The new sci-fi exploration game is far from the first game to suffer from high expectations and too too much advance praise.
L.A. Noire is coming to the library of free games available to GTA+ Members on Thursday, May 2.
Announced in 2020, Playground Games' open-world action RPG has seen sporadic updates and departures but still no release date.
I expect it to release by the time the next Xbox releases. Can that be 2026? Sure
You could say the same for any number of games that were stupidly announced during pre-production. Elder Scrolls 6 & Perfect Dark are current examples, Blade is another recent one and in the past Mass Effect Andromeda and Cyberpunk 2077 come to mind.
I don't think this game is in any trouble. For a start, Playground Games are one of the few under MS Studios that actually have a track record of delivering on time and with quality. We got a trailer last year and I'd fully expect there to be something more substantial at the next showcase in the summer.
No dramas here - just another victim of Microsoft's incompetence. They simply had to announce several games way too early because they had nothing else to talk about.
how are they a victim when they are clearly being given enough time? They haven't set any release date, haven't had to show any trailers, how is that being a victim? You even say yourself that you think it's not in trouble.
TESVI was mostly announced to stop people from asking. Like how they gave us a roadmap of first Starfield, then TES then Fallout. So people keep asking whether they'll do another one or not.
But Fable and Perfect Dark was defineately too early.
The same thing that happens to any project when you announce it far too early. Perfect Dark, Fable, The Elder Scrolls 6, Star Wars KOTOR Remake...you actually have to, I don't know, make the game?
I'm fairly confident this game will see the light of day, as Playground have released 5 Forza games of quality and on schedule. Think it was just revealed too early.
The only issue I see is that, as you mentioned, they have only done Forza games. An RPG is completely different requiring completely different facets.
Whole new different open world....not just tracks. Character designs and animations, dialogue, combat systems, quest systems, equipment and inventory managment....the list is very long and none of it falls under their previous experience.
Even with assistance from other studios I believe they are still far off from delivering a complete version of this game.
Hanzala from eXputer: "I do appreciate GTA 6, Rockstar, but if I could trade it for a new L.A. Noire or a Bully game, I'd do so in a heartbeat."
How are they lost? You can get L.A. Noire on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch and Bully is on the PS5 and Xbox Series too.
Mfs are too sensitive nowadays and would cry instead of being concerned bout real world problems
Whenever gta 6 launch we won't be getting another rockstar title for another 10 years lol but on the positive side they bou to come back n show how open world supposed to be done 🔥
I won't expect any singleplayer DLC like IV's The Lost & Damned or The Ballad of Gay Tony after it launches either
No game has been as overhyped as No Man's Sky.
For me, the most overhyped game I've ever seen, especially on this site, was Watch_Dogs.
People were expecting it to be the second coming of Jesus or something. Ever since it was revealed, you couldn't go a day without seeing at least 10 articles about Watch_Dogs on N4G, it became incredibly annoying.
In the end, when the final game ended up being merely "good", everyone shat on it because it wasn't OMFGWTFBBQ BEST GAME EVAR MAED!!!11!
Ugh.
For me 2 super hype turned super letdown games were LA Noire and Quantum Break. LA Noire had its moments but it was boring beyond belief.
Quantum Break sucked very bad to me. It was like a great idea that was very poorly executed. So much dumb stuff in the game on top of being repetitive.
Let me add one more. Infamous second son. Now it wasn't a super letdown, but it did not live up to the hype. The powers, acting and story were great to me. The repetition was painful as hell though.
Haze or Lair maybe?