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.
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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
Pirating this pirate game would be funny. But it’s a Ubisoft game, so even free is too expensive.
The next Ubisoft game I play will be sponsored by Ubisoft, so likely never. They stopped making good games before I left high school.
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.
Hey now, teamforetress 2 got a 64 bit beta that improved the game performance by a solid 20-30%
Valve might finally make the Heavy update
Call me when they make an update that removes the nazis.
EDIT: The joke is that they never will because they’re a white supremacist company who wouldn’t even say “black lives matter”
Fun meme, but honestly I think the only folks it’s gonna be a bad year for are AAA game devs, who I already sympathize with.
I think indies are gonna keep rocking some outstanding content. Content made with and for love will always beat content made for money IMO :)
Yeah the flow of great indie games isn’t going to dry up any time soon. So many developers willing to actually take risks with their games and not just churn out another copy of a copy of a copy. Art needs passion to be good.
Yeah foss games are just way better because if you like the game then you can expand it
Worst game of the year so far.
I’ll be over here playing my dwarf games.
Rock n Stone!
Strike the earth!
And my axe!
Depends what you want.
I’m hoping it’s the year of the live service graveyard though.
Holy cow I’d love that too.
I want to buy a game, not an ongoing financial leeching.
We’ll see. Helldivers 2 is a gigantic success but it’s a rare occurrence of a live service game being really good, priced correctly, and not abusively monetized.
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.
Was this irony or did you just associate Forspoken with “good”?
I meant Forspoken and Redfall were examples of bad games we got last year. The spectrum of fully mid to fully awful.
The worst game of the year so far.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth came out this year. There’s literally nothing to complain about. Best game
This - I hate when gamers have too much attention on which games are bad, and none on the good games.
I have a page of Steam reviews where I give a thumbs up to a bunch of indie darlings, then a negative review to a live service game, and only the negative review has votes on it.
What the hell, that game costs more than 100 cad after tax
How else do you think they’ll get infinite wealth?
Yeah games are too much now. Luckily this has over 100 hours of gameplay so I’m okay with it. Put 110 hours in the last one and loved every second
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
It was my favourite Assassin’s Creed game since AC2, because it contained the least amount of Assassin’s Creed.
To be fair That usually comes from the shareholders that have never played a video game in their life
Is Suicide Squad out yet?
Games are looking great this year! Earthblade by the creators of Celeste, Hades 2, Silk song (I Believe) If you ignore AAA, it’s going great!
It’s ok, this game is AAAA so AAA will be ok. /s
Trails through daybreak, dragons dogma 2, avowed, Indiana Jones are all games I’m looking forward to off the top of my head. Trails through daybreak is actually the game I’m most excited about.
Did anyone say Silksong?
Me hoping that the next Obsidian game isn’t disappointing.
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.
Ahh, I didn’t know about the AAAA part, with that in mind, yeah it should be mocked to death
The CEO also called it “the first AAAA” game, hence the jokes being made about how shit it is.
Yeah, I didn’t know about that, considering that it should definitely be mocked to death
again to investors.
That doesn’t make it better.
it also don’t make it a bad game
Worst game of the year so far
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.
