Indie vs Triple A

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Are you more excited what happens on the indie side of things in the future or the triple a?
I’m more on the indie side

[Vinegaroon]

I played minecraft back in the days of Notch and his passion project. Yet to see another small title take off like that did.

[Fake]

Cyberpunk 2077 is an indie game.
Warframe is an indie game.

[JustSomeLego]

At this point, they're both different sides of the same coin.

I guess AAA if I had to choose, but only because they have older games they can port through collections or whatever. Not so much whatever new they're trying to do.

[Crazy Tiger]

I focus on games that are enjoyable to me. I don't care about the "label" they have.

[Soceris]

Maybe we should just label big 'indie' studios into something else, because they are getting too close to the triple A goalpost to be even indie anymore.

It's indie for me by the way.

[Lemale]

Indies. Why? They make better games. Why? No Microtransaction Bs, thwy experiment and they make games which are actually fun. Stardew Valley is better what every Triple A garbage company produced since 10 years. The only Triple a company which makes good games are From Software

[Fake]

Originally posted by Lemale:

Indies. Why? They make better games. Why? No Microtransaction Bs, thwy experiment and they make games which are actually fun. Stardew Valley is better what every Triple A garbage company produced since 10 years. The only Triple a company which makes good games are From Software

Warframe has microtransactions. . . .

[Chimp Factory [M04]]

Indies more than AAA. But above all, modding and modders.

Modding is how Counterstrike started from Quake making the FPS genre what it is today, its the origin of many genres that have become mainstream.
Teamfortress>Hero Shooter
GMOD>Sandbox Gaming
DOTA>Mobas
DayZ>Battle Royales
and much more.

Also modders have no to minimum profit incentive; only fun incentive as they push the limits of existing games.

[Phirestar]

In the past, it was mostly indie. To be fair, I can still generally only run indie games for the most part, unless it’s an older title like Dragon’s Dogma that I’ve been playing recently. (That game run surprisingly well on my crappy laptop.)

These days, however, there’s been a lot of releases in recent times from the AAA space that it’s become a pretty equal balance of both. Particularly on the Switch, from Nintendo. I did grow with Nintendo consoles, but I abandoned them around the end of the Wii’s era in favor of PC, because PC games were simply more accessible for a teenager compared to having to purchase stuff at retail stores. I paid no attention to the WiiU as a result, but the Switch has brought back my interest in their brand with stuff like Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, FE: Three Houses, and Animal Crossing.

There’s also a number of other games that’ve grabbed my attention from other studios as well, primarily RPGs and third-person action titles. The big one was the Souls series, which I got into back in 2018. They’re what really got me paying attention to the big companies again, since before that the only two games I’d played that were AAA in the previous 8 years were Skyrim and Overwatch. (I bought some other Bethesda games, and tried to get into The Witcher, but it never worked out.)

This is my current wishlist of games that I want to buy in the future - mostly stuff that I don’t have the hardware to run right now. (I try to keep it only to things that I’m 100% sure that I want to play.)

https://www.backloggd.com/u/Phirestar/games/title:asc/type:wishlist/

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Fromsoft are an indie company at heart. Typical triple a company foe me is ubisoft and ea

[sleeps]

People forgot that there are more AAA company than ubi and ea (and squarenix too)

[Kargor]

I'm way more interested in games than business details.

[Chaosolous]

I'm all for the indie until they get bought up by one of the conglomerates for being successful than transmogrified into some soulless AAA Microtransaction Battle Pass Pay to Win Multi Currency Lootbox Mobile Phone Based Knockoff Live Service filled abomination.

[Phirestar]

Originally posted by Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Fromsoft are an indie company at heart. Typical triple a company foe me is ubisoft and ea

You say that, but like many of the other big publishers and studios, they keep releasing botched PC ports.

Elden Ring came out and originally was sitting at a 60% mixed score on Steam, despite it being their 5th port to PC. I think it should be quite evident to FromSoft, at this point, that PC is where a huge portion of their fanbase and sales come from, and yet for some reason they still decide to treat it the same they've been treating PC ports since Dark Souls 1, all the way back in 2011.

That's definitely a triple-A game developer practice for sure. Some indie games might do that, but you rarely hear of it in that space.

[TRethehedgehog]

I enjoy a good indie game

Like Rivals of Aether, one I got recently

But it seems that I have more “Triple A” games than “indie” games