The Pathetic State of "Triple A" Gaming
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Triple A Gaming has had a multi decade run of inflated budgets, and lofty marketing hype. However... as the live service debacles pile up with increasing frequency, it feels like a turning point has been reached where publishers ability to lie in the face of their player base is dwindling.
Skull and Bones (on the heels of Suicide Squad) is a perfect example of taking money for the wrong reasons, and using it for the wrong purpose. Lets hope something changes.
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going back to gaming are we? i mean that was the original reason this channel existed as until you started talking about everything else under the sun, but i get it, time moves on and people change, suddenly we got to talk about more important things.
but on the other hand, i'm glad to see you talking about games again, it's been a while old friend.
Are you going to do a review of Helldivers 2?
Do a vid on helldivers 2 and at least 2 people will sub
Since you are a fairly smart guy who does a lot of research, I will assume you already know about Yuri Bezmenov and the Four Steps for Ideological Subversion. I will also assume you know that "woke" is nothing more than Marxist ideologies.
What does it have to do with this video? You'll see in a moment.
So the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly; and every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
"Democracy and the Future" The Atlantic Monthly (March 1922)
To borrow from the beginning of your video here, I need to establish and objective fact, regardless of your opinion on the matter. By all appearances, it would seem we are currently in a Liberal Marxist institution within a "democracy" and capitalism...at least as far as the US/West is concerned.
Communism and Religion
Abolished - all religious and metaphysics is rejected. Engels and Lenin agreed that religion was a drug or “spiritual booze” and must be combated. To them, atheism put into practice meant a “forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” (That is what "getting woke" is all about. The US and other Western nations have been traditionally/historically founded on Judeo-Christian ideologies for hundreds of years. To a Liberal Marxist, those values are inherently flawed, bigoted, racist, sexist and immoral, so they must be abolished, and new values must be created.)
Who, or what, would be the most hated rival of an Atheistic, Liberal Marxist? What is the far-right counterpoint to the far-left?
Hegelian dialectic is an interpretive method used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea. It is a framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution.
Problem: Liberals are ruining the economy, creating division and destroy everything they touch, including anything related to entertainment. They preach "diversity, inclusion and equity", but they are the opposite of what they claim to stand for. They practice favoritism by filling quotas based on race, gender and sexual orientation (rather than skill and merit) and exclude people who have different ideologies than themselves. They say they are for equity and economic equality, yet they overwork and underpay their workers while overcharge for their mediocre products. We have seen this with Ubisoft time and again, as well as other AAA corporations.
Reaction: We need to stop these Liberals from destroying the US/West and revert things back to the way they were before it's too late.
Solution: A revolutionary change of power in all aspects of society by enforcing "The Seven Laws of Noah" which were made US Public Law in 1991, and are endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox J-ws and, in the UK, the Church of England.
Here is an excerpt from that US Public Law.
Whereas Congress recognizes *the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our, great Nation was founded;*
Whereas *these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven N-ahide Laws;*
Whereas *without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos; Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society;* Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished past to the generations of the future;
Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these ethical values and principles throughout the world; Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26, 1991: Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, “the rebbe”, this, his ninetieth year will be seen as one of “education and giving”, the year in which we turn to education and charity to *return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven No-hide Laws:*
What is the “7 Mountains Mandate” (Dominionism/Dominion Theology)? Supposedly there are 7 “mountains” of global society-Arts and Entertainment, Education, Economy, Family, Government and Military, Media and Religion. (Note: The US voting machines are called “Dominion”.) According to this false teaching, by conquering these 7 “mountains”, the Kingdom of God will be established.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, the most hated rival an Atheistic, Liberal Marxist would be an Ultra-Orthodox Religious Conservative Fascist.
From the Noah Laws:
Theft--Do not:
*Steal* (Fraud/wage theft is a form of stealing.)
Rob.
*Overcharge*
Kidnap
Move a landmark. (Probably not good for BLM/Antifa activists who tear down historical landmarks.)
*Do not use false weights and measurements*
*Do not covet*
Sexual Immorality--No:
Bestiality
Incest
Homosexuality ---How many AAA companies push LGBTQAI+ PRIDE these days, anyways? How many hire writers and consultants specifically because of that trait? (BTW: When convicted, the person found guilty of breaking this law will be dealt with French Revolution style.)
Justice Law - Against
*Bribery*
*Favoritism* -Although called the “Equal Opportunity Act”, what we have seen are people being hired or promoted not for their talents, skills and education, but based on the color of their skin, gender and sexual orientation (even if they are not qualified for the job or promotion), otherwise known as “intersectionality”. Is this “equality”, or favoritism?
Condemning the innocent
*Must administer the death penalty*
Treat people equally before the law
But the top guy at ubisoft said that it was completely a completely completed complete game that was completely completed completely tho XD
Its at the point now where if I see a game from Ubisoft, Bethesda, Blizzard, or EA I immediately wait until a sale or skip entirely.
Agreed
So true!
I've been doing this for 10+ yrs. You're late to the game lol
Skip entirely, for me
Haven't bought a full price game in like 5 years and I don't feel some urge to do so. All games, indie or not, release unfinished and broken these days.
* *2003:* _I used to go into a store to find a game,_
* *2023:* _Now I go into a game to find a store._
Microtransactions have become SO greedy they should be called *macrotransactions.*
Perfect denomination. Damm.
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg bot be gone
bro got offended@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg
Macrotransactions would imply paying for something significant the pricetag aside but it's still just getting nft currencies and skins and such
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg where's the exaggeration?
At this point AAA is like a red flag.
Any game branding itself as tripleA is likely to be a disappointment.
Yup. Now it’s the “don’t buy this unless proven otherwise” indicator.
But it's not. It's a "quadruple A" title😂
That's why they called Skull and Bones Quadruple A 😂
@@powerfulshammy honestly even bigger red flag
almost like a black flag @@doughboyexotics305 🤪
Horrible management is actually destroying so many beloved studios.
The Khazarian effect
But are the young engineers and developers any better?
@@Art-is-craft as long as they are not diversity hires I am sure they are just as good
The pre-order effect
Diversity hires. Women have no place in gaming.
AAAA: Alarming Absence of Anything Acceptable.
You worked hard on that one. 😆
that took more effort than these entire studios took to make their games
Or as I like to call it: "AAAA-RGH!"
Its now Quad A phenomenon
love it.
I’m so jaded with the gaming landscape. Tired of everything having a battle pass, micro transactions and/or paid DLC.
Paid DLC wouldn't be bad if we had a good game to play. I'd gladly hand over more money for better mechanics to the core game or expanded maps. But we never get that. It's always some kind of skin, clothing, faction, and pointless assets.
Years ago, different versions of games would be released, being nearly identical to the original versions, but with some new additions. It was essentially DLC, but sold as the full game on top of that, and the only way to release that DLC at the time-"Ultimate Editions" still exist today, of course, but they're just full packages at a discount now. That DLCs can be added to games via updates is a massive improvement, and supporting a game with new content (which would need to be monetized somehow, depending on resources used) is a very good thing. The biggest problems with microtransactions like cosmetics, which could otherwise be completely ignored by uninterested players, are the obnoxious business tactics used to make players relent into spending money (most notably, forcing players into the store every single time they enter the main menu, and jingling paid-for items in front of them) and the removal of content that would be given for free to players in the past, in order to monetize it instead, which, although understandable (again, business), feels like disrespect and disregard to players from their perspective, as companies keep pushing previously established boundaries to try to get as much financial return as possible from every single asset.
Paid DLC could be worth it, only if it's an expansion to the story of the game and adds something new to it. Not this stupid bullshit... pay 20 dollars so your online characters can be the color blue!
Paid DLC ain't a bad thing. Paid lazy DLC is.
Bethesda is no saint, but anyone remember Dawnguard and Dragonborn expansions? You basically get a new game for like £20.
Now compare that to all the crap Ubisoft releases.
