hey all scott here it is laundry season
seems like everybody's cleaning the
clothes these days i'm not one to go
against trends
i'll do it
okay i did clean my pencils out with
this so it might not be ideal for the
gears
well while i wait for that to heal up
why not tell the story to pass the time
this is the story of a brown-haired
white boy with glasses
guess who and one day he decided to talk
about video game delays
wanna hear some useless video games are
funny they take 12 years to develop and
they stink ever announce a video game
and it's release date of yesterday when
you only have like eight minutes of work
done
well you're a video game company looks
like you need a delay a cold hard fact
every studio has to face at some point
nothing kills the moon more than that
for fans but it's a necessity rushing a
game just means the developers are going
to be scrambling and the consumers are
going to get garbage
it's almost always a good thing when a
delay occurs even if it stings a bit but
as somebody who watches the video game
industry like a hawk i can sense things
my five senses are a dangerous level you
ever see me taste lemonade
if you pay attention enough you can
always tell when a delay is about to
happen
if it just doesn't seem right the game
will come out that quick
it's impossible like we've barely seen
anything studios refused to comment on
the game's status the development
building burnt down something's fishy
here now there's a difference between
games that get delayed and games that
languish and development hell
development hell is more so games that
just take forever to get made
well games with numerous delays i mean
they take kinda long but come on it
isn't that bad
take for example mighty number nine no
this is a game notorious for the amount
of delays it experienced but when all
was said and done i mean it only took
roughly two and a half years to release
from the initial announcement
the way most people talk about it
implies it took forever to come out
island dog years yeah no what really
annoyed people about mighty number nine
was the amount of delays see they
started a crowdfunding campaign for a
spiritual successor to mega man
decided to offer players a whole country
if the game got funded plus a wii u
version due to the sheer success of the
campaign they kept offering stretch
goals so if we reach this amount we'll
tuck you in and if we reach this amount
we'll spit on your foot
that made the game more complicated than
necessary to develop what once was a
game that was supposed to release in
april of 2015 became a game set to
release in september 2015
and then february 2016 and then spring
2016
and finally june 21st 2016 which is
technically when summer begins so it
didn't even meet the spring deadline
you really couldn't have released it a
day earlier in the end mighty number
nine was one of the sloppiest looking
games of the year not living up to
expectations and numerous delays kept
raising well i'm sure the delays made
the game
better they were more so indicative of a
troubled development rather than wanting
more time to make the title the best it
could be
i'd consider a game like the legend of
zelda breath of the wild to be delayed
for the latter reason it may have had
trouble development we don't know
somebody might have pissed themselves at
the office but the numerous delays this
game experience felt more so because
that was just what the project demanded
this game did so much that required tons
of research
testing it was no small game so the
extra delays made sense
this didn't breath of the wild was first
talked about in january of 2013
then shown for the first time in june of
2014 ending with the projected release
year of 2015.
was that really necessary did you just
have to say oh yeah it's coming next
year wasn't the teaser enough
and they were pretty adamant this would
release in 2015 even affirming it during
a gameplay demo in december 2014.
but then that brought us to march 2015.
if you ever seen nintendo employees
stand like this
[ __ ] run to be fair edgy and numa
stated here that while it was probably
possible for the game to release in 2015
they just had so many new ideas they
wanted to cram into the game and
preferred just
not focusing on trying to meet a 2015
release deadline
the thing was they never said it was
delayed they just weren't making in 2015
released their priority well that means
there's still a chance right
yeah but god hates a nintendo fan so it
makes things tricky the entire year we
got
nothing on the game until november 2015
where they said
yup in 2016 it's coming [ __ ]
nintendo stop typing you're not good at
it so in 2016 we finally got substantial
footage in the official title and in
january
of 2017 we learned its official release
date of march 3rd 2017. so formally
announced four years prior roughly two
delays
i mean it's obvious these delays were to
add tremendously to the game and not 100
due to poor planning or management
sure the delays hurt but it didn't
matter in the end you weren't playing
breath of the wild because i'm so glad
this released in 2015.
