Then just admit it that it's YOU who is the "problem" and not the games. Many, perhaps even most of the games I listed are widely considered to be some of the best games in their genres.
I don't think there is such a thing as a dull period in gaming. Some years have been weaker than others but pretty much any & every year is still filled with enjoyable games to play to the point that I haven't had nearly enough time and/or money to play all of them, unless you are a person with a very limited taste in games, only focused on a single platform and/or only play games from a genre or few.
In my first post I said it's just you forgetting or ignoring a lot of games and you said you aren't and then you list a few Nintendo games as if Nintendo is the only one capable of making worthwhile games. You clearly aren't giving games their due. Games like Vampire the Masquerade, Burnout 3, GTA:SA, Pikmin 2, Ninja Gaiden, Metal Gear Solid 3, Halo 2 and such are widely considered to be some of the best games in their respective genres/already highly esteemed franchises, most of which still hold up to this day. You can't create a thread like this and then handwave those games away, they should make you go "huh, maybe I was wrong/maybe it is just me"
oh, ok, well, I didn't look too closely who created the OP, wrote my post directed at the OP and he/she answered to my post as if he/she was the one who created the thread. And let's not start moving goal posts here. If you say 2004-2009 were weak years in gaming, you can't then ignore all the great games in 2004 for that argument to still hold water.
You answered to my post directed at the OP as if it was you who I was writing to so I assumed you were the OP. Sorry.
There was? Maybe in the (western) AAA space, but if anything, there was a lot of innovation around then. Around 2004-2006, online was starting to blow up even on consoles with games like Halo, SOCOM, FFXI etc., the time period saw the launch of DS/PSP that pushed handheld gaming to new heights in a multitude of ways, DS' touchscreen brought us superawesome games like Ouendan, Kirby: Canvas Curse, TWEWY and we got some stuff like Guitar Hero on more traditional platforms while PS2's success still helped devs to create unique retail games like Katamari Damacy. Past those, the introduction of digital platforms on all major platforms around 2005-2007 paved way for new avenues for developers big & small to flex their creativity without the risk of needing huge budgets, although it took a few years for digital things to really blow up. Still, there were plenty of gems early on like Geometry Wars, Aquaria, Shatter, Super Stardust HD, Wipeout HD etc. that showed the possibilities & power of digital distribution. 2004-2009 were hardly stagnant years or years without anything different.
Perhaps if the years were shifted some, and even then it's arguable that it was more a dark period for some of the old guard and bigger RPG series of the 90s as they faded into irrelevance. But 2004 onwards was still the end cap of the PS2 years and had stuff like Dragon Quest VIII, Xenosaga III (and II I suppose but that one sucked), Final Fantasy XII, Kingdom Hearts II, the entire English catalog of PS2 Megami Tensei games, and some smaller players like Gust and NIS rising to higher relevancy (this is definitely more of a dubious addition but it IS more solid support.) Then there's much of what the DS and PSP got, so it basically leaves it down to the next gen consoles of the time underwhelming, and even things were just about to move out of completely terrible with Demon's Souls hitting.
Yep, those are great RPGs that are more than enough to justify the greatness of those years.
