I
was working on a post talking about the best games of this generation,
but it started sounding a bit predictable. It had the usual Bioware
stuff (Fallouts, Elder Scrolls), the Mass Effect series, the Bioshock
series, the Assassin's Creed series, Catherine, the GoW series (both of
them), Journey, Beyond: Two Souls, Demon/Dark Souls, Lost Odyssey, Ni No
Kuni, The Great Indies (Flower, Unfinished Swan, Papo y Yo, and so on)
etcetera etcetera etcetera. I got bored of explaining why each of these
games were must plays as it read like any other review that can be found
in any game review site.Instead of doing that, prompted by a comment by a friend and this post, I decided to do a Predictions for 2014 instead. I should note that these predictions are not based on any numbers or observations or analysis. I'll leave those for later and post them over at Gamasutra. Instead, I'll just make some "for fun, wishful thinking" predictions. So here we go: