Game of the Year

Vote UFO - Enemy unknown (this is what my box says so im sticking with that as the title :p).

For similar reasons to Coanda above. The game is totally awesome. It would easily make my top 5 games of all time from any period, so for 1994 there can only be one winner :)
 
I updated the front page with nomination suggestions. I don't care if we throw secrect of mana in there again, it's not going to win so if you want to waste your vote on it fine by me!
 
I'll tally the votes Monday and post the winner. Won't have time this weekend.
 
Vote - Star Wars: Tie Fighter. Didn't play the original X-Com and only got into rts with Warcraft II.
 
Why people say 1994 has so many good games ? If anything, it's a rather poor year compared to the previous ones.

Still, despite being few, there are very worthy games : Doom 2, Wing Commander III, Master of Magic, UFO, Final Fantasy VI and the rather unknown but awesome K240.

But Master of Magic takes effortlessly the crown for me, as one of the few games which are still unmatched today.
 
Hm, K240 is from 1994?

That was indeed a very good game, and i had to buy it due to it being the sequel to the EXCELLENT game Utopia: The creation of a Nation. Gremlin was another of those cool companies in the early 90s...

That said, K240 was not as good as Utopia, although it had enemy settlements on the actual map. However they have an asteroid map, instead of a planet, so your own settlements had to be smaller and divided. So i ended up not playing that game a lot. I still recall Utopia, though :)

Also, although the interface was wonderful, the graphic artist must have changed from the one in Utopia, because the buildings looked rather extremely weird this time.

K240:

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Utopia:

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It's a tie between warcraft and x-com! Pretty big distribution of votes, a lot of quality games (Vote=Tie Fighter). The voting actually got me to buy the xcom pack last weekend just to try the game of the year winner.

I feel like this is only going to get harder going forward, some big years coming, with 1995 being no exception. My initial title thoughts:

Heroes of might and magic - what's to say? Groundbreaking in the turn based strategy genre, spawns an epic series, still fun to play today. The only big knock I have against it is graphics are super cheesy, even for 1995 (not consistent style to the units, way to cartoon like), and the sequel is like twice as good. Also king's bounty might have been more groundbreaking, being the precursor to homm.

Command and Conquer - Great rts series. Along with warcraft series these pretty much set the tone for RTS in the 90s/early 2000s.

Mechwarrior 2 - It's a shame what's happened to the mechwarrior video game series of late (mainly no new releases other than the awful free to play online version), but back in the day this was one of the most awesome games. 2 was the one that really launched it, I don't think the original was that popular.

Dark Forces - Basically star wars doom. Completely awesome, good story line too. I was obsessed with this game.

I'm sure there's a lot more but that's all I could think of for now.
 
We moving to 95 yet?

Nominate:
EarthBound
Rayman
Twisted Metal
Chrono Trigger

Vote=abstaining for now.
 
Chrono Trigger... a game that's been on my "to play someday" list for about 15 years now.
 
:D

From the wiki 1995 games article i saw the following ones of interest:

-The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (never played it, didn't like its video-motion-graphics, but i read it has the best plot of all the GK games, which says a lot).

-Caesar II (i have played the original Caesar, and iirc Caesar III. The original had crap graphics, from the stills it seems that Caesar II was a breakthrough in Sierra's city building series).

-ClockTower (SNES horror game. Never played it, but i read A LOT about this game and it looks very cool indeed).

Nominate: ClockTower

Vote: ClockTower

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Chrono Trigger... a game that's been on my "to play someday" list for about 15 years now.

Stop punching yourself in the balls and start now! That's 15 years you have missed out on one of the greatest games in human history!
 
1995 Nomination= Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

1995 Vote= Warcraft II

This year was between Chrono Trigger and Warcraft II for me. I think Chrono Trigger is the only JRPG I have played all the way through. I've played others but don't think I finished them.

edit: In the end I decided WC2 is more memorable to me so I changed my vote.
 
I think that WCII (Tides of Darkness) is mostly a 1996 title (and i planned to nominate it for that year) :) Not sure if it was there in the final months of 1995 too though. It won many awards in 1996.
 
WC2 was released December '95 - I remember that Christmas! '96 is when they added official support for internet play via Kali, released the xpack, and released the bundle with core and expansion.
 
this is clearly between warcraft 2 and chrono trigger IMO. So im going to go for....

vote - Warcraft 2 tides of darkness (i just loved the way when you clicked multiple times on peons, eventually they would say "I dont sound like yoda, doooo I)
 
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