Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

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Originally Posted by gundamcero

Kojima left Konami and went independent. Then released an entirely new IP in roughly three years. That is insane in regards to game development for a brand new IP. So no MGS V was not in anyway a fault of Kojima. Konami was constantly back-seating his development forcing him to make changes and cut things at a moment notice. Game development is not easy and the longer a game takes the better. The game is a masterpiece for what was released. If Konami let him finish the game it would have been even more-so. THE MGS franchise is nothing without Kojima.

For clarity sake. Horizon Zero Dawn took six years to develop. MGS 5 took roughly the same amount of time given they re-did the entire engine for the game.

Modern game development has become overly bloated imo and the development timescales ridiculous. A console generation used to be 5 years. Stretched out to circa 7 for the last few. A game taking almost as long as an entire console generation is imo unacceptable unless its a moderate budget and small studio development team.

As for Kojima putting out Death Stranding in 3 years, it finally shows when a fire gets lit under his ass to pay his own studio bills, he seems much more incentive to get it out the door sooner. Although i still think with Sony funding it somewhat, he still dawdled around.

Ultimately i think he's talented but he's a diva in my eyes and takes way too long being a perfectionist to output a game in a typically good timescale if he can drag his feet.

I think a much more acceptable development time is probably 2 years MAX for a big AAA studio release with the amount of resources and man power they have. For god sake, we had like 3+ mainline GTA entries on the PS2 era. Things have gone down the pan and imo gamers have become too lenient for the trash games we have got. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably a key example of what's wrong with the modern gaming landscape when companies can build goodwill to then completely nuke it with a crap bug ridden release to try please shareholders. Exceptions i guess are in some ways GTA V and the constant milking they done.