ddickinson: Please don't misunderstand me, I am not having a go at people who like, buy, and play AAA games. That is fine, but some of the AAA titles are horrible. No need to be sorry for buying and playing games you enjoy. Like when you worry people will mind you like console games, so do I, granted I have never owned a console since the PS2, but I still love playing it. Games are games, no matter what system. If you have fun, that is all that counts.
l0rdtr3k: And I'm saying that I agree with you.AAA games should be more than glorifies Hollywood blockbusters.
Look at the Deus Ex series that deals with important social and political issues in a great way.I think that AAA devs should tackle these issues and be more than action films.
I like both. I just think that people just be realistic about things. I heard people claim that CoD. AW was "groundbreaking regarding story telling", because Kevin Spacey was in it. That's wrong. It's a 6 hour entertainment flick with a lot of explosions. It's like calling "The Expendables" a movie with a revolutionary narrative.
Sometimes I want to relax. Then I start some games like Prince of Persia, where I just float along. Other times I want to be challenged on a mechanical level. Then I play DotA or back in the day DoW2 or SC2 (or even further: Wc3, SCBW)
Sometimes I want to be challenged morally. Then I play Witcher 3 or Deus Ex or Spec Ops.
Or I want to live through an adventure and boot up stuff like Banner Saga.
There's stuff for everyone. But people just need to be honest about what is what and not let buyer's bias get the best of them. Let them be glorified Hollywood blockbusters. That's ok.
I hate people that are like "Ugh so uncultured. There's no ominous plot twist and the characters are one dimensional." - " If I want to play Duke Nukem, I do not want to wrap my head around some giant 5000 pages worth of character development. I worked 10 hours that day and I just want to relax and turn of my brain."