Can 2017 be crowned as the best year in gaming already?

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
This is definitely the best year of gaming for me. I'll wait to say it's the best year ever though since I've only extensively played Breath of the Wild, Horizon and Sonic Mania.

I will say this though. Those that are automatically going to 1998 are probably adhering to the pedestal those classic games have been put on. Shit like Mario Party, Yoshi's Story, Starcraft 1, Rainbow 6, Pokemon Yellow, Tomb Raider 3, all feel like just adding games for the sake of a list. It's easy to make a list of games for just about any year and pass it off as the best. Most of those games are not considered the best in their series, in fact the first Mario Party and Yoshi's Story are outclassed by a lot of games in their franchise and Tomb Raider 3 was never as beloved as 2 from what I can tell. Especially Rainbow 6 ... that's a series where the fanbase now only seems to care about 3 because the series of games from the early 2000's are just so much better.

Compare that to 2017 where most of the games are at the very least titles that will stand up for years, and at best are considered the best or among the best in their franchise. Sonic Mania, Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Persona 5 etc. Of course, stuff like this happened in 1998 too with things like Ocarina of Time. But I think the median games of 2017 are probably better as a whole than 1998, just looking at gameplay and reception. Of course, best games of all time is a paradox, since time isn't ending yet and as such we'll never have a definitive best year list.

Did you just say Starcraft was added just for the sake of the list? Starcraft? You could argue that is the biggest game of that year and alongside Doom, probably the decade. Starcraft? Seriously? That is a terrible take.