Worst of 2013

[Great Rumbler]

Also, I have ticked the box for allowing people to change their vote in the event that more garbage gets added to this pointless poll.

[fistfulofmetal]

Mass Effect 3 was 2012.

[archnemesis]

I only voted for four options so you should add Android-based microconsoles as a choice.

[Human Snorenado]

"Gaming media and their absurd deification of BioShock Infinite and TLoU" needs to be added, dog

[Great Rumbler]

Mass Effect 3 was 2012.

 

[magus]

indie games and kickstarter aren't on this,this pool is biased

"Gaming media and their absurd deification of BioShock Infinite and TLoU" needs to be added, dog

can we expand this to "the deification of any game with focus on narrative and/or some sort of tear jerker moment"

[Joe Molotov]

I played a videogame once, it was awful.

[Human Snorenado]

Voted WiiU, console industry not crashing, BioShock Infinite/TLoU fegs, and NEOgaf of course

[radioheadrule83]

More people voted Wii U than actually own one on this board I think

I voted Gearbox, No HL3, IAP, the Console Industry not crashing (but really I mean AAA), and Neogaf

I would probably replace No HL3 with one of these two if I could change my vote:

• People acting like Bioshock Infinite and TLOU are life-changing experiences
• Games that are decent fun but people act like they're unredeemable garbage

[Great Rumbler]

I ticked the box that should have allowed people to change their vote, but apparently that feature doesn't work. Oh well, I'll just reset the poll later anyway.

[Mr. Gundam]

I knew it was going to be bad, but holy crap it's worse than I could have possibly imagined.

[Shaka Khan]

How about Microsoft's fuckups, EA's fuckups, Japan's fuckups, and Sony's steam machine?

[Your Stalker]

me3 came out in 2012

[Mr. Gundam]

me3 came out in 2012

Overblown entitlement-rage knows no bounds.

[Rufus]

I would add Steam early access hoopla from the side of the press. Yes, it could be better communicated, yes, there is potential for abuse, but they forget that it can change a game for the better as well. You don't even get that with Kickstarter. It's a storm in a teacup, but it's one of the few things that successfully filtered through my caring algorithms.

My choices:
- David Cage, for hammering home yet again that the wrong people get big budgets
- Polls that have things from the wrong year, in lieu of everything that's missing (BF4 limped onto shelves in 2013, Xbox 180(s), whatever else I'm forgetting...)
- Binfinite and Last of Us. Less so LoU, becuase it seems to be telling its story smartly from everything I've heard.
- OUYA, because of course
- HL3, because I want to know what happens

[Mr. Gundam]

I loved The Last of Us, but good lord people, it's not a life-changing experience. If that changes your life, your life sucks.

[cool breeze]

- X Rebirth
- next gen
- wii u

[Great Rumbler]

Poll reset.

[headwalk]

#1 sony releasing a buggy, mediocre spec device with a shitshow of a library, gutted features and paid online and still getting internet-wide fellatio due to being better than the binary alternative.

#2 those bit-coin fuckers driving GPU prices up just as they were getting sweet again/20nm no show.

#3 big anticipated PC games coming out as either just disappointing (company of heroes 2) or super wack (rome 2, x: stillbirth, sim city).

and just for 2014:

#1 people suddenly being excited about the garbage experience which is cloud streaming.

#2 valve's steam machine coming out party at CES being the wettest fart since neptune bought a butt-plug.

#3 the amount of time i spent making this list.

[Human Snorenado]

The BioShock Infinite/TLoU hate warms whatever is where my heart should be

[Mr. Gundam]

The BioShock Infinite/TLoU hate warms whatever is where my heart should be

I don't hate TLoU, I just hate the response to it. Kinda like Christopher Nolan films. They're good, but not the greatest thing ever.

Never played Infinite, so I can't speak for it.

[Yulwei]

kinect is shit

[Shaka Khan]

#2 those bit-coin fuckers driving GPU prices up just as they were getting sweet again/20nm no show.

I must have missed this. Context please.

[Shaka Khan]

Bitcoin mining? Shit... I've been living under a rock.

[Mr. Gundam]

Bitcoin mining needz gpus, more nubs buying gpus en masse means...

Wouldn't they make more money actually getting a job?

[Joe Molotov]

Bitcoin mining? Shit... I've been living under a rock.

Have you asked your myspace friends about it, grandpa?

[Great Rumbler]

Bitcoin mining needz gpus, more nubs buying gpus en masse means...

Wouldn't they make more money actually getting a job?

You could easily mine bitcoins and still have a regular job.

[Shaka Khan]

Bitcoin mining? Shit... I've been living under a rock.

Have you asked your myspace friends about it, grandpa?

I have to admit that I've been intentionally scrolling past every bitcoin story I come across recently while shouting "NERRRRRDS!"

