The only thing left to do is wait for Ukraine to defeat Russia and once that happens, we will bring down these corrupt people and put the right people in charge
It wouldn't even be bad if they just bothered to release the dlc to everyone after 2 years. That way people were paying for the privilege of playing through something early, not being locked out of mechanics until they pay.
I myself don’t even have the motivation to play most AAA games anymore. From slaving away at generic battle passes that have seeped their way into every game to the half baked releases, it all kills my motivation. Indie games are the only things that really keep me coming back
Indie games suffer from cheaters and hackers a lot of time. Battlebit is one example. And I heard third party anticheat software is expensive for Indies. I still play triple a games and I just ignore all the battle pass and whatever micro transaction being sold in the game
In the last ~3-4 years(since the ps5/series launch) I've bought 3 AAA games anywhere near release date or price (ive picked up some on sale like rdr2). They share a common theme though Elden Ring Baldurs Gate 3 (debatably indie) and Armored Core 6 But I've been a fromsoftware fan since the ps2 and I've been waiting for BG3 on baited breath since my childhood blaythrough of the originals, and since larian announced it after DOS II. What do these titles share? -offline play with OPTIONAL coop/pvp -no microtransactions -complete experience at launch -relatively bug free
A lot of big games nowadays feel like highway robery. like if I pay 90$ for a game, it should absolutely be functional and not have a battle pass or microtransactions
For single player games it's insane as well. I'm not paying that much ever for a game that can be beat in 15 hours max, I honestly don't understand why people fork it up because if they didn't they'd be forced to sell them cheaper.
@@swaggadash9017wrong, they'll lessen quality to compensate and then you'll get games like Redfall. I'd rather fork up 70 for resident evil 4 quality than 50 for Redfall quality.
@@shalindelta7 They already have lessened the quality. You already pay more for less from 90% of games, and get in game purchases forced down your throat. Not to mention everything going live service and always online so your game will just disappear in the future when they stop supporting it.
My only complaints with the WW1 Game Series titles are the horrible animations. Like, damn, couldn't they get some actual animators? Everything is always so damn robotic, static and shoddy like a shitty 360 game. Otherwise, they are fucking fantastic (specially Isonzo).
@@EmilyKimMartin I think the reload animations are alright as the average infantryman isn't probably good at reloading, but cocking the bolt actions are way too slow for a human.
Remember when the AAA title meant a symbol of quality? Now all it is is an excuse for game companies to pump out half-baked garbage and charge $60-70 for it.
When was this? Most of the series and studios that are milked to death today started as indie or AA projects at most before devolving into their current status. Even back when studios like bungie still earned people's adoration, they were still screwing over their consumers of games like halo 3 by doing the same things they do today with destiny, like paywalling vanilla gamemodes and challenges behind DLC that came out after them. This is just how the games industry and capitalism as a whole works, it's not about passion or satisfying the playerbase, it's about shareholders and publishers profiting as much as possible by rehashing the same monetization schemes and live service games.
@@muttipi well yea, thats why we're calling them out harder now. its gotten more brazen, more expensive, and more restrictive. Is that really the attitude we want to have? It is what it is, I'm to weak and powerless to help it, but im still buying in? How blatantly abusive that seems. I plan on sticking up for myself by just not buying in and warning others of the same patterns i have fallen into before. Anyone who still wants into that optional rat race go ahead, i dont
@laundrysauce234 I don't know where I said it's time to give up or to just keep buying, I was just pointing out that this problem isn't new to the games industry or our economic systems in general. Personally I pirate or rent most of the games I play, at most I'll subscribe to game pass or ps plus to play new releases that can't be played on pc or cracked, I do everything I can not to support this industry and spread awareness about it's predatory practices.
Besides indie games being in large part passion projects, a big motivator is that the indie dev will be the only one to loose money if the game is shit, in a corporation the high ranks still get paid no matter how shit it is.
So true, indie doesn't had the budget to afford marketing for their game why they rely on their success and let the word of mouth do its own marketing.
Many of them also are funded through patreon which is understandable. The majority of indie devs don't have the time or money to make games while they have to work a job to keep a roof over their heads
Average AAA game: 4-2 years in development, 300 developers, 6 hours of content (good for 1 playthrough) Average indie game: 5-10 years in development, 3-1 developers, 30 hours of content (endlessly repayable)
@@alivezt Average indie game is generally worse than its triple A counterpart in most cases, with some exceptions. Quake is a better Dusk, Deus Ex is a better Cruelty Squad, etc. This "Triple A bad, indie good" mindset lead to toxicity and an oversaturated roguelite market. While Triple A is currently making actually good games like the resident evil 4 remake, cyberpunk, Elden Ring and the like - indies are just realizing that there's a genre outside of roguelites. Not to mention, the comparison is extremely unfair and the numbers are pulled out of thin air. Maybe he's only using Call of Duty and Far Cry as an example, but many triple A games can be played for 20-30 hours, not including RPGs like fallout new vegas, and they have enough replayability to stay relevant for years, if not decades.
