What are you even talking about? What is it with you and other people with these lame conspiracy theories? The game needs a little bit more time in development, end of story. This is borderline "lazy dev" concern trolling.
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Jason Schreier/Kotaku: The Last of Us Part II Delayed to Spring (May 29th 2020) [UPDATE: Confirmed by Naughty Dog]
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What are you even talking about? What is it with you and other people with these lame conspiracy theories? The game needs a little bit more time in development, end of story. This is borderline "lazy dev" concern trolling.
You didn't apply an ounce of logic. You responded with a sarcastic post, calling it bullshit and saying something is up even though you have no idea what it is. Sounds like a bunch of fud to me
The Last of Us Part II Comes to PS4 in May June 19
An update from the game's director.blog.us.playstation.com
Thanks!
Considering I would be putting all my time into FFVIIR when it comes out two weeks after the original date, I'm glad it got pushed back. Also let's them spend a little more time working on it without the crunch.
Almost exactly 7 years after the original.
My life has changed so much yet TLoU remains my favorite game of all time.
Good luck to the team.
Edit: I really expect it to be PS5 enhanced day one and retail boxes to be repackaged to say "PS4 and PS5" like those "Xbox One & Xbox 360" brandings. No PS5 exclusive version.
My life has changed so much yet TLoU remains my favorite game of all time.
Good luck to the team.
Edit: I really expect it to be PS5 enhanced day one and retail boxes to be repackaged to say "PS4 and PS5" like those "Xbox One & Xbox 360" brandings. No PS5 exclusive version.
Blegh I've been feeling the same way. Probably just the future of game development given the risk cost and production times. Still a bummer when you compare the studios outputs from last gen to this gen.
Fuck, that's the same week as my birthday and I'm going away for a few weeks. Gonna be dodging spoilers like Neo dodging bullets.
PS4 Backwards compatibility has been confirmed for PlayStation 5.
- Wait until November 2020
- Get it for PS5
- Comes enhanced with haptic feedback triggers, Raytracing, higher resolution, higher framerates, better shadows, bett textures and possible PSVR2 compatibility
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- Profit
Bruh, please. Do you even know how game development works? Any extra difficulty can happen during development, especially towards the end. These things are never set perfectly.
I could imagine you would be one of the first people to scream "downgrade" "bugs" "but naughty goddzz" had they released the game unfinished.
To our fans,
Let me cut to the chase and get the news out of the way. The Last of Us Part II has a new release date of May 29, 2020.
I know. It was just about a month ago when we had our big blowout for the game, letting media play over two hours of it along with debuting our new story trailer and revealing the release date. The positive response we saw from our community was overwhelming. You can feel the energy among the team members. After working on something for so many years, it's invigorating to get a glimpse of validation for all the hard work.
However, it was during the last few weeks, as we were closing out sections of the game, that we realized we simply didn't have enough time to bring the entire game up to a level of polish we would call Naughty Dog quality. At this point we were faced with two options: compromise parts of the game or get more time. We went with the latter, and this new release date allows us to finish everything to our level of satisfaction while also reducing stress on the team.
While we're relieved that we won't have to compromise our vision, we're disappointed that we weren't able to avoid this exact situation. We wish we could've foreseen the amount of polish we needed, but the size and scope of this game got the better of us. We hate disappointing our fans and for that we're sorry.
We hope you understand that this additional time ensures that The Last of Us Part II lives up to our collective ambition as well as our commitment to the highest level of quality. We know the extra few months will add to what may already be an excruciating wait for all of us. We are grateful for your patience and continued support. Come next May, you will finally rejoin Ellie in The Last of Us Part II.
-Neil
It's simple they thought they could get it done now they know they can't.
Sony not going pressure ND for a date.
The worst part of ignorance is thinking it's everyone else who is stupid.
Dude if you're gonna quote me and try to correct me....please be correct. How on EARTH did the team not know this was coming. Are they amateurs or something? AGAIN, my point is that don't pull the "i'll be straight to the point" line with fans only to follow with what is basically bs. Either really be honest or just don't bother giving the whole speech.
Some people can't help themselves trying to concern troll arguably the biggest game of the generation.
Nah, this argument is disingenuous as hell and is nothing, but concern trolling. ND are not the first nor the last developer to delay a game coming out due to more polish and development. The fact you can't accept this and trying to turn it into a grand conspiracy says more about you than ND.
Marvel Avengers is also May isn't it? They should take their time to make sure it's up to their standards. I'm still somewhat blown away that they even announced the Feb date just to go back less than a month later and delay it. Unless Sony forced them to announce a date or some major set back just happened.
One likely scenario: in the intervening weeks as they brought more pieces of the game to final or near final, a lot of unaccounted work emerged. The producers/development directors worked with the discipline leads to scope out the size and shape of that work. They generated potential plans prioritizing that work against the original date and then a hypothetical further delay. The team felt that the best possible outcome for the game was to delay for X time so that they could hit a larger subset of the feature/polish backlog. They presented that to stakeholders who signed off on it.
To our fans,
Let me cut to the chase and get the news out of the way. The Last of Us Part II has a new release date of May 29, 2020.
I know. It was just about a month ago when we had our big blowout for the game, letting media play over two hours of it along with debuting our new story trailer and revealing the release date. The positive response we saw from our community was overwhelming. You can feel the energy among the team members. After working on something for so many years, it's invigorating to get a glimpse of validation for all the hard work.
However, it was during the last few weeks, as we were closing out sections of the game, that we realized we simply didn't have enough time to bring the entire game up to a level of polish we would call Naughty Dog quality. At this point we were faced with two options: compromise parts of the game or get more time. We went with the latter, and this new release date allows us to finish everything to our level of satisfaction while also reducing stress on the team.
