Will AA/Budget games ever make a comeback? Or are we stuck with AAA or Indie/Phone Games with basically nothing inbetween?
Will AA/Budget games ever make a comeback...
THQNordic is pushing them.
holy shit looking at that cover just gave me a massive blast of nostalgia.
I would have spent my life thinking that this game didn't exist and that I was mis-remembering some early-2000s platformer if you hadn't posted this
A lot of indie studios that score a publisher or reach good crowdfunding/success from a previous work are pushing out AA level games.
On an off note, I-Ninja was fucking great and I am sad we never got a sequel.
They're pretty much the only one though. I commend them for it but its just not enough.
I wish more game devs looked towards A or AA development.
this game was great
Major nintendo games are essentially AA games. I don't think nintendo's ever done AAA
Same here. They don't since every game has to make CoD or GTA levels of money. Just look at all of the A and AA studios that died during the period between 2005-2012. The 7th gen fucking killed A and AA gaming.
all the aa games are mobile now or very shitty nintendo/pc indie games
Did smartphones kill AA games then?
Yeah
> I-Ninja
Wow, what a blast from the past. Real fun mechanics and I like the super moves, I hated that one shooting gallery level with the ships, took me multiple times to get the last belt.
Fucking Steve Jobs.
Fuck your questions OP, this is an I-Ninja nostalgia thread now.
OP here. I'm okay with this
Indie is the new AA
NINJAAA BERZERKAAAAH
>tfw they unironically won E3 for me
If Hyper Light Drifter is AA I'm fine with that.
I-Ninja was great, but i swear all those timed missions give you literally 0 leeway. There were so many times where I failed mere inches away from the goal
Worst timeline.