For every Baldur’s Gate 3 there’s at least 5 really bad indie games (cringe simulator stuff, early access that stays in early access forever, etc.). AAA games are more like big blockbuster movies; they may not always get the best reviews, but because they tend to be more mainstream, I usually have a better idea of whether or not I want to fork over my twenties to play any given one.

Just like Steve Job said 4:10 . AAA games nowadays made by share holders who only know how to pointing stick and thinking of money. They are so out of touch with their audience. There should be a system that put those in control. Game design should be made by people who have heart not the people who only think of money before the game.

in the mind of these people, they are insecure because they themselves are talentless compared to their employees. The only way they can prove that they are actually better than their employees is by having more money than them and be the boss

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What i like about new games coming from indie studios is the diversity honestly almost every game coming from the likes of Ubisoft, Ea, Blizzard and bathesda and more to me are the same you either have a plain old shooter or a stale fighter. Indie studios do things differently to spice it up so that they can build a fanbase i've been recently hooked on the finals fps with different abilities with gamemodes that fit the whole idea of the game if blizzard were to make the finals it would be just like overwatch very little room for movement and intriguing gameplay just plain walk shoot. And this may sound very negative but i hope they continue pushing up garbage in our faces and we stop buying so they keep losing money and maybe they may realize their mistake.

Stop calling Bobby Dick he is Ceo-Dick...

Hollow knight is such a amazing game and great short Going Indie :]

Diablo 4 was a clear slap in the face to all loyal players I'm done with blizzard wish I can get my refund for diablo 4

Please make a video about "Super Mario World" and the rom hacking community please

Chasing repeated revenue in an art driven industry has always seemed so silly to me. I'm glad there's still companies making good products not bad services.

Imagine if all the OG blizzard employees got Back Together and formed a New company and called it Avalanche, then made stuff ppl loved again…

Ah memories. I was League's season 1-3 player with my brother and ex. Although I only earned platinum rank and quit because of other commitment. So many new things now it seems, probably should come back and be part of it again. Nice game.

Alan Wake 2 was terrible, woke crap. Now I see why YT 'recommended' this video...

Hopefully Blizzard goes downhill long enough to allow time for one of these ex-Blizzard employee studios to buy it out and start rebuilding it

I wouldn’t call Larian a “new” studio, it was founded 28 years ago. Great video though 👍

Triple a will always be crap by definition. Corporations are always going to take great studios and exploit them for profits Andy gamers are always a couple years behind the curve. Look at blizzard. They haven't made a good game since Diablo 2 but it wasn't until overwatch 2 that people realized I.

I had no clue Netflix had so many actual games. It's a lot better than UKpostss Playables.

I just want to thank you scinse alot of videos liek this are just complaining and going on a tangent where as you put a great message on it.

you dont have to waste money for the subcriptions you could take the pirate risk if you know what i mean

It feels like its mainly the western countries and its still going strong else where.

This is not an indie revolution at all all AAA game companies used to be indie at one point this is just a new generation of gaming culture

The clip about sales and marketing taking over really does sum it up.

Honestly, I think vr or AR won't adapt humans, but people needs to adapt to it instead. This whole experience feels like esquizofrenia and normal bodies are ready to go against it.

Pokemon go is going down in popularity since 2020

As a CEO once told me " I Do Not Have to Know What you Do just Know how to Manage You and Your Co Workers". And that is why i do not work there anymore. To Corporate you are just a work Monkey. They have no idea what you do or how passionate you are to your work .

While it really does feel like the old dogs of AAA studios have given the space for the new AAA generation, some of the older companies keep on delivering on high quality big budget games. SE has recently released Final Fantasy VII Rebirth which feels like has dropped under the radar in the wider gaming community outside of the designated communities. In a time when AAA call their games AAAA and focus on cash shops and live service first - fun and gameplay later, SE has been consistently giving out high quality games while still retaining the identity and fun aspects of the titles they release. FF7R feels like a behemoth of a title with a lot of content which consistently freshens up the experience and doesn't feel repetitive, and the most important aspect - It's always adding new mechanics FROM START TO FINISH. The amount of content which can actually be delivered separately in a nice DLC package by standards of some other companies - Here it just doesn't happen! The game retains the classic feeling of a complete experience, no DLCs, no P2W paywalls, no cashgrabs. Same thing can be said about 2023's FF16 - While it's a more linear experience, it's a closed story and a straightforward game, which recently has had its last DLC released. Both DLCs for this game are by no means a detriment for the base game, but they add enough new content to extend the players' enjoyment in the title and give the ability to re-experience the title in a new way in the fun gameplay sense, and some added lore which adds more to the intrigue of the world building. Even some of SEs AA titles which cater to way smaller audiences in the SRPG (Triangle Strategy), dungeon crawler (Dungeon Encounters) and JRPG/ARPG (Octopath Traveler duology/ NEO: The World Ends With You) genres have the level of polish and care that other AAA studios do no want to provide. But the titles suffer from either little exposure or not enough marketing (I'm not knowledgeable enough) which really hurts the games and the company in the long run.

