Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The World’s First “AAAA” Game”.
Improvement in gaming lately hasn’t been as revolutionary as the leaps during the 90s and 2000s. Do you think Hardware, engines or time is a limiting factor, both three all three, because the expectations from the gamer are so much higher. You can’t build a AAA game with many quadruple, a how many oh stop have you played it? No, I I’ve. I honestly, like Black Flag, is an amazing game. I love Black Flag yeah. I I’ve there’s very few games that I’ve played multiple times.
I’Ve played Black Flag multiple times. You want to know something really interesting, never beat it and don’t care at all. I actively do not really like the first couple hours of the game, and then you unlock the pirate ship and I’m like amazing game, and I just sail the Seas.
I, like beat all the hard boss ships way before you’re supposed to be able to, because all I would ever do was like sail around cuz. It’S so good. All they needed to do was like take that make the game actually based around it. Instead of it being in this Assassin’s Creed rapper that, like barely makes any sense, anyways make it based around the Pirates. Mhm make the story based around the Pirates. Add Co-op, because if you haven’t been able to tell as I’ve been talking about for years, if you add Co-op to a game, it explodes hell, divers, anyone come on, anyways um, add Co-op to it. No, not the multiplayer stuff, stop it just really good single player, add some co-op and it will explode, and then they made it like the complete opposite of that. There isn’t a single player campaign, they saw sea of Thieves and we’re like yeah cool, no dude he’s mad about Skull and Bones, stop stop.
I was so excited about skull and bones dude. I was so excited. How excited are you now? I I I don’t want to try it because I think I’ll be more mad, if I like see with my own eyes and experience with my own hands the vast depths of the wasted potential of that game um. So anyway, do you think Hardware, engines or time is limiting factor um? I think that with greater Hardware comes greater expectations.
Um with greater expectations comes more complex engines that are capable of meeting them and with more complexity comes uh more time, and I think that money is the additional factor in everything that I just said that is causing AAA gaming to kind of collapse on itself. In a in a pretty spectacular way, right now, Ubisoft is going to look at skull and bones and go okay, then developing games. This big doesn’t make any sense, they’re not going to look at it and go wow whoops. That’S because we did it wrong.
Yeah um, like EA EA, released uh Immortals of of VM, and this has been in the news recently because there was like some news article. I don’t remember from who um saying like oh yeah, Immortals of VM. They spent like $ 130 million or something insane on it. Um budget.
Let’S see what the budget was, the development cost was around $ 85 million and then EA kicked in $ 40 million for marketing and distribution, and I still never heard of it me. Neither $ 40 million well spent, and apparently it was like – should have sponsored an LTT got him not good or something steam review out 10. Maybe it was okay yeah. I heard it’s like pretty okay, but apparently they’re trying to pose it.
As like, single player games are dead, no, like all the most highly rated best and often very highly sold games of the last year and a half two years are all single player and co-op games like what are you talking about? I mean not all pal World kind of sold a lot of copies Co-op game. I mean also competitive game, but like World competitive po world, isn’t there a isn’t it I haven’t played it? I thought it was competitive. I think it’s just Co-op game. Is it survival, but not against people? Okay, all right, all right, all right! It’S not like rust survival! Okay, okay, okay, I mean you, you can hurt each other, so you could force it to play that way, I’m sure no, no PVP.
Yet people are saying all right. Like I said I haven’t, I haven’t played it. I just uh like kind of watched clips of it here and there it looked like some, the kind of thing that, if I got into, I would spend far too much time in it, and I don’t have time right now. That’S like the story of my life.
So often these days, I miss every big gaming event: that’s really taking off cuz, I’m sitting here, looking at it going! Okay, what’s my calendar look like over the okay, whereas if it’s something small or something that’s like not that good or like only certain people like I’m kind of like okay, I won’t get sucked into this too hard. Hell. Divers is fun and it’s a co-op game, and I haven’t mentioned it to you because I was like. Ah, if we’re going to play a game, we have games, we can play yeah. We really do like it.
It’Ll be fine like we could maybe play beyond the tutorial of um Divinity original sin. 2. We could go back to ano like there’s a huge list of currently in progress games. We don’t need to buy another one. We have a shortage of games if you’re watching this and you want a co-op, shooter uh.
It’S probably the best co-op shoo that I’ve played in many years. It’S really good Che it out good stuff. .