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PS.Blog: Lair Officially Delayed

Following the early tips of delays from GameStop and EBgames, Ryan Hamlyn the associate producer of SCEA has officially confirmed the delay in Playstation Blog:

"Wow, even I didn't see this one coming! Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features - such as leaderboards and medal systems - have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone's excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4."

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etownone - 881 days 15 hours ago

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the delay hopefully for PS owners is due to the bad reviews lately, fix the controls with the option of using sixaxis or analog, and problem solved. Reviewers wont give low scores due to limited sixaxis only control.

to the moron waggle below.... actually people do care what egm/1up and how other sites/mags like gamespot and gamepro. Now if you weren't so close-minded you were have read that the real only negative about the game was the lack for analog control for the dragons. Thats why I said hopefully they will include the analog control instead of forcing everyone to use sixaxis.

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1.1 WaggleLOL | 881 days 14 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Marceles - 881 days 14 hours ago

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Hmm...well now they have no excuse not to give us a demo :P

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etownone - 881 days 14 hours ago

1.3 - go waggle you dumb a** somewhere else...

first, that was my opinion, thats why i said hopefully, and from the reviews i read of Lair, they were complaining of how much sixaxis sucks to control the dragons, and a choice for analog should have been implemented. Other than that complaint, the rest of reviews were praising the inovation and graphics.

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WIIIS1 - 881 days 5 hours ago

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@ etownone

You really shouldn't be giving them any more false hopes. That's just not right.

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BrotherNick - 880 days 20 hours ago

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I do care what reviewers think... 60 bucks is a big amount for a game, and pure enjoyment is what people are looking for, so people like me check 4-5 game review sites to see if it's good enough to buy, or rent, or just not try out.

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steriotyp - 880 days 17 hours ago

1.7 - Lair delayed....again

Lair?....Delayed??.....What a surprise, considering it gets delayed every time we are close to a release date. This is the one reason why I bought my PS3, and now, it is the one reason why I am selling it. I will pick it up when some more good titles hit.

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Loudninja - 881 days 15 hours ago

2 - Its not due to bad reviews so you can stop there

They stated the reason on the article.and there was only one bad review

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Bill Nye - 881 days 15 hours ago

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Yeah, just like they left out rumble because it was a "last-gen" technology.

Don't believe everything Sony says. I'm sure they're going to tweak the motion-sensing controls a bit, too. It's only logical.

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MACHone - 881 days 15 hours ago

2.2 - Bill Nye

But hadn't it already been announced that the game had gone golden? Isn't is a little too late for code tweaks after the game's been mass produced?

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Bill Nye - 881 days 14 hours ago

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"Gold" doesn't mean mass produced. It means it's ready to be mass produced. Apparently it really wasn't ready this time.

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Saint Sony - 881 days 15 hours ago

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GOOD.

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MACHone - 881 days 15 hours ago

4 - Gah

I was eight minutes too late to submit this article! Damn, it's so hard to contribute stuff when the N4G crew is so on the ball!

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drunk pandas - 881 days 15 hours ago

5 - Glad Sony said something

It's a good think that Sony said something quickly before speculation about added control schemes started going nuts on the internet.

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Komrad - 881 days 15 hours ago

6 - whatever fix it if thats what you're doing.

but give us a demo soon!!

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MACHone - 881 days 15 hours ago

6.1 - Komrad

Yeah, I suppose this does give them plenty of time to put a demo out. I was starting to think we weren't going to get one. Heck, we might STILL not get one.

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Snake_Doctor - 881 days 15 hours ago

8 - Uh???

So does this affect me playing Heavenly Sword?

Somebody better give me a rumble controller with warhawk.
No Seriously! Only a rumble controller can appease my desire for blood Sony!!!

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xaphanze - 881 days 15 hours ago

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they should just add standard controls for gods sake.That way no body will nag.

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heavymetal3k - 881 days 14 hours ago

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In the three weeks its been delayed, about five weeks from now, they wouldnt even be able to change the controls for one level let alone a whole game, its not like its an easy fix.

Lets just wait and see how the controls feel before we go putting it down.

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MK_Red - 881 days 14 hours ago

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I knew it had something to do with QA or something. They may indeed be trying to address some issues from early reviews (EGM!?) like Calling All Cars did.
I cant wait for this game and hopefully when it ships, its the perfect game we've been waiting for.

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XxZxX - 881 days 14 hours ago

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isn't it cool, developers listen to reviewers to improve their product. More games should do like this instead of rushing them out, we then have more closer to perfect games.

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XxZxX - 881 days 14 hours ago

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wait if they addressed the issues but EGM already printed....................... ........... so how does this work?

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xaphanze - 881 days 14 hours ago

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I had the same thought.I guess theyll review it again and itll score 6.5 .

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MK_Red - 881 days 14 hours ago

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Good point. If indeed they changed a few things based on EGM review, then people who buy the game when it ships and read the EGM review, find bad things in the review that aren't in the game anymore and if they haven't been following the news, they might find EGM stupid and biased!

