AAA Gaming is Officially DEAD

"AAA game budgets are too big and they're not innovative enough. How do we fix this?" "AAAA games with even bigger budgets and even less innovation!"

That one Bungie GDC presentation will never stop being funny and sad, everything that's wrong with modern gaming.

I’m so glad Helldivers 2 is doing so well.

9:11 "are games from companies who are either Indie, AA, or FromSoftware" I really love how literally no one can put Fromsoft in a category so it gets its own.

Now we just need a AA GTA clone that doesn't have microtransactions and has at least decent optimization

The unfortunate thing is, most of these games don't end up bad because of the developers themselves, but rather because the ones in charge have a say in everything in regards to the game. One good example being Overwatch 2, they wanted to support a PvE mode that was MARKETED to be in the game, but once the higher-ups saw that Diablo Immortal was making way more money than Overwatch 2 PvE ever could've, they decided to shift their efforts into Diablo Immortal instead. The developers have no say in this...

"Black Rock" , "Sweet Baby Inc" deserves to get exposed for their "enriching" of the gaming industry. Someone should make a full documentary about this.

Fromsoft is probably the best game developer in the industry. No microtransactions, no seasonal model, entire game complete on release with minimal bugs, highly detailed worlds and deep story’s and themes, Cinematic and awesome to play. Also great expansions that always over deliver

If some donkey gamers could show some restraint and not pre order the deluxe edition of 70$ Live-Service games, NOT spend 20$ for ONE color re-SKIN, then maybe the whole industry wouldn't be this sad. But no, can't have nice things

As someone who is slowly creating a game dev team. Seeing this AAA screwup so much is a blessing

We've lost games modes, developer commentaries, extras, mini games, unlockable skins/costumes, couch co-op, split screen, and many more in-game incentives. Even with how good indies games are, most of them follow trends too. I know they're not "lost" obviously but you don't see them in 90% modern games now. You don't see any indie developer trying to make an open sandbox game like Hulk Ultimate Destruction/Prototype/Just Cause or first person shooters akin to Crysis/Fear/Resistance, or games like GTA/True Crime/Sleeping Dogs/Max Payne, or even a Lego type game. And if anyone does know an indie or AA developer make those types of games PLEASE tell me.

That's why I can't simply ignore AAA studios, they hold too many IPs that are either frozen or killed one by one

its a problem across the whole entertainment industry at the moment and not just gaming

Big studios depend on graphics and fomo. I think they have an attitude that we'll buy their games just because they make them. We need to play out old games for a year instead of buying the unfinished buggy crap they put out. I bet they'd suddenly be able to do much better

It's so funny I took a ten year hiatus from gaming, when I stopped bangers after bangers were coming out all the time. Nowadays all I play are older titles and Nintendo games. Modern day releases are plagued by mictrotransactions and other stupid BS

Rise of new smaller studios, I just hope once they become big enough they won't become like their counterpart, like, uhh, "Die as a hero or live long enough till you become the villain" kinda.

Nintendo had a Palword with Pokemon Legends. The formula was literally there. Legends gave Nintendo the fundamentals to greatly expand on the idea and we got scarlet and violent instead. It’s a shame. Legends was the right step forward and it’s a shame they didn’t see it.

When a game is so big it crumbles from its own weight.

Infamous wasn’t abandoned, Sucker punch wanted to make a new IP, so they made Ghost of Tsushima

As Reggie once said, “If the game is not fun, why bother?”