• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Stop

    Buying

    AAA

    Games

    Stop

    And don’t confuse high budget indie studios with AAA game developers

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        6 months ago

        Same, bonus points if you don’t even buy the AAA game when it’s on sale, instead buy an indie game with that money.

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        6 months ago

        Man this is the way… I just started fo4. Got the bundle with all dlc for like $30.

        2 days later got the massive patch.

        And if runs on Linux… patient gaming is the best way

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          patient gaming is the best way

          I think being a patient gamer makes more sense nowadays (or at least since PS3/PS4 days) than it did before.

          Many games are unfinished, unoptimized or need patches, and all this annoying experience is for the users which I like to call “unpaid beta testers” then when all the needed fixes arrive we can fully enjoy the best experience, at the best price.

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          6 months ago

          If you are gonna play them right away, I don’t see why you should not!

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      6 months ago

      This is a nonsense take.

      The Last of Us, Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, God of War, Doom. There are plenty of AAA games worth your time and money. Every bit as lovingly crafted as your precious indie darlings.

      Maybe stop buying them blindly because you’ve seen a flashy ad for them on TV. There’s plenty of bad AAA games that do all the gameplay competently but have literally nothing to say. Where you can’t feel the touch of the designer at all, and all you can hear in it’s place is a hubbub of design-by-committee noise. The only thing those games have to say is “give me your money”.

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        6 months ago

        Larian Studios who made Baldur’s Gate 3 could technichally be called an Indie dev despite the big budget and employee count. The company is privately owned by its founder and the games are self published.

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        6 months ago

        Notice that other than Baldur’s Gate and Elden Ring, those are pretty old titles at this point. The AAA studios are doing everything they can to make sure those nightmares never happen again.

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        6 months ago

        I would argue elden ring (haven’t played, not my style but heard many good things about it) and bg3 are not AAA studios, they don’t release high budget games frequently, they focus on one genre, and don’t have much (especially large budget titles) outside of that area of focus.

        That list is also staggeringly small compared to The list it’s derived from, and I would say whatever list includes those games has a much larger “awful titles” section to go along with it. If anything I would say the games you listed (that are from multi title developers) are the exceptions that proves the “don’t buy AAA titles” rule.