Yeah but the worrying thing is that a lot of such explosive progress has slowed down a lot. Innovation is slow. New discoveries take far more effort to make. In any field not just gaming.
Exactly this. My fiancee is 5 years younger and once said the PS3 and 360 era was the craziest jump. Mario 64 was my exact response. Honorable mention to Doom though I was real young for that one.
I remember seeing and playing it first at a Walmart. I almost couldn’t believe it was real. Also I couldn’t control Mario well cause I griped both sides of the controller.
From 1990 to 2020 in a span of 30 years technology really and I mean REALLY CHANGED. I wish technology was a bit more simpler. 2015-2017 or 2015-2016 were the simplest years for me atleast.
@@DoctorHouse999 still can’t believe pikmin 2 didn’t win 2008 GOTY, and especially pikmin 3 in 2015. Pikmin 3 brought the franchise to heights Nintendo never even imagined
A lot of these games, even the really old ones, I still play today. Goes to show how incredible they are and were, and how they were so far ahead of their time.
When you consider how kotor looked(not saying kotor is a bad game but defo sated visuals) half life 2 even today with its really lively facial animations and flexible game engine was miles ahead of its time.
I think that's because 1999 was the time where Dreamcast was successful (SEGA) and that system was almost as powerful as the PS2 and could allow far better graphics than the N64
If the whole video is your childhood, then you're more than 40 years old. 40s isn't being a child, as far as I know, so it's technically not your childhood. Childhood would be like, I don't know, 15 years of these? Think about it.
*condition zero???* lmao, did u forget that *source* came out in the same year? 😂🤦♂️ i mean... cz isnt that bad, but considering source showed us that valve could make a great fps game from '04 (with gameplay and graphics, unlike cz with the latter), cz should not even be considered here. yeah, cz had campaign whilst source didn't, but the fact that cs is more pvp, rather than a pve fps, doesnt make it any better... and the fact that cz's campaign ended up in "deleted scenes" shows us why (and ive played some of the missions, trust me, the map layouts for some missions are so confusing and there is little or nothing to tell you where to go at some stages... it deserves to be in the "deleted scenes"). it just shows that cz was not up to the standards of '04. 🤷♂️
try World of Warcraft ;) ....THATS what made 2004 a year... not these other games theyare classics....WoW was an evolution. Which then devolved from expansion to expansion :(
Back in 2004, I wanted GTA San Andreas to win......but Half Life 2 was truly something else. Other games such as Doom 3, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia, Wow, Far Cry, KillZone released in 2004 were all great! It was a stacked and impressive year for gaming!
Yup, half life 2 is still better than most of the games of today, it is a great tragedy that valve will not complete the trilogy, i just dont understand why
Not at all. Romanticism (~1800-1900) is a revolutionary Era, not the 90s. Udpate: you meant the 60s in music. Well, the point stands. Although the 60s is a better pick than the 90s, is still far behind as to what being a visionary truly means in that art. The 70s is the greatest era in modern music.
I would agree when it comes to digitized graphics and figting games in the 90's like MK and SF. Although I would say the most revolutionary period was between 95 and 2005. When games started using 3D polygons instead of just pixels. I would say GTA 3 even took it further being the first Open world 3D polygonal game of it's kind. I don't think were surpass that period untill VR becomes the norm.
This shows just how the types of games have changed. We started with a simple arcade game involving quick thinking and avoiding enemies while trying to get a high score. And we end with a extremely narratively driven adventure in which the game is almost a means of telling the story. I find it interesting that games went from being just games with little to no story to being largely story.
Which I find sad for some part games are supposed to be interactive not hour long cutscenes like movies. For the same reason I hate uncharted 4. It is a bore with its cutscenes. God of war and bioshock are games in which the story is well executed. They don't force it with huge cutscenes and you discover the lore slowly through hints
@@ShivamPatel-yq7rr Uncharted is supposed to be a cinematic type experience though. It’s supposed to be an action/adventure movie, where you are in control during the big set pieces. That was the original intention. I love both types personally, and I’d probably put all three games you mentioned in my top ten favorite games of all time.
@@Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet it’s not a remake. They were released for both platforms at the same time. It was originally going to be exclusively on the WiiU, BOTW took forever to make so they released it on switch too.
Donkey Kong Country warms my heart. First videogame I remember playing and beating it with my brothers. I wish I could feel like that again. What an absolute throwback. The music and sfx just unlocked deep memories in my brain. Absolutey content right now just hearing it. Wow!
Yeah and then they barely show up later because "we can't have Mario win game of the year when this dark edgy shooter that was basically the same as one we played last year just clearly deserves it more".
Nintendo is still the most profitable video game company when talking about the video game industry alone. Nintendo still owns the most shares in that industry as well. Nintendo also owns 2 of the top 5 most profitable media IP. #1 Pokemon. #5 Super Mario and related. Even in the Wii U slump they still was the most profitable video game company with the most shares due to 3DS/2DS carry them during that time. They still on top profit wise which is the only thing that counts cause well money talks.
@@USMCbrantley mate, I need to see where ur getting ur data from, if what u say is true imma use that in my debates man. How do you know Wii U was more profitable than ps4? Nintendo literally said they were selling the console at a loss (though if you bought a single game it put them in profit)
Same. I remember playing all of these when they came out. The old arcade games brought back memories. Missed seeing these on there: Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Shogun Total War, Age of Empires 2, and Starcraft.
