>people say AA games stopped existing
>they haven't entirely, some actually do exist but they're typically flawed as you would expect
>actually play one
>enjoy it
>go into a thread about it
>absolutely nothing but whining about how it isn't worth more than $5 because it reuses locations or doesn't have extremely in depth combat or some other shit like that
The fact is that we like to act like "games don't need to have mega budgets" but then when something that does have a small budget releases, unless it's an exceptional 10/10 it gets treated like dogshit. You might not be one of them - or you very well may be - but the fact is that people do have higher standards now.