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Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

then don’t make a half a billion dollar game. red dead 2 would have been fine without dynamically sized horse balls. a lot of people (read: me) don’t care about hyper realistic graphics in games. i’d rather play something with a cool aesthetic that runs smoothly instead of something that looks like a disney live action remake and makes my computer beg for mercy. indie developers have been eating everyone’s dinner recently with a never ending stream of incredible and beautiful looking games. i’m sure it’s possible to make a good game for less than 500 million dollars and with less than 8 years of development time.