1993, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

bdbdbd said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Actually, I am not sure about 1996, because there is more than one strong contender that year.  I would bet money on the winner of 1998 though, and I haven't even played the game.

I was thinking 1998 having much more competition than 1996. In 1998 we had Resident Evil 2, Pokemon Yellow, Starcraft, Ocarina of Time. Then again, 1996 had Pokemon R/G, Quake, Super Mario 64, Red Alert and Master of Orion 2. Assuming the Nintendo games win their years, Zelda- and Mario fans will be split between 2D and 3D games, whereas it's really hard to see any FPS that could really challenge Doom - unless there's the N64 kids with Goldeneye voting.

Golden Eye was 1997 though and up against Age of Empires, Total Annihilation, Fallout, Blade Runner, Dungeon Keeper, Riven, Quake 2, Tomb Raider 2, Curse of Monkey Island, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and a little game called FF7. Yeah it will likely be a battle between Golden Eye and FF7, PC has too many choices!

So yeah, definitely not certain Golden Eye ends up in the gotd poll. Which Doom shouldn't win anyway, so much better came out after!

1998 will be a tough one, Half-Life vs Metal Gear Solid vs Ocarina of Time. Again PC will be split as 98 also birthed Baldur's gate, Thief, Star Craft, Unreal, Grim Fandango and many more. Consoles also had competition though with Banjo Kazooie, Spyro, Heart of Darkness, Wario Land 2, Xenogears, 1080 Snowboarding and more.

1996 has a lot of options as well, the 90s were stacked.