Triple A Gaming Is A Complete Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- In today's video, we look at the Triple-A Gaming Problem.
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any Triple A games in here?
I'm so busy playing old games, I forget about any of these new releases.
I'm playing more Dreamcast and PS3 than my seriesX or PS5...
Don’t forget there’s indie games people are also playing that as well.
I'm playing ps3 games, started this year, totally missed out on the era for the most part. I can go buy physical copies for like 5 bucks a game. I miss the linear play instead of the open world of every game now.
Im playing more Ps4 games because 155 of them have the free 4k/60 fps patch for Ps5 .
Replaying Mass Effect and Witcher 3 at 4k/60 with fast ssd load times is pure joy .
AAA = Garbage. Games companies have become too top heavy and are toppling over now.
wrong.
I liked Alan Wake 2 , BDG 3, Horizon Forbidden West, Jedi Survivor and on and on ...
Stellar Blade was made on only a budget of $50 million. That allowed them to profit already. It’s possible to have gorgeous games at a reasonable budget.
*cough*
@@jameyspielt get life
Math checks out. Aside from taxes and different currencies and all that jazz, 50 mil divided by $70 is just over 714,000 copies sold, and it's sold a million.
I like most of Spider-Man 2, but even I think it's a little ridiculous that it cost more money to make than Spider-Man No Way Home.
It´s insane that a budget of 50 million is considered small...
@@dapperfan44and I’m doubtful Yuri Lowenthal and them got Tom Holland type of cash for acting in the game
We need to get back to a passion over profit mindset.
Hence Indie games. Not saying they're all great, but any talent from the 'aaa' studios left decade ago to ...
Exactly!
industry has gone too far for that... indie as savior? Microsoft or someone else will just buy them when they show talent...and destroy.... new kids will grow up on mobile trash game, never gonna know what gaming was "back in days" only Nostalgia will remain!
*Shadow of the Erd tree enters chat.......... why not have both?
40 something gamer and apart from the 80's 90's classics the only game that gave me that child hood feeling was beyond good and evil it was silly but it had my heart...
give me a journey over sparkles and ray tracing
Yeah, I miss the splinter cell linear games. I don't need all the open world.
You're absolutely right, Lady D. Triple A games have been a mess for a while.
no.
I can imagine indie devs or AAA game haters laughing at the state of AAA games.
Its crashing cause DEI = Didn't Earn It
Not exclusively, but certainly one of many factors
You're a 🌽🏀
DEI and all the other reason she mentioned.. but yes sega with rainbow logo is getting old.... ugggg
Not just that, but certainly a major factor.
Bingo. That is a huge factor with companies like Sweet Baby Inc.
Wouldn't it be the ultimate flex for a game studio to be all like "We sell our games completed, no need for DLC!"?
Platinum Games: Hideki Kamiya hates the idea of DLC. Though I’d definitely be wary of that studio now that Kamiya-San has decided to part ways with the studio.
CDPR tried that, "we leave greed to others", how well have that turned out?
Looks like AAA games development is in the process of eating itself. The scope and technical creep have created budget and schedule creep and it seems unsustainable. I'll stick to indies.
In truth since the 1980s the game industry has never REALLY been in trouble. That is to say, every time it’s boxed into a corner... it just evolves and pivots.
Want to know when AAA gaming was REALLY in trouble? Xbox 360/PS3 era. Nothing but RTS, FPS games. Drab, depressing, sepia toned garbage. Unit spawn “strategy” games. Zombie and WWII overload.
Then guess what? Destiny. Overwatch. XCOM REDEFINED what turn-based, strategy, and FPS games could be. The entire industry pivoted. Everyone who grew up with SNES and hated all the FPS and RTS games were suddenly able to play brand new sprite based art like the SNES.
Is the industry in trouble? Not really. Just ready for the next evolution. It happens all the time. No big deal.
360/ps3 was the best era
Cool story, bro.
