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

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.

Pirating this pirate game would be funny. But it’s a Ubisoft game, so even free is too expensive.

The next Ubisoft game I play will be sponsored by Ubisoft, so likely never. They stopped making good games before I left high school.

Not really, because pirating means removing the DRM which is the main reason of why “even free is too expensive”.

Even if it doesn’t cost money, it costs time to download and play it. Time you could have spent doing/playing something better.

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.

BG3 is large-scale. It’s a AAA game.

Resident Evil 4

Final Fantasy 7

Elden Ring

Tears of the Kingdom

Does Alan wake 2 count?

Fuck yes it does. That game set a new gold standard for me on video game production quality. Phenomenal game, and is even well optimized.

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)

Game Freak needs to be put in a retirement home

Nintendo have always been kinda unique though. Triple N games might be more accurate.

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.

To me that’s honestly more RDR2. That games amount of detail is pretty staggering.

I played base Cyberpunk and I’d like to refund the 60h I played. Thankfully I pirated it, I would not have payed a dime. However I hear comments like: “Phantom Liberty is what the game should be” I watched no spoilers, is it worth playing for me if I despised the base game?

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.

It certainly is A game

God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.

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.

Sounds like you need a bit of ULTRAKILL in your life.

I find the soundtrack to be way better.

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.

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