you were playing it because it was
breath of the wild and that shows why
delays are almost always good
like would this game be that much better
if it released on january 26th compared
to january 28th
when i'm planning to die on the 27th yes
i think game delays are a big talking
point because it's obviously a little
embarrassing for the game developers and
publishers to go through that final
fantasy 15 had an entire event dedicated
to celebrating it finally getting a
release date of september 30th 2016.
which made the delay to november that
much funnier but that's only about two
months worth of a delay which that
amount of time it's pretty crazy how
much of a difference it can make
two months in game development time is
almost nothing i think they noticed they
misspelled final in the title screen and
had to delay but if two months is really
that big of a deal to you
you really need to re-evaluate your
priorities look who told you that don't
get me wrong some game delays can be
stupid annoying
which is why i like to rate my game
delays on the come the ghana meter
rayman legends everybody loved rayman
origins
except for shakers i don't think they
had a chance to play a sequel to one of
the generation's defining 2d platformers
was announced as an exclusive for the
wii u in 2012 and was set to be a launch
title
though it got delayed to february 2013.
so one delaying but it's no big deal the
way you launch with new super mario bros
u i'll wipe the throw up from my mouth
but you got a very capable 2d platformer
at launch with that game already i think
february suited rayman legends a bit
more come on what else happened in
february that year the pope resigned
a good time to release rayman but truly
before that release date ubisoft
announced
they were delaying rayman legends to
september 2013 so they can make the game
not a wii u exclusive and rather release
it on other consoles as well
oh come the [ __ ] on so ubisoft decided
it wasn't a good idea to make rayman
legends exclusive to the wii u because
their other exclusive wii u title zombie
you underperformed as and yet
multiplatform's way to go for these
developers i get it but reconsidering if
rayman legends a family-friendly 2d
platformer should be exclusive to the
wii u mainly because an m rated first
person survival horror game didn't do as
well as you wanted
i feel is a little bit super [ __ ]
stupid but then ubisoft acted like
everybody loved when rayman legends was
announced but when all these fellas
heard it was wii u exclusive man the
playstation and xbox gamers they were
sad
we can't let them not have this game
they probably don't care about
well the game was done in time for the
original february release date ubisoft
forced wii u owners to wait seven
months to play this game just so
playstation 3 and xbox 360 owners could
play it at the same time
see that wouldn't be so bad if ubisoft
didn't constantly release games during
that era that came out for xbox 360 and
playstation 3 but not the wii u
also in playstation 3 and xbox 360 the
owners are disappointed that a wii u
game is only coming out for the wii u
well let's rip it away from wii u fans
and give them what they want when wii u
owners are disappointed a ps3 and 360
game isn't coming out for wii u
what did they expect they bought the wii
u they ended up releasing the game on
september 3rd 2013 for pc
ps3 xbox 360 playstation vita and wii u
yeah delay the game so you don't release
it on a failed console to release it on
two failed consoles
it didn't do that well at launch and
honestly it makes total sense wii u
owners were ready for rayman legends in
february i mean there was nothing else
to play in the first half of 2013.
