10 Incredibly Depressing Video Game Stories From 2014

4. First-Party Releases Are Still Dire

Right from the get-go the PS4 was on the back-foot when it came to exclusive titles that could shift units. Most gamers seemed to side with Sony instead of Microsoft because of the hull-rupturing iceberg-statement that the Xbox One was going to restrict borrowing games and require an internet connection almost 24 hours a day. Still Xbox One led the charge with Killer Instinct and Ryse: Son of Rome - both of them fun enough, if not completely phoned in when it came to gameplay mechanics, and meanwhile Sony had...another Killzone, or Knack; a platformer that's as unforgiving as Dark Souls with a character as aesthetically pleasing as an untidy woodshed. Considering the Xbox and PS2 launched with Halo and SSX respectively, the PS3 and 360 slates were then demonstrably less impressive, but the fact that even now these consoles continue to have exclusivity lineups headed up by the likes of Driveclub and Sunset Overdrive is worrying at best.