Best Game of 2014 That No One Played

The best games that managed to fall under the radar.

[DarkOcelet]

How can a game like The Evil Within a game that no one has played when it sold 2 million copies and that is really awesome sales for a new ip and especially if it is a horror game and Wolfenstein was the best FPS this year and debuted no.2 in UK so i am pretty sure it sold well and a sequel is in the talks so that is successful.

[Bansai]

Played all of those games with the exception of Donkey Kong as I still do not own Wii U, otherwise I'd buy it day one.

Great list xD

[MadLad]

Because Gaming Bolt simply throws some words on the screen and calls it an article?

[showtimefolks]

Wolfenstein

i know it sold well but i think Wolfenstein deserved more sales, its an awesome new school mixed in with old school game

[Npugz7]

The game was good but I had to stop playing it because it gave me motion sickness for some reason. No other game does that to me except this one.

[bjmartynhak]

Neogaf and media in general put this game into a pedestal. I'm in chapter 16 and it's being just an ok game so far....

Specially because the light feel of the guns. The gunplay is simply not good. It feels very similar to Bioshock. There is this... lack of whoomph.

More, though the game has non-regenerating health, the game desing is pretty much the same as other shooters, which they compensate giving health and armor everywhere.

@Npugz7
The running is a bit weird. Maybe that's it.

[Loadedklip]

@npugz7 ... oh man that sucks. I have the same issue with Half Life 2. I could never finish it cause it literally makes me sick to my stomach. It's probably the field of view that cause it amongst some gamers.

[UKmilitia]

i liked the game but stopped playin it very quick.
It felt to clunky in its controls and very old school feel.

[FlyingFoxy]

@Npugz7 I noticed a bit of the same thing, i think it's to do with the camera bob/sway when moving around. I had this issue with Dead Island only worse and had to stop playing it. I never get it with any other games.

[Muzikguy]

This site really sucks. Every day it seems there's some crazy sensationalist headline to garner attention it doesn't deserve. Since when is selling 2 million copies a bad thing? Must be some kind of new thing I'm unaware of. Now "good" sales are "bad". SMH... These people can't write anything!!

I have both Wolfenstein and the Evil Within. Only played the latter one so far and I loved it!

[Toolster]

Are you the same guy who commented on the article on gaming bolt page? If not you've just copied and pasted that guys comment

[morganfell]

I normally abhor Wikipedia for its inaccuracy, but all of these figures have citations:

"Within a week of its release, Wolfenstein: The New Order became the second-best selling game of 2014 in the United Kingdom, behind Titanfall. The game also topped the weekly UK charts in its first week, totalling a quarter of all games sold in the United Kingdom and accounting for 36% of revenue.

In the United States, the game was the fourth and seventh best-selling game of May and June 2014, respectively. The game was also ranked the fifth and fourteenth best-selling digital PlayStation 4 game of May and June 2014, respectively.

In its first week in Japan, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of the game were placed on the charts at 15th and 8th, respectively, collectively selling over 11,000 units.

By June 2014, the game had sold almost 400,000 physical units in Europe, equating to over €21 million"

[LostPotato]

Its quite simple as two million sales hardly breaks even on the massive budgets some of these games have.

[Loadedklip]

2 million is definately a profit for most games even most AAA games. Only a handful of games have a budget that requires 2 million to make a profit.

[LostPotato]

I now why I hate this site. You cant share an opinion with the truth without getting down votes.

What an useless feature, and I'm Glad my site doesn't use up-votes or down-votes.

[Dubaman]

If the developers and publishers made only $30 from each game sold, yet they certainly made more in some cases and less in others. Though for arguments sake lets just say its $30 and with 2,000,000 sales that comes to $60,000,000 in revenue. If i had to guess id say thats breaking even on dev costs, considering its just a single player game afterall, which is a big reason as to why no one is really talking about it. Unless you can prove otherwise id say the devs and pubs are pretty happy. Either way approximately 2,000,000 sales is pretty damn good and certainly played by more than 'no one'. Now if you had said its 'Under appreciated' thats another story and is probably what the main article should have been about in the first place.