There's also another caveat regarding consoles, both Sony and Microsoft are making a much bigger effort in porting games to PC, unless you want to play them on launch you can now expect all their exclusives to be on PC with a ton of options 1 or 2 years latter, granted port quality varies but playing God of War on PC still surprises me it even happened.
Ive been playing an early access game called Uboat. You control and manage a german uboat throughout parts of WW2. Ive been having more fun with it than all the AAA games ive played this year, and it only costs $30.
Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo are the games I always come back to play even if they're dead, cuz they're so good despite it's animations on the first two
As an indie game dev it’s very motivating to see more indie games being highlighted and shown in the market as a whole. For years indie games have been seen as AAA games but worse but now it seems like the tables have turned. Indie games are the future of gaming!
im so happy i saw this video, i hope more people find out about the ww1 game series because i believe the devs are some of the most passionate ive seen ina while, the amount of updates isonzo receives along with great communication make me love blackmill studio
It feels so nice to find someone that plays Worldbox the same way I do. Every time I watch TH-camrs playing the game they are just concerned of nuking their worlds, but they are never using the world building potential that this game has. I recently started a world and I've been taking notes on a notebook about the different events and important characters of the world, almost as a historian of the pixel kingdoms in my smartphone. I've written close to 70 pages of history, and I can surely keep going forever.
why are indie game better then AAA game?. -no politics -no deadlines -no crunch - free workflow -emphasis on creativity -opened to critics and feedbacks -no overworking in the dev team. -free choice of design and no ripping off or cheap copying others videogames -no greddyness indie game dont try squeeze every cent out theirs buyers like a damn sponge istead of that they make players be eager to pay istead of fell pushed or grinded into a ponzi scheme -no insane high expectations like modern very realistic graphics. -appreciations of old school and new school. -no insane emphasis on remaking remastering. that is all i guess.
Wish I could say the same, but I am a sucker for Nintendo games. My last two consoles were the Wii U (It had free online, PS4 did not) and Nintendo Switch. Trust me, I do not like Nintendo Online. In a lot of ways it is worse than the Wii U's online infrastructure, and that was free.
I absolutely love the WW1 Game Series and have been a long-time RF fan and modder, so it's nice to see some shout outs to those games. I like the historical eras in games, it's incredibly fun using the Werndl on Tannenberg or Isonzo as an example. I'd be curious to see you make a video on that series. Now I'll be sure to check out your RF video that you warned us about.
The WW1 games series has been close to my heart for a long time, since before Tannanberg and Isonzo came out, I wish more people would play it, very fun and unique games
its crazy cuz i have the exact same looking maps, sometimes i would spend entire weeks dedicating my free time to making a massive map, then after I finished making the map and the legend for it, i began expanding on its lore and giving small short stories to it, it was hella fun and id do it again if i had the time haha
This video itself really resonates how we feel too although when I saw Mount and Blade Bannerlord, I do want to say that I don't respect Talewords because they just repeated the same mistake as they did to the rest of Mount and Blade, leaving it half baked and letting the community fix up their gaps
This is a brilliant video. A few days ago, I realized that my favorite game ever, --** HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER**-- was made by ~10 people over the course of a few years. I could play it for hours and find no flaws in it, whereas many AAA titles are boring and don't encompass gameplay that I'd enjoy exploring.
i think there's some sort of tax scam with these huge companies hiring way more employees than they actually need ... and in the video game industry one would think well more employees means the game comes out faster and will be more polished ,,, but as we all know its the complete opposite and in fact its the smaller indie teams that have way less buggy games despite only having like 20 employees
I was watching a video about bbr's success recently and it was talking about how publishers have almost become obsolete and tbh I kinda agree with it. When digital distribution has become so common, why DO AAA companies need to submit themselves to the whims and politics of their publishing company?
