Oh those guys? Yeah those are just the dozens of professional voice actors we could afford to hire with our tiny baby game studio budget! And those guys? Yeah that’s just our 7-person “engineering” team. What do you mean your entire studio is 4 people?
suck off me
(for the record I’m not dunking on Hades or Hades 2 as a game this is just something that pisses me (and I assume only me) off)
does that make valve an indie studio?
Valve isn’t indie, but there is a bit of truth to it. Staying private and not being obligated to tear apart your company chasing AI or whatever has made Valve significantly less ass than the publicly traded studios. That air of not being super corporate is what some people think of when they say indie, I think.