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The only AAA devs that I play their games are Rockstar, CAPCOM and Remedy but honestly other than that I've basically lost all interest in AAA games considering of their lack of creativity leading to them to blend together. At least with Rockstar, CAPCOM and Remedy try to find ways to innovate and overall, just make games that are fun and memorable but since other AAA companies don't seem to be taking any risks anytime soon, we'll always have Indie devs consistently providing certified bangers like Who's Lila, Trepang2 and My Friend Pedro.

I've never been into AAA games. I did buy Control a few years ago when it was on sale and largely enjoyed it (though the combat was boring), and I bought a few Fromsoft games if those count, but otherwise indie games have appealed to me more the whole time I've been into PC gaming. I always laugh at these PC builder bros who tell you what GPU you absolutely need or else your games will look *terrible*. Even if I wanted to play AAA games, I could use DLSS and/or FSR and probably be fine on medium settings (and if not, well then there's always low settings, and if that's not enough, there's always 720p...). Meanwhile the games I actually do play look and run great at 4K on my GPU that is supposedly barely a 1080p card lol.

i played survival hunter in legion, and mained it. I loved the spinning plates style, Way of the moknathal was super satisfying to play with when i could keep uptime.

Meh. It doesn't have to be one or another. I'm playing Hellblade 2 and liking it a lot and I will play the hell of out Assassin's Creed Shadows (since I loved AC Odyssey) and Destiny 2: Final Shape, but I also just finished Sonar Shock and will be playing Nine Sols after HB2 and by wishlist is filled with 20 indie games just for the remained of this year alone.

Just found it through a recommendation in a newsletter but I already love your channel!

I'm still gonna play god of war ragnarok though

More accurate title would be "It is time to stop playing AAA games from companies like Activision". Because I am absolutely going to keep playing actually good AAA games. For example this year, why should I not play amazing looking Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, or STALKER 2, or Black Myth Wukong, or Indiana Jones or Avowed? Indie games can be nice, but they offer different kind of experience.

Mate, look, i`m 39 and playing games since i was 6. I can understand exhaustion with constant pressure on oneself, to even look at another iteration of game that`s functionality is closed in investment`s loop. Devs sqeezed harder and harder every year to selling the same shit without risks. That`s truism. I mean, we don`t need to participate, just chill out, and play what we want. By today`s standard back catalog for people without 12-14h of free time is endless. I had this exercise last year, start using "discovery queue" at Steam and after 13000 of ignored titles, i still have 867 games on wishlist. New titles added from time to time. I don`t even need media coverage for discoverability anymore (mainy because indie coverage is so small portion of their content, due to the corporate standards) Be a "gamer" take a drink and raise a toast when every once in a while, some megacorp overestimated so much that the investment fund will shut everything down and shifts business to buying copper or trading water.

I wouldn't mind more Stellar Blade clones but on Steam.

This is the same issue as mom and pop burger joint vs McDonalds. Most of the population will prefer the mega chain. Most gamers like AAA titles.

Vote with your wallet. My support is going to THE FINALS. Indie spirit, AAA experience.

I’m not going to make this personal, but the decision to change survival from ranged into a melee spec was probably the single worst class design decision I can think of. Ranged survival was one of the most popular ranged dps specs in the game in WoD, and it became by far the least popular dps spec in the game after it went melee, and has remained so to this day. As far as fantasy is concerned, melee survival has a very weak fantasy. Is it a trapper? Is it a primal spear user? Is it an explosive expert? Is it a beast master? It’s a mess. BM to me was the clear choice to make a hunter melee spec for, and fits the fantasy of Rexxar MUCH MUCH MUCH better, which is the character always used as the poster child for melee hunters.

I don't completely agree with you. There are many AAA titles that come out in top condition but they are usually ignored cause majority are glued to the usual live service games (COD, Battlefield etc). I think you should obviously support indie developers but to say that there aren't any good AAA games is just simply untrue. We welcome something new but if you can improve on what we have then that will work too. Just stop supporting predatory companies, simple as that.

right now indie gaming is on the same phase AAA games were 20~30 years ago

If you want something fresh, play the game called Fursan al-Aqsa, the true anti-COD, the most based game of all times!

Interesting to hear that only 5% of games make back their development budget (I assume you're including marketing, too). It seems like the same model obtains in the publishing industry as well, where only 2% of the books are blockbusters and 95% sell diddly. The difference seems to be that in the publishing industry, the blockbusters fund the publication of the other 95% - it's sort of understood that most books will flop - whereas in the game industry, all the publishers chase the blockbusters and seem to have little tolerance to back the little, experimental projects.

COME PLAY SQUAD... AND BETTE YET, SQUAD 44!!!!!

Amen, brother.

We still get some amazing triple A games (ex: GoW & Doom), but overall, indies in double A is where the best of gaming is now. Look at Helldivers, Hades, Deep Rock Galactic, & Cocoon

Dude put Elden Ring in the clips 😂 People are allowed to buy what they want and sales numbers don’t lie. Just because you personally can’t sell a ton of units doesn’t mean that somehow you’re unfairly overlooked.

I don't get the appeal in any of their recent actions.. ubisoft/ea/blizzard a bunch of very bad decisions and they think it's good for everyone when it's only profiting their bosses and I guess whatever they promised them before layoff xD I'm not the one buying all the CoD's and making complaints/excuses but whoever is, they're probably fueling the next releases to be the exact same thing.. voting with wallet is a real thing. sometimes there will never be a new sequel but they really can't get their head out of their ass with CoD thinking it's what all gamers want lol. but oh well everyone's gonna watch streamers play BO6 and it'll be like nothing bad ever happened before advanced warfare/infinite warfare remakes come out.

Just wanna voice my love for survival becoming melee. I didn't miss the old version and hunter specs mostly felt "meh" before the change. If anything, I'm just gutted it didn't get a 2 1handed scaling, because that's the true melee hunter/ranger when I imagine them

Hades 2, No Rest for the Wicked, etc all just released recently. All polished and incredibly refreshing. We’re in the golden age of indie games, so like me, if you’ve been bored and burnt out of triple A, big budget, slog-fests, indies are where it’s at!

We're living the GREAT DEPRESSION of AAA games and the GOLDEN AGE of indie games and retrogaming. You known what? Fair enough.

Nintendo is the one large company that continues to innovate and focus on amazing gameplay and they don't break the bank doing it either. The biggest problem is RUclipsrs like this guy that seem to be completely oblivious of anything outside of the PC, PS5, X Box Series ecosystem.

I stopped playing games in general. I just been going back to the old games. Indies are just copying off of old games with 0 innovations so they aren't getting any of my money. I just use an emulator.

Maybe don’t ignore them completely. Just buy their cheaper games like the older FF games, Rayman and such. The ones that let them know they don’t need to have high end graphics to make a good game

stop playing western AAA games, their teams are washed up from talent perspective. their creative leads are creatively bankrupt while their projects are funded by ESG or DEI pandering. I'm genuinelly excited to play elden ring DLC, wukong, SMT V and so much eastern AAA games heck even rebirth took me over 100 hours, stellar blade was another banger made in the east. Its not all doom and gloom, unless you focus on it.

Turning Survival into melee could have been fine if it wasn't done so SHITTILY and half-assed. One of the most unfun specs in the whole god damn game : /

haha, welcome to the point were most of us arrived 7 years ago.

Outside of fighting games, I've put more time into indie/smaller titles than any modern AAA games in the last couple of years.

I've noticed that discoverability is the biggest issue. There are a lot of games out there that I would enjoy, probably could even be my favorite game of all time but I will never even hear about it because it never reaches my screen. Meanwhile I know of all new assassins creed releases despite not having played them for 15 years now. There's also so much releasing and it's extremely hard from an initial visual view to know if the game will be good. The internet is also filled with a lot of niche audiences praising games or casual gamers that don't have a advanced palette yet that praise sub-par games. Meaning professional reviewers, footage and online comments aren't reliable to find what you like either. The industry used to be closed and small enough that I had a firm grasp of whatever released and to kinda know the quality, type of game to decide what was worth my time. Nowadays I straight up miss masterpieces all the time because it's impossible for me to monitor everything, and even if I did it's almost impossible to distinguish good games from bad games just by looking at it.

What took you so long?

Already WAAAY ahead of you.

It's been time so many years ago. Long ahead of you mate. Though, it's honestly never too late. Gaming is a buyer's market. There are legit more good games then you have a lifetime to play them. You do not need to suffer inferior games. Granted, you might have to do go out of your way to find them or even go back to the past, but they do exist.

why should they care about art? art doesnt generate money to the execs

Unless it’s Nintendo, I just don’t play AAA anymore. I’ve been having more fun with Slay the Spire on mobile than I have with most modern AAA games, even after I have 1000 hours of it on Steam.

buhbuhbuh theres a teaser trailer

Sorry you're getting so many negative comments over Survival Hunter ... it is currently one of my favorite specs in the game & I raid Mythic as one currently. It is a ton of fun! I am so grateful for the changes you made back in Legion for the spec. I know many people are still not happy with the ranged Survival being gone but, Legion Survival brought a whole new, unique gameplay that breathed a lot of life into Hunter. Even today, Beast Mastery is extremely boring to me and I have no interest in Marksmanship. There are not many of us playing the spec but, the people who do are completely dedicated to it and play it at very high levels. And it is our little best kept secret that no one touches. So thank you for being a part of that!

Hey Sir, i just read an articel, that said u are the guy i have to tank for the awesome meele Hunter 😁 Great Job, Sir! I never had more fun in wow. I played a meme meele Hunter in TBC but u gave the Real Power to me 😁 Thank u Sir!

I basically stopped playing hunter after mop and played feral druid and sub rogue up until BFA where I mained brewmaster and some bear. In the next expac I'm playing most of the tank specs and some mix of melee/range on the classes with tank specs. Monk will be my main in TWW and will remain my favorite

People buy games they like or at least think they will, and taking risks is part of a hobby like gaming. You could personally hate a game that is functionally very good or even well received by others. The answer is always buy what you like and can afford, dont obsess over the things you do like or cant buy if you can and learn from the things you do buy what to avoid later. Dont use buzz terms like AAA to decide because thouse terms usually mean nearly nothing. It just means a high budget and lots of high budget stuff ends up garbage and always has. Companies dont owe every potential consumer a product they will like. If you dont like something dont play it. If enough people agree it will fail and new games like it will be discouraged. If people dont agree then it will make money and continue inspite if your personal taste.

No thank you. I have no interest in playing games like Hollow Knight. Seeing as the majority of indie devs are not making the type of games that I like I will stick to AA-AAA games.

Ironic that of the two examples you give of "good triple-A games" (Baldur's Gate 3 and Ghost of Tsushima) one of them isn't even triple-A. Larian (the developers of BG3) is an entirely independent and self-funded studio with no ties to any investors or publishers. That is why BG3 is so good.

Think I'm going to go back and play Diablo 3 :) Crusader was one of two characters I ever got to a decent level.

Much like the movies industry, nowadays is so hard to get a really good piece... The higher the stakes, the "safer" studios tend to put their bets... This is the main reason I don't like the use of the word 'industry' for enterprises where art is integral to a great extent, "games fabricator" sounds as fun as one would expect... XD