Yep true, have not bought the COD battlepass for about 12 months, before that I bought every one since they started them.. but I was addicted now I'm a hater 😂
All that money put into AAA games ends up in the management’s pockets. Also management are the ones that stay safe from layoffs…
A publicly traded company is a construct that serves to make money for shareholders. The quality of the product is not relevant, so shortcuts are taken to maximize shareholder profits.
The games that ubisoft produces are essentially a byproduct of their primary function.
@@OWnIshiiTrolling Nope because this companies aren't run by the shareholders but by others like executives and managers. The executives and managers are the ones that create this and not the shareholders.
The shareholders have an interest in the long term viability of the company but the executives not really.
The dividends to shareholders are nothing but an excuse for bad management and golden parachute CEO's.
What do the shareholders gain by having a CEO that has a salary each year as high as the cost of a whole AAA game? Nothing. For the shareholders that means less money for them but yet that CEO somehow manages to fill his pockets like that.
@@SIPEROTH Companies are required by law to make money for shareholders, as far as I am aware.
The effective role of a CEO is to enable that. This can be done by actual work and good leadership, but the CEO can also just try to maximize the metrics that he reports to shareholders, which usually means that the quality decreases. Any failure is then blamed on external issues.
For example, Blizzard focuses heavily on monthly active users, because they report this metric to shareholders. They make absolutely ridiculous design choices that make their games worse, but that they think will increase monthly active users. As long as the shareholders are appeased, the CEO stays, because he "improved things."
@@OWnIshiiTrolling Its good for the short to medium term, but no company can survive producing a substandard product long term. That being said, all the shareholders and senior management will have earned a lot of money first and then jumped ship.
Profit over passion for the game will just ruin so many companies. It's why I'm looking more to indie studios now.
Sly Cooper 3 pirate ship battles were more AAA than Skull & Bones
Right? I feel like that game-in-game is what inspired Sea of Thieves and the other pirate games that came after. Sea of thieves also shares the same cartoony look. That minigame was awesome played in local coop with friends on a playstation 2!
Sly Cooper was so much fun.
my man you on the money also feel older now than i have in a long time and gone from”ah shit I’m old”too”thank goodness i am old and knew were to look for fun at times in this new dark age.”
Nah breh, we've transcended AAA and reached...
✨️Q U A D R U P L E - A✨️
Gotta love Ubish*t
We are truly living in the dark ages of gaming .
@@ijz9278 Gaming is great. Better than ever even, support indie and AA games
Quadruple-meh.
@@gregorycoleman2149Indie scene remains strong but not better than it's ever been. AAA is terrible. Hardware scene is worse than it's ever been. Gaming is not in a good place.
It's kinda crazy that they think they can get away saying the game will "deliver in the long run". How about you deliver when the game is launched.
They might be right. A few years from now new games will be even worse so people will start saying this is good.
These things always go one of two ways- They either get regular updates and build a following on word-of-mouth over time, or they're completely abandoned and shut down when they don't immediately make a profit (and Ubisoft has a habit of doing the latter). Either way, I have no reason to play it right now.
There's nothing crazy about it. Gamers eat that shit up more often than not.
Just like with No Man's Sky, I'll wait for the long run to happen, then buy the game for next to nothing.
He's literally contradicting himself in the same statement, calling it a "fully fledged" and "vast and complete game", and then immediately going on to talk about how it will "deliver in the long run". Also, does anyone remember when a game being "complete" was the BARE MINIMUM you'd expect from a product you paid money for? I EXPECT a game to be "complete" when I buy it (I VERY rarely buy into early access), and I'm more interested in whether or not it's actually GOOD (something that Yves Gumbone notable did NOT mention in his idiotic statement).
Remember the days of just going to EB Games, picking up a game, going home and just playing it then pass it on to your friends. No microtransactions, no waiting for the game to download and install, no DLC....Yup those were the days!
Must be nice. Everyone I knew were console gamers and I was the odd one out with a PC lol.
dlc can be good
@@spikey288it can be but the majority of the time it's overpriced trash
@@XBluDiamondX This used to be the case with PC games. It was standard that a store selling games had the used PC games right next to the console games.
@spikey288 most dlcs are bad.
I'm an old gamer. Not a boomer, but I've been playing games since 1982. I've seen the death of the gaming industry happen, and the resurrection.
I've seen the ebb and flow of the market over the past 42 years. There is some pretty terrible stuff going on right now, and the greed is on full display right now.
Having said that, this isn't the end of gaming, or anything like that. Is it a dark time for the big publishers? Yes. Is it the end of days? No.
These publishing companies are capitalists. They want our money.
As soon as we stop giving them money for these things, they'll stop doing it. They have a legal obligation to their shareholders to produce profit. As soon as the profit dries up, the $30 skins will go the way of the dodo.
As soon as we stop buying the recycled, reskinned versions of Madden, CoD, and Assassin's Creed, they'll stop shoveling them out. As soon as the money for these greedy practices dries up, it'll all change. Overnight.
For all the doom and gloom I've heard about how terrible gaming has become in the past few years, I've personally been enjoying my games more than ever. Baldur's gate is hands down the best CRPG ever made. God of War Ragnarok was amazing. Elden Ring is phenomenal. Lies of P was epic. Horizon Forbidden West was incredibly fun. I've played close to 100 amazing indies in the past few years as well.
The solution to all of our woes is to stop paying greed. Start giving your money to the good ones, and ONLY the good ones. Complaining about $30 skins, shovel ware, live service, and gatcha mechanics, while engaging in all these things is not how you make the problem go away. The publishers ONLY care about money, not what you SAY. If you SAY you hate gatcha, but then spend 30 hours a week playing gatcha games, what you said doesn't matter. What you did does.
I can't afford to play all the games, so I spend my money on the good ones. I don't throw money at games like Overwatch or Apex or Fifa or CoD or AC 9048 or whatever number sequel they're up to now.
Gaming will survive. There are still more good games out than hours in the day to play them. Stop focusing on the trash, and start applauding the good. If we want more games like BG3 or Elden Ring, we have to show the market that's what we want, and if we don't want shovel ware dumped on us every minute of every day by multi-billion dollar companies, we need to stop buying them. Look at Anthem. That game died within a few weeks, and it was enough of a dip in revenue the company shut down the entire live service.
Force the companies to do better by not rewarding them for doing bad things. If you still willingly give them money, you're sending the message that you want more of what they're shoveling onto you.
ye on point
This exactly. Once consumers stop rewarding bad behavior, the bad actors will be flushed out. And with how things are going right now, it looks like a lot of AAA developers are going belly up in the relatively near future
The old "free market will fix it" argument. The issue comes when there is a mindless consumer base large enough to self-sustain horrible business practices. I mean there is still a huge market for homeopathy despite multiple conclusive studies showing it is all bunk. The shit game market isn't going anywhere, and neither are microtransactions, in-game shops, staggered dlc, battlepasses, and all the other things most gamers hate. Because normies love it.
@@PuzzlesocksHe's not making an argument. But he is stating the truth that IF people stop paying for garbage, then the garbage will fizzle out (garbage, meaning the nonsensical microtransaction hell we've all come to know today). Also if homeopathy has helped people. Then no amount of conclusive study can prove that it doesn't. Sometimes believing is enough for someone to heal. Call it whatever you like, I've discovered first hand how powerful alternative medicine can be. And I've learned first hand how ineffective and dangerous more aggressive "modern" treatments can be as well. It's all perspective. For some this is false, for others it is true. Either way, no one can speak for everyone, ever. I agree with you tho. This problem we are seeing in the industry is from a large population of mouth breathers that buy very low quality products because they don't care or want for more. They don't think very much especially not for themselves but for those of us that do. We can sustain a part of the industry that still builds on the foundations that the greats set up for us before they got too big for their own good.
"gaming will survive"
This bland, pointless, generalistic optimism is so meaningless and probably part of the problem.
What does "gaming will survive" even mean? It's a multi billions industry, what do you think the risk is, that no more games are made? What a joke.
