We feel three to look at the next line up titles from 2004, ready to cast judgment.
Which of the above games are among the best of 2004 and why?
Which of the above games are among the best of 2004 and why?
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17Dead Man's Hand0%0Dead or Alive Ultimate0%2Dead to Rights: GBA0%0DearS0%0Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles of Normandy0%0Deep Labyrinth0%0Def Jam: Fight for NY0%3Delat Force: Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre0%0Densetsu no Stafy 30%0Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps0%0Destruction Derby Arenas0%0Digimon Racing0%0Digimon Rumble Arena 20%0Djibril - The Devil Angel0%0Dofus0%0Domino Master0%0Donkey Kong Jungle Beat0%1Doom 30%2Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 30%0Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors0%0Dragon Quest VIII0%2The Dreamhold0%0Driver 30%0Duel Masters0%0Duel Masters 2: Invincible Advance0%0Duel Masters 30%0Duel Masters: Kaijudo Showdown0%0Duel Masters: Sempai Legends0%0The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee0%0Dynasty Warriors0%0Echo Night: Beyond0%0Egypt III0%0The Elder Scrolls Travels0%0England International Football0%0ESPN College Hopps 2K50%0Escape from Woomera0%0ESPN Major League Baseball0%0ESPN NBA 2K50%0ESPN NFL 2K50%0ESPN NHL 2K50%0EverQuest II0%0Everybody's Golf Portable0%0Evil Genius0%0Extreme Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Invasion0%0EyeToy: AntiGrav0%0EyeToy: Monkey Mania0%0EyeToy: Play 20%0F-Zero Climax0%1Fable0%3The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown0%0The Fall: Last Days of Gaia0%0Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel0%0Far Cry0%1The Fast and the Furious0%0Fate/stay Night0%1Fear Factor: Unleashed0%0Feeding Frenzy0%0Feel the Magic: XY/XX0%1FIFA Football 20050%0Fight Club0%0 -
Dragon Quest VIII gets my vote here for sure. At a time when Japanese RPG developers were trying to do anything and everything to reinvent the genre and give it broader appeal, it feels like the theory behind this was to instead keep things traditional as all hell but just to make everything in it really bloody good. On a personal note as well, this was the game that broke World of Warcraft's spell on me and made me realise that I'd rather play lots of games than just one single game forevermore. -
Shout-out for Dead or Alive: Ultimate.
Doesn't really get the credit it deserves, but DOAU was the first (I'm pretty sure) online fighting game that was actually any good.
Capcom etc. had done online modes in their fighting games before (some of them actually got removed when they did the western versions), but the netcode was pretty shonky and they were just 1v1; they didn't have lobbies.
DOAU was the first online fighter where players would join an 8-player lobby, and spectate as 2 people played winner-stays on. And the netcode was probably not great by modern standards, given the strides that have been made, but it was a massive improvement over other titles at the time.Comment
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