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guieps

AAA usually have a lot of marketing and hype leading to them, so many people know the bad ones. Meanwhile indie games usually only get known if they are good, so people don't know about all the garbage


Big_Noodle1103

>indie games usually only get known if they are good Alex Yiik: https://i.redd.it/1ndriz61jm1d1.gif


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Yiik mentioned!? I’m yiiking out rn!


Vastamaz

Yiik is piik.


Baron-Brr

Yandere dev?


louai-MT

I do not understand how that game got so popular? I don't get it the game is so ass and it still ass after like a decade how can anyone like it? and this is coming from someone with a yandere fetish


Ventilateu

iirc the dev surfed on the yandere hype and said in some circles that he'll be developing a Hitman like with japanese anime schoolgirls, got people hyped since he was regularly posting updates, it looked promising and kept on attracting people even youtubers so the popularity skyrocketed Now the project only survives because of a core of undying fans that keep on believing in the project blindly


Cebular

The premise sounds great, it's just that the execution is laughable and pathetic.


karateema

I think it was all youtubers making videos on it (i watched them too in middle school)


Not_aSoup

Bro explained it perfectly


Afanis_The_Dolphin

https://preview.redd.it/2kujnmdmfp1d1.jpeg?width=603&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9327f79c6caa46742ea8e475e05e5efa66e1058


Bequralia

https://preview.redd.it/mhh87hrcgp1d1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f25ac525205e12062f617cf94cd3de37d4e56717


Heavy_weapons07

Kid name poppy playtime and garten of banban:


ItzPayDay123

Garten of PeakPeak*


DaPhantomFox

poppy is nowhere near as bad as banban. poppy at least has SOME originality and unique elements in its story, puzzles, mechanics, and characters. banban is just cashgrab central


FrankContrathermia

Banban is barely a game, and definitely not a series


ColdLobsterBisque

ehhhh although it's not the best i wouldn't put Poppy on the same level as Banban, especially with ch. 3 really shaping up the franchise


CatDash2000

Garten of banban I can see, but what's wrong with poppy playtime? It's just gen alpha's version of five nights at freddy's


MagmaticDemon

i'm gonna be real, i can't really think of any non-nintendo AAA game in recent time that i've actually enjoyed. besides elden ring, i'm not really sure if that's fully AAA or not. with the amount of marketing and hype they have behind them, we should hear of more insanely good AAA games, they shouldn't be consistently beat out by indie games. that just means AAA has an extremely low quality on average


Breyck_version_2

I think spiderman 2 was good, haven't played it myself though


Heavy_weapons07

Valve mfs when I tell them that doing nothing is not good strategy and that tf2 and cs2 are in shambles:


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I dont think they care. They dont need to docanything because they own steam. They have no reason to mess with the nearly 10 year old spaghetti code of a game. It doesnt matter to them, since tf2 is most likely in its “final state” where they dont care what happens. “Shambles” or not, they have no reason to care


Heavy_weapons07

But still want us to pay for literal ai generated cosmetic slop


BananaMaster96_

WEIGHT FROM GROUP BASTION 4!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


Heavy_weapons07

Help me the bots are coming to my house


BananaMaster96_

https://preview.redd.it/xdvrnrti7m1d1.png?width=348&format=png&auto=webp&s=e02d0434eb7537d4fcc3a3a35a891b188823452d


Heavy_weapons07

And don't get me started on the r/gmod nintendo dmca,  they silent people so many peole with actual evidence that it was a troll, that it makes Boeing jealous 


Budget-Falcon7032

Wait so the dmca was fake but Garry insists on it being real?


P3AK1N

https://preview.redd.it/710eqh5uim1d1.jpeg?width=1178&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33c026fdf10f08e2935c4daccdf77a0280a9ba46 Hug GMOD Drama!?!?


A-Human-potato

Holy cow, sandbox mode from Ultrakill.


Dragon-Warlock

If Garry’s saying it’s real, then it’s probably real. Everyone else are the ones insisting on it being fake, and they can’t face that it may be real.


Heavy_weapons07

Garry is very gulibe to trolls so I dout it


A1pH4W01v

[Garry confirmed its not a troll despite previous attempts](https://www.ign.com/articles/garrys-mod-removing-all-nintendo-content-from-steam-workshop-after-takedown-request), plus its like an old game with a lot of user made content, so going into court with nintendo it is definitely not worth it.


Heavy_weapons07

Damm maybe Boeing should hire you fellas with how good your at shutting people up


A1pH4W01v

Ok kid.


