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Videogame development times are getting out of control (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Death Stranding came out in 2019. Death Stranding 2 will come out in 2025. That's six years for two games. If these were the PS2 days Kojima would have cranked out 3 Death Stranding games by now and we'd be getting Death Stranding 3: Subsistence along with a teaser for Death Stranding 4 next year.

Remember when video game trilogies used be to a huge thing in the sixth and seventh generations? You'd typically get 3 games in about 5-7 years

See: Halo, Gears of War, Resistance, Killzone, etc

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

uncritical support to no crunch time rat-salute

Idk supergiant (I think I’ve heard they are fairly tight inside) seems fine doing one small game in three years? Instead of yearly ubisoft slop (they make them like in 2? Or did they switch to 3?)

Larian or rockstar do like one in 5 years (although rockstar sucks on working part)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hades 2 needs to come out faster though cri

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The next patch is coming any day now!

I tell myself this every day for the last month because I want to see what comes next so badly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not on PC though so I need to wait until it's fully out before I get to enjoy it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

rockstar do like one in 5 years

yeah rockstar makes games that take so much effort that they probably shouldn't exist at all, so they take a long time to make even under awful crunch conditions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

(I'm also fairly tight inside)

[+] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m kinda fine-ish with eye candy, it could be neat on a budget 5 years later, scope though grinds my gears, don’t need your square kilometers of procedurally generated forest with dick to show for it except randomly placed animals. I want to get lost in a forest I will go to a real forest. Same for half the cities, like I get how gta landed there, but as a result walking in that game feels just wasteful in time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except if youre only playing the games with cutting edge graphics 5 years later then they could just make games with 5 year old graphics tech and you could play brand new games and youd still have identical graphical experiences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don’t think game dev changes that much (timewise) with older graphics but same scope (maybe I’m wrong), you still have to have artist design this shit with lighting, surfaces, colors etc, it doesn’t (again, I suspect, not a dev) become that simpler/faster just because you used ue4 instead of ue5 to draw a city, for example. If you spend roughly same time, it’s probably a wash what you used.