Genre has an actual meaning, one I'd expect someone on a videogame enthusiast forum to be familiar with.
And boy does it show.
I understand that you don't know the first thing about video games. Or genres. Or arguments.
AAA and indie aren't the same. AAA is the budget scope. Indie is just independent developer without a publisher
Nah, the prejudice against “indies” was strong even when GAF was at its peak. 6th- and 7th-gen AAA games changed people’s expectations forever. I kinda understand how someone can’t stomach the look of Celeste when Uncharted came out more than a decade ago. And it’s true that there’s way too many pixel-art games that actually look lower-fi than actual NES games. Still, what matters most is gameplay and design, and there’s plenty “indie” games that can teach a thing or two about that to much bigger studios. Also, it’s not like AAAs are particularly original for the most part these days. I don’t know why people are still buying every Assassin’s Creed game - AC games’ samey nature was already a meme around the launch of Gen 8.
This.
That's one of the big reasons why newgrounds died/bled talent. People figured out that they should be paid for their hard work.
Wait, wait. What is DmC 5? A, AA, or AAA? What about Resident Evil 7, 8? What about Evil Within or Doom? Not all AAA games are soulless Ubisoft or EA games.
Those you listed all are games I loved, the point is: many games launch as a bugfest, some others not, largely dependent from the developer, and only for personal preferences, if I have to make a % for the games I like the most, lately I liked way more indies than regular games
Oh no, that is fine. I read from your post that you were pegging indie as a genre and that all AAA games were bloated, low quality, or walking sims. I am pegging the bloated to mainly Ubi or EA. Honestly it feels like walking Sims more often come from Indies or smaller teams than AAA. Buggy triple AAA is definitely prevalent with EA, Ubi, and Bethesda. Idk how I forgot them.
Bernd Lauert
said there are literally 1000s of "indie" games released on everything especially Steam's Early Access, and I've already said in a previous thread 99% of indie games are utter garbage that shouldn't have seen the light of day! Most of them I'd compare to the bootleg games of old like Somari (Sonic 8bit bootleg for the Famicom using Mario's sprite hence the name). 
Yeah. The "indie" games to me are a welcome return to a more awesome time in gaming where super creative games came out that became classics we fondly remember even thirty years later. In the heyday of the likes of the Amiga, many many games were made by a handful of people in their parent's basement, and they made the games they WANTED to make, and not games dictated by market research or risk analysis. A lot of that creative energy got destroyed as videogames started to lose their reputation of "shit for kids and nerds" and the big publishers snatched up the previously indie developers and stuck them into drawers were they had to make the same game game over and over again, or chase the latest bandwagon with their cashgrabs. Today, I'd much rather give my money to the devs of something like Valheim than give it to EA or Activision for the latest Call of Battlefield they shit out to sell loot boxes and €20 skin sets with.
Which is literally how everyone should approach a game purchase these days to be honest.
