Fun meme, but honestly I think the only folks it’s gonna be a bad year for are AAA game devs, who I already sympathize with.
I think indies are gonna keep rocking some outstanding content. Content made with and for love will always beat content made for money IMO :)
Just ignore the “triple A” industry and games are usually great. Lots of small passionate studios still pumping out quality stuff.
“Might not be a good year for games.” Idk, we’ve already had the surprise with palworld, which, while it didn’t really grab me, was a breath of fresh air for people. Helldivers slaps. I think the key is not to buy into hype, and play actually good games. People like to say 23 was a bad year too, but, I’d argue that stinkers like gollum just got more coverage and were on top of people’s minds. Not to excuse it at all, but, I played a lot of really good games last year.
How would a year with Zelda, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Street Fighter 6 and Like a Dragon Gaiden be bad? It was a great year.
Hey now, teamforetress 2 got a 64 bit beta that improved the game performance by a solid 20-30%
Valve might finally make the Heavy update
Call me when they make an update that removes the nazis.
EDIT: The joke is that they never will because they’re a white supremacist company who wouldn’t even say “black lives matter”
Curious question: when was the last time a large scale “Triple A” title released and actually met expectations?
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy 7
Elden Ring
Tears of the Kingdom
Forgot about Elden Ring.
I Always forget that Nintendo games are Triple A, I always get that indie dev vibe in spite of being as far from indie as one can get. Not in community engagement, rather in the notable detail and unique art style each game has, like you can tell the developers care about what they’re working on. You can definitely tell when Nintendo themselves develop a game vs. when they publish a game. (cough Game Freak cough)
Game Freak needs to be put in a retirement home
There were countless developers that folded during the transition to HD, 3D graphics in the PS360 era, and I feel like Gamefreak would have easily been one of them if Pokemon hadn’t taken off the way it did.
I think Baldur’s Gate 3 exceeded expectations for many people.
The key word here might be “large-scale” which to me sounds like the production-line games like CoD.
BG3 is large-scale. It’s a AAA game.
I see that as a failure of the term AAA, but I might just be underestimating the size of Larian’s team. I’ve always understood AAA to mean funded by a publisher.
Larian has a massive team and tons of money for BG3. It’s insulting to indies and to BG3 to pretend BG3 is anything other than the product of hundreds of hardworking team members.
I enjoy many indies more than I’ve enjoyed BG3 so far, but that speaks more to the fact that production scale and enjoyment do not scale linearly. BG3 remains a behemoth of a project, however.
Yeah, I have already been corrected. I think the reason I assumed it had a smaller team was because the team clearly loved the game and you don’t see that often in gaming outside of small-team projects.
I fail to see how that question is relevant since this game is a AAAA game /s
You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
I played base Cyberpunk and I’d like to refund the 60h I played. Thankfully I pirated it, I would not have payed a dime. However I hear comments like: “Phantom Liberty is what the game should be” I watched no spoilers, is it worth playing for me if I despised the base game?
If you’ve played a game you despise for 60h then I think your opinion on that game is invalid and your opinion on games in general is suspect.
Well, some people are just stubborn. Same reason LOL has so many players that hate the game but still play it daily.
I think they just say that. If they truly hated it they’d stop playing, unless they get paid to play. What they have are gripes with the game.
Doom Eternal
I know a lot of people really enjoyed this game, but I couldn’t play more than a few hours despite loving Doom 2016. Restricted ammo quantity really killed the enjoyment for me. Adding Denuvo only after it was reviewed was a really shitty move and the soundtrack isn’t as good either now that I think of it.
Correction Ubisoft said this a quadruple A game.
The fourth A rolled over past the 3 character limit, making it a single A game.
It certainly is A game
