Is this the worst year in gaming so far?

You're kidding right? There's not a single game from 2014 that even touches GTA V, The Last of Us or Bioshock Infinite. Anyone one of those 3 could have swept every 2014 GOTY like it was nothing.

@b4x said:

@darkspineslayer said:

@b4x said:

@lostrib said:

...aaaand b4x had another meltdown

Logic = Meltdown

Feel free to omit games from your list too. Make a thread with your list. I'll be good.

I'll be quiet I promise. :p

You can stop derailing the thread, bro.

The OP derailed the thread. How am I not on topic? Explain please.. I need to hear this.

Attacking users and disruptive posting.

Show me where I attacked a user.... that didn't attack me first. I think I showed restraint. Then some Nintendo homer comes in to try to discredit my post. Then calls me crazy, a loon... That was the derail. Then @lostrib saying I'm having a meltdown. That's another derail.

Now who actually is derailing the thread?

That OP list is garbage. I said why it was garbage. I never derailed shit.

I don't have a PS4, the only gaming system I own right now is a PC.

There goes that theory..

@darkspineslayer:

A case can be made you're the one actually derailing the thread.

Personally I can't complain. At all

Well I don't play on next gen consoles, I play on PC (since half this thread is telling me I'm supposed to enjoy this year if I had a PC.. so wrong)

and your list mainly consists of shovelware,

but I have all the proof in the world that 2014 was a garbage year for gaming:

Shadow of Mordor is Gamespot's GOTY.

'boom.

@Thunderdrone said:

Personally I can't complain. At all

There are indeed some good games there (as every single year since 1974 has) but where are the GOTY worthy games? Where are the classics that I'll remember in two decades time?

@Mozelleple112: Shovelware? Please.

And who give s ahit about GOTY? I've been saying for ages it's a terrible metric. If you wanna play it like that, Bayonetta 2 was the first 10 on GS in 5 years. So is it now the best year in 5?

There was probably just a lot more hyped/popular/highly visible games that did not meet expectations this year.

But I would say there was still a fair amount of actual good games

huh?

Bayonetta 2 is arguably the epitome of character action games and absolutely GOTY worthy.

As are some others on that list

oh lord, so now moderators doing there job is derailing.

that is some cranler level thinking. good stuff

If you really gamed that long, how the hell can you fail to mention the constant reference to the bundled manual for a code to input whenever starting the game. If you lose the manual, you're screwed. Or, having to use a bulky codewheel.

Then there's copy-protected floppy disks, a myriad of graphics standards (EGA, CGA, Tandy Graphics, VGA), manual sound card setup (if you have one) with each game, IRQ hell, enough expanded memory.....multiple config.sys and autoexec.bat set ups.

Plus...... there was the move from MS-DOS to Windows 9x (the single worst period for PC gaming), fledgling (and sometimes conflicting) 3D-acceleration, even more IRQ hell.

And still more.....

The move from AT to ATX was a whole can of worms by itself.

Stay on topic ... You're derailing again.

I don't agree with the OP post. I said why. Animals attacked. I defended my stance.

All on topic mind you. Drive by shit posting is derailing. Not what I did.

So what do you think of my initial reply to @Heil68?

He seemed to agree. How about you?

Ah that just proves my theory about Bayonetta 2 getting a 10 being a fluke. Of course it didn't win GOTY, the general consensus of GS staff acknowledges it's not a 10/10 game (probably all except that one guy who reviewed the game) so everybody but said-reviewer voted for something else.

I can rephrase my thread question/topic...

I can name at least 2-3 games from every single year (2001-2014) that are better than ANYTHING released in 2014, coming from an objective stand point and not just because I play on PS4, which I don't because I don't even have one (yet some people are trying to claim I do lol) .

I don't even have a PS4 or Xbox One because neither of them have any games that makes them worth buying. That'll probably change with MGSV: Phantom Pain, Uncharted 4, etc tho.

well it has been pretty shit

Your views on a game being better than another game isn't really objective

@b4x said:

@darkspineslayer said:

@b4x said:

@lostrib said:

...aaaand b4x had another meltdown

Logic = Meltdown

Feel free to omit games from your list too. Make a thread with your list. I'll be good.

I'll be quiet I promise. :p

You can stop derailing the thread, bro.

The OP derailed the thread. How am I not on topic? Explain please.. I need to hear this.

Looking through your childish comments, it was you who derailed this thread, not me. I've been discussing relevant ethos to the topic at hand here. you say this thread sucks, but I've posted nothing but the truth.

