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10 Best-Reviewed Xbox One Games of 2014

8CN: 2014 was our first "full" year of Xbox One games since the console was released in late 2013, giving us our first good look at what some of its best-reviewed titles are. These are the 10 most critically well-received Xbox One games this year overall.

Foehammer3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

This is a quote from the article:

"Compared to the PS4's Top 10, the Xbox One was much more heavily slanted towards AAA games."

This is exactly what I tried to tell SniperControl on another article.

This is MY preference, AAA games

I respect that other ppls preferences may differ, but I bought the X1 because I wanted high scoring AAA titles and as the article states, MS succeeded.

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Bigpappy3818d ago

I really don't care what the scores are. What I would agree with, is that my main reason for owning X1, is to play AAA games. I live that Indies get access and wish them all success, but I personally rarely buy those games.

I also share your view that the X1 has the superior selection of very good AAA exclusives over PS4.

Rimeskeem3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

9 of the 10 games are on multiple platforms and the only one that isnt has a broken multiplayer for some

Volkama3817d ago (Edited 3817d ago )

The PS4 list was all multiplatform games as well. It is perhaps quite curious that they are different multiplatform games though lol.

http://n4g.com/news/1625331...

SniperControl3817d ago (Edited 3817d ago )

Fair enough Foe, i have no problems with you owning a X1 or your preference to games, as i have always said it's a bloody good console and that's why i splashed £350 on getting one recently.

What i object to, is you constantly finding fault with PS4's line-up of games, i understand that you are not interested in Playstation as a brand, but please, don't knock it until you have tried it.

I for one cant wait for the rumoured Gears collection and the new GoW game, i am also looking forward to Quantum Break as it looks bloody good.

PONTIAC08G8GT3817d ago

Yea I'm not into indie games at all. Never bought one. I've played a couple and most of the time I feel like I'm playing cell phone games or something that should be on a super nintendo.

Titanfall
Sunset Overdrive
Forza Horizon 2
Halo: MCC

Those 4 games all got excellent reviews and have been the flagship games for the X1 this year. I think if you compare those to the 4 best PS4 AAA games, the X1 has them beat all day.

Infamous
TLOU
LBP
DriveClub

Darkwatchman3817d ago

"The ps4 and Xbox one list shares six games overall"
That's 60% that both share and practically every multiplatform this gen has run at a higher resolution or frame rate or BOTH on the ps4 so I don't see what you're trying to prove.

I own a ps4. I will get an Xbox One soon, but all the games I'm getting on it will be exclusives. Every other game that is multiplatform will be a better choice to get on ps4 if you own both unless you have more friends getting a multiplayer game on one system over the other.

Or everyone could just stop being fanboys and just play what they want and not get into stupid debates/arguments. I'm a ps4 owner, but you know why I want an Xbox One? Sunset Overdrive, The Master Chief Collection, and QUANTUM BREAK(I need it. I originally bought an Xbox 360 for remedy's previous game, Alan Wake)

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GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced

Rockstar’s iconic title Grand Theft Auto V is making headlines once again—but not for the reasons fans might hope. Less than a year after GTA V joined the

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ocelot0711d ago

I believe it's been on ps+ a few times over the years of I'm not mistaking same goes for gamepass.

VenomUK11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

‘GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced’

That’s an awful clickbait title. The use of the word ‘as’ means the first statement is the result of the second, when in reality they’re not connected.

Profchaos11d ago

Also the same for red dead redemption 2 and GTA trilogy (albeit they split that into individual games)

Tacoboto11d ago

It just got put back on Game Pass recently too.

GTA V is the pass-around sub title, and it probably doesn't even matter because everyone owns a copy or even two by now.

FortWaba11d ago

Trash article and trash website.

Doesn't even mention WHEN it's leaving.

gold_drake10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

so i looked cause i was curious, its still avaliable to me.

the headline is misleading asf.

also, how did no one report this. the editing is horrendous. they'd have my arse for this ha

gamerz10d ago

Noticed my copy of gta5 on Steam was already upgraded without me doing anything. How can you still play the legacy version?