I feel an overwhelming sense of pride in having had the pleasure to play the majority of these games growing up. Doom, Mario, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye. What a time to be alive.
I agree, I personally have lost that sense of magic that accompanied games in the 90’s and early 2000’s when we were constantly seeing new mechanics and massive advances in graphics with each new title. Now many triple a titles are dumbed down or built to extract more money from players.
@@gabadu529 in deffense of knight its combat is still pretty good and the side missions and just beating up guys would still hold up today what games came out 6 years ago the had such beautiful graphics as knight?also that is my opinion
Some of these HIT REALLY HARD because it brings back so many memories with friends...I can see visualize the room, the mood and the people I was playing with ! All of these people are still in my life.
I was hoping for Red Dead Redemption 2 at the 2018 spot. EDIT: Not that I don't like God of War 4, or Spiderman. I've completed them both on 100%, and they're awesome. But in my opinion Red Dead Redemption 2 is still better.
@@stephenhughes5156 Naughty Dogs storytelling is in a league of their own, yes. But there's no denying that the gameplay is amazing as well. If you don't realise that you clearly haven't played their games :)
@Stephen Hughes why do yall naughty dog haters always say this when this is far from true 💀 you're confusing naughty dog games with choice-based interactive games
@@kalliase I'm not even a hater. I enjoyed Uncharted 4 and Last of Us 1 and 2. But it drives me mad when games have all these cutscenes or just really slow parts where I have to walk around having a conversation. Just let me play lol. That's part of the reason I love Soulsborne games- cuts out all the BS and just let's you play.
It's always disappointed me that there aren't more levels, but maybe they packed everything they could into the cartridge. (I doubt it started with Nintendo, but that's all I know about the game)
Nintendo brought so much life to gaming over the years, pretty consistently. Sony lately really has been gunning for GOTY . Next year will be interesting, alot of goty devs releasing their latest games in 2022
Looks like the video used Japanese release dates, if SMB3 is thr 1988 winner. Mega Man 2 came out in December of 1988 in Japan, so it doesn't make the 1989 cut. I probably would've given the 1989 to Tetris on Game Boy.
I was honestly SO HAPPY that Walking Dead was considered the best game of the year in 2012. The game is still so relevant and so good in terms of storyline and just in general.
The Last of us 2 is such a beautiful game. The graphics and game play are unlike anything I've ever experienced. Gaming has evolved so much. So grateful to be able to experience this.
@@skinnie2838 that doesn’t even make sense. Most video games are not favored by the left. This is a game full of mixer and violence which aren’t things the left likes. If you’re referring to ellie being gay then that was established in the first game.
@@kadinthomas2691 Wrong. The left loves violence. And they are everywhere in the gaming industry. They love to virtue signal about lgbt and blm and whatever other identityi politics garbage is being bandied about. tlou2 wasnt even in the top 5 best games of 2020 but it checked alot of boxes with a certain vocal minority who love to complain and cancel if they dont get their way.
There were so many super important games and genres in the 90s and later, that don't get any hint of existing in this list. Strategy games, both real time (C&C, Starcraft, etc.) and turn based (HoMM, Civ, Master of Orion) and mixed (X-Com, Total War), adventure games (Monkey Island, the Sierra games), simulations (X-Wing/TIE-Fighter, Wing Commander Saga etc.), driving (any) - and whatever many others I forgot. Don't let them be forgotten.
@@G1nSan3 Not really none of the games from eighties or nineties are really "video game of the year" winners because no such internationally recognized award existed at that time.
@@thewiseoldfox what I don't count non classics so that basically narrows it down to tetris,pong,a lot of nintendo,minecraft,bioshock,and arcade games.
@@titan2554 as much as I love OOT Chrono Trigger is the best on this list for sure, and I played that after Ocarina of Time even though it's a SNES game
@@weltk-n8z yaaa.. Literally I'm saving up from couple of months to buy ps5 and after that i will have to wait for another couple of weeks for those hundreds of dollars worth of games.
@@weltk-n8z Expensive? You can buy a used ps4 these days around 150 dollars, and used physical copies of games for as cheap as 5-20 dollars. Yeah it might not be the best experience but it’s still fun if you don’t mind 30fps.
Did you forget Batman: Arkham City exists? Even then that's not the best game ever but given the choice of playing Tetris or being Batman which do you think most people would choose?
Hi. New sub because of this video 👍 Question: Do you have a video for the GOTY Winners for 2021 thru 2024? This video was concise and straight to the point. Would prefer your video on a complete compilation of ALL GOTY Winners .🌟🌟🌟🌟
@@Fyrre84 idk I do think it was quite a close call. Golden Eye was absolutely incredible for its time and the whole fps genre was born from it. I'd personally agree with u I anjoyed ff7 more but I can see why they picked goldeneye.
@@ajfreeney I agree with you somewhat. Goldeneye was an awesome game. It didnt invent the FPS genre though. It also wasnt even that innovative. Id give that praise to Doom or unreal which isnt in this list either. I would argue that FF7 was as big of a deal for the games industry as a whole as RE4 was.
So many great games but damn the amount of hours I spent playing Halo, Tony hawk, Skyrim & the witcher 3 it would be in the thousands of hours! Great times...good memories.
