Let's all go back to July or August of last year. What we knew about the second half of 2007 was pretty much: dude, lotsa games. The amazing new ones and sequels of beloved franchises were going to nuke the world with a bomb that could litterally wipe out everything in our wallets. At the time, all these games in one heaping bowl full seemed like a good thing, but then we realized maybe there's too much. "Madness," we said, but it was. Some games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mercenaries 2--big franchises--were delayed into Early 2008. SSBB was only experiencing its first delay from December to February, then another delay into March. Metal Gear Solid 4 was constantly delayed, from Holiday '07 to Spring '08 and then, Summer. And just recently, Mercs 2 experienced a huge delay from Q1 2008, all the way to sometime in 2009! How do you measure the completion time with a range from the first quarter of this year to freakin' 2009?!
Maybe I'm just complaining to much, but seriously. "Too much stuff coming soon" is not a good excuse for delaying your game. If anyone out there is delaying their games to later times so they can make their quarterly earnings seem impressive, and I'm sure there are (yeah, EA) I look at you in shame. It also seems to me that delaying a game sometimes just gives it more hype and a little time to relax and change the sound levels very marginally on the footstep noises, when you look at it. Remember how many times that Zelda: Twilight Princess was delayed? Me either, but that hype was amazing. Most of it was mainly because that the game was more Zelda, however, I do believe that the delays had something to do with it.
I only wish that more publishers would be less grubby when it comes to money and hype over their product. Maybe they should start caring about something better for a change, like pleasing the customers without hassling them with confusion and waiting on something that's just sitting in the freezer waiting to be devoured... I really love how I just said thinking that it's going to happen anytime soon.
2.04.2008
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Yeah now BF: Bad Company is delayed, I'm all pissed cause it seemed really really damn complete when I tested it.... dammit I want my country-music tank now! (You'll understand when you play it.)
I think I already do... *sigh*. Did I mention BF:BC being delayed? I intended to, but you know, that when it comes to a whole year delay or more for Mercs2... Anger kind of spawns all by itself.
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