Sucker Punch job listings, reveal upcoming 'AAA title'

Blaze929 - 165 days 7 hours ago

It's so lame and I'm getting sick of hearing "AAA". What the hell is AAA and why are developers using it now? Like seriously. Then when/if the game flops when reviews come that term will loose all meaning and they will look dumb.

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NO_PUDding - 165 days 7 hours ago

Huh? How will you delete them?

As for the matter at hand. It's not a 'PR' term, and it's not even a marketing term, which I am sure is what you meant.

It purely means they are creating a game that is going to be aiming for critical and commercial success, and will therefore have a 'triple A' budget.

It's all about the investment and forecast. They aren't marketing it or being arrogant.

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aldesko - 165 days 5 hours ago

Yeah, I can't wait for a dev to have a job listing for a "AA title"

Also, can't wait for Sucker Punch's next project. Network programmer = co-op, I hope... unless it's infamous 2. I wonder how that would work.

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Johnny Rotten - 165 days 4 hours ago

I always thought AAA was a battery?

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Blaze929 - 165 days 2 hours ago

ROFL ok, I lol'd

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RememberThe357 - 165 days 2 hours ago

has put out nothing but quality titles. So when they say AAA (not the battery lol) I'll take their word for it.

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Brutallyhonest - 164 days 20 hours ago

Roadside assistance: battery service, lost keys, flat tire, out of gas, and towing.

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thereapersson - 164 days 19 hours ago

Considering XBOX 360 fanboys were the ones who started that whole "games must be AAA to be relevant", bullsh1t. Funny how you're only complaining because it's a PS3 developer saying it.

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Whut - 164 days 18 hours ago

thereapson did you miss the article yesterday talking about halo reach? ps3 fanboys were on it saying how do they know it will be AAA? so this is the same thing and hed did say I will say something somebody said in the halo thread so this should have ringed a bell in your head and noticed that it was a ps3 fan who said that.

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callahan09 - 164 days 17 hours ago

I think AAA is being used in a similar sense as Blockbuster is used for movies. It means that a lot of money and time are sank into it, and it's intended to be a big thing. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with quality.

Like the new Transformers movie. It got horrible reviews, but it was a big, expensive production that was marketed like crazy and people went to see it in droves. When I hear developers or publishers talking about their game being AAA, I think it means they're not pulling any punches with the production, that it's going to be a big, expensive blockbuster of a game with larger than life advertisements.

You know, the first inFamous was advertised in movie theaters. I consider that to be larger than life advertising. Same goes with big billboards for videogames (there's a Left 4 Dead billboard, or at there was a couple of months ago, it may or may not still be there, on the Jersey Turnpike), or murals that take up the sides of buildings (Grand Theft Auto IV, Final Fantasy XIII, Resistance 2). These games were all big, expensive productions, with big, expensive advertising campaigns.

That's what they mean by AAA. They've got something like that up their sleeve. In other words, they're not making a small game, a cheap game, or a game that they are anticipating giving little or no marketing push to.

A game like Braid, for instance, got incredible scores, but you wouldn't call it AAA by this definition. Same goes for a movie like, I dunno, The Hurt Locker, which is getting amazing reviews, but it's far from a Blockbuster. It just isn't that sort of production, and it isn't the sort of movie to get that marketing push. So for me, I liken the term AAA game to Blockbuster movie. It helps to understand what these developers and publishers are implying, because obviously every publisher/developer is going to tell you their game is "good."

AAA connotes a caliber, not a quality.

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shingo - 164 days 17 hours ago

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rbanke - 164 days 17 hours ago

That isnt actually correct. The term 'AAA' was allways used to refer to the scope of the project. To say 'This is a AAA game' meant that this is a project of high budget, high quality. It NEVER meant anything about the ratings or fun of a game, only the investment into the project. Gamers are who took the term and misused it to mean 'good game'.

So when a dev says AAA game, they typically mean that you should expect this to be above average as far as money put into it (like the reverse of saying 'low budget').

I think it started being thought of as 'good game' because people like to say 'xxx game is a AAA quality game', which would be a compliment to say a low budget game turned out to be very high quality. (not nessisarily fun).