Finally, a positive outlook
It’s whenever we purchase these games that help keep the studios going
Yeah, so easy fix: stop buying from people that hate you. Spend it on better pc, other cool stuff avg gamer has at least a few hundred in backlog... Try actually finish a few of those, nothing juch to collect in current year anyway. 😎
One thing positive about it: Freely watching Triple A cutscenes, compiled as a whole cinematic flick on RUclips. GodOf War Ragnarok and Assassin's Creed (1-3)were very cool to watch......(but im not going to slave away any more than I already do, for FOMO on the latest game lol. Next thing you know, I'll be buying Jordan's, because the next man has em'. Then what would I look like?.....)
I haven't bought any new games in years. I used to buy maybe 5 or 6 per year but nothing interests me now and all the DLC/Season Pass/Multiple editions/In game currency stuff just makes me feel like i'm being scammed. Plus games are always broken on release and require massive patches to become playable. Corporate greed is ruining the industry.
Your comment got me thinking about my game spending as well. Last full priced new game I bought was street fighter 6 one year ago. Before that it was Elden Ring a year and a half before. It's been indies and dirt cheap sale games in between. back in ps3 I was buying at least one new full priced game a month. at least. as well as lower budget games at full price.
@@GreenTygur Yeah me too. I sometimes buy older games that are on sale but i haven't bought a new game on release for a long time. It's just not worth it anymore. Shame it's come to this. I just feel like we're being ripped off these days.
I collecting for Xbox original,360,One , Switch and 3DS . Series X is lame apart from the speed and power .
Thats why I stick to emulators (all of my favorite games &games that I missed from 1986-2015 ie N3ds). I will never be bored again. Watching people go ham over triple A games, reminds me of people who develope FOMO over Taylor Swift......insane. I got no problem with your preference, but as soon as you make it seem like im missing out, and that I can't be content, you've lost the plot in my eyes. Makes me wanna tell em' to go away, and go max out their credit card, on in app purchases lol
Steam Deck and an Anbernic Handheld device is pretty much all I need!
@@tacotoneExactly. You know what's up \m/-_-\m/
When you buy AAA games you get triple AAA-nal
They seem to make video games like slot machines, focusing on ways to make them addictive, not fun.
on the voice of diversity ... my recent fave game days gone ..... why is there only one black character .... yes no inclusion but then there are NO zombies of colour
this "maybe it's the worry about political correctness" while championing hades, celeste, undertale, etc. feels very funny to me
definitely what feels more on the money is what you mentioned regarding exploiting liveservice features, trendtrailing and playing too safe with actual content
Look at the people who developed those games, no diversity hires in there.
I can't remember the last triple-a title I picked up. My Steam library is filled with indie gems.
This is why I love FromSoft. They know their audience and absolutely deliver on their objective to them and don't take the absolute mick price to content wise.
And that is why I fear for their success. Sooner or later the wokies are going to target them for making the woke trash games look like the trash they are. It happened to Stellar Blade and is now happening to Black myth Wukong.
Only western gaming is crashing, Eastern games will always thrive. Even Square is smart enough to get rid of western pandering and they see it has cost them millions.
What do you smoke? A ton of SE stuff is woke.
Im also pretty sure Square Enix keeps pushing crypto in its company goals and it has not caught on
Game ideas are better than graphics now. I'd rather play something fresh rather than something recycled.
Now? I can only guess you're new to gaming.... 🤔
A portion of PS5 players simply just want COD, their sports game, Spider Man, MAYBE God of War and definitely GTA. I believe this is a good percentage of (but not all) PS5 owners, and their purchasing choices won’t be swayed as anything they aren’t already familiar with is deemed “lame” or seems weird to them. I only say this due to my real-life interactions with many PS5 owners in the real world.
It’s a little different in your niche gaming hub on the internet where people generally play a variety of things.
I am saying this because I think AAA developers are misjudging the market (once again). They are assuming there is a potential audience of a few extra million that isn’t really there.
