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.
The creative director of Ubisoft’s long-in-development Beyond Good & Evil 2 has spoken for the first time since the company’s ‘major reset’, reassuring that development of the game is progressing.
No fan wants that BS, we wanted a sequel not an MMO spinoff with an "Evil Jade" cameo
I love how they only added Jade like a year later through a CGI trailer to hush up the complaints about it being a prequel without Jade
Only to show Jade who's now evil creating a massive timeline issue as it makes no sense.
It's been in development for 15 years and counting. So, who cares, really? Say whatever you want. It's completely meaningless.
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.
Dragon Age going smoothly??? Directors leaving, people leaving in general, terrible working conditions....not sure how you define smoothly.
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.
Beyond Good & Evil was a great game at the time... but, like most older games, it didn't age well. Gameplay and graphics are subpar by today's standards.
Wouldn't mind if they made a Remake with updated gameplay and graphics. Game turns 20 next year...
I feel the same way about the original Psychonauts. I gave it a shot every few years, and it just wasn't for me.
I find it still very playable by today's standards, honestly.
But opinions are opinions.
I just feel it actually aged well.
Its was great middleware that someone thought would make for an even greater AAAA title.
For some reason...
Beyond Good and Evil aged just fine, as did the original Psychonauts. Visually, sure, a bit rough (though both have a wonderfully refreshing art style that more than makes up for actual "visual fidelity".)
I'd say that you really need to give both of these games another shot. Psychonauts is one of the most original and utterly creative games I've ever played, and it's also one of the funniest as well. Psychonauts 2 was even better, and basically, a (well made) Pixar movie brought to life.
In all honesty, don't just play games and try to like them if you don't actually like them. It's perfectly fine to have your own tastes! we tend to use a tremendous amount of hyperbole when referring to games that are slightly older, and we speak only from memory, which *can* be deceiving.
I will say that I replayed the first Psychonauts again in the last few months, and still adore it. But like I said, this is all subjective.
I gave up on the og psychonauts after about 5 or so hours because like many many people those weird sluggish controls just got the better of me while trying to get through some of the more testing platforming and swinging around parts.
BgaE I got way further in enjoyed, I think I saved it off in the end because something I was more interested in came out. The sequel looks like a completely different type of game in genre and scope, to the point it looked pretty ground breaking I thought. I’m still super low key excited for it, although I wouldn’t be surprised if next time it reared it’s head it looked very very different.
It's an age thing. I'm always reminded of this when I whip out the old PS2, the vast majority of 3D games from the '00s just haven't aged well.
I have same feeling over Code Veronica X fans loved it to bits while I'm came out of it confused and disappointed.
I never played Beyond Good & Evil and I might get give it a try soon.
Cancel it or change the name for all I care. This isn't the Beyond Good & Evil I fell in love with.
Weird take. Whilst we didn’t get proper gameplay reveals it looked very much how I would want BG&E to look now.
So you wanted an ambitious open world Beyond Good and Evil sequel that gameplay differs from the original and has no clear vision so far if it's a prequel (which no one wanted) or a sequel (with an evil Jade where she's not the main character, which no one wanted)
All people wanted was a full on sequel that's a platformer and continues Jades story.
Exactly
It's not Beyond Good and Evil
They had an idea for an ambitious new IP and thought it would sell better or had more of a safety net if they slapped on a franchise name.
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!
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.