@@lorenzobertuglia2873 Why? it is even better, because browser games were trash. Now you can play many different games. My favourite game is doom eternal and can you make doom eternal in the flash player? I think not.
Didn't realize that Mario 3 was out that much earlier in Japan than in the US. It's cool to see some games that blew my mind on the list. I remember Donkey Kong Country, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Knights of the Old Republic, Oblivion, Grand Theft Auto 4, Skyrim, Witcher 3, and Breath of the Wild all blowing my mind at the time they were released.
game of the year 1000 BC: C H E S S
Lol
It's my favorite game.
It's my favorite game.
@@batcat2338 I feel you
Lol
Love how the video started without any intro, just straight cutting to the chase.
Same
What every right minded youtuber must do
Watch 4096 he is best in making transition and yes he does evolution of games
Huh
I’m not allowed to like because it’s on a funny number
The evolution of graphics and mechanics are mind blowing.
Sadly for mechanics you have to watch it backward to find it mind-blowing.
@@raychii7361 true. some of the hardest mechanics are still in 15 year old games, unfortunately
Gameplay mechanics are still stuck in ps3 era. Graphics are mind blowing tho
The lack of game quality and pay to win is mind boggling
But 1947 sucks >>>ua-cam.com/video/RNvYGcgoGcs/v-deo.html
The fact that games went from Pac Man to Halo in 20 years is incredible
from Pong to Star Citizen in how long? :)
Those are the kind of facts that make me wonder if aliens are real and somehow sped up technology lmao
Inquisition to witcher 3 in a year is incredible lmao
@@kobked-x Infinity.
Yeah but the worrying thing is that a lot of such explosive progress has slowed down a lot. Innovation is slow. New discoveries take far more effort to make. In any field not just gaming.
Damn whoever was playing the last of us 2 at the end was killing it
Lol
for real! i look like an amateur just watchin it!
@VinyCross67 I missed the part where that's my problem
@VinyCross67 I like your dedication dude. fr
@VinyCross67 oh so i Just met a fan of last of us 2,welp good luck on playing that trash with non variety GAMEPLAY for 13 times in a row.
For me, Mario 64 was the biggest mind-blown moment in a lifetime of video games. that first real taste of 3D exploring
'96-98 was the golden age
Exactly this. My fiancee is 5 years younger and once said the PS3 and 360 era was the craziest jump. Mario 64 was my exact response. Honorable mention to Doom though I was real young for that one.
I remember seeing and playing it first at a Walmart. I almost couldn’t believe it was real. Also I couldn’t control Mario well cause I griped both sides of the controller.
unforgettable
I always thought of star fox as the first 3d game
It's crazy how technology changed over the years
2008-2010 era took biggest leaps
From 1990 to 2020 in a span of 30 years technology really and I mean REALLY CHANGED. I wish technology was a bit more simpler. 2015-2017 or 2015-2016 were the simplest years for me atleast.
No its not normie
I wonder what the next 10 years will bring...
@@DoctorHouse999 still can’t believe pikmin 2 didn’t win 2008 GOTY, and especially pikmin 3 in 2015. Pikmin 3 brought the franchise to heights Nintendo never even imagined
A lot of these games, even the really old ones, I still play today. Goes to show how incredible they are and were, and how they were so far ahead of their time.
@@patrickmiddleton1750 totally competitive graphics even back in 2023
@@d.stepanenkoexcellent game but that statement is just not true
@@Golira34782 I really don't have a feeling it's old. Maybe it's just me, I'm not playing too much mkdern games but still
Same! Halo CE never gets old. My first FPS
What did you talk about?
Franklin and CJ: why am I not here
Niko: Do not question THE ELEVATED ONE
Why isn’t vice city in tho-
"Let's go bowling"
Well valve for sure chose themselves
Don't underestimate serbians
GTA v is honestly not as good as sa or iv
5:37 my man just wins and then falls off himself
😂
@@JackFrostIsHere no... just no
@@JackFrostIsHere huh???
@@JackFrostIsHere why that?
@@nottownlma what did he say
Skyrim: "I will never be a memory" this game literally doesn't die
actually it does! Far Cry doesn`t
Skyrim in VR is still a blast to play. So many mods to keep it growing.
@@quazar912 what is Far Cry?
@@theshadow7201 Huh. Try GTA.
@@gogadev how about the Arkham series
Half life 2 was so ahead of its time. The graphics are pretty mind blowing for coming out in 2004.
Arguably the best game ever made. Not just the graphics. Everything in HL2 was just perfect for the time.
Gravity gun!
When you consider how kotor looked(not saying kotor is a bad game but defo sated visuals) half life 2 even today with its really lively facial animations and flexible game engine was miles ahead of its time.
there is a mistake. The best game of 2004 was GTA San Andreas
@@luizhenriquemarinho4176 Have you played HL2?
Hard to imagine games in 40 years. Probably just full immersion VR setups that are indistinguishable from real life.
Overestimation?
Or even better looking. Recently I've played wrath of asgard (VR), and the views are breathtaking.
@@renanmendes1299 I wouldn't be surprised to see that seeing as video game technology has exponentially improved just over the last 10 years
@@renanmendes1299 The world has advanced so much in previous years I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re full on simulations in a couple decades
I think in 40 years we'll probably get games like in the movie: Ready Player One
When I was a kid. I am not aware that there is what they call game of the year. I just play games and have fun of it. Vice City man.
