Why AA is trash

In the 90's, good games were rare. There would only be a handful of them out of every year. Now, there's at least 5 good games that come out each month.

Resident Evil and Star Fox were AA games, but the way we hear people talk about them, you would think they were AAA.

AA are great games

Thought this would be about Anti-Aliasing.

Yes. And "trash" is hyperbole.

But you can't deny:
AA in 1997 = a defining game of the year or generation
AA today = one of many AA's

I did too at first, but then I thought "Is he referring to "AA" games?

@drekula2: more great games seems like a good thing

Same.

Seems like it. But actually, it's the equivalent of going to an ice cream shop with 100 flavors as opposed to an ice cream shop with only 6.

We unify behind limited options, but raise our standards when our options increase. When Halo 2's multiplayer was out, it was unifying. Now with dozens of online multiplayer shooters, nothing stands out.

So AA games are trash because there's a lot more than there used to be? There being a larger quantity of them does not make them bad or mediocre. If anything, there being less in the 90s and 80s speaks a lot more about the games back then then it does the games of today.

It's a dumb topic either way :p

Yep. Technology evolves, but the human psychology is the same. 8 is the new 7

I have no issue with AA games. There are a lot of "AA" games worth playing and even a few "A" games. Anything before that, you might want to stay away from or try a friends copy if he/she owns it.

This thread is trash.

Even then, 7's are still decent games. There are lot of games out there that only got those, but I really enjoyed, such as inFamous 2 (7.5 here). I think another reason we see a lot more AA games now these days could also be because the game industry has expanded and there could be more developers than there used to be.

definitely thought this thread was going to be about anti-ailiasing.

This is the fucking lowest point of SW.

Look, just because AdobeArtist likes pretending to be a female in MassEffect does not-

Oh wait.. That's not what this thread is about lol.

AA= "great" /thead

You do know A/AA/AAA refers to the budget of the game?

Was expecting a thread on anti-aliasing.

Fucking AA. I WANT JAGGIES MOTHERFUCKER!! THAT SHIT IS CINEMATIC!!!

@StriateEnd: uh not here it doesn't

sony fanboy is mad that TLOU got an 8 lol

...and yet it's a great game

this thread comes off weird.

I will say however that it seems eaiser for a game to get an AA score now than it did in years past (maybe the TC was trying to say something like this) which would lead to us having more AA games but not really having the AA quality that used to be associated with that score.

In that respect, in alot of cases (not all of course) I somewhat agree.

I do not understand alot of the scoring choices of that have come out over the generation, but I think it has alot to do with people doing away with criteria based scoring and relying more on personal opinion.

When reviewers started to do away with music, graphics, gameplay/playability, controls, and functionality in the reviewing requirements needed to justify the scoring elements of games things started to go to hell with reviewing standards.

I'm sensing some jelly in the op

AA's were great then but they are also great now nothing changed because of the volume of quality titles. Some of the AAs back then probably did do more for gaming then current AAs as developers were still largely figuring out what works and doesn't.

@princessgomez92: you make it better simply by being here

You know, the abundance of great games is also the reason I only play AAAAE games. There's enough of them that I have plenty to play and everything else is absolute trash otherwise.

lol, same here.

What a waste of time to comment on but I will since some AA games like ME,TP and MM are quality.

There are good games, there are great games (AA), and there are cream of the crop (AAA).

Not every game will be cream of the crop, and to pretend you play nothing but, it's no wonder why you spend so much time trolling on this forum,

AA on PC still means something, as it has no review padding (for the most part)

When I was a big bar hopper we made fun of lightweights. Now I see the advantage they had. Get to where people drinking want, still have money. I like games. Some say "you have low standards" but I enjoy more games that way. If I'm not enjoying this playing games thing, why do it?

Same. Would still be a shitty topic though

I think people need to reconsider how Gamespot have been scoring their games. They changed their standards about 2 years ago, beginning to be more critical. Furthermore, they changed their scoring system to integer values this year. So how people interpretted 9.5's should consider them to be something like a 9 now, and so on. Personally, I find the review score to be pretty pointless. The review, pros and cons are what's worth it to me.

You're an idiot

I thought you were going to talk about Ace Attorney. I was going to be so pissed.

I love how people only read the title and none of the posts. But in terms of cultural impact, AA games will just never have the same impact they used to have.

Yeah I'm not a fan of alcoholics anonymous neither.

I don't like scores today. It seems if a game is not AA or AAA people says it's bad. No game should be 10. 9 should be near perfection in all aspects. Most great games should be 8 or so. 6 or 7 should be good games. It seems if a game gets a 7 or lower it's considered trash. What's the point of 1,2,3,4,5 if they are pretty much all the same trash ratings?

I thought he meant Arkham Asylum.

This thread is AA