There will always be games. The problem is that the standards of what's acceptable have lowered immesenly since the horse armor DLC in 2008. Microtransactions became the norm, then always online, no modding, rising prices, bad netcode, bad servers, no servers browsers, sbmm, and so on and so on.
The problem is not if "gaming will survive". The problem is in what state.
I just realised that not only does it cost double and look horrible with worse mechanics, the ship gameplay is only a part of Black Flag, like Black Flag is a whole Assassin's Creed game on top of that
So not only are we getting a shit tier game, we are getting only a fraction of what was achieved 10 years ago
Black flag as a whole sucked ass as an assassins creed game. It seems damn near perfect with the trash they released in The series later though so I understand your confusion.
@@jessiemoore3094this is true. But the assassin's creed Combat Mechanics expressed there just so happen to be great for Being A Pirate. They for some reason removed this!?
You so right.
@@jessiemoore3094 "Black flag as a whole sucked ass as an assassins creed game" To YOU*
There's a reason it's literally regarded as one of the best Assassins Creed games lol.
I find AC Black Flag to be a pretty good game and a pretty good AC game as well
Maybe not the best of the original ones but leagues above the bloated AC fake RPGs of recent years
"it's a fully fledged game"
"Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king"
I have a dream, where large multinational corporations STOP obtaining taxpayer funds to screw their customer base in the end.
More like 15 years really. I remember a talk with a slightly older guy then me who mentioned a interesting thing. The 2008 financial crisis. Seems to be the point where all media industries started to be bad. And they simply never recovered.
This is a really good point. Right after that we had awesome games, but companies needed softer landing in case of another crisis. I would also add huge success of mobile games and csgo cases which showed that average Joe playing games sadly dont care.
The original microtransaction, the buyable horse armor, is from 2008 indeed.
Skull and Bones is to AC4 what Suicide Squad is to Arkham Knight
Oof, accurate
That's an insult to Suicide Squad. At least they actually made a new game.
The best analogy.
Hopefully both studios that developed the games are closed down
Ahh, that makes me feel bad for Rocksteady. Well, the Rocksteady that made the Arkham games.
What's' worse is that people still buy Triple A games no matter the state of it.
You're saying it like all AAA games are equally bad. That's one ignorant POV, mate. Hogwarts Legacy is amazing and deserves its high sales numbers, BG3 is also at the top right now, Mortal Kombat 1 is very well made, Banishers I would consider at least AA and it's great as well. Next in line for me is the upcoming Hellblade 2 which will probably also deliver... And it's just a few titles out the top of my head. Ubisoft/EA/ActiBlizz is NOT representative for all the AAA market. There's still hope out there!
@@devalue7064Except people seem to spend more when times are hard. Especially on entertainment. Desperately trying to cope with the situation through escapism.
@@sacredsecrecy9620A clown high on copium.
Yeah I know a few people who wouldn't even touch an indie game just based on its look.
They’re shit out for the lowest common denominator.
Singapore government should open a investigation on how the money was spent. I feel like something stinks. 200 mil spends on incredibly bad product.
I had already started to feel this way, the final nail in the coffin for me was Starfield followed by Skull and Bones. Suddenly EA isn't the only company to stay away from now.
what happen to starfield?
@@youtubebannedme literally nothing, it's a Bethesda game and that means people hate it for the first few years.
@@vyor8837 On the contrary. I'm a huge bethesda fan. Bought the collectors edition of every game since Oblivion and was thrilled to get a space one. It's main storyline is weak af, and there are plenty of reviews explaining all the weak areas of the game. Unlike previous titles which were mostly due to bugs, this is engine limitations and poor writing.
@@grit9938 so what were your thoughts on fallout 4?
@@vyor8837 Overall it was solid. I wasn't bothered by the voiced protagonist and appreciated the attempt to do something different. I did hate the way it felt like there was less choice and consequence than previous titles, but there was still conflict between the various factions.
Triple A companies used to bring with them the feeling that there was a lot of money put into the project to produce the highest quality game. Now it means almost exactly the opposite, where it just means they are trying to suck out the most money possible with the lowest quality/value possible.
When the best thing they can say about a game is “look how much money we spent” you know it’s bad
the Cutthroat Island of games
... nah, I take that back, I was entertained by Cutthroat Island
Honestly this continue to happen because players keep buying brand new games regardless of the price tag. Stop buying $70 games that you feel iffy about. Stop jumping on the hype train. Stop buying games we know are “live service games” aka DOA meant only to milk microtransactions. Once gamers stop feeding the greed machine, publishers and studios will be forced to either listen to the player base or just go under
That should be it's own warning. If a mark of a good author is how few words they use, then every $100,000 over Baldur's Gate should mean the value of the game is 1% less quality.
Nicely summarized
I have basically abandoned shooters and gone back to retro games because i dont feel like i am FORCED to play the game with limited time to aquire items
??? What game are you talking about in that last part
@@blizyon30fps86 COD
Trepang2 and F.E.A.R. 1 is just for ya, why force to play FOMO games when there's classics of fps.
@vurhn2009 true. I have been playing indie gems like easy red 2
Check out the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (Anomaly is a mod that combines the maps of the entire trilogy into one and is completely free)
I saw this discount for this game recently: -40% off of the deluxe edition, so now it only costs 60 bucks!
....
Oh yeah, the deluxe edition is this version where you get 2 extra skins and the soundtrack...😶
They have lost touch out of reality and their inflation argument is a complete lie and deception. We have top steam games now for half the price and with like 3/4 the monetization. They have like 1/100th the budget and staff too. End of the day the other dev types are purely greedy trying to pretend all this nonsense is the new normal and that it's valid.
what a great bargain lol
It’s crazy. They’re releasing mobile-game-tier games on console, at full AAA prices.
You mean AAAA?
This wouldn't be a problem if console consumers weren't stupid enough to buy these games and are therefore keeping these companies in business.
@@Aggnog It's not just console consumers.
@@NuchiAsaki We are not consumers, we are customers. You treat customers well; consumers are locusts in human suits.
Yeah, back when I had a Wii, there weren't any mobile-game-tier games on that console at full AAA prices. Oh how times have changed.
I havent bought a AAA game in years now. The only ones I ever buy anymore are AAA titles of old and indie games
I bought armored core but that was fun
But this is a AAAA game, tho /s
It's kind of telling when the last two games that I would consider AAAs on my 300+ games steam account are NieR:Automata and Shadow of War both of which are 2017 games
That was probably the last somewhat good year in the industry we ever had.
@@55ziomal55too bad the Nier devs couldn't be bothered to give half a shit about pc players. There is zero option to customize keybinds in that game, so if you don't own a controller, you just have to deal with the absolute dogshit that is the keyboard layout they chose. I swear no one even playtested that control scheme, cause it would not STILL be in the final product if it had been.
i got Diablo 2 Remaster, dose that count as AAA? Outside of that, Remnant 2, RE 2 remaster, Dark Souls 3 in 2018 before that Witcher 3 and the Dlc´s in 2016/2016 but to be fair, it is by deffinition a Indie Game :P
90% of "AAA" titles are ass garbage whose path is decided by corporate committee and released by soulless, money-grubbing publishers. Buy indie and keep gaming true to its roots.
That's the other side of the problem. You're choices today are AAA or indie. There are no (or very little) mid budget games, no diamonds in the rough, nothing to sink your time in that comes in a case that you can take home with you and keep.
@@MINKIN2 The third option is simply buying old games off of GOG. They are complete, patched, no internet required.
@@MINKIN2if anything the mid budget games are even worse, look at Paradox
@@MINKIN2if you need physical copies to like a game that's your personal problem. As for good mid-budget games you can sink your time into, I'd argue there are lots of them in the indie space. Terraria and Factorio from the top of my head are personal favourites, Stardew Valley fits as well. Warframe if you like the grind, Hollow Knight if you want a challenge. If your idea of a timesink is on a larger scale than that, just pick up any good roguelite. There's games out there, you just gotta and try em
It’s simple. Let your wallet do the talking. No need to keep complaining about games. Just don’t buy it!
the ratio of us vs idiots who drool over every marketing hype bulletpoints in AAA is extremely lopsided
It's not that simple actually.