Something people forget is in the early days, League didn't need a high end PC to play it. Heroes of Newert looked cool but their market was vastly smaller. Even to this day, League will run fine in an average non-gaming PC. That was also genius strategy since there's a huge community of people who can't afford a gaming PC but wanted to play... and they can afford skins ;)

This developers need to make a name for themselves and dance Kojima style

If Disney buys Epic or Fortnite, the world will end.

Skull and Bones is AAAA

Console wars are over, ps won but consoles are going extinct. Next war is streaming games subscriptions between steam , gamepass and ps plus

Triple a games are not making a come back are they better then the 8th gen games yes but not by much and hell divers is the only game ive seen in years that would be worth playing im waiting to see if avowed is gonna be any good if it's not then I'll lose all hope for triple a

Steam vs Gamepass

how AAA games can make a comeback? - MAKE GAMES FOR GAMERS NOT STAKEHOLDERS - dont push political agenda in game narrative - hire a good community manager and not dime a dozen political driven activist - listen to community and fans feedback for future updates and improvement - stop predatory micro transaction and other deceiving monetization the fact is AAA games never actually gone, game devs from japan and korea constantly making good games that makes profit and stay relevant because they never abandoned their core value and treat fans respectfully.

Yep it’s exactly what I’ve been predicting, it’s time for the renaissance of games!

Im just sticking to indie / Double A games now. not got no interest in a game that wants me to pay 150 for a single dlc mission and even then theres a chance in 10 years they might just take the game away from me when it stops being worth keeping the servers up to them.

Bro an odst similar to helldivers would’ve been the shit 😢

In my opinion blizzards demise was when they got rid of genders to cater to the LGBTQ community which is probably 2 % of their player base

When Morhaime left, that was my clue. Sold my accounts, haven’t regretted it at all.

I personally quit playing league, but i still watch players that are entertaining. Love and hate relationship with the game, but the lore, cinematics, music, show and other games by riot...something to be consumed

If AAA games are revived, can we leave ubisoft out of the new industry?

FromSoftware also just makes what generates the most money, but is dismissed in this discussion EDIT: Unfair comparison. Fromsoft took risks: contract the most expensive autor (JRRM), reinventing their formula in different genres after/while concluding a trilogy, reviving more unpopular work like armored core

When accountants run studios, you get rushed buggy junk. If nerds run studios, you get Helldivers 2 and Baldurs Gate 3

Remember kids, streaming doesn’t pay artists what they deserve!

I hate cloud gaming. Everything about it takes away consumer rights. Want to buy a game and play it as much as you want? Haven’t played your game in years? Well you can’t since it’s no longer available in the streaming service you’re paying for monthly. Right to own is gone and I blame Netflix and Adobe.

Brother, you deserve so much more attention. Your video are always on point one can tell you do your homework and actually care for video games.

I don't agree with the example of Sea of Thieves vs Scull and Bones. SoT was received way, way worse on release than S&B was. It may be better now, 5 years later, but this is the issue of old, established games vs new ones. It's the same story as with any sequel of a strongly supported game. New version of Civilization are always seen as inferior in comparison with older one, for example, so this isn't a fair comparison. Black Flag was seen as a low effort cash grab and proof that Ubisoft is out of ideas on release - a whole game based on a minigame from AC3. Black Flag was considered as a last nail in the Assassin's Creed coffin, because while AC3 made significant departure from the stealth roots of the series, Black Flag has almost none of them at all. I agree with the premise of the video - there are plenty of AAA games that are good and popular. They just come from different companies than people are used to. You just should put more thought into examples you used.

Its abusive relationship - Once you are in, you can not get out

They should build their own new blizzard

I couldn't wait till he get to the point.