I didn't even exist for the times of ps 2.
@@goldensapphire0 impossible
Vice City , SA , Cod MW , NFSMW , FIFA 14...
True, I played the Donkey kong country didnt know it was GOTY
When I was kid my favourite game was gta vice city 😘
*1998-1999: Let me just put on my glasses. *
Seriously, what a massive jump.
Ye lmao
Ya 1999 game was great
2002 -2003: My eye's who stole my graphics!?
Oot Is the best game there
I think that's because 1999 was the time where Dreamcast was successful (SEGA) and that system was almost as powerful as the PS2 and could allow far better graphics than the N64
Being a 80's baby, this was basically a timeline of my childhood 🙂
Amen brother!
Wierd I've played games my whole life starting with Mario Brothers and Zelda. After those 2 games, I didn't play any of these games.
Yeah! Same for me. It’s missing so many classics and genre-defining games, but ain’t no place to put them all in a 10 min video!
What are you talking about?
long ass childhood
1984: marble madness
tetris: am I a joke to you?
i'm pretty sure when game boy tetris came out in 1989 people forgot the 1984 version and said that GB tetris was the first iteration
Ask to Tekken 3
Hi Zeke
@@ChrisMclean7562 hey
1984 judge was having his marbles played with.
I just see my childhood grow in 13 minutes
Ya
If the whole video is your childhood, then you're more than 40 years old. 40s isn't being a child, as far as I know, so it's technically not your childhood. Childhood would be like, I don't know, 15 years of these? Think about it.
@@qe9573 well yeah but I am a gamer and even play games today
@@secretunknown2782
Respect +
@@qe9573 WAIT NEWER GENERATIONS CANT PLAY OLDER GAMes what!?!?!?
2004: RE4, GTA:SA, NFSU2, CS:CZ.
WHAT AN AMAZING YEAR!
MGS3:Snake Eater is the best game imo. If you have a ps2 play it
@@perseastheodoropoulos7367 also in the 3ds
*condition zero???* lmao, did u forget that *source* came out in the same year? 😂🤦♂️
i mean... cz isnt that bad, but considering source showed us that valve could make a great fps game from '04 (with gameplay and graphics, unlike cz with the latter), cz should not even be considered here.
yeah, cz had campaign whilst source didn't, but the fact that cs is more pvp, rather than a pve fps, doesnt make it any better... and the fact that cz's campaign ended up in "deleted scenes" shows us why (and ive played some of the missions, trust me, the map layouts for some missions are so confusing and there is little or nothing to tell you where to go at some stages... it deserves to be in the "deleted scenes").
it just shows that cz was not up to the standards of '04. 🤷♂️
try World of Warcraft ;) ....THATS what made 2004 a year... not these other games theyare classics....WoW was an evolution. Which then devolved from expansion to expansion :(
Also me
Back in 2004, I wanted GTA San Andreas to win......but Half Life 2 was truly something else. Other games such as Doom 3, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia, Wow, Far Cry, KillZone released in 2004 were all great!
It was a stacked and impressive year for gaming!
2013 : the last of us
GTA V : you gotta be kidding me
Both are good games
are you kidding me ...Bioshock infinite is better then both games
Becau$e $ony. Just like God of war stole from RDR2.
1997: GoldenEye 007
Ff7: Are you kidding?
@@zongramer It's a better game though. Very influential to the fps genre. FF7 is generic.
I am always amazed by the massive jump from Wolfenstein 3D to Doom in just 1 year.
They're both id software though. But, I get the point you're trying to make
That's why doom is such a respected game. It pushed gaming really far
@@chris-hayes id Software is the team that made the game not an actual software
John Carmack was an absolute coding prodigy back then.
@@clearlypellucid Indeed. He was on another level completely.
Man, both Half-Life 1 & 2 are waaay ahead of their respective times.
Every Valve game is way ahead of its time
Yup, half life 2 is still better than most of the games of today, it is a great tragedy that valve will not complete the trilogy, i just dont understand why
Half-Life 3 will be the opposite, that’s if it is.
I think left 4 dead should be on there and if not then left 4 dead 2 at least. I still play them to this day.
@@faketoastie7176 me too lol
The 1990's were to videogames what the 1960's were to music. Incredibly revolutionary decades.
The 1990 were also that to music if ure into electronic music
Great comparison
Not at all. Romanticism (~1800-1900) is a revolutionary Era, not the 90s.
Udpate: you meant the 60s in music. Well, the point stands. Although the 60s is a better pick than the 90s, is still far behind as to what being a visionary truly means in that art. The 70s is the greatest era in modern music.
@@sawney-21 60s had The Beatles, Hendrix, Woodstock and psychedelia. 70s had amazing rock, but 60s changed the rules of the game.
I would agree when it comes to digitized graphics and figting games in the 90's like MK and SF. Although I would say the most revolutionary period was between 95 and 2005. When games started using 3D polygons instead of just pixels. I would say GTA 3 even took it further being the first Open world 3D polygonal game of it's kind. I don't think were surpass that period untill VR becomes the norm.
