top 30 games were released in 1998 +/- 2 years.
Deus Ex (2000) - a game that pushes the boundaries of what the video game medium is capable of to a degree unmatched to this very day.
