What the fuck does this even mean anymore? Sometimes I refer to people using AA for anti-aliasing, which makes sense. Then you get the people using this type of terminology to simply games they like.
The general definition seems to be related to games of high budget, high production values, and sometimes of even high quality. People will label Western games like CoD as AAA games, which fits the requirement of being high budget and high production values, but then the same people will say the same about the average Nintendo title which really doesn't encompass either (at least compared to the average blockbuster title).
This is possibly one of the most overused terms of all time, but I'm confused on what the real meaning of it is. People seem to exclusively relate it to production values and budget, but how exactly does that make it a quality game enough to be dubbed "AAA" or "AAAA"? I feel like people think that production values are synonymous with high quality gaming when they use terms like this.
If you use it, what does it mean to you? It seems to be different for every person in usage, and I'd like to understand why it has caught on over the years. The first time I've ever seen it was in gaming magazines at the beginning of the current generation of gaming.
The general definition seems to be related to games of high budget, high production values, and sometimes of even high quality. People will label Western games like CoD as AAA games, which fits the requirement of being high budget and high production values, but then the same people will say the same about the average Nintendo title which really doesn't encompass either (at least compared to the average blockbuster title).
This is possibly one of the most overused terms of all time, but I'm confused on what the real meaning of it is. People seem to exclusively relate it to production values and budget, but how exactly does that make it a quality game enough to be dubbed "AAA" or "AAAA"? I feel like people think that production values are synonymous with high quality gaming when they use terms like this.
If you use it, what does it mean to you? It seems to be different for every person in usage, and I'd like to understand why it has caught on over the years. The first time I've ever seen it was in gaming magazines at the beginning of the current generation of gaming.