I can't even imagine how hard it must be for non-native English speakers to follow what Yahtzee's saying; I'm somewhat surprised that I was able to follow all of that.

What a shitty year for gaming...

A movie licensed game ends up being the best game of the year? How is this even possible?!

I have got to stop reading KZfaq comments.

"And finally, I'm not interested in Smash Bros because of the obvious bias against Nintendo that I have, or rather, that the fanboys have been informing me I have on a regular basis for the last seven years, and which I will continue to deny despite the apparent futility. Look, this isn't difficult to rebut: if I had a grudge against Nintendo, I would absolutely take the opportunity to review Smash Bros in order to abuse it for my own sick gratification." ~Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw For people who say he has a Nintendo Bias.

i tried to watch this while eating dont watch this while eating

Couldn't agree more with Shadow of Mordor. Went in expecting nothing and was pleasantly surprised with one of the best combat systems of any game ever, a fantastic captain/warchief mechanic that kept the player interested even without story mode and upgrades that are all actually valuble, which is rather off for a game in my experience

"Do you think my todger's clean yet I think the bell end's fallen off" I'm crying and hicupping and trying to stop laughing before someone has me thrown out of the university library.

5:01 Best Yahtzee Face, Ever

"YES. ALL OF THIS. IN MY FACE. WUBUBUBU" ~ Yahtzee Croshaw, 2015. (And YES, I DID watch the video.)

4:07-4:10 Such a great ZP moment!

Hah, 2014 was a great year for gaming. Kirby Triple Deluxe, Shovel Knight, Smash, Bayonetta 2, Pokemon OR/AS....Okay maybe it was a great year if you owned a WiiU and 3DS and refused to poke your head out at the rest of the world. That counts for something.....right?

I seem to think that In terms of gaming, machines go from PC>WiiU>PS4>Xbox 1 PC because the Master Race argument (even if it was originally a joke on ZP and became so serious). But 60fps High res games are nice WiiU because of the amazing exclusives that won't ever see remakes or ports to PC because Nintendo mainly keeps their games Off PC. PS4 because it has more potential then the Xbox 1. Plus Infamous Second Son, pre-packed with glow in the dark condoms And Xbox 1 because most of their good games end up being ported to PC anyways.

YES! Wolfenstein was at the top of the list! TNO is one of my all-time favorite shooters. I'm really happy to see it get the recognition it deserves.

Thank you for the only top five list actually worth seeing, as always your writing prowess succeeds in entertaining on a higher level. Much appreciated.

What do you mean ? WE GOT HALF LIFE 3 THIS YEAR !!! IT WAS AMAZING ! Oh..sorry..wrong time period. Wrong dimension. Wrong Universe.

The logic behind reboots, as Yahtzee asked, is because the developers know full-well that the game wouldn't sell if it didn't have a reckognizeable brand attached to it. See also: Ghostbusters 2016.

I hate Thief so much. Such a buggy mess.

I absolutely adore you Yahtzee. Kudos for the consistent quality content.

Yeah, I wasn't too pleased by Smash Bros U's lack of a story mode. It felt like a step back from where Brawl left off. Come to think of it, a lot of Nintendo games of late have felt like a step back: Super Mario 3D World, Smash Bros U, "New" Yoshi's Island 3D. Funny enough, the only thing that felt like a step forward to me was Pokemon Omega Ruby, a game that actually IS a step back but still feels fresh and new with the new look and additional game mechanics like that upgraded PokeRadar thing that was introduced in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl and then sort of forgotten about for a bit.

Pretty much every comment is saying something along the lines of "this year sucked for games". Damn right it did. If you didn't own a fucking WiiU. I'm getting really damn sick of people bitching about there being no good games. For Christ's sake they're right in front of you. Buy a WiiU. Reward Nintendo for actually giving a shit. I'm getting legitimately pissed of by comments still complaining about a problem that has a fucking solution already.

Would have loved a 20-30 minute special with Jim and Yahtzee talking about the best and worst.

The little unentertained face used while considering #1 worst just gets me XD

That sound for the Top 5 was just great. i need a soundbyte of that for sure.

