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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] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I broadly agree but I don't think that Kojimbo is the best example lol, isn't part of why he got fired from Konami that he was taking too long on MGSV?

I also think that part of the reason for longer dev times/cycles between games is that everything wants to be a GaaS, so development is continuing for a longer period after release.

When it comes to Elder Scrolls 6, idk, Todd just don't got the magic anymore.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Elder Scrolls 6 is pretty easy to explain, they simply were not working on it, focused entirely on Starfield. That teaser from years ago was a distraction to make you think they were still working on it, and to get shareholders to shut up about them not putting out the next installment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

90% of my interest in Elder Scrolls 6 evaporated when I read that Starfield was the basis of the game's engine and that the upcoming game would "continue the exciting exploration and discovery themes of Starfield."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm more interested in that Daggerfall spiritual successor honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Where's my Redguard sequel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That teaser was outright fake, they published it literally 2 days after failout 76 caused nearly a literal riot with how shit it was.