Because developer companies [studios] in the "AAA" [Corporate] side of the industry are subsidiaries, OWNED by the publisher companies; whereas in the "Indie" [Independent] side of the industry, developer companies and publisher companies are independent from one another, and maintain a purely transactional relationship (rather than the latter owning the former). An "Indie" studio will pitch a game idea to a publisher; if the publisher thinks the idea is worth the investment, they will fund the game's production and help with the marketing, distribution (e.g.: porting the game), etc, in exchange for a percentage of the game's sales profits (usually 100% until the game "pays for itself"; after that, it's usually a "50/50" or a "60/40" type division of the profits). This is a very "bottom-up" approach, and both parties get what they want - devs get the funding to be able to work on the game full-time, money for licenses, help with marketing, etc, and the publisher makes some money out of it. Meanwhile, a "AAA" company (e.g.: EA, Activision | Blizzard, T2, Ubisoft, etc) has and/or acquires studios, and then dictates ["top-down"] what games will get done or not, and how these games will be - SinglePlayer and/or MultiPlayer; Online; full-price or "freemium"; "Live Service" (early, buggy release, with loads of post-launch updates and support; plus DLCs, and all that); etc. When a "AAA" publisher acquires a studio, that studio may be given a lot of creative freedom at first, until they find their "niche" and build a dedicated audience; but eventually the publisher will pull the "reigns" and "play it safe", investing in and "green-lighting" projects that they KNOW will sell, and that they can monetize continuously in the long run. So for example, DICE, being owned by EA, has very little say in what becomes of the "Battlefield" franchise, for instance; but three "Battlefield" enthusiasts, dissatisfied with the franchise's current state, and who know [or who are willing to learn] how to make games, can develop something like "BattleBit Remastered" to scratch their [and many other people's] "Battlefield itch"...
Main thing is finding a way to get Indies to make awesome alternatives to existing games If everything has say 2-3 Indie Alternatives the competition will be fierce and these companies have to change or shut down
I'm not sure if this is worth mentioning, but over the past couple of months, the algo has been feeding me plenty of content that...i actually enjoy. the recommendations are actually relevant, and I've been able to subscribe to a few new (to me) creators because of that. You're one of them. Have a sub.
Many AAA companies have their hand completely tied when they have to meet certain results for their investors, while also having to deal with growing development costs... plus trying not to crunch due to the growing discontent with that practice (even if I feel like it's almost inevitable with most games during the launch window... definitely not as bad as we make it to be). An indie company doesn't have that problem: if something's costy, they can go the cheaper route and move the entire project to a new engine or working environment very quickly; if they don't meet the expected results, they don't have a whole investors base or player base behind; if they need to crunch, they will do so without a consequence and the project directors will be the first ones in doing so. Adaptability in a f'd up economy is king. Smaller companies move better than bigger ones in unstable environments. If economy was doing great worldwide, we most likely wouldn't be complaining about AAA gaming, or not as much.
Im so glad this surgence in indie popularity has given absolute gems a chance to really branch out like ghost ship games allowing even more indie gems to have a spotlight i believe their are going to be a lot of vacancies for rapid growth over the next gta development window
This video convinced me to try battlebit, I was literally up all night playing it. It's so good. As someone that played hundreds of hours of bad company 2, battlefield 3, and battlefield 4 this is like striking gold.
Battlefield 2042 did not have a 2 billion dollar budget, you just ran with the first thing you saw on google. The 2 billion was the amount that ea’s stock fell in one day. Not the development cost of 2042. The closest a games budget will come to 2 billion will most likely be gta6 with a rumored budget somewhere between 1 and 2 billion.
Didn’t expect to see Verdun in the casual slot, simce most casual player (and critics) find ww1 to be boring. But I am glad you did. Verdun is probably the best ww1 game out there and it definitely needs fresh recruits. If you consider making a dedicated video, please do. It’s worth people’s time. Also, yes we know what the old Dune is, a freaking legend. And a anchor to Tiberium.
The only problem I have with Verdun is that they didn't put that game and the others together in one game,so now I have 3 different games just so I can play 3 different fronts in WW1.
The greed of Tripple As disgust me. For all this money we could end homelessness, or do other good things. Instead the money goes to corrupt corporate shareholders, for shit games that aren't even good!
Normally we realise after an era or age is over but we must realise that we truly have been in the golden age of Indie games for the last 5 years. They're such excellent additions to the medium. Their lower price and less greedy behaviour even makes them more accessible to me. I love indie games. If I had a suggestion, get discoloured. I think it's only 2 dollars on sale but it's an excellent puzzle game.
Truly a hot take among many others, you’re a true visionary and, dare I say, a prophet. I only wish more people agreed with you, but woe is me, no one thinks like this.
AAA gaming is designed for the bottom of the barrel audience. That is the problem, the better the game is, the more focused they become. A game develops from what it was based on, when your audience comes from places with rich experience, it becomes made based on that. Hence why indies are winning, they are not just made with passion, they are built on the backbone of the vision of what an experience could be. Like when someone played halo CE back in it's bungie years and decides they want to recreate that magic but build on it with aspects, additions and features which are balanced around the old mastery one gets from getting through the original. It's an evolution of what was old.
