Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?
rafoix@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Larian
Fromsoft
Nintendo
Those are probably the only developers in the AAA world that are not selling money printing skinner boxes.
Indie devs don’t have money to advertise on that shitty show.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I guess that depends on where your cutoff is for AAA, but if you’re including FromSoft, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II just came out this year at a similar level of budget and production value. And I know people have their issues with Unreal, but it really has raised the bar for what a “AA” might be capable of. The likes of Avowed, The Outer Worlds 2, The Alters, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this year (and games like The Thaumaturge last year) are all what we would have expected out of a AAA game in the not-too-distant past, most of which comes down to scope, where a lot of AAAs are arguably doing too much.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I haven’t played any of those yet but isn’t the subject what we’re looking forward to seeing at the Game Awards?
I’m gonna have to toss a going between Expedition 33 and KCD2. They both seem like my type of game
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well, you said those were the only AAA devs that weren’t making money printing skinner boxes, and we had plenty of counter examples just this year. Obsidian put out 2 or 3 games this year, depending on how you count, and it wouldn’t be crazy for them to have an announcement for a game coming next year.
Absolutely give those two games a try; they’re high on the TGA’s lists for a reason.