If it was, do you think the Genshin community would be what it is today?
An indie game dev could make that same game for $20k in six months as long as they have an energy drink subsidy
I'd allow for more budget, depending on the country they work from. But yes, give some dedicated devs UE5 and the usual DCC tools & asset packs, six months to early access, decent release within a year. Main challenges would be scope creep, preproduction issues and gameplay tuning.
Not only that, they would make a better version of it.
@@robertmartinu8803 You could take sid mieres pirates and have better.
That's a lie, just making all the assets would cost way more than 20k
@@ni9274 the expensive part is the marketng not really the resources....
I've been in corporate meetings. Not in the gaming industry but at this point it sounds like it's all become the same. Executives don't give a shit. They don't understand their products, don't want to understand their products and don't want to listen to anyone beneath them. All they see and hear is on spreadsheets about theoretical profit several quarters ahead while they munch on a catered lunch and discuss their teslas. That's it, that's all they do is have meetings with the same spreadsheets and power points over and over and no one can argue because they're 'the boss'. They literally have armies of people who's job is 'project manager' but really just means make everything sound good for me in the next meeting. It's disgusting, so I quit.
That's what happens when you let tourists take over something.
The gaming industry started by gamers with ideas and passion (most of them were from Gen X or boomes who were ahead of their times) and then the classic boomers came and they wanted not just a piece but the whole pie.
I mean, just quick research it, when they came they started to added stuff that have nothing to do with gaming or entertainment entirely, one of the many examples is the ESG score.
Nowadays triple AAA games (and movies )are mostly to push their or their friends kinks, agendas, micro transactions and last but not least money laundering and if you think I'm saying BS or exaggerating also quick research the whole latest controversies with the anime industry and the western localizers
There's a Steve Jobs interview way back in the 90s where he discussed how technology companies go downhill when leadership moves from "product people" to sales and marketing people. Company ends up run by people who don't know how to make a good product and can't even tell the good from the bad.
This is happening/has been happening at my company for the last 9 years.
We're a hazardous waste processing company. We were family owned up till 2015. The original owners were involved as consultants up till 2018.
We were bought and exchanged by 2 VC companies over 6 or 7 years. They mostly just let us work and do our jobs. Increased sales, increased profit etc. But they just let us work.
Then we got merged with one of the other companies owned by the 2nd VC, then shortly there after sold to a larger Waste Energy company that was owned by bigger VC.
This is a dirty blue collar environment. But now it's turned into this Blue collar corporate hybrid ESG DEI nightmare. And it's actually starting to go down hill. In terms of profit.
But there's no pleasing these people.
We can only bring in, handle and process X amount of waste with our permits, property size, equipment, personnel etc.
Yet, sales runs the company. They of course, are running the corporate 101 handbook where making money short term is more important than doing the job properly and making money in the long term. People in meetings all day, meetings about nothing, the same topics.
Best part is, we've recently run into some issues. Sales got us in the jam we're in. We've managed to mitigate it. But then the guy who let sales run the show basically says, sales isn't running the company anymore, but we still need to do better. So we get the blame for corporate incompetence and greed that would make Scrooge McDuck blush.
Same guy thinks I have a shit attitude because I walk around saying the company sucks and we're just here to fill up the coffers full of Yacht and Ferrari money.
Hrs upset because I'm right, it's true and they don't need other people thinking it.
And then maybe a month ago, a few people started a movement to bring in a Union. Which will probably happen. Lol
What a shitshow. Lol
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Problem is there there are no gamer executives save for Private Companies like Valve where the head is also a Developer as well. Think Iwata as part of that bunch.
This whole comment thread is the truth of how the world is working.
All the nerds left gaming leadership. Now it's a bunch of soulless spreadsheet readers.
Why is a video game corporation even getting government funding?
That is the right question right there
I think Singapore wanted to encourage local games/software industry
Personally I haven’t paid full price for a game in a decade. Ever since I started getting the notification “Update Patch Needed” after I insert the disc, I pretty well gave up on buying games at full price. There may have been an exception to this statement, but pretty sure only one.
I'm hoping eventually people get sick of mediocrity and push back causing another game crash but if fifas any indication it's extremely unlikely since people will happily pay for mediocrity
Most people are clowns, that's how we got here
Its almost Stockholm syndrome at this point. Theyve gotten so accustomed to it, nye addicted to it, that even if they hate the game and complain, theyll still play it, still pay for it, and still buy the next one
We had more than a decade of mediocrity a la COD. You’re going to be hoping for a while!
Whales be Whales....
For real. People need to stop buying them if they want to play actually good games. It pisses me off that I'm denied a great new release because people will pay for slop.
Its not just nostalgia but I really do miss the PS2 days. So many fun innovative games whitout added BS.
PS2 was inferior to the PS1. It was probably the start of the decline.
@@Art-is-craft uh no
Ya and PS3 was no slouch but then dlc horse armor came along and that's all she wrote.
@@Art-is-craftPS1 was a testbed for PS2.
@@Art-is-craft What are you smoking?
To add to the whole bit how old games are out performing the new Triple A games, look at Heroes of might and Magic III. That game is over 20 years old now and yet it is still a top seller on the GOG storefront.
Now, as it is offline it is impossible to track how many actively play it, but given that such an old game is still selling gangbusters is pretty telling whereas all these new games fumble within weeks.
Exactly, and it is the same thing with movies and series - they found out that most people are just watching movies and reruns of shows from the 90s. Like the top ten watched on streaming platforms were all 90s.
The gaming industry got destroyed as its popularity grew among the masses.
Nah, they're just to dumb to realize they need to address and solve customer complaints like factories. Nowadays, when customer complaints publicly they just attack them like karens.
my library is becoming more and more indie with the years
For me indie and retro. Ive started replaying a lot of old pc and xbox 360 titles. Feels like a struck a gold mine
Yep. I kept my xbox one x solely to play enhanced xbox 360 games and a few indies here and there. Its a great nostalgia machine.
Indie is where it's at. Indie and Indie publishers like Devolver.
Based
Same
As an American, I'm used to my taxes going towards stupid projects. But this is just embarrassing.
Why do most privileged people think they have it the worse?
@@JohnMarston-sf1vk What? Who said anything about someone having it worse than anyone else? Are you okay?
The worst*@@JohnMarston-sf1vk
@@JohnMarston-sf1vk Reading comprehension L
@@JohnMarston-sf1vknice straw man
Skill levels have dropped dramatically. Not entirely across the board, but in general terms. Some of this is down to education, and some of it is down to the recent trend for discrimination in the workplace. It’s real, and it’s happening.
"You can disagree on that but you are wrong if you do"
Thank you for being definitive and taking a stand.
He’s literally misusing the wors
The problem is the corporations as always. Gaming used to be fairly underground, now it's mainstream it has faceless money men trying to push targets instead of people creating their fantasy ideas to share with their vision.
The problem is not corporations. It is the creative. It simply is not there any more.
Capitalism
Indeed, Capitalism.
You have hit the nail on the head
@@tj-co9go yeah all these issues are just the outcome of capitalism working as it’s supposed to work. It’s never been about making games. Always been about making money. It used to be making good games meant more money but not any more. Late stage capitalism sucks
Corporations don’t make games
Zero care for the money.
Zero care for the audience.
Only care about is that ESG/DEI Blackrock deals like Hollywood and AAA+ industries
Correct. They make products. Consumers *love* products.
@@stevenyee1055it is about money that's the point of the ESGs easy money for basically pandering
Ceo "embezzled" the money, they don't care if they run the company to the ground when they get their bonuses. It should be illegal.
Gaming today isn't being made for gamers. They're being made for "consumers".
