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1y ago

Something tells me this might not be a good year for games...

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Just ignore the "triple A" industry and games are usually great. Lots of small passionate studios still pumping out quality stuff.
- Seriously. I've been playing Ready or Not, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 lately, and I'm having a great time with gaming.
- While "AAA" has lost all meaning: even in that space we have some real bangers already
  Yakuza/Like a Dragon 8 is already in the running as one of the all time great JRPGs (and probably a top 50 GOAT in terms of games period). FF7R2 is going to have to REALLY screw up for fans to not feel strongly about it. And Dragon's Dogma 2 is, somehow, showing all signs of actually being faithful to the incredibly weird original. We also might be seeing Elden Ring DLC sooner than later. Tekken 8 seems to be incredibly well received... accessibility aside. That gets us to the end of March (ER has a mysterious youtube entry but it has for weeks so who knows)? Even if nothing else happens this year, that already is a stacked as hell line-up.
  Two months in and, gaming wise, 2024 is shaping up really well. Like most years, people see what they want to see. If you want to say things are a flop, there are flops. If you want to say things are awesome, there are some truly amazing games.
  
  I'm so excited for 7 rebirth. And one I've finished that I'll be getting persona 3 reload to replay one of my favourite games. With those two alone and me catching up on some of last year's games, this year is going to be a good one for me.
- This is not a triple A game actually. Ubisoft CEO referred it as a four A. AAAA.
  
  To investors who know shit about gaming, not to gamers...maybe he meant the costs which could be in the 4A sector after all this time 😅
  
  More A equals more good
- I played the demo for Mouthwashing and it was excellent. Nice little horror game without jump scares that really evokes dread.
  The Deep Rock Survivors game is pretty cool too. Lots of neat stuff coming out these days.
  
  Honestly really liking DRG Surviors, and I usually don't like the genre.
- Ubisoft also published the best game of the year, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Best metroidvania game I've played in a long time.
- Yea I've mainly been focusing on smaller games recently. Last AAA game I bought was Cyberpunk 77, which I enjoyed but was a whole thing. There's so many good indy games coming and going its definitely worth it to look into some of them
- Are they? Because the past few years indie games for me have been nothing but early access underdeveloped bare bones crap.

Fun meme, but honestly I think the only folks it's gonna be a bad year for are AAA game devs, who I already sympathize with.
I think indies are gonna keep rocking some outstanding content. Content made with and for love will always beat content made for money IMO :)
- I'm cautiously hopeful about Nightingale. The game trailers and $30 tag caught my interest. I've played a LOT of survival games and only played a few extensively, like Valheim. But survival games are a huge time sink, so I can't give most of them the time they deserve. But the multiplayer and community aspect for Nightingale makes it seem worth the time.
  Just gotta wait a bit after release for the reviews.
- Yeah foss games are just way better because if you like the game then you can expand it
- Yeah the flow of great indie games isn't going to dry up any time soon. So many developers willing to actually take risks with their games and not just churn out another copy of a copy of a copy. Art needs passion to be good.

Hey now, teamforetress 2 got a 64 bit beta that improved the game performance by a solid 20-30%
Valve might finally make the Heavy update
- Call me when they make an update that removes the nazis.
  EDIT: The joke is that they never will because they're a white supremacist company who wouldn't even say "black lives matter"

Curious question: when was the last time a large scale "Triple A" title released and actually met expectations?
- I think Baldur's Gate 3 exceeded expectations for many people.
  
  The key word here might be "large-scale" which to me sounds like the production-line games like CoD.
- Resident Evil 4
  Final Fantasy 7
  Elden Ring
  Tears of the Kingdom
  
  Does Alan wake 2 count?
  
  Forgot about Elden Ring.
  I Always forget that Nintendo games are Triple A, I always get that indie dev vibe in spite of being as far from indie as one can get. Not in community engagement, rather in the notable detail and unique art style each game has, like you can tell the developers care about what they're working on. You can definitely tell when Nintendo themselves develop a game vs. when they publish a game. (cough Game Freak cough)
- I fail to see how that question is relevant since this game is a AAAA game /s
  
  You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
  
  I'm surprised that they even thought that they would come even close to outperforming the AAAA battery and even dared to put themselves on the same level as it.
  