[sanosukegtr123]

The evil within was a good game. No regrets in buyin it

[modelgod]

Exactly!! I liked D4,I think it should have made the list.

[higgins78]

Agree with the eventual winner. The New Order was a beauty, but from the moment I purchased said winner I never looked back, sublime example of the genre and easily in my top 10 of 2014.

[Morgue]

Yeah it was good too actually sit down and play a complete game and not have to worry about multiplayer.

[e-p-ayeaH]

Wolfenstein delivered but 2014 wasnt a good year for games

[DarkOcelet]

Well if you think about it, it was actually a solid year for single player fans because we had South Park, Wolfenstein , Evil Within, Alien Isolation, Dark Souls 2, Dragon Age Inquistion and some excellent episodes from telltale and a couple of good indies like Transistor, Child of light and alot of games i forgot along the way. But for overhyped and multiplayer fans, they really had the worst year i can think of which makes you wonder how much flak MS would have gotten if it made the console online and the things they want to did in the wake of the lizard squad attacks. Anyway i am glad i barely play online and i had a great year.

[leganord]

I only play single player games and 2014 was the worst year I can remember. Alien Isolation was the only memorable game this year, and Assetto Corsa was the best overall for me, but it's a niche game.

Dark Souls 2 was the worst DS yet. The Evil Within was mediocre and really nothing more than an ammo management game that went on for too long (by the end of it I was so tired that I used an infinite ammo cheat to get it done with, and it became trivial, proving my point). Shadow of Mordor almost played itself. Lords of Shadow 2 was an improvement over the first one, especially the combat, but the campaign was still too boring to warrant a second playthrough (it was this year's Darksiders 2). The Legend of Korra was a quickly put together licensed game, and only the Wii U owners got to play Platinum's great games this year. There wasn't a good fps this year unless you are into kike propaganda and murdering German people, nor a good modern rpg.

I we're talking about small 2D games like Kero Blaster or Freedom Planet, of course there will be a few of them every year, as will be adventure games like Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, but it's the bigger games (and the disappointments that come with them) that really define each year.

[modelgod]

It wasn't a good year for PS4 games, that's why you said I think wasn't a great year for games. Lol!! Xbox for life!

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Wolfenstein and The Evil Within, games that no one played?

Both games have sold a million copies on the PS4 alone. Come on?

[DougLord]

Raymen Legends. Among the best reviewed games, sold like crap

[modelgod]

Yes. I forgot about Raymond legends.

[MeliMel]

I'm playing Wolfenstein now, I gotta get a weld torch for Set... I'm playing on Xbox One, did it sell well on Xbox? Could be why no one played.

[kstap33]

Wolflenstein was awesome. I bought it digitally so my sale didn't show up on sales counters.

[gamerfan0909]

New Order was one of the best shooters I've played in years. It just got everything right. It's fun, violent beautiful gameplay mechanics, great A.I, the guns feel absolutely fantastic, it's a legit long campaign. These are the type of games that need to be made today. Good old fashioned entertaining games that after a long hard day at work I can pop in and mow down nazi's without using 100 QTE's and sitting through 10 minute cutscenes.

[DaleCooper]

Was not a fan of this article.

I need to start looking at the source of an article and making sure to skip it if it's Gaming Bolt. They just aren't very informed and articles only seem to be clickbait with barely any good info.

[Minute Man 721]

I'm reading/hearing nothing but good things about the New Order, looks like I'll be picking it up soon

[CorndogBurglar]

You should. It was my first PS4 game. It was fantastic.

[TheRacingX]

Its a great game, with at least 2 play throughs waiting

[Kingdomcome247]

Wolfenstein the New Order after all was said and done may just be my favorite game from this year. I love single-player story-driven games. Wolfenstein nailed everything for me. It was linear, but the level design and the freedom that design allowed was great. Great characters, fulfilling gameplay.

