10 Best Games Of 1997

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10 Best Games Of 1997

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When our writer told us that the year 1997 was over a quarter of a century ago, we laughed in her face. Right in her stupid, stupid face. If that was really the case, then that would make all of us here at Team TripleJump old, and we’re definitely not old. For today’s Best of list, we’re casting our minds all the way back to 1997. Here are the 10 Best Games of 1997.
VO: Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Cat Elliott
Video Editor: Anthony Hambling (@anthambling)
#Castlevania #GoldenEye #StarWars
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@shenloken2 Жыл бұрын

1997 was a crucial year of gaming! Symphony if the Night and Final Fantasy VII had some biggest impacts on me as a gamer! The memories of those games still burn bright in my mind.

@KatarnCrusader Жыл бұрын

Im so glad that Dark Forces: Jedi-Knight got some love! Not only the finest chapter in the Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series but also the best Star Wars Game ever made imo. I absolutely adore its gloomy, despairing atmosphere. The dark, brutalistic and gigantic labyrinth-esque level design and the sombre re-editing of John Williams classical scores is absolutely stunning. If there ever was something that felt like Star Wars Neo-Noir - it is this (kinda overshadowed/forgotten) masterpiece of a game! I also highly recommend its expansion pack "Mysteries of the Sith". PS: I know that the full motion video sequences did not age gracefully and today they look like a cheesy, at some points even cringy (looking at you Christopher Neame!) fan-film but back in 1997 they were quite impressive and meaningful to the fandom, as for example this was the first time that fans had seen lightsaber effects on film since 1983 in an official Star Wars product. So yeah nowadays, those sequences are cheesy and dated - but they are also a charming product of their time.

@Djordje_Jovanovic Жыл бұрын

As always dear people, here are some honorable mentions: Blood Breath of Fire III Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Diablo Diddy Kong Racing Fallout Gran Turismo Hexen II Klonoa: Door to Phantomile Mario Kart 64 MDK Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Quake II Star Fox 64 (or Lylat Wars if you want to get PAL about this.) The Curse of Monkey Island The King of Fighters '97 Tomb Raider II Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

@James-rf2ln Жыл бұрын

Age of Empires PC?

@robertmazurowski5974 Жыл бұрын

Fallout, Quake 2 should definately be on the list

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

1997 was one of my favourite years it had so many games that really started showing what that generation of consoles could do. I spent way too much time playing Goldeneye against my brother that Christmas.

@Ellthom Жыл бұрын

That fact you put Blast Corps on this list puts a massive smile to my face because its often a very overlooked and forgotten game. But I loved this game. Was happy that I finally unlocked the A-Team Van as a kid too :P

@ramrodbldm9876 Жыл бұрын

Quit putting smiley faces on mens videos. And you do it quite often smh super sus.

@beefyappa Жыл бұрын

@@ramrodbldm9876 you sound like lots of fun at parties : D

@AFourEyedGeek Жыл бұрын

@@ramrodbldm9876 you a child?

@Justforvisit Жыл бұрын

@@ramrodbldm9876 Dude, what is wrong with you? :O

@mrdth1987 Жыл бұрын

WHAT can’t believe Tomb Raider 2 didn’t make the top 10 that game was a fantastic and still my top 10 today

@ScarecrowTransformed Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing

@slingshotdon Жыл бұрын

Because it didn't get a high enough rating watch the video

@mrdth1987 Жыл бұрын

@@slingshotdon I said I can’t believe not “why”

@fukngroovnkc3700 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I believe he missed that one remember how many commercials there were, u couldn't go an hour without seeing Larra Croft somewhere

@dardrex777 Жыл бұрын

Because the controls are terrible in age

@gakk8658 Жыл бұрын

SOTN is seriously one of the best games of all time, I play through on thief mode at least every couple of years. I might actually go start another one, it still holds up completely because it's just a really great 2D game instead of early 3D jank. Plus the soundtrack is legitimately great.

