Will it ever be surpassed?

will it ever be surpassed?

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the very next year gives it a run for its money
>Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
>Resident Evil 4
>Psychonuats
>Devil May Cry 3
>Shadow of the Colossus
>Condemned
>Ultimate Spiderman
>Advance Wars
>Kingdom Hearts 2
>Battlefield 2
>God of War

Yeah. 2001 was just a few years before it, user. 2005 was the year after.

I remember when Thief DS came out and everyone thought it was trash but now looks back at it fondly because at least it was still Thief.

You're just listing games from 2004, not even necessarily good games. Halo 2 and Killzone are bad even by console fps standards.

Heck, most of the games there are not even the best in their respectiev series. E.g. Thief 3 is worse than Thief 1 or 2, Half-Life 2 is cinematic garbage, lol @ Doom 3,

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>Half-Life 2 is cinematic
shit bait, you didn't even play it

Hell, even Q1 of THIS YEAR is better than 2004.

>no vtmb
shit list

>shit bait, you didn't even play it

Most of the game consists of either

A) being locked into areas while NPCs vomit exposition at you
>barely interactive tutorial segments, e.g. Alyx teaching you the gravity gun and the subsequent Ravenholm section where you do the same 'pick up sharp object with gravity gun and lob it at zombie' shtick about a billion times
>extremely scripted and on rails setpieces

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>linear corridor shooter is scripted and restricted
>baaaaaaaaah it's cinematic trash dude

no shit retard, it's from 2004, you can take any recent sony exclusive and it's 10 times more of a movie than HL2

>no shit retard, it's from 2004
What does that have to do with it being so linear and scripted? Older games generally were LESS linear than modern ones. Indeed, it was HL-2 that inspired other devs to make their games more linear and cinematoc.

>No shit retard, it's from 2004
Isn't that supposed to be the best year in gaming, according to OP? Why is it okay for a game to be linear and cinematic back then but not now?

omfg, you're both completely braindead and picking on things that are irrelevant, HL2 was good because of story, atmosphere and physics gameplay, it being linear and "'cinematic" has nothing to do with anything except that you just pointed it out for no fucking reason

>dialogue and exposition = bad game
absolute fucking brainlet tier argument

Unfortunately no
>Battlefield Vietnam
>Unreal Tournament 2004
>Half-Life 2
>Metal Gear Solid 3
>NFS Underground
>Burnout 3
>Battlefront
>KOTOR 2
>Battlefront
>Ninja Gaiden
>GTA SA
>Chronicles of Riddick
>Sly 2
>Ace Combat 5
>Metroid Prime 2
>Tales of Symphonia
>Fable
>Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
>Viewtiful Joe 2
>Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
>Painkiller
>Total War: Rome
>The Sims 2
>Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
>Vampire: Bloodline Masquerade
>World of Warcraft
>Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
>Paper Mario
>The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
>Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Honorable mentions:
>Far Cry
>Jak 3
>Thief: Deadly Shadows
>Hitman Contracts
>Halo 2
>Call of Duty: United Offensive
>Doom 3
>Full Spectrum
>OutRun 2
>Onimusha 3
> Psi-Ops
>Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
>Tekken 5

Sure, some games aren't the best in the series but regardless, masterful year

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>jak 3
>good

>says it was a good game for vidya
>doesnt name the best one, UT2K4
?

>A flaw of a game has nothing to with how good a game is
HL2 isn't even a bad game because of the exposition. It's just an okay game that got meme'd out because of muh physics.

>okay game
your taste is objectively shit, ok?

It's a step down from UT99 and it's just a rerelease of UT2003 anyway

>Doom 3
>good

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I know it hurts, user, but just cause you saw it on the top of a few lists on the internet and your favorite e-celeb said it's the best PC game of all time doesn't mean it's free from criticism. HL2 is inferior to the first one.

That was just UT2k3 with a patch and UT99 is still the best.

>projecting
literally played it the same year it came out, go back to fortnite zoomer

based

So did a ton of people. Difference is, I went back and played it a few years ago and noticed it wasn't as good as everyone said it was.

>played it a few years ago and noticed it wasn't as good as everyone said it was
I could name a lot of games that I played long after they were released and got completely disappointed even though they were masterpieces according to reviews, it's just not the same anymore

literally every game that has ever been release will age at some point

stop that

Objectively 2004 is hard to top even if my boomer nostalgia says 1996 or 1998, Half Life 2, WoW & Halo 2 were pretty groundbreaking & all released around the same time

Different age groups argue about this a lot though, i notice people under 16 seem to think 2011-2012 was the best year & cite Minecraft & Black ops 2

I only care about Ninja Gaiden in this

is black worth buying off xbox live for muh 360? I kept thinking maybe there will be an xhueg emulator but I've been thinking this in 2014 and there still isn't one