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Back in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s you could easily get away with making yearly sequels because of how much easier and faster it was to create a video game. Call of Duty was at it's peak in the late 2000s- Early 2010s, and almost every game pumped out at that time came complete and fully designed. Nowadays, COD comes out unfinished and barely playable with tons of bugs and glitches.
The first 3 uncharted games came out in the span of 4 years- 1 in 2007, 2 in 2009, 3 in 2011
Uncharted 4 took 4 years of development, and came out in 2016. although to be fair, they did have to work on TLOU in that time span.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a gorgeous looking game. It's also a remake of the first part of the original. And it took 5 years to make that one section as opposed to the 1 year of the entirety of the original.
Horizon forbidden west, also. First game came out in 2017, the second came out in 2022. 5 whole ass years of development time.
Gran Turismo especially gets me- GT6 came out in 2013, 3 years after GT5 came out. GT7, came out in 2022!!! Sport existed yeah, but if we add that to the equation it still took 5 fucking years.
It honestly feels like games take forever to make these days. Life is way too short to be waiting nearly an entire decade for a video game (cough cough Cyberpunk cough cough GTAVI cough cough)
I think it's cuz of visuals and budget. The cutscenes, graphics, etc found in video games must take a LOT of time to make- they might make the bulk of the development time as opposed to the gameplay and music. There's stuff like UE5's quixel which enables you to create jawdropping video game environments in a couple of days, yet we don't really see devs taking advantage of that stuff. Or if they do, it's clearly not speeding up development that much.
I'm a patient person, even if this post might say otherwise. But i honestly think that games take too much time to make these days. It's reasonable to wait 2-3 years for a sequel to a beloved franchise.... Not 5 or more years. It's understandable if it's a new IP like Starfield, but not that many new IPs are being made by developers these days, and the games i listed are all sequels.
Also, yes i know backlogs exist, but they're gonna run out one day, and when you've played everything then how the fuck are you gonna cope with waiting 6 years for the next fucking Halo, or Zelda? Oh yeah, Zelda especially gets me. BOTW2 doesn't look to be that much crazier than BOTW1 but it took them 6 years to make. What the hell?!?
The first 3 uncharted games came out in the span of 4 years- 1 in 2007, 2 in 2009, 3 in 2011
Uncharted 4 took 4 years of development, and came out in 2016. although to be fair, they did have to work on TLOU in that time span.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a gorgeous looking game. It's also a remake of the first part of the original. And it took 5 years to make that one section as opposed to the 1 year of the entirety of the original.
Horizon forbidden west, also. First game came out in 2017, the second came out in 2022. 5 whole ass years of development time.
Gran Turismo especially gets me- GT6 came out in 2013, 3 years after GT5 came out. GT7, came out in 2022!!! Sport existed yeah, but if we add that to the equation it still took 5 fucking years.
It honestly feels like games take forever to make these days. Life is way too short to be waiting nearly an entire decade for a video game (cough cough Cyberpunk cough cough GTAVI cough cough)
I think it's cuz of visuals and budget. The cutscenes, graphics, etc found in video games must take a LOT of time to make- they might make the bulk of the development time as opposed to the gameplay and music. There's stuff like UE5's quixel which enables you to create jawdropping video game environments in a couple of days, yet we don't really see devs taking advantage of that stuff. Or if they do, it's clearly not speeding up development that much.
I'm a patient person, even if this post might say otherwise. But i honestly think that games take too much time to make these days. It's reasonable to wait 2-3 years for a sequel to a beloved franchise.... Not 5 or more years. It's understandable if it's a new IP like Starfield, but not that many new IPs are being made by developers these days, and the games i listed are all sequels.
Also, yes i know backlogs exist, but they're gonna run out one day, and when you've played everything then how the fuck are you gonna cope with waiting 6 years for the next fucking Halo, or Zelda? Oh yeah, Zelda especially gets me. BOTW2 doesn't look to be that much crazier than BOTW1 but it took them 6 years to make. What the hell?!?