  You forgot about the 5th A and the 3 Rs
- Correction Ubisoft said this a quadruple A game.
  
  The fourth A rolled over past the 3 character limit, making it a single A game.
- God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.
- Doom Eternal
  
  I know a lot of people really enjoyed this game, but I couldn’t play more than a few hours despite loving Doom 2016. Restricted ammo quantity really killed the enjoyment for me. Adding Denuvo only after it was reviewed was a really shitty move and the soundtrack isn’t as good either now that I think of it.
  
  I bought the Doom collection like a year and a half ago but all I've played is like half of Doom Classic. I need to get around to Doom/Doom Eternal.

Worst game of the year so far.
I'll be over here playing my dwarf games.
- Rock n Stone!
  
  Strike the earth!

“Might not be a good year for games.” Idk, we’ve already had the surprise with palworld, which, while it didn’t really grab me, was a breath of fresh air for people. Helldivers slaps. I think the key is not to buy into hype, and play actually good games. People like to say 23 was a bad year too, but, I’d argue that stinkers like gollum just got more coverage and were on top of people’s minds. Not to excuse it at all, but, I played a lot of really good games last year.
- How would a year with Zelda, Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Street Fighter 6 and Like a Dragon Gaiden be bad? It was a great year.
  
  Preaching to the choir brother. Beats me

Depends what you want.
I'm hoping it's the year of the live service graveyard though.
- Holy cow I'd love that too.
  I want to buy a game, not an ongoing financial leeching.
- We'll see. Helldivers 2 is a gigantic success but it's a rare occurrence of a live service game being really good, priced correctly, and not abusively monetized.

Forspoken came out at the start of last year and we also got Redfall. 2023 was a stacked year for games.
Maybe the more bad games that come out mean we're also getting good ones to balance things.
- We have also had, Tekken 8, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Granblue Fantasy Relink, Persona 3r and Helldivers 2.
  A couple bad/mediocre games is to be expected when we are only in Feb and this year is such a fucking banger for games already.
- Was this irony or did you just associate Forspoken with "good"?
  
  I meant Forspoken and Redfall were examples of bad games we got last year. The spectrum of fully mid to fully awful.

The worst game of the year so far.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth came out this year. There's literally nothing to complain about. Best game
- This - I hate when gamers have too much attention on which games are bad, and none on the good games.
  I have a page of Steam reviews where I give a thumbs up to a bunch of indie darlings, then a negative review to a live service game, and only the negative review has votes on it.
- What the hell, that game costs more than 100 cad after tax
  
  How else do you think they'll get infinite wealth?
  
  Yeah games are too much now. Luckily this has over 100 hours of gameplay so I'm okay with it. Put 110 hours in the last one and loved every second

There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube now separately comparing Batman Arkham Knight to Gotham Knights/Suicide Squad, and AC4: Black Flag to Skull and Bones.
There is absolutely a trend of brain drain in game development that no amount of contractors can fill now.
- With the awareness that some people might call me names for saying that... AC4: black flag wasn't even that good of a game in my opinion
  
  It was my favourite Assassin's Creed game since AC2, because it contained the least amount of Assassin's Creed.
- To be fair That usually comes from the shareholders that have never played a video game in their life
- Is Suicide Squad out yet?

Games are looking great this year! Earthblade by the creators of Celeste, Hades 2, Silk song (I Believe) If you ignore AAA, it's going great!
- It's ok, this game is AAAA so AAA will be ok. /s
  https://www.gamesradar.com/as-ubisoft-ceo-dubs-skull-and-bones-a-quadruple-a-game-beta-players-say-its-not-worth-the-dollar70-price-of-entry/
  
  Lol
- Trails through daybreak, dragons dogma 2, avowed, Indiana Jones are all games I'm looking forward to off the top of my head. Trails through daybreak is actually the game I'm most excited about.
- Did anyone say Silksong?

Worst game of the year so far

Me hoping that the next Obsidian game isn't disappointing.
- Honestly if Avowed just feels like a huge Skyrim mod they'll probably do well.
  