@erakfishfishfish Жыл бұрын

The GBA and DS Castlevanias were really good too. Not as good as SotN of course, but solid in their own regard (my favorite of the handhelds was Portrait of Ruin)

@MichaelODonoghueMOD Жыл бұрын

What a great year. We also had Total Annihilation, Dungeon Keeper, Diddy Kong Racing, Turok 1, Theme Hospital, Tomb Raider 2 and Quake 2. What will people remember 2022 for other than Ragnarok?

@laughlan Жыл бұрын

Quake 2 - wow the hours sunk into that…

@mrdth1987 Жыл бұрын

Tomb Raider 2 is still one of my favourite games

@Space79be Жыл бұрын

goldeney vs quake 2...disappointing to see an overrated goldeneye at 1

@jamesage100 Жыл бұрын

Ah Symphony of the night & ff7.... some of my happiest memories.

@fukngroovnkc3700 Жыл бұрын

☯️🙏 💯☯️

@Christian_Sandoval Жыл бұрын

I remember it like it was yesterday. All the hype for GoldenEye and how it was considered better than FF7 and SoTN. I couldn't understand what's supposed to be so good about GoldenEye then and I understand it even less now. Even that Star Wars FPS in this list seems way more interesting. This so far is the biggest gaming travesti in my lifetime. FF7 should reign.

@chriscollins550 Жыл бұрын

Golden eye was and still is an amazing game and a breakthrough one at that, so many developers followed it's game play and design. The only reason I got a N64.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 Жыл бұрын

It's aged terribly, but that just says a lot more about how far the genre has come since vs. what it offered console gamers then. Really, even FFVII has aged terribly, and it takes a lot of nostalgia to ignore those graphics and that translation. Even back in the 90's, they weren't exactly state of the art for more than a moment. Going from Panzer Dragoon Saga to that? It took some time to lower my expectations...

@erakfishfishfish Жыл бұрын

Goldeneye was the first couch death match FPS to really hit it big (similar to how FF7 was the first JRPG to take the genre into the mainstream). I was in high school at the tim and it seemed like everyone played nothing but 4p rounds of Goldeneye for 2 straight years.

@monkeyinalamborghini Жыл бұрын

FF7 basically killed nintendo so it gets backlash from fans. That's why N64 and zelda started getting overrated. If you look at reviews from the time a lot of them are really biased. Zelda was suddenly the greatest game of all time and the people who made chrono trigger, FF6 and super mario rpg, magically lost their touch.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 Жыл бұрын

@@monkeyinalamborghini Cute theory. Sorry, kid. But as a Saturn owner during the 90's? Who eventually owned (and loved) my PSone long before I ever touched an N64? FF7 suffered from Square trying to keep English translation duties in Japan. It also suffered from early 3d growing pains, compared to the refinement of 2d pixel art. Panzer Dragoon Saga was released a short time after, and it blows Square out of the water on a console that's a lot harder to code for. And wow, does FFVII have pacing issues and questionable creative choices at times. None of which can be blamed on technical limitations. FF8's story was a thousand times worse. Still - If you want to fantasize about a world where all the critics are just jealous of FFVII's blinding perfection, go nuts. But since even Square agrees that predatory gay stereotypes, bad Engrish, and the ugliest chibi arms in videogame history are a bad look, you're going to have to go deep into denial to get there. I suggest crying about wokeness until idiots throw money at you. Or, if you give a single damn about the story and themes it was actually going for, you can use all that energy to try to protect the environment instead.

@NickBLeaveIt Жыл бұрын

Ironically, Cod liver oil was historically given to kids to prevent rickets, so in that sense Ben's still a youngin...

@MrMattyG Жыл бұрын

You know you're old when you vividly remember playing Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 in 1997 😮‍💨 . On my first PC that my dad bought for one thousand quid!

@rayceeya8659 Жыл бұрын

Blastcorps deserves a remake. That game was so much fun.

@N3XUSP0LARIS Жыл бұрын

Didnt Realize Playstation had so many bangers. Very happy to see Rare Bookending it all with Blast Corps and Goldeneye. 1997 was a solid year in gaming

@sarabevan11 Жыл бұрын

Wow.....a very tough list to get on! No quake 2, Mario and star fox 64 or tomb raider 2. Hats off to these games! I grew up with split screen multilayer goldeneye 🥰

@fukngroovnkc3700 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how fun star fox 64 was

@listerofsmeg884 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see Colony Wars up there. Great game with a fantastic soundtrack and brilliant narration from some guy who sure as hell sounded like , but wasn't, James Earl Jones. It wasn't 'intergalactic war' though. All the action took place within the milky way on a fairly believable scale of just a few planetary systems.

