I think that in order to have a AAAA game you would need to be better than a AAA game which is almost considered perfect.
Following that logic I would say that a AAAA game whould have to be appealing even to people who do not like the genre of that game ... it would have to transcend its genre...
I dont think thats even possible ....
I could point out Super MArio Bros 3 but Im just saying that because I think that it is the best game of all time... does it deserve a AAAA mrti badge ?? you decide ....
PS GTA IV wold not be a AAAA game (IMO) it would perhaps be one of the best AAA games and by far the best game in its franchise ....
"I think that in order to have a AAAA game you would need to be better than a AAA game which is almost considered perfect.
Following that logic I would say that a AAAA game whould have to be appealing even to people who do not like the genre of that game ... it would have to transcend its genre...
I dont think thats even possible ....
I could point out Super MArio Bros 3 but Im just saying that because I think that it is the best game of all time... does it deserve a AAAA mrti badge ?? you decide ....
PS GTA IV wold not be a AAAA game (IMO) it would perhaps be one of the best AAA games and by far the best game in its franchise ...."
Once and for all, AAA is largely an internal term that roughly means "A GAME WE ARE THROWING OUR FULL DEVELOPMENT AND/OR MARKETING MUSCLE INTO." It has more to do with the spending of advertising dollars or the game's sales potential than with the game's quality. It probably started with some business dudes applying Bond credit ratings to games. It's similar to the film industry's "A-list." As in, "I would like to work on a movie with strong buzz and an A-list director attached."
The games that you see everywhere you look, with TV ads and wall-to-wall preview coverage, those are typically the AAA games. It occasionally slips out to the press in the form of a sentence like "well, this is our big Triple A title for the Fall" or something like that. It could mean Halo. It could mean Red Steel. Different companies use it different ways. Some probably don't use it at all.
I'm not really sure why people started thinking that it had something to do with review scores. It's pretty stupid.
"Once and for all, AAA is largely an internal term that roughly means "A GAME WE ARE THROWING OUR FULL DEVELOPMENT AND/OR MARKETING MUSCLE INTO." It has more to do with the spending of advertising dollars or the game's sales potential than with the game's quality. It probably started with some business dudes applying Bond credit ratings to games. It's similar to the film industry's "A-list." As in, "I would like to work on a movie with strong buzz and an A-list director attached."
The games that you see everywhere you look, with TV ads and wall-to-wall preview coverage, those are typically the AAA games. It occasionally slips out to the press in the form of a sentence like "well, this is our big Triple A title for the Fall" or something like that. It could mean Halo. It could mean Red Steel. Different companies use it different ways. Some probably don't use it at all.
I'm not really sure why people started thinking that it had something to do with review scores. It's pretty stupid.
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Well when you go on systems war a lot you get use to it i guess.
"Once and for all, AAA is largely an internal term that roughly means "A GAME WE ARE THROWING OUR FULL DEVELOPMENT AND/OR MARKETING MUSCLE INTO." It has more to do with the spending of advertising dollars or the game's sales potential than with the game's quality. It probably started with some business dudes applying Bond credit ratings to games. It's similar to the film industry's "A-list." As in, "I would like to work on a movie with strong buzz and an A-list director attached."
The games that you see everywhere you look, with TV ads and wall-to-wall preview coverage, those are typically the AAA games. It occasionally slips out to the press in the form of a sentence like "well, this is our big Triple A title for the Fall" or something like that. It could mean Halo. It could mean Red Steel. Different companies use it different ways. Some probably don't use it at all.
I'm not really sure why people started thinking that it had something to do with review scores. It's pretty stupid.
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Than I am proclaiming The Dark Knight a AAAA movie because that movies hype was RIDICULOUS.
"Once and for all, AAA is largely an internal term that roughly means "A GAME WE ARE THROWING OUR FULL DEVELOPMENT AND/OR MARKETING MUSCLE INTO." It has more to do with the spending of advertising dollars or the game's sales potential than with the game's quality. It probably started with some business dudes applying Bond credit ratings to games. It's similar to the film industry's "A-list." As in, "I would like to work on a movie with strong buzz and an A-list director attached."
The games that you see everywhere you look, with TV ads and wall-to-wall preview coverage, those are typically the AAA games. It occasionally slips out to the press in the form of a sentence like "well, this is our big Triple A title for the Fall" or something like that. It could mean Halo. It could mean Red Steel. Different companies use it different ways. Some probably don't use it at all.
I'm not really sure why people started thinking that it had something to do with review scores. It's pretty stupid.
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This thread is dumb. There is no need for something to be considered AAAA. The definition is already set at AAA.
"So basically you're asking if we can raise the absurd hyperbole level past what it's already at?
Sounds like something we can shoot for.
MGS5/GTA5/Halo 4 = "These are officially the first AAAA games ever!""
I call it grade inflation, and some day things will be graded up 100A, which will be "perfect"
90A-99A it gets an A for getting A's ; 80A-89A it gets a B for getting A's ; ... <60A it gets an F for geting A's
part of the problem is the new gen graphics keep getting better, so if an Atari game got an A, what does an excellent Nintendo game get and so on down the line
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