2004, Runoff for Game of the Year

[Bofferbrauer2]

SvennoJ said:

S.Peelman said:

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.

Damn, I thought Tropico released much earlier than that. Would have gotten into my top 5 otherwise.

Loved the first one, the second one was weird and i's difficulty went from easy-peasy directly to impossible with little in-between, the third one was wayyy too easy due to the introduction of oil, haven't played the fourth one and only had a quick look at the fifth.

Either way, I'll go with HL2 in the runoff

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 07 November 2023