I hate to say it but I think developers need to utilize their resources better so they can spend less and still offer interesting and attractive games.
Sweet baby ink touches everything..
I said a crash is coming a year ago. I made the comment on news wave. It's coming true. All the channels are scared to say it
What else are they are going to report on? 😉
Mortal Kombat has become a shitty modern AAA game. Which breaks my heart. I have loved that series for years, but it was released unfinished and has really diminished my trust in Netherealm Studios.
2:59 IMO this is one of the biggest problems with the AAA industry. In the process of collaboration, one of the most useful tools a person has is, somewhat counter-intuively, *argument*. Arguing over creative decisions can be hugely constructive, especially in small teams. This becomes much harder when your team is in the hundreds of people, and basically impossible in the thousands. At that point, DEI makes no difference toward whether diverse voices are heard or not.
I heard some companies measure success not on how much a return on investment a game makes but on if that return on investment beats out investing in the stock market over the time frame the game is developed.
not this again.
If there ever was a time when "think of the children" was valid, it's mega corporations hiring dubious psychologists to create things like worse and worse FOMO addiction. I was lucky as a kid that my mother understood video games since the NES days. I was telling her how things like battle passes work today, and if you buy the pass, and your child doesn't participate every single day on some of them, they're losing value on the purchase.
Blackrock LOVES every game, its hard for them to pick GOTY, they are in ESG heaven
I'm fed up with SBI in our games tbh, im sticking to older games at the moment
Wokeness/Laziness and only caring about graphics and every game being like a movie. Those are the issues.
16:33, they the devs get 6 months to change formerly FIFA now EA 24 every year, and there are bugs going back many, many years even after they have changed the engine to Frostbite, it's still the same buggy AI as before. You are essentially just paying for the kits and transfer updates, they could just make one really good base game and then update it every year via a DLC model or Season Pass, but EA being EA they are greedy and that's why it's been this way since the very beginning from the Megadrive days.
I would be somewhat surprised if there was a true next gen XBox. I see that brand becoming more of a "service", possibly with some kind of low cost console that focuses on cloud gaming but who's functionality could also be reproduced on PCs, and mobile devices.
Seeing as it went full in D3I, I doubt anyone will bother with any new version of Xbox. Even the biggest pony can't deny anymore that ps5 is full of 1 sided sen-s0rship ... And even minecrafted a few franchises before pretty much being 'naughty listed' by pretty much all smaller japanese studios after that.
I’ve lived through the entire history of gaming consoles. My gaming collection is quite massive. So many classics and memories.
I get more excited for a re-release or remaster than any AAA game.
I bought a new PC a couple of years ago and was excited to play a couple of new titles from favorite franchises. Once again I use a fully loaded gaming PC for mostly retro gaming.
Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Microsoft, can all suck it!
I don’t want your stupid game passes, your slow launchers, or to pay ridiculous amounts of money for your games that are not even fun.
I still enjoy playing games like Atari Adventure. A block slaying dragons and finding keys to open castles.
I have zero interest in GTA, COD, Minecraft, Sims, Assassins Creed, or any of these crap franchises.
Entertainment sucks now (not just gaming) because the megacorporation that owns half of the world decided it should be used for social conditioning and not fun. That's the one and only reason, everything else is just noise.
Triple A games have turned Crazy Taxi into Taxi Sim
What’s definitely not a winning formula is blowing your budget on graphical fidelity and/or good gameplay, and then have an insufferable MC with a sh!tty story.
Very well put together video with great and concise points! You nailed EVERY issue in modern gaming to the T! Subscribed and Liked!!!!
"Gigantic, and boring".
Leave my weener out of this discussion.
