Days Gone looks really meh

[flashfire926]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

flashfire926 said:

My theory is that the long time in development is due to Bend being a portable developer for quite some time before having to transition to PS4.

 

Cerebralbore101 said:
Honestly, I just trust Sony to be able to handle their first party studios at this point. And the game has been in development for 7 years. 

The game was being developed since 2012 buuuuuuuuuut it didn't entire full production till early 2015, so I'm assuming realistically that most of the development took place in 4 years, not 7 (the first few years were probably conceptual at most, which lines up with what FlashFire said). 

3 years of pre-production.... sounds somewhat bad? I dunno. They must've had several false starts or something to take so long to finally get going.

Its not uncommon for titles to have that long pre-production, but its only cause the developers are finishing up a seperate title alongside. Fallout 4 started pre production in 2008, and entered full production in 2011 (IIRC), however most of the team for that 2008-2011 period was on Skyrim.