Online debate splits over whether AAA or indie games innovate
4 Sep 19 2:00 AM · 5d ago · 1 article · 7 comments · 2 sources · development 4 of 5
Discussion across gaming forums debated Straley's premise, with some backing his view that shareholder pressure makes AAA studios risk-averse and others arguing indie games are just as formulaic, citing roguelikes and metroidvanias as examples.
“I think its that they aren't innovating anymore or it will upset John Shareholder, the design process is increasingly about following a formula and a big part of that is being risk adverse which means don't do something untested.”
Master_of_Spanks, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗Bruce Straley Game director, The Last of Us / Uncharted; founder of Wildflower InteractiveSony Santa Monica Developer of God of War Laufey
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1 outlet The Last of Us Director Apologizes to God of War Laufey Devs After Calling Recent AAA Games 'Boring'
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As a game lead developer i can tell you that most AAA games companies, invests so much in making the next AAA gams and have big pressuresfrom the high expections from their shareholders that they are afraid to risk innovation and only invest on "secure brands/paths". Also, like in other industry sectors, they have economic power but are too big…
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OK cool so you have no point, glad we established that. You can still just walk away instead of making yourself look like even more of a clown if you want. PS, feel free to acknowledge you were completely wrong at any time about CotDG if you want, your call. I notice you just sorta stopped mentioning it after that :) It's so funny that you can't…
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Haha I like how you deleted your first comment because it was petty and dumb, then just typed a slightly different version. "No confidence in your argument" is fucking hilarious. You were W R O N G brother, just fucking say "my bad, I was wrong'. It's not that hard
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I think its that they aren't innovating anymore or it will upset John Shareholder, the design process is increasingly about following a formula and a big part of that is being risk adverse which means don't do something untested.
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Wow dude that's one desperate response to deflect from the pretty awful responses you gave so far. It's very apparent you have no confidence in your argument so I'll just leave it here. Good luck man you clearly need it
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Appreciate the crash out, it obviously doesn't take much for you to do it so overtly Anything else? Or you going to keep spamming these accusations till you feel better?
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The low in allow, and then fay similar to day. Saying allow-fay should get you there.
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