In the summer of 2009, Oblivion destroyed my social life, and I never fully recovered from that!
so do you talk like the NPCs in the game? lol
This shows just how the types of games have changed. We started with a simple arcade game involving quick thinking and avoiding enemies while trying to get a high score. And we end with a extremely narratively driven adventure in which the game is almost a means of telling the story. I find it interesting that games went from being just games with little to no story to being largely story.
This comment deserves more likes for how accurate it is.
Which I find sad for some part games are supposed to be interactive not hour long cutscenes like movies. For the same reason I hate uncharted 4. It is a bore with its cutscenes. God of war and bioshock are games in which the story is well executed. They don't force it with huge cutscenes and you discover the lore slowly through hints
@@mynameis4277 not sure how competitiveness is related to story-driven singleplayer games, but ok
Its a wonderful thing
@@ShivamPatel-yq7rr Uncharted is supposed to be a cinematic type experience though. It’s supposed to be an action/adventure movie, where you are in control during the big set pieces. That was the original intention.
I love both types personally, and I’d probably put all three games you mentioned in my top ten favorite games of all time.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild was created 4 years ago, time flies
Damn i remember it being launched in the Switch
@@FrostyyMcToasty I remember it being launched on- Wii U
@@aidancommenting switch is just remake... botw was originally made for Wii U (real sad I didnt get my hand on that game ;-;)
Clarification for you guys: BOTW was released for Wii U and Switch on the same date, i played the game on Wii U
@@Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet it’s not a remake. They were released for both platforms at the same time. It was originally going to be exclusively on the WiiU, BOTW took forever to make so they released it on switch too.
I remember how impressive the size of Ocarina of Time was when I was a kid. It felt like an infinite world.
Truly. And then I found out it was smaller than the Great Plateau :) Ocarina will forever hold it's place, though, as it should.
I miss playing that as a child. Such nostalgia
Donkey Kong Country warms my heart. First videogame I remember playing and beating it with my brothers. I wish I could feel like that again. What an absolute throwback. The music and sfx just unlocked deep memories in my brain. Absolutey content right now just hearing it. Wow!
deep
@@ryushiko7943 literally talking to my little brother about this game hahaha merry Christmas brother
Go watch the walkthroughs or play through of the game. I bet that’ll be a nostalgia trip.
I litteraly just had the exact same vibration and messaged my cousins and siblings!
Damn Nintendo kinda destroys the beginning of this list
Yeah and then they barely show up later because "we can't have Mario win game of the year when this dark edgy shooter that was basically the same as one we played last year just clearly deserves it more".
@@vslazer6728 every Nintendo game on this list is more memorable than most of the newer titles
I would say God of war, and sekiro earned their place. TLOU 2 nah.
@@lightningpenguin8937 fair
Yeah thats because they really didn't have any competition until playstation launched.
No intro, no explaining, just gets into it
I like this
what do you think about mortal kombat?
Ya no timepass Or time waste
I will never stop gaming. I’m 43 now and I’ve been playing since 1986 when my parents bought me and my bro the Nintendo. ❤❤❤
Nintendo: I used to rule the world
2015 Nintendo: Houston we got a problem.
Nintendo is still the most profitable video game company when talking about the video game industry alone.
Nintendo still owns the most shares in that industry as well.
Nintendo also owns 2 of the top 5 most profitable media IP. #1 Pokemon. #5 Super Mario and related.
Even in the Wii U slump they still was the most profitable video game company with the most shares due to 3DS/2DS carry them during that time.
They still on top profit wise which is the only thing that counts cause well money talks.
Bruh. Botw alone still made Nintendo king still. Lol.
@@USMCbrantley Zelda: Am I a joke to you.
@@Silent_Fool
It's not in the top 10 most profitable ip....
@@USMCbrantley mate, I need to see where ur getting ur data from, if what u say is true imma use that in my debates man. How do you know Wii U was more profitable than ps4? Nintendo literally said they were selling the console at a loss (though if you bought a single game it put them in profit)
Well that was quick
2021,the best game is Fortnite
(・o・)
@@WertyBD-l5q ikr fortnite ooooh besstessst gameeee in historyyyyyy. *Jk I hate fortnite*
@@blazingphantom3842 agreed
@@eddiethewaffle7237 fortnite is trash, u only like it if u are 9
@@Tsh_FM I meant I hate it
This makes you realize how fast time flies. I owned so many of these games.
when
@@yousof8546 What kind of question is that? 😂
@꧁Sindano Negongo꧂ down bad
Same. I remember playing all of these when they came out. The old arcade games brought back memories.
Missed seeing these on there:
Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Shogun Total War, Age of Empires 2, and Starcraft.
Resident evil 4 was way ahead of its time
god of war >>> abyss >>> resident evil 4. also, metal gear 2 and 3 (and peace walker for a mobile console) were ahead of their time and none got GOTY.
@@marcosladarense noob
so ahead that capcom still makes new versions every time a new console arrives
To me game of the year for 2005 devil may cry 3
Half life 2 was ahead of all of those in my opinion.
Resident evil 4 2005 OMG, I'm old
It's still surreal to me how The Witcher 3 is 6 years old
Still a great game
@@mo7emedragab870 and still beautiful
man 2015 was such a great year for games
Imagine if you were told back then what CDPR was going to do to Cyberpunk.
