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What is the weakest year in Gaming post 2010?
- Thread starter Hierophant
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2012 easily. There are some great games there, but overall, even in retrospect where the weaker stuff is filtered out it lacks in quantity vs everything around it. 2014 is the runner up but I can think of several games I'd rank over almost everything in 2012. They're also both years heavily carried by indie and lower budget stuff (+Nintendo), and I think 2014 blows away most of 2012 in that regard too.
These threads are always so silly because you pick a random year and it had incredible games released in it. Just because you didn't personally like the games that were big (or not so big) that year doesn't make them any less incredible.
2013 was so weaksauce, you guys. Metro: Last Light, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Shadow Warrior, Bioshock: Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Call of Duty: Ghosts (screw you brahs, it had a great campaign), Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider 2013, Arkham: Origins, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Ryse: Son of Rome, Devil may Cry --- there was just nothing NOTABLE released in 2013. Just this wasteland of gaming.
2013 was so weaksauce, you guys. Metro: Last Light, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Shadow Warrior, Bioshock: Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Call of Duty: Ghosts (screw you brahs, it had a great campaign), Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider 2013, Arkham: Origins, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Ryse: Son of Rome, Devil may Cry --- there was just nothing NOTABLE released in 2013. Just this wasteland of gaming.
2012 < 2016 < 2014 < 2015 < 2011 < 2013 < 2017
I feel like 2014 is better then it's getting credit for, but I guess the best games were on the console that no one bought.
I feel like 2014 is better then it's getting credit for, but I guess the best games were on the console that no one bought.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition won a stack of GOTY awards because I really don't think you can name a single open world RPG that offers a comparable experience. I understand not liking DA: Inquisition, but RPGs of its calibre, with player created characters and reams of well acted, quite well written dialogue, are rare. It's not exactly a mystery why the game was so well received.
I'll echo the people that say 2014. Low on games that caught my personal interest, I think most of that year was dota 2 for me.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I'm a massive RPG fan and I dropped DA:I after about 40 hours due to sheer boredom. That game for me is the definition of 'quantity over quality'.
2014 had bayonetta 2, smash bros 4 (3DS and WiiU) and mario kart 8.. those games happened to be on a failed platform that nobody cared about.
As someone who liked Shadow of Mordor and Inquisition, I can't say 2014. It was so much fun by the end of the gen! I spent the last four months of that year having a blast.
Honestly, I guess it'd have to be 2013. Arkham Origins and Tomb Raider were OK, but can't compare to 2015-present at all.
Honestly, I guess it'd have to be 2013. Arkham Origins and Tomb Raider were OK, but can't compare to 2015-present at all.
I don't remember a single new game I bought in 2014. I'm sure that there was one or two, but nothing that stands out.
2014 was an absolutely fantastic year. The indie svene thrived to a ridiculous level. My quality Vita library grew to insanity in 2014. It was arguably Vita's best year. Only in the AAA space was 2014 a weak year .
I never had a PC that could run anything after 2010, so I never got into the PC games. But, for me, the weakest year was probably around 2014 or so. I had no interest in the wii u, the 3DS, the xbox one, the ps4, the vita, none of it appealed to me at all. If I didn't have a backlog of retro games to play, I probably would've stopped playing games for the whole year.
2014 was generally poor for the AAA space - what with the glitch crisis and all - but there were a lot of enjoyable indie titles.
On the other hand, I remember that year much more for the discourse surrounding the year. It was the start of GamerGate, and people got really, really serious about video games. So, despite thinking 2012 or 2013 were arguably worse in terms of game releases, I'd say the overall community brings the year down as the worst.
Last year was really poor too, especially now in the light of 2017.
On the other hand, I remember that year much more for the discourse surrounding the year. It was the start of GamerGate, and people got really, really serious about video games. So, despite thinking 2012 or 2013 were arguably worse in terms of game releases, I'd say the overall community brings the year down as the worst.
Last year was really poor too, especially now in the light of 2017.
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2016 was a horrible year in my opinion. I can only remember getting maybe 2 games for PS4 and 1 Wii U game. Thankfully the best year of all time followed it.
2012 is the worst year in gaming in recent memory. The generation lasted for too long and games kept getting delayed. A lot of games, like Halo 4 and (launch) Diablo 3 ended up being major disappointments. The Wii U had a pretty lackluster launch and the 3DS really didnt have a lot of great titlea around that time either. Probabpy my most played system of that time period was the Vita, but that was mostly because of The Pinball Arcade.
2014 wasn't that great either but at least Nintendo brought their A game with Wii U titles.
2014 wasn't that great either but at least Nintendo brought their A game with Wii U titles.
Idk about weakest I guess 2014.