Wokeness killed the video game star
For the longest time I was playing my mega Drive because I wasn’t really interested in modern gaming as much but then I got a PS4 last year to see if I could adapt to modern gaming or rather AAA gaming I tried God of war and I just couldn’t understand the story. It was boring to me. I just couldn’t get into it. It was the same with Gran Turismo sport. It’s just a shame that I never got to try the remake of shadow of the colossus by this point my mind was made up in choosing the Nintendo switch as I realised that AAA gaming just wasn’t for me and that I wanted basically what I was already playing but with quality of life features for modern audiences more importantly I wanted my games to be fun and the big end scratches that it for me anyway to cut long story short there’s a reason why I chose Nintendo over both Microsoft and Sony because of all of what’s going on Nintendo realised the long time ago that the diminishing returns of graphically advanced games along with the high development costs simply wasn’t worth it and Nintendo for saw this Malays with AAA gaming 20 years earlier but my question is everyone knows the poor state of the gaming industry but yet we continue to buy these games. The only way these companies are gonna listen is to stop buying their games and vote with our wallets. Anyway, great video as always, lady D, and I love how you tie to your videos as you know exactly how to hook your audience in already and please keep going with this new direction as I think it’s great because these things need to be said.
Instead of focusing on what gamers want they focus on what shareholders want.
Remember when we used to have system link? Split screen campaigns? Cheat codes? Custom Level Editors? Maps and hints included in the Manual?
Corpo’s decided these weren’t lucrative features and cut back to maximize revenue.
I've already gone back to Retro gaming 👍🏽🥃
Girth > Length 😂😂😂
well at least we still have The Evercade, cheers all :)
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Lately I been playing ps2 ps3 ps4 games cause ps5 nothing but remakes remasters.It's a joke what gaming has become
retrogaming is definitely also having an effect on sales of modern games. Then again, if modern games were actually still good, we'd be too busy playing the new games to go back to the old ones.
But I do feel I must raise a counterpoint to your remark that modern games are expensive: Nintendo 64 games back in the day would cost $70-80 whereas PS1 games would cost $40-$50. Considering inflation since the 90's, $70 at launch now is NOT that expensive.
That being said, I'm not spending that much on a game unless it's one I'm truly hyped for. (such as Paper Mario Thousand Year Door). I just wait for sales or until I can get it used for cheap. Or, you know, not play it. I'm also going full in on retrogaming once I'm done buying PS4 and Switch games. This is the last gen I'm investing in. They can keep their all-digital future, because I want to own my games. There are more than enough good old games I haven't played to keep me entertained for the rest of my life.
completely spot on LD!!
the future seems very dark--this stuff isn't going away, isn't going to be fixed. on the contrary, the current model will be doubled down.
it will become increasingly clear to both corporation and consumer that the past of our cherished medium is a threat to its future. i expect a full-scale war on R*MS that makes the current situation look childish. humans have limited gaming hours and they must be monetized.
most of us play these silly things as a brief escape from reality but "photorealism" (and from that, unsustainable economics and all the problems you've outlined here) is pursued without end--and who could've predicted--yet another factor to make every game feel "the same."
Don't think that just because it's an indie game that it will necessarrily look like it belongs on an Atari 2600. There are many indie games that are decent looking and many that are frankly beautiful
gaming companies' staff who politicize every little thing and lash out at gamers for their products being critiqued are also a contributing factor for AAA failures [ and any entertainment in general ] along with access media and game journos. although not a game, "furiosa" is a perfect example. good movie but was mislabeled girl boss and after all the many previous girl boss shows people just got assumed this will be another so no one showed up. same with many titles in the gaming sphere.
The cost of living skyrocketing makes me want to punch a hole in the wall. Shouldn’t that make you angry too? I know it does to me because some places in the world living is unaffordable! It angers me to no end and makes you question who’s setting these precedences. I always thought living is expensive (not everywhere thankfully) because f**k you! I can imagine the population of smaller or more affordable areas rising because of it.
Another thing I want to ask, if video games are able to get away with a $50K or less budget, why can’t indie animation do the same?😢
I remember some 20 years ago when the industry bragged about competing with Hollywood as if it was a good thing, comparing yourself with an industry that's notorious for overspending and unclear accounting practices that led to coining the term "hollywood accounting" was a sign of the times to come. Nowadays failing in a single game can mean closure for a studio.
