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Machiavellian on 16 April 2013
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VGKing said:
Machiavellian said:
This conversation on the AAA seems to have derailed this thread. I only think King is the person who is saying that a Spin off game Forza Horizon is a AAA game. Who else believe spin off games are considered by gamers, publishers and media as AAA. If we go by budget which is general used to describe a AAA game because of home much resources a publishers put into the game, I am sure its nowhere close to Forza 4.

I am sure even Bungie would not consider remade Halo combat evolved a AAA game just because it has the Halo tag or even Halo ODST since it was a direct spin off with a much smaller team and budget.

Anyway, I believe everyone can agree to disagree with king and leave it at that.

So spin-offs don't quality as AAA games? Great logic there.
Forza Horizon is still.....Forza. It still has cars, it still has races. It doesn't go to an entirely different genre.

Look at a Need For Speed franchise. There are so many. Underground, Most Wanted..etc. None of these are considered "spin-offs". They all sell on the Need For Speed name. They have the budgets, marketing and production values that make it a AAA game.


Can you name me one spin off that was marked as a AAA product.  It seems like you forget that spin offs are done all the time and usaully with a smaller budget and smaller team.  Companies do this because they can reuse assets and code to change up a formula but these games are never considered to sell as many copies as the main one because they do not target the same group.

Here you are saying that Forza Horizon is Still Forza but by you saying that, it appears you haven't played either game.  The whole structure of Horizon is different than the main game and its not marketed as being the same.  It uses the same Name because gamers are brand focused a lot.

There is no spin off of Need for Speed games because they are all the same game.  Now if the developers made a Need for Speed game that was a racing simulation the that would be a spin off of the franchise.