[Stoney Mason]

If I was to pick one worst of 2013 for me it was critics rushing to praise any and every indie game as the best thing since sliced bread and see who can out hip each other. It continues to amaze me how people stop suddenly being critical of games when they are playing the 7th roguelike of the month or art pieces like The Stanley Parable (which is a fine enough thing for what it is but c'mon) suddenly are considered the best games of the year.   

[benjipwns]

I loved The Last of Us, but good lord people, it's not a life-changing experience. If that changes your life, your life sucks.

Look at this chump thinking you can just pet giraffes whenever.

[Himu]

If I was to pick one worst of 2013 for me it was critics rushing to praise any and every indie game as the best thing since sliced bread and see who can out hip each other. It continues to amaze me how people stop suddenly being critical of games when they are playing the 7th roguelike of the month or art pieces like The Stanley Parable (which is a fine enough thing for what it is but c'mon) suddenly are considered the best games of the year.

Because Spelunky > whatever shooter came out that year

Guacamelee is great too.

Just like indie games more and appeal to my tastes than some bloated game. It's a feat I liked GTAV so much.

[Rufus]

Litecoin is the crypto-currency responsible for the recent shortages. The more coins that are already mined (there's a finite amount), the harder it becomes to mine more. Bitcoin are at a point where people designed and sell ASICs made specifically to mine them. It's bananas.
Litecoin is still at the stage where GPUs can make you money, hence the run on them.

[Great Rumbler]

Everybody knows that dogecoin is the best.

[bork]

I'd say the GCW-Zero, but that can be classified under "Kickstarter."  The horrible d-pad is enough for it get "shit" status, but worse than that is the way distribution of the handheld was handled- there are still some people without these things.

[Stoney Mason]

Stanley Parable was amazing.

It's a nice enough. Fun enough. Little meta commentary on games. I spent an enjoyable couple of hours with it on a lazy afternoon before I got bored.  And that's fine.

"Amazing" would be nowhere near my vocabulary in describing it but different strokes. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

1) Games journalism - Whether it's clickbait controversy they generated for no reason, whether it is desperate attempts to legitimize their hobby (and thus, their life choices) by talking about how deep storylines in video games are, gaming journalism hit a new low this year, much lower than the previous shit record of games journalism in 2012.  It seems that as gaming journalism is the least useful, you see more annoying attempts to try to claw their way into maintaining relevancy.  This new generation with streaming and uploading videos are going to strangle the industry further.  That means better get used to more hyperbole, more outrage, and more indie game dick sucking for 2014.

2) Wii U - Nintendo completely pissed away their year head start.  PS4 will pass its LTD in January and the Bone will pass the LTD either in February or March.  It is almost impressive to see how badly they fucked up.  Mario 3D World is good but this was the launch game people wanted, not NSMBU, which badly needed a break, or Nintendoland, which is shit.

3) Xbox One - While Microsoft backtracked on most of it, the Xbox One development was one clusterfuck after another; the end result is a system that costs $100 more than the PS4 with weaker specs.  I believe Microsoft will drop the Bone to $399 in a couple of months.  The whole thing sounds like it is worthy of a book to be written.  Maybe get Dean Takahashi to write it or something.

4) Nintendo - Yep, they're up here a second time.  Nintendo's tone deafness is really costing them.  However, this isn't anything new as notoriously ninspergy writer Emily Rogers wrote about the Gamecube that shows that Nintendo's incompetency in 2013 isn't anything new: http://www.dromble.com/2014/01/07/dolphin-tale-story-of-gamecube/

5) Ouya - A byproduct of indie cocksucking and Kickstarter cocksucking.  The CEO, Julie Uhrman, comes off as the sleaziest, shadiest used car salesman around.  The controller sucks, not all Kickstarter backers have yet to receive their Ouya (not that they'd want it now), and seems patched together with duct tape.  The open universe ya (no shit, that is the name breakdown) is surprisingly closed and Ouya was never able to articulate just why indie developers should develop for it.  News reports come out about how 70% of owners never actually buy a game on it.  I feel sorry for the $8 million in Kickstarter money + $16 million in venture capital that was pissed away on this joke.

[fistfulofmetal]

If I was to pick one worst of 2013 for me it was critics rushing to praise any and every indie game as the best thing since sliced bread and see who can out hip each other. It continues to amaze me how people stop suddenly being critical of games when they are playing the 7th roguelike of the month or art pieces like The Stanley Parable (which is a fine enough thing for what it is but c'mon) suddenly are considered the best games of the year.

Nah. Most of those indie darlings were actually the best games of the year. The majority of big budget games were not.

[bork]

Stanley Parable was amazing.

