E3 2014 / The Huge Games List

                  
          

 E3 204 is a huge event this year now that the next generation of consoles has been released. A lot of developers have already made big announcements prior to the E3 showing probably to allow the hype to build up to the actual showing. Lets take a look at some of the biggest games confirmed and/or expected to be announced/shown at E3 2014 on June 10-12, 2014.

1. Halo 5 : Guardians

2. Call Of Duty : Advanced Warfare

3.  The Legend Of Zelda Wii-U

4. Assassins Creed Unity

5. Dishonored 2

6. The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt

7. Tom Clancy's : The Division

8. Metal Gear Solid V : The Phantom Pain

9. Borderlands : The Pre-Sequel

10. Batman Arkham Knight

11. Destiny

12. Alien : Isolation

13. Dragon Age : Inquisition

14. Star Wars : Battlefront

15. Super Smash Bros. 3DS/Wii-U

16. Battlefield 5

17. Far Cry 4

18. Persona 5

19. Mass Effect 4

20. The order : 1886

21. Kingdom Hearts 3

22. Resident Evil 7

 Now that is one fine looking list. Its beginning to look as though 2014 is going to be one of the greatest years in gaming we have seen for a very long time.                                                                                       

Is Far Cry Every Year A Good Idea?

 I'm a huge fan of the Far Cry series and have spent countless hours playing FC2/3 and had lots of fun doing so. With the surprise hit and performance of Far Cry 3 the powers that be have now decided that its in their best interest to release a new FC game every single year. This would be great news for fans of the series, however, for those in the know its a really bad idea. You see, the time taken to develop FC1, FC2 and Far Cry 3 was paced in the spans of years which polished and truly great games need to succeed. In other words, any great game requires more than one year to develop. Now that Far Cry has been sold out as a yearly release the quality will be seen to drastically drop until the series ends in shame with islands filled with pirates and bad guys in Robocop uniforms shooting space weapons at your character.
 We have seen this happen time and time again in many series which end up being rushed to meet release dates with the end results of 6 hour campaigns that are not only short but bland and broken. How Ubisoft figures it can produce a huge open world with tons of non linear gameplay in a year is totally beyond me. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Far Cry 4 will be bad..... I'm just saying that it will start getting bad and fast with yearly, rushed releases.
 One of the few problems I found while playing and verily beating Far Cry 3 was the complete lack of re-playability once the game was finished. The game was fun while it lasted but after I finished the game I never popped the game in my PS3 ever again which is a shame considering I still play FC2 every once in awhile. Now Ubisoft is openly stating that they are focusing more on the multiplayer aspects of far Cry 4 as to expand its re-playability. This is the wrong strategic move to make on their part as the Far Cry experience has always been its huge open world and single player campaign.
 So just as most video game series who release yearly are doomed to failure in the end so is Far Cry unless they stick to the proven formula which has made the series the huge hit it has been and fans have come to love. Without these things that have defined Far Cry over the years the franchise shall simply get lost and mixed up with the countless other yearly franchises which only make money on the fact they bank on the true fans high hopes that this time it will be different.