User blog comment:Inkie Twig/A Year in Gaming - A Review/@comment-1263839-20141230131906/@comment-3967954-20141230141110

In my opinion, GTA V was probably last year's GOTY, which is saying something because it really is quite flawed. Cops shooting you for trespassing their personal space, ultra-accurate AI that can headshot you from the window of a car that's going at 120mph, and a pretty shaky multiplayer launch. Still, a lot better than Infinite and TLoU, which, let's be honest here, were nowhere near as good as the constant 10/10 reviews made out.

I agree about the lack of triple-A titles, and I think standards have definitely lowered. I played a bit of the critically-acclaimed Aliens: Isolation, but I gave up after about the first chapter because it was one of the buggiest and most unpolished games I'd ever played. People have defended it by saying "it's not buggy on PC" and "the AI is perfectly fine on Hard difficulty", but if you really need to make excuses for your game, then that's saying something in itself.

Also sick of the way that Steam has essentially opened the floodgate for bad indie games. There are exceptions - FNAF, whether you love it or hate it, was a very original concept - but the fact of the matter is that probably about 90% of indie games are half-arsed turd with little originality.

Regarding AW: what with the whole new "DAE THINK COD IS SHIT?" trend that's taken the internet by storm, AW isn't getting the praise it somewhat deserves. It's by no means perfect - especially the multiplayer - but it's a decent attempt by Sledgehammer to try and spice up the series a bit. But it's CoD so you can't think it's decent or else you're a scrub.