| SvennoJ said: Quite a lot of negativity in this thread. Didn't Alan Wake, GT5 and Fez finally come out too? A game doesn't automatically have to be terrible if it doesn't fit the 1 or 2 year development cycle. Team ico should have made some money from the Ico/SotC collection. I'm guessing TLG will first come out for ps3 and will get a relaunch on ps4. If studios like Team Ico didn't take a chance on something difficult to realize we would just be left with yearly updates of the same stuff. I can wait and am not worried at all it will turn into a DNF. It is still being worked on by the original team, on the same console with the same vision. Nothing like DNF at all. |
None of the games you listed are very comparable. Fez was 5 years in the making however it is an indie game. It wasn't being made by a studio that needed constant salaries, benefits, an office etc. It was a few people making it themselves.
Alan Wake would be an okay comparison if something about TLG was known, being shown etc. It was 6 and a half years between MP2 and it. Alan Wake was also completely redesigned at one point, originally being an open world game. Remedy were in very good shape after having sold the Max Payne Ip. A six and a half year gap for Team Ico would have meant TLG was released a few months ago. As it is we still have basically seen nothing of the game.
GT5. Again it was just a 6 year gap between GT4 and GT5. However in that time Polphony also made another racing game for the ps2, one for the psp and put out what was basically a demo to show work on GT5 was being done. Again with the TLG we still have nothing.
I think people should be concerned about a game when the studio hasn't released anything in coming up to 7 years and their game has basically been vapourware for 3 or so years. I don't think people are even worried it will be terrible. Simply that there is a chance it could still be years out and if it doesn't light up sales charts then you better believe Sony will start wondering if keeping Team Ico around in its current form is worth it. If we had some recent trailers, screenshots etc of TLG I think people would be far less concerned. I don't think it has turned into the next DNF in terms of comicality yet however it is well beyond being compared to Fez, AW and GT5.
I will also point out that the trailer, concept and what was said about TLG seem very similar to Majin and the forsaken kingdom. So it really doesn't seem like some impossible task and something very different. Considering Majin ended up around 75% in reviews I would even say you could take that game give it great graphics, tighten the controls, improve the atmosphere and bish bash bosh job done. You have a critically loved game.
As an aside I don't think doing a HD 'remaster' counts as releasing a game. Honestly I'm not even sure how much work had to be done in the first place but it seems Bluepoint were the ones doing the porting and Team Ico were perhaps in a consulting role.
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