I think AAA games have hit a point where development cost gets too high due to the super-duper-mega-ultra-high graphic that they strive for and that they also have to compete with their previous sales even though they're past their prime. Failure to be successful at these will usually result in the studio getting axed
Battlebit's main advantages I'd argue, are its more hardcore elements in wounds/ammunition/health system, build system, it's fast TTK, more full destruction, and ability to drag comrades, something promised in BFV and never delivered. BFV did have some of these aspects, but DICE for whatever reason chose to walk that back so far that 2042 doesn't even have the ability to fucking lean. For that, it has its cons though. No planes, no real unlocks for vehicles (afaik) or vehicle loadout compared to BF4, bit of a wonky class system that makes medics just about the only option for sustainability long-term because you have very few bandages w/o a medic and no ability to regain health otherwise. The community also prefers infantry action, and vehicle stuff is really just tacked on besides as used for transportation for the most part. FOV is also pretty wide by default, in-engine, which makes long-term engagements unbalanced in favor of those who have unlocked optics. And the spot system is a bit dodgy, and isn't utilized that much.
We reach the point were a total conversion mod for a 29 years old FPS game is better than many AAA games today
pov: least modded new vegas be like
star wars galaxy at war will live forever.
project reality?
@@barnaclejones822 no its ashes 2063/afterglow (for classic doom)
The only thing left to do is wait for Ukraine to defeat Russia and once that happens, we will bring down these corrupt people and put the right people in charge
I feel the same way about paradox games. Like I wanna love them but they're so outrageously dlc dependent
It wouldn't even be bad if they just bothered to release the dlc to everyone after 2 years. That way people were paying for the privilege of playing through something early, not being locked out of mechanics until they pay.
It's like you're paying an annual lease to play their games. It's just disguised under DLC which are falsely presented as optional.
And this is why mod exist
yeah it doesnt help that the more modern you go the more DLC release per year and the more dumbed down the base game is.
Paradox’s current strategy: “how do we make a live service game without admitting we’ve made a live service game?” 😂
I myself don’t even have the motivation to play most AAA games anymore. From slaving away at generic battle passes that have seeped their way into every game to the half baked releases, it all kills my motivation. Indie games are the only things that really keep me coming back
Indie games suffer from cheaters and hackers a lot of time. Battlebit is one example. And I heard third party anticheat software is expensive for Indies. I still play triple a games and I just ignore all the battle pass and whatever micro transaction being sold in the game
In the last ~3-4 years(since the ps5/series launch) I've bought 3 AAA games anywhere near release date or price (ive picked up some on sale like rdr2). They share a common theme though
Elden Ring
Baldurs Gate 3 (debatably indie) and
Armored Core 6
But I've been a fromsoftware fan since the ps2 and I've been waiting for BG3 on baited breath since my childhood blaythrough of the originals, and since larian announced it after DOS II.
What do these titles share?
-offline play with OPTIONAL coop/pvp
-no microtransactions
-complete experience at launch
-relatively bug free
The only ones I play is rdr2 and the Spider-Man games and sometimes gta
@@user-ti6ix5tn2o Most indie games aren't multiplayer fps, and AAA games have tons of cheaters anyway since that's where kids are
It's only Western AAA problem. Japanese still make great games.
A lot of big games nowadays feel like highway robery. like if I pay 90$ for a game, it should absolutely be functional and not have a battle pass or microtransactions
For single player games it's insane as well. I'm not paying that much ever for a game that can be beat in 15 hours max, I honestly don't understand why people fork it up because if they didn't they'd be forced to sell them cheaper.
for 90$ it should also suck my dick
Yeah it's hard to digest it when it doesn't justify the price, why indie and AA regards their shortcomings were tolerable for me
@@swaggadash9017wrong, they'll lessen quality to compensate and then you'll get games like Redfall. I'd rather fork up 70 for resident evil 4 quality than 50 for Redfall quality.
@@shalindelta7 They already have lessened the quality. You already pay more for less from 90% of games, and get in game purchases forced down your throat. Not to mention everything going live service and always online so your game will just disappear in the future when they stop supporting it.
Verdun and its sequels are some of my favorite games ever made. Mostly cuz I'm a big ww1 buff
My only complaints with the WW1 Game Series titles are the horrible animations. Like, damn, couldn't they get some actual animators? Everything is always so damn robotic, static and shoddy like a shitty 360 game.
Otherwise, they are fucking fantastic (specially Isonzo).
Same
@@EmilyKimMartin
I think the reload animations are alright as the average infantryman isn't probably good at reloading, but cocking the bolt actions are way too slow for a human.
@@theblackknight5716 I don't mind their speed, it's just how clunky and low quality they are even after the overhaul
Nothin' better than single-handily mowing down an entire battalion of the Kaiser's finest with a Chauchat while perched atop a tree
Remember when the AAA title meant a symbol of quality? Now all it is is an excuse for game companies to pump out half-baked garbage and charge $60-70 for it.
