The game delivers a steady drip of loot and just enough challenge to keep players coming back and replaying the campaign again and again. What’s the big deal?ĭiablo III is a masterpiece of the action-RPG, dungeon-crawler genre. ![]() In fact, Blizzard didn’t release another game other than WoW expansions until StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in 2010 (more on that game later). Blizzard may also have had their hands full with a little game that launched in 2004 called World of Warcraft. The game’s development changed hands when Blizzard North was shut down in 2005. While not much is publically known about the cause of Diablo III‘s delays, it appears more than the usual Blizzard quality control process may be at play here. If a game doesn’t look like it will live up to their extremely high standards, they have been known to cancel projects outright ( StarCraft: Ghost, Warcraft Adventures) or scrap the project and recycle elements into a new game, as is the case with this year’s Overwatch, which arose from the ashes of Titan. Metacritic: 90 (Ultimate Evil Edition) Why the delay?īlizzard is notorious for waiting for games to be perfect before they see the light of day. ![]() Here are five games with long development cycles that are now considered must-plays. While it is rare for games such as The Witness to live up to the hype and make it out of a long development cycle with glowing reviews, there are a few notable exceptions. ![]() In his review of the game, Giant Bomb’s Brad Shoemaker remarks that “while I don’t think I’d say any game is worth waiting eight years for, there’s also not a whole lot I’d change about The Witness or the time I spent with it.” Thankfully, The Witness has so far managed to live up to its lofty expectations, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews, and the occasional perfect score from sites such as IGN. Late last month, our own Brett Bates took a look at The Witness and three other games with extremely long development cycles that will hopefully be worth the wait.
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