Why is anyone playing AAA these days when so many great gam a exist. Most AAA is the slime left at the bottom of the barrel where all the originality has already been removed
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Yep... Well, at least we have indy.
Thank you, this was my first thought. We're tired of AAA slop that's almost always perpetually online, rushed, derivative, and riddled with microtransactions/battlepass subscriptions. Not to mention they're about to start trying to charge us 80 bucks a title. Let the industry rot.
Right now it seems like most games are playable if they don't use UE5 or have mandatory ray tracing. There are a few other notable exceptions like Monster Hunter Wilds (which is just terribly optimized in general) and Starfield (which actually just got a new performance options focused on low end devices, so it might work better now).
I mostly use the Deck for emulation and to play my massive library of Indie games (thank you Humble Monthly).
Is there a playability list for AAA games that shows which ones are worth playing?