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All Time Greatness - 164 days 14 hours ago

Rofl wheres Phosphor now?? And whats funny is Infamous wasnt even AAA, Sucker Puncher haven't even made a AAA games this generation...their just saying so. Bungie used it, but they ALWAYS make a AAA game. :)

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pippoppow - 164 days 9 hours ago

Keep it going. Your almost at the same level as socomiss or whatever his name is. You clearly never have anything constructive let alone anything positive to say about anything PS3 related. Also your delusional threat of deleting posts is beyond dumb. Sucker Punch is a proven high quality Dev that outputs great titles. I'm sure if they would make games for your precious console of choice you'd be practically dry humping them just like a certian manufacturer you worship. Natsu your quickly becoming a laughing stock. Maybe one day your comments will rival the quality of the games Sucker Punch delivers although I doubt it FANBOY.

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mastiffchild - 164 days 4 hours ago

@Natsu-while I would usually wholeheartedly agree with you that the use of AAA preemptively by devs is wrong I don't see how that's fair here.

They're only using it as they're after top people and are stating their intent for the game to be AAA, no?

In a sense they're just asking for only AAA people to apply. This wasn't PR it was a job ad and in this context SP are doing little wrong, if anything whatsoever. The ad is meant to be read and reacted to by peopl;e ith the tlent neded to make a great game and isn't something intended to be seen or pored over by the l;ikes of N4G users.

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Xbox Avatars Shoe - 164 days 3 hours ago

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ObviousTruth - 163 days 21 hours ago

if you're a ps3 fanboy...and there's a ps3 exclusive title...that means it's AAA. that's what AAA means. that's why really horrid games only need to sell a small fraction of what games like gears of halo sell to be called AAA. but then those games aren't great or even good. it's a hypocrisy.

the games that sell best are trash if they aren't ps3 exclusives, but if they only sell average or worse, they are great. that's why even though prototype destroyed infamous in sales, infamous is still the better game. lol... what a joke. you can't win unless your game is a ps3 exclusive. then even when you're lame game loses money, you're still a winner.

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Beast_Master - 164 days 13 hours ago

That be Infamous Too and not Infamous 2? jk, Hopefully the sly cooper fanboys have played inFamous by now and can agree that Sucker Punch needs to make the sequel the top priority.

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Murderdolls - 164 days 20 hours ago

Hopefully it sells well this time.

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thereapersson - 164 days 19 hours ago

inFAMOUS is selling at a decent pace, and will continue to sell well throughout its lifespan -- just like Uncharted, or any other quality PS3 exclusive game.

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Aeroglyphics - 164 days 18 hours ago

As a matter of fact it's sales seem to be increasing as time goes on. It's a great game.

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Murderdolls - 164 days 17 hours ago

Nah every week the sales drop quite a bit actually.

254k
132k
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RememberThe357 - 165 days 2 hours ago

or just N4G?

Uncharted "flopped" at launch against Mass Effect. Yet it has gone on to outselling it.

Not everyone has a gold fish's attention span.It's not about getting all of your sales in one week. It's about selling good numbers consistently for long periods.

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NO_PUDding - 164 days 21 hours ago

Sony owns the IP, so I doubt Sucker Punch would want to create a new IP on their own.

It kind of multiplies the risk.

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Bazookajoe_83 - 164 days 20 hours ago

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Murderdolls - 164 days 20 hours ago

Crackdown sold 1.5 million copies so I don't get the joke.

@below - It was a simple typo don't read so much into it. Hilarious post though you're pretty paranoid.

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thereapersson - 164 days 19 hours ago

Crackdown 2 isn't out yet, so I'm not sure what you are alluding to. Unless that was some sort of lame stealth trolling attempt against inFamous, which in that case I not only see what you did there, but I see you failed at it.

The only joke here is Socomnick's inflammatory, SPAM comment.

@ above

There's nothing to be "paranoid" about. Based off your trollish history of posting here, it wouldn't surprise any of us if it ended up *not* being a typo.

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STARS - 164 days 19 hours ago

Seriously, why is this tosser still allowed to comment in the Gamer Zone when he brings nothing but flamebait, inflammatory remarks in every one of his comments? Keep that sh*t in the Open Zone.

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Murderdolls - 164 days 19 hours ago

No that's pretty much pure paranoia right there.

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Cenobia - 164 days 18 hours ago

Isn't a person that see's paranoia when there isn't any...paranoid?

Yes I did just do that.

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Murderdolls - 164 days 18 hours ago

Lol.

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Narutone66 - 164 days 1 hour ago

since they don't have any games for their console. And they have the nerve to complain when the PS3 fans troll their pitiful thread.