When was this? Most of the series and studios that are milked to death today started as indie or AA projects at most before devolving into their current status. Even back when studios like bungie still earned people's adoration, they were still screwing over their consumers of games like halo 3 by doing the same things they do today with destiny, like paywalling vanilla gamemodes and challenges behind DLC that came out after them. This is just how the games industry and capitalism as a whole works, it's not about passion or satisfying the playerbase, it's about shareholders and publishers profiting as much as possible by rehashing the same monetization schemes and live service games.
@@muttipi well yea, thats why we're calling them out harder now. its gotten more brazen, more expensive, and more restrictive. Is that really the attitude we want to have? It is what it is, I'm to weak and powerless to help it, but im still buying in? How blatantly abusive that seems. I plan on sticking up for myself by just not buying in and warning others of the same patterns i have fallen into before. Anyone who still wants into that optional rat race go ahead, i dont
@laundrysauce234 I don't know where I said it's time to give up or to just keep buying, I was just pointing out that this problem isn't new to the games industry or our economic systems in general. Personally I pirate or rent most of the games I play, at most I'll subscribe to game pass or ps plus to play new releases that can't be played on pc or cracked, I do everything I can not to support this industry and spread awareness about it's predatory practices.
I don't understand how it's even legal, you don't sell cars & say to the customers you'll get the engine & tires later.
@@tristanbackup2536cars are utility while games are not.
Besides indie games being in large part passion projects, a big motivator is that the indie dev will be the only one to loose money if the game is shit, in a corporation the high ranks still get paid no matter how shit it is.
So true, indie doesn't had the budget to afford marketing for their game why they rely on their success and let the word of mouth do its own marketing.
Many of them also are funded through patreon which is understandable. The majority of indie devs don't have the time or money to make games while they have to work a job to keep a roof over their heads
Average AAA game: 4-2 years in development, 300 developers, 6 hours of content (good for 1 playthrough)
Average indie game: 5-10 years in development, 3-1 developers, 30 hours of content (endlessly repayable)
You're wrong on both sides
Uhm no sweatie he's actually right on both@@LordTrashcanRulez
@@alivezt Average indie game is generally worse than its triple A counterpart in most cases, with some exceptions. Quake is a better Dusk, Deus Ex is a better Cruelty Squad, etc. This "Triple A bad, indie good" mindset lead to toxicity and an oversaturated roguelite market. While Triple A is currently making actually good games like the resident evil 4 remake, cyberpunk, Elden Ring and the like - indies are just realizing that there's a genre outside of roguelites.
Not to mention, the comparison is extremely unfair and the numbers are pulled out of thin air. Maybe he's only using Call of Duty and Far Cry as an example, but many triple A games can be played for 20-30 hours, not including RPGs like fallout new vegas, and they have enough replayability to stay relevant for years, if not decades.
nah
AA really is the middle child, Hi-Fi Rush and Stray are AA
There's also another caveat regarding consoles, both Sony and Microsoft are making a much bigger effort in porting games to PC, unless you want to play them on launch you can now expect all their exclusives to be on PC with a ton of options 1 or 2 years latter, granted port quality varies but playing God of War on PC still surprises me it even happened.
God I want Ghost of Tsushima on PC
Not to mention you can connect console controllers to your PC and use that.
@@K..C You are in luck.
"They forced blud to pay $19.99 for the Estonian focus tree" 😂😂😂
Terra Invicta is a good indie strategy game. Stellaris fans would probably like it too
Wasn't that made by the xcom long war guys? Big respect to them
@@b0redom782Correct!
Hooded Horse has published a lot of pretty interesting games. Nebulous: Fleet Command is another good one from them
Ive been playing an early access game called Uboat. You control and manage a german uboat throughout parts of WW2. Ive been having more fun with it than all the AAA games ive played this year, and it only costs $30.
Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo are the games I always come back to play even if they're dead, cuz they're so good despite it's animations on the first two
This video needs more views. I loved it. And I couldn't agree more. I haven't bought a AAA game in years
Thanks! 😄
It hasn’t gotten anymore views cause he’s a bigot
As an indie game dev it’s very motivating to see more indie games being highlighted and shown in the market as a whole. For years indie games have been seen as AAA games but worse but now it seems like the tables have turned. Indie games are the future of gaming!
im so happy i saw this video, i hope more people find out about the ww1 game series because i believe the devs are some of the most passionate ive seen ina while, the amount of updates isonzo receives along with great communication make me love blackmill studio
I haven't paid for a Paradox game in awhile. Until they fix their business model I'm pirating all their games
You know thats kinda illegal.
It feels so nice to find someone that plays Worldbox the same way I do. Every time I watch TH-camrs playing the game they are just concerned of nuking their worlds, but they are never using the world building potential that this game has.
