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Minimal development time for a game should be at least 3 years
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Ah yes, someone who has no idea what they're talking about making broad, sweeping statements about game development. This is resetera alright.
I'm sure developers shoot for as short as time as possible, Breath of the Wild took 5 years and has very few flaws.
Far Cry 5 is a huge structural and mechanical shift from its predecessors. It abandon a range of design tropes associated with FC including towers, collectibles, skinning and crafting, and a strongly paced linear story in favor of non-linear resistance gameplay akin to HFTR's Hearts and Minds system, with narrative progression dictated by everything the player does as they roam. Ultimately AC: Origins and FC5 alike owe quite a bit to Ghost Recon: Wildlands, which in turn owes a lot to Watch_Dogs 2 which in turn is derived from Far Cry 4's anecdote machine concept.
AC: Odyssey is different to its predecessor in a number if ways. It's an actual RPG with dialogue choices that have meaningful consequences, for one. And that's kind of important. The revamped quest design encourages organic non-linear exploration. While it falls back on scoping the area with your bird when you get close, rhe player is forced to look at their map and go exploring to find many objectives.
Incidentally, AC: Syndicate in 2015 was pretty different to the games before and after it. The game was structured around gang warfare, grapple hook traversal, your train home base, and carriages, which were a rather new addition to the series. These games have always introduced new ideas. Just look at how much experimental stuff was in FC: Primal, too. No guns was just the tip of th iceberg. It's just that The Witcher 3 came out in 2015 and this led to a very conspicious pivot for the AC series where it quickly changed genres across two games.
More time doesn't automatically make it better.
Or else Duke Nukem would be the pinnacle of gaming.
Or else Duke Nukem would be the pinnacle of gaming.
Why do you think Rockstar are taking so long with the Agent? They understand where the OP is coming from.
Big games today take more time, effort and people than ever before.
So you demand that development take longer, which in turn is demanding the studio pay hundreds of employees living wages for multiple years of development, yet also demand that they take absolutely no means to monetize their games beyond a single one time sale, which you admit you circumvent with the used game market?
LOL your thought process is a goddamn mess.
There's just too many examples of games getting pushed out too early when they needed more time in the oven. Stuff like Mass Effect Andromeda, Fallout 76 right now.
I feel like this thread should be locked for
1. Having 0 idea of the subject matter.
2. Being extremely disrespectful to game developers who work their asses off.
I mean what kind of disucssion can be had here?
1. Having 0 idea of the subject matter.
2. Being extremely disrespectful to game developers who work their asses off.
I mean what kind of disucssion can be had here?
We should travel back in time and lower prices on all so-called AAA games from ps2 generation and earlier, small teams making "AAA" games in short timeframes, crazy talk! We clearly need arbitrary numbers that are also not tied to manmonths, just calender months to decide what is AAA :D
OP drops a bomb of ignorance on us and fucks off never to be seen again. The forum dogpiles on the stupidity demonstrated and then OMEGALUL says "hold my beer OP". I should stick to Etcetera; too many people who seemingly actively hate video games post on gaming side.
Most people are discussing how ignorant the OP is and how fucking stupid their opinion is, so I feel like developers are being defended fairly well.
The same can be set about your comment. Games cost millions and involve a lot of risk, but because it is not the risk you claim you like, no effort is made? What type juvenile stuff is this.
I don't think I've ever seen a thread backfire so spectacularly. Like it's quite remarkable, the level of ignorance the OP displays
Mostly people have come in here to verbally ream the OP out, so I appreciate that. Fuck, research isn't hard at all.
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