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@The Blackangel asked in another thread if those of us who play Skyrim will stop once ES VI comes out. This made me curious how common this behaviour is. Has anyone here abandoned all previous entries in a series upon getting the newest game in that series? Like never played Fallout 3 or NV anymore after getting Fallout 4, or never playing Oblivion or Morrowind again upon getting Skyrim? I wouldn’t expect this to apply to linear games, but I figure with open world games, maybe some people do have this play style. For me, new entries in series don’t make old entries obsolete unless those entries were already very weak to begin with. They just add on to the existing world and give me more content to explore.

Switch--- The Childs Sight (DDL) Skyrim Thief Simulator (DDL) Blasphemous (DDL) Revenge Of The Bird King (DDL) Aldred Knight(DDL)

PS4: Fire Pro Wrestling World AO Tennis Xbox One: Team Sonic Racing Switch: Fast RMX

The only good thing I can see from the delay is right in what he said. "The good news is, we're nearly done with development of The Last Of Us Part II. We are in the midst of fixing our final bugs." Every game, despite honest efforts of honest developers has bugs when it hits the shelves that they didn't catch before it was released. So this delay can give them time to weed out bugs that they missed and give the initial release a better game. I'm not trying to shit on anyone. No one is perfect. But, in my eyes, more time to develop equals better results on the finished product.

But that's precisely my point. The console IS meant to do only one thing. As such, they are able to concentrate more on the game itself, because that's all the console is crafted to do. Whereas a PC is set up to do hundreds of other things on top of gaming.

NieR Automata came out a couple of years ago to huge acclaim from both gamers and critics alike, and very much deservedly so. It's a superb game. It was a sequel to the original NeiR but, at least in terms of story, held pretty much no connection to the first game at all. This was a good thing because the original NieR was the slowest selling consumer good since the DVD launch of Pearl Harbour. There was no point in continuing a story with characters that the gaming community had barely heard of. The game I've posted about is a "remake" of that original game from 2010. As I said in the OP, I did play the original back in the day on the PS3 and it was a good game... well, at least the portions of that had actually been developed. Whether working on this game brought about the collapse of the developer, Cavia, or the collapse of Cavia brought an end to development of the game, who knows. Either way, Square Enix patched up the holes in the parts of the game that hadn't been made with sticky tape and quietly released it with little to no promotion, probably because they were too embarrassed to release this raw Chicken Kiev as a game. I don't know about other remasters, but this one I would not be shocked to find the "remaster" took a long time because before you can remaster a game, you have to at least finish it first. The fact NieR Automata was made I found really strange at the time because, why bring this back? It was like someone funding a Hollywood movie for a Chechnyen superhero that nobody has heard of. NeiR was loaded with potential and I'm glad they brought it back with NieR Automata and even more glad that Square Enix are finally going to give the original game the treatment it deserved. Despite the problem this game had, I enjoyed it a lot. I will so be picking this up in the hope they actually make the game should have had a decade ago.

The Platform - 8/10

I just realized I had the wrong game in mind. I was thinking Elsweyr, not Elysium.

Yes, once again the wait for this hugely anticipated game, like it's the only reason I still live and breath kind of anticipated, has been extended, this time indefinitely due to what Naughty Dog are calling "logistical issues". Translated, because the world had gone to hell they can't ship physical copies of the game in an effective, timely and predicable matter right now, even though the game itself is actually finished. They could release the game digitally, but they reckon that wouldn't be fair to those who want, and especially pre-ordered, the game on disk. A strange situation that Naughty Dog's characters can handle a shitty situation like this better that they themselves can. But still, it's hard to blame them. It was inevitable that stuff like this was going to happen as a result of what's going on in the world. This game will not be the only victim of this, just one of the more high profile ones. Hope they keep trying, within reason, to sort this mess out, so we can have the game soon.