[Mr. Vega]

Y'all may be skeptics about a couple of these titles but I think 2014 is going to be one of the best years for (PC) gaming in a long time, with an outside chance of matching '98 or '99 in quantity of all-time great games:

The Witcher 3
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dreamfall: Chapters
Project Eternity (the surest thing of them all)
Broken Age

And that's only what we know about. I'd also have loved to have seen Torment: Tides of Numenera and Dishonored 2 (trust me, they're starting on it right now) put up for next year but that's not going to happen.

For reference, 1998 had

Half-Life
Thief: The Dark Project
Starcraft
Xenogears
Freespace 1
Grim Fandango
Fallout 2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Baldur’s Gate

and 1999 had

Freespace 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Homeworld
System Shock 2
Planescape: Torment
Alpha Centauri

You may begin flaming me for daring to make comparisons to '98 and '99, or that DA3 will actually be a great game worthy of mention with the other four. All I'll say is Bioware does actually listen to criticism.

[Luis Dias]

Is Star Citizen going to come up in Xmas 2014 or is it only coming up in 2015?

Anyways, I'm open to surprises...

[Kobrar44]

No FreeSpace 3. It won't be good.

[The E]

Is Star Citizen going to come up in Xmas 2014 or is it only coming up in 2015?

They're planning to run the single-player alpha about a year from now, with the persistant universe going beta at the end of 2014 and a full release in 2015. So there's that to look forward to in 2014 as well.

[MatthTheGeek]

Dogfight alpha should be January or something. That should be fun.

[TrashMan]

Shouldn't X:Rebirth also be out soon?
And Xenonauts?

[deathfun]

No FreeSpace 3. It won't be good.

I concur. The common theme in 98 and 99 is that there was FreeSpace



That aside, I'm more stoked for Tom Clancy. Rainbow Six and The Division? Press X to awesome! Thief is also slated for 2014, and Infamous is always a win in my books

Course, 2013 also wins because GTA V. To me, one game can make a year, and that totally did

[MatthTheGeek]

No FreeSpace 3. It will be good.

ftfy

[Aardwolf]

FFS if you're going to make that sort of "fixed that for you" post at least put in bold the part you changed.

[FlamingCobra]

Mr. Vega, you forgot Wasteland 2

[Dragon]

Also, ArmA III will have a proper release across 2014. Don't get fooled by their claims, it's still in Alpha state (though unlike most games released like that, it's already quite fun).

[RVR72G]

No mention for Elite: Dangerous yet?

[Hades]

Also, ArmA III will have a proper release across 2014. Don't get fooled by their claims, it's still in Alpha state (though unlike most games released like that, it's already quite fun).

I might consider ArmA 3 to be a good game if they ever optimize the damn thing. I have to turn every down to the lowest possible to play it with acceptable FPS, and at that level it looks like a game from 2005. It's  honestly one of the worst games I've ever played in terms of optimization.

[MP-Ryan]

Thief is also slated for 2014

They'd better not **** it up.

I've been playing the original Thief games and they are just as good today as at release.  I see much potential for screwing up a classic and not a great deal for improvement on the original (other than perhaps the enemy AI).

[Goober5000]

I didn't realize how good 1998 was, but even 1998 can't hold a candle to 1993:

The 7th Guest
Betrayal at Krondor
Day of the Tentacle
Doom
Iron Helix
Master of Orion
Myst
X-Wing (the ur-FreeSpace)

And that doesn't include the various sequels such as Space Quest V, Wing Commander: Privateer, etc.

[Luis Dias]

93 was also the year I got hold of Dune 2. That game was the definition of "Whoah" for me for some years then.

[Phantom Hoover]

Thief is also slated for 2014

They'd better not **** it up.

I've been playing the original Thief games and they are just as good today as at release.  I see much potential for screwing up a classic and not a great deal for improvement on the original (other than perhaps the enemy AI).

didn't they reject garret's original voice actor because he was too old for mocap

[Dragon]

Also, ArmA III will have a proper release across 2014. Don't get fooled by their claims, it's still in Alpha state (though unlike most games released like that, it's already quite fun).

I might consider ArmA 3 to be a good game if they ever optimize the damn thing. I have to turn every down to the lowest possible to play it with acceptable FPS, and at that level it looks like a game from 2005. It's  honestly one of the worst games I've ever played in terms of optimization.

Well, you wouldn't exactly expect optimization from an Alpha, right? Well, I treat it like an Alpha version it is. But there's one nice thing, it allows such setting customization that you can bring it down to a workable level. It does look ugly at that point, but at least you can play. There are games which can't do that. Still, the system requirements are indeed atrocious.

[Darien]

For reference, 1998 had

Half-Life
Thief: The Dark Project
Starcraft
Xenogears
Freespace 1
Grim Fandango
Fallout 2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Baldur’s Gate

and 1999 had

Freespace 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Homeworld
System Shock 2
Planescape: Torment
Alpha Centauri

Man, I forgot how awesome those two years were. Golden age indeed.

[Mr. Vega]

I didn't realize how good 1998 was, but even 1998 can't hold a candle to 1993:

The 7th Guest
Betrayal at Krondor
Day of the Tentacle
Doom
Iron Helix
Master of Orion
Myst
X-Wing (the ur-FreeSpace)

And that doesn't include the various sequels such as Space Quest V, Wing Commander: Privateer, etc.

The only two games on that list that haven't aged hideously are Day of the Tentacle and X-Wing. The same cannot be said for any of the games I listed excepting possibly Half Life and Grim Fandango. Sorry, but my childhood beats your childhood

For reference, 1998 had

Half-Life
Thief: The Dark Project
Starcraft
Xenogears
Freespace 1
Grim Fandango
Fallout 2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Baldur’s Gate

and 1999 had

Freespace 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Homeworld
System Shock 2
Planescape: Torment
Alpha Centauri

Man, I forgot how awesome those two years were. Golden age indeed.

2000 was very good as well -  it had Deus Ex, The Longest Journey, Chrono Cross, Sacrifice, Thief II, and BG2 - just not the same number of pantheon titles and genre creators as those two.