Triple A gaming is like that Poncey Mr Plow commercial with the snowglobe
People has fu cked the industry while buy preorders to get unfinished games with DLC to finish it at the sale.time that Buy high prices hardware that can't Even run PS3 games with out dlss THE ONLY WAY I THINK CAN SAVE US IS JUST BUY INDIE GAMES AND RUN IT IN OLD AND CHEAP HARDWARE.
So many big budgets are thrown around with nothing to show for it.
It's mainly indie and older games for me aside from a few AAA titles that catch my interest (mainly FF7, Resident Evil, and most fighting games). My Steam Deck has been getting major mileage with indie titles alone.
That's why i have not even bother updating my PC, its not worth it, im just fine with playing classics and got my switch when im off home.
I would say that I agree, except in the case of id Software and From Software. (give or take a studio or three) I mostly play retro games, indie games, and have taken to repairing old arcade PCBs now for game entertainment. :)
Let it burn 🔥 Time for gaming to become niche again and games to focus on gameplay over graphics, cutscenes, patches and micro transactions
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I agree, I can't vibe with the new AAA so much to the point where I won't even get a new system, it all looks and feels "samey". Give me Classic Games, NSO has a ton to offer now and is worth it!
Girth is more important than length anyway 🤣🤣 Just spat my cornflakes out, thanks!
Yeah but m'graphics and FPS!
I've been buying games at $20 and under since 2016 now I rarely buy games at full price now and I've never bought a single game at $70 or higher at launch. The only games I buy at full price are indie games or lower budget games with lower price tags. And F pre order and F always online games and F sports games. They make companies want to make billions every time they release a new game without putting in effort.
herer is a question no one asks
when does anyone have the time to play the high volume of games?
ultimately so many games being released makes the point there is not enough time and its really delusional if you think you have a future without flopping cause ultimately games are games they are not life
There are a handful of AAA titles I wanted to play, but nothing has made me so intrigued to purchase the current gen hardware and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything by not playing them. Although one day maybe I’ll play Tekken 8. It actually wasn’t a let down. Tons of content on top of improved fighting mechanics.
meanwhile Shadow of the Erd tree is a fantastic AAA expansion.
There are many creative indie games, but you only know about the good ones.
There are thousands of unique indie games that just don't sell well.
If you want to make creative games, you can't really make them triple A with massive budgets.
You have to make lots of smaller games & hope that a few of them are hits.
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Also remakes after remakes and more remakes...What's next DD1 remake?
Still wish Lady Decade would play Stellar Blade. So fun.
3:29, i ran STRAIGHT to the comments!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀
The last game i bought was street fighter 6 and i hate just about everything about it and i paid 100usd for it i even tried to return it but they never responded. I still play sf5 because at least i can play most of my favorite characters on it and easy to navigate the menus. Sf6 is pain in the ass my kids created an avatar on my account that is embarrassing to look at and capcom wont even fix that for me they said i have to play and earn the credit thing to make the changes wtf i never ever been this disapoint in a game purchase before and from a franchise i love. If companies could only give triple a service to the customers of triple a games maybe people would buy more of their products.
I gave Fortnite a try after Harmonix developed a music game into it. It also installed the BR so I gave it a chance. The zero build battle royale game is surprisingly good. It actually plays well, is fun with friends and the… ladies actually look great lmao.
The microtransactions are cosmetic and you can unlock them by playing. The most surprising part was that the ”battle pass” system isn’t linear like it is in all other service games. You collect stars from playing matches, and spend those on a catalogue which opens up as you play the game. You can pretty much just open that catalogue, and unlock what you want. I’m pretty the free pass gives you 500 coins per season (10 weeks) and you need 900 for a paid catalogue. The paid one contains 1500 IIRC, so you can get most of the content for free without a ton of FOMO. You do go through it fairly quickly if you like the game. And if you don’t…. Why are you even playing???
