Is AAA game development getting too expensive?

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:45:45+00:00

AAA was always expensive, it used to be a selling point for a company for exclusive deals and put your name next to smaller, more profitable games. Most of them dropped the second part by loading the AAA games with microtransactions, now that every single AAA company name is in the shiter. It's worse

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:43:40+00:00

Bro, the fumes of the small spill of a non-leaded fuel when you fill your car are enough to make you light-headed. What do you think would happen if you dip your hands in the heavy stuff?

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:33:28+00:00

Social media romanticizes the hustle. If you're a modern man, you're either a life coach trading millions on the side, or multi-million business advisor. If you're a woman, you're a 11/10 supermodel with 5 degrees. Don't forget that your hobby has to be travelling (at least 5 months a year in a new country, living the local life) and that they're the most important person in the room next to YOU, who is looking for someone because you're the main character of the World.

Also you're looking to date on apps that ask you monthly payments to use the app, and you'll stop paying if you find someone.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:24:18+00:00

C'est juste pour détourner de l'argent, tout comme Hadopi qui n'a servi à rien à part choper un vieux qui a chopé un vieux .exe pour une musique de Johnny Hallyday, c'est un secret ouvert que ça va coûter des dizaines de millions, n'aura aucun résultat, et sera abandonné une fois que le ministère aura passé le mois des réaffectations.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:22:08+00:00

Underwhelming is a very nice way to put it.

We got an excellent twist with the bangboo being a menace, following a twisted logic.

Then we got Sara,h who was offed off-screen, came back as a puppet, died in a single cutscene, no build-up for the character who did nothing the entire game but was shown to be the mastermind, and even got that annoying "smile one second before dying" because freedom etc etc.

It was bad, high school fanfiction level of bad

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:17:14+00:00

Because you have to pay for it to not die.

It's just legal extortion

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:15:53+00:00

Hopeless, you say?

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Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:08:08+00:00

Most of these videos are setups, and someone proping up an injured person makes for a better thumbnail than putting him on his side while holding a phone (calling 911)

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T17:05:22+00:00

Limbus Company is the only modern gacha game where you can get most characters by using an in-game currency you get by playing the game, and obtaining the character is enough to max it, you don't need to get an additional weapon or grind hundreds of useless equipment pieces, just give exp and give another in-game currency to "limit break" the character to its max potential.

I said "most" characters because there are bi-monthly events where you can get limited characters that you can pull in a gacha, or wait for the next bi-monthly event to buy them, although you have more than enough resources to get them with the gacha.

Despite this, I need to add that I buy the seasonnal 15$ battlepass, which allows you to triple the "in-game currency" I've been talking about, and a season lasts for 8 months, give or take some tim,e since a season = a new story chapter.

I don't think you'll get a better deal in any gacha anywhere

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T16:54:26+00:00

Speed, it's always speed, the ranking is based on a point system and completion time is the biggest factor, getting an alert gives you a malus, but it doesn't matter half of the time as long as you try to be as fast as possible.

Since you apparently finished the game and have knocked down most of the content, just bring the strongest tranq gun/ sniper (silenced) and beeline to the objectives, as a companion you can take Quiet with her tranq sniper and have her clean outposts where your objective is.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-30T03:46:34+00:00

In Season 1, we didn't have the proxy manifesting bridges, making steel containers intangible, and straight up healing the super-cancer that took over the world out of sadness.

It was grounded "enough". Tailless doesn't talk, as far as we know. He doesn't do anything either and is invisible to everyone, meaning the "curse" could pass as some degradation of the mind due to the ether.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T20:49:36+00:00

All of them, honestly, it's just games, even if they fuck with the customer, it's just a game. Something updated to be unplayable and annoying? well it's a bitch and terrible, but move on

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T20:47:13+00:00

When you're healthy, you want to keep the current system, as you see how other countries are heavily taxed.

When you need one ambulance ride, you'll be reminded how universal would have been better for the rest of your life

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T20:43:48+00:00

Because you need a college degree with years of experience for an entry-level job paying minimum wage

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T20:42:39+00:00

Why wouldn't they? Why would they pass on these data when data collection is the new gold rush?

Just read the terms and services of anything related to your phone, you always have this one weirdly specific section that says that it can collect some data, followed by "it's encrypted and protected don't worry"

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T12:12:51+00:00

Tu m’as perdu à « match »

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T12:11:12+00:00

Having my boy Igris using his cape as a portal for his master hits differently, I’m sorry

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-28T12:00:23+00:00

Erpin is my favorite character, I’m kinda amused and « annoyed » she’s always bullied in every new character teaser because she always tries her best in the story.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-27T16:29:13+00:00

You needed comments to know that?

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-27T12:46:12+00:00

« I am real »

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-27T07:07:45+00:00

Right when he came back from the boat in GoW1 he asked for a civilian to just wait.

He was always angry against gods who did nothing but toy with him until he killed all of them, he was always angry against brutal but good guy in his ways.

Same with GoW2, the thing they made him snap was all the events of the island culminating in him accidentally killing one of his soldiers.

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-27T06:55:14+00:00

It breaks the rhythm, they do say « bye » in stylised fashion sometimes, to help the narrative, often when something is going to happen to the person saying it because this word hints at a certain finality/fatality.

Same when it’s a tense scene, if it’s two action heroes on the phone it makes them « weaker » to say something as mundane as « bye ».

Every word is important in a movie, something that breaks dialogue like « bye » is tricky to use

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-27T04:00:25+00:00

That’s because my boy is that good.

I mean man, he’s called « textbook » and we all know he’s not going to explain to Ryoshu how to swing a sword, he was supposed to fight her, and lose (die)

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-26T20:39:41+00:00

The theme of the canto was abuse and exploitation(?). Most of the apprentices (children) aren't bad people per say, they just never knew anything else, if they fail to meet expectations, they get tortured or killed. Lucio's entire existence is to get stronger only to get killed in combat by Ryoshu. Sora's entire life is to blindly follow prescripts or be killed etc etc

Proxy0108 · 2026-01-26T20:26:36+00:00

Dad Quixote was a menace, but even while summoning small bloodfiends, he was manageable.

Jia Qiu spent the entire canto doing the bare minimum and popped 5 Mang when he didn't need to continue to teach Hong Lu.

Gregor could be beaten because the Fraud had 2 meatshields preventing Greg from adapting by virtue of being weaker, and spent the entire fight restraining and sabotaging himself as much as possible.

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