Comment on Anon pitches a new game

urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AA is a game that is a normal full sized game, but was made on a budget that limited scope. Good examples are the Metro series or Balatro. AAA is your normal games with big budgets. AAAA is a special title for Skull and Bones, it means you spend a gigantic amount of money and make sure the whole thing sucks.

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  • hinterlufer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Balatro is indie, songs isn’t it? Developed by a single dude with probably zero budget

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    • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, maybe not a good AA example, just couldn’t think of a second one off the top of my head.

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Basically everything Nintendo makes is AA, they just charge AAA+ prices for them.

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      • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Clair obscur expedition 33

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Larian is AA

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hyperstrange games and Revolver Digital.

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      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dungeons of Hinterwald is a fantastic AA game, if you haven’t played it.

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    • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Balatro has a publisher, Playstack. While they put very little money into traditional advertising, Playstack absolutely had a calculated marketing campaign that nailed success by getting specific streamers on board.

      This technically makes it not ‘indie’ as they have a publisher but the indie/AA/AAA labels are kind of ridiculous.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Studio size/development costs

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s how much shouting they do when developing and advertising the game

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AAA is smaller, too, so I’m not sure why they think it’s better

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  • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I believe the AAA term actually originates from investing. In investing, a “AAA” investment is one where everyone is pretty confident that it’ll be a positive return. It got a bit of use in the games industry to mean games that were expected to sell well no matter the what. It eventually got warped into just meaning big games with big budgets, and people started using the “AA” term to mean “like AAA but not as much”

    The wikipedia article does a better job of explaining it

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TIL, thanks!

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  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d bet on JRPG rank rules; D, C, B, A, A+, A++, S, S+ and as many S’ they bloody want in order to make S tier worthless. Instead of doing the sane thing and adjusting the criteria for a rank.

    But in this case there is no D C or Bs, only As.

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Goku explained it once in front of Buu.

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