Lewd, rude and crude. I've missed you Yahtzee. That polite and eloquently spoken doppelgänger just wasn't the same.

one of two videos where wolfenstein the new order is in the top best games of 2014, that's how fucking underrated the game is and sad!!!!

um great editing and scripting it's hard to see something new hit the mainstream but this top 5 did it

THANK YOU!! for Putting Wolfenstein the New Order in the list, it's great to see somebody remember it

2014 was a fantastic year for Wii U and 3ds owners!

ALRIGHT second video I saw and you sir just won a new subscriber this video made me almost piss myselft because of laughing

That fart noise gets me every time.

That opening metaphor was profound. Well said.

Maybe this year wasn't the best year for gaming, but that shouldn't stop people from enjoying games all together. If you can't find new games that you like, play old games on your backlog or games from other generations, there is a lot of great and hidden gems to keep one busy for a long time!

Is it wrong to say that I enjoyed Thief? And before anyone asks, no, I wasn't able to play the originals and yes, I'm sure your nostalgia says the old ones are 10x better and no, I don't care. I liked this Thief because it was a challenge for me and I liked the story. It also scared the piss out of me which is why I won't play through it again but I liked it. I feel like I didn't waste any money and if money was wasted, it was wasted on a deluxe edition of Assassins Creed Unity preorder.

your doing a good job by reviewing games yatzee, keep it up!

One of my favorite youtube channels :)

2014 was a terrible year for gaming, but at least it gave us Alien Isolation.

At this point I'm convinced he has a bias against Nintendo since they had a ton of great games come out this year such as Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros. WiiU, Bayonetta 2, and Pokémon.

Between his top 5, and some of my favorites such as Far Cry 4 and Inquisition, I think this was a great year for games.

"...and then I pictured chasing them across the croquet lawn with an elephant gun." That bit really got me. Thank you so much. I needed that laugh.

I think Destiny should've made it to the shit list due to it being the biggest disappointment to be released in 2014, but I can't remember if it was reviewed by Yahtzee or not.

Is that gabe moaning?

That had to be painful for Yahtzee, having to put Theif as the worst game, considering how much he loves thief 2 from the original games.

His face at the end..LOL!

I feel this year in gaming was... weird. I agree with some people that if you own a WiiU, a PC or a Vita (nobody talks about poor ol Vita), this year was magnificent. Games like Shadows of Mordor, Wolfenstein, Smash Bros, Shovel Knight , Souls Sacrifice and Binding of Issac were fantastic aditions to any library. This year showed how good a Kickstarter can be with Shovel Knight and Wasteland 2. This year showed you can revive franchises long tought dead and make then great pieces of work, like Bayonetta and Wolfenstein. This year showed how you can risk a new IP and make it great, like Shadows of Mordor, as well showing that you can do great work with existing IP, like Alien or all the continuations of games that launched on Nintendo's Wii U. But, on the other hand, we saw really bad examples. We saw that you don't even need to know how to program to have a popular game, you just need a drama on it and it will sell millions, like Depression Quest (and shut up if you say "you are mysoginist" or "you are SJW", this game only got the sales they had thanks to the drama made by Zoe Quinn, being true that Wizardchan harrassed her or it was all fake). We saw the arrise of the most average triple A games ever created, from making then exacts copypastes of the last game (Far Cry 4), making then buggy as shit (Sanic Boom), lying about the capacity of the game and giving an underwelming experience (Watch_Dogs) or all of the above (AssAssin's Creed Unity). We sawv that you can make three games of the same franchise in six months or making a paid demo and be OK by it (FNAF and Ground Zeroes, both being good games with really greedy market strategy). And, lasrt but not least, this year showed that you can make fake claims of copyright infligments just to hide any negative critique about your game (Slaughtering Grounds). Overall, it was a messy year. Claiming that it was the worst year of gaming is a absurd exageration. But it showed the extrems of the two sides of the coin: Making a game purely for profit or making a game to people enjoy. And I will get swarmed by comments saying that I am this or that, just predicting...

