2000, Game of the Year

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Mnementh said:

The 2000s was the time I slowly fell off gaming as I did in the 90s. I came not back until the Wii roped me back in. But for 2000 I still played some of these games. Mostly the sequels: Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II. Another great game and probably underappreciated gem is American McGee's Alice. Majora's Mask I only played many years later once I was back into gaming and on console for the first time.

Anyways, I am going with Diablo II here, it improved the formula more than BGII and was overall a really fun game. Sadly I feel it lost a bit of the atmosphere of the first game, but I think more than the first game Diablo II is the blueprint for the genre with many, many games we see still until today.

Diablo II is still one of those Blizzard games I haven't tried yet (along with Warcraft III) even though I really liked the first Diablo.  Later I played a demo of Diablo III and I just couldn't get into it.  I think I'd like Diablo II though, and I've definitely heard lots of praise for it.