Other than Assassin’s creed and I have enjoyed pretty much all of the big releases (I might just be fatigued with assassins creed, origins was too long and they just got longer after that).
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Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 months agoNah, I enjoyed Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom, and yes even Starfield enough to give them up just because rage-bait Youtubers told me to. Just like I’ll eventually probably pickup Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Spiderman 1 and 2 at some point along with many other AAA games that I think I’ll have fun playing in the near future.
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Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dont include bg3, elden ring and totk in the AAA category. AAA no longer means high quality and fun, it means made by huge companies with more money than balls. CoD is a AAA game. And its shit. For example.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This line of reasoning is nonsensical.
thenightisdark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For what it’s worth BG3 is two AA’s not three AAA.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In no way is BG3 a AA game. It is firmly in the AAA category. The rough numbers I’ve seen indicate a team of 300+ people working on it, not including third-parties.
BG3 is a AAA game.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was simplifying my reasoning because its rant territory.
Essentially, companies like activosion dont take risks, they cater to a mass audience and produce the same games over and over. There hasnt been a unique or good version of cod since mw2 and blackops 2 days. Evidenced by them remaking both mw1 and 2 recently, because nostalgia sells games as well as popularity.
They call it AAA but ithe term has become ubiquitous with just popular games made by big profiteering entities like activision.
Its not nonsensical, its just not very well represented by my initial statement.
theRealBassist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AAA just refers to production scale/marketing budget. While it can often be conflated with high quality, that’s not what the term refers to. Similarly, Indie does not mean low quality, high quality, or a particular level of risk
Madden, as a famous example, has always been AAA, but has rarely innovated much.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The term AAA has always just meant games made by larger developers/publishers to distinguish from games made by smaller ones. That’s really it. Large vs small budget would be another way to think of it.
It’s never implied anything about innovation or risk-taking, or uniqueness or mass-appeal.