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?
I listed a few in my comment already: ddr, katamari, okami, other stuff like the world ends with you, tony hawk pro skater, story of seasons (previously harvest moon), etc.
More recently most of the AA games I pickup are visual novels (often otome games), so stuff like code realize, steins;gate, etc. pretty princess party is good. Back in like the ps2/ps3 era there were a ton of AA games that either were pure AA or bordering AAA. Rockband was another one. Dark Cloud. Not quite the big flagship titles, but not indies either. they end up somewhere in the middle lol.
A lot of the older licensed movie games were AA as well (albeit many weren’t great). DS is flooded with them as well, stuff like 9 hours 9 persons 9 doors, ghost trick, ace attorney, super monkey ball, rhythm heaven, ragnarok ds, golden sun, etc.
granted I haven’t played 999 or ghost trick but you get my point lol.