I recently started a world and I've been taking notes on a notebook about the different events and important characters of the world, almost as a historian of the pixel kingdoms in my smartphone. I've written close to 70 pages of history, and I can surely keep going forever.
Cool to see Total Conflict get a mention. Underrated game
Love the thumbnail on this video
This week I've been playing Kenshi, FTL, ProjectZomboid, and a conversion mod for HoI4 that makes it Fallout New Vegas world.
bro gon find Equestria at War soon
This will never get tired beating this topic I'm glad more and more people are pointing out the insane atrocity triple A games have given us lately.
why are indie game better then AAA game?.
-no politics
-no deadlines
-no crunch
- free workflow
-emphasis on creativity
-opened to critics and feedbacks
-no overworking in the dev team.
-free choice of design and no ripping off or cheap copying others videogames
-no greddyness indie game dont try squeeze every cent out theirs buyers like a damn sponge istead of that they make players be eager to pay istead of fell pushed or grinded into a ponzi scheme
-no insane high expectations like modern very realistic graphics.
-appreciations of old school and new school.
-no insane emphasis on remaking remastering.
that is all i guess.
Thats why AAA is dead. No one buys AAA Games anymore
can relate. Been off consoles since the ps4
Wish I could say the same, but I am a sucker for Nintendo games. My last two consoles were the Wii U (It had free online, PS4 did not) and Nintendo Switch. Trust me, I do not like Nintendo Online. In a lot of ways it is worse than the Wii U's online infrastructure, and that was free.
I absolutely love the WW1 Game Series and have been a long-time RF fan and modder, so it's nice to see some shout outs to those games. I like the historical eras in games, it's incredibly fun using the Werndl on Tannenberg or Isonzo as an example. I'd be curious to see you make a video on that series. Now I'll be sure to check out your RF video that you warned us about.
I got into isonzo knowing nothing about it and I really enjoy it
Looking forward to those WW1 and Stellaris videos. Great games. Great video
Thank you much :)
@@elmosanchez thank you so much:):))) :)
The WW1 games series has been close to my heart for a long time, since before Tannanberg and Isonzo came out, I wish more people would play it, very fun and unique games
Glad I never bought a PS5. I orginally was going to, but decided to invest in a PC instead. Best descision of my life
Warband into Bannerlord was the perfect sequel. I didn’t play Early Access, on principle, but godamn the full release was great.
Aserai ftw
its crazy cuz i have the exact same looking maps, sometimes i would spend entire weeks dedicating my free time to making a massive map, then after I finished making the map and the legend for it, i began expanding on its lore and giving small short stories to it, it was hella fun and id do it again if i had the time haha
I'm glad World Box and Verdun are getting some love
This video itself really resonates how we feel too although when I saw Mount and Blade Bannerlord, I do want to say that I don't respect Talewords because they just repeated the same mistake as they did to the rest of Mount and Blade, leaving it half baked and letting the community fix up their gaps
I love this channel
This is a brilliant video. A few days ago, I realized that my favorite game ever, --** HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER**-- was made by ~10 people over the course of a few years. I could play it for hours and find no flaws in it, whereas many AAA titles are boring and don't encompass gameplay that I'd enjoy exploring.
This video had a very unhinged sense of humor and i loved it for that XD
Comedic and informative 😂👌
Found your channel through your fear of space. Nice stuff tbh.
Lol. Thanks
1:56 *insert Homer smiling after getting eye contact from the Dud
Verdun objectively disproved the old idea that " you can't make a fun WW1 game it's all just trenches and bolt actions."
i think there's some sort of tax scam with these huge companies hiring way more employees than they actually need ... and in the video game industry one would think well more employees means the game comes out faster and will be more polished ,,, but as we all know its the complete opposite and in fact its the smaller indie teams that have way less buggy games despite only having like 20 employees
I was watching a video about bbr's success recently and it was talking about how publishers have almost become obsolete and tbh I kinda agree with it. When digital distribution has become so common, why DO AAA companies need to submit themselves to the whims and politics of their publishing company?
Because developer companies [studios] in the "AAA" [Corporate] side of the industry are subsidiaries, OWNED by the publisher companies; whereas in the "Indie" [Independent] side of the industry, developer companies and publisher companies are independent from one another, and maintain a purely transactional relationship (rather than the latter owning the former).
An "Indie" studio will pitch a game idea to a publisher; if the publisher thinks the idea is worth the investment, they will fund the game's production and help with the marketing, distribution (e.g.: porting the game), etc, in exchange for a percentage of the game's sales profits (usually 100% until the game "pays for itself"; after that, it's usually a "50/50" or a "60/40" type division of the profits). This is a very "bottom-up" approach, and both parties get what they want - devs get the funding to be able to work on the game full-time, money for licenses, help with marketing, etc, and the publisher makes some money out of it.
