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didn’t like aw so skipped aw2 until my library has a free copy

Alan Wake 2 has a DLC that ties in pretty heavily with Control, so you’ll definitely want to play that before the new game comes out.

Added Abandon Battle option in the pause menu which can now be opened in battle

Finally. No more waiting around to die to reset the fight when you mess up.

I guess I’m confused because I didn’t know that “low budget” was now synonymous with “indie.”

There aren’t any hard rules of what an indie game is, and TGA don’t set any because they don’t take their jobs seriously, but it’s usually accepted that indie = small teams, small budget. Otherwise, technically games like Cyberpunk 2077 are “indie” because they’re self-published, while games published by Devolver Digital are technically not indie because they have a publisher despite the games being made on a tiny budget and occasionally created by only one person.

Expedition 33 had a huge budget compared to other games in its category, and much more developers. They had mo-cap, they had popular voice actors, and they had tons of contract workers overseas. It’s not fair to put it up against games that didn’t have any of that.

E33 is what the industry refers to as a AA game. Mid-sized budget, mid-sized team. As opposed to AAA, massive budgets with massive teams.

What about No Man’s Sky

No Man’s Sky (on release) is way smaller in scope than E33. It was made by around a dozen developers only, and they actually self-published it which makes it much more “indie”.

Ehhh, I dunno. I’m hoping this franchise evolves in some way because this looks like more Megaman 11, which was just more old-school Megaman. There have been way too many 2D platformer games in the franchise if you look at it, and not much has changed since Megaman X.

Bring back Megaman Legends or something!

I guess we’re DMC now. I loved Control and AW2, but the gameplay for both was so-so. Glad to see they’re branching out, this looks awesome.

For what it’s worth most people are more mad that E33 won best indie and best debut indie. It’s not an indie game, many people have said as much and it’s completely unfair that they won in categories meant for small budget games by small teams.

Totally deserved in other categories, but that does leave a bad taste in my mouth.