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Beyond Good & Evil 2 is now the most delayed AAA game ever, having overtaken Duke Nukem Forever
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
Longer than the last guardian?
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Star Citizen?
Kilau
Member
That was 7 years from first announcement to release, 9 years since start of development.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
I thought they stopped working on it, isn't the creator gone?
marquimvfs
Member
Ubisoft once knew how to make good games. Shame that they're too occupied with AssCreed.
Magic Carpet
Member
I just typed in “Beyond Good and Evil” into Google and the first wiki Says it was released in 1886.
Reallink
Member
The trailer alone must have cost like $10 million to produce. Should just port all those assets to UE5 and run them in real time.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Last guardian was maybe 8 years. Not 14
Spaceman292
Banned
True. It's a prequel, so it doesn't even continue the story. And it's an always online thing.
01011001
Banned
I think Duke Nukem Forever felt longer than this because times were way different back then.
AAA games back then came out in higher frequency and development was way less openly discussed.
since then development times went from 2 years, to 3... eventually now we reached 5 years as the normal development time, meaning if a game took 3 times as long to come out than originally thought that still meant "only" 6 years of dev time.
if a game nowadays takes even 2x as long as originally thought we are easily looking at 8 years if not 10 years of development.
AAA games back then came out in higher frequency and development was way less openly discussed.
since then development times went from 2 years, to 3... eventually now we reached 5 years as the normal development time, meaning if a game took 3 times as long to come out than originally thought that still meant "only" 6 years of dev time.
if a game nowadays takes even 2x as long as originally thought we are easily looking at 8 years if not 10 years of development.
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Duke Nukem felt like a longer wait because there were semi-regular updates for a while and because it wasn't a niche franchise at the time. A lot of people were excited for it, and shooters were the thing back then. Remember that 2001 trailer? Hype. BG&E has it's fans, but it ain't the same.
Cyberpunkd
Member
Ancel? Wasn’t he proven to be a sexist harassing bully?
Mobilemofo
Member
Look how Duke turned out. 
On offer for £4 on PSN at moment. Cheeky bastards. 
On offer for £4 on PSN at moment. Cheeky bastards. 
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
What about System Shock remake and Scorn
Deerock71
Member
Michel Ancel's no longer there, correct.
lostinblue
Banned
And he was supposedly a douche.
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Fuz
Banned
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Deerock71
Member
He's the creative mind behind Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil, so I don't care what he's like personally; he's one of a few I'd blind buy his creations.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Well, given no one really truly expect it to be released, then technically no.
scoobidoo112
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MALpractice311
Member
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Game was officially announced in 2017, it's only been 5 years
Anything before that was just talk and fans wishes, if ya counting that then you might as well throw Half-life 3 in there too
Final Fantasy 15 was originally announced in 2006 and released in 2016 (10 years)and The Last Guardian in 2007 and release yet again in 2016 (9 years)
Anything before that was just talk and fans wishes, if ya counting that then you might as well throw Half-life 3 in there too
Final Fantasy 15 was originally announced in 2006 and released in 2016 (10 years)and The Last Guardian in 2007 and release yet again in 2016 (9 years)
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CosmicComet
Member
Fuck this game.
Ancel was working on this and WiLD at the same time and WiLD died because of it.
That was THE Sony published game I was most excited for on PS4.
Ancel was working on this and WiLD at the same time and WiLD died because of it.
That was THE Sony published game I was most excited for on PS4.
scoobidoo112
Member
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
lostinblue
Banned
Is Beyond Good and Evil that good/original of a game?
I played it, it wasn't bad, but I don't think of it as a classic, unique or anything like that.
As for me pointing out that he was outed as a douche, that's why he left Ubisoft for an animal sanctuary. If this ever launched which I doubt, I don't know how much of his supervision will still be there.
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Deerock71
Member
I don't think his influence will be there at all at this point, so I definitely will be approaching this one with caution.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
This is often why people are given a long leash, even when they're clearly fucking up. My issue with Ancel isn't any of the apparent personal drama, but he was micromanaging a project of tremendous scope and scale to such an extent that it really wasn't progressing. You can't do that.
Ancel never adapted from the world where one person could lead every aspect of a game's development to the reality of having to delegate to others and trust them to make creative decisions on their own. AAA game development in 2022 is not a space for auteurs.
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Sentenza
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You may be surprised to find out that 2012 (the date the first SC teaser was revealed) is more recent than 2008 and ten years do not amount to 5000+ days.
Not to mention that you can already play Star Citizen today and that has been possible for few years at this point, if in a limited extent.
No one is playing Beyond Good And Evil 2. Not even in some partial alpha build.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
An integral part of the word delay is having an expected release date.
You may be surprised to find out that BG&E2 never had a release date so it was never delayed.
Checkmate, pirates.
VGEsoterica
Member
at least The Last Guardian paid off in the end
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
DNF was a totally different game back around 2000. Then it shut down. It wasn't until much later when Gearbox rebooted that game. Don't think it was in development for 16 years or so
Dr.brain64
Member
Beyond 1 remastered would be so amazing!
baphomet
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DragoonWalker
Member
I stopped caring after Michel Ancel quit. It's his baby, I'm sure without him they are either rudderless or will just slap their tired open world game design template on it.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I would love to have the second part of the trilogy set up by the first game, but this hasn't been that in a long time.
I do think the game looks interesting and incredibly ambitious, but I don't have a personal connection to it in the way I would have if it stayed closer to the original vision.