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[VAMatt]

BraLoD said:

VAMatt said:

Rockstar is in a league of their own.  While Santa Monica and ND are great devs, they're not playing the same sport as Rockstar.  They're doing much different games with much, much lower sales, for one or two systems at a time.  Rockstar is making AAAA blockbusters that release on anything powerful enough to run them.  

So Rockstar is on a league of their own because they are third party?

Quality wise neither Santa Monica or Naughty Dog fall behind Rockstar at all.

Get the better looking and most impressive games from their time in the last decade and those studios are the ones poping out when they release them.

Even as they lose on aggregate scores (quality recognition) both ND and SM have also beaten Rockstar finest works as far as GOTYs awards (quality recognition) in a row now too.

Yes, ND and SM make great games.  But, they just aren't of the same scale as those made by Rockstar. 

GOTY awards are well deserved by all of them.  But, making a massive game like GTA or RDR is a totally different, much larger task than making TLOU.  To bring it back to sports, TLOU is like a great tennis match.  It is thoroughly enjoyed by tennis fans, and will be talked about for decades in those circles.  GTA is like an epic World Cup tournament where many of the matches go down as classics and a quarter of the population of planet earth is watching.  They're great sporting events in both cases.  But, one is simply a much bigger deal than the other.