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2003 was a calmer year for me and from September we were exclusively playing Lost Dungeons of Norrath (Everquest expansion) which was awesome. It transformed the game from the regular, go sit somewhere and let the tank in the group pull mobs to your camp, to a dungeon crawl through a set of instanced dungeons for alternative XP rewards. (A second upgrade path with lots of great enhancements) It also added upgrade slots to items to make certain gear more powerful.
Yet I still made time to play Beyond Good & Evil in the holiday seasons, awesome game
But ultimately best kept in hindsight as I could not get into the remake years later. The final battle was a mean one as well, reversing the controls on you during the boss fight. Evil! Very varied game, loved it at the time.
Jak II was fun but very hard. I didn't complete the game until the ps3 collection where it felt a lot more playable. Bigger screen, better visibility? I struggled with the ps2 version and put it aside. In the collection I still had some trouble with the turret sections yet overall it was a much better balance between challenge and frustration. Screen size matters....
Midnight Club II got plenty love from me, fun open world racer
A remake with HDR would really shine nowadays. I always liked these better than NFS Underground.
SSX 3 continued the series with another great game. And playing it on PS2 I enjoyed it for its DTS surround sound.
It was so satisfying to fill up the trick bar, escalating the music track which played in awesome DTS surround.
Great game play with great music, music reacting to the gameplay, remake please.
I bought Star Wars Kotor as well, was looking forward to play it, but for some reason my GPU was not supported right and no matter what I tried, after the intro sequence the game crawled down to nearly a halt, running at 1-2 fps. No clue why as Flight Simulator and Everquest ran without issues, yet Kotor just wouldn't work in a playable state. A shame. I never got back to it later. It was the time when I started to get disillusioned by PC, all the issues starting to pile up over time while consoles provided smooth game play without any hassle. The 2000s started my shift from mainly playing new games on PC to mainly playing them on consoles. (Although in time measurement most our time still went to WoW from 2004 until 2007)
Mario Kart Double Dash is the Mario Kart game I played the most of the series. Great levels, looks awesome on GameCube
Call of Duty started this year and we all know where that went. For impact on the gaming landscape CoD should probably take this year. However I give it to my personal favorite of 2003, Prince of Persia The sands of time.
Great game play which was still just as good in the remaster(s). One of those games I enjoyed just as much if not more when playing it again later, which is rare for me. Usually I only play the first level out of nostalgia and then move on. Not PoP Sands of Time, just as good today as in 2003. (Still hoping for the remake to actually get finished https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/6rk3dzrT4ndn9ofFfZg4GV/an-update-on-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-remake )
Sadly the sequels had to be darker and edgy (Warrior Within, Two Thrones) and weren't as good, maybe also a reason why I still love the first one so much.
Decent year, bit of a lull between the greatness of 2002 and 2004. (HL2, GTA San Andreas, MGS3, Burnout 3 Takedown, Far Cry, Fable, Halo 2, UT2004, Paper Mario Thousand year door, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, Driv3r)
