Indie games are better than AAA right now and aren't 80 bucks a pop

Blue Prince is the best new game out right now followed up by CO: Expedition 33, neither are full price games. AAA games have been getting hammered by way to high of expectations and by having their scope by way to big, the result is shitty and expensive games one way or the other. I think the market will ultimately correct its self and we will start seeing much more 20-30 hour games that are built on a platform for a sequel or two with much less dev work needed for the 2nd and 3rd. Xbox's moves today with price increases are only going to hurt them more.

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Have we ever seen this with an already released generation

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No. This is the only generation that the consoles didn’t decrease in price over time. At the moment you can still buy a ps5 bundled with astro bot for 450$ but that will likely go away soon. This generation sucks.

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Thanks to this board Ive been playing Dave the Diver for the past month or so and it's been one of the best, immersive games I can recall playing recently.

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I bought on sale this year, but haven't played yet. Looking forward to it.

I rarely play AAA games (RDR2, Skyrim) and am particularly choosy when I do.

I am not inherently wild about most indie games, but I do gel with some of them from time to time. The AA space is where it's at for me. Games like Robocop Rogue City, Plague Tale, Vampyr, Space Marine 2, etc.

I think the biggest problem is that indie studios prove that big triple A studios don't need 500 people working on a game in order to make good games. Big triple A studios suffer from the same level of organizational bloat as a lot of corporations

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I think the biggest problem is that indie studios prove that big triple A studios don't need 500 people working on a game in order to make good games. Big triple A studios suffer from the same level of organizational bloat as a lot of corporations

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There's an old maxim that says that any project will eventually expand to consume all resources allocated to it. Giant corporations have no sense of cost control any more in almost every industry and video games are one of the worst offenders.

Bigger budgets clearly do not produce better games. I would say at this point it's almost the opposite. Bigger budgets in a way lead to worse games, much in the same way too many cooks in the kitchen produce worse food.

These AA studios are producing games that look and play every bit as good, if not better, than AAA studios at 10% the budgets.

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This generation sucks

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Im finding myself with not enough time to play the games for the first time in a while.

I still haven't had time to play kingdom come deliverence 2.

Clair Obscur leapfrogged it because i like turn based slightly more and it should be a quicker game to beat.

Is metaphor considered AAA? Id assume so.

It's not new, but Owlcat's Wrath of the Righteous and Rogue Trader games are both :chef's kiss:

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At the moment you can still buy a ps5 bundled with astro bot for 450$ but that will likely go away soon. This generation sucks.

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You can buy a 75 inch TV right now for less than that. There is a real problem with how the consoles have priced themselves.

I don’t think I can go back to any rpg that holds your hand after playing expedition 33.

Damn straight. I just beat Khazan and I'm playing AI Limit right now and both have been so much fun.