Meanwhile, a "AAA" company (e.g.: EA, Activision | Blizzard, T2, Ubisoft, etc) has and/or acquires studios, and then dictates ["top-down"] what games will get done or not, and how these games will be - SinglePlayer and/or MultiPlayer; Online; full-price or "freemium"; "Live Service" (early, buggy release, with loads of post-launch updates and support; plus DLCs, and all that); etc. When a "AAA" publisher acquires a studio, that studio may be given a lot of creative freedom at first, until they find their "niche" and build a dedicated audience; but eventually the publisher will pull the "reigns" and "play it safe", investing in and "green-lighting" projects that they KNOW will sell, and that they can monetize continuously in the long run.
So for example, DICE, being owned by EA, has very little say in what becomes of the "Battlefield" franchise, for instance; but three "Battlefield" enthusiasts, dissatisfied with the franchise's current state, and who know [or who are willing to learn] how to make games, can develop something like "BattleBit Remastered" to scratch their [and many other people's] "Battlefield itch"...
@@gabrielcabral1665 Sounds rough, I'll be honest and say I didn't even think of that but it makes a lot of sense.
It is amazing how teams of just a few or even 1 person can make games that are infinitely better than what large corporate teams can do
Main thing is finding a way to get Indies to make awesome alternatives to existing games
If everything has say 2-3 Indie Alternatives the competition will be fierce and these companies have to change or shut down
Because its all about Talent. Cyberpunk was made by 400 inexperienced amateurs. Thats why its so trash.
@@Yalloriess Almost every AAA shuts down recently
I'm not sure if this is worth mentioning, but over the past couple of months, the algo has been feeding me plenty of content that...i actually enjoy.
the recommendations are actually relevant, and I've been able to subscribe to a few new (to me) creators because of that. You're one of them. Have a sub.
Bro u unlocked some core memories with that Advanced Warfare for the GBA mention wtf
Many AAA companies have their hand completely tied when they have to meet certain results for their investors, while also having to deal with growing development costs... plus trying not to crunch due to the growing discontent with that practice (even if I feel like it's almost inevitable with most games during the launch window... definitely not as bad as we make it to be). An indie company doesn't have that problem: if something's costy, they can go the cheaper route and move the entire project to a new engine or working environment very quickly; if they don't meet the expected results, they don't have a whole investors base or player base behind; if they need to crunch, they will do so without a consequence and the project directors will be the first ones in doing so. Adaptability in a f'd up economy is king. Smaller companies move better than bigger ones in unstable environments. If economy was doing great worldwide, we most likely wouldn't be complaining about AAA gaming, or not as much.
i can relate to the whole steam hentai trash. lmao
Idk why, but hearing a random youtuber i stumbled upon talking about world box made me happy. it truly is an underrated gem
I like this. most videos about indie games are very analytical. i liked the lax humor of this
fully agreed, if not for indies, I wouldn't even be into vidya anymore
bro ur actually my favourite channel right now
I appreciate ya, man. Thanks for watching
That Red Alert Retaliation music made my day
Great video, this should have more views and likes.
Thank you! :D
The intro compilation was just the best lmao great work mate
Babe,wake up,the dude that posted about astrophobia posted again
ive also noticed that my library has a lotta older AAA games in it like Fallout 3 and Black Ops 2, but no modern ones
Because No one buys AAA games anymore
Banger
Thanks! :)
Bethesda had a pretty good run. They might come back and have a renaissance. Like Disney in the 90's.
Hopefully it'll start with Starfield
@@elmosanchezdoubtful, but I hope I'm wrong
Please God let Starfield be good
Every bit of innovation in the industry is coming out of indie studios now.
Im so glad this surgence in indie popularity has given absolute gems a chance to really branch out like ghost ship games allowing even more indie gems to have a spotlight i believe their are going to be a lot of vacancies for rapid growth over the next gta development window
Would love a full list of indie strategy games - I have felt a need for something decent and the Paradox games are quite unaffordable at the moment
This video convinced me to try battlebit, I was literally up all night playing it. It's so good. As someone that played hundreds of hours of bad company 2, battlefield 3, and battlefield 4 this is like striking gold.
6:24 Army Men RTS and Men of War! God, those games are great.
Agreed
Stellaris has always been a favorite of mine. Even back in the early days when a lot of people trash talked it a bunch
A PC master race video wrapped in the guise of being a video about AAA games vs Indy 0/10
Battlefield 2042 did not have a 2 billion dollar budget, you just ran with the first thing you saw on google. The 2 billion was the amount that ea’s stock fell in one day. Not the development cost of 2042. The closest a games budget will come to 2 billion will most likely be gta6 with a rumored budget somewhere between 1 and 2 billion.