@thochaos13 Жыл бұрын

This was my last year of high school so I feel really old now. But a really fantastic year for gaming. So many great titles. I'm going to play a couple now.

@Lunecian Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they didn't make a Dark Souls joke when Soul Edge came up

@steveosk8s Жыл бұрын

I was 10 years old in 1997, so I definitely remember that year fondly lol

@2097xl Жыл бұрын

I can indeed, as someone born in 1997, confirm it was a quarter a century ago

@jamesmoss3424 Жыл бұрын

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is number one on my list. 😀👍🎮

@l33g3ndar33 Жыл бұрын

So many great games and memories! I was 10 in 97 and spent a great deal of time playing games when I could, as an escape from what life was like during those years. First time I've heard Colony Wars mentioned in Idk how many years. I was the only one in my friend group who had it. I got SotN on my PS4 Pro recently and love playing it again. Final Fantasy VII is my favorite game of all time and made a huge impact on my life, due to what was going on in my life. Shout out to Goldeneye as well, especially multiplayer. Great video guys!

@segue2ant395 Жыл бұрын

Solid list. All the numbers. In the right order. Some funny bits. Yup. Solid list.

@Babl069 Жыл бұрын

Alundra in my opinion is the best game of that year and to this day one of my top 5 games of all time. A more mature and darker take of the 2D Zelda games.

@bigbaddawg101 Жыл бұрын

Final Fantasy 7 was the first PS1 game I ever owned. I even had that rare unofficial strategy guide.

@mattfiorello1885 Жыл бұрын

Hi Triplejump I Hope Those Games Gets A Physical Release For All Game Systems In The Future

@JerichotheSplendid Жыл бұрын

Entered this list confident FF7 was number one. How wrong I was.

@lilhanhan Жыл бұрын

Damn, 1997 was a great year as I can name dozens of games which I was expecting on this list which surprisingly don't appear (Tomb Raider II comes to mind)! Also, pointless fun fact - Two voice actors who starred in the original Resident Evil appear in two separate games in this list, try to guess which they are!

@zdp-189 Жыл бұрын

Love Blast Corps. One of my favorite original N64 games I had as a kid, and still own today! Also own Star Wars: Dark Forces on PS1 still, never played sequel though- I definitely will give that a try on my PC. Then there's PaRappa! Bought the PS4 remaster disc recently, but never played original. Do have PaRappa 2 on PS2 and Um Jammer Lammy PS1 though, loved that one.

@steelcurtain187 Жыл бұрын

This was one of my favorite years for gaming ever for sure

@tec5x5 Жыл бұрын

A damn fine year shocked at seeing Colony Wars though its so forgotten now I love CW and CW Vengeance

@cmoreskylines Жыл бұрын

Such an incredible year for game releases. Jedi Knight & Goldeneye were the games of the year for me. So glad to see Dark Forces 2 get the love it deserves. I played the heck out of it.

@valetboy21 Жыл бұрын

Colony Wars also had one of the best voice acting performances of the generation. Burt Caesar does a voice so close to James Earl Jones that I didn't know it wasn't until years later.

@cfly87 Жыл бұрын

I was a huge fan syndicate wars. That game was doing things with missions and interactions that I hadn't experienced before.

@wadeintonature2975 Жыл бұрын

The reason why star wars Jedi dark forces isn't that known is because it was at the time when having a decent PC you needed a six figure annual salary.

@blunderingfool Жыл бұрын

No ports... but Soul Blade is a port of the arcade game isn't it?

