2004, Runoff for Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

S.Peelman said:

Jpcc86 said:

See, this is what a stacked year looks like, not like the previous 3 years.

I dont know. This is a though one for me. Im biased so im gonna vote WOW because I loved it. Best mmorpg there ever was. There no denying its influence and on a personal level it gave some good years of fun. 

It's funny how that works. I would say the opposite. After a little under a decade, this is the start of a rather uninteresting period. A 'dark age', if you will.

Yeah RTS kinda died in 2004, I can't think of a single one I enjoyed after. Well I enjoyed Tethered, for the novelty of it being in VR.
Tycoon games also died, should have stuck to isometric views. RCT3 was indeed awful. Didn't look as good as RCT2 and ran terrible, next to adding the complication of building in 3D. Simulation games kept adding more and more complexity instead of more fun.

One series I did enjoy more of was Tropico, until the 4th one I think. Yep I have 52 hours on Tropico 3, 51 hours on Tropico 4 according to Steam.
Civilization I enjoyed until the 5th one, 65 hours on Civ 5, and another 29 hours on Beyond Earth. Peanuts compared to the many years I played the first Civilization.

That's all my strategy gaming since 2003.