Doctoglethorpe
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Summer is always very dry. Then fall hits and nhit goes suts.
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Anyone else feel that the rest of year is quite barren and/or quiet AAA wise?
- Thread starter AHA-Lambda
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I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuge Witcher fan. Some games come along that are the very reason you game, other games are just filler until you get to those games. At least that's how it is for me. Among my favorite franchises, only the Witcher 3 was announced for this year and now that it's delayed until 2015, 2014 is just filler for me.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
There's reason to believe this won't be the case for 2014. Primarily the lack of games announced so far.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
clutch.as.it.gets.
Member
Not the best year, but i think i`m alright. For me its:
Wolfenstein: The New Order
TLoU PS 4
Metro Redux
GTA 5 PS 4
Dying Light
The Order 1886
Alien: Isolation
Batman: Arkham Knight
And i`m thinking about a Wii U for DKC and MK8. We will see.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
TLoU PS 4
Metro Redux
GTA 5 PS 4
Dying Light
The Order 1886
Alien: Isolation
Batman: Arkham Knight
And i`m thinking about a Wii U for DKC and MK8. We will see.
Lol, precisely. OP, you need to do some research before asking questions like that;
it comes off as premature. If you aren't interested in most of the stuff listed in this
thread, then that's a separate issue entirely. The quantity and quality of AAA
games being released this year are outstanding, especially this early in the gen.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I'm not interested in them therefore they don't exist. lol
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Don't do that to yourself.
Too many games this year for me. I potentially going to buy all this.
Diablo 3
Evil within
Dying light
Destiny
Division
Watchdogs
The order
Driveclub
Alien isolation
Wolfenstein
Dragon age
Batman
Assassins creed unity
Evolve
Middle earth
And i'm pretty sure i'm missing a few on there too.
I'm more then happy with this years offerings.
Diablo 3
Evil within
Dying light
Destiny
Division
Watchdogs
The order
Driveclub
Alien isolation
Wolfenstein
Dragon age
Batman
Assassins creed unity
Evolve
Middle earth
And i'm pretty sure i'm missing a few on there too.
I'm more then happy with this years offerings.
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I don't even know why I bought a new console...at least I didn't drop a bunch of money on a new PC. I'm glad I have some stuff from last gen to play + the odd ninty game.
I think it comes down to publisher expectations, budgets, and the supreme importance of metacritc. That is the recipe for ultra-streamlined and risk-free gameplay, created almost solely to appeal to the critics who work for outlets with slots on metacritic. Sessler, for example, is hoping to cash-in on that fact by telling game-designers what types of things will get critics aroused and what wont.
But that is ok because there are other places where that doesn't apply. LoL and Dota, for example, exist and are sucessful because they are separte from that system. If they were $60 packaged games that had to pass the 20-40 year old game writer test, they would have failed spectacularly. We've also still got some small-in-scope handheld games, indie PC games, etc etc. So there still is cream, it just wont be on console or require the latest graphics card/cpu.
As an aside, it is pretty telling, imo, that the last two consensus GOTY were GOTY in spite of the actual gameplay (last of us + walking dead).
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Pretty sure that is incorrect. In any case, some devs are waiting E3 to ride the hype
AHA-Lambda
Member
That still doesn't take away from the fact that there have been less announcements at this point in the year compared to other years.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Because devs are waiting for E3.
swazzyswess
Member
If Evolve, Evil Within and Dragon Age 3 are all good, it'll be a fantastic fall for me personally, and much better than the latter part of 2013 IMO.