So this game is probably a long time away from release. RIP my dreams of a 2018 launch :(
Of course, I trust Druckmann and co. to get this right, they can take as much time as they want.
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The Last of Us Part 2 is ‘a broken mess’ at different stages, According to Neil Druckmann
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So this game is probably a long time away from release. RIP my dreams of a 2018 launch :(
Of course, I trust Druckmann and co. to get this right, they can take as much time as they want.
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They had a hard time with the original didn't they? Something like they didn't feel like it was fun until the final crunch.
Naughty dog wanted to show it tho...
Before anybody goes into full panic mode like always all this is, is straight honesty game dev is hard and not some perfect and easy road y'all see to believe it to be
doesn't really sound like anything too serious to me. just a colourful way of describing what i imagine most developers feel about their games when they're 60% or so done.
but then again, with the first last of us they forgot to put an actual game in there so who knows.
but then again, with the first last of us they forgot to put an actual game in there so who knows.
Didn't he also think the original would bomb or something? Seems like he always makes these kinds of comments deep in dev cycles
Game development happened.
Technically ambitious projects are always herculean tasks.
Was not expecting it to be a 2018 title at all....i honestly think all well see next year is god of war and Detroit sliding in towards the end of the year with Spider-Man in the middle
Nothing happened, still in early dev - that snippet is a very small section of the game, still plenty of work to go
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Absolutely, I'm not worried about how the game will be, just sad that it's still presumably a way out from release lol.
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Christmas 2019 release target. Will delay and be 2020 cross platform with PS5. Over a month delay for the PS5 version so people will buy it twice.
LOL. Sounds like they are still pretty early. Not surprising since they just got the full team on board after LL. I don't think it will release in 2018 at all, now.
I remember him saying TLOU was a broken mess until the final week or two of development. I've heard the same thing about the original Metroid Prime. Game development is hard.
Having read the excellent 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels', I fear for the levels of crunch that this team will go through
The game was never gonna be a 2018 title. I personally wouldn't even be surprised if it ends up releasing in 2020.
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Flip it; PS5 version at launch, PS4 version a month later. Nintendo's strategy with Twilight Princess.
Hopefully it just means they're really early, it needs time and work and that they'll give it all the time it needs instead of rushing it out for the almighty dollar.
Yes, but this was announced in 2016, at this point I would have thought that they were getting close to finish the game.
Based on what they're saying here, I wouldn't expect this until late 2019 now.
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Shawn Layden walks on stage "Now this is still very early but the team wanted to show what they're working on"
Fans-omg 2018
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Naw, when they announced it, they made it very clear that they were announcing it when it was super early in development.
Ongoing development. Every game looks like this until they find their hook if the game-direction and creative direction is strong enough. We know creative direction is in the box from the trailers as the visuals, graphics and tone mostly is in the bag but the game-director Bruce Straley of Uncharted 2, Last of Us and Uncharted 4 has been replaced in this project because he burnt out, took a sabbatical and then quit the company to start something else. It remains to be seen whether the successing game-director(s) can live up to that man's work. Largely ND remains the same crew as always but every now and again in big companies like this people come and people go, so chances are Part II might feel a little different. The impression I get from the interview snippet is that it's a little behind schedule to put it mildly.
He's probably describing how's any of their games during full production. In any case, TLOU2 won't be a similar case to Uncharted 4, although it might be more ambitious.
Anyway, I don't think that line was anything more than the usual for AAA game development.
Anyway, I don't think that line was anything more than the usual for AAA game development.
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Yeah, that's how I see it. If the game's development was going abnormally, he wouldn't be telling it candidly like this. That's not something marketing would want to put out there.
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