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JRPGfan on 16 June 2019
Cerebralbore101 said:
Mar1217 said:

All of those I would call AA games. In general if the core dev team is bigger than 15 people, or the budget is bigger than a hundred thousand, I would call it AA. I'm not sure what the average AAA budget is though. 

You can have indie games that are still 15+ people, and 100k+ $ budgets.

So I feel like thats a wrong assumption.

AAA games is when you spend like 50$ million on a game, their the "big boys" of the industry.

- Fire Emblem 3DS games
- Octopath Traveler
- Captain Toad
- Plague Tale
- Yoshi's Crafted World
- Super Mario 3D Land

These games that  Mar1217 mentioned are probably all "AA" games.
With perphaps the expection being "super mario 3D land", it might be ranked as a AAA game.

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Veknoid_Outcast on 16 June 2019

Monster Boy is a great game, but I'd say that falls firmly in the "A" camp. I'd also argue against the assertion that AA games are going the way of the dodo. Studios like THQ Nordic, Focus Home Interactive, Paradox, Sega, Atlus, NIS, and Bandai Namco are still turning them out. Nintendo publishes a lot of AA games, also.

Some of my favorites from the last few years are:

The Alliance Alive
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
The Surge



sethnintendo on 16 June 2019

Played decent amount of Wreckfest lately. It brought back Destruction Derby vibes.



Jaicee on 16 June 2019
Hiku said:

Not sure I've played any in a while, but in a few days, I'll play this!

So will I for sure, but my impression of the "AA" categorization is that it specifically describes 'modern-looking' games that are indies and/or smaller, quirkier games released by major publishers and I'm not sure that an essentially 2D game like Bloodstained will qualify as "AA".



weraru_1 on 16 June 2019

What is a AA game? Is it a game developed by a external developer under contract with a publisher, cause that's what I thought. Or is it a kinda more popular indie game? If it's the first one, I like Xenoblade Chronicles.



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Loneken on 16 June 2019

RECORE.
I buy the Xbox One just for this game.
is the closer we have for a third person Metroid game, and really great soundtrack.

Sorry for my bad english



PotentHerbs on 16 June 2019

I'm not sure if it counts as an AA game but Donut County was a really fun experience.



Spindel on 17 June 2019
RolStoppable said:
mZuzek said:

I don't know, is there any reason to think it will be?

There was the performance of the Switch version at PAX, but Igarashi explained that with overheating demo units. It's the kind of excuse where you can't be sure if it was really entirely the fault of demo hardware or if the game itself had issues. The performance target of the Switch version is only 720p@30fps, so that indicates that this version is an afterthought and may not even hit that target upon its release.

First I've heard of the performance problems in the Switch version.

On the other hand I pre-ordered a physical of this blindly, and consiously don't read much about it. I was really impressed with Curse of the Moon, even if that game is really short, so I have my hopes up for this game.



curl-6 on 17 June 2019

There were some awesome AA games on the Wii, like The Last Story, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, and Fatal Frame 4.

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Loneken on 17 June 2019

I forget to mention Ashen.
Thats a great AA game in xbox.