I didn't exactly think it was that spectacular a year for AAA titles either, but 2015 is shaping up to be a fantastic year. MGSV: The Phantom Pain, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Witcher 3, and Zelda are the big four I'm most interested in, but games like Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, the new Battlefront, Persona 5 and....yes....even Final Fantasy XV have peeked my interest a ton. I don't want to act too cynical, but I get that 2014 was a year that let down a lot of people, and I can see why some may think that 2015 may not be too different, but I have some degree of faith. *prepares for incoming shit storm*

That grumpy Yahtzee face at the end absolutely kills me!

Great list, sad to see Elite Dangerous and Dragon Age Inquisition in there. But I know you're playing ED! The friendship drive charging tweet said it all. Waiting for a review.

When the top worst game came up, I genuinely thought it would be Destiny. If I listened correctly, Destiny was also a AAA title with a massive budget that ended up a disappointment.

we were saved by dark souls 2. every other game this year was absolutely horrible.

Just went out and bought Thief a few days back.. Had I have actually read the review prior to purchasing (as I generally do) along with watching this video I may well have reconsidered. Ohwell, I'll give it a blast either way and see what all the fuss is about.. Guess I'll check out the originals while I'm at it so I can compare.

Thank you so much for making making those the no. 1 top and bottom. I've really felt the same way and own both of them.

Shadow of Mordor? Seriously?

I'm sorry yahtzee.... but do you think people want to play smash games because the characters are nintentdo? I can't speak for everyone else, but i could give 2 shits the character i'm playing. I don't know who the fuck "ike" is, but he was my favorite character in that game. No, what brings me to smash games are the very VERY polished gameplay. Just the gameplay and nothing else. Its a different take on fighting games. Were it any other characters or on any other console would make no difference

why did he removed the doodles at the end? i love them

Yahtzee! Love the video, and I personally put Shovel Knight at #2 and Pokemon ORAS as #1. But anyways I think a game that you might like would be Rimworld, it's depressing when your people begin having mental breakdowns. Cheers!

no assassin's creed unity in top 5 worst? why?

It doesn't take a genius to realize that Nintendo had the most solid line up of great games in 2014. And yet the only wii u title he mentions is Sonic Boom? Yahtzee can like and dislike whatever he wants. But it's more than a bit obvious he is biased against Nintendo. Smash brothers, Bayonetta 2 and Hyrule warriors are all very good contenders for the top 5 games of 2014 on my list.

Hey I wonder if you would look into elite dangerous and review that. is there anyplace i can make request for you to do a review on a certain game?

Every top/bottom annual review needs to be done in this way. With those sound effects.

your analogys are the best

Just thought I'd share some good old TMI. I asked my doctor about the "one last drop" phenomenon many men are acquainted with, and he said that that doesn't have to be normal. When you shake it forever and it still has a drop of piss, that means you're in the habit of holding it in when you have to go. It goes away over time so long as you go to the washroom as soon as your body tells you to.

My experience with Thief was pretty much hating it for every second that I played it. Then when I hadn't played it for a bit, I think "Huh, I should replay that; it can't be as bad as I remember", then the process repeats. (Same goes for Watch Dogs).

That "Mad Yahtzee Face" at the end needs to be used far more often

"2014 was only bad if you didn't get a Wii U". Well unfortunately I'm not a part of those 5 people so tough luck for me I guess.

I can't watch your videos on the escapistmag site. my player/flash is enabled and working, only your site won't load videos on either chrome or firefox.

Yahtzee must get an award for being the most hardcore game reviewer

That raspberry sound for the worst games killed me XD

that face at the end just cracks me up

This vid had my favourite Top and Bottom 5 sounds. Those moaning and raspberry sounds crack me up every time.

was the mentioning of the gnus and windows in one sentence intended? (GNU/Linux in comp. to Windows)

Forgot to put annotations on those other videos at the end... I wanted to click the Sonic one! Time to search through the channel...

I tried to watch his new video on the escapist and it does not play. Any ideas why?

