Topic: Substandard year in gaming--2014--GotY contenders?

[lolmonade]

Regarding the actual subject in question:
 
My problem with GOTY discussions is that half of my gaming dollars are usually spent on games from the prior year.  My personal "game of the year" would be Fire Emblem: Awakening.

[azeke]

The important consideration is not whether or not a game concept is novel, as much as it should be "does the developer create a game that produces a novel gaming experience?"

That's what i am talking about too. All these AAA games feature the same cut and paste gameplay: "gunplay exactly like in Halo!", "loot like in Borderlands!", "open world gameplay, like in GTA".

My problem with GOTY discussions is that half of my gaming dollars are usually spent on games from the prior year.  My personal "game of the year" would be Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Same. 95% of my gaming time is games released years and decades ago. I can count current releases i bought in 2013 on one hand. I am pretty sure the only 2014 game i bought this year is Crimsonland and that barely qualifies being remake of a decade old game...With October/December releases (Bayo, Korra, Lara Croft) i should fill my quota though.

[shingi_70]

So far The Walking Dead Season 2 and the recently released D4: Dark Dreams don't Die from swery. Both are very similar being sort of point and click patterned off of TV shows

[ShyGuy]

Regarding the actual subject in question:
 
My problem with GOTY discussions is that half of my gaming dollars are usually spent on games from the prior year.  My personal "game of the year" would be Fire Emblem: Awakening.

This is very true. My game of the year would be Deus Ex: Human Revolution

[Mop it up]

Yeah, I have the same "problem," most games drop in price so quickly, and all games drop in price eventually, that I can't really justify buying games when they come out at full price. So I don't play much current stuff and buy a lot of "older" stuff. Smash Bros U may be the first time I pay $60 for a game, unless I find a pre-order deal or something.

I don't think we've had a particularly great year in gaming since 2010, though.

[MagicCow64]

Yeah, I have the same "problem," most games drop in price so quickly, and all games drop in price eventually, that I can't really justify buying games when they come out at full price. So I don't play much current stuff and buy a lot of "older" stuff. Smash Bros U may be the first time I pay $60 for a game, unless I find a pre-order deal or something.

I don't think we've had a particularly great year in gaming since 2010, though.

Agreed, I try to play as wide an array of stuff as possible, and have done a lot of catch up this year after having access to a PS3 for six months and getting a strong laptop, and very little has stood out. Nothing "big dog" has particularly impressed me since Red Dead Redemption in 2010 and Arkham Asylum in 2009. Nintendo has had some great stuff, and I would probably go with Tropical Freeze as my favorite 2014 game, but their release schedule is famously anemic. Indie-wise, my stand-outs are still Braid, World of Goo, Super Meat Boy, and Limbo, and those were 2008, 2008, 2010, and 2010. Honorable mention for Knytt Underground in 2012.