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HappySqurriel on 20 May 2008
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Soleron said:
twesterm said:
So remember when Haze got delayed last November, a month before release when print ads were already being ran, and I expressed serious concerns and people shoved the famous Miyamoto quote about delayed games in my face?

Yeah, I'm thinking I might have been right.

Yeah, you have to be Miyamoto and the game has to have the word Mario, Metroid or Zelda in it for the quote to apply.


Well, I actually think that the quote mainly works depending on why a game was delayed ...

Mario and Zelda games tend to see delays because they require further polishing but the game (in general) is already very playable and fun; in contrast, if a game is delayed because there is something fundimentally wrong with it then it is (probably) a bad sign.

To pick on Lair again, Lair was a game that was initially supposed to be released far earlier than it was and (considering the state it was released in) I suspect that it was delayed because the game was performing poorly and there were several very broken game mechanics.