Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

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Originally Posted by NARMAK

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.

I'd say too the way we consume media and there's so much of it compared to say the ps1/ps2 era that aside from diehards of series etc. nobody really stays hyper focused on these things anymore.

The advent and success of micro transactions within free games etc. or the ability to squeeze out revenue from decade old games (coughs rockstar) means they don't have the same incentives as back then.

While I agree like during PS2 era we got 2 metal gear games (plus 2 substance games).

-ps3 we got basically 1 game MGS4 and some remakes and rising

-ps4 we basically got the same offerings Ground Zeros and MGS5

I don't think we'll ever go back to a model of 2-4 games for a series in a life cycle (maybe the exception might be spiderman from insomniac, and FPS series)