Chris Penwell from BagoGames writes: It’s been a few months since E3 2017, and I’ve been mulling over Michel Ancel’s ambitious project. The hype train has arrived at the station, and the dust has settled. It’s time to face the truth. The reveal of Beyond Good & Evil 2 was exciting at first, as I have been a long time fan of the original game, but as more and more information is given, it seems the sequel I have always wanted is gone forever.
This year promises to be a big year for gaming, and it will definitely be one of the greatest if any of these big MIA projects finally made it into gamers' hands.
Pretty sure Silk Song and Dragon Age are going smoothly. The other 2 can be assumed to be quietly cancelled knowing their publishers and Metroid will most likely be shown off this year.
I remember in 2017 when Nintendo showed off the Metroid Prime 4 logo, and some Nintendo defenders claimed "Just because they only showed a logo, doesn't mean that's all they've worked on for the game."
As history has proven, they were wrong. Nintendo showed off a logo back in 2017 because that's literally all they had.
I think Beyond Good and Evil 2 can stay there unless they are going to just rename it to a new IP
Pretty sure BG&E2 is dead at this point - along with the other game Ancel was working on before he left - I think it was called WILD. Anyone remember that from a PS conference years ago?
Dreadwolf isn't in development hell anymore and is finally getting its reveal in the summer - since 2016 the game has been scrapped and restarted three times but its been going pretty well since the last reboot when EA finally allowed BioWare to just get on with making a single player game.
I'm not sure Perfect Dark is in development hell either - like it could be but we haven't really heard much to suggest either way - imo they just showed the trailer off when the game was still in pre-production. Xbox were desperate for anything and this is all they had at the time. And the reason we haven't heard anything since is just because it's in normal development and games take 5 years to make. The help from a support studio was typically overblown on N4G because nearly every game has this.
Ubisoft's action-adventure even beats Duke Nukem Forever which previously was the title with the longest wait between a game being first announced and it actually being released.
I understand that the original game is held in high esteem by some passionate fans. I tried to get into it on several occasions and I just lost interest after a few hours of gameplay.
Cancel it or change the name for all I care. This isn't the Beyond Good & Evil I fell in love with.
How hard is it to make a game like the original? Nobody wanted anything different and these idiots just insist on trying to make something completely unrelated AND they don’t even know what to make! So, yea, here we go with the delays. Ubisoft can be such an obnoxious publisher/developer.
I'm more worried about how fast that time went i still remember it being announced there is no way that was that many years ago NO WAY!
Although Beyond Good and Evil 2 has had its problems, it has officially been confirmed by Ubisoft that it is still in active development.
Looks like an awesome game, but it has nothing too do with BGE1, or anything to do with what fans wanted.
If it would have been a SP action-adventure game like the first one, I would have been excited.
I'm concerned with what kind of cheese would Ubisoft to sell Beyond Good and Evil 2 with
http://kotaku.com/5156988/w...
I was concerned right from the beginning. You could tell from that reveal that this will be absolutely nothing like the original. I don't even know how they can call this Beyond Good and Evil 2 when it has very little in common with it. They could have just as easily called it something different and got away with it.
If you're fan of the original, then surely you would know that the game we wanted isn't going to happen. It's basically a totally different game and they are using the Beyond Good and Evil name to promote it.
1) It's a prequel...we wanted a sequel to tie loose ends up
2) It feels forced...like it's trying to be edgy (swearing and the the like)
3) Online focus...and you know what Ubisoft are like with their online crap
4) The main character is a create your own...which lessens the story a little (Imagine if Jade was like that)
5) Jade won't be in it...the character who we all fell in love with
6) The DLC/Pre Order/Season Pass are going to be ridiculous...lets be honest it's Ubisoft.
It's like they needed a reason to make this game and with how ambitious it is they needed an existing IP to help sell the idea so they decided to bring Beyond Good and Evil back...not for us fans but because they just wanted to sell us this new game with the BGaE name slapped on the box.
Personally as a huge fan of this franchise and the fact I've wanted it back for years I really hope they cancel it. I want a sequel with Jade which plays similar to the first game, I didn't ask for all this open world crap and I didn't ask for a prequel.
I think UBISOFT announced this game again super early to get shareholders support to avoid vivendi takeover.
Game looks great. Something far more ambition than its linear predecessor. Im not concerned about the direction of the game, im more concerned about Ubi screwing this up business wise.