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green_sky on 02 December 2011
sales2099 said:
I don't know if Cliffy B knows but today, a AAA game is referred to a 90+ game on metacritic.

This can be achieved with any game, regardless of budget.

I thought AAA just meant big budget blockbuster type games. I mean according your assessment Black Ops or Battlefield 3 won't be AAA. 



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sales2099 on 05 December 2011
green_sky said:
sales2099 said:
I don't know if Cliffy B knows but today, a AAA game is referred to a 90+ game on metacritic.

This can be achieved with any game, regardless of budget.

I thought AAA just meant big budget blockbuster type games. I mean according your assessment Black Ops or Battlefield 3 won't be AAA. 


The thought of AAA being referred to a numerical score and not budget became more common when the PS3 exclusive Lair bombed in reviews. It sounded stupid to call that game AAA due to its budget, but lacking in overall quality. 

AAA could also refer to a games success, but not anymore due to budget. 



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Slimebeast on 05 December 2011

Triple A games and budgets are just getting bigger every year so Cliffy B is wrong. Just look at Ubisoft and their +500 member development teams,

All the big franchises (and there's many of them) have budgets in the tens of millions of Dollars and that is not going to change.

Call of Duty
Halo
Battlefield
Mario
Grand Feft Auto
Fallout
Resident Evil
Zelda
Assassins Creed
Elder Scrolls
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Dragan Age
Medal of honor
Final Fantasy
Metal Gear
Quake
Tomb Raiders
Gears of War
Star Wars
FIFA
Diablo
Doom
Borderlands
Half-Life
Batman
God of War
Starcraft
Ghost Recon
Red Dead
Gran Turimo
Left 4 dead
Uncharted
Crisis
Forza
Rainbow 6
Devils May Cry
Max Pain
Killzone
Far Cry
Fable
Dead Space
Saint's Row
Infamous
Prototipe



Seece on 05 December 2011
sales2099 said:
green_sky said:
sales2099 said:
I don't know if Cliffy B knows but today, a AAA game is referred to a 90+ game on metacritic.

This can be achieved with any game, regardless of budget.

I thought AAA just meant big budget blockbuster type games. I mean according your assessment Black Ops or Battlefield 3 won't be AAA. 


The thought of AAA being referred to a numerical score and not budget became more common when the PS3 exclusive Lair bombed in reviews. It sounded stupid to call that game AAA due to its budget, but lacking in overall quality. 

AAA could also refer to a games success, but not anymore due to budget. 

Something can have dual meanings you know. On the forums AAA is likely meant as 90+ on meta, but someone like cliffy will be meaning it as a big blockbuster.

Really surprised you have to even think about it, how on earth would cliffy conclude that nex gen there will be no 90+ meta games ...



 

chapset on 05 December 2011
Lostplanet22 said:
17 year ago devs said they don't want to make games for the sony playstation especially AAA games because that would be way to expensive....17 years later gamers are drowning in the amounts of AAA games released the last months... It is only a few years ago that this site was full with Nintendo fanboys who said that their will be hardly games for PS3/and X360 because making HD games would be way to expensive!...

so true



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