#AAA Game Development

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[askagamedev]

There are people who like to see AAA industry fall with the believe that this will lead to more creative and quality indie games to flourish. Do you agree with this sentiment?

I don't think that will happen. Indie games aren't being held back by AAA games right now, they're held back by the natural size limit of their own audiences and their ability to market themselves to players. The vast majority of players who quit playing Call of Duty in a AAApocalypse scenario aren't going to look for indie FPS games to fill that void since there won't be any. They're going to go do something else with their time.

Those indies that do well will grow over time because that's what players often want - better visuals, more gameplay, more content, more of everything. If those games wish to continue by growing to meet those demands, they will be to pivot toward those things - hiring more developers to build more content, better visuals, better tech, and so on. Through iteration, they eventually become AAA game franchises by moving more towards the broader audience needed to financially support the franchise with each successive iteration and the eternal demand for "more".

The reason that AAA games continue to be made is because there's a significant market for them. As much as terminally-online players will complain about them, there's a lot of people who like them enough to buy them at full price and keep the machine going. I do not believe that these players who want massive content and massive visuals in their games will pivot to indies, I think they'll move to whoever fills the void with a comparable experience.

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[acepalindrome]

I can’t get over the fact that that Expedition 33 came out at the most perfect time, right when just about every major video game company is engaging in the most greedy, skeevy bullshit. Games cost more than ever but you get less, unless you drop another 30 bucks for the DLC, but you’ll still have to wait for the patches for things to run right because we released an unfinished game!

And then out of nowhere, Sandfall Interactive appears and is like, ‘here, we made a jaw-droppingly beautiful game that is a clear labor of love, created by people who love video games and have already gotten fucked over by the industry. It draws on inspiration from some excellent older games while still being fresh and innovative and new. It’s gorgeous, it’s fun, it’s devastatingly heartbreaking, it’s got some of the best writing you’ve ever seen in a video game. It’s easily going to be GOTY. Oh, and it’s $50.’

I love how all the big AAA companies were shitting their pants about Baldur’s Gate 3 being such a huge success and insisting that this can’t be the standard! We can’t just make excellent video games that respect the players and offer tons of great content without overcharging for every little thing! BG3 is an outlier! You shouldn’t expect stuff like this!

And then Expedition 33 came in with a steel chair.

[meglosthegreat]

If one more company puts out a statement saying they're becoming more "agile" and "focused" when what they really mean is "we're laying off dozens of experienced developers because we don't feel like paying them anymore and would rather bring in new hires that will work for less" I stg

[roguemonsterfucker]

Capitalism hell

[wavetapper]

wow based on the gameplay ive seen there is so much Pointless Shit in the new mario cars

[couriers-mile]

replaying Inquisition and getting irritated all over that I can't play a game I paid for on Steam without getting EA's storefront app involved so they can verify I really "own" the game i'm playing

[average-mako-enjoyer]

I think at some point we just have to accept that the citing of autism symptoms, the shallow resolution of the Rivaini vs. Qun conflict, the dinner scene, and whatever the fuck the "pull a Bharv" moment was are not just separate instances of questionable writing.

The entirety of Taash's story is just that shallow.

I keep seeing people trying to redeem this story, trying to find some positivity in it, and at best it looks like they're trying to do competitive swimming in the kiddie pool. Anyone is going to have a hard time finding depth in something so devoid of substance.

[bunabi]

Not pre-ordering because these past few years have been SO full of games that make huge promises they don't make good on and games are released too early and in shambles - it's a digital release, they're not going to run out. So mostly I'd like to give it at least a week to a month to make sure the game, you know, functions, and isn't a mess before spending the significant amount of money that a AAA release is nowadays

Mmhm after pre-ordering DAI deluxe on PS3 I totally understand 🫠

Though this time, since the first act of DAV is clearly really polished and they've had ten years of experience wrangling the Frostbite engine, I'm a lot more optimistic

But I'm still worried whether they have time to comb over act 2 & 3 just as much before Halloween, considering the layoffs & the fact they had to shift gears from live service to single-player only three years ago

[pixellangel]

WHOAH!! THE PARTY IS COLORED NOW!!!

for those unfamiliar, hi!! these are my initial designs for a currently unnamed cyberpunk rpg i'm making. their names are sylvie, v, xenon, and kori. you can read about them here!

anyway, these are only my initial designs and so they're still very much subject to change. i decided to just color the sketch instead of doing lineart because i don't want to spend excessive time on a simple lineup, but i might line it one day. who knows.

the weapons are currently just silhouettes because they're eventually getting their own post about designs!!

a bunch of stupid gifs under the cut for whoever wants em :3

rotating them in my brain at all times

[thesarkycoder]

I'm currently awaiting a physical copy of the game I worked on for four years, knowing full well I'll need to ignore every half- or entirely-wrong "fact" about it from every self professed gaming expert in the world lest I succumb to the temptation to Correct The World On Its Incorrect Knowledge, as it'll just get misinterpreted as trying to downplay all the problems I Know It Has, Thank You, I Was There When They Were Sewn Into The Fabric Of Its Reality.

Somewhere I have a Post-It Note I wrote four months into my first professional job, that I need to frame. It's been stuck to the monitor on every desk at every gig I've ever done. It has four words on it in scratchy black Uniball Eye Micro ink:

DON'T

READ

THE

COMMENTS

Comments are the mind killer. The Little Death that leads to Total Oblivion. I will allow them to pass through me and only I will remain.

[hikolu]

The Ranch of Rivershine is a wonderful game and it's super funny to me that it has almost double the all time high player count of Concord.

[bluefuecoco]

it definitely wasnt helped by new horizons being such a botched release. I want to imagine all these people clamoring for new animal crossing content are just new horizons players exclusively, but I imagine some veterans of the series are also causing this problem.

Like, this new video game environment of sending out half-finished games and then "adding more content!" with updates and dlc is a real problem for Animal Crossing, and the fact that New Horizons drew in so many new players with that model is just...awful. New Leaf was released in 2012 and that was it. For YEARS that was the game you got to play. It wasnt until like...a couple years before NH was revealed that we got Welcome Amiibo, which like...a) was a free update and b) didn't "complete" the game, just added to it.

And at the time, everyone knew New Horizons release was rushed. Nintendo crunch time is a real epidemic, and the fact that half the content in the game that we have now wasn't available for MONTHS after the initial release? Like, idk, I don't want to hear about any Animal Crossing news for a few more years. Maybe spin-off games, but the next mainline game I want them to *really* work on.

[venezart]

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