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Komrad - 881 days 14 hours ago

12.3 - hmm

I'd Definitely like to see what egm does if this happens. i hope it happens. meanwhile... duct-taping six axis to powerglove...

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Whoooop - 881 days 14 hours ago

13 - so much

for my wet dream...

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scottie2521 - 881 days 14 hours ago

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this just blew my high

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supaet - 881 days 14 hours ago

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what's with all these ps3 delays?

stranglehold
stuntmen
medal of honor

those are all coming out this month to the 360...ps3 version? delayed...

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batman2million - 881 days 4 hours ago

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he has 3 disagrees? wth? he's speaking the truth! they are all delayed! fan bois these days

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jack who - 881 days 14 hours ago

18 - oh cell...

delays are fun no?

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aiphanes - 881 days 14 hours ago

19 - This game is gonna rock! Who cares if 2 magazines gave it bad reviews?

Did they review the final game? No....the final game is comming out September 4th.

Who cares if this and all the other AAA titles are delayed by 2 to 3 weeks. Why are people so anal? You will have warhawk to play on the 28th of August and september will have heavenly sword and Lair...

After seen that video of the guy playing it...the controls looks awesome to me.

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medziarz - 881 days 14 hours ago

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what's with all that "controls" BS! isn't it time to try out motion controled games? at least one game? is that such a problem?
you are happy that bluray is turning out being useful, the same is with cell, what's your problem with sixaxis?
is it because it's something NEW TO LEARN? lazy gamers like "lazy developers"?

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Ares84 - 881 days 14 hours ago

20.1 - No problem with motion controls but...

...they should have included the analog controls as well if someone doesn't like the motion controls...don't you think?

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medziarz - 881 days 13 hours ago

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I think this game was built around the motion control scheme, just like wii games.
People, stop being histerical! factor5 is not gong to change the principle of it's masterpiece game because of some lame magazine's review. Maybe we'd better relate the delay to the interview where chief of worldwide studios mentions that the latest home dev kit has only just been released, and those medals seem to be perfect for the trophy room :P

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Ares84 - 881 days 14 hours ago

21 - Another game delayed

Nice....now there is 1 & a half game left for this month for the PS3
One game is GRAW2 and the half game is Warhawk!
I remember when August looked full of games!
But what's new?
They announc a date for a game and you can expect it to be released 6months later.
So they wanna tweak the online portion of the game???
No!!!!!!!! they craped their pants and decided they will do the analog controls as well!! That's what happend!
Reviews should come out after a game is released because in the end all we are going to end up with is 20 reviews of the same game and the devs will call the game back each time to tweak it according the reviews!
What a shame!!

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Zhuk - 881 days 14 hours ago

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all hope for this game is lost they arent delaying to fix the controls what a massive disappointment

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Whoooop - 881 days 14 hours ago

22.1 - WOW

another one????????????

You sure have a bag of those intelligent ones..

Hand some over buddy, so I can improve my posts.

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Zhuk - 881 days 14 hours ago

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i'm intelligent enough to point out that a game that had potential was ruined by a pathetic control scheme and now is a disappointment for gamers everywhere and an embarassment for the PS3

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Fx35 - 881 days 14 hours ago

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You are a disappointment for yourself,you jealous xbot

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FirstknighT - 881 days 14 hours ago

23 - Back to the drawing board...

If it's the control scheme, than Factor 5 gets no respect for being pushed around so easily. They had a vision and their lack of confidence in their decision to use 6axis only just shows that they're not ready for the big leagues.

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etownone - 881 days 14 hours ago

23.1 - thats a good thing.

i'm a 360 user, but been looking forward to seeing Heavenly sword and of course Lair, because they are the only 2 games coming up the year on PS3 that interest me.

so hopefully the do "go back to the drawing board" and include the choice for sixaxis or analog. why force the motion controls when you can give people a choice??

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Whoooop - 881 days 14 hours ago

23.2 - That depends on your perspective

Maybe correcting something which could potentially be the reason why the game won't sell, could be a great decision.

Maybe they are listening to reviewers instead of criticize them like david chaffey.

Also.. Imaging if they were thinking about adding the standard control before the new release date, but decided NOT to add it and the game is a failure in sales???

what can we say then?? OH they were very brave, they had vision and confidence and that's why their game sucked, because they couldn't be humble about adding something that almost everybody wanted..

perspective.

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heavymetal3k - 881 days 14 hours ago

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People as i said, the time they have until release there is no way they could change the controls, just not enough time. Whether you like it or not the controls are staying.

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etownone - 881 days 14 hours ago

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and how would you know, just curious?

Lair looks like an amazing innovative game, but if people (reviewers) are already complaining about the controls.... it would make sense to just include choice for analog also.

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heavymetal3k - 881 days 14 hours ago

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Do you really think that in 5 weeks they will be able to change the whole games controls to let you be able to choose from the two? They could have an update in the future sure, but not on release.

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Panthers - 881 days 14 hours ago

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Will EGM give it another review or they just going to stick with what they gave it? The game isnt even out yet. People need to wait to review games...

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