AAA Games for 2008

Grand Theft Auto : 4
Metal Gear Solid : 4
Tomb Raider : Underworld
Little Big Planet
Street Fighter : IV
Motorstorm : 2
Unreal Tournament : 3
Brother In Arms : Hells Highway
Duke Nukem : Forever
Kill Zone : 2

Those 10 for now. My brain has gone blank.

Playstation Home! Not really a game but its going to be t3h pwnage!
 
Games am really looking forward to are:

Devil May Cry 4
Lost Odyssey
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Grand Theft Auto IV
Too Human
Prototype
Soul Caliber IV
Army Of Two
Alan Wake
Ninja Gaiden 2

Not really seen much of other games but am sure there are gonna be more that catch my eye closer to there release. Also games like Littlebig planet make me wanna buy a PS3.
 
LBP that's the only possible AAA game this year, because the rest are re-hash crap we've seen/played time and time again.

The lack of creativity from developers is beyond belief :(

edit; before anyone here starts getting their knickers in a twist I'm sure there will be some great games this year, but in my view AAA should not only be something great but also something creative and offering a new experience in gaming.
 
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OK as far as ive read/heard a Triple A game is supposed to consist of these attributes

1) High Budget
2) High Sales
3) Highly rated

Think this year we're gonna have more AAA's than even last year if all the games live up to the hype (most wont) i think we'll see, (exclusives only)

For the 360,
Fable 2
Ninja Gaiden 2
Too human
Alan Wake

For the Wii
WiiFit
Mariokart
Smash brothers
possibly no more heroes?
(cant think of any more)

For the PS3
MGS4
LBP
Resistance 2
Kill zone 2
White Knight Story

PSP
God of War Chains of olympus
FF Crysis core

Think there will be plenty of other exclusives that will be AAA, but these are the ones i think will be definites.
 
msmalls74 said:
OK as far as ive read/heard a Triple A game is supposed to consist of these attributes

1) High Budget
2) High Sales
3) Highly rated

Think this year we're gonna have more AAA's than even last year if all the games live up to the hype (most wont) i think we'll see, (exclusives only)
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Says it all really, like already mentioned no different than the so called blockbuster films. The more you spend the better the film :(

Look at Transformers & Spiderman 3, both cost a fortune to make yet as films were nothing short of garbage.

I was always under the impression that AAA stood for genre definning. Now I know this is all that's required for a game to be AAA there will be loads this year. Most just over-hyped, big budget re-hashes of previous games.
 
Shamikebab said:
So you think games like Alan Wake and Fable 2 aren't showing creativity?
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Not at present, no..

Alan Wake looks like a great game, but the fact that info about the game is extremely limited I can't say whether it's creative. Although we haven't exactly been swamped with survival horror games this generation, their have been plenty in the past and without knowing anything more about AW I'd have to presume that it won't be to dissimilar to games of past..

Fable 2, well all I can say is it has a number 2 after it so I'd say it's Fable 1wearing a different coat today. Unless something radical has been changed, like the whole game then sorry in my eyes this is not a AAA game, great maybe...

If you want to include these games, plus the likes of KZ2,GTA4, MGS4, GT5 etc you should rename the post great hyped games in 2008 or most wanted games of 2008 or most visually impressive games of 2008, not AAA.

Another one to add to the list is Rock Band :)
 
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rp2000 said:
A good example (for me) is Alan Wake. NO-ONE here has seen any in game content AT ALL. It is a new IP so there is no "history" for this (like there may be for sequels established IPs). But people say I am looking forward to this, like they know details about the game. Bizarre.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen some in-game footage... I think it was at an Intel Developer's Conference or something like that. Could be mistaken though - it happens fairly often.

As for my list... well, these probably won't be classed as AAA by most people, but these are the games I'm looking forward to this year (in no particular order).

1/ Spore
2/ Far Cry 2
3/ Wii-Fit
4/ Mario Kart Wii
5/ SSB:B
6/ Okami
7/ Samba De Amigo
8/ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
9/ No More Heroes
 
Personally i think the whole AAA/hyped game thing is a bit of both arguments. The simple fact is that there are 2 distinct game types, those you hear plenty about years before launch and that run looooooong PR campaigns to pump up fans, and those that pop up in review month and are on the shelves before you know whats what.

Now the former are mostly classed as triple A titles correct? So now look to 'why' they are so branded. The main reasons are either media hype or corporate/PR hype. The end result is the same (games branded AAA) but often the two are confused. Lets take a game like Oblivion, now although there was reasonable PR hype around this game, most of the hype and speculation came from the media thanks to the early screens that seemed to defy reality in terms of scope and quality. This media-centric hype built up the game in the public conciousness, not because money was particularily thrown at plugging it, but because it grabbed attention, in the case of oblivion with its visuals.

Now take Gears of War, as a new IP and as a landmark title for the 360, this had money poured into PR and it was really money that had 'Emergence Day' on everyones lips, i for one knew next to nothing about the actual game until just before launch, it was a true PR AAA in my mind.

So whats my point? My point is that most good games are AAA titles because of one of these reasons, so while 90% of good games are AAA before launch more like 60-70% of triple A titles turn out to be good games. A percentage are picked up on merit and a percentage on PR budget. Thus AAA is a valid category imo but you will always get your flops and sucesses because the foundations of the category are so varied.
 
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