Just ignore the “triple A” industry and games are usually great. Lots of small passionate studios still pumping out quality stuff.
Seriously. I’ve been playing Ready or Not, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 lately, and I’m having a great time with gaming.
While “AAA” has lost all meaning: even in that space we have some real bangers already
Yakuza/Like a Dragon 8 is already in the running as one of the all time great JRPGs (and probably a top 50 GOAT in terms of games period). FF7R2 is going to have to REALLY screw up for fans to not feel strongly about it. And Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, somehow, showing all signs of actually being faithful to the incredibly weird original. We also might be seeing Elden Ring DLC sooner than later. Tekken 8 seems to be incredibly well received… accessibility aside. That gets us to the end of March (ER has a mysterious youtube entry but it has for weeks so who knows)? Even if nothing else happens this year, that already is a stacked as hell line-up.
Two months in and, gaming wise, 2024 is shaping up really well. Like most years, people see what they want to see. If you want to say things are a flop, there are flops. If you want to say things are awesome, there are some truly amazing games.
I’m so excited for 7 rebirth. And one I’ve finished that I’ll be getting persona 3 reload to replay one of my favourite games. With those two alone and me catching up on some of last year’s games, this year is going to be a good one for me.
This is not a triple A game actually. Ubisoft CEO referred it as a four A. AAAA.
To investors who know shit about gaming, not to gamers…maybe he meant the costs which could be in the 4A sector after all this time 😅
More A equals more good
I played the demo for Mouthwashing and it was excellent. Nice little horror game without jump scares that really evokes dread.
The Deep Rock Survivors game is pretty cool too. Lots of neat stuff coming out these days.
Honestly really liking DRG Surviors, and I usually don’t like the genre.
Ubisoft also published the best game of the year, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Best metroidvania game I’ve played in a long time.
Yea I’ve mainly been focusing on smaller games recently. Last AAA game I bought was Cyberpunk 77, which I enjoyed but was a whole thing. There’s so many good indy games coming and going its definitely worth it to look into some of them
Are they? Because the past few years indie games for me have been nothing but early access underdeveloped bare bones crap.
Curious question: when was the last time a large scale “Triple A” title released and actually met expectations?
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy 7
Elden Ring
Tears of the Kingdom
Does Alan wake 2 count?
Fuck yes it does. That game set a new gold standard for me on video game production quality. Phenomenal game, and is even well optimized.
Forgot about Elden Ring.
I Always forget that Nintendo games are Triple A, I always get that indie dev vibe in spite of being as far from indie as one can get. Not in community engagement, rather in the notable detail and unique art style each game has, like you can tell the developers care about what they’re working on. You can definitely tell when Nintendo themselves develop a game vs. when they publish a game. (cough Game Freak cough)
Game Freak needs to be put in a retirement home
There were countless developers that folded during the transition to HD, 3D graphics in the PS360 era, and I feel like Gamefreak would have easily been one of them if Pokemon hadn’t taken off the way it did.
I think Baldur’s Gate 3 exceeded expectations for many people.
The key word here might be “large-scale” which to me sounds like the production-line games like CoD.
BG3 is large-scale. It’s a AAA game.
I see that as a failure of the term AAA, but I might just be underestimating the size of Larian’s team. I’ve always understood AAA to mean funded by a publisher.
Larian has a massive team and tons of money for BG3. It’s insulting to indies and to BG3 to pretend BG3 is anything other than the product of hundreds of hardworking team members.
I enjoy many indies more than I’ve enjoyed BG3 so far, but that speaks more to the fact that production scale and enjoyment do not scale linearly. BG3 remains a behemoth of a project, however.
Yeah, I have already been corrected. I think the reason I assumed it had a smaller team was because the team clearly loved the game and you don’t see that often in gaming outside of small-team projects.
I fail to see how that question is relevant since this game is a AAAA game /s
You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
To me that’s honestly more RDR2. That games amount of detail is pretty staggering.
I played base Cyberpunk and I’d like to refund the 60h I played. Thankfully I pirated it, I would not have payed a dime. However I hear comments like: “Phantom Liberty is what the game should be” I watched no spoilers, is it worth playing for me if I despised the base game?
If you’ve played a game you despise for 60h then I think your opinion on that game is invalid and your opinion on games in general is suspect.
Well, some people are just stubborn. Same reason LOL has so many players that hate the game but still play it daily.
I think they just say that. If they truly hated it they’d stop playing, unless they get paid to play. What they have are gripes with the game.
I’m surprised that they even thought that they would come even close to outperforming the AAAA battery and even dared to put themselves on the same level as it.
You forgot about the 5th A and the 3 Rs
God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.
Correction Ubisoft said this a quadruple A game.
The fourth A rolled over past the 3 character limit, making it a single A game.
It certainly is A game
Doom Eternal
I know a lot of people really enjoyed this game, but I couldn’t play more than a few hours despite loving Doom 2016. Restricted ammo quantity really killed the enjoyment for me. Adding Denuvo only after it was reviewed was a really shitty move and the soundtrack isn’t as good either now that I think of it.
I bought the Doom collection like a year and a half ago but all I’ve played is like half of Doom Classic. I need to get around to Doom/Doom Eternal.
