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Nintendo’s internal studio seems to be the exception to this rule, probably because they are willing to delay their games when necessary to ensure they are released in a polished, finished state.

Let's not forget about Lethal Company, one of the most fun games you can experience with friends. Indie games in general are dominating the game industry this year, and rightfully so, for me it translates that the gamers in general are getting tired of AAA predatory systems (tho it should have happened a loooong time ago) and they just want to have fun, and Indie games are exactly just that, fun games

How does this only have 700 views? What a great video!

I was 5 minutes in when I realized you only have 1k subs. You gained one more today. I love indie games, but checking them all is hard. I downloaded 36 demos last week and only got through maybe 7.

Great video! Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts of the upcoming releases and some have definitely caught my eye. Hope to play them soon at the time of their release!

The Indie Game people's champion Top video dude!

Always love hearing your insights man, especially when it comes to indie games!

The economy is not in a good spot currently and people have very little disposable income to spend on console games that are now $70. Indie games are reasonably priced with hella hours of gameplay.

Feels like the only good AAA devs left are Nintendo, FromSoft and a few others.

Conceptually it's a rather simple problem to solve: just stop buying the Call of Duties, Assassin's Creed, Far Cries, Battlefields whatnot every fucking year. If it's so bad, why are there still people who make these garbage unhealthly made products profit? That's what we should be asking in the first place!

At this point, there are very few triple AAA games I think have creativity still Mainly just God of War, Monster Hunter, and Fromsoft's lineup

Yes, ever since microtransactions came along.

at this point, game publishing companies have lost any amount of respect or trust I had for them before. Heck, an example of this can be seen in Rain World, a phenomenal indie game and one of my favorites, personally. the devs, Videocult, can't seem to catch a break with their publishers, having started with Adult Swim Games, who they left due to a toxic relationship that limited the creative control and ownership they had over their _own game,_ and moved on to Akupara, who were fine for a while... until they tried partnering Rain World with a game recording software (think something like GeForce) which made use of AI art. It took backlash not only from the devs, but an overwhelming amount of the community, including the official discord server staff, for Akupara to pull out on that one. Anecdotes like this are all too common, and it's got me concerned for the future of the industry. Something needs to be done, and I feel like it does begin with more indie devs striving for independent publishing, like Supergiant has.

Here’s to hoping the curse of big industries failing doesn’t taint FromSoft when they release Elden Ring 2

BASITON IS MADE BY SUPER GIANT HUH???? THATS AWESOME!

talking of the gold age of indie game, i wonder if you saw Hauntii?

It scares me for the future of good art when so many industries are effectively destroying any hope of new creators being mentored by existing successful creators, when those existing successful creators are being laid off/their studios closed. So many great games come from a lineage of other amazing games, but execs only care about Number Always Go Up profits.

no, it isnt

If a prey sequel ever comes into existence, it will never maintain the exact same charm and that makes me incredibly sad

business bro overheads killing most industries tbh

I'm surprised Balatro or Slay the Spire didn't get mentioned

Is it me or the audio volume keeps dropping randomly?

does it have mouse click to move or is it still not accessible? Id love to play it just really need them to consider other play style for accessibility reasons.

In an attempt to stave off financial bankruptcy, big devs decided it’s cheaper to declare ethical and creative bankruptcy. After all, if only gamers loved casino games-then they can get all the money with public domain assets or cheap little AI generated graphics.

I’m positive a boy these decisions that corps makes, some of us will wake up to the cruelty of these companies and understand it’s not worth the risk at all. And with less to none barrier for indies to publish their games? I’m pretty confident it’s going for the better for us… gamers should just look hard enough.

Logan Cunningham is amazing lol

The only way to preserve creativity as a driving force in the game development industry is for game developers to unionize. Standing together and fighting corporate greed through collective bargaining is the best way to preserve jobs and artistic integrity.

The halberd can probably be unequipped to reduce encumbrance... I mean, if you use this class again I'm sure you're past that point by now. Does the game explain the advantages of two-hand wielding anywhere in this game? I don't remember Always fun to watch someone who is trying one of these games out for the first time, there are a lot one takes for granted after having sprinted through the fire a few times already And yeah, the rewards of some caves were withering when it was something I knew I was unlikely to use

To quote my good friend tony, Kapitalismos Fteei

less than 1k subs is criminal. This video was phenomenal!

Shocked that you aren't a bigger channel. This is so good!

I think you are confused about what the term indie studio means. And with discussions in the video being all over the place, with no conclusion, what was the point of the video?

Something I will add to the conversation, I dunno if anyone caught the iii initiative, but that seems to be a great platform moving indie games forward. I think people describe it like the E3 of indie games, and it's a very apt description. I hope it continues to shine a light on great upcoming indie games that deserve such recognition!

The big players lost it a decade ago, funnily it has an inverse relationship to the influence of shareholders.

I think what really confuses me is just a sense of like... Why shut down the ones that actually MAKE profit? Like, Even the most cynical, capitalist part of my brain can't wrap my head around it. Like, putting on the CEO glasses... Like alright, Arkane screws up majorly with a project they really shouldn't have been put to in the first place, but we hypothetically "Need" a studio or two to cut and absorb into a larger project so yea, whatever. Same with Intercept and Kerbal 2's poor reception. But Tango? They've done nothing but smash hit after smash hit, with a fandom that would be devoted to keeping their eyes and ears out for literally anything they produce because they have public trust. There is literally no good reason to slash them. They're a powerhouse that even if they're not 343 levels of bighuge, they've got such loyalty that it's killing a golden goose. Like, the only possible thing I could think of would be to absorb their workers into a larger project, but then you could just have them work on your bigger project ANYWAY?

Nah, dei got to this game, it hindered the devs creativity ,now we have this,dei should be illegal

Oof reading nathan qoutes hard pass

It does kind of feel like indie games have been taking center stage more lately. I’ve noticed my usual retinue of go-to games used to be mostly AAA, but over the last few years has slowly been replaced by a combination of older games and indie titles.

Why would ceo's/upper management re-invest their profits in making their company better, when they can just take the profits, and say fuck the workers.

Silksong is surely coming this year right? 😅

The issue is that companies aren't being run sustainably. Businesses are about maximizing quarterly shareholder profit in part, executives milking as much as they can and then moving elsewhere, and vulture capitalists strip-mining and liquidating whatever they can get away with. These games studios are not being closed because of anything they have done, or for logical business reasons. This is about the profit of individuals, at the expense of...well, everything else. The fact that it fucks over the company's development of new IPs is completely beside the point. They are NOT MAKING DECISIONS THAT ARE GOOD FOR THE COMPANY. that's not even their job. The people making these decisions don't play video games, and possibly don't even LIKE games. The same kind of people run Hollywood now and don't watch movies. It doesn't matter what the product is. it's about squeezing out value in the short term. It could be anything.

Ive always said, once you make one good game, the next one is more of that, with new toys and a couple of spins and you got gold. But theres a reason why indie ultimately stayed king. Once those triple A companies fully devolved into pure money machines, it was the beginning of the end. What was once trailblazers, helmed by passionate people thay fought hard for their ideals and ambitions, slowly the leaders changed and became replaced with business men.

"plays into range a bit more" me swinging a great axe around: .... yeah.... range

This was lovely, good insights and overview

Y’all. Lets try and call studios AA. Big difference between a team of dozens in a AA studio and a 3 person industry team.