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Best of 2014

by leroyrockwell

It's been kinda a slow year for games for me. With the definitive editions of games coming out to most of fall games either being pushed back or just broken.

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Far Cry 4

1. Far Cry 4

Murder simulator 2014. I don't care about those ashes, Pagan Min, the Golden path and I really don't care about 100% of the quest givers in this game. CAN I STRAP C4 TO AN ELEPHANT AND RAMPAGE IT THROUGH A OUTPOST AND WHEN IT DIES CAN I BLOW IT UP MAKING A DISTRACTION TO CLEAN UP THE ON LOOKERS. Co-op is the best feature in the game. I also didn't thin Pagan min was a great villain because he's barely around and when he calls in I'm barely paying attention because I'm too busy hunting down a honey badger. Troy Baker gives a great performance but I honestly don't care. The story in Far Cry games are just there to give you a sense of progression to me. It was better than the last game but still a bunch of characters I don't give two craps about. But rockWELL it's flawed why is it so high up. BECAUSE IT WAS FUN unlike Destiny. Which I bought, hated and decided not to put on this list. (JABS)

inFamous: First Light

2. inFamous: First Light

Oh hey Fetch. What's that? You're going to give me more of the stuff I liked about Second Son but be more of a character than Delsin? Sure sign me up. Fetch should have been the main protagonist of the larger game. Sure it doesn't have the power switching but neither did Cole in the first infamous. Her story is alot more interesting to me than Delsin's. The arena rooms are alright to get your power fix but I wish both games had a city reset so you can clear them all out again with enemies everywhere than just random battle areas on the map.

Rogue Legacy

3. Rogue Legacy

This freaking game. I swear. It was addictive as Spelunky and reminded me of the DS Castlevania games. I was so happy when I beat it the first time by just grinding many runs. A 110 generations and finally did it. If you have a vita and a short break to take it's this game and Spelunky that will kill a quick 15 minutes. But be warned, One more run turns into 5 more runs then into an hour of your day drained away and a 12 generations later.

Spelunky

4. Spelunky

I'm an addict. The only reason it's on here is because the PS4 version came out this year. Best game to play on a short break.

inFamous: Second Son

5. inFamous: Second Son

This game improved on most of the gameplay mechanics of infamous 2. The locomotion has been enhanced by a simple dash button. New creative ways to climb up buildings, escape area where you have lost control of the managing the battle at hand. This is also the game I show off to friends when they ask "How much better is the PS4?" I bought it on release and would have wished I had waited for the photo mode because I loved it. The biggest issues was the story. Oh Delsin you seem to be an okay guy. As always I played through both sides of the infamous system and you know what? I wish they would just get rid of the system. The reason? The characters in the game don't react differently to your actions at all. I have a brother and my brother wouldn't sell me up the river but he would TOTALLY bring up the fact that I kinda murdered a bunch of people when he told me not to. Troy Baker gives a great performance again. Now the interest part of the story was Brooke Augustine and her motives. She wasn't a bad or evil person just really misunderstood in her actions. That is until she does what she does to Delsin. Protections doesn't or shouldn't come with entrapment.

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-

6. Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-

The first GG I ever played about Guilty Gear XX on Xbox with my Rival brother Venom in 2007/2008. We played it off the Xbox 360 games store when they put on OG Xbox games on it. I never played one before that ever. Venom and I would play Street fighter Alpha collection and MvC2 up at Seven Studioz when setting up for the night's event. I really enjoyed learning about a new system and a series I missed. Then Street Fighter IV hit and made the second coming of Fighting games happen. I never really got into BlazBlue because of it's overly complicated systems and character specific meters and bars. People talk about SFIV multiple games releases but never the scummy Blazblu ones. I loved Persona 4 Arena so I got a better relationship with Arc System works. Guilty Gear Xrd is like the guys on the bombcast said, "It's like some kind of dark magic happening by the way this game looks and moves." The gameplay is solid don't get me wrong, but it is the closest we will come to 3d having the frame skipping motion of 2d. It's an amazing game on that and it's solid fighting engine. I just wish when I went online there wasn't a sea of Ky and Sol players. (they are Ryu and Ken of Guilty Gear LOL)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

7. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

So, step on up to the plate, meet your fate Walkin' straight on into the lion's lair Fighting game. I wish this game came out earlier this year because Guilty Gear has killed it. I wish it had a bigger community. So now it's just Venom and I playing Golden Arena mode and having fight nights. Curse you Guilty Gear.

Wolfenstein: The New Order

8. Wolfenstein: The New Order

Balls to the walls action. This is the bioshock of this year. World building, nice story and better gameplay than infinite. It's an old school FPS with all the bravado of the 90s actions. I wish the sound mixing was better than it was. I haven't completed it because I got it around Black Friday and Far Cry 4 has been taking up a lot of my time.

Luftrausers

9. Luftrausers

Pure Arcade fun. If you have the PS3 version and a arcade/fight stick try it out. It's a blast to play like that.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

10. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear? Okay I wasn't a person who was going to pay 40 buck for a glorified demo. I wait til it was 15 on ps4 and then bought it. I really like MGS4 when they gave me a chance to play (LOL) MGS is one my favorite series because of all the stupid wacky nonsense that goes on in these games. I'm enjoying Metal Gear Scanlon because of just Drews reactions to it. Now on to this 'Demo', Someone got it. I still have to thank Ryan Payton for helping make MGS play like a modern game. The people at KojiPro have improved on that system to make playing ground zeroes seem like second nature with it's controls.

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