The game’s obviously not perfect, but it’s surprisingly good. Especially the Zero build mode without all the adhd building which turned us older fps players away from the game back when it was released.
The gaming industries greed has caused me to spend far less.
When games cost £35-40 I bought all my games new & full price.
Now they demand £60-70 I always wait until they come much cheaper. I buy all my games for £20-30, and I'm far more likely to buy used.
I'm now just used to waiting to buy new games.
Indie games get bought new, the AAA games go on a list to buy when on sale.
Triple A games from the previous generation and the current one just don't hit the same way they used to.
There's a really interesting business book called Blue Ocean Strategy. It discusses ways to be innovative and swim in a blue ocean. This is in contrast to a red bloody ocean where all competitors are doing the same in an effort to get a piece of that pie. I think this explains the AAA industry well. They're all trying to build live service games instead of being innovative and actually creating compelling experiences.
I think in the end, many of the AAA industry problems come from having so many executives that don't give a shit about games or even despise them and are only here to make quick big bucks. In the end, making games is sustainable but what is not sustainable is expecting shareholders to get their quarterly profit increase forever. I agree we're probably looking at big reset in the form of a gigantic crash of AAA games in coming years.
Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin were decent this year. Wokefree, which should be a new label!!!
Indie gaming and some eastern developers is what I will stick with. Western AAA gaming is dead.
The Industry has gone broke, going woke and will ultimately croak
Thanks, LD!!! 🎉
Top notch analysis.
Prescient commentary. My most enjoyeed games after Tears have been classics and Indie; as that's its own genre now. The MSM has utterly lost all credibality. Native ads, all that blarsh. Like you said, we want a fantasy, not necessarily DEI and representation. The people who made the industry what it is are now being marginalized, cause we're getting older. The Industry knows there are more people who have known nothing but what the Game Industry is now than what it used to be. You will own nothing and like it! And there are people who actually defend this idea. I get games are more complex; that said, the teams are huge now compared to teams of 10 to 15, but you bought a piece of property you own and there weren't revisions generally speaking.
Your wrong in every way in your video there's only one person controls the marketing David Hills known as Immortal Wolf who made Liz Truss MP to crash the market on purpose as she smiled orders by the Queen Elizbeth II and Who stands out front of the Bank of England all the time Joel Hills yes a family member Triple AAA Games is give the fans people want they want or face punishment No No MVC Infinite Yes Yes MVC 4
I've actually enjoyed playing games like overcooked, little nightmares, stray, catherine so on so foreth I hate to hand my money over for day 1 game's I've only just started playing cod mw remake an love it
This video is definitely Dantron69K APPROVED! I love innuendos!!!
Problem with gaming news channels is that its all bad. I enjoy the random nostalgic videos because god damn I just dont care anymore.
If only AAA developers would accept our lord and savior indie games into their hearts. Who knows what gems like Life of Black Tiger and Souls-like Rogue-like Metroidvania could teach them going forward? Praise be to Infinite Runner 6969.
AA and AA+ (with expansion packs offered later on) seem like a good all around compromise for gamers, the risk involved, marketing, etc. AA+ is what I look for just so I don't feel lost in 1200 different worlds.
There really wasn't that much innovation during the 8 and 16 bit eras. There were so many games that were just reskins of other / previous games. Look at the capcom's horizontal scrolling beat em up arcades. A lot of companies also copied ideas from others and made more or less the same game on a different engine with new characters/models.
IMO you haven't looked at enough games from that era! then.
My experiance was of a very diverse games library, look at the range of different types of games on the ZX Spectrum alone!
Are you talking from experiance or from a 'retro' gamer perspective?
AAA games would take less time to make if they didn't keep changing direction to chase trends and monetization
Im seriously convinced that there is some sort of massive money laundering operation going on in both Hollywood and the gaming industry. Insanely massive budgets and the end result and quality is just dog poop.
First watchdogs was ok,
Good review 😊