I cant agree at all, I've been logging about 100 hours a month between my wii u and 3ds lately!

True, but I would rather have a series that always tries to innovate rather than rehash the same fking game year on year. Why? Because there is a chance that even the worst dev would accidently come up with a good idea after that many attempts, whereas doing the same thing guarantees stagnation.

This is the best first year of any generation i have seen, usually most games released at the start of a generation are tech demos polished for release as retail games.

Go get The Evil Within, that game is great. This is the best age in gaming, we got lots of games coming in the next year alone.

You haven't tried FFXIV yet. I highly suggest you do.

Am I the only person who liked thief?

Anyway 2014 hasn't been the best year - even on Nintendo. But these days I think I'm not fully catered for in general.

Whilst 2013 had many big name games, and in many cases I liked them, they weren't games I truly loved.

Most linear shoot 'em ups like bioshock infinite and metro last light are fun and a great way of telling a story (And infinities story was incredible) but they aren't the quake 1's or duke nukem 3d's which I want, and still play to this day.

I did really like tomb raider. That was a linear story based game buy the core gameplay was a step up from the norm. And, although totally linear, you did have a sense of exploration as, in parts, you had to look at cliff faces and buildings to try and discover where you should climb to progress.

I think gta V was the best gta yet and a good game, but I'm not the biggest fan of the series and I often feel I'm the only person who can see the gameplay flaws in those games.

I enjoyed Mario 3d World a lot but it wasn't the Mario game I wanted them to make.

Pikmin 3 was my first pikmin game and I liked it.

Assassins creed 4 was good. But didn't hold my interest throughout the game.

I would say my 3ds had three games I loved in 2013. Luigi's Mansion 2, Fire Emblem: Awakened and Zelda ALBW.

But I think in general I'm the kind of gamer who simply not catered for these days. I often turn to retro gaming, not because I want to, but because it's still the only way I can get the experiences I want.

I can easily sum up a big factor that's that's missing from modern games. Exploration. Exploration of well designed levels. Not the tedious, often incidental, exploration of modern open world games and their boring environments. The exploration I miss so much used to be the bread and butter of video games and I'm sure there must be many others who miss it and also feel let down by the industry right now.

Meaningful exploration is a part of what I love about Quake 1 and Mario 64 and I don't think we'll be out of the dark ages until that comes back into our games.

Im sorry but Enslaved was an awful game. The most repetative game and truely terrible ending.

There is plenty of great games if you are not looking obviously your going to miss them. Theres been plenty of 85-90+ meta games. Plenty have sold well. This gen thus far has been a letdown but its still early and 2015 is looking up.

You sir, are an interesting creature.

It actually went downhill from Pong.

2013 was an amazing year for games. We had; TLOU, Bioshock Infinite, GTA V, Ni no Kuni, Tomb Raider, LOZ: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World and others released then. And this year was just shite in comparison. If we look at next years lineup for games on all platforms, well.. it's looking to be a very strong year for vidya games