[Muzikguy]

It's the next game I'll be playing!! Right now I'm on GTAV, but I might just put that aside (again) and move on to the next one. With all these games I feel like I'm never going to get to KZSF. I've only had that since release of the PS4. Good problem to have I suppose

[NovusTerminus]

Freedom Wars.

[Kal-V3]

The BEST game that no one played in 2014 is Freedom Wars.

[FITgamer]

Have the platinum trophy for Wolfenstein, working the The Evil Within right now.

[Segata]

Strider. Oh man what a great reboot.

[gangsta_red]

The Evil Within?? Really? BEST GAME...REALLY!?

I'm sorry but Garden Warfare, Wolfenstein and Evil Within were all games people played, at least in my circle of people I know.

Donkey Kong...not to sure...

And The Evil Within in my opinion was NOT a good game.

[DarkOcelet]

Its my GOTY and i honestly thought it was awesome, i have 5 playthroughs finished and probably 3 more when all the dlc are released and i immensely enjoyed it. I wish the sequel gets released 2016 early or something, i cant get enough.

[gangsta_red]

Really? Wow...

I thought the action was tedious, seeing the main character running around aimlessly and constantly being transported to another hallway, cave or empty town got annoying.

And the story made no sense to me. I still have no idea what the bad guy was even trying to accomplish and why he needed that other patient who constantly ran away from me for.

And then you have the Woman cop who clearly had an ulterior motive that was never explained. And what happened to your other partner who was shot and beat up dang near a million times throughout the game.

The game's quality was there absolutely but in my opinion it was an incoherent mess of a game. I said this in some other forum but it seems like the guy who created RE4 had ideas for RE5 but then he left Capcom and decided to stick those ideas in this game and THEN wrap a story around it.

But hey, more power to you, especially 5 playthroughs. You are a definite trooper.

[DarkOcelet]

Well to be honest, Mikami best quality was never the story and i played almost all his games with the exception of Resident evil Zero but Sebastian going into another location, i really thought that was the best part because of the excellent variety the game had, no place looked like the other and the action was meant to be tedious, which was the best part of the game and in terms of 2nd playthrough, i never really did that because i played it on all four difficulties but in the fifth i unlocked the brass knuckles which was where i kicked everyones butt with it. And lastly its a new ip so big room for super improvements in the sequel, i mean look at the difference between Resident evil 1 and 2 or Uncharted 1 and 2 so yes i believe if they made a sequel it will be awesome.

[Psychotica]

Wolfenstein would have sold more on the PC if it hadn't listed a requirement that was false (an i7 processor).

[oODEADPOOLOo]

Should swap Evil for Alien given sales where far lower...it's a 2:1 gap in sales.

Alien: Isolation global sales(479K):

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

VS

Evil within global sales(1M):

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

Also look at IGN's reviews between the two...

Alien(IGN: 6/10 mediocre): http://www.ign.com/articles...

Evil(IGN: 8.7/10 Great): http://www.ign.com/articles...

But,

most independent reviewers and users gave the game a much higher score:

Alien: http://www.metacritic.com/g...

Evil: http://www.metacritic.com/g...

[Muzikguy]

I like both games. If I had to pick one over the other Alien Isolation was definitely "scary". Had a lot of backtracking in it though. I say both are good. That IGN review for Alien is crap too of you ask me. I'd say it's an 8.5 to 9.

[NixonMonoxide]

Except people actually played the games on this shite list.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Wolfenstein is my GOTY.
I keep telling my friends this but they still haven't bothered with it! Even at its current £12 price tag in CEX!

[purebennyc]

Wolfenstein was is easily the best FPS of 2014 with the most memorable campaign in years. I'd say it was underrated but definitely should;t have been on a list for best game noone played, it sold a stack of copies all around the world.

[s45gr32]

I was expecting a very unknown game. Well I thought Enola would win this category since is a digital release only plus you have to Google it under PC game Enola or else you get something else entirely. ...