2014 could be the 2nd crappiest year in gaming

[Drummodino]

Don't even bring that pessimistic shit in here when there are 4 MOTHERFUCKING Persona games coming out this year!

You said it sister! #Persona4life

Also Darks Souls 2, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Kingdom Hearts 2.5, Titanfall and many other (probably) great games are coming this year.

 

[MercurySteam]

TitanFall, Thief, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Dark Souls II, Dragon Age Inquisition and maybe even Murdered: Soul Suspect. I can't really see the point you're trying to make here.

 

[Silvanus]

Not even nearly the worst year for gaming.

Think of all those years before the 20th century. 1066 will have been a very poor year for gaming.

 

[Sassafrass]

Spoiler: Yes. This year sucks.

Plus we get more The Walking Dead and more The Wolf Among Us, plus some hidden gems as well.

 

[Frozengale]

Dark Souls II
Super Smash Bros. 4
and Dragon Age : Inquisition

Those are just off the top of my head. So I'll wait until I get to play all the really good stuff before I start passing judgement on the entire year in gaming.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

I for one wouldn't judge a gaming year by the amount of trash that comes out. Because more often than not you can be 90% sure something is going to be crap before you play it. I mean, Rambo... seriously?

It's better to judge based on the surprises and breakthroughs that came out. We haven't really gotten started in that department, but there are some interesting things on the horizon.

 

[Bombiz]

This year really seems bleak, even more so for PC gamers, or at least myself. I was considering replacing my old piece of junk, but then i realised that there is no reason to, maybe if Witcher 3 doesn't work properly and Dragon age turns out decent this time. Then theres dark souls 2 if it's ported properly this time. After checking the releases it doesn't seem all that bad, there are a lot of potentially good games, but then again that site had half-life 3 listed for 2014 for some reason.

Can you explain to me how this year seems bleak? Cause from what I can see this year looks like it's going to be a good one. Also if your computer couldn't handle Witcher 3 or if Dark Souls 2 doesn't get ported properly you could always get them on PS4/Xbox one/PS3/Xbox 360? Unless you just don't like consals?

 

[BL-4CT]

Is funny how you say that just for 2 crappy games (Rambo is a licensed game,all we knew how that would end) in just 2 months from twelve, also, you could be had some reason if JUST an expected game were bad and, lets be honest, no one was expecting or getting hype of Guise of the Wolf or Rambo.

 

[RiseUp]

You know, I'm not exactly thrilled for Titanfall. It doesn't look bad (few things involving mechs ever are), but it seems to me like it doesn't deserve its hype. Granted, I haven't tried the beta, but from what I've seen it looks to be another "dumb fun" shooter along the lines of Call of Duty. I do see the appeal of games like that, but for me to play a multiplayer game for months or even years after its release, it has to have some sort of depth or meta-game.

You're not terribly far off the mark. The game is, essentially, Call of Duty with parkour and giant mechs.

Now, those additions are fairly massive and change up the gameplay significantly, enough so that I love the game despite being lukeward at best toward the various CoD titles, but it's beating heart is still CoD mechanics. I can't speak much to the metagame, as I've never been able to grasp the details of it, but the weapon selection and gear loadouts seem like they're ripped straight out of MW3. If you're not a fan of the Modern Warfare games, Titanfall probably won't appeal to you.

That said, I'd definitely recommend trying it anyway. As I mentioned, I'm not a big fan of CoD, or multiplayer shooters in general, but the Titanfall demo/"beta" weekend pretty much sold me on it. I can't honestly endorse paying for it if you don't like CoD, but if there's ever a demo or one of your friends buys it or whatever, I'd heartily recommend trying it out.

It seems to me that it's definitely worth trying out, if only for the novelty of having jetpack parkour in an FPS (come to think of it, why don't more games have jetpacks?), but I don't think that any sort of run-and-gun, loadout-based multiplayer shooter deserves the kind of hype that Titanfall has been getting.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

but I don't think that any sort of run-and-gun, loadout-based multiplayer shooter deserves the kind of hype that Titanfall has been getting.

But that's the thing though, with the beta it drew in 2 million people and that's a lot of people for a beta already, it is something new just a bit other than trying to be a plain based shooter like cod which is why it has all that's in the game currently.

burn cards which aren't op and can be used once in a match is better than the same old killstreaks COD gives out (especially for those that camp to rack up the KS), the jet packs and parkour add something a little new to the table that we haven't had for a long time now (seriously years of battlefield and COD so far)along with ways to end your enemies with jump kicks or breaking necks rather than ye old COD/Battlefield knife animations that get super stale as time goes on.

I know you don't think it deserves the hype it gets but it's already hyped enough as it is, so is Dark Souls 2, I don't like DS at all and I don't think it deserves hype either but it's getting it for it's own reasons and I'd think it's only fair that TF does too, a lot of games get their fair share of hype and this year isn't going to just have 3 games with just universally accepted hype.

 

[kasperbbs]

This year really seems bleak, even more so for PC gamers, or at least myself. I was considering replacing my old piece of junk, but then i realised that there is no reason to, maybe if Witcher 3 doesn't work properly and Dragon age turns out decent this time. Then theres dark souls 2 if it's ported properly this time. After checking the releases it doesn't seem all that bad, there are a lot of potentially good games, but then again that site had half-life 3 listed for 2014 for some reason.

Can you explain to me how this year seems bleak? Cause from what I can see this year looks like it's going to be a good one. Also if your computer couldn't handle Witcher 3 or if Dark Souls 2 doesn't get ported properly you could always get them on PS4/Xbox one/PS3/Xbox 360? Unless you just don't like consals?

