I remember growing up playing Nintendo games up and other AAA games until I started watching YT. Particular TB and adjacent YouTubers.

Now-a-days, especially watching most of Summer Games Fest, I feel like I really am not excited about AAA games as I used to be and generally prefer indie games

Think it’s a combination of time, DLC, gamba bs, same game released 7 thousand times and broken games at launch that have mostly turned me away from AAA games. Nintendo, Ubisoft, Blizzard, SquareEnix and others, have further tainted the appreciation I once had for these companies with the level of abuse to their fanbases and even their own employees.

How you all feel about AAA vs Indie games? Which do you prefer, and has this changed for you over time?

  • Goronmon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really care whether a game is indie or AAA. I just see a game that I want to play and looks interesting, and then I’ll play it.

    But I will say, that once I had kids and began having limited time to play (or at least limited time to focus on games for more than small chunks of time), I’ve tended to favor AAA games over indie games. Mainly because there are plenty of games out there in the AAA space if you have varied insterest in genres.

    In the last six-ish months I’ve played Destiny 2, Diablo IV, LotRO, Elden Ring, Code Vein, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, emulated FFII (still AAA), Lost Odyssey, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Disgaea 5 Complete, Atelier Ryza 2, Pokemon Violet, Skyrim and Vagrant Story. The games that might be considered indie that I’ve spent time on is Hades and SOMA.

    There just isn’t a lot of room to fit in other indie games between all of those. And I’m still not even playing all the games I’ve technically purchased in that time period which includes Shin Megami Tensei V and Tales of Vesparia for the Switch.