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Death Stranding came out in 2019. Death Stranding 2 will come out in 2025. That's six years for two games. If these were the PS2 days Kojima would have cranked out 3 Death Stranding games by now and we'd be getting Death Stranding 3: Subsistence along with a teaser for Death Stranding 4 next year.

Remember when video game trilogies used be to a huge thing in the sixth and seventh generations? You'd typically get 3 games in about 5-7 years

See: Halo, Gears of War, Resistance, Killzone, etc

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

FF7 Rebirth PC when?

I think a lot of it isn't due to developers as much as it is bonehead executive speculation plays. There also wasn't chasing the live service dragon.

How many Yakuzas have we had? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza_(franchise)

Someones doing something right over there. kiryu-approaching

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

meanwhile rockstar and bethesda be like

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

UFO 50 was originally announced in 2017 and it released just a while ago. You should play that game, it owns.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh no, looks like you'll have nothing to play, because the only games that are ever available to play are ones released in the past 5 years. There definitely is not a cumulative total of games that is more than you could ever imagine playing in 5 whole lifetimes, no sir. You're literally going to have to stare at a wall for 12 months straight while you wait for Death Stranding 2. Consider it practice/mental toning for the actual game.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't even played the first game

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And it's not even chief evil for gigacorp games, if anything, corpos tend to have better, though still sucking development times, but new norm is sitting on popular franchises doing nothing for years and decades. Indies and small companies got real fucking problems with dev hells. I follow games that are in development for a literal decade, they aren't fake since some progress is done, but release is nowhere close. Or the ones which are in development for years and when they release it's still early access with years more, and this can't be even explained by lack of manpower, those games aren't substantially different in scope of those from 20 years ago.

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