Still holds up, and they're releasing a next gen update cant wait
I feel an overwhelming sense of pride in having had the pleasure to play the majority of these games growing up.
Doom, Mario, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye.
What a time to be alive.
I agree, I personally have lost that sense of magic that accompanied games in the 90’s and early 2000’s when we were constantly seeing new mechanics and massive advances in graphics with each new title. Now many triple a titles are dumbed down or built to extract more money from players.
Oh how i wish i was born in the 2000's
@@randomplayer1098 oh wow... I was born in the 80s 🤣
Remember getting donkey Kong for my Christmas in the 90s and playing it to death. TAKE ME BACK!!!!
You can still play them though.
It has accelerated vastly the last years as the gaming marked grows fast and the demand is higher than ever. Cant wait to see what's coming
Batman Arkham Asylum deserves to be on this list! Such a freaking masterpiece!
Yeah and City too
Yeah I like it more than uncharted 2.
@@gabadu529 in deffense of knight its combat is still pretty good and the side missions and just beating up guys would still hold up today what games came out 6 years ago the had such beautiful graphics as knight?also that is my opinion
And City too! Maybe even Knight as well! Both were pretty great games!
@@hawksfan8870 Arkham Knight was so good.But Mgs5,Bloodborne,Witcher3 these are all Hard beating games of 2015.
Some of these HIT REALLY HARD because it brings back so many memories with friends...I can see visualize the room, the mood and the people I was playing with !
All of these people are still in my life.
It's great you still have good people around you 🙂
Born in 1977, I played every single game on this list. I hope to experience the next 20 years.
Wow!
Even those boring versions of Mario (3D)?
I was hoping for Red Dead Redemption 2 at the 2018 spot.
EDIT: Not that I don't like God of War 4, or Spiderman. I've completed them both on 100%, and they're awesome. But in my opinion Red Dead Redemption 2 is still better.
It wasn't finished fast enough it would have probably beaten god of war
TRUE 🥺
Imo God of war was a bit better. Red dead redemption 1 is my favorite game of all time though.
Me too
@@theunusual2051 isnt god of war linear? it also doesnt have much of the details,but it just depends on if people prefer MORE ACTION or not :)
Me:Good list !!
Also me: Crying in Metal Gear Solid!!
*cries harder in GTA:SA*
Cries harder than hard for Arkham City
Red dead redemption 2 deserved a game of the year award😁
Not over the other games that came out that year
@@Stick2xYourGuns 😅
@@Stick2xYourGuns fortnite
@@CowboyCatRO fortnite is fucking dead
Not against God of War
The fact that 4 out of Naughty Dogs 5 latest games are GOTY... They are something else man
Uncharted is my favorite game series of all time. My jaw dropped on Uncharted 2 multiple times
That's because game reviewers love games where they just get to watch cutscenes for most of the game 😂
@@stephenhughes5156 Naughty Dogs storytelling is in a league of their own, yes. But there's no denying that the gameplay is amazing as well. If you don't realise that you clearly haven't played their games :)
@Stephen Hughes why do yall naughty dog haters always say this when this is far from true 💀 you're confusing naughty dog games with choice-based interactive games
@@kalliase I'm not even a hater. I enjoyed Uncharted 4 and Last of Us 1 and 2. But it drives me mad when games have all these cutscenes or just really slow parts where I have to walk around having a conversation. Just let me play lol. That's part of the reason I love Soulsborne games- cuts out all the BS and just let's you play.
Wow marble madness was thinking 10 years ahead of it's time giving you a 3D feeling through perspective.
Isometric design is one of my favorites, especially for the ability to make optical illusions. Monument Valley is a great example of this.
There was even a C64 version.
It's always disappointed me that there aren't more levels, but maybe they packed everything they could into the cartridge. (I doubt it started with Nintendo, but that's all I know about the game)
Nintendo brought so much life to gaming over the years, pretty consistently. Sony lately really has been gunning for GOTY . Next year will be interesting, alot of goty devs releasing their latest games in 2022
I kind of think game of the year will be dying light 2, I hope.
@@Nick_63.7 i think it will be Elden Ring. Dying light 2 is too mixed opinions imo
@@mjl11 yeah I know, just hoping. But I also think it will either be botw 2 or God of War Ragnarok
@@Nick_63.7 yeah im quite excited for ragnarok as well
@@Nick_63.7 Zelda BoTW 2 probably will be GOTY 2023
Love that both Uncharted & The Elder Scrolls series won twice. They are truly amazing 😁
you are 100% correct both are truly amazing games.(Personally an Uncharted fan but Elder Scrolls is also good)
Mario won 4 times
Also The Last Of Us.
Uncharted only won once, 2016 is overwatch not uncharted
@@santcer also the last of us only win once, 2013 is gta v not the last of us
Awesome video man,God Of War 2018 deserved win as game of the year ❤
1989 should have been Mega Man 2...just saying.
ngl 1991 or 1992 should have been Sonic
@alan caprock that’s how that usually goes tbh. That isn’t uncommon
@@flamesofdoom7220 1991 street fighter influced so many games that are awsome
@@flamesofdoom7220 same with wolfen Stein
Looks like the video used Japanese release dates, if SMB3 is thr 1988 winner. Mega Man 2 came out in December of 1988 in Japan, so it doesn't make the 1989 cut.