10 Seconds into this intro video I am like rocking around like ape with a beer :)

I recently got a new CD that I really enjoyed, but I forgot my old stereo/CD player in the bed of my truck for a few months resulting in it's current nasty and rusted state. I plugged it in, it miraculously turned on, and I REALLY wanted to listen to this CD, but didn't want to insert it into the craggily, miry maw that became the respective slot without assurance that it would accept the offering. So I used my copy of Thief as an experiment. It didn't work.

Monster Hunter 4G came out in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2014. What a great year for gaming.

4:32 Hmmm... I remember an episode where he was covering comments of his SSBB review were he made fun of someone who used 'objectively' in the same context.

Why is everyone saying that this year has been shit? It hasn't been the greatest year but it's been quite good. I mean for one, it's been a very good year for Wii U and 3DS owners. (Thank goodness I decided to get a Wii U because it was totally worth it). We got GTA V on the next gen consoles. We got Watch_Dogs, The Last of Us: Remastered (one of the main reasons I bought a PS4!), Alien: Isolation, Sunset Overdrive, The Wolf Among Us, Wolfenstein, Destiny, The Evil Within, South Park: Stick of Truth (I hated that game at first but I really like it), Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Child of Light, Broken Age, Little Big Planet 3, Borderlands the Pre-Sequal, Monument Valley, Goat Sim (I know a lot of people think it's shut but it's very fun with friends), Never Alone... So many different games on a variety of platforms. These are only those that I can remember at this moment in time but there are loads more that we got this year (have you seen all of the indie games out there?) that were just brilliant. Yeah this year wasn't so great but it isn't the worst year we've ever had for games. Anyway, it is a new year now so let's get ready for the games of 2015.

I get the feeling that Evil Within would be in the number 6 worst slot.

Ill go with shadoq of mordor being the best 2014 game ive played (even though I only got it very recently). Its the one game I dont turn off because "im fed up of it for tonight" which is what I do with all the other games on my pc at the minute

I quite enjoyed Thief, but then I said "I want some more!" and downloaded Thief The Metal Age. I still think Thief is good, but the originals are amazing, again, I wasn't really around since babies can't play video games, but I really liked Thief II, because of the open and really large maps with a lot to explore and garret is actually a really interesting and awsome charachter, altough I'll admit that Thief 2 can sometimes lose you, I had a great time

When he was talking about the vast majority of resources I seriously thought it was gonna be Advanced Warfare, needless to say, I was surprised.

At the end I thought you were going to say Ass creed: Unity, wasn't disappointed in what you chose though xD

Did not expect Thief at the end! I didn't know you hated it that much!

Shovel Knight one of the best games of 2014. What.

Thank you! I thought Thief was incredibly disappointing and has ended up in my shame shelf.

that moan made me chuckle a little bit everytime it sounded off XD

review a game called the last federation, it is interesting, the goal can be achieved in multiple ways and has very unique mechanics.

I'm a little disappointed that my favorite game didn't get in but I had a blast with shadow of mordor and I'm really happy that it got number 1 so now I'm gonna go play it

Well crap, I had successfully forgotten about Thief until just now...

For the first time ever i completely agree with his list, he did a great job

absolutely pissed myself laughing at every fart sound

Shadow of Mordor was phenomenal

spot on

I played both alien isolation and the evil within. Alien isolations was definitely the one that has me on edge more.

This video couldn't be any more accurate lol

Was I the only one to play Assassin's Creed Rogue? I thought it was surprisingly good. Due to how short it is, the sailing never got tedious, the locations are all pretty diverse and unique, it wasn't broken at launch, and despite a slow beginning, it paced itself pretty well for the remaining 2/3rds of the game. It's s a shame he never reviewed it because it definitely belongs in the top five this year of non-nintendo games.

Shadow of Mordor is the first game I played that really felt like a next generation game. It felt like a step up. It's not the best game I've ever played but I am yet to hear anyone not be satisfied with it. I've loaned it out a few times and it never fails to disappoint. I guess the reason it has a bad rep is that people must have just not taken it seriously.

Sadly you didn't review This War Of Mine, hoping you'll manage to cover it until new releases pop up.

:O Yahtzee & I agreed on our #1 game of the year?? I am frightened now.