  I never saw Avowed that way before.
  I have pretty high hopes for Obsidian on their next flagship game. Even the worst game of theirs is still pretty good! Alpha Protocol is a janky mess but it's very fun to play with.

tbh the game this seems to be about "Skull and Bones" isn't even that bad... The character models (especially faces) look pretty bad and I haven't tried intentional multiplayer, but that's all I've really noticed (played it for about 6-7 hours, including open beta)
- I think that in a vacuum the game isn't that bad, but given the context of how much it costs, how long it's been in development, being hailed as the first "AAAA game", and the fact that they literally made a better version of this game 11 years ago and the game is only mediocre I totally understand why this game has gotten the reaction it has.
  
  Ahh, I didn't know about the AAAA part, with that in mind, yeah it should be mocked to death
- The CEO also called it "the first AAAA" game, hence the jokes being made about how shit it is.
  
  he meant AAAAH but forgot the H
  
  Yeah, I didn't know about that, considering that it should definitely be mocked to death
  
  again to investors.

I got it for 38€ and I actually really like it.
- According to the reviews, you're wrong. Stop having fun
  
  Game is sitting on a 6/10 on opencritic, that's still an okay game for me 😅
  I don't know why opencritic labels it as weak. For me its always 6=okay, 7=good, 8=very good, 9=awesome, 10=Masterpiece...

People still watch Sub Optimal Gaming? His content is boring and he was a literal gamergater.
- What does gamergater mean? I’m familiar with gate keeping but I don’t know that I’ve heard it like this.
  
  I'm glad this has dropped off the public consciousness, but they were anyone who were on the side of the neo-fascist movement started after reddit banned rJailbait. Basically the early beta of what became the alt-right. There was a LOT of social pressure to either be for gamergate otherwise you were against it, and SOG tactilely sided with them during a time when a lot of people were starting to see it for what it was.

We already had a couple fantastic games this year tho
- Palworld (i mean, it’s NOT polished, but it was fun), Enshrouded, and Persona 3 Reloaded have kicked off my year with a bang. And there’s a lot more good stuff coming on the horizon.

Are you telling me the world's first "quadruple A" game isn't very good? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you!
- Please calm down ComradeChairman! It was a mistake, honest! Our next release will fix all your qualms, please pay $69.99 to see for yourself.

That’s what you get when you engage with clickbait

I don't know guys. It seems Unisoft have lost it. I don't buy games from them anymore. I don't know what happened to me, but after I made the decision, I found myself buying Far Cry 6 even though I hated Far Cry 5 with passion (I think it was Gustavo Fring). I am 2 hours in and I am not feeling it. The prologue was nice but then it turned into random missions. Go do this, do that. Should I just drop the game?
- I'm have the exact opposite reaction right now. I stopped buying Ubi games years ago, but through give aways I got Assassins Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla for free. I never touched them until recently when a friend started playing through Odyssey and was talking about how much fun he was having. I installed Origins and played though it (because I can't skip games in a series) and I kinda enjoyed it. Then I played Odyssey and it blew me away with how much fun I had. I'm on to the second DLC of it, and when I'm done I'll start up Valhalla.
  As far as Far Cry games go, though, I haven't enjoyed one since 3.
  
  I've played Odyssey and it was fairly fun to play, but Valhalla to me seemed a bit, idk, empty? Not much parkouring around in large towns like an assassin when the buildings are pretty sparse and small.
- Why not pirate it first if you didn;t enjoy the last one? I disliked 5, pirated 6 and found out very early that it wasn't gonna be good.
- Ubisoft lost it after AC Brotherhood.
- FC6 was the first ubi game I really disliked. same as you a few hours in and I just couldn't get into the vibe of it. I really liked FC5 (possibly in my top 10 of all time) but 6 felt like such a miss
- Yeah refund it and get the new Prince of Persia instead

Nothing about a poor game releasing at the beginning of the year says anything about the year as a whole.

All I want this year is Fromsoft dlc edit: AND IM GONNA GET IT IN JUNE APPARENTLY

This is going to be a great year for indie games. (Currently playing, "Techtonica.")

In Stars and Time is fantastic, but that's a game from last year I believe.
- Same with Talos Principle 2. I thought it was this year, but I just bought it late.

Since it's punching up I'll allow it.

"But Muta, it's only February!"

Certainly won't be as good a year as 2023.

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