A game that wouldn't even be a contender in any given year 2001-2014 (except 2012, terrible year like 2014) wins GOTY; and that GOTY decision is not because I am upset by any means (which is worse) it was chosen as GOTY because it literally was the best game of the year.

Now that's embarrassing.

Maybe not. Some people here agree with me, some disagree. Yet I don't see people stating which years were worse.

I'll agree with you 100% SOM did not deserve GOTY. I struggled to finish it.

To say this is the worst year in gaming ever... is a little hyperbole wouldn't you say?

Then to omit quality games from the list? Show me how to do that. My mind won't allow it.

I have seen the gaming crash of 83'. I played ET. It is not the worst game ever.

There were damn fine games released this year. If you didn't get around to play them. That's cool too.

There are games that deserve GOTY though. IMO

You're free to have your opinions too. I just don't agree with them.

Peace.

What about the years of the video game crash which was flooded with bad games?

Why in the world do people struggle so much with objectivity .vs. subjectivity on this forum? It's ridiculous.

That doesn't prove anything. I know you desperately don't want to accept Bayonetta's 10 but Kevin has said before that GS takes 10s very seriously and all the review staff has to approve them.

No it wasn't flooded with bad games really. The market was saturated with Atari 2600s causing the shares to plummet. Do to no sales. Everyone had one that was going to buy one. They put most of their expected yearly earnings into console sales that were not there.

They hemorrhaged money so fast they had to lay-off 100s to 1000s of employees. At that point it was over. The suits crashed gaming.

There were still good games though. That dried up quick, due to suits miscalculations on the market and lack of funding. PC still had great games. The cost of a personal computer back then was ridiculous though.

The years sega stopped making consoles and when good pc game design shifted to a more console oriented structure.

Keep on topic, folks. If you need to report any offending behaviors then flag them and Ask the Mods. Please do not make a scene or escalate it after it has been made.

Nah.

It was disappointing if

A) you have shit taste in video games

B) broke as hell

Other than that it was pretty decent except the games that got released unfinished/buggy and the games that got pushed back to 2015.

Actually the market was saturated with too many console choices and anyone able to make games no matter how bad they were. Which led to the glut on the market and unsuspecting people making bad purchase decisions.

PC gamers are the most spoiled brats on the internet. The amount of options we have had this year in gaming has been breath taking. I mean we got DS2 early this year, we had a well made action survivor horror game for god's sake how often does that usually happen? A great hack n slash, a great fighting game, great racing games more than 1, good shooters, sports games always around, MMO's WoW had a damn expansion, great RPG's, fun action games, GTA V was last year but still a great deal of people replayed it again this year. This year has spoiled a broad too many gamers more than anything PC gamers that just wanna bitch about everything that's not exclusive to them, and sadly the whole console exclusive BS that is non-sense when there's too many great 3rd party games out there available for everyone that are much better than most exclusives.

@Joedgabe: so you're generalizing PC gamers just because of PC, but ignoring the PC gamers in this thread that disagree?

This year was pretty good though, even in comparison to 2012

2012

1. Mass Effect 3
2. The Walking Dead Season 1
3. Xcom: Enemy Unknown
4. Diablo 3
5. Dishonored
6. Borderlands 2
7. Journey
8. Assassin's Creed III
9. Farcry 3
10. Max Payne 3
11. Spec Ops The Line
12. Guild Wars 2
13. Dragon's Dogma
14. Hotline Miami
15. Sleeping Dogs
16. Halo 4
17. Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
18. Darksiders 2
19. Fez
20. Virtue's Last Reward

2014

1. Dragon Age Inquisition
2. Assassin's Creed Unity
3. Destiny
4. Dark Souls 2
5. Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor
6. Alien Isolation
7. Far Cry 4
8. Titanfall
9. Guilty Gear Xrd
10. The Evil Within
11. Watchdogs
12. South Park the Stick of Truth
13. Mario Kart 8
14. Bayonetta 2
15. Infamous Second Son
16. Sunset Overdrive
17. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
18. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
19. Shovel Knight
20. Divinity Original Sin

and I didn't even have to resort to 2014's Reissued games to make that list, and I didn't mention Need for Speed Most Wanted on 2012's list and I neglected Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes, Child of Light, and Forza Horizon 2 on 2014's list, heck I didn't even mention Super Smash Bros. on 2014.

2014 just simply had more to offer than 2012's list so in comparison no 2014 was not lackluster, it just had more disappointments than not, people had high hopes for Watchdogs and it flopped, People thought Titanfall was going to trump Call of Duty (another game I neglected on both lists) and news flash it didn't. Dark Souls 2 wasn't what the game looked like at E3, Destiny was anything BUT the next Halo.

