MY BRAIN HAD A THINK ABOUT A GAM3

Its also the Ace Attorney series' 20th anniversary. They had a bunch of stuff at the Capcom store - I bought a nice mug.

No picture of the mug?

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Out of that list on the previous page I really want play through some of them at some point this year.

The ones I've fully finished before but still want to replay:

Resident Evil 2
The House of the dead
Tekken 3

Played but never finished fully:

Radiant Silvergun
Banjo-Kazooie
F-Zero X
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Never played:

1080 Snowboarding (should be out soon on NSO expansion)

Thankfully I own 5 of the 8 games there so it'll just be a case of fitting them alongside new games.

Tekken 3 and Tekken 2 got so much play out of me as a kid; unlocked like every character, went whole hog. Bangers.

That's a cracking bit of artwork with Phoenix and Edgeworth there. Good purchase!

Aye that's a belter!

It’s a tie between 1998 and 2001 for the best year in gaming. 1998 was just loaded with absolute belters on the N64 and PlayStation (and maybe PC, I don’t know?). As well as everything on that list, it’s twenty-five years since the UK releases of Klonoa, Kula World, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and MediEvil on the PSone, and probably loads more.

Then there’s WCW/NWO Revenge on the N64, which deserves its own paragraph.

I'll need to dig out the GNamer Forum tenth anniversary mug, namely the mug that andyman got me one Secret Santa with a comedy boabby drawn on it.

2007 I still think is the best year.

That mug is absolute quality. I've got an Ace Attorney mug of my own, and it's rubbish compared to that. I love the Maya/Franzy faces!

Anniversaries... I guess as somebody who does nostalgia less than most others, it probably makes sense that they mean less to me. 25 feels like such an awkward one as well. The best year in (Nintendo) gaming? 2017 and it isn't even close.

1998 is probably the correct answer. Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time - that's arguably the best game on each platform.

I would vouch for 2004, as it had some of my favourites (Burnout 3, Outrun 2, Paper Mario: TTYD, Pikmin 2, Ninja Gaiden) and stuff everyone else loved (Metal Gear Solid 3, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2, San Andreas and The Sims 2).

Panzer Dragoon Saga on Saturn as well, unsure about handhelds.

Though if just Nintendo 1998 better than 2017 because OoT over that other Zelda.

Balladeer wrote:

The best year in (Nintendo) gaming?  2017 and it isn't even close.

You’re too quick to dismiss a year which saw the release of Dual Heroes and Cruis’n USA on the same day.

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2004 would maybe have been one of my shouts for the worst year in gaming. I know that’s mental when you read the games gjones lists and you see on Metacritic what it’s best rated games were, but I just remember as being a really unexciting time to be a Nintendo gamer. The GameCube was struggling, it was hardly in any of the shops and quality releases were drying up. The GBA was past it’s peak and everyone was looking ahead to the DS and it’s 2005 launch. There was no such thing as the Revolution either and none it’s rumours, or any glimmer of what would become the Wii. 2004 was definitely the year in which I did the least gaming. I think I even stopped buying NGC.

2017 might take the silver medal for ‘Best Gaming Year’ over 2001, but I can vaguely remember times when it was all quiet for new and interesting releases. Strange as it is to look back on, but there was definitely a period where publishers and developers were a bit dubious of the Switch and it’s potential – maybe that’s why it’s first three months were just launch games, Wii U ports and a version of Street Fighter II with a £40 price tag.

Well who am I to argue with the might of sds.co.uk?

There was a fair bit of Wii U-y material around, but the year had my top two games of all time (and my 25th, and a spruce-up of my eighth). That's ridiculous. It even had the odd 3DS bright spot!

I don't remember as far back as 2004.

I think I'd go for 2017 as well. The Switch had a cracking first year - I don't remember the Wii U ports dominating the release schedule until the next year - and that's not even including the likes of Persona 5 and Nier Automata releasing elsewhere.