Damn now here is a TOUGH question! Which video game should have won GOTY 1998?
I’ll go for Metal Gear Solid, the Resident Evil 2 then Half life! Ps also Tekken 3 might be one of the best fighting games of all time, we were spoiled in 1998!
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At the age I am now, it's Metal Gear Solid by a country mile.
At the age I was then, it was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, closely followed by Spyro.
nice pics! I agree MGS was just so far ahead of its time! Really deserves a fantastic remake / remaster , would be cool if Sony or someone would buy Konami and give the rights for MGS back to Kojima 👍
There are leaks suggesting the original will get a remake after Delta, but with how the Master Collection Vol. 1 port was at launch, I won't hold my breath.
I like the age I am now/then distinction!
Back then, i would have said Spyro, hands down. Got the remaster on PS4 a few years ago and it was like going straight back to being 10!
Now, I would say Starcraft - started my love for RTS games and still replay the whole thing every year or so.
Definitely a good point. Back then, it was Crash Bandicoot all the way for me (still a strong contender to be honest). Probably Fallout 2 now!
I've still yet to get around to Fallout 2, but it's on the (very long) list!
Cheers, I felt it was warranted because MGS was a little too difficult for me at six, but is one of my all-time favourite games today. Plus, it feels like a cheeky way to choose more than one.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. The only game I played from that year and for that time... it was a lot. It still is.
Great question, and what a ridiculous year that was.
I think the 'correct' answer is Half-Life, in terms of impact and legacy, but on a personal level it would be MGS.
Abe's Exoddus by a long way for me! Mind controlling your farts to make them explode?
Assuming that we're going by Western release dates and so Sonic Adventure doesn't qualify, my favourite game of 1998 is definitely Grim Fandango. I think it's by far my favourite of Tim Schafer's adventure games
How has there not been a single vote for Half-Life in the comments so far? 😲One of the most influential FPS titles in the history of video games! Surely someone should have voted for it by now?
Anyway, my pick is Abe's Exoddus 😁
Unreal Tournament hands down, I loved the "life" maps where you where tiny and running around a full-sized house, I used to hide in the vents sniping people.
Banjo-Kazooie for me. That game is such a core memory for me.
It was the first year I detasseled corn (which is a terrible job they give to kids 12 years old and up where you walk through corn and pull the tassels from the top of some rows) and my first check was ~$58 because we'd only worked one day that week. I talked my brother into helping me get to a K-mart to buy the game. He and one of his friends "borrowed" a car from another friend to get me over there. The car then broke down and a 20-minute trip turned into a 5-hour ordeal trying to get that car back before the friend noticed. I've not thought of that in years.
I'm going to throw in a curveball here and vote for Mario Party. Yes, in a year that gave us Half Life, MGS, and The Ocarina of Time, I realise I'm setting fire to my gamer credibility . But I just loved those mini-games so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Gml-AlyCY&ab_channel=Nintendo64Movies
Fallout 2, no doubt about it
Oh btw, those games from a pic, combined, could easily be 1500-2000 hours of my life
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