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Jason Schreier: Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still in pre-production after at least five years of development.

IDontBeatGames

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(It's in this same article but people thought it deserved it's own thread as well)

Ubisoft, the French video game publisher that also produces Far Cry, has faced challenges in recent years. In the summer of 2020, dozens of current and former employees accused the company of facilitating sexual misconduct, leading Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot to apologize and fire some of his top lieutenants. But many employees say the company has not done enough to fix its cultural problems. The fallout has prompted many employees to leave.

Ubisoft's game production has also struggled. The online game Skull & Bones has been delayed several times due to directional challenges, while Beyond Good & Evil 2, the sequel to a fan favorite, remains in pre-production after at least five years of development, according to people who work on that game. A planned remake of Prince of Persia was also delayed indefinitely.
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jimbosimbo

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I'm not really interested in DLC for this game. The main story was a slog to get through on it's own.
 
NinjaScooter

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Ubi has either completely misread the reverence/demand for BG&E or just use it disingenuously to garner fan interest and good will and have no intention of ever actually making a sequel. BG&E is not some franchise. Its as one game, released like 20 years ago, that became a bit of a cult hit. The time to make a sequel has probably long since passed.
 
Caiusto

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All of that for a huge game no one asked for, all they needed to do was a sequel to the original game instead of whatever they're doing.
 
APOEERA

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I'm surprised that Ubisoft hasn't done the easy layup of porting Prince of Persia (2008/Nolan North Prince) to PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Xbox Series. The game would be absolutely gorgeous in 4K and 1080p.
 
J-Skee

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I'm more shocked that Skull & Bones is still being worked on.
 
Sinsem

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Some of my friends joined the project back in 2014 (and some are still working on it), and it was already a few years in.
 
NDA-Man

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APOEERA said:
I'm surprised that Ubisoft hasn't done the easy layup of porting Prince of Persia (2008/Nolan North Prince) to PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Xbox Series. The game would be absolutely gorgeous in 4K and 1080p.
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NGL, I first played it a few years back (thanks to backwards compatibility). It was gorgeous--maybe not as sharp as it could be, but the art style and colors do a ton of work for me.
 
Sagroth

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It's Ubisoft. BG&E2 will eventually be canceled, and instead fans of the original can look forward to Pey'jcoin NFTs.
 

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The original - very first - teaser was in 2008, and the more concrete one was, what, 2017?

It's... been a while. It's not really something you can consider in parallel because they're very different forms of development hell, but 2008-2022 is not dissimilar to 1997-2011 - Duke Nukem Forever's period between announcement and release.
 

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NinjaScooter said:
Ubi has either completely misread the reverence/demand for BG&E or just use it disingenuously to garner fan interest and good will and have no intention of ever actually making a sequel. BG&E is not some franchise. Its as one game, released like 20 years ago, that became a bit of a cult hit. The time to make a sequel has probably long since passed.
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They should take its assets and turn it into a BOTW-clone.
 
DontHateTheBacon

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NinjaScooter said:
Ubi has either completely misread the reverence/demand for BG&E or just use it disingenuously to garner fan interest and good will and have no intention of ever actually making a sequel. BG&E is not some franchise. Its as one game, released like 20 years ago, that became a bit of a cult hit. The time to make a sequel has probably long since passed.
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Bingo!
 
Barrel Cannon

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Kill it. Don't lead us on like this. Nothing that's been worked on this long has ever ended up being any good
 
Mentalist

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So you're saying there's still a chance that they scrap the always online aspect?

Sure, I'll keep hoping. Maybe.
 
thewienke

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BG&E2 is basically the new Duke Nukem Forever

They're going to have to release another HD Remaster (4K?) before releasing a sequel at this point. I only remember a talking pig, some green shit, aliens maybe. Watercraft too I think?
 
.exe

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I'm imagining a bunch of people sitting around a table or, of late, zoom calls going "what are we supposed to do with this" followed by "dunno" and "coffee break?" week in, week out.
 
PLASTICA-MAN

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Still in pre-production??? I thought I was reading still in development but it seems its delevopment still didn't start yet.
 
Pancracio17

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They have no fucking idea what to do with this game. The footage they showed a while ago looked way too ambitious for its own good. I hope it does end up coming out eventually though.

Whatever happened to Skulls and Bones?
 
egg

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You're telling me they had MORE VALHALLA DLC planned, enough to make a whole ass additional spin off game!? WTF
 
mael

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With the main guy behind the push leaving rather publicly it will go nowhere if there's not someone rather high up who's dedicated to see it done.
Don't expect to ever play this.

Not that I would be interested in something from the NFT&Rape company.
 

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Well the good news is that it hasn't been cancelled yet. It kind of sucks that the only two Ubisoft games I'm interested in (BGE2 and Skull & Bones) are seemingly never coming out.
 
Dan Thunder

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Completely forgot about the Sands of Time remake!

That was a weird one because they announced it just 4 months before it was supposed to release back in Jan '21. Wonder what happened that delayed it indefinitely given it was so close to launch?
 
Noctis Winters

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Wait, Skull and Bones still isn't out?
I thought there was at least a Base playable mode, maybe a closed beta or something similar?
 
AshenOne

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An assassin's creed game focused on STEALTH? Hyped! Hasn't been that way since YEARS :D

And yeah not surprised about B:G&E2. It was only started due to the hostile takeover threat and ubi wanted to show its fans some 'fake love'.

Its gonna get canned sooner or later.
 
oni-link

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They completely missed the mark with the pitch for BG&E anyway, they tried to make a game fans of the first didn't really want

I hope they return to making more SP standalone games though, I really liked the Freedom Cry's & the Blood Dragons they used to make after a big mainline game, so hopefully the new Assassin's Creed will be decent, before they tank the IP with Infinity anyway
 
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