The whole premise of AAA game series' in one image.

[Inject OH 4]

I'd rather pay $60 for a game with an actual story than $5 for some shit platformer... Bethesda games come to mind

You...
Me...

Sex now!

[Tictactoe360]

I'd rather pay $60 for a game with an actual story than $5 for some shit platformer... Bethesda games come to mind

You...
Me...

Sex now!

I'd rather find out the 5$ Game I bought was bad, than that 60$ Generic Shooter...  Every recent big name shooter comes to mind.

[Inject OH 4]

I'd rather pay $60 for a game with an actual story than $5 for some shit platformer... Bethesda games come to mind

You...
Me...

Sex now!

I'd rather find out the 5$ Game I bought was bad, than that 60$ Generic Shooter...  Every recent big name shooter comes to mind.

I'd rather not waste money on crappy games, Also I don't play full price for AAA games.

[Blackllama]

I generally waste a lot less money on indie games then AAA games. If I don't like an indie game, only a few dollars down the drain. If I don't like a AAA game, 60$ gone. I really like almost all the indie games I've bought, although I generally don't buy games I don't think I'm gonna like. The only time I really regret buying something is if I buy it on impulse.

Anyway, there are going to be bad games on both ends of the spectrum, so saying one is worse is kind of stupid. While indie games have less risk factor, AAA games tend to be more polished.

[Christovski]

I don't think you can really generalize about ALL indie games I mean Bastion is one of the greatest games ever made, but there is so much TRASH out there that are capitalizing on people suddenly buying "indie games" as a genre, its like all games in general like 10% are great the rest are junk.

I generally look into previous games made by indie studios before I buy a game to see how well they've done in the past.  Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP was amazing, and the next game by Capybara (coming to XBL arcade) Super Time Force looks to be a REALLY fun take on the hard sidecrolling shooter from back in the day, after the success of the previous game I'm obviously much more trusting of them to make the new one good.

[Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!)]

I don't think you can really generalize about ALL indie games I mean Bastion is one of the greatest games ever made, but there is so much TRASH out there that are capitalizing on people suddenly buying "indie games" as a genre, its like all games in general like 10% are great the rest are junk.

Soo much this. Everything has it's best and it's worst, there is no arguing that, but just the sheer volume of junk indie games pushes me towards the more mainstream, "AAA" games.

[Old Crow]

I don't think you can really generalize about ALL indie games I mean Bastion is one of the greatest games ever made, but there is so much TRASH out there that are capitalizing on people suddenly buying "indie games" as a genre, its like all games in general like 10% are great the rest are junk.

Soo much this. Everything has it's best and it's worst, there is no arguing that, but just the sheer volume of junk indie games pushes me towards the more mainstream, "AAA" games.

*Cough Towns Cough......Cough War Z Cough*

It all depends on what you like. There are many good indie games but like you guys said there is junk and well War Z is probably the worst example in the history of mankind.

AAA games often deliver the first one or two times around but I seem to notice that once they make it yearly the games turn to junk. Even if multiple studios are involved, it just floods the markets with a game that's the same as last year. That's why I'm scared for Saints 4 and the new announced Batman game.

I mean lets look at this. CoD is known to be the same year in and year out, but it sells because its a shooter. A much better example is Assassins Creed. ACI was good but flawed. ACII, which came what two years after was excellent. Then Ubi said we need one every year and its been nothing but boxed DLC or in the case of ACIII unnecessary fluff has accumulated.

Then compare that to the cases of FarCry and BioShock. Both are not published yearly, both have had their true sequels take years to come out and they always improve. FarCry 3 is a huge jump from FarCry 2, and thats because it took 4 years to make it.

TLDR take the time to craft an actual game, or GTFO