Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
colafitte said:
In fact I include every platform. If I'd played a 9/10 or 10/10 game in a PS3 or X360 this year I would count it too, like some people are saying Dark Souls 2, but I did not.
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If that is the case: then yeah 2014 can be construed as dissapointing. At the same time, ratings or the studio that makes them aren't indicative of quality. I mean the very fact that you said they are so little quality AAA games means AAA doesn't equal quality all the time.
Not to mention, when has any console had good games on its first year? You mention the PS2's games, what did the 360 have Forza?
Not to mention, it is much harder to get a good score now then it was then, furthermore aggregation sites like Metacritic didn't even exist. When a score is considered part of a games avg score rather than a reviewers opinion of course its going to be weighted heavily towards that.
Not saying those previous years game we're bad, but what did God of War have to compete against as its predecessor?
2014 has to compete against all of the previous years combined, and the same will be true for 2015.
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I know what you're saying, but I'm not considering start of end of generations, or just some consoles, I mean all the industry, from 3DS to PS4 and PC. I mean, this year, all the games that came this year that were meant to be the highlight or GOTY candidate have been really underwhelming or incomplete projects.
And I don't think is more difficult to get good scores now than 10 years ago, last year you had TLOU and GTA V that had 95+ on metacritic and were as hyped as hell. To me TLOU is 10/10 game, GTA V a 9/10 game, AC IV to take an example a 8/10 game, Infamous SS a 7/10.....and Destiny is a borderline 6/10 game, if it wasn't for its shooting mechanics and gorgeous artstyle.
If Destiny was launched with the same gameplay as of now and the graphic technology of a game from 2006 or 2010 back then, would still be a 7/10 or 8/10 game.
If Watch Dogs, Destiny, Infamous SS, TItanFall have received less than 90 scores is because....they deserved them. It's not that the gaming sites are the only ones considering those scores, the players are too. Maybe some games back then were overrated like GTA IV was (for me was a 8/10 game), but even with this, GTA IV was a better game back then in 2007 than Destiny is now in 2014.
Oh, and I'm not basing my opinion of those games on metacritic scores, is just my opinion, my personal rating that the AAA games of 2014 are worse than the AAA games that were in 2005, 2006 or other years considered "weak" back then. I've been playing games for more than 20 years on PC and consoles so I have some perspective...