Was disingenuous to ever position this as a launch title, they had to have seen problems brewing during development if the game has to be rethought conceptually after an 11th hour delay. Still interested in the next racing game from that studio but it could be a while until we get one.
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Sony Went "Back to the Drawing Board" with Driveclub
- Thread starter Jonboy
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Wonder what the ps plus version of the game is going to be like.
If Driveclub got sent back to the drawing board then TLG got sent back to doodling on the side of a napkin.
BloodMoney
Banned
please release this year.
This.
Tbh after reading this thread, then the IGN article I read it as "Delayed again"
Title is misleading, they are only described the game in PAST-TENSE why it went back to the drawing boards, its not going back to the drawing board again.
The quote by Scott Rohde was in the context of this:
describing why it was THEN delayed, not FURTHER delayed, they wrote this.
Storm Chamber
Banned
The part where they were certain it was coming out this year
TheSpoiler
Member
Not begging, just saying.
That quote you posted is grasping at straws - it means nothing more than we'll get details soon. That's it. What people are bitching at is the "building from scratch", but hey, keep tryin' to spin it.
Where was that part?
I'm sorry, maybe IGN should have interviewed you to get the full facts.
For some reason I'm suspicious that this game was only ever going to be delayed slightly but as optimizations occurred Sony perhaps thought it could end up hitting the performance requirements for VR. Perhaps it's going "back to the drawing board" to be polished up as a VR focused showpiece.
Probably a wrong assumption but the game was looking to be coming along very, very nicely. It seems strange that it would need to be reworked in any significant manner unless something came from down the chain of command for some reason. Even then I wonder what could have come up so far into development that would necessitate such a dramatic course change for the project outside of aforementioned VR thing.
Probably a wrong assumption but the game was looking to be coming along very, very nicely. It seems strange that it would need to be reworked in any significant manner unless something came from down the chain of command for some reason. Even then I wonder what could have come up so far into development that would necessitate such a dramatic course change for the project outside of aforementioned VR thing.
mangochutney
Member
Yes. Yes they are.
They deleted all of the code and all of the assets they'd made, and sounds they'd recorded and started all over again.
It will be out in 2020.
Think about it...
IISANDERII
Member
See EA, this is the proper timeline for game development: Going back to the drawing board before a game is released. Not after.
Forensic Scene
Member
Not even being able to go on the record with a guarantee for 2014...fucc
Storm Chamber
Banned
Miles Quaritch
Member
Come on. At this rate we're likely to get Horizon 2 before this...
I need my PGR fix dammit.
I need my PGR fix dammit.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Wow, whatever sony
30 frames for an arcade racer is pretty bad
NullPointer
Member
Where?
We knew delay - we didn't know "back to the drawing board". We also have new information in the form of "Were not announcing any specifics on that yet". Interesting news for Titanfall day too.
TheSpoiler
Member
Nice sidestep. It's okay to be wrong, my friend. Whether or not you subscribed to the "delayed" notion because you didn't read the article is annoying, but fine, I get it.
Trying to back peddle this hard, well, that's just silly!
ZettaiSeigi
Member
An IGN article with a sensationalist title? Wow, that's new!
If the VR rumours are true, this would probably make it likely that Drive Club is now a title for it. From the talks given recently by the Oculus and Valve folk, porting rarely works although assets are "sometimes" transferable.
I wouldn't take it as bad news till you see the end result
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Thread title as always:
...we think were on track to deliver what we think is going to be a great game, and when we get closer, we realize that wed be doing everyone a disservice if we shipped it before it was ready.
What I will say is that it all comes back to that fundamental principle, and thats that we want to build great games, Rohde said. And we really dont want to release a game before its ready. And sometimes, this happens in the normal course of business, where we think were on track to deliver what we think is going to be a great game, and when we get closer, we realize that wed be doing everyone a disservice if we shipped it before it was ready.
...we think were on track to deliver what we think is going to be a great game, and when we get closer, we realize that wed be doing everyone a disservice if we shipped it before it was ready.
What I will say is that it all comes back to that fundamental principle, and thats that we want to build great games, Rohde said. And we really dont want to release a game before its ready. And sometimes, this happens in the normal course of business, where we think were on track to deliver what we think is going to be a great game, and when we get closer, we realize that wed be doing everyone a disservice if we shipped it before it was ready.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
It's as if take two management is now in charge of Sony WW.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Do you think it has something to do with GT?
That would be amazing.....
DerZuhälter
Member
- Amy Henning and Naughty Dog
- Stig's IP, Sony Santa Monica,
- Drive Club
-Media Molecule spending their ressources on a Vita game that isn't selling and now being very late on anything PS4
No wonder Jacky Boy had to go. SCEA getting to feel the axe of cutbacks after internal reviews it seems.
- Stig's IP, Sony Santa Monica,
- Drive Club
-Media Molecule spending their ressources on a Vita game that isn't selling and now being very late on anything PS4
No wonder Jacky Boy had to go. SCEA getting to feel the axe of cutbacks after internal reviews it seems.
dreamer3kx
Member
This gen has been disappointing so far.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
I hate racing games, was looking forward to this one. Patience is a virtue, unless your a gamer then it's fucking murder.
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
I was basing it off the IGN title. My bad. Honestly wasn't trying to screw with people. I've been looking forward to the game as well.
I'm starting to understand. Instead of releasing GT6 as GT7 on PS4, they are reserving GT7 to be an actual numbered entry to maintain the series value. Driveclub is not being given extra consideration to make it an acceptable interim racing title due to the GT7 delay. Which means Driveclub is also now delayed.
styl3s
Member
From the builds i have played at 2 different events i can assure you it wouldn't suck.
I would gladly pay $60 for the last build i played.
Lol you must be joking
No sidestep no back peddle, though my last post was full on sarcastic at your nonsense.
The fact is the game was supposed to be a launch title and now they can't even say when it's supposed to be released, IGN's sensationalist title or not that is the fact.
Me saying they should be embarrassed is the damn truth.
Lol you might think I'm upset, but like I said before you tried to lump me in with anyone else that finds the situation laughable, I'm not even surprised at this.