Christopher wrote:I’d say Returnal is probably the best new gen game, and that at its core is an arcade rogue like. Sadly it didn’t sell too well. But it is a great game that stands out over the big blockbusters with gameplay above everything else. It’s a throwback to fast frantic arcade action.
Probably because it was priced at £70 and didn't drop for ages. I know that I was waiting for it to drop below £50 but it didn't for over a year and eventually came to PS+ before that. Even now, over 3 years on, it has never been below £34.99 on the PlayStation store. It wasn't that long ago that you could get new games for that.
AAA are too expensive at the moment. At the same time that some studios are spending literally $1,000,000,000 on a title, there are indie developers creating games for nothing. Obviously there's a huge gap in the scope of AAA Vs indie, but I'd take one hundred games with unique ideas and a $3,000,000 budget each over one Spiderman game that is technically incredible but plays it very safe in terms of gameplay.