A first-person, single-player AAA shooter could be exactly my cuppa. However, there'd be zero chance I'm buying a game from EA so there's that.
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Honestly fuck EA.
trying to make a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea, especially since it was a new IP that was also trying to leverage Unreal Engine 5. What ended up launching was a bloated, repetitive campaign that was far too long.
See, it's the last part of that quote that's the problem. Not the concept of a AAA sp fps.
I'm going to chime in on the "never even heard of this game" train.
And based on that, I'll "tinfoil hat" a bit: the game doesn't seem to have any kind of mtx (it does have a deluxe edition items which apparently offer boosts) - so the publisher didn't push the game as hard as it does with it's live service games -> very few even have heard of this game.
edit: because sources: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Immortals_of_Aveum#Monetization - didn't do any further research on the matter.
edit2: also, on the article:
... trying to make a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea, especially since it was a new IP that was also trying to leverage Unreal Engine 5. What ended up launching was a bloated, repetitive campaign that was far too long."
...so, they even admit it themselves that it's pretty meh? And then it's framed like single-player games just don't sell.. what?
Yeah, the headline is stupid. If they made a good AAA game that was only as long as it needed to be, it'd sell. The issue is all the AAA publishers think games need to take as much time to play as possible, which sucks so much.
AAA gaming is mostly dead to me for many years now because they don't know how to make good games. They just know how to convince people to buy the crap they make. Theres a few that I'll still play, like anything FromSoft makes (that's available on PC), but not much.
The issue is all the AAA publishers think games need to take as much time to play as possible, which sucks so much.
the thing is, they're somewhat right too. So many times at the steam forums, people ask "how long" a releasing game is going to be, and overall prefer length. To a degree I do understand that people want content for the 60-80 €/$/£. Personally I'd like quality over quantity, but it gets a bit wishywashy depending on genre and what is expected of it.
If we're using the "A"'s as a metric of sorts, I kinda feel like "AA" -range is pretty much where it is at. Generally not overly flashy, designed by a committee or exhaustively long.
I generally prefer indie games. Their budget is usually so small they have to pick one thing to do and to do it well, rather than AAA that wants to do everything and does it all poorly and not well integrated. AA is definitely better about it usually, and will have good enough production quality for the masses though.
"we made a mid game and released it at a bad time, we couldn't possibly be the reason it failed, clearly the world just doesn't want single player shooters!"
Single-player shooters are my thing (ain't got time for multiplayer and the dedication needed for it), and EA games aren't my thing.
It was just really bland.
A magic FPS sounds great. I want more of them. I didn't completely hate the demo. But there were three spells for the part I played and none of them felt good. And all the reviews implied there really wasn't much more.
Spending all that money on a mediocre game is the bad idea. And spending 40 million on marketing and having no one know what your game is is just kind of funny.
Imagine if the Heretic series dropped in 2024 instead of the 90s? I feel like people would go crazy for that game with a modern engine and level design.