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NO_PUDding - 164 days 21 hours ago

Not really what a character artist that has to be aware of street and urban fashion implies, but nevermind.

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Aquarius - 164 days 20 hours ago

some?
...inFamous has "several" mate.

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Nathan123 - 164 days 20 hours ago

At least the number of glitches are less than games like Gears of War...

Infamous is my favorite open world game.. Even above GTA:SA.

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Aquarius - 164 days 20 hours ago

...considering how inFamous ended, they will be a new nemesis that enters from outside the city from that long bridge where Cole first met Moya. I wouldn't mind exploring a new city but it seems we will be in Empire City again since Cole is now connected by Empire City by watching over it or controlling it.

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sorceror171 - 164 days 17 hours ago

Different kinds of powers would be cool. Say, a temperature-controller; one track develops fire-based powers, other track develops ice-based powers.

Or a telekinetic; one track develops mass destruction, the other develops fine control.

Imagine combat with a teleporter. You'd need the right control scheme, but...

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Nelson M - 164 days 20 hours ago

Murerdoll is in a Purple Eyeliner Mood Today
That means She's a Little Cranky
So be Gentle with The Confused Little BoT Goth

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Murderdolls - 164 days 20 hours ago

I'm glad you're thinking about me. This pretty much tells you what people think of you.

-Murderdolls says (6:05 AM):
someone just wrote this on a video game site
-Murderdolls says (6:06 AM):
Murerdoll is in a Purple Eyeliner Mood Today
That means She's a Little Cranky
So be Gentle with The Confused Little BoT Goth

he thinks im a goth female that wears eyeliner
obviously lol
-Kevin **** says (6:06 AM):
k what
what site
-Murderdolls says (6:06 AM):
n4g.com

You have just sent a nudge.

-Kevin **** says (6:06 AM):
and whats BoT
-Murderdolls says (6:06 AM):
oh that's their "insult" to 360 games
gamers*
-Murderdolls says (6:07 AM):
they call 360 fans bots i guess
it's retarded lol
-Kevin **** says (6:08 AM):
k
im a WoWa
-Murderdolls says (6:08 AM):
You're such a WoWa
-Kevin **** says (6:08 AM):
Pronounce it like
Woah Wah
-Murderdolls says (6:08 AM):
rofl
-Kevin **** says (6:08 AM):
I was ownin dem hordes like WO den i healed back to full like WA

Too fun Nelson too fun.

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Murderdolls - 164 days 20 hours ago

-Kevin **** says (6:15 AM):
dude
what is with that nelson guy
he capitalizes every single f**king word
what the f**k?
-Murderdolls says (6:16 AM):
i've called him out on it multiple times
-Kevin *** says (6:16 AM):
lololol

This is literally going on as we speak.

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delumine - 164 days 19 hours ago

murderderp went so low that he's posting conversations with random people

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saimcheeda - 164 days 15 hours ago

what is that crap u just posted supposed to prove??

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Narutone66 - 164 days 1 hour ago

Claims to hate the PS3 but you always see him in the PS3 thread trolling.

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saimcheeda - 163 days 21 hours ago

that he and manyother bots say that they have a ps3 but they keep calling it crap!!!....why would u buy an expensive thing and then call it sh!t???

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delumine - 164 days 19 hours ago

no games to play ?

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Soda Popinsky - 164 days 16 hours ago

Currently playing Ghostbusters and Red Faction: Guerrilla.

The superior 360 versions, of course.

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saimcheeda - 164 days 15 hours ago

ur actually playig ghostbusters??that game was lame!!

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fadic4 - 163 days 23 hours ago

they get few multis and lable it better so they can say they have somthing 2 do even though there waiting to get there xbox back, i hope ms didnt run out of boxes like b4

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Arnon - 164 days 2 hours ago

There's maybe a handful of "OMG AMAZING" PS3 exclusives. inFAMOUS not being one of them lol. Seriously... N4G is the only site I've ever been to where they try and make PS3 exclusives seem amazing, when I've been playing the sort of "OMG AMAZING PS3 EXCLUSIVES" long before the PS3 was even out.

Before you call me out, I'm about to platinum inFAMOUS... Point is, is that there's no game on the PS3 that has some ingenious totally original gameplay.

PSN ID - Arnon01

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saimcheeda - 163 days 18 hours ago

Thats why u play too human!!!

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