What I have come to learn from my time working in the gaming industry is that game company executives, especially CEOs, literally have absolutely no clue what they are doing. The most “successful” people are rarely the smartest or most talented. They are simply the ones with enough charisma to bullshit themselves into positions of authority, and have a sufficient lack of empathy or self-awareness to allow them to thrive in an environment of corporate soullessness. The people with the talent and passion, the ones that actually make the games, are forced to work like slaves for meager salaries, forced to watch their creative work become perverted by idiot executives that are incapable of understanding that kind of passion, only to get laid off because those executive decisions result in products that bring in less infinite profit than what their shareholders were expecting; and those in charge are so utterly incompetent that, rather than adjust expectations and find reasonable solutions, they will jeopardize the livelihoods of thousands of employees without a second thought. As long as it means holding onto their own disgustingly exorbitant salary for another fiscal term.
The people that design and build these games genuinely want to make something good and have artistic visions. They are taken for granted, their ideas disrespected, chewed up and spit out until their love for the craft is completely killed off. A creative can only bear so much. Seeing their work sapped dry of any meaning or integrity it once had is soul crushing. Then they are tossed aside with nowhere to go.
Everything wrong with the industry right now is the result of grossly incompetent and out of touch leadership. I’m not sure how we can stop the decay without completely uprooting that leadership and removing the mindset of unsustainable profit growth and shareholder priority. We often say “speak with your wallet”, but I just don’t know if that’s enough…it’s systemic at this point. Our society has been psychologically conditioned to be rampant consumers, and gaming companies in particular have become masters at reinforcing it (referencing how the gaming industry utilizes tactics to exploit the brain’s response for addictive tendencies). Even if a number of people wake up to it, I don’t know if there will ever be enough to make the message loud enough, or the loss of profit impactful enough.
you basically described literally every industry. Having the right skin color/sex/sexual and political orientation and having connections will always trump talent and passion.
@@TheOneAndOnlycE We’re focusing on the gaming industry in this conversation and it’s the industry in which I feel I have enough professional experience to comment on. Plus, I do feel that there is a unique set of issues that arise in industries that specifically monetize art/creative works as their primary source of revenue. A lot of dissonance occurs when attempting to balance creative values and integrity alongside corporate expectations for ever increasing profit.
The answer is actually not that hard: putting customers front and center instead of profit. It's actually a very sound long term strategy, but investors don't care about long term. Once you go public, there's really no way back I'm afraid. Profit dictates everything, and it's a dumb, self-destructive narrative. But hey, we're very dumb animals, so I guess we get what we deserve.
It just proves how far Ubisoft has fallen. I’m at a point where I refuse to pay for any Ubisoft product that’s over $10. But honestly I’m not even sure I’ll fork over anything because I don’t trust them at all as a company. And I still refuse to pay for products from other “triple A” companies like EA, Blizzard, BioWare, and Bethesda. I’ve pretty much lost all enthusiasm for gaming as a whole because of these greedy companies.
They were never that great. I got a bunch of Assassin's Creed games from a humble bundle and stopped playing in the middle of one when I realized it wasn't fun. That became obvious to me when the game crashed and I didn't feel like replaying the bits I had already done that hadn't been saved. In hindsight, it felt more like a collectable chore list than a fun game.
Haven't touched anything Ubisoft since.
One question from seeing background gameplay footage: why the fuck sailing ships move like motorboats?
Industry veterans pushed out for "cheaper" green developers that end up taking longer and produce a worse product in the end.
Don't forget the quota hires, most aren't gamers, but they have a message that needs to be shared.
@@Chad6o exactly, cronyism
Although i am all for hiring new guys but i am highly against firing industry seniors because this is what happens when there aren't any seniors to mentor and help the juniors
@@Chad6oExactly! Next big example being the new Indiana Jones game that's being made "for modern audiences" by your fellow token blue haired "it's Ma'ams" (I'm not even joking!). Another stunning & brave, diverse & inclusive masterpiece in the making. Slay, siiiisss! 💅Get your pre-orders in, ya'll!!
@@sacredsecrecy9620It's all on purpose to destroy the industry. If you learn about who Blackrock and Vanguard are supporting and funding, you start to understand the whole picture. There are videos that covers this, they work with all the big AAA developers. Diversity and inclusion or woke will be in all these games, and it's a forced agenda on purpose, and it's pretty much official at this point. Most people still have no clue or live in denial though.
Spent slightly less than $70 on The Last Epoch and Palworld recently, the value, content, amount of hours I put into each one individually dumps on AAA.
If you are making art, you have to have a vision, that vision cant be diluted by many conflicting interests if its going to work. You can have a large team but it needs direction, intention, care and love. Smaller teams and smaller budgets often pull off better results, as what is most important can be focussed on.
We deserve this. This is what we get for pre ordering every title, for buying every little micro transaction, and accepting less and less year after year from big publishers.
Talk with your wallets people.
That's what YOU deserve, not me. I've never peordered a game in my entire life and haven't had the means to buy games until recently.
Nah fam, I never pre-ordered a single game. If the game has physical release I go to the store after work and look at the case on my ride home like it's still 2007
Whenever someone says, "actually ALL of us are responsible" what they mean is they know THEY are responsible and are trying to spread the blame so they don't have to face thier guilt.
Who pre orders every title, they pre order whatever they know they'll enjoy
You still pre-order? Awww, thats cute. I remember when I was as naive as you
"They gaslighted everyone" I don't believe anyone got gaslighted by that AAAA spiel, unless said gaslight was running on laughing gas.
Hard to be gaslit if you just stay ignorant of upcoming projects by simply not caring.
Worst part about the CEOs huffing his own farts, is that they get away with it most of the time. Consumers, studios, and anyone who gives a shit has to pick up the pieces while executives have huge bonuses, regardless. Hate to see it.
I have unsubscribed to Skull & Bones newsletter emails, twice now, despite never subscribing to it in the first place. Wonder if they'll keep sending me newsletter still.
I think us consumers needs to understand good graphics doesn’t make a good game. Good graphics is used to sell you a game
Most of the modern AAA games bore me to death 💀, especially games like The Last of Us 2 and Plague Tale Requiem, "games" where you sit for a long time watching cutscenes or just walk slowly from section to section while someone is talking to you, then in combat just score a few headshots or stealth behind some dumb enemy AI then rinse and repeat..... How is that considered to be "gaming"?! It's not fun! 😂
I am so glad retro gaming and indies exist, that's what I've been spending my gaming budget on lately 🤷
If they add too much depth to the game mechanics, they will alienate the majority of players. They can't afford to do that because the costs of developing AAA games has skyrocketed due to having way too many employees and focus on pointless things like realistic graphics and environmental details.
@@NuchiAsaki and yet the graphics and environments are worse
A perfect excuse, it is the player base fault for lack of a game. It is because more people will buy and play a game that lacks game mechanics. Just like palworld which has a ton of different game mechanics jammed into one. Would hate to be like them when you can make a game for everyone instead. This is how you make back your investments people!
My dude, A Plague Tale Requiem is absolutely not a Triple A game. And it's pretty amazing.
Lmaoo plague tale is great tf, w eirdo
If companies don't stop charging $70 for games that are clearly not worth $70 there is going to be a second video game crash... but this time it will just be a AAA crash while indie games persist.
No, AAA games sells are going up
I think not since a ton of people still keep buying those scams
Most Gamers the last 10 years have been nothing but suckers
@@ni9274 exactly.
and that makes all this complaining just annoying.
this happens probably at a monthly basis now.
game gets announced, people get hyped, it's released as a boring unfinished mess, people complain about how 'this needs to stop' and that they never again pre-order, repeat with next game from the very same company.
we all know the black sheeps.
if you still buy from them then that's on you, you knew what you paid for.
None's crashing because unlike the past we consumers don't even have standards anymore. People will mass buy garbage products regardless of quality.
The real problem is that most game devs these days focus more on trends and profits instead of artistic creation and customer convenience.
I think another reason these AAA studios are trash now and nobody’s talking about it is the studios are doing what Disney is doing. They’re getting rid of all the experienced old white guys and hiring inexperienced young activist off of Tumblr and discord, and it shows.