@infiniteorder902 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised there's no Gran Turismo or Crash Bandicoot 2 in this list. Those games are great IMO

@britneyspearsvillarosa Жыл бұрын

Final fantasy VII is the favorite game of mine from 1997

@Sly88Frye Жыл бұрын

Golden I was such an incredible game to play back in the day.. it has engaged the greatest but it is still fun to play lto this day. Still it's spiritual successor that came out three years later perfect dark is even better. Really cool to see soul blade on here as well. I also enjoyed that game too back in the day. Blast corps I didn't play but I do remember seeing my older brothers play it it did look like fun. It must have been a rental from Hollywood Video.

@lennychurch Жыл бұрын

My own favourites are Final Fantasy VII, The Curse of Monkey Island and Putt Putt Travels Through Time.

@speedy316uk Жыл бұрын

Colony Wars was amazing, don't think I ever beat it however

@royconestoga7326 Жыл бұрын

Myth 1&2 are two of the finest games ever made.

@koby_mitchell Жыл бұрын

Here's my top favourite games of 1997 1 Castlevania Symphony Of The Night 2 Final Fantasy VII 3 Diddy Kong Racing 4 Tekken 3 5 Darkstalkers 3 6 Megaman X4 7 Megaman 8 8 King Of Fighters 97 9 Goldeneye 007 10 Street fighter III: The New Generation

@ShowdeQuetzal Жыл бұрын

I only played Golden Eye when I visited a cousing, but man what a game

@StewNWT Жыл бұрын

Blastcorps was fucking AWESOME and I cannot think of a game other than Chrono Trigger that more deserves a proper sequel

@Nbflowers1989 Жыл бұрын

Final. Fantasy. 7. Life changing game.

@V3ntilator Жыл бұрын

Need for Speed III PC version were among the best in 1997. PS1 Version were unplayable due to giant pixels and wobble geometry.

@vic7939 Жыл бұрын

Loved Darklight Conflict back in the day.

@jollymanbigboy Жыл бұрын

Do we tell him what Alucard backwards is?

@erakfishfishfish Жыл бұрын

He knows, it’s why he thinks it’s dumb.

@youtuber6193 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching you eat your cod liver oil tablet like a Canadian.

@unclepopesshitpostshack8681 Жыл бұрын

Gran Turismo deserved to be on the list proper tbh.

@Roboterpunk Жыл бұрын

For a PS1 game, colony wars looks incredible.

@Bellpipe41 Жыл бұрын

Blood came out in ‘97. I can only assume that you thought it came out in a different year. Also… Total Annihilation

@karnov27 Жыл бұрын

I never understood the praises for goldeneye 64, almost every games on this list aged well not Goldeneye

@erakfishfishfish Жыл бұрын

Goldeneye was revolutionary when it came out. FPS games weren’t big on consoles yet, let alone a 4p couch death match FPS. So many games have surpassed it since, but it’s because of Goldeneye’s contributions.

@theguyinthere Жыл бұрын

just about everything came out in 97 tomb raider 2 crash 2 armored core tomba gran tarismo final fantasy 7 shoot the list goes on......

@NickBLeaveIt Жыл бұрын

3:55 That's 13 out of 12...

@tjtweedy3189 Жыл бұрын

Perfect dark was my favorite N64 game by Rare.

@somethingboss Жыл бұрын

My fave game of 1997... GRANDIA!!

@user-vj6bk8rw4h Жыл бұрын

Тут достаточно мало комментариев, поэтому могу написать. Я почти ничего не понимаю, но боже, какой у вас крутой английский! Харизматичнее некуда! Смотрю вас давно, плохо говорю по английски, и это вообще не мешает наслаждаться просмотром. Жесточайше мало подписчиков, желаю Вашей замечательной команде как минимум 1 миллион подписчиков! - There are not enough comments here, so I can write. I understand almost nothing, but God, what a cool English you have! More charismatic than ever! I have been watching you for a long time, I speak English poorly, and this does not prevent me from enjoying watching at all. Cruelly few subscribers, I wish your wonderful team at least 1 million subscribers!

@graymars1097 Жыл бұрын

I always wonder what else Rare would given us, on newer consoles, if Microsoft never bought it 😢 I effing love blast corps

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

By the time Microsoft owned them the vast majority of people who made most of the games during the late Snes and N64 period had already left which is probably why Nintendo wasn't all that reluctant to sell their stake in them.