Pirating this pirate game would be funny. But it’s a Ubisoft game, so even free is too expensive.
Not really, because pirating means removing the DRM which is the main reason of why “even free is too expensive”.
Even if it doesn’t cost money, it costs time to download and play it. Time you could have spent doing/playing something better.
Forspoken came out at the start of last year and we also got Redfall. 2023 was a stacked year for games.
Maybe the more bad games that come out mean we’re also getting good ones to balance things.
We have also had, Tekken 8, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Granblue Fantasy Relink, Persona 3r and Helldivers 2.
A couple bad/mediocre games is to be expected when we are only in Feb and this year is such a fucking banger for games already.
Me hoping that the next Obsidian game isn’t disappointing.
Honestly if Avowed just feels like a huge Skyrim mod they’ll probably do well.
I never saw Avowed that way before.
I have pretty high hopes for Obsidian on their next flagship game. Even the worst game of theirs is still pretty good! Alpha Protocol is a janky mess but it’s very fun to play with.
I just replayed Alpha Protocol. You said it perfectly. Janky, but fun
tbh the game this seems to be about “Skull and Bones” isn’t even that bad… The character models (especially faces) look pretty bad and I haven’t tried intentional multiplayer, but that’s all I’ve really noticed (played it for about 6-7 hours, including open beta)
I think that in a vacuum the game isn’t that bad, but given the context of how much it costs, how long it’s been in development, being hailed as the first “AAAA game”, and the fact that they literally made a better version of this game 11 years ago and the game is only mediocre I totally understand why this game has gotten the reaction it has.
The CEO also called it “the first AAAA” game, hence the jokes being made about how shit it is.
he meant AAAAH but forgot the H
He must be really scared of pirates
again to investors.
That doesn’t make it better.
it also don’t make it a bad game
No, that’s being a bad game that does that.
But hey, you’re allowed to like bad games.
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I got it for 38€ and I actually really like it.
According to the reviews, you’re wrong. Stop having fun
Game is sitting on a 6/10 on opencritic, that’s still an okay game for me 😅
I don’t know why opencritic labels it as weak. For me its always 6=okay, 7=good, 8=very good, 9=awesome, 10=Masterpiece…
It cracks me up how a scale of one to ten is always actually a scale of six to ten. Or maybe five to ten of they really hate the thing.
“Might not be a good year for games.” Idk, we’ve already had the surprise with palworld, which, while it didn’t really grab me, was a breath of fresh air for people. Helldivers slaps. I think the key is not to buy into hype, and play actually good games. People like to say 23 was a bad year too, but, I’d argue that stinkers like gollum just got more coverage and were on top of people’s minds. Not to excuse it at all, but, I played a lot of really good games last year.
How would a year with Zelda, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Street Fighter 6 and Like a Dragon Gaiden be bad? It was a great year.
Worst game of the year so far
Are you telling me the world’s first “quadruple A” game isn’t very good? I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!
I don’t know guys. It seems Unisoft have lost it. I don’t buy games from them anymore. I don’t know what happened to me, but after I made the decision, I found myself buying Far Cry 6 even though I hated Far Cry 5 with passion (I think it was Gustavo Fring). I am 2 hours in and I am not feeling it. The prologue was nice but then it turned into random missions. Go do this, do that. Should I just drop the game?
I’m have the exact opposite reaction right now. I stopped buying Ubi games years ago, but through give aways I got Assassins Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla for free. I never touched them until recently when a friend started playing through Odyssey and was talking about how much fun he was having. I installed Origins and played though it (because I can’t skip games in a series) and I kinda enjoyed it. Then I played Odyssey and it blew me away with how much fun I had. I’m on to the second DLC of it, and when I’m done I’ll start up Valhalla.
As far as Far Cry games go, though, I haven’t enjoyed one since 3.
I’ve played Odyssey and it was fairly fun to play, but Valhalla to me seemed a bit, idk, empty? Not much parkouring around in large towns like an assassin when the buildings are pretty sparse and small.
Why not pirate it first if you didn;t enjoy the last one? I disliked 5, pirated 6 and found out very early that it wasn’t gonna be good.
FC6 was the first ubi game I really disliked. same as you a few hours in and I just couldn’t get into the vibe of it. I really liked FC5 (possibly in my top 10 of all time) but 6 felt like such a miss
Ubisoft lost it after AC Brotherhood.
We already had a couple fantastic games this year tho
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People still watch Sub Optimal Gaming? His content is boring and he was a literal gamergater.
What does gamergater mean? I’m familiar with gate keeping but I don’t know that I’ve heard it like this.
I’m glad this has dropped off the public consciousness, but they were anyone who were on the side of the neo-fascist movement started after reddit banned rJailbait. Basically the early beta of what became the alt-right. There was a LOT of social pressure to either be for gamergate otherwise you were against it, and SOG tactilely sided with them during a time when a lot of people were starting to see it for what it was.
Interesting. I’ll have to dive deeper. Thanks!
There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube now separately comparing Batman Arkham Knight to Gotham Knights/Suicide Squad, and AC4: Black Flag to Skull and Bones.
There is absolutely a trend of brain drain in game development that no amount of contractors can fill now.
With the awareness that some people might call me names for saying that… AC4: black flag wasn’t even that good of a game in my opinion
