AAA do all the graphics and maps and sound and AI first, somehow merge it together and just hope that it will be a "good" game, that it will be fun. Even if there is internal QA or playtesting, feedback gets consequently ignored.
Is that actually true? Have you worked on AAA games or got this information from credible sources?
As far as I've seen the process, MVPs and play testing is a concrete phase even in AAA development, usually for each major gameplay feature, where they're tested with minimal graphics (sometimes just blocks/boxes) but still in isolation from everything else.
But, this is just gathered from the few times I've seen the process from the outside, I haven't personally worked on any AAA games.
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Is that actually true? Have you worked on AAA games or got this information from credible sources?
As far as I've seen the process, MVPs and play testing is a concrete phase even in AAA development, usually for each major gameplay feature, where they're tested with minimal graphics (sometimes just blocks/boxes) but still in isolation from everything else.
But, this is just gathered from the few times I've seen the process from the outside, I haven't personally worked on any AAA games.