| IkePoR said: We can only hope that 2014 is not a trend and that 2015's games won't utterly disappoint everyone. |
It was the year of transition for many of us, to be honest before December 2014 the last game that I bought was in February 2013. After that I started to wait for the right time to move on to the 8th gen.
It is all so relative: for those of you who jumped right into the new generation the last year's offering was quite bad, but for those of us who were patient enough to wait until the end of the year it was great.
Let me give you an example: Let's say that you bought a PS4 in early 2014. There wasn't much to play, a few games here and there were spread over the span of the year. Many of them were crossgen and usually the same old annual titles like FIFA, COD and AC.
On the other hand I bought PS4 in December 2014, so I got a great deal with TLOU:Remastered, Driveclub and LBP3 bundled. Then I bought Infamous Second Son and GTA V (which I skipped in the last gen). So basically 1-5 great games (depending on whether you like any of those) in the first month.
It was also a year of transition for developers, many of them would ask themselves: what is the point of developing solely for a platform(s) whose user base is so small? So naturally many of these games were crossgen, like Watch Dogs and Destiny for example.
So why won't the year 2015 be as dissapointing as 2014? Simple answer for a simple question: money. Money that relates to the growing user bases. And that relates to more 8th gen exclusives...
Ultimately it comes down to your personal expectations. For me Uncharted 4 and Batman: Arkham Knight make it already a better year than 2014, everything else is just extra credit.
