Comment on Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic)

• Ashtear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In a world where game budgets balloon to over $300m, Hades 2 fits comfortably into the “smaller game” category. As do Blue Prince, Expedition 33, Silksong, and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, among other top-rated games this year.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    but it has to involve some scaling down of both the size and cost of these projects and also player expectations, who are always demanding more, more, more, and anything less, from visual fidelity to playtime to map size, is viewed as an inexcusable downgrade, especially for something like a sequel, which is most of what the industry produces now. Something has to give, and after a lot of bending, we are on the verge of this whole thing breaking.

    I kind of hate that line.

    It might be true with how ridiculous some gamers’ expectation see, but I have to wonder if its like a ‘Twitter mirage’.

    Are people looking at, like, KCD II and BG3 or even GTA V and thinking ‘man, if the graphics aren’t better and the world isn’t even bigger, the next game is going to suck!’

    I’m not… I mean, I’d be happy to buy expansions instead of $300m+ gigagame.

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Expedition 33 had ten times more personnel than Silksong, that’s gotta be another category.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most games have 10x more personnel than Silksong, including most indie games that aren’t solo efforts

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    • Ashtear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, if y’all really insist, I can specify “not AAA games.” That’s the point I was making; this year’s game of the year nominee lists are going to look quite different than usual.

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