That rarely ever happens. The AAA either only barely polishes it or makes things worse. Yahtzee talked about this when it came to Returnal being a rouge-lite AAA game.
Most indie games are more polished than a majority of your standard AAA games.
I mean more polished in terms of how the innovation works. The way Blizzard used to take ideas from other games, and refine them to be easier to play and more refined in how they work.
The AAA doesn't even get that anymore. That stopped being a thing around late 7th generation. The indie and AA have been more innovative by either going back to the old-school fundamentals and refining them better or further. Or when they are doing something completely new, most of the developers make sure the game is fun (which is usually the intent but now always) and has some type of replay value, or moving the medium forward in terms of art design, character, storytelling, or all of the above.
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We already covered this back on the first two pages. Kind of redundant at this point.
Yeah, failing to see how more and more live service shit shutting down is a problem.Live-Service Games Are Do or Die, and They've All Chosen 'Die'
Live-service games Rumbleverse, Knockout City, Marvel’s Avengers, Echo VR, & CrossfireX have all decided to shut down and die. It's a problem.
OMG Escapist. Like, this is what I’m seeing in landscape mode on mobile -
AAA Games Need to Stop Chasing Trends and Start Making Them
AAA video games spend years in development chasing trends that have passed by the time they release: They need to be trendsetters instead.
I get where Nick is coming from where these projects could have been repurposed for a single player game or a better multiplayer. The fact that the people on the lower end of the totem pole may lose their jobs, because the service of shutting down sucks. Yet, I'm not going to cry much for these losses. Aside from the lower end people losing their developer job. That's a problem that's still big within this industry and needs to stop.
They can be hopefully scooped up by studios that don’t practice gaas crap.
I don't know if I would say this is a Spider-Verse specific thing. I think it's simply a testament to how powerful good character design can be as a whole. There are reasons why characters are so instantly recognizable, to the point where nobody has to really know what Pokemon is to know what Pikachu is, or who Mario, or Link, or Kratos, or even the characters from Mortal Kombat that are the exact same guy with a different color.
It's most definitely is a Spider-Verse specific thing, and Gwen herself especially. Like I said before, the hairstyle ain't exactly new, but before that movie came out, almost no video games had that hairstyle aside from certain characters in League of Legends or in their alternate costumes. The Tawana Bandicoot you see right before you, isn't even the same one. She's from an alternate dimension. Guess what? Multiverse shenanigans occur in Crash Bandicoot 4. There's definitely that influence.
Tawana's design is okay, but they went too extra on it. Though most Crash fans don't have a problem with her looks. I will defend Diva's and Peppermint's design. At least with Streets of Rage 4, it had been in development since late 2017. So that case is more of a coincidence.
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Asking studios to stop chasing old, worn-out trends in the hopes of miraculously usurping the market leader? Might as well ask the ocean to stop making your feet wet.Stop Making Looter Shooters - The Escapist
Between BioWare and Anthem and Arkane Studios and Redfall, it's time to stop making single-player studios make bad, boring looter shooters.