It's really controversial to say, but it really is all the goddamn dyed-hair pronoun-using Twitter slugs who are causing this problem. And Todd Howard. Let's not forget him.
Yup. Merit is all that should matter.
@Nightweaver1 not to mention the tumblr slime and activists are always part of the elite rich. They are not regular people
@@Nightweaver1 You're giving the Todd too much credit. I guarantee the reason for Starfield's "delay" was because as soon as Bethesda was acquired by Microsoft, they sent in DEI "experts" and forced Bethesda to redo a whole bunch of stuff to meet the investor mandates.
I'm an older white guy, not in the gaming but in the automotive industry. Yes, here, too, young people take over with totally new methods and AI-based engineering and whatnot. If you strip away all the buzzwords then it all boils down to a fancy way of pencil pushing. It's ai-assisted pencil pushing on webservers now. Everybody is managing each other. Nobody seema to improve the product or the production process.
This is why i play games for fun only . No grinding challenges or battlepass level ups. You gotta play that 2005-2015 era games nowdays for a full experience
Or just avoid games from the biggest 10 or so studios.
I've been having a phase where I'm mostly playing games from the PS3/XBOX360 era, and it's been super fun so far
@@larsthemartian9554 Also try retro games! Mostly no one cares if emulated and a near infinite supply on games!
@@DundG currently playing through Planescape: Torment for the first time and it's bloody fantastic so far. They don't make RPGs like they used to!
@@larsthemartian9554Me too haha, I’ve finally been chipping away at my PS3 backlog, gotta say, I wish I’d started to do so earlier, this is the most fun I’ve had in years.
Honestly this is indictive of all aspects of the entertainment industries where the cost of the product's production is no longer equal to its success and market value.
Cost of the production was never equal to its success and market value
I was dinking around trying to 100% an old Black Flag file when I first saw this game emerging. I would change channels to my PS4 as I watched Skull and Bones in 4k on youtube and thought, "How does this look worse?"
Gaming should be so advanced by now. It so sad how games from 20+ years ago are blowing new releases out of the water in all but graphics.
At this point, I dont know if I would call myself a gamer anymore. I haven't bought a game since last year, and the number of hours I play has drastically dropped.
That's their goal - to destroy gamer identity.
I love how you picked skulls and bones as an example to illustrate your point and TH-cam just put a skulls and bones ad right before your video starts.
When I played AC4, my opinion was:
Assassin’s Creed: 1%
Epic open world game being a captain of a warship: 99%
And I loved it.
gaming becoming so corporate is what has sucked the soul out of our beloved games
i bet there’s hundreds of amazing gaming ideas that simply get rejected for not being profitable enough
The thing is we are aeeing this delusion of BRANDNAME QUALITY in everything. Media in general banked on name power and saw significant losses in quality.
I noticed a mistake in the title.
It says "Triple A" but the video is about Skull & Bones.
Everyone knows Skull and Bones is AAAA🤑🤑
@@bigfatnutsallupinyojaw🤑🤑🤑
@grit9938
Indeed 🤣
But look it that way: it's been a long time since the last good AAA game came out.
@@pw6002 I mean, its not been that long since Baldur's Gate and Spiderman 2 has been released, but the last really ground breaking AAA game that came out was definitely Elden Ring
God of war as well, hasn’t been that long, we are all biased
Triple A 10 years before: Amazing quality, record breaking sales, constantly setting new standards
Triple A now: Cash grab, predatory monetization, MONETIZATION IN A SINGLEPLAYER GAME, lootboxes, forced online, buggy broken mess, shallow uninspired gameplay, cutting content to sell it back in dlc, "deluxe" editions that contain said cut content, overpriced... But it has pretty graphics! That's gotta be worth 60... No 70$ right!?
Here's what skull and bones did;
Made me realise black flag is still sitting in my Steam library untouched, also made me realise black flag needs an Ubisoft account despite buying it on Steam, so made me go pirate black flag so I can enjoy it in peace.
Well done Skull and Bones.
So you p.rated a pirate game lol. Inception level irony...
I got starfield and need to exit the game every five minutes to look for a mod to fix something. I feel stupid whenever I convince myself this time will be different. No wonder all of my favorite games are a decade or older. I miss when AAA actually meant something. Hard to look forward to any mainstream game anymore.
AAA does mean something. It means it's going to be shit.
stop being fleeced
Definition of a sucker
If all your favorite games are 10+ years old that just means you're a grumpy boomer. Bethesda games have always been buggy, boring garbage you have to fix through mods. If you just ignore EA, Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and most other AAA developer more amazing games have come out in the last decade than ever before.
just stop complaining about the necessity of mods to make the game playable.
if this is the first bethesda product you heard about in the last 10 years, then go on, you got every right to complain.
but anyone who knows bethesda games could've seen this comming from the very first moment they announced it.
if you still bought it, you knew what you're paying for.
it's like sitting down in a campfire and then complaining that it hurt, just to do it again with the next campfire you see.
That "Quadruple A" game will be down to 20$ by the summer, just watch.
Yeah but even then you may as well just get black flag on sale somewhere and play that instead.
I suspect it was a last ditch to boost preorders.
Summer? You're being very generous... 😂😂😂
2$ is too much for this game
@@jason2mate Why even bother to feed them money lol, just wait for them to release it for free in epic stores.
Seems a lot of companies follow the "if we make it, they will buy" marketing strategy... like they forget consumers are not obligated to buy into profit-making schemes & company agendas simply because that's what the company wants to sell. It's laughable to think that companies don't understand that it's the consumers who create demand, not the other way around... and pushing a product that doesn't meet the needs or satisfy the wants of the consumers is the fastest way to ruin their business
Issue is that often times the consumers do blindly buy the product, so these companies have no reason to change strategies.
This video was spot on. Big studios games are usually a bad bet now. Better of playing indie games.
If it's from Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, take two etc etc it's probably gonna be trash
Take two? The company that’s over rockstar, which haven’t made a bad game yet????
@@blizyon30fps86 take two the dev that makes the same microrransaction filled NBA games every single year.
Take two is just the publisher or GTA, rockstar is the Dev.
Its krazy how the only upside S&B has over Black Flag is the ammount of polygons/triangles, beyond resolution and texture size there is nothing across the entire game which beats Black Flag...
We dont play games just because they are pretty...
The art style is worse too. So them upping the polygons and other shit, doesn't mean much when the game still looks bad. Compare it or Suicide Squad to Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which has lower polygons and textures, but still looks way better. Art style is what matters the most, and a lot of games lack it cause they all push for "realism" which they obviously can't deliver on.
In terms of game mechanics we didn't get any major advancement in last 10 years. There's just shiny textures, ray tracing etc and boring worlds you can't interact with.
Unsustainable Greed is destroying society. Not even just gaming this is applying to everything.
"MAXIMIZE PROFIT MAXIMIZE PROFIT MAXIMIZE PROFIT SCREW EVERYTHING ELSE"
That strategy only works when there are consumers blindly buying the stuff
capitalism
About a year ago I got myself an XBox 360 and that is my main system these days. Even the rarest most sought after games are less than modern AAA prices and the vast majority are costing me between $3 and $10 each. The older generations represent a more fun and relaxed era. I'm taking a break from modern games. The bother of keeping up to date with my GPU or worrying digital stuff will be stolen from me due the DRM issues... The juice is not worth the squeeze any more.
Is the AAA rating from Standard & Poor's, or from Moody's?
*Ubisoft punching air after realising they graduated from AAA to AAAA just in time*
I remember buying Greedfall, a game made by a "two star" company. It felt like I was playing a basic Assassin's Creed-type game, but with a party and magic. It was fun and had work put into it, but I still have yet to finish it. The game had many systems to keep you engaged, but at a certain point, your party just gets extremely overpowered and you can two-shot most enemies.
