I've seen countless threads everywhere stating that 2014 is the worst year for gaming, in recent years. After thinking a little about it, I have to disagree.

1) A LOT of people keep mentioning the high number of remasters as one of the reasons why this years sucks. That's a nonsensical complain right there. Yeah yeah, I get it, "I don't wanna play what I already played, with shinnier graphics", but does the mere EXISTENCE of these remasters bother you so much...? What about people who never played the original games because they didn't have the right console? Also, unless I forgot something, there were about 9 remasters this year. Sounds reasonable.

2) The whole Watch Dogs and Destiny fiasco. Yes, they were hyped as the next coming of Christ. Yes, they didn't live up to the hype. Yes, Watch Dogs was severely downgraded. But just because of that, do we have to treat them as the second coming of Satan instead? The reviews tell me that neither game is bad - in fact, they are well above average. At worst, they are the kind of games that some people love and some people find pretty boring (especially Destiny). If you forget the overhype, the downgrade, what you have left are two potentially fun games.

3) Still on that subject, we have the major clusterfuck that was AC Unity. Now this one deserves all the backlash, the game is downright BROKEN. But that's ONE GAME. I think that this year have showed us that we see the big AAA titles as a termometer for the whole year. This year, the big names disappointed, so the whole year was crucified. Last year, we had The Last of Us, Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite (and AC4), so the whole year was praised. But what about the other games? On that...

4) This is the EXTREMELY subjective part. I decided to see which games released in 2014 I'd be interested enough to buy, or at the very least check them out. I counted 32 games, and that's NOT including remasters of any kind. That's an average of over 2 games per month right there. So aren't people exaggerating a little bit on the 2014 hate bandwagon...?

tl;dr: remasters are not that bad, Watch Dogs and Destiny are not horrible, the disappointment of the most hyped games of the year DOES NOT summarize the entire year, there were plenty of good or interesting games released this year.

Welp, if you are a Nintendo fan, than I would argue that it has been a great year cause the first/second party games that came out on the wiiU were anything but disappointing. Is 2014 really that bad if you aren't a Nintendo fan? I would say no but is it really that zomg either? I would also say no

The holiday does seem to have a nice library of games for non Nintendo fans however, Far Cry 4, Shadow of Mordor as well as DA:I are great games. (Yea yea, SoM isn't holiday, ssh)

It has been an overwhelming year for Nintendo fans.

People forgot 2012 already.

You're just proving my point. 2012 was seriously lacking on the "big AAA hyped games" department. The fact that a point-and-click game won most GOTY awards (and an indie game with no genre got the remaining GOTY awards) speaks numbers about that year. I'm not saying The Walking Dead or Journey don't deserve it, but the competition was... lacking that year.

HOWEVER, much like this year, there were also plenty of good, smaller games that year. I'm not talking indies here either. Like I said, we all see the big AAA titles as the termometer for the WHOLE YEAR. When it just doesn't work like that.

No, 2014 hasn't been anywhere near bad with games such as COD:AW, Far Cry 4, and Dragon Age: Inquisition ...

If anything this is one of the better gaming years ...

I enjoyed 2014, I don't get where all the MASSIVE hate comes from.

South Park the Stick of Truth, Infamous SS, First Light, Child of Light, Rayman Legends, Forza Horizons 2, Sunset Overdrive, Last of Us R, Pokemon, MK8, Smash, DA I, DK, Bayonetta 2. While I didn't play all those games, most were extremely fun and well worth it.

Was it the best gaming year? IMO, no, but I don't think it was the worst. I think it's the worst gaming year if you had too high of standards for Watch Dogs, and Destiny. After Watch Dogs got delayed... the first time, I wasn't that interested in it. I think a lot of people need to lower their expectations for these games. Destiny for me was a game where it fell victim to the hype. I played the demo and I did enjoy it, but I never picked it up. I saw that the game lacked a lot of content, so I have decided to wait. Lesson to be learned, don't fall for the hype. 

Whatever your point was, 2012 was weaker than 2014. You just agreed with me.

Well, I guess I did. But 2012 wasn't a BAD year either...

You can add Driveclub and MCC to that list.