Opinion on future of poor selling quality games

[Madword]

ChaosReich said:

Shaunodon said:

You sound like someone who's be trapped in the loop so long, and you just woke up and realised people on PS4 only play bad AAA western games.

Jokes aside, there are a pretty good assortment of classics on the system (now), even if they don't get the attention they deserve. Plus even AAA devs drop the odd gem (Witcher3, Doom, Overwatch) every now and then. You'll be fine.

If you haven't tried Bloodborne or the Yakuza series, that wouldn't be a bad place to start. Horizon is supposedly quite good too, though that's hardly a cheap niche title.

Lol nah, it just kinda popped up since ive been only playing Overwatch and kinda Fallout 4 for about a year (both great games with Overwatch being wayyy more fun) and now that im trying other way more niche titles, i started worrying about them. I know great AAA games come out, i own Witcher 3, Doom, Uncharted 4 and a few others. So yea, over all from the tone of this thread, i was absolutely wrong and ive never been so happy to be wrong either.

What would you consider the Dark Soul series in terms of AAA or lower. 

Dark Souls is probably more towards AA cost than a AAA cost. The key difference is that many Japanese type games are built on engines they have used elsewhere for years. Yakuza for example is like a massive game in a small confined world, but as they have been building on the tech for years/mini games its a lot cheaper, otherwise Yakuza would have failed years ago due to poor western sales.

These teams are much smaller but can have a much better focussed product. Look at companies rushing to make open world games, the cost is significant and the investment in tech can really hurt a company (thats why they put so much crappy filler in them). Some companies have failed trying to jump on that bandwagon. I would rather have a more focussed game such as Yakuza than say AC Syndicate (or the french one where the name escapes me right now). AC had upto something like 9 teams from across the world working on it, the cost is staggering. Thats why when you get to the end of an AC game it takes 15 minutes to get through the credits...lol

Saying that Origins looks awesome, but sounds like its still got a lot of filler, but we'll see.