Anyway, Greedfall came from a "two star" company, and yet it felt just like any three star game that's been released in the past decade. Ratings mean nothing.
there are no stars AA refer s to budget not quality.
Thanks - I've never heard of the game but checked it out and it looks good. As a bonus, Gold Edition is currently on sale on Xbox for £8.74 so can't argue with that price!
It was better than I thought but weirds me out for some reason. Lol i just can't play it.
The inevitable consequence of prioritizing characteristics over competence.
It's already pretty pathetic to release a game not even for sales or money but because you _have to_
It's the most Ubisoft exec thing of all time to say "Quadruple A". Like "Yea, you totally are the one who'll open that gate into such forefront"
Data vs passion, that's what it comes down to. The big publishers are too focused on algorithmic data to tell them what is going to be in their games instead of passionate developers making games they would themselves would love to play.
Data is useless if you ignore the whole picture.
1. CEOs seeing that live service games bring more money ignore that their highly skilled developers are not experienced to live service and so they hire new inexperienced juniors who replace the experienced seniors.
2. There isn't a market for 100 life service games. We only have so many gamers and those can't spent all their time on multiple, time demanding games whose intention is to lock them into gaming for an extended time.
3. CEOs are incentified to still do live service games because dumb shareholders only see the fast road to more money without understanding the game industry, so CEO profits the most by bullshitting them. Everything else would diminish the companies value in the stock market.
4. Every gamer hates CEO and company but he has enough money to never work again in his live.
So it's not the data, but that the companies are owned by idiots and a greedy person on top of management.
LOL, you're right. I saw the launch of Skull & Bollocks, and thought "I like playing pirates" so I loaded Black Flag back onto my PC. The marketing was effective at getting me back to the old game again.
There were only a few games I purchased before release in the last 5 years. Baldur's Gate 3 was the only one I was really happy about.
AAA is just a warning to wait and see; really not any different than an indie title, except indie's are guaranteed a certain amount of passion rather than budget.
Skull and Bones obviously suffered from "Too many cooks in the kitchen," when will investors realize that throwing more developers, more artists, or more designers at a problem isn't going to linearly boost profits, and can even hamper the quality, and therefore profit, of the final product?
going back towards a decade ago, i would say that approx 90% of games i owned would be classified as AAA. there were a lot of day one purchases too. over the past few years, that number has dropped to almost zero, and the only ones i own now were from the discount rack.
I used to buy multiple $100 (Australian) AAA games every year and was happy with them. Doubt I will be interested in any this year, GTA 6 next year will be the 1st day one purchase in a long time. Indie games are still dope though, love supporting them.
@@sketchy_gorilla4372australian here too. used to get cracking deals at target or big w on aaa new releases. some of the games were incredible. they now feel like the minimal effort possible, but profitable, is the aim of aaa developers.
I bought armoured core 6 and robocop recently, both are fun so far and not AAA and only cost me 25 euros each, only AAA games i buy now are fighters, sf6 and T8 are actually worth the money, avoid mk1 though
"Triple A video games have gone very far downhill over the past few years, or more so, the past 10 years."
No man, more like the past 16 years.
2007 is without a doubt peak gaming, it has been downhill ever since.
@@evancombs5159Nah, 2009 was the peak for sure.
This reminds me of the 1 Billion Rings of Power catastrophe just with worse CGI. 😆
I actually played Ori and the Blind forest this week and that game is so pretty to look at. Every screenshot I took was wallpaper quality. Looking forward to the sequel. All without needing 100 million dollars.
Poor baby can't afford AAA
The sequel is even better! It’s fantastic, enjoy it!
With unreal engine 5 democratizing realistic looking worlds, I think we’re going to witness an even harder shift towards indies making actual games
Y'all ever get so desensitized that each new entry to an existing IP, or an entirely new IP reveal, you immediately think "Bet that'll flop somehow"
11 years in development 🤦♂️
Indi Devs are the Future of Gaming, at least when it comes to Quality Games.
AI is the future of gaming.
Bethesda is the perfect example of a studio everyone expects to bring poor outdated unfinished work, and us, the consumers, just accept it. That's the main problem right there.
Fromsoftware is the only AAA studio I trust. They have won 2 game of the years in 2019 with Sekiro and in 2022 with Elden Ring. They are still relatively small but their games are like an oasis in a desert.
I gave up on AAA years ago. I haven't bought a single EA game since that disaster of a release that was 'Origin'; their own proprietary storefront. I refuse to use the Epic Games Store for promoting exclusivity, terrible business practices, and a general anti-consumer sentiment. I stopped buying anything Activision after the original Modern Warfare 2 and Kotick straight up confessing that he didn't give a rats @$$ what the customer cared about (not to mention that game single-handedly killing the private server model for multiplayer games). I stopped buying Blizzard with it was clear that they cared more for the morals of the Eastern Orient than the west (Particularly the Blitzcheung incident) but honestly I had given up on them the moment they were bought by Activision. I was never really into anything Bethesda and Ubisoft so they just kinda fell by the wayside.
Valve (and Steam by proxy) isn't perfect, but the missteps they've made have by far been less egregious than other large companies. Still, Mr. Newell is hardly the epitome of a healthy specimen these days and he's not as young as he used to be. I greatly fear what will happen to the platform when he is gone. I'm not a big fan of CDProjekt right now but I still use GoG as my go-to marketplace because the 'no DRM' policy outweighs their detriments in my eyes... at least for the moment.
I don't trust Microsoft at all. I know they've been making a number of 'positive steps' towards gaming in the eyes of gamers in recent years, but I'm still convinced they want to turn every Windows PC into their own proprietary hardware that they own- just like Apple has done with theirs. They want to make Steam an app that you can only get through their store so they get a cut of every sale. There's a reason Valve is pushing Linux so hard as an option.
I will still purchase Nintendo products because despite their litigation-happy stance and zealous protection of their IPs, they're still- for the most part- determined to put out a good, solid gaming experience with their games and I'm actually more on their side with their 'anti-ESports' position because I detest E-Sports and what it has done to gaming in general. Also they are as-of-yet still not entirely overcome with Western development philosophies.
The people over at Midnight's Edge just put out a video explaining how Disney was taken over by activist over the course of several years. I would put money down that the same thing has happened to modern games industry giants in likely the exact same way. They are lost. Independent studios are what we should be watching right now. It's long past time for new industry giants to rise, and the old ones to fall.
Do you know that AAA aren't just games made by EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Bethesda...
Since you gave up on AAA i'm sure you never played Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, God of War, Red Dead Redemption, Tears of the Kingdom, Armored Core 6, Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, Witcher 3, Dark Souls 3, Alan Wake 2, Final Fantasy 16, Sekiro, Resident Evil 4 remake, Dead Space remake, Death Stranding 2, Doom Eternal...
The majority of AAA games are good, every year there are AAA games who end up being some of the best games ever made, and these games last 3-4 times more than AAA games released before 2015
@@ni9274 1: Dark souls and Elden ring is made by the same company.
2: Baldurs gate 3 is a DND game so that is hit or miss depending on the person.
3: Alan Wake 2 is woke. Written by Sweet Baby Inc, whom I will not give a dollar to considering their blatant disdain for Gamers and their hobby. If you don't know, you're beyond help.
4: RE4 Remake is YET ANOTHER Remake in a sea of Remakes when they could've used that money to make something original. It's lazy, shameless and fucking BORING. RE4 was great.. MOVE ON. Make something different or make something better. This isn't rocket science!
5: Dead Space Remake is the same as RE4 Remake. A game we played 15 years ago, and the only thing that changed is better graphics, new lore, slightly changed areas, and a small rework to the combat mechanics that makes the game easier.. Whoop de fuckin do. Unoriginal, lazy and shameless.
6: Red Dead Redemption is made by a woke company and it's hard to trust Rockstar after their botched rereleases of the GTA trilogy and Read Dead Redemption 1.
7: Witcher 3 is overrated, he stated his opinion on CdProjectRed, so stating both Witcher AND Cyberpunk is pointless and shows you are not reading his comment.
