I mean honestly aaa at this point to me kinda has an ironic meaning. It just refers to big budget shit titles that have tons of marketing behind them. I would never refer to an actually good game as aaa because the vast majority of aaa studios make bad, buggy, unfinished, and overpriced.
Depends what you define as “AAA”
Baldurs Gate 3, for instance, has no nonsense, and every word out of the director’s mouth is “we made this decision because it’s what our developers wanted.” But while the dev team is “AAA” large, Larian doesn’t really fit the mould of Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, Blizzard or whatever.
I think we need a new designation for what are basically megacorp operations.
afromustache@lemmy.world 1 day ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
So we call them what they are: megacorp games!
I just don’t like the term “AAA.” It feels like these mega studios are hiding behind that as a badge of quality.
wraithcoop@programming.dev 1 day ago
I think they self-defined themselves as AAAA because infinite growth has infected their every thought so the number of As must go up too
afromustache@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wasn’t that ubisoft? I might be mistaken though.