AndreyAsimowNoooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too đđđ
frezikWould it be so bad if games didnât have insane budgets? Most of my favorite games from the past decade are from small studios operating on pizza and hope.
Lower budgets would probably be better. High budgets mean high risk, developers and publishers try to minimize that risk and you get bland games that try to cater to too many tastes. Movies suffer from the same problem. They get budgets in the hundreds of millions and you wonder what they spent it all for.
FangedWyvern42High budgets are killing the film industry. In the case of gaming, it plays a factor, but greed is probably the main issue. Most big budget AAA games in the past made large amounts of money even if they didnât have universal appeal. Because companies realised that they could make large amounts of money off loot boxes, microtransactions, cash shops and battle passes, they started trying to funnel players into games, mainly so that players would buy things. Thatâs one of the main reasons the AAA industry is getting worse: games need to appeal to as many as possible, while coming out as fast as possible, all so that players will buy the overpriced in-game items endlessly shoved in playersâ faces.
I love me some good AAA games and want them to stick around. But I think it would be much better if they were a bit fewer and further between, and the big studios shift to more regular AA games, and give their devs chances to do some more oddball stuff with even lower budgets. More expiremntation and risky projects can only enrich the industry.
ShaggySnacksYou never know what those experiments can lead too. There will be a lot of failures however someone is going to look at the failure and realize what needs to be need to be tweaked.
Yep. The final fantsay series was a bunch of lads in an attic. Now those lads are legends⌠with a fantasic legacy. Yet Iâm still waiting for ES5 and GTA 6âŚ
BG3 did have a pretty huge budget though. I would totally be fine if games took notes from BG3 but reduced scope a lot. Bioware used to make games similar to BG, but they stopped and now make garbage. The idea other studios canât make similar games is wrong. They canât make games this big usually though without publishers telling them they need to include microtransactions and other bullshit.
BioWare didnât just make games similar to Baldurâs Gate, they created Baldurâs Gate.
Wasnât that Black Isle? Or had they already evolved into their future downfall?
Black Isle was the publisher, Bioware developed the game. Baldurs Gate lead to BG2, which lead to Neverwinter Nights, which lead to Knights of the Old Republic.
I Cast Fistwhich lead to Knights of the Old Republic
Which lead to Mass Effect, donât forget
TIL Baldurs gate is the reason i hated the ending to ME3.
Kind of!
True, but IMO the link wasnât nearly as strong between KotoR and ME as any of the previous games in the link which were all clearly D&D based systems. ME1 had a lot in common with KotoR but there were some major deviations too as they moved away from the table top standard.
Yep, youâre right. I didnât realize they were a studio at that point. Yeah, they have no reason to complain about new expectations. They could have created BG3 if they had kept doing what they were known for, but EA and the money were too goodâŚ
Cosmic Clericfrom small studios operating on pizza and hope.
And thatâs how it started.
You could give studios unlimited budgets and theyâd still complain they donât have enough time / money to get things right. The rhetoric is that that âgames are just so complex nowadaysâ and that justifies their 4/5/6 year development periods.
Iâm not seeing the complexity that warrants that type of long development period. The visual fidelity on some games is impressive, but is it actually worth that 5 year dev time?