I did mention that it seems like a crappy year for ME. There simply aren't that many interesting titles coming out and i don't plan on buying a console for various reasons.

 

[Magix]

Okay guys I get it, I shouldn't let a couple of bad games dictate the outcome of this year. I just also have this bad feeling for some unknown reason that we're gonna get a aliens:colonial marines or two this year I don't know why. Maybe I should be more optimistic.

The problem is you're defining how good the year is based on the number of bad games.. Why bother? Define them by the number of good games. And you have no idea how many of those will come out this year, especially because at this point really only Thief has actually come out.
And from what I can tell, that's a pretty solid title. So from where I'm standing, it seems like a pretty GOOD start to the year, at least for the PC platform. A visually impressive, well optimized game that has every bit of PC customization one could ask for, no bugs, and the only downsides are subjective problems that people inherently have with the genre/that style of game?

Yeah, I'd say things aren't bad at all.

Edit: welp, I missed a couple of pages, might be repeating stuff

 

[Vigormortis]

Just when I thought cynicism, hyperbole, and the lack of perspective had reached epic levels on this forum...

Good job, Escapist! You never fail to disappoint! ;D

So, a handfull of crappy games that you would've never discovered if it wasn't for the internet publicity they got through TB and similiar = second worst year for gaming? Really? Do you really think that no other year ever had such bad games released? Hate to blow your mind but: Just because it is easier to expose a bad game today doesn't mean bad games just started releasing. Each month shitty games release. Since ever.

Well see, right there's your problem. You're looking at this rationally and objectively.

That's not how we gamers do things nowadays. If you're not overreacting, ignoring the facts, and bitching incessantly, then you're a dirty casual elitist who's the epitome of everything that's wrong with the industry.

Come on Kasp. Get with the times!

 

[marioandsonic]

Eh, the post-Christmas releases tend to not be very good.

Thankfully, the new South Park game comes out next week. Looking forward to that!

 

[Ferisar]

Titanfall, DA:I, Dark Souls 2, Shadows of Mordor (maybe), Witcher 3, any number of shooters ranging from bad to good... Any number of indie games ranging from bad to good, Watch_Dogs, Second Son, Stick of Truth et cetera ad nauseam

Oh, right, we had some shit tie-in low budget cash-ins that came out, as per usual of EVERY GAMING YEAR SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING. And a Greenlight game is bad... Let's call it in folks, it's over. Everyone pack up your game systems and just throw them off the bridge for their own sanity. Call Gaben. Save our steams.

I guess we can call this the worst year, you're right.

 

[2xDouble]

Not even nearly the worst year for gaming.

Think of all those years before the 20th century. 1066 will have been a very poor year for gaming.

What are you talking about? Chess revolutionized gaming. And don't even get me started on Ball in a Cup and Rubber Ball (and its famous sequel Rubber Ball 2, which was later renamed Basketball in the English version). Man, Mexico was a kick ass game developer back in the day, if you can forget all that controversy surrounding Human Sacrifice and that hostile takeover by Spain...

Anyway... 1023 was WAY worse; basically all they had was yet another annual installment/remake of the Holy Crusade franchise. We all know people were sick of the franchise after the first few, but no... they just had to keep pumping out a new one every few months to cash in on brand recognition... The devs lost sight of what made Holy Crusade good in the first place and turned it into a blatant cash-grab. (To be fair, Holy Crusade 1 was pretty much a cash-grab to begin with, being a licensed title and all, but at least it was an interesting one, where they at least tried to obscure the business end of it.)

I may be getting those years wrong, but I've already put way too much effort into this joke, I'm not about to toss actual research into it.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I may be getting those years wrong, but I've already put way too much effort into this joke, I'm not about to toss actual research into it.

Very wrong in fact. The First Crusade was declared in 1095, and in 1066 Chess had been played throughout Europe for about a century. Also the Spanish didn't conquer what is now Mexico until the 16th century.

The joke might be salvageable though. The most notable events of 1023 and 1066 were the founding of the Abbasid dynasty and William the Conqueror being crowned King of England respectively. Obviously one of those is more widely know to anglophones.

 

[Bombiz]

This year really seems bleak, even more so for PC gamers, or at least myself. I was considering replacing my old piece of junk, but then i realised that there is no reason to, maybe if Witcher 3 doesn't work properly and Dragon age turns out decent this time. Then theres dark souls 2 if it's ported properly this time. After checking the releases it doesn't seem all that bad, there are a lot of potentially good games, but then again that site had half-life 3 listed for 2014 for some reason.

Can you explain to me how this year seems bleak? Cause from what I can see this year looks like it's going to be a good one. Also if your computer couldn't handle Witcher 3 or if Dark Souls 2 doesn't get ported properly you could always get them on PS4/Xbox one/PS3/Xbox 360? Unless you just don't like consals?

I did mention that it seems like a crappy year for ME. There simply aren't that many interesting titles coming out and i don't plan on buying a console for various reasons.

i must have not seen the "ME" part then. Even though i saw the PC gamer part.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

there a decent number of games coming out this year.. and i don't even own a next gen console.. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja: Storm Revolution, Persona 4 arena DLC ( aka Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold) Tales of Xillia 2 (as well as the first Tales of Xillia since I didn't play the first one yet), Watch Dogs, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma,Tales of Symphonia Chronicles and a bunch of games from last year I've yet to play.. i think me and my PS3 are going to be pretty busy this year..

 

[XMark]

January and February are the classic dumping ground for bad video games and movies. Just hold on, we'll make it through as we do every year.