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[The13thRonin]

I've just built a new computer (to replace my seven year old one) and I was looking at buying some new games seeing as how I haven't been able to play new games in quite a while! The problem is everything seems like a dismal failure...

Simcity was a bust... Or so I hear...

Rome Total War 2 was meant to be a huge bust...

Battlefield 4 is supposed to be a rehashed 3 and I already have BF3...

Is there really nothing out there worth buying right now?

Before anyone mentions Skyrim I do actually have Skyrim .

[SalmonGod]

For AAA titles, sure.  Tons of good non-AAA stuff coming out all the time, though.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

2013 brought me some truly great games like Europa Universalis IV, Metro: Last Light, Papers Please and Risk of Rain.

2014 is only going to be better with some awesome titles like Hotline Miami 2, Witcher 3 and a range of kickstarter projects that hopefully get off the burner.

If you're going to limit yourself to half-baked AAA re-releases you're going to have a bad time.

EDIT: 2013 was also a great year for mods. Endless Skyrim mods, Just Cause 2 MP, The Dark Mod (went standalone) and the Steam workshop although released in late 2012 really only picked up speed until early-ish 2013

[Bouchart]

2013 brought us Goat Petting Simulator.

[Levi]

Was a great year for me.  I can't even list all the great games.  Mostly cause I'm drunk.

But really, I had a great year of gaming.  Hopefully 2014 is more of the same. 

[Wiles]

A bad year for PC Games? I think it was pretty much the opposite. There has been lots of great content released for the PC in 2013.

Some stuff off the top of my head:

Bioshock Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Payday 2, Europa Universalis 4, Brother A Tale of Two Sons. Don't Starve...

It has been a good year for DLC too with releases like Civ 5: Brave New World, XCOM: Enemy Within, Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods...

 

[rabidgam3r]

2013 brought us Goat Petting Simulator.

What how when where pictures links please.

[Aoi]

2013 brought us Goat Petting Simulator.

What how when where pictures links please.

http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/goat-petting-simulator/16698/

[Iceblaster]

2013 brought us Goat Petting Simulator.

What how when where pictures links please.

http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/goat-petting-simulator/16698/

Extreme goat petting!

[ConscriptFive]

If you're going to limit yourself to half-baked AAA re-releases you're going to have a bad time.

This was key.  2013 did have some pretty big disappointments in the AAA realm.  If you rely on AAA console ports, GTA V, Bioshock Infinite, and Assassin's Creed 4 were the only really satisfying releases.  Tomb Raider was also worth playing, though I would have been disappointed if I paid full release price, and its DLCs were a complete waste of money.  I haven't given Saints Row 4 a try yet.  Batman and BF4 were fun if you wanted to play the same damn game yet again.

PC-wise, lots of other high profile games bombed hard, particularly SimCity and TW: Rome 2.  (Protip: Notice how about half the TW games were catastrophies upon release.  We all should know better by now.)

On the other hand, PC had alot of really amazing niche hits.  Paradox fans had a amazing year, with lots of great DLC for CK2 as well as the release of EU4.  If you have friends, Terraria 1.2 and PAYDAY 2 were great co-op titles. XCOM got an amazing expansion.  If you spend any time on this forum, you're probably also aware of just how enjoyable Kerbal Space Program, Prison Architect, and a couple of other supposedly Alpha titles are.  Lots of other great little indie games too, like Papers Please, Fez, The Swapper, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, and a half dozen others that'll probably pop up in a Humble Bundle in the next six months.

Of course if you have a gaming PC and you aren't downloading mods, "you're doing it wrong."  Nexusmods has had a hell of a year consolidating seemingly every mod community in existence, including the Mount and Blade titles.  If you aren't using their downloader for your Bethesda games, you're only punishing yourself at this point.  Bay12-wise, the Masterwork series for DF has gotten ridiculously amazing if you haven't tried it recently.

So yeah, widen your perspective by farming threads in this sub-forum.  If you're rely on 50+ dollar pre-ordered (WHY?) AAA titles, you're going have a bad time.

[Biowraith]

I found 2013 to be a mediocre year at best.  There weren't too many new releases that I found interesting, and quite a few of the ones I did pick up turned out to be fairly underwhelming, if not outright disappointing (Hi there, X-Rebirth ).  A lot of my purchases ended up being older pre-2013 games as a result, but again nothing there that really blew me away (which was kinda to be expected since they hadn't appealed to me enough to buy previously).  Possibly I just made bad choices in my purchases, but as I say there wasn't that much I found interesting in the first place.

There were a few gems here and there, mostly indie or small-studio releases.  They tended to be fun, but which didn't last too long for me before I got bored.  Don't get me wrong, for the price point they were great, but overall the year lacked anything that really grabbed me for long-term replayability - I probably spent way more time in 2013 playing e.g. Civ IV than any new releases (and I wasn't terribly impressed with the Civ 5 DLC personally, certainly not at the full price... although I'm not sure what I was expecting there).

I did grab a few 2013 titles in the Xmas sale that will hopefully work out well though - of the ones I bought I've only played Saints Row IV so far, but 5 hours in it's ridiculously fun (maybe the most fun I've had from a 2013 game to be honest, but that might just be bias because it's the one I'm enjoying right now).

2014's looking pretty good though, so long as there's not too many surprise disappointments - Wasteland 2, Age of Wonders 3, Pillars of Eternity, and Divinity: Original Sin are all due in the first half of 2014.  They all seem to be right up my alley and looking like they're shaping up well.  Plus other stuff from Kickstarter like Maia, Rimworld, Novus Aeterno, and Worlds of Magic, which should all hopefully be good.  And while I'm restraining myself from playing it and burning myself out before it's actually released, Grim Dawn's alpha is looking good (I really liked Titan Quest).

[SomeStupidGuy]

*wall of text*

Exactly what I was thinking going into this thread.
The indie and modding scenes are(and have been for quite awhile) the main thing separating pc from most of(I say, because of the couple of indie games on consoles) console gaming, so excluding them in favor of focusing on a few mishaps with the 'triple-A' games is really, really silly. And even then, as was said, there's quite a few well-made mainstream pc games as well.
I mean, considering the fine indie games that weren't even mentioned(Papers, Please; Spelunky HD; Don't Starve, and who can forget the Stanley Parable). I mean, hell, I even found out about some damned fine indie games while I was double checking the release dates on those games.
And hey, this year, we even got news that's gonna impact pc gaming as a whole. Steam making some weird little hybrid pc/console thing. Which is bound to make pc gaming more accesible and reasonable to do.
So, no, I wouldn't call this a bad year for pc gaming.

[Tilla]

OP: Basically what you're saying is "EA is shit" in your first post there.

It is 2013 and you didn't realize that already. And I say that as someone who worked at EA and didn't even hate them after that experience!

I'm gonna go play ARMA 3, Black Flag, Saints Row 4, or perhaps Starbound now!

[Mookzen]

2013 was the "MEH" year honestly.

[hexedmagica]

I found 2013 to be pretty great in my opinion. Standouts being EU4, Rogue Legacy, Risk of Rain and Long Live the Queen.