While we're relieved that we won't have to compromise our vision, we're disappointed that we weren't able to avoid this exact situation. We wish we could've foreseen the amount of polish we needed, but the size and scope of this game got the better of us. We hate disappointing our fans and for that we're sorry.
We hope you understand that this additional time ensures that The Last of Us Part II lives up to our collective ambition as well as our commitment to the highest level of quality. We know the extra few months will add to what may already be an excruciating wait for all of us. We are grateful for your patience and continued support. Come next May, you will finally rejoin Ellie in The Last of Us Part II.
-Neil
Pretty certain RDR2 and Cyberpunk are much bigger games. Both in production and sales.
I wonder what this means for Tsushima. That game feels like it might be a Breath of the Wild situation at this point.
I've said this a bunch of times to others, but I think this is overstated. The output isn't that much different, the amount of content has increased even if the number of games hasn't (Ex: God of War 3/Ascension are really short compared to God of War PS4), and the quality is a lot higher (ex: Uncharted 1 is really rough and short when you compare it to the PS4 Uncharteds).
It's worth noting that Neil Druckmann is leagues more trustworthy than you. The salty spin won't work on this one I'm afraid. No-one without some kind of agenda is concerned about The Last of Us Part II, and Sony has the balls to delay their biggest game even though its unpolished state would exceed the quality of most games this generation.
With games having more content and looking this good taking longer was a given even with a bigger team.
The problem here is you didn't really reason yourself into this position. You lept into it, simple because that outcome is more favorable to you.
When did I say their games were "average"? I said they were alright, which is far from average. I also outright said TLoU2 looked "good". I simply said they weren't as good as users on here make out. Not sure why that touched such a nerve. Your 2 posts have been insanely aggressive. I don't happen to rate a game as highly as you do, get over it.
I don't think the quality of ND games is good enough to warrant consistent multiple delays on basically every title they develop. Plenty of games on par with the quality of ND games get released on time, why should I cut them slack when they consistently delay games?
They released an apology because they're aware an delay is a disappointment worthy of making an apology over. Unlike a lot of people on here that keep saying it no big deal when we know damn well they'd be slaughtering other developers if they had this track record for delaying games.
That's the day after my birthday.
I'm okay with this, take all the time you need. A 3 month delay isn't a huge deal
I'm okay with this, take all the time you need. A 3 month delay isn't a huge deal
No, clearly you're being too sensitive. EVERYONE knows that game just didn't suddenly need 3 extra months to cook. The point is, this is a professional team, things happen but they had to know their game wasn't ready. You don't announce a release date and then weeks later say "oh wow, we totally didn't know how much work was left, we need 3 more months", i just don't buy that from a team that a) had this very same issue with another game ( therefore they should have been prepared) b) is one of the highest regarded studios in gaming (hence they should know better).
Delayed to give players the option to non-lethally subdue dogs.
I'm glad the team pushed for a delay rather than exploring other options that may have made it harder for individuals to have a decent work life balance.
I'm glad the team pushed for a delay rather than exploring other options that may have made it harder for individuals to have a decent work life balance.
lol, what's all the fuss about?
They delayed games before and we all lived to tell the tale and got some great games out of it...
Chill out....
They delayed games before and we all lived to tell the tale and got some great games out of it...
Chill out....
Shrug. It's not a big deal. Game development is always fluid, and release dates are tricky.
A lot of the time, unforeseen things crop up towards the end, and if you're not confident you can polish things by the expected release date, then things get delayed. At least they realized this four months from release, and not a month before, when discs are already getting sent out for manufacture. Also reduces the chances that it'll have to have a massive day 1 patch on launch day. Doesn't mean it won't have a day 1 patch, just that it might not be a gigantic one.
I'm also all for devs not killing themselves with obscene hours to force a game to release on a tight launch date. Work/Life balance is vital, and we're only human. I can wait a few more months for a highly anticipated game to release. The team's family and loved ones straining their relationships just so I can get mah vidya game asap isn't worth it to me.
Like I view all delays: eventually the game will be in my hands. I have plenty enough to keep me busy until then.
The entitlement that fears its ugly head when this happens is so ridiculous to me.
A lot of the time, unforeseen things crop up towards the end, and if you're not confident you can polish things by the expected release date, then things get delayed. At least they realized this four months from release, and not a month before, when discs are already getting sent out for manufacture. Also reduces the chances that it'll have to have a massive day 1 patch on launch day. Doesn't mean it won't have a day 1 patch, just that it might not be a gigantic one.
I'm also all for devs not killing themselves with obscene hours to force a game to release on a tight launch date. Work/Life balance is vital, and we're only human. I can wait a few more months for a highly anticipated game to release. The team's family and loved ones straining their relationships just so I can get mah vidya game asap isn't worth it to me.
Like I view all delays: eventually the game will be in my hands. I have plenty enough to keep me busy until then.
The entitlement that fears its ugly head when this happens is so ridiculous to me.
I know, I'm not saying that it would be the best financial decision, or that they should cancel the PS4 version or anything.
More like, in hindsight it would have been nice if they planned it as a PS5 launch title, so they could have pushed the graphics/tech even further, and not been held back at all by a 6 year old console.
Still super excited to play it, whenever/wherever it's released.
Doesn't sound like it has to do with adding MP. It's to bring up to the quality people expect from them. That's something I can't hate on at all. It doesn't matter much for me anyway, because I won't get to play it myself. Well, except probably at my brother's place.
Only load of crap I see is the one you holdin in your hand as you typed that post
this ain't a halo dig
Define everyone, because based on a billion stories out there, this is not a rule anywhere in the industry.
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