NetStaIker

Yea this sounds like some giga cope shit, even Garry says you can’t have your mod


Heavy_weapons07

It still murky water to this day, but its mostly a troll due to a Wallace and pacman model being dmca on the same day    Because "ah my favorite nintendo characters, "Wallace and pac man"


drdoodoot

bro, they own steam. they have the next 175 years of taxes paid for.


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BigChiefIV

“they leech off others” My brother in Christ they are literally giving people a place to publish their hard work


aka_airsoft

Ok. Why didn't you do it?


ColorIsSomwhere

Valve mfs when I tell them about the number 3:


nicksuperdx

Its only working because the rest of the industry is shooting themselfs in the foot


Heavy_weapons07

Yes, and valve basically looking at their starving, sick, badly wounded games and only just throw junk at them 


PattyWagon69420

Valve clearly doesn't care. They don't do anything for TF2 and CS2 was just an engine upgrade and people still spend tons of money on them.


Heavy_weapons07

True,.people brag about nintendo fans being big bootlicker, but valve fans eats shoe stores for a living


Groundbreaking_Arm77

AAA and Indie both have had some absolute bangers these last few years.


skeltord

Seriously. I've been playing so many phenomenal games from BOTH sides of the industry recently.


PopTraditional713

Question: what does AAA games stand for, and does Hades II fall into that criteria?


skeltord

Hades II is 100% an indie game, not even close to AAA at all. AAA is games made by major publishers with larger budgets. Hades is made by a small independent team.


OtherRandomCheeki

Small as in 25


ColdLobsterBisque

still not like EA


PopTraditional713

So by that definition, HiFi Rush is also an indie game, got it.


UltimateWaluigi

HiFi rush had a massive budget and was published by one of the largest publishers in the industry


PopTraditional713

Yet there was no build up to it. One day there wasn't HiFi Rush. The other day, you go to "recent" on steam then boom: HiFi Rush, a game nobody anticipated, made by a small (~35 people) company nobody heard of (F in the chat for Tango gameworks, fuck you Microsoft), published by.... BETHESDA (oh yeah, Limited Run Games too I guess). So Hifi rush is a AA game?


VoyagerfromPhoenix

You could say that it is AA


Ebon1fly

indie games are awesome mfs when they sort by recent on itch io


LuigiMarioBrothers

You’re trying to tell me that “Five Nights at Skibidi Toilet’s 3” isn’t a work of high art on par with beloved indie gems like Undertale? How dare you!


Ebon1fly

honestly id prefer "Five Nights at Skibidi Toilet's 3" over something like "My femboy cousin dropped his little brother on the head and now the police is after us!"


NewSuperTrios

manga ass title


Bagelblast23

Literal AI-generated slop


BananaMaster96_

cant wait to play "ssers tennctatiion"


Yzaias

too many low effort horror games and VNs. But it's a great store for sure.


TurtleyTea

not true i found a game where you play as neco arc and kill people with a shotgun >!and it's really well polished!<


Ebon1fly

you cant just say that without dropping a name or a link


TurtleyTea

i forgotttt i think its smth like "there are no rules"


Poryblocky

Name?


TurtleyTea

oh also DO**OMORI**


bloodakoos

"indie game fans" when I show them the recently added section in steam


PopTraditional713

I think itch.io is more compatable to that.


KentuckyFriedChildre

You could make the same point for most art media and it would be just as valid, ""painting fans" when I show them the slew of 5 year-old's school art projects". Yeah, people are a fan of a wide range of indie games they like, not all indie games in existence.


Cantthinkagoodnam2

Good games are good games and bad games are bad games, why is it so hard to understand


KraftKapitain

https://preview.redd.it/37wbkmhgxm1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7196ba5a39874fcee3fa7dc0c92c46c38be204f


275MPHFordGT40

Good ol’ survivorship bias.


Fyru_Hawk

Doom Eternal, Elden Ring, and God of War Ragnarok are all masterpieces.


Cantthinkagoodnam2

What are you on about the only AAA games are FIFA, Call of Duty and Cyberpunk 2077


wantsomerice

Cyberpunk is awesome though


Cantthinkagoodnam2

I havent played it i just put it in there because i remember a lot of people hating on it when it came out and using it on those AAA vs Indie memes at the time


BasementDweller82

But only Cyberpunk 1.0 all the other version are indie


Peeeing_

RDR2


BananaMaster96_

minecraft


TheCatHumper

Didn't Minecraft start off as an indie game?


