Well, I hope at least that Rare comes up with a halfway decent storyline this time. Either this or they should just stop taking the story so seriously because it was laughably bad in the last game.
So bad that I wrote a fanfic about it which you can find in my signature.
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Originally Posted by TheGame
This has to be the longest development cycle in the history of video games.
I think it would be a VERY safe bet that PD:0 will be one of the best and deepest FPSs of all time.
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Don't be so sure. Not too long ago, there was a game in development for three years or so. Maybe even longer. I don't quite remember. Anyway, it got delayed and it got delayed and it got delayed. But people held on anyway because it was being developed by a very well known company headed by one of the key people behind Doom and Quake.
That game was Daikatana which turned out so absolutely bad that it inspired jokes for months. I believe the company behind that game is now defunct.
Long development times are certainly better than really short ones, but beyond a certain point, games start to wither on the vine.
A more relevant example: Star Fox Adventures had a ridiculously long development time, and while the graphics turned out great, most people agree that the rest of the game just lacked something. It wasn't bad, but you would expect more from such a long effort.
By the way, I'd also like to see Crash's source. And while we're at it, who here still thinks Rareware is going to put out 5 games by the end of the year?