I think it's Pretty much same thing with movies. Corporations are so big creativity and innovation gets forgotten
Crusader kings is easily my fav paradox game gotta play it for sure
CK3 is awesome, I have sunk more hours into that game than I have any buisness doing so
Didn’t expect to see Verdun in the casual slot, simce most casual player (and critics) find ww1 to be boring. But I am glad you did.
Verdun is probably the best ww1 game out there and it definitely needs fresh recruits.
If you consider making a dedicated video, please do. It’s worth people’s time.
Also, yes we know what the old Dune is, a freaking legend. And a anchor to Tiberium.
The only problem I have with Verdun is that they didn't put that game and the others together in one game,so now I have 3 different games just so I can play 3 different fronts in WW1.
i basically only play indie games and old AAA games at this point. risk of rain 2 and fallout new vegas will never fail me 🙏
The greed of Tripple As disgust me. For all this money we could end homelessness, or do other good things. Instead the money goes to corrupt corporate shareholders, for shit games that aren't even good!
Normally we realise after an era or age is over but we must realise that we truly have been in the golden age of Indie games for the last 5 years. They're such excellent additions to the medium. Their lower price and less greedy behaviour even makes them more accessible to me.
I love indie games. If I had a suggestion, get discoloured. I think it's only 2 dollars on sale but it's an excellent puzzle game.
if you want another historical fps to try I reccommend war of rights. good video man
3:08 ay uh.. you got a link (ha) for that pillow?
Ha! This guy here ^. Good one
6:05 this reminds me, i gotta watch Inglorious Basterds again for the 100th time, damn good movie!
The majority of the AAA market has driven me to indie games and games that came out 10-15 years ago
good shit man
“Bro video games aren’t fun anymore” dude literally just play an indie game. Any indie game, even a bad one
2:09 just for clarification „Kino der Toten“ is german and means „cinema of the dead“
My first introduction to Verdun was Alfabusa, Karl the Deranged and Fresh Sorcerer playing it and I still love it.
The Starfield statement didn't age well
Getting Assaded at 21:21 wasn't the thing I expected xD
Definitely worth a sub
Elmo, I love your video and channel glad to see you get a lot of views :)
Truly a hot take among many others, you’re a true visionary and, dare I say, a prophet.
I only wish more people agreed with you, but woe is me, no one thinks like this.
6:22 Yoo, you played Empire at war too?
Cool star wars game
Steam opened so many doors for game developers it's beautifull💯
Ty for content, great takes and taste in games. Is there anyway you could timestamp and title the games you cover?
That's a good idea actually. I'll have to do that later once I have a moment to
AAA gaming is designed for the bottom of the barrel audience.
That is the problem, the better the game is, the more focused they become. A game develops from what it was based on, when your audience comes from places with rich experience, it becomes made based on that. Hence why indies are winning, they are not just made with passion, they are built on the backbone of the vision of what an experience could be.
Like when someone played halo CE back in it's bungie years and decides they want to recreate that magic but build on it with aspects, additions and features which are balanced around the old mastery one gets from getting through the original. It's an evolution of what was old.
Westwood was a cracked studio. Hours spent on dune. First all nighter of mine was beating dune with all 3 factions.
real
Real
@@elmosanchezreal
27:26 this game deserves more updates
As a Latvian, I confirm the super tanks name : Es gribu mirt! That was hella funny.
23:50 bro let the intrusive thoughts win
its actually 20 dollars on top of the 15 for the supporter bundle
26:34 Oh so You were the Weird Kid of Class?
Man I wish I knew someone like that in my class...
BF2042: we dont want voip cus its toxic and harmful internet
Battlebit: peak immersion.
I think AAA games have hit a point where development cost gets too high due to the super-duper-mega-ultra-high graphic that they strive for and that they also have to compete with their previous sales even though they're past their prime. Failure to be successful at these will usually result in the studio getting axed
oh god, i cant believe you talked about total war... im in awe... some one knows we exist
Battlebit's main advantages I'd argue, are its more hardcore elements in wounds/ammunition/health system, build system, it's fast TTK, more full destruction, and ability to drag comrades, something promised in BFV and never delivered. BFV did have some of these aspects, but DICE for whatever reason chose to walk that back so far that 2042 doesn't even have the ability to fucking lean.
For that, it has its cons though. No planes, no real unlocks for vehicles (afaik) or vehicle loadout compared to BF4, bit of a wonky class system that makes medics just about the only option for sustainability long-term because you have very few bandages w/o a medic and no ability to regain health otherwise. The community also prefers infantry action, and vehicle stuff is really just tacked on besides as used for transportation for the most part. FOV is also pretty wide by default, in-engine, which makes long-term engagements unbalanced in favor of those who have unlocked optics. And the spot system is a bit dodgy, and isn't utilized that much.
Hopefully these developers will get their act together so these series can still be enjoyed in the future