8: Armored Core 6 is made by the same company as Dark souls and Elden Ring.
9: Death Stranding is a walking simulator, even Steam and its playerbase call it that, story is great, but everything else is either tedious or mediocre.
10: Doom Eternal is great, got me on that one.
11: FF16 is a DMC5 clone, but with Final Fantasy elements, nothing original about its combat, only thing good was the music and story, because Yoshi-P as director=great story.
12: Sekiro is ALSO made by the same company as Dark souls and Elden Ring.
13: God of War is now a walking simulator and BARELY an action game, oh sorry, "RPG". With cutscenes showing big man sad and painfully slow and generic combat.. The story is good, if you're willing to stomach the slow combat, but the old games had great story AND combat, so no excuse there. And also written by Sweet Baby Inc. Miss me with that garbage.
14: Tears of the Kingdom. Did you not read his comment? He stated his opinion on Nintendo. Do you read? lmao.
14 cases. That's the best you could come up with? Not to mention, aren't you being a hypocrite? lmao. You stated 4 games from the same company, yet you're stating to this man, "Do you know that AAA aren't just games made by EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Bethesda..."
Bruh..
I could go on, but you're the type of person who is so blind to the things around you, that you unironically mention 3 games from 2023 and say we eating, when you can go on Steam or any review site, and see about 5 new shitty live service releases or terrible ports. Triple A is lazy and boring. Try again sheeple.
@@ni9274 I haven't actually played any of those games except Tears of the Kingdom- and I recall making an exception for Nintendo in my original post, though to be honest, Tears did not impress me. It was FAR too close to a Breath derivative and I have a number of issues with the story. I could have explained further details as to why I have issues with Capcom and 2K, but my comment was long enough as it was and it would just be redundant. As for Fromsoft... their games have never particularly appealed to me, though I have no issues with them as a company as of yet. I just don't care for the genre, though I might pick up AC6 someday. I haven't decided yet.
I heard Alan Wake 2 was mid at best, but I never played the first one anyway. Doom: Eternal IS Bethesda, and while I did enjoy the Doom 2016 reboot and Eternal is- by all accounts- a good game, I'm also done having to sign up a new account for every single new company and Bethesda has its own issues so I have not played Etenal. The indie-studios, at least, don't make me do that yet. God of War is a playstation exclusive and I don't have a PS5. I think the last Rockstar game I played was the original Max Payne but that dev studio has always been a bit too edgy for my tastes. The last Final Fantasy I played to completion was 7 (not the remake), Cyberpunk's disasterous launch turned me off to it and by the time it got fixed the hype had died down and I didn't feel the need to come back to it, even if it's allegedly a much better game by now. I never got into the Witcher series. As for Death Stranding 2... I don't even remember what the first game was. As for Balder's Gate 3, well... I never played the first two, and cRPGs were never really to my liking, so for all that game may be lauded, it didn't draw me in, though I WILL commend Larian Studios for their stance on putting out a good, complete game without littering it with a microtransaction store.
Now, let me clarify something... I have NOT stated that I think all AAA games are absolute garbage. My issues for most AAA titles come predominantly from the studios (and moreso from the publishers), not the games themselves. Their pushing of anti-consumer business practices littered with tracking and selling marketing research while jacking up the prices AND littering their software with a plethora of stupid microtransactions that more and more are starting to effect actual gameplay (and don't even get me started on lootboxes) while stacking up DRM to the point of performance issues (and in Capcom's case, going to their BACKLONG and re-installing DRM to screw with people enjoying single-player experiences in their own way) and all the whie gaslighting the playerbase into believing that this is always how it's been and we just have to deal with it while prices go up because they can't budget for crap (as evidenced by the subject of this video) and devs get shafted time and time again while CEO salaries go up, up, up.... yes... for the MOST part (emphasis on MOST), I'm done with AAA gaming. That was a long sentence. I'm aware.
Though to be fair this isn't to say that there haven't been a number of AAA releases that have been absolute garbage as of late. Case in point: the two mentioned in this video.
When I buy a game I want two things: 1. The game as advertised. 2. No bull$#!7.
Large gaming studios seem to come with a WHOLE lot of the latter, and increasingly, you don't even get the former... except in an extremely limited scope according to how THEY want you to have it without any evidence that they have an end of life plan so that you can keep what you buy when the servers eventually go down (just look at what happened to 'The Crew' recently and compare that to Mega Man X DIVE, which I bought the offline SIMPLY because it was a business practice that I want to encourage even never having played the online version).
Again, a AAA game may be good, but most of the studios are in one way or another completely broken, and I am choosing to voice my displeasure by not purchasing those games. It's not like I don't have other options. You just have to do a little more digging.
I do not expect everyone to understand this reasoning, though I do wish more people would, because it's only going to get worse for the consumer from this point forward so long as we all just keep eating what we're fed and asking for more.
@@LaZd-What is it with you coming with that cocky attitude and "debunking" someone's valid points with nothing more than your personal opinions and preferences? Are you for real?! Witcher 3 being overrated - your opinion. Reality would beg to differ. GoW being a walking Sim - LMAO the stupidest bull💩 argument I've heard in a while. And what exactly is even your point with Dark Souls, Sekiro and Elden Ring coming from the same developer? Does this make any of their games less valid or significant on the AAA market? Does it somehow deminish their status and popularity among gamers? WTF?!
And about the RE4 & Dead Space remakes - again, nothing but your own subjective, condescending and dismissive POV. When a remake is done right and in respect of the original, giving new audiences the possibility to experience those great gems of the past with modern visualization - it's a noble work by the devs and publishers fully deserving of their success. Giving new life to old titles that otherwise would've fallen victim to the rot and decay of time is always welcome and definitely preferable to "original" ideas such as Starfield.
The only valid point you've made is about Alan Woke. Can't argue about that. Sweet Baby Inc deserves to go extinct for ruining countless games with their political agenda. However, the rest of your comment is gibberish, mate.
@@LaZd- Death Stranding is like Getting Over it, the tediousness IS the point. Hard not to be lazy when innovative ideas get called boring or unintuitive. The fact the most players think walking simulators are boring proves that they are not open to innovations, despite asking for it. No wonder companies put out remakes after remakes. The real sheeple are the ones not realizing they make the game industry this way.
Gamers ask for good games, yet their definitions of "good" not only contradict each other, but also change on a dime. People are playing retro games they considered boring back then, games that despite patches are still more buggy than modern games on release, to the point of community mods being mandatory.
Gamers ask for originality, yet there hasn't been a single original idea in the last century. Everything is a copy of something. Did you have fun in Undertale? Then you must have forgotten about Mother 2. What game you think is original depends entirely on your knowledge and memory. No wonder companies seek to shorten attention span. It's the only way to give you want you ask for.
Gamers want auteur games that break the mold, but completely ignores studio that make game they want to make. You likely no clue about the many parody games that use RPGMaker engine to creatively comedic effects. So many good titles, utterly unknown to the Western sphere. Can you blame AAA studios for looking at the underrated and unprofitable creative indie titles and think they don't want to make games like those?
Games used to be niche, played only by a narrow like-minded population. Games were fun because they catered to specific audiences. They didn't need to be creative, original, complex, deep or technically impressive. The original Pokemon did well by copying SMT. But as with any community, the gaming community grew more toxic as it becomes mainstream, and the game development landscape mirrors that. The mainstream corrupts, period. The AAA phenomenon is merely a byproduct. Screaming at AAA studios does jack shit.
Greedy studios trying to leverage short attention span
Fax 📠
I feel like the biggest unmentioned factor is that it seems like the average AAA budget has gone up significantly over the past few decades, as well. Back in the 'golden age' of video gaming, most successful games were being developed on budgets that would now be typical for an indie title. It seems like there's a 'sweet spot' for a game's budget, in terms of its ability to appeal to a specific audience strongly enough to become a massive success, while also being limited enough in scope to retain the ability to bring in creativity and reduce shareholder stakes to manageable levels.