I probably would've given the 1989 to Tetris on Game Boy.
Maybe the best games of the year were friends we made along the way
Nah it was the games
The whole reason of games are to play alone
Nah games
Gaaaay
What?
I feel proud of myself that I have played more than 80% of these games
Same here
I've only played one of these. Pac-Man! 😂
i have just played gta 4....
But, have you finished them? :D
I’ve played all apart from. 4
Growing up through the 90s, and seeing gaming evolve, was such an amazing thing to see and I feel lucky to have lived it.
I was honestly SO HAPPY that Walking Dead was considered the best game of the year in 2012. The game is still so relevant and so good in terms of storyline and just in general.
so true
Quake was a fab game, especially playing at night with headphones on - creepy.
1998 shouldve been Half Life, the most modern and best 3D game ever came in that era
Should be RE2 for me x)
or unreal
@@paninikun8340 re2 was not true 3d
96 should've been tomb raider!
Am surprised gta san andreas did not get it in 2004
The Last of us 2 is such a beautiful game. The graphics and game play are unlike anything I've ever experienced. Gaming has evolved so much. So grateful to be able to experience this.
I’m currently arguing with someone about how good of a game it is. It gets so much hate
The last of us 2 was trash. They only won the award to check boxes with the leftists who overrun the industry.
@@skinnie2838 that doesn’t even make sense. Most video games are not favored by the left. This is a game full of mixer and violence which aren’t things the left likes. If you’re referring to ellie being gay then that was established in the first game.
@@kadinthomas2691 Wrong. The left loves violence. And they are everywhere in the gaming industry. They love to virtue signal about lgbt and blm and whatever other identityi politics garbage is being bandied about. tlou2 wasnt even in the top 5 best games of 2020 but it checked alot of boxes with a certain vocal minority who love to complain and cancel if they dont get their way.
@@skinnie2838 so what boxes did it check
12:05 *When my friend gives my money back after 2 years* :
There were so many super important games and genres in the 90s and later, that don't get any hint of existing in this list. Strategy games, both real time (C&C, Starcraft, etc.) and turn based (HoMM, Civ, Master of Orion) and mixed (X-Com, Total War), adventure games (Monkey Island, the Sierra games), simulations (X-Wing/TIE-Fighter, Wing Commander Saga etc.), driving (any) - and whatever many others I forgot. Don't let them be forgotten.
this is a list of games of the year. and these weren't game of the year.
@@G1nSan3 Not really none of the games from eighties or nineties are really "video game of the year" winners because no such internationally recognized award existed at that time.
@@KODtheawsome the Electronic game awards started in 1979 with space invaders
Tells a lot more about the quality of this particular award than about history of games.
@@hiidenkirnu okay
I'm so old I was there at the beginning, actually I go back to "pong".
ur 50 or so,amazing
Ah nostalgia back in the day killing nazis exploding buildings
Whats a video game
I used to play pong and snake
U must be at least 150
Video games really have come a long way. It's incredible seeing how the games evolved
That's what i want, no introduction and straight into the video
Wait, game of the year according to who? There are lots of different GOTY lists, and none that have run since 1980.
I'm thinking they just googled and found the first one that came up regardless of who gave the award lol
That's an absolute fact. And I'm sorry, but the biggest game in the universe for over a year was super Mario Bros 2
@@sequoia1171 every year it was super mario bros 2
@@Chrispybacon06 yer goddamn right it was
The only one I know is Lozbotw
The game of the year for 1998 is Valve's Half-life
Ocarina of time and metal gear solid
I think PC was it's own category back then. Games (Half-Life specifically) were usually available on PC only
@@psychofruit yeah pc only games have been always different from console games
@Prey Slayer the resident evil 1 remake is perfection for me
@Prey Slayer the remake is meh compared to og ..
Takes me back through my gaming years great video collection
Your videos are awesome. It’s like a review of my childhood stacked against current day games. I love it! 😊🙌
I have to say pretty much all of these games have aged so well
I could have completed a bachelor degree with all the time I played Goldeneye.
Coulda been a bachelor ended getting an.....odd job
For me, Skyrim was ahead of its time, and Black Ops II was crazy fun with friends. Two of the best games ever
All I can say is that Pac Man eat up a lot of my quarters.
2017 was a big year in indie horror games. Several major releases and genre changing concepts.
2017 was a big year for Indie and triple a games in general
Best game of all-time: Metal Gear Solid on PS1.
Try ocarina of time
RE4 is the best, hands down
@@thewiseoldfox what I don't count non classics so that basically narrows it down to tetris,pong,a lot of nintendo,minecraft,bioshock,and arcade games.
@@titan2554 as much as I love OOT Chrono Trigger is the best on this list for sure, and I played that after Ocarina of Time even though it's a SNES game
@@hogkill64 N64 and 3DS actually the original legend of zelda and the sequel is on NES and Link To The Past on the SNES
Wow, talk about a trip down memory lane! Thank you! :)
At this rate of improvement, we will eventually evolve to a stage to realize that we are living in a simulation.
It's so nice to see video games evolve this way.
Resident Evil 4 & TES IV: Oblivion still gives me immense nostalgia. I grew up mostly play games from 1998-2008 as a young kid.
Rockstar games in 2008: c'mon guys, lets make realistic games.