I would say the one I most under appreciated was 2012. I went all in on Wii U hype (lol) and saved for six months. Loved playing Nintendo Land, Blops 2, Zombi U and NSMBU that holiday but there was so much more elsewhere too.
Halo 4 ( I liked it), Forza Horizon, Sleeping Dogs, Dishonored. Was a better year than I think it gets credit for.
I think RE: Revelations was 2012 and Kid Icarus too
I would say the one I most under appreciated was 2012. I went all in on Wii U hype (lol) and saved for six months. Loved playing Nintendo Land, Blops 2, Zombi U and NSMBU that holiday but there was so much more elsewhere too.
Halo 4 ( I liked it), Forza Horizon, Sleeping Dogs, Dishonored. Was a better year than I think it gets credit for.
I think RE: Revelations was 2012 and Kid Icarus too
2014 was actually a really good year. Its just that the GOTY awards went to medicore games like Shadow of Mordor and Dragon Age: Inquistion. 2014 had Bayonetta 2, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Divinity: Original Sin, Wasteland 2, Titanfall, Shovel Knight, Alien: Isolation, Legend of Grimrock 2, Mario Kart 8. Those are some damn good games I just listed and I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting. Its a shame that the media didn't give these other games more regonition but I look fondly back at 2014. I think 2012 was kind meh honestly.
I was going to say 2012 because I initially remember that year being notorious for games that failed to deliver and its two most critically acclaimed games, The Walking Dead and Mass Effect 3, left me incredibly underwhelmed.
But then I actually went back and looked at what released in North America in 2012 and six games in particular stood out to me...
While that lineup of titles might not necessarily appeal to a wide audience, each of those experiences left a much greater impact on me than almost all of the heavy hitters of 2013 with the only four exceptions being BioShock Infinite, Metal Gear Rising, Pikmin 3 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf (the last of which was actually released in 2012 in Japan).
EDIT: Despite releases like Bayonetta 2, Dark Souls II, Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros. for Wii U & 3DS in 2014, I still have to give the edge to 2013 for ACNL since I sunk 600+ hours into that game. As much as it pains me to say it, 2014 gets my vote.
But then I actually went back and looked at what released in North America in 2012 and six games in particular stood out to me...
- Gravity Rush
- Journey
- Katawa Shoujo
- Kid Icarus: Uprising
- Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles
While that lineup of titles might not necessarily appeal to a wide audience, each of those experiences left a much greater impact on me than almost all of the heavy hitters of 2013 with the only four exceptions being BioShock Infinite, Metal Gear Rising, Pikmin 3 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf (the last of which was actually released in 2012 in Japan).
EDIT: Despite releases like Bayonetta 2, Dark Souls II, Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros. for Wii U & 3DS in 2014, I still have to give the edge to 2013 for ACNL since I sunk 600+ hours into that game. As much as it pains me to say it, 2014 gets my vote.
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It's a toss up between 2012 and 2014. I remember Q4 2011 being all kinds of mad, and 2013 slayed all-round, especially thanks to the 3DS.
If you weren't into cRPG revival then it would obviously be 2014. Shadow of Mordor was so painfully average with the only interesting thing being its Nemesis system. And I have little good to say about that year's majority GOTY Dragon Age: Inquisition which I found to be a step-back from Dragon Age Origins in almost every way.
DKC: Tropical Freeze as well, what a great year for the Wii U. And yet Shadow of Mordor / Dragon Age still walked away with all the GotYs. smh.
2014 also had my GOAT, Shovel Knight, so 2012 it is.
I, for one, loved 2014. Alien Isolation, The Evil Within, MGS:GZ, Wolfenstein, Divinity: OS, Tales from the Borderlands, Wasteland 2, Banner Saga, and plenty more.
Can't really think of any year I didn't get something I really liked, but I am non-ironically very fond of 2014.
Can't really think of any year I didn't get something I really liked, but I am non-ironically very fond of 2014.
2016 was full of disappointing sequels and not much else. Hell, I don't even remember what games I liked fron last year.
2014 was bad if you didn't own a Wii U. Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta 2, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Smash Bros., Shovel Knight, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, all great games. Seeing Shadow of Mordor and Dragon Age walk away with all the awards while games like MK8 and Tropical Freeze were left in the dirt just baffles me to this day.
2012 was the real bad one. I understand why people love Journey, but it left no lasting impact on me. Same with The Walking Dead. Dishonored was pretty great, and NSMBU was a lot better than I had expected. Apart from that...ehhh...
2012 was the real bad one. I understand why people love Journey, but it left no lasting impact on me. Same with The Walking Dead. Dishonored was pretty great, and NSMBU was a lot better than I had expected. Apart from that...ehhh...