I can count the list of AAA publishers I trust enough to spend money on their games on one hand.
AAA games are basically the worst segment of gaming right now. There is just so much incredible content in indie gaming right now the idea of even paying attention to big companies like EA and Ubisoft is laughable to me.
Down with corporate gaming, long live the indie developer
There is a middle ground too, though, AA titles and such. And indies produced by major players. Like, I adore Risk of Rain 2 but chuckle that Gearbox, Borderlands devs, helped produce the game and took over development in '22. You see this a lot lately with the A-list “indie” games out there.
Better believe the big names have noticed, they want a piece of that low budget high profit market.
Oh absolutely! Just like how in cinema a lot of the best content lives in-between the big blockbusters and tiny indie films with “big boutique” studios such as A24, a lot of the best gaming content is being made by big boutique studios and/or by smaller divisions of bigger studios. I’m an art house cinema kind of guy, and those preferences extend to gaming as well
I can count the list of AAA publishers I trust enough to spend money on their games on one hand.
AAA games are basically the worst segment of gaming right now. There is just so much incredible content in indie gaming right now the idea of even paying attention to big companies like EA and Ubisoft is laughable to me.
Down with corporate gaming, long live the indie developer
There is a middle ground too, though, AA titles and such. And indies produced by major players. Like, I adore Risk of Rain 2 but chuckle that Gearbox, Borderlands devs, helped produce the game and took over development in '22. You see this a lot lately with the A-list “indie” games out there.
Better believe the big names have noticed, they want a piece of that low budget high profit market.
Oh absolutely! Just like how in cinema a lot of the best content lives in-between the big blockbusters and tiny indie films with “big boutique” studios such as A24, a lot of the best gaming content is being made by big boutique studios and/or by smaller divisions of bigger studios. I’m an art house cinema kind of guy, and those preferences extend to gaming as well