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Ka-pi96 said:
kristianity77 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

False. I played it at the time and had no problems with the controls at all.


Fair enough, I'll just disregard the literally hundreds of articals around the net rubbishing the controls of the early 3D versions of GTA....

Or maybe you should stop making false assumptions about what 'all' people think...


Hang on, you played it "at the time" and you thought the controls were fine.  You were what....9?  



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VGPolyglot said:

In 2014, the highest-rated game of the year (not including rereleases or American releases that came out a different year from the Japanese release) according to Metacritic was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, with a score of 92. However, there were 15 games that reached that number in 2001, with the same criteria:

 

  1. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (PS2) - 97
  2. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2) - 97
  3. Halo: Combat Evolved (XB) - 97
  4. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2) - 96
  5. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2) - 95
  6. Devil May Cry (PS2) - 94
  7. Madden NFL 2002 (PS2) - 94
  8. Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA) - 93
  9. NBA 2K2 (DC) - 93
  10. NHL 2002 (PS2) - 92
  11. SSX Tricky (PS2) - 92
  12. Advance Wars (GBA) - 92
  13. Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC) - 92
  14. Final Fantasy X (PS2) - 92
  15. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64) - 92
So, will this year, or any year, ever be able to manage this?

 

Damn, PS2 kicked fucking asses back in the day.



guiduc said:
VGPolyglot said:

In 2014, the highest-rated game of the year (not including rereleases or American releases that came out a different year from the Japanese release) according to Metacritic was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, with a score of 92. However, there were 15 games that reached that number in 2001, with the same criteria:

 

  1. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (PS2) - 97
  2. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2) - 97
  3. Halo: Combat Evolved (XB) - 97
  4. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2) - 96
  5. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2) - 95
  6. Devil May Cry (PS2) - 94
  7. Madden NFL 2002 (PS2) - 94
  8. Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA) - 93
  9. NBA 2K2 (DC) - 93
  10. NHL 2002 (PS2) - 92
  11. SSX Tricky (PS2) - 92
  12. Advance Wars (GBA) - 92
  13. Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC) - 92
  14. Final Fantasy X (PS2) - 92
  15. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64) - 92
So, will this year, or any year, ever be able to manage this?

 

Damn, PS2 kicked fucking asses back in the day.


Not denying it.  Holiday 2001, the Gamecube an Xbox launched and Sony had some big guns waiting to shoot them down.  A lot of the games in the op were multiplat, though.



BMaker11 said:
VGPolyglot said:

Yeah, there was definitely a sports game craze going on back then.

This was when sports games didn't suck. They acctually put work into the games instead of just releasing the same game with updated rosters.


Pssh, I played the crap out of all the NBA 2K games on Dreamcast (and even PS2). Those games were updated just as incrementally as they are today.



2004 and 2005 were just as jam packed imo. I hope we do have another year like that, but I don't see it happening for a long time.



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Max Payne, Roque Squadron II, Silent Hill 2.. 2001 was a great year



 

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NiKKoM said:
Max Payne, Roque Squadron II, Silent Hill 2.. 2001 was a great year

Yeah, it's probably my favourite year.



2000 was my favourite.

Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask
Perfect Dark
Deus Ex
Diablo 2
Jet Set Radio
Shenmue
Baldur's Gate 2
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
The Sims
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
SSX
Paper Mario
WWF Smackdown
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Skies of Arcadia
Grandia 2
Vagrant Story
Chrono Cross
Banjo Tooie
Colin McRae 2.0
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
etc. etc. etc.

2001 sucked in comparison :p



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Zelda OoT and Xenogears

those two games put all other game ever released to shame :)



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I have some faith that 2016 is gonna be a huge year, if we get God of War and Horizon on top of GT7 and Uncharted 4. XB1 of course has Scalebound, Quantum Break, and Crackdown. Wii-U has Zelda U. Then of course there's all the crazy multi plats like Mad Max, and so on. I doubt there's gonna be as many 90+ games, but it's still gonna be an awesome year nonetheless.



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