Shiore2u10d ago

There should be a second listing right under it in your library.
https://i.imgur.com/712MsIQ...

Chard10d ago

Is there anything wrong with the enhanced version if you’re just playing single player?

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Minecraft splitscreen mod comes to Steam Deck and it might be possible in other games too

Playing Minecraft splitscreen on the Steam Deck is possible now, thanks to this script that automates everything for you.

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Microsoft Is Using Minecraft as a Trojan Horse to Promote Generative AI to Children

Generative AI is a controversial topic, and Microsoft seems to have found that Minecraft is the perfect Trojan Horse to get children on board.

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anast28d ago

Like I said, the younger generation won't care. They will even like AI games.

CrimsonWing6928d ago

AI is an amazing tool and you’re absolutely right, just like they’re caring less about physical media since they’re growing up in a digital world. Only us old-ass curmudgeon‘s cry about this stuff.

I personally, support AI 100%. As a creative outlet it’s literally a tool to help with creativity or shortcomings a user might have but dreams about doing things. Like those AI generated movie trailers on YouTube are awesome. Imagine being able to make games you’ve dreamt of and using AI to make it a reality.

Lot of great applications and I embrace it, regardless of having watched Terminator 2 a bajillion times, lol.

Abriael28d ago

The only ones who "support AI 100%" are those too lazy or too inept to do the job themselves.

The AI-generated videos on YouTube are absolute unsightly slop. They're all the same, like pretty much everything AI makes and will always make.

If you "dream about doing things"... do things. Put effort into learning instead of having a bot do it for you so that you aren't actually doing the things and are just taking credit (from something born of the theft of other people's work), trucking yourself into believing that you have created something when you have, indeed, created nothing.

Profchaos28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

AI is the anti creative outlet humans put heart and soul into their work and errors are a part of the art just as much as ideas are.

Offloading creative things to a gen AI is enforcing the fact that your idea wasn't strong enough to stand on its own.

Tacoboto28d ago

"... are those too lazy or too inept to do the job themselves"

Cool, yeah, you definitely know what you're talking about.

This isn't two years ago when it was new. I've been a software developer for 13 years and the code Gemini and GPT writes is actually usable, when you know how to query in the right context.

And why would I learn it? Oh yeah, because heads of companies and new opportunities in the future will 100% require knowledge of AI, and in 5 years, my near 20 years of experience would just be reduced to if I can meet the inevitable "5+ years AI tooling" requirements or not. Nothing I or anyone can do about that. Being lazy or inept is refusing to adapt to or flat out rejecting changes in the environment.

CrimsonWing, 100% right here.

anast28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

I don't support it more than I try to understand it.

Terminator 2 was worse than 1 and it let to the host of tasteless Marvel Movies and New Star Wars Movies we have today.

bunt-custardly28d ago

@abriel Carmack recently commented about this too. It's not being lazy it's progression.

Think about when the wheel was invented. How that made people "lazy" not having to carry stuff manually. AI is a tool and should be 100% human monitored/controlled. It's when you decide to let it do ALL the work, you become lazy.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

@bunt-custardly: Carmack is a tech chud and an executive. He couldn't care less about whether normal rank-and-file developers would lose their jobs to this slop as long as his company could save money on their salaries.

And yes, it's lazy slop.

"Because Carmack says so" is not a great argument.

Incidentally, what Carmack specifically defended is the Quake experiment, which is *literally* letting the AI do all the work, so there goes your argument.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

@Tacoboto:

If you let a bot do your job you're either lazy or inept. You pick. I can't care less of how much alleged "experience" you say you have.

If you use ChatGPT or Gemini you're literally stealing other people's work because that's where the code they give you comes from. AI creates nothing.

I've heard "Nothing I or anyone can do about that" about NFTs, crypto, and all that crap. Nothing is inevitable.

Tacoboto28d ago

Not using and crying fowl about AI in 2025 is like someone in 2005 saying that using Intellisense and code completion in Visual Studio is lazy and inept.

