When said "major players" only pump out trash that's not fun to play, yes, I will ignore them gladly. The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order, which I promply refunded after finishing, since it was more of a walking and climbing simulator than anything else – and that was one of the better AAA games to come out in the past decade.

Indie devs and studios are the ones actually carrying the industry forwards.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your preference doesn't dictate what's industry standard is my point. It would be like someone only playing exclusively Total War games claiming the Warscape Engine is industry standard, sounds pretty stupid doesn't it.

The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order,

A shame you missed out on Baldurs Gate 3 then. Alan Wake also got great criticism.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fallacious reasoning. "Indie" isn't a genre of games. I don't claim AAA games are garbage because of a preference – they're objectively slop made without passion as a cashgrab.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

Lol, alright dude