1997 VIDEO GAMES POLL

lol i was one of like twenty people to be playing Saturn games in 1997

this is a really dope game too

Dragon Force in 1997 so apologies if you wanted to vote for Carmageddon

lol so you included neither?

Gran Turismo, turned this game inside out night after night. Fucking amazing feeling after getting gold in all the licence tests.

dragon force came out in 1995 or 96 i only mentioned it to account for all the saturn/japanese games on the list which i dont think ppl here play/care for that much. and carmageddon sux.

more 1997 games:

GoldenEye 007
Turok
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Bushido Blade
Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II
Riven
Blade Runner
The Last Express
Deadly Rooms of Death <- my fave

well it would have been a toss up between Abe, 007 and Gran Turismo but I think it would have fallen to GT in the end anyway.

goldeneye, by a mile

and i seriously dont' remember a blade runner game in 97

wow, i have played almost none of these, so it has to be FFVII (which has got to be the only rpg I've ever played twice?).

i really wanted to love Colony Wars as a Wing Commander successor, but it was hard and couldn't get anywhere. :(

haha i thought i had included goldeneye. :\

btw i've never played fallout but i'd like to at some point

I'm going to withhold my vote for a few days as I meditate in the woods and contemplate my choices. I'll probably end up going for FFT. I've sunk more time into that game than probably any other in my life.

Hardest choice so far, really. FFIIV is the reason I scraped together my hard-earned allowance and flyer route money for a PS1....but Bushido Blade and FF Tactics saw more play time overall. And then there's Fallout v.s. Total Annihilation on the PC front.

haha, FFVII is ALSO the reason I scraped together money from MY flyer route for a PS1! I had to check that I didn't write that entire comment. But then the Total Annihilation thing, which I never played (we definitely didn't have a copmuter that could run it until it was to late)

If Curse of Monkey Island wins 13-4 over FFT...well...

You know, I'll whine about it, probably.

Goldeneye is the only one of these I've played.

Hardest choice so far, really.

yah this is why i wanted to do a '97 poll i think it may be the best year overall. i def couldn't find a year with more ultraclassics... kinda bummed i messed up the poll and left off obv great games like goldeneye and bushido blade (altho i might still pick dynasty warriors over it). i left off some things i thought no one would vote for like Langrisser or Deadly Rooms of Death (lol) intentionally.

i think my top ten goes something like:

01 Final Fantasy Tactics
02 Shinging Force III
03 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
04 Princess Crown
05 Dynasty Warriors
06 Total Annihilation
07 Madden NFL 98
08 Klonoa
09 SaGa Frontier
10 Age of Empires

Yeah, without Goldeneye this poll really needs to be scrapped and restarted.

Bladerunner was AWESOME Ste, it was just a PC Graphic point-and-clicky, but the atmosphere was perfect and it had about 7 different endings or something, many of which branched off pretty early in the game, so I replayed it lots. Still have it somewhere, I'm going to have to dig it out and give it another go now.

I guess I did a lot of gaming in 97 (it was the year of my finals, heh...and also the year I bought my N64), cos there are 7 or 8 games on the list I could make a case for.

i remember dudes playing goldeneye all the time, and hating it myself because of the wildly crappy controls

goldeneye's domino 2.1 was pretty good; the first console fps control scheme really

I would have voted for Goldeneye, otherwise this was a year that I played very little, as it was the end of my first year of graduate school, the best of times and the worst of times, but mostly the latter.

These polls would be more interesting if people were voting top 5s (or etc.), with the results balanced out. It gets weird when you overweigh one choice.

i would be willing to do this for the 1997 poll since i screwed up the list if people wanted to

my main issue w/goldeneye was the bland sameness of the levels

Wow, very tough one. FF VII and Tactics the same year? I looked it up and they actually came out within six months of each other. The Square machine was working overtime back then!

A lot of fan favorites here - Castlevania: SOTN, Parappa, Goldeneye, even Klonoa to a certain set. I didn't many of these games until years later under emulation, and a few held up pretty well. PCs has a good year too, with Curse of Monkey Island (you'll surely avoid scurvy if you all eat an orange.), Quake II, Diablo (the original!), MDK and even a bunch I never played (Ultima Online, Age of Empires, Dungeon Keeper) considered classics by some. Too bad about The Last Express being left off.

I guess it's a nobrainer that I'd pick Fallout, but come on. It's Fallout. If this were a regular internet poll, I'd guess that it would easily go to a Goldeneye/FF VII split, but since this is ILG which, from the last several polls, seems pretty PC-favoring, it'll be much more of a toss-up.

And I absolutely loved that Blade Runner PC adventure game (from the makers of Command & Conquer?), horribly underlooked.

Battlespire! No, kidding. Really, Fallout.

Man, I played a huge amount of Theme Hospital that year.

because it's going to come up when the poll results are announced:

I am the one who chose Diddy Kong Racing.

AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN, even if Goldeneye were in the list

where's the link to the ILE best video games poll with the nominations and stuff?

this is my year. god i feel disgustingly nostalgic.

my head is telling me to vote ffvii, since it is the best console rpg ever made and all that, except i didn't really play it until around late '98.

but deep down, based on play counts alone, i know it's between either tekken 3 or parrapa the rapper, followed closely by alundra and gta. all four are unimpeachable classics of their genre, and two of them pretty much invented whole new genres.

(would've voted goldeneye if it was included!)

the game i really played the shit out of all over 97 was MISCHIEF MAKERS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Makers

man i pine for the days when every computer game had a j-trance soundtrack

You know Alundra is a straight Zelda rip-off, right? I mean, better than any of the 2d ones, but still not exactly a shining beacon of originality.

I don't know why I'm being so harsh, I loved it and it blew my tiny mind (haha partly as a contrast to FFVII - this was a game where it was impossible to grind, you had to be good enough to get past this dungeon to unlock the thing that would let you get further). I think I just felt duped when I first saw Link To The Past and went ".... oh. Fuck!"

FALLOUT.

woulda probably voted for Goldeneye though.

no, i wasn't aware that alundra is a straight zelda rip off. a link to the past had no where near the same level of puzzle difficulty as alundra. are you saying that secret of mana and evermore are also straight zelda rip offs? anyway, since when did originality have anything to do with gameplay? wasn't ff just a straight rip off of dragon quest?

alundra is so good because it manages to combine the kind of puzzles you'd find in an old school turn based rpg with the simplicity of a hacknslash game such as zelda

um anyway.. MISCHIEF MAKERS

even Klonoa to a certain set

This is SOTN vs Mario Kart 64 for me, and while I probably had more collective group fun with MK64, hours logged in SOTN wins it out. Fantastic game.

Mario Kart 64

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Gotta be FFTactics; I probably spent as much time with that game as anything else I did in '97.

Tho' FF7 was pretty important.

1. Deadly Rooms of Death (best puzzle game ever)
2. Curse of Monkey Island (what I voted for)
3. Final Fantasy VII
4. Riven
5. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (the DS games have surpassed it, however)
6. Fallout
7. The Last Express
8. Final Fantasy Tactics (loved it, although the portable games have improved the battle system)
9. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
10. Blade Runner

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with at least five write-in votes for goldeneye

I would have voted for DROD too!

I HAVE FINISHED DROD, I tried to find a way to mention that subtlely but thinking on the fact is like a song in my heart.

didnt see this poll until now but curse of monkey island takes this in a walk for me, probably my favorite game from my favorite genre

mariokart is certainly the one i've spent the most time playing though