You know nothing, Abriael, and you speak out of ignorance rather than experience.

"you're literally stealing other people's work"

Ever hear of "open source"? Probably not, because with that statement you clearly know absolutely nothing.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

@Tacoboto:

You just demonstrated that you're just a troll and not a developer of any kind. A developer would know that the data used to train the AI chatbots you mentioned is not and has never been open source.

You're likely just an xbox fanboy trying to defend Microsoft just because it's Microsoft. Pathetic.

Tacoboto28d ago

LOL, so wrong again! I refuse to use MS Copilot in any meaningful regard still. Gemini provides the most detailed results (with context as well) and GPT I feel has started to lag behind it.

Copilot has routinely broken after a few queries for me and the UI Microsoft built is embarrassingly underfeatured. Again, you speak with ignorance over something that you do not understand.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

@Tacoboto: sure mate, keep pretending. Like any actual developer would slip on the open source discourse. Totally not a Microsoft fanboy with Master Chief in the icon. 👀

It's so open-source that AI companies are being sued into oblivion by the many they have stolen from. And when these lawsuits end with them being found guilty, this fad will hit the brakes big time.

Tacoboto28d ago

All I'll say is you should not speak against that which you have no knowledge of or experience in.

And I'll tell you that once you're an adult, with a big boy job, you're expected to get things done, and you should work smarter, not harder. If there is a tool out there that can make a 3 hour job a 3 minute job, you use that tool. That makes you competitive, that makes you more productive. It keeps you relevant in an evolving industry.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

We'll see where the "work smarter" goes when the lawsuits cripple this AI slop and everything needs to be retrained on non-stolen content, assuming it's even possible 😂

Profchaos28d ago

@Tacoboto nit sure how you're getting usable code from Gemini and gpt I spend more time fixing the code it outputs personally though Claude AI is far superior for generating it from my experience at least.

And honestly I'll go to Claude to write the bones of what I'm after nothing's perfect still a ton of rationalising that goes in after

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-Foxtrot28d ago

Well yeah because they’ll grow up with crap like this to make them like it

It’s like training people to defend generative AI or AI in general as they get older

Creative based AI is terrible and I feel bad for the real artists getting the shaft losing jobs to it

anast28d ago

Couldn't agree with you more.

jznrpg28d ago

They will care if parents talk to them about it in a way to show them why they should care. Unfortunately there may not be enough who do that.

anast28d ago

Noting wrong with being an optimist.

b00mFargl328d ago

I understand if this tool aids children in Minecraft development. However, I believe that substituting human workers with AI and reducing the creative input of developers, artists, and other professionals is detrimental. It also results in content that lacks a certain human touch.

Abriael28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

This has nothing to do with helping children develop in Minecraft. This just uses Minecraft to condition children into liking generative AI.

Their "curriculum" even paints intellectual property laws as something that can hinder innovation. It can't be more disgusting than this.

b00mFargl328d ago

The idea is that AI can be implemented to aid them in their creations, specifically for minecraft; That's all I was getting at.

Everything else I mentioned was in agreement that AI isn't good and can ruin everything. Sorry you missed the entire point of what I was getting at. Boop

Inverno28d ago

Its getting more and more dystopian lolz. Just wait til the robots are more commonplace, everyone will be replaced. Hey I'd be fine with it if it means everything in life will be free. Cause that's the goal right? The end of capitalism? Bettering society for the sake of bettering the world? By ending human labor? And allowing us all to live rent free and enjoy all the comforts that this amazing technology will bring? Right? Cause if we're all gonna end up jobless and homeless then wtf is the point?

goken28d ago

Gotta start em young is the plan here…
Maybe we should relook the whole capitalism thing 😅

Nacho_Z28d ago

People think the film industry is derivative and out of ideas these days, and they're right for the most part, imagine how it would be with creativity handed over to AI. Braindead, basically. Same for gaming.

In any creative endeavour like films, gaming, art, it needs nipping in the bud and used appropriately, not being embraced.