i think a good chunk of early adopters
of the console would have jumped on it
if it released in february when you
released it in september
all these games were coming out not only
for all platforms but on wii u we had
pikmin 3 wonderful 101 wind waker hd we
party you rayman legends could have had
a few months all to itself and i
guarantee you it would have garnered
more attention
instead it sort of got lost in the
shuffle because they delayed it which in
my opinion is one of the few examples of
delay sort of backfiring
i don't think it entirely did the game
was great it just released at a busy
time i would have recommended releasing
the wii u version on time in february
than releasing the other platform
versions at a later date there was
speculation that ubisoft couldn't do
that because microsoft had a policy
where multi-platform games have to
release the same day or earlier on xbox
platforms
or just straight up can't release on
xbox at all i don't know i've seen
numerous examples of that not occurring
i don't really know why rayman legends
would have been treated differently like
that
i think it's ready might as well test it
out by cleaning some forks
there are some studios that almost
always delay their games
if a release date seems too good to be
true it is rockstar originally revealed
that red dead redemption 2 was coming in
holiday 2017
and then first half of 2018 and released
in october again the 0.05 was the lake
and the throttle 4 was the original red
dead redemption was
you'd think they learned not to set a
day but it's almost a tradition that
certain studios and franchises delay
their games like with zelda
it's almost like every single home
console major 3d zelda title has been
delayed in some way shape or form
and then there's spore don't be like
spore
delays can infinitely raise expectations
if the developers have so much more time
this better be the best game it could
possibly be i now have nothing to do in
2007
spore i think that's what happened with
mighty number nine i mean all those
delays and this is what we got
crowdfunded indie games have it rough in
this department they almost always get
the release dates pushed because there's
only like what four people working on
them but because they're crowdfunded
because they receive donations ahead of
time
there are loads of people that expect
the world from these games
for sure shovel knight received over 300
thousand dollars and was delayed a few
times
and came out phenomenal but 300 000
isn't a lot for a game it's insane they
were able to make it on that budget
so for people to look at kickstarter
games as if they're expected to live up
to being delayed numerous times
i don't know i mean we know what the
budget is ahead of time if anything
that should set your expectations better
but no these games are often scrutinized
the most for delays
but when final fantasy crystal
chronicles remastered took two years to
come out not as many people bitched i
found that to be
pitiful this is a remaster of a gamecube
game announced in september 2018 that
was set to be released a year later
that's already sort of pathetic but it
got delayed past january 2020 and
finally released in august of 2020 and
was
dog [ __ ] but of course my favorite game
delay is donkey kong country tropical
freeze it was announced for november
2013 it got quietly delayed to december
2013 and then nintendo said they needed
more development time so they delayed it
to february 2014 and the developer said
we don't know what they're talking about
the game's done it was obviously pushed
because kind of like with rayman legends
having donkey kong in february gave it
time to breathe and be the only talk of
the town
i remember people acting like nintendo
really [ __ ] up again because donkey
kong country tropical freeze was coming
out in february
you really thought nintendo was doomed
because he couldn't play donkey kong in
december did you really think that was
gonna push the wii u over the edge with
the new playstation and xbox launching
around the same time yeah this might
have need for speed but
but the wii u has a donkey kong game
coming out in december any other month i
wouldn't give a [ __ ]
i do believe many overreact to delays i
think it's more than fair to be
disappointed but there's obviously more
good that comes from delays most of the
time
even when nearly all the examples i gave
[ __ ] stunk but come on i mean oh
persona 5 was delayed a bunch
doom eternal wasn't that supposed to
come out in november duke nukem forever
alt shut up video games require more
work than nearly any other form of
entertainment and more problems pop up
randomly
bugs glitches design flaws new ideas are
too easy to not throw into a game midway
through development so developers are
like let's add this though it will
increase
the development time as a whole by a lot
that doesn't happen nearly as much with
any other medium
it just makes sense that games get
delayed they're too complicated to
not get delayed yeah the idea that you
now have to wait another month or two to
play a game you really want to play
it's kind of lame but that gives us more
time to play all the other games that
released 30 years ago
cyberpunk got delayed i still have yet
to play dino ricky i think while many
artists strive under having a deadline
having too strict of a deadline can
obviously negatively affect the end
product
most games can release at any point in
time and they'll be fine of course games
like pokemon will
have to come out at a certain time
because of all this other merchandise
and media tie-ins releasing to coincide
with it that makes delays hard to do
but if you even have to entertain the
idea of one it's probably in your best
interest to do it
because family feud on nintendo switch
really needed it did you really have to
release it when you did
this is horrible well after numerous
delays i've decided to
cancel the laundry but don't you worry
i think everything will work out just
fine for our brown haired white friend
game delays are inevitable for all
developers and most of the time
i think they're highly respectable it
takes guts to admit hey
we need more time and sure some are
annoying
most are definitely disappointing but in
the end i
think most delays are for the best it's
not like real life or
pushing something off till later will
get you in deep trouble
hey all scott here it is laundry
season seems like everybody's cleaning
the clothes these days
you