Vela wrote:

Are people posting only games they played during that decade, or including games from the decade that they played long after?

Facewon wrote:

Final
1-5

Goldeneye. Before halo, this was the jam. I played doom at a mate's place, and that got me down with fps, but GE was something else again. The silenced pistol, the animations for body shots. Just sublime. Hours and hours into it. Never mind the mp. Insane fun.

(pd would be in here too if it wasn't 2000 release. Because oh my, all of the above, plus an insane weapon set.)

Blast corps. Platinum baby. On everything. Genius premise, that allows for a fun, tense, explosive first run through. Then it turns into a masochistic time attack puzzle game requiring blurry pixel perfect angles. Soooo good.

Gran tourismo. Hadn't been a big car guy either in games or in life until this. Handling incredible. The, dare I say it, realism. Cars that felt like they were actually touching a road. I would actually watch some replays. What a time sink. (once again, if 2000 was in then cm2.0 surpasses it in every in game respect.)

Tenchu. Just my jam. MGS is amazing, see later. But I was always a bit rubbish and/or kojima controls cameras and plethora of options was too much for me. This stripped things back. I recall hammering one of the late middle levels, which could be done very quickly, and just spending an hour scouring every last bit and taking out everyone. LIKE A FUCKING NINJA. oh yeah.

Panzer dragoon saga. By the time I played it, I think dreamcast and even Xbox might have been out, had a chipped saturn and a burnt CD copy.

4 fucking cds worth. Mainly for cutscenes lol.

Opening cutscene gave me wood. Vibe and a half.

In game graphics varied between awesome (dragon morphing) and awful (background trees made of flat pixels the size of my fist.)

Fight mechanics were clever, but never quite challenging enough.

But man, I still remember so much of the game. Just being in the world and all the feels.

5-10

MGS. Never got real good at it. Played it through a number of times. And when the going got tough, I laboured through bosses, in particular. But still, the kojima styles were amazing at the time.

Chrono cross. Only 2 cds. But could have switched this with panzer. Graphically, a big step up. Super pretty hand drawn backgrounds. A fighting system that actually did some cool stuff and worked. And was the right side of challenging.

Just a lovely world which I spent hours and hours in. (as I recall, I had this at a time when I'd copped a nasty bout of bronchitis. Had a year from hell off and on being sick for a month at a time. 13 hour days on this.)

Xi (devil's dice) so fucking addictive. Perfect puzzler. Legit brain ending puzzles that you could take your time with, on top of the main infinite mode that could eat days. Sublime.

Mario 64. Never big on Mario as a character. Never excited by the worlds, but can't knock the movement and inventiveness here. Real good.

Parasite eve. One of the wins of chipped ps1. Wasn't released in Oz for aaaaages. Got in early from my pirate guy. Loved the shorter length, the locale and the fighting system. Just a cracker of a game. (if vagrant story wasn't 2000, it would probably replace.)

Alsorans for now:

Banjo kazooie
Silent hill
Mariocart 64
Driver
THPS
Doom

Facewon wrote:

Wow. Had a moment of panic. Realising that some dreamcast games did make cut had to double check on MSR. got delayed. So released in 2000, but could have been 99 if they were on schedule. Strong consideration would have been given.