I'd rather rub my ballack on a cheese grater than deal with the shitty driving in gta iv
Excellent video bro! Thanks for a fun gaming history lesson.
Red dead redemption 2 deserved more than game of the year
Ha.! Not against God of War.
Yeh... Spiderman ps4 and rdr2 were better than god of war imo. Not by much but still
RDR2 is easily the best open world thing to ever exist. How it didn't win GOTY is mind boggling.
@@kin_gully738 no lol god of war much better
@Farminho 14Elder Scrolls Oblivion better game
I wish I could go back to 1990s and show kids and teens how cool gaming was gonna be in 2020
What I really want
I want to show myself in 2007 which game now days I am playing.
When I was in 4th class I always had a wish to play GTA vice city.
Or how expensive is to have a fun experience
@@weltk-n8z yaaa.. Literally I'm saving up from couple of months to buy ps5 and after that i will have to wait for another couple of weeks for those hundreds of dollars worth of games.
Thanks bro, appreciate it
@@weltk-n8z
Expensive? You can buy a used ps4 these days around 150 dollars, and used physical copies of games for as cheap as 5-20 dollars. Yeah it might not be the best experience but it’s still fun if you don’t mind 30fps.
Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, so underrated
This is a joke, right? All of those are overrated mtx cows
Batman Arkham series
Lol it’s a joke of course
those are literally the most overrated games in the world tf
@@itzmrinyy7484 gamers always so whiny. 'if people like it its overrated'
Mario's been dominating the 80s and 90s!
Chrono trigger still gives me the chills to this day
See? This guy gets it. Best game on the list.
1:07 1:24 these are not game of the year, these are game of the decade.
@@jafarTHEGOAT yes it's only mario
@@shaheenaparveen7700 Super Mario Bros saved the entire gaming industry from crashing.
I dont care There Game of the Year To me
@@shaheenaparveen7700 Zelda is grate
Super Mario Bros was revolutionary back then
Greatest video game of ALL TIME: Tetris.
Did you forget Batman: Arkham City exists? Even then that's not the best game ever but given the choice of playing Tetris or being Batman which do you think most people would choose?
@@nicocrestmere9688 Tetris
Minecraft.
@@nicocrestmere9688 tetris
Tetris
Hi. New sub because of this video 👍
Question: Do you have a video for the GOTY Winners for 2021 thru 2024?
This video was concise and straight to the point.
Would prefer your video on a complete compilation of ALL GOTY Winners .🌟🌟🌟🌟
Yo i'm surprised they didn't nominate a pokemon game in the earlier era of games, geez
Super Mario World is probably the best game ever made. Years ahead of its time.
This reminds me of when Games were actually different from each other and weren't all shooters and battle royales
God of war
@@Kratos-kt6yw I'm talking about the multiplayer space
@@Muksss no man's sky?
When everyone thinks that Fortnite is a great game 🤢
@@blitzball4lyfe823 did u ever play Fortnite
The change of graphics between 2003 and 2004 are amazing. Half-life 2 really changed gaming.
2 things I noticed:
1)The leap in technology between 1995 and 1996 was absolutely insane
2)How did FF7 not win in 1997?
Doom Enternal should've gotten 2020 too
And Red dead redemption 2 should have won goty 2018
God of war rightfully won 2018. That game is a masterpiece. What blows my mind is that FF7 didint win in 97
@@Fyrre84 idk I do think it was quite a close call. Golden Eye was absolutely incredible for its time and the whole fps genre was born from it. I'd personally agree with u I anjoyed ff7 more but I can see why they picked goldeneye.
@@ajfreeney I agree with you somewhat. Goldeneye was an awesome game. It didnt invent the FPS genre though. It also wasnt even that innovative. Id give that praise to Doom or unreal which isnt in this list either. I would argue that FF7 was as big of a deal for the games industry as a whole as RE4 was.
So many great games but damn the amount of hours I spent playing Halo, Tony hawk, Skyrim & the witcher 3 it would be in the thousands of hours! Great times...good memories.
the witchery great game
Excellent video. Nintendo absolutely smashing it with some of their titles.
Honestly I think half life is the biggest jump, it’s the first time a game really felt like a world and it still holds up today.
9:50 the game that made a lot of people cry and also one of the best stories in my opinion
True
3:11 this is nostalgia😌
Yesss
B-O-O-M-E-R
@@Quelox Y-O-U-N-G :)
creo que te equiivocaste de fecha
@@Quelox lemme punch u and u'll know
2000-2015 kid: Browser games in Google and Mozilla Firefox
2015-Now kid: Xbox, PS4, Steam, Unity Webplayer
is that bad?
@@АртемийПарилов yes
@@lorenzobertuglia2873 Why? it is even better, because browser games were trash. Now you can play many different games. My favourite game is doom eternal and can you make doom eternal in the flash player? I think not.
@@АртемийПарилов yes, also mine favourite game is DOOM eternal but I also like flash games. RIP Flash player
@@АртемийПарилов ay! leave my cool math games alone :(
Didn't realize that Mario 3 was out that much earlier in Japan than in the US. It's cool to see some games that blew my mind on the list. I remember Donkey Kong Country, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Knights of the Old Republic, Oblivion, Grand Theft Auto 4, Skyrim, Witcher 3, and Breath of the Wild all blowing my mind at the time they were released.