Half-Life 2: Episode Two to be Longer (Too) [Mar 09, 2007, 11:14 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Just wanted to set a record for "two" homophones in one headline. Anyway,
Valve: Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Will Be Longer on Fringe Drinking (thanks
xXBatmanXx) has word from Valve's Doug Lombardi that Half-Life 2: Episode Two
will offer about eight hours of gameplay, compared with the approximately six
hours of gameplay in episode one, and offers details on planned Steam features
that will enhance its community support. Doug also says that in spite of Episode
2's delayed release, their development cycle for episodic content is getting
shorter:
"Episode 1 took 18 months to complete and Episode 2 will end up being about 13 to 14 months, so we’re trimming it down," he said. "I think we’ll get closer to a year and be on a 12 month cycle. We’ll see how it goes after this trilogy is done."
You'd have to be a twit not to see the difference between this and other release date "Whining". Normal release date whining is pathetic, I'll agree to that, but this is something different.
The difference is that Episodic gaming was advertised as being just (quote) "Short waits" inbetween each episode. No one expects release dates to be held up as stone-engraved edicts from on high, but when you advertise episodic content and hype it up as a "Short wait" only to have it take over a year for each chapter, you've earned that whining. 18 months is not a short wait. Was anyone really expecting 14-18 month waits inbetween each episode? Not anyone I was talking to about this. I was thinking more along 4-6 months at the longest.
What makes this even worse is that when the Elder Scrolls expansion comes out in two weeks, it will have been about one year (12 months) since the release of the main game...meaning that a confirmed 40 hour RPG game expansion was done in less amount of time then a 6 hour FPS episode. Don't you find that really pathetic?
Don't bring up Portal or TF2 either...they are both FPS's, and as such, are nowhere near as complicated as a "sandbox" RPG like ES:O.
Development time for an 8 hour FPS "episode" should be a lot less then a 40 hour RPG expansion.
The difference is that Episodic gaming was advertised as being just (quote) "Short waits" inbetween each episode. No one expects release dates to be held up as stone-engraved edicts from on high, but when you advertise episodic content and hype it up as a "Short wait" only to have it take over a year for each chapter, you've earned that whining. 18 months is not a short wait. Was anyone really expecting 14-18 month waits inbetween each episode? Not anyone I was talking to about this. I was thinking more along 4-6 months at the longest.
What makes this even worse is that when the Elder Scrolls expansion comes out in two weeks, it will have been about one year (12 months) since the release of the main game...meaning that a confirmed 40 hour RPG game expansion was done in less amount of time then a 6 hour FPS episode. Don't you find that really pathetic?
Don't bring up Portal or TF2 either...they are both FPS's, and as such, are nowhere near as complicated as a "sandbox" RPG like ES:O.
Development time for an 8 hour FPS "episode" should be a lot less then a 40 hour RPG expansion.
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