The Last Guardian making 'slow progress'

[Reasonable]

Zim said:

Reasonable said:

My way of looking at is in the time Michael Bay made 3 Transformers Terrence Malick probably makes one film - and I'd rather have his one film than Bay's 3.

So long as they deliver in the way they did with ICO and SOTC I'll be happy.  I am worried though that they are trying something too hard to achieve within a game environment.

Right except generally speaking Gears of War, Uncharted and Mass Effect all had better critical reception and FAR better sales than Ico and SotC. While other studios are putting out entire trilogies that are better received and selling better, Team Ico isn't putting out a single game. 

You can't take such a short term view. Yes if The Last Guardian comes out and is great then hey brilliant. But what if it ends up being their last game because of how inefficient they are? Not so brilliant then is it. The industry is no where near as forgiving as it used to be. If The Last Guardian gets overhyped by next-gen because it comes out too late and doesn't get enough sales then say goodbye to Team Ico. 

What has sales got to do with quality?  Let's not go up that false path.  As for reviews, they will always tend to skew to poular genres with known approaches.  Look at the first reviews for 2001 - middling.  Now the film is rated higher than anything that came out at the same time.  Reviews are just a guide and easily stumped by new stuff.  Look at the reviews for Wii Sports then consider it is actually the single most influential title this gen resulting in Kinect, Move and a score of copycats : yet reviewers had no idea how to properly evaluate it.

The point I'm making is the team is a critical darling producing works that generate far more long term notice than other works - just as Warners happily let Kubrick do what he wanted so long as the results were good (and I mean long term good).  Today ICO is still revered while Mass Effect, for example, is often looked on as being overated vs its flaws.  With every year critical views of Mass Effect will drop a bit until they settle where they should.

I doubt Team ICO costs much and they are backed by Sony.  So long as Sony accepts it they'll take their time.

I don't know if that's right or wrong in the videogame industry but I know it's what's happening here.