When it comes down to it the majority of people on gaf that genuinely defend AAA games are nothing but graphic whores with no actual care for the medium of video games. They're the types of people who play techdemos so when they see the pretty visuals from the next new AAA game, they quickly go and shun actual creative cool games. That's why they're so adamant to call indies 8 bit garbage that's the same shit- they have never bothered because the graphics aren't as pretty as the new Last of Us or God of Bore. Shallow people that we should be gatekeeping out of the gaming community if im being honest
If your idea of "read-worthy" is a banal ultrageneralization topped by the abuse of a silly, meaningless catchphrase like "creatively bankrupt," your bar is quite low.
How is it original to whine about AAA gaming? It’s all you people has been doing for ages. It’s like the lot of you don’t even like gaming anymore.
We DO like gaming, just not AAA gaming because it's shallow boring schlock made for the casual mainstream guys who don't care about any art..
I haven't been impressed since Crysis, in 2007.
You might, but there are plenty of people here who just complain about AAA games yet that's all they play.
shouldnt the AAA games hurt their eyes too since i can clearly see the pixels in most 1080p games...
According to who exactly? You should really get of the high horse cause I really don’t think you have any base to actually say that? What are you backgrounds?
Because we want them to get better? The majority of the gaming audience only care about AAA so it's only natural that we demand for it to be as good as possible.
That is a HUGE generalization. Graphics aren't the end all be all, but I find overall presentation to be extremely important. (Art Direction, sound, animations, lighting, music, level design, UI/HUD, etc.) And yes, I'm looking forward to Stray the most this month, an indie. But I don't have the time for cheap looking games. I find it odd people are calling out graphic whores in the midst of a new generation when people are obviously starving for actual next generation looking games.
I enjoyed the newest God of War thoroughly, but mostly play smaller indie games. I'm impressed by the graphics in Forza Horizon 5, but am ok playing games made by a single person. Tunic is certainly one of my favorites from this year.
AAA games are so expensive they have to hit the lowest common denominator, which usually means the monogenre. Open world, graphics, checkpoints, graphics, online multiplayer, graphics, microtransactions, graphics, RPG-ish skills/perks, etc.
Sekiro's combat is very innovative, its what made Jedi Fallen order great
Try reading the OP again, if you even read it in the first place. Btw, still waiting for the list of those innovative AAA games from recent years so I can go play them.
Funny that of all the people who replied it is only you who didn't get the message and since you refuse to give examples to prove your point then I'm gonna assume my criticism stands true.
Recently Death Stranding was pretty unique. Elden ring. Wreckfest is cool with the car mechanics too. It's just that when a AAA game does something completely different it gets less noticed for that thing.
The business just got too big and commercialized in general. It was unavoidable basically and it's only going to get worse from here on in.
Big business is a development motor for the technical side though. Might be that innovation suffers on some levels, but technological push is constant in those environments and at least that is a good thing I´d absolutely not want to miss.
Me neither. I don't want the industry to stay in the same place. Just wanted to illustrate that what happens is simply a natural progression, as always more and more people are going to be needed to keep the technical progression going. The movie indstury kinda seems to have caped out at 200$ dollar budget as from what I can see most movies do not cross that line, even though we keep seeing progression. Wonder what that cap will be with gaming.