All this year did was show that what is shown at E3 doesn't necessarily mean that's the product you're going to be getting at release.

It wasn't the worst year but the fact that a number of remasters are considered among the best from this year. Plus a playable teaser.

Bayonetta 2, dragon age I, Smash bros, shadows of mordor, child of light. I hope you were kidding.

Gaming hasn't been great since 2011 imo. Hopefully that changes next year.

I've enjoyed this year, Shadow Of Mordor is the only game which has actually come out with something new and fresh and next gen for a start, nothing else this year has reinvented anything like Shadow Or Mordor has.

but then again the games which have come out this year, have been good, not great but good, but it's only the first year, try making a claim to the worst year of gaming and using the years that consoles launched to find out if it is the worst, not a few years in to a consoles life and using them.

Have you played Divinity, Wasteland, CK2 DLC, Civ DLC, Beyond earth, South Park, Wolf amongst us, Dragon Age I, Football manager 15, Walking dead season 2, AC unity, Titanfall, Farcry4, Shadow of Modor, and god knows how many I've forgotten, just on the PC alone. If you game on a PC there's been tons of fantastic games.

Translation - "I hate PC gaming so I will generalise everything".

We need to believe that the gaming industry is not all about AAA titles.....yeah this year was worst in that regard , but we had some pretty good indie and non-AAA titles ....

yes i'm willing to discriminate PC gamers in general as opposed to gamers. Though every fanboy is bad the pc gamer circle jerk is spoiled beyond recovery.

well it's just that your generalization doesn't make a whole lot of sense

Nah...There has been a lot of good games to play this year. Also Shadow of Mordor was a damn good game. While I personally feel that Dragon Age would have been the better choice I get why GS picked SoM.

Well to be the worst year ever is quite hyperbolic. I'm born in 1993, so I've only been playing video games for 17 years, which is longer than some people on this forum's entire life, but a far cry from the oldest. I'm sure there were many years in the 70s/80s that were a lot worse.

but in my opinion, this year was definitely the worst by a long shot from 1996 to 2014. the only year that comes close to being this bad is 2012.

And not a single game in your post is on the same level as The Last of Us, GTA V or Bioshock Infinite. Especially The Last of Us, a game with 250 something GOTY awards and one of the best games of the generation, comparing that to those games you mentioned is an insult and like comparing a Cadillac and Lexus to a Rolls Royce.

Why omit games you haven't played. On any system.

I guess everyone just forgot 1983 where all the games were so shit that it crashed the market and nearly wiped out the industry.

What console choices? The Atari 2600 woody... or the Atari 2600 woody? Pong? If their were choices maybe there wouldn't have been a crash. :D

Back then it was a crap shoot on buying a good game. I would go to MOM & POP stores to test them first or at a friends house. There were places where they would demo games.

There was no coverage to steer you clear of flops like there is today. I imagine a lot of people were duped into buying trash. There were still good games to be had.

bad years seem rather exclusive to consoles....hey wait, they get an exclusive!

Who cares what the GOTY winner was and whether you agree, the year was full of great releases all around, and a still a rather impressive year considering it was a first year for both Xbox One and Playstation 4, and a great year for the Wii U as well. We saw releases like:

• Walking Dead Season 2
• Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
• Bravely Default
• Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
• Outlast
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
• Theif
• Professor Layton and the Azran Legecy
• South Park Stick of Truth
• Dark Souls 2
• Titanfall
• Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD
• Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes
• Infamous Second Son
• MLB 14: The Show
• Kirby Triple Deluxe
• Mario Golf World Tour
• Wolfenstein New Order
• Watch Dogs
• Mario Kart 8
• Destiny
• Shovel Knight
• Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
• Last of Us: Remastered
• Metro Redux
• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
• Sims 4
• Velocity 2X
• D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
• Hyrule Warriors
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• Super Smash Bros for 3DS
• Evil Within
• Bayonetta 2
• Lords of the Fallen
• Sunset Overdrive
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• Assassin's Creed Rogue
• Assassin's Creed Unity
• Dragon Age Inquisition
• Far Cry 4
• Grand Theft Auto V (re-release)
• Little Big Planet 3
• Shadow of Mordor
• Super Smash Bros for Wii U
• Alien Isolation
• Persona Q
• Geometry War 3: Dimensions
• Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix
• Captain Toad
• Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
• Elite: Dangerous
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

If nobody can find a good deal of fun in any of that they should probably stop wasting their time gaming.