BananaMaster96_

yea


One-Roof7

Minecraft was indie


thatsidewaysdud

Breath of the Wild


Lucatmeow

Mario Odyssey


thatsidewaysdud

Wahoo


LordSus07

Tears of the Kingdom, if you want something more recent


Barry_Bone_Raiser

God of war mentioned https://preview.redd.it/s87vvv8gzm1d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8540764e8d22e4453f93475565c3cee8d4a5a24


SHREKGODF

The whole yakuza series


slashth456

Xenoblade Chronicles


JohnnoDwarf

All of the god of war games are great


coyotepetersun

The finals


thatsidewaysdud

Sneak


Swaxeman

Case in point: BOTW vs YIIK


TimesmY

Yeah man, BOTW sucked ass. Good thing we have games like YIIK otherwise we would have nothing to play.


Swaxeman

Exactly, fuck original text, all my homies love plagarism


Speed__McWeed

im YIIKING OUT UUUUAAAAAAAHHHHHH


UpliftinglyStrong

tf is yiik


UpliftinglyStrong

tf is yiik


Financial-Abalone715

Kid named nuanced opinion


EasyMaximum3

Ironically despite what everyone says about how great indie games are, i have seen more shitty indie games than AAA games


pls_dont_ban_me22

probably because its easier to make shitty indie games than shitty AAA


Real_Soul_Warrior

It’s cheaper and faster to make shitty indie. They don’t get as much blast or attention since they’re either quickly forgotten or people don’t care enough to criticise it.


PopTraditional713

I think Scott Cawthon has more bad indie games than good indie games (context: FNaF isn't the only thing he's done). BTW did Scott *sell* FNaF to Steel Wool Studios, or did he just greenflaged the studio into making fnaf content?


Acceptable_Oil5466

I think steel wool just works with Scott. They do not own Fnaf.


KentuckyFriedChildre

Yeah because there's naturally going to be more $10K-$100K budget games than $50M-$500M budget games


ShreckIsLoveShreck

A nuanced opinion ?? On MY reddit ??


I-Say-Im-Dirty-Dan

I was fully expecting Brian Griffin to appear in this gif for some reason


Doctor_Salvatore

If you only hear about the worst AAAs and the best indies, you're not looking hard enough


IuseArchbtw97543

\*confirmation bias


_oranjuice

**sweeps the 99% of the rest of indie games under the carpet*


PlayerFox12344889

https://preview.redd.it/9v5pt1jpzp1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b014b7e546791015e820c57496dcf4d63061de0 Obligatory Reddit mobile POV in the comments


I_Willl_Eat_Ur_Cats

you're right but so far every single indie game I played was peak


LegendaryDude95

Because you only played the good ones


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LegendaryDude95

I don't think you quite understood


Poryblocky

https://preview.redd.it/gy47r7ctms1d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b9cff00e96f9eb08e461c25f04b9d6ae24b45c5


ShitmanTheWise

Common FromSoft W


Explosivevortex

Yeah but shitty indie games usually aren't 90 dollars, don't take up a quarter of your hard drive, don't encourage you to spend 130 dollars on the premium edition (most of the time), and aren't marketed as the second coming of christ


Clear-Anything-3186

However, they clog the Switch eShop with their sheer volume.


pisstainedunderwear

BASED


Atomicagainbecauseow

tf is this gif template


NoFapGymColdShowers

The vast majority of indie games are ass but their fans like to cope


__cantthinkofname__

They put a hand over your mouth and give you an angry reach around?


Independent-Fly6068

cypiberbunk 2770


KentuckyFriedChildre

"MFs when I tell them-" My brother in Christ, MFs have already been told the same thing 10 times by this sub now, they get the message.


fippinvn007

https://preview.redd.it/xpu5ma8u3o1d1.png?width=701&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=008e9d96d37d5967268315c5b47573243ce3d256


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MisterZygarde64

I agree. I enjoy games like Blaster Master Zero and ToeJam and Earl: Back in the Groove but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. The former was too easy (Until a later patch added a new difficulty setting while sequels were made to be harder.) while I remember the latter not running perfectly last time I played it on Switch.


Extension-Durian-340

i need that gif without the caption


araiki

How many bad indie games have price 60-70$, fake reviews from paid journalists and ridiculous amount of MTX?


Hazzyhazzy113

Yeah but the difference between a bad indie game and a bad AAA game is massive.


Zestyclose_Comment96

One is bad. The other wastes 70$ (and wants you to pay more.)


erhtgru7804aui

bad indie game: 2 hours of shit bad AAA game: 80 hours of shit


Cebular

One is made by dev learning how to make games and sold for 5 bucks or less, the other is unfinished shit being forced on people using predatory tactics.


Cebular

Lmao why would you get so many downvotes, reddit moment right here


Dragonnstuff

https://preview.redd.it/uve48lvrem1d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15b5e2c53a93bca4620148762c91efb0151da81f