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[Victor Omega]

Levels of Development (hell)

If you guys have a better definition feel free.

Life support - Development has either been silently working or quietly killing the game.
Recovering - The game recovering from a shaky start, Developers have/are taking feedback and responding.
Pull the plug - Development has invested too much yet has shown nothing. showing signs of being canceled.

The game can show multiple statuses if explain.

 

[Victor Omega]

I think Metroid Prime 4 is on some form of Life support / Recovering. I would even go as far as to say it's probably in a "vegetable state". being tossed around by two studios. not show how far back they went with restarting. hopefully not all the way back to concept artist.

I think Star Citizen should pull the plug.....on doing too much. Release a single player and do DLC.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Metroid Prime 4, How can this game still exist and still not have NOTHING shown??

 

[A Most Virtuous Cat]

Don't know about life support, but one game that the be pulled the plug from - no, should be shot in the face with a double-barrel shotgun, is GTA V.

 

[Captain Toad]

Idk about life support, but most Series games were announced way too early. Hearing about the same games year after year, but seeing next to nothing is tiring. Fable, Perfect Dark, Elder Scrolls 6, Outer Worlds 2, Everwild, Hellblade 2, etc.

We keep hearing about these games without so much as a release year. We are almost two years into the generation and most of these feel as far out as they were when they were announced. How do we know some of these won't go the way of Scalebound which was a part of showcases for several years.

Nintendo has this too with Metroid Prime 4 and, still, Bayonetta 3 (although we've seen that). Sony did this last generation with The Last Guardian taking a decade to finally release.

 

[chaseroni]

Pikmin 4, I still think Miyamoto was confused when he said it's "Almost ready" all those years ago.
Is there a category for games that just don't exist?

 

[Varteras]

Babylon's Fall should have been aborted.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is probably on "life support" mode. After one cool CG trailer and one 10 minute exploration demo detailing how space traversal works, we've heard absolutely nothing.

 

[DarkMage619]

Idk about life support, but most Series games were announced way too early. Hearing about the same games year after year, but seeing next to nothing is tiring. Fable, Perfect Dark, Elder Scrolls 6, Outer Worlds 2, Everwild, Hellblade 2, etc.

We keep hearing about these games without so much as a release year. We are almost two years into the generation and most of these feel as far out as they were when they were announced. How do we know some of these won't go the way of Scalebound which was a part of showcases for several years.

None of the ganes you named were even mentioned at the last showcase. So not entirely sure about you hearing them brought up year after year. Pretty sure Fable only had one CGI trailer released last year and that's the same with most of the games you listed minus Hellblade 2. That got an in game demo last December.

The last big titles mentioned at the most recent showcase was Forza Motorsport, Redfall, and Starfield. Do you believe those titles will not be released by the next showcase? They obviously heard your concern because that last showcase focused predominantly on games coming out much sooner so I'm certain you're happy to see that.

There was a game brought up during Summer Game Fest that had been on hiatus for years. We won't know if a game is canceled until we get the official word.

 

[Kataploom]

Scam Citizen counts? Because it probably has its own "laundering" state lol

 

[Killer8]

System Shock remake - recovering. The game has been in development hell for something like 6 years. They had to restart midway through because they were changing too much and there was fan backlash. They swapped engine from Unity to UE4 at one point. They have indeed made a lot of progress since the restart, including releasing a solid demo. Now they just need to finish the final stretch. They said the game would come out in 2021, which quietly slipped to 2022. Now we are almost halfway through 2022 with still no release date...

 

[dcmk7]

Idk about life support, but most Series games were announced way too early. Hearing about the same games year after year, but seeing next to nothing is tiring. Fable, Perfect Dark, Elder Scrolls 6, Outer Worlds 2, Everwild, Hellblade 2, etc

Is really odd. Was fully expecting to see Hellblade 2, that seems like the most advanced out of those titles.

It's good to know these titles are being made but agree they were announced much too early.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

Avowed- Pull the Plug. Carrie Patel (a failed author who clearly has little passion for video games compared to books), is the game director and is completely inexperienced for such a huge project.
Three narrative leads left the project, including most recently, Kate Dollarhyde, an even bigger failure of an author who most likely has been able to get so far in her career because her father is extremely wealthy.
It’s extremely clear that Obsidian is a shell of its former self.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Wolfenstein 3. 3.5 years between the first two games. Now 4.5 years since W2 and it hasn't even been announced yet. Dunno wtf is going on with that game.

And while it's finally coming out, 5 years for a Cuphead DLC seems a bit much.

 

[killatopak]

Sims 4 is in life support.

Obviously we just got the new Werewolf dlc but every dlc either has ton of bugs or little has very obvious things that are overlooked. A lot of this has to do with how they designed and abandoned features in the game. *cough* whims *cough*

A lot of fans are eagerly awaiting for Sims 5 especially since the output of dlc have slowed down a lot compared to the previous years. It's very obvious their main team is doing another thing.