Some of the lamest shit of the year (I guess this falls under NeoGAF) was that  hilarious backlash and back and forth on message boards and feminist bloggers getting furious about people questioning the way games portray women; Dragons Crown, Bravely Default, Dota 2, etc etc etc. Just  . Censorship debates, 'ephebophiles' furious about their waifus being censored, just a fucking mess.

I did like seeing all the conspiracy theories and freak-outs pop up about Anita Sarkeesian.   

Although some of them did hold some water- she used footage from other people's videos and then there was this supposed "scandal:"

More important is her own attempts at making quick money through telemarketing and her link to Jonathan Mcintosh (her boyfriend), who Anongamer implies may be the one really pulling the strings on the Tropes Vs Women videos for his own personal gain.

There is a video this guy found of her at one of these marketing seminars, too.  But the whole thing is ridiculous and stalker-ish.

[Joe Molotov]

Real talk, though: I only play awesome games and I don't read any "game journalism", so I don't have anything to vote on.

[Purple Filth]

The BioShock Infinite/TLoU hate warms whatever is where my heart should be

the hate is more towards the crazy fans though since they are fucking insufferable

Real talk, though: I only play awesome games and I don't read any "game journalism", so I don't have anything to vote on.

Same.

The only site I go to for game stuff is Giant Bomb and its more of them doing dumb ass shit than the "journalism" aspect.

[demi]

You can vote for me, Joe.

[bork]

What about the Youtube video-flagging debacle?

Real talk, though: I only play awesome games and I don't read any "game journalism", so I don't have anything to vote on.

So then your selection would be "NeoGAF."   

[Human Snorenado]

I still haven't played Spelunky and Guacamelee yet, but Rogue Legacy is better than BI or TLoU.

Then again, so is PAD...

[Mr. Gundam]

Real talk, though: I only play awesome games and I don't read any "game journalism", so I don't have anything to vote on.

Same.

Same here. Gematsu is the only gaming site I regularly visit.

[benjipwns]

Real talk, though: I only play awesome games and I don't read any "game journalism", so I don't have anything to vote on.

Too bad you put that in quotes, otherwise I could have said "neither does anyone else" and gotten all sorts of internet accolades.

[Van Cruncheon]

where are gone home and the last of us on this list

[pilonv1]

where are gone home and the last of us on this list

Last of Us is on this list old man

[Joe Molotov]

where are gone home and the last of us on this list

I'm sure Kickstarter is somehow responsible.

[Huff]

hating something you like because other people liked them is very hip of you

[Positive Touch]

poll needs to be edited to include battlefield 4 being the worst product released to market since derek smart first helmed a game

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I loved Bioshock Infinite, and I really liked The Last Of Us. Well, I did when I played them. Now I can't help but hate them due how distinguished mentally-challenged the gaming fanbase has become when either of them are mentioned. While BI was the most annoying one when it first came out, Last Of Us is the most annoying one by far now. It peaked with Joel Banderas, the fucking glee that showed up with that reveal where no new game was announced boggled me. It's a videogame you've already played, not a new game reveal. And it was showed off parodying an overused meme which you'd think would have these nerdlingers crying about how it doesn't fit the "emotion" of the game. This sort of shit makes me not want to touch either game ever again, despite enjoying them.

[Huff]

hating something you like because other people liked them is very hip of you

Nah it's stupid, I'm one of those guys who would like for the hype to die down to go back to it again.

Basically, I'm a taco.

whats your opinion on PBR

[fistfulofmetal]

I loved Bioshock Infinite, and I really liked The Last Of Us. Well, I did when I played them. Now I can't help but hate them due how distinguished mentally-challenged the gaming fanbase has become when either of them are mentioned. While BI was the most annoying one when it first came out, Last Of Us is the most annoying one by far now. It peaked with Joel Banderas, the fucking glee that showed up with that reveal where no new game was announced boggled me. It's a videogame you've already played, not a new game reveal. And it was showed off parodying an overused meme which you'd think would have these nerdlingers crying about how it doesn't fit the "emotion" of the game. This sort of shit makes me not want to touch either game ever again, despite enjoying them.

smh. letting people effect your opinion on things. who the f cares?

[Yulwei]

let the hate flow THROUGH you!

[Great Rumbler]

Professional Bull Riding?

[Joe Molotov]

Pabst Blue Ribbon

[Great Rumbler]

We've got two ties currently:

Wii U is tied for first with People acting like Bioshock Infinite and TLOU are life-changing experiences, and IAP is tied with NeoGAF for second. Next gen is a close third.

[Stoney Mason]

I see Rumbler playing Godus on steam so I think he is trying to get an early jump on worst of 2014.

 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Where is windows 8.1?

[Great Rumbler]

I see Rumbler playing Godus on steam so I think he is trying to get an early jump on worst of 2014.

 

It's actually gotten a lot better from how it looked originally.