I've always thought that year kinda sucked. It's probably still the worst year of last gen. It was full of flawed games, downgrades everywhere and not a single game felt goty worthy. Hell, a mediocre Dragon Age Inquisition winning GOTY awards kinda proves my point.
And yet after seeing what this year is turning out to be, I am wondering if I didnt appreciate it enough. March 2014 saw the releases of Infamous Second Son, Titanfall, MGS Ground Zeroes and Downgrade Souls 2. What do we got releasing this month? The only next gen games we have gotten so far this year are Destruction All Stars and Medium. They make Infamous Second Son look like Citizen Kane.
The rest of the year was jam packed too after a somewhat slow summer. Watch Dogs got a massive downgrade, but it was a fairly enjoyable game. Destiny had issues, loot droprate, forever 29, and a somewhat shallow expansion, but looking back at the last 7 years of destiny. Those four months were by far the best. Even taken king didnt have that magic of getting your first Gjallahorn or Vex.
Here is a full list.
- Infamous Second Son
- Dark Souls 2
- MGS Ground Zeroes
- Titanfall
- Watch Dogs
- Destiny
- Far Cry 4
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Evil Within
- Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls
- Cod Advanced Warfare (First true next gen cod. Amazing visual showcase)
- AC Unity (First true next gen AC. Again, gorgeous looking game unfortunately riddled with bugs at launch. Still my favorite AC of the gen.)
- DriveClub (Another rushed game, but man it looked next gen as fuck)
- LittlebigPlanet 3
- Mario Kart 8
- Smash Bros
- Bayonetta 2
- Shadow of Mordor
I have played and enjoyed almost all of these games. They are no Witcher 3 or RDR2, but I was sitting here jerking off to the sad '
Big Suck' thread, and realized that I didnt appreciate what I had in 2014. I would kill to play a new next gen Infamous, next gen Titanfall, Dragon Age, AC, DriveClub 2 and Dark Souls 4 this year. I mean we are actually being made to look forward to Kena of all games because there is nothing else until Ratchet comes out in June.
Looking at the list above, not a single studio that made the games above is set to release a game this year, and thats depressing.