@graymars1097 Жыл бұрын

@@freddiejohnson6137 it’s not just people. It’s the IP. A simple port of blast corps on newer Nintendo consoles becomes impossible now. U get me? Yeah of course those people still develop games like yooka-laylee but the Rare IP like Conker is out of their hands now.

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

@@graymars1097 a port of Blast Corps is probably very likely at some point on the Switch online service since Banjo Kazooie is on there and Goldeneye is coming soon. So Microsoft who owns the Rare made games is probably more open to making them available on Switch at some point.

@Mikebumpful Жыл бұрын

@@freddiejohnson6137 Yes. You can say a lot about Microsoft, but at least they aren't Sony!

@GornoBiggs Жыл бұрын

No mention of Blood?

@rmRAMbo3521 Жыл бұрын

i disagree about your comment on goldeneye. i dont know if you played video games in the late 90's or early 2000's but at that point in time movie based video games were extremely popular and were always awesome. i can think of so many ie: lion king, alladin, star wars, a bugs life, die hard, and literally so many more.

@StewNWT Жыл бұрын

SoulBlade is my favourite fighting game of all time!

@pelecyphora1 4 ай бұрын

I wish we had pixel gfx again.

@Aevilbeast Жыл бұрын

Gotta admit, Loved the list but was bit disappointed that fallout 2 (I think it was 2) was shown at the beginning but failed to make it to the list! Such an amazing game! Hands down one of my favorite games of all time and one that I still occasionally play to this day! \ The only game that actually ever rivaled it is ATOM RPG, which I HIGHLY recommend anyone who was a fan of the Fallout 1 & 2 to play it. It's like fallout but in Russia! IMO, it's actually better than Wastetland 2 or 3. Wasteland 2 was alright, but Wasteland 3 was a HUGE let-down for me and was bordering on actually being pretty bad. It had a ton of promise with old wasteland team behind it but honestly felt really unfinished and really needed a lot more substance to it. Kinda felt like a DLC than a full-on sequel.

@DogcrotchHell Жыл бұрын

God damn what a year

@retrovideogamejunkie Жыл бұрын

Yep, ff7 best localization ever....

@nilkilnilkil Жыл бұрын

Yee hee ... a great year for me (considering how I'm widely disliked and so forth ...) I left school the following year ...

@matthewshuck5190 10 ай бұрын

I really do hate how sotn lost out here. It is a great game even today. goldeneye is prime nostalgia glasses - it isn't a bad game but if it was released on pc it wouldn't have been memorable at all. It isn't a 'pc master race' comment but rather they didn't really do anything to make it special besides being a movie tie in game that released on the 'right' place

@wadeintonature2975 Жыл бұрын

Final fantasy 7 should have been number 1!!!

@anonmouse15 Жыл бұрын

No Gran Turismo?

@aeris2001 Жыл бұрын

It pleases me that FF7 got the love it deserved

@JD1010101110 Жыл бұрын

Where is Curse of Monkey Island?

@James-rf2ln Жыл бұрын

Age of Empires 1 - PC

@andu1854 Жыл бұрын

I didn’t like Goldeneye,

@chrisbridston3438 Жыл бұрын

Colony Wars was awesome ! Then they came out with the sequels 🤮

@nilkilnilkil Жыл бұрын

Yee hee, yee hee, yee hee ... etc.

@aliensweathands Жыл бұрын

👽

@j.pearce3981 Жыл бұрын

boy someone looks on a few of these with rose colored glasses....parappa was cool but broken af. unplayable almost in its hit detection. eventually you would win just by mashing buttons.

@Mikebumpful Жыл бұрын

The ranking is based on the official reviews the respective games got at the time of release.

@j.pearce3981 Жыл бұрын

@@Mikebumpful I understand that but who put parappa up there with ff7 and sotn? Lol who didn't break their controller failing time and again

@Mikebumpful Жыл бұрын

@@j.pearce3981 The reviewers, apparently. I dunno, I never played the game.

@j.pearce3981 Жыл бұрын

@@Mikebumpful you should try it. It was innovative I'll give it that. And the songs were good but even the last emulator I played still had that massive button delay