Take a deep breath and remember: delays are good.
Ok, this statement is not Always It’s true, but it’s usually like that. Delayed projects sometimes cause bad games (looking at you, Duke Nukem 3D), but more time has been devoted much more often. Spending detailed weeks to get something right in art, just like the courage to throw out ideas that seemed wise in the concept, but never spread. Think about how many semi -finished games you’ve ever bought and played, and then regretted that the publisher was delayed until he was right and ready. Do you have this thought in your head? Ok, stick to it.
GTA 6 Is delayedAnd that’s good because it will probably be better for delay.
Rockstar has a long history of gaming delay to make sure they are ready to the market, strikingly consistent discipline, which places them next to Nintendo in the elite brotherhood of studies, which are waiting until the casserole is fully cooked before serving. And boy, is it always delicious.
I play GTA games as long as they were nearby, starting with four GTA LAN PC players. I played the most unclear (London 1969), The Best (GTA V) and The True Best (Chinatown Wars For DS). I have been plundering for decades, crashed and shot these stupid, wonderful worlds. And fortunately, these games are practically delayed … and not accidentally, always great. Here is every delay in the history of GTA (and some red dead).
Grand Theft Auto III
Rockstar offices in New York were only a few blocks from the World Trade Center and let’s not take two time to delay GTA III after the attacks of September 11. . Marketing Vice President of Terry Donovan announced a delay Just a few days after the tragedy:
“Our decision is based on two factors, first of all it was difficult to work at the center of Manhattan last week, because the basic communication infrastructure was at best interrupted, and secondly, that the full review of the content of all our titles and marketing materials that we use to represent is absolutely necessary for us in the light of a terrible event, which was all witnesses in the United States.”
He continued: “As for the Grand Theft Auto, because the game is so huge that the review is not a short process. Until now, we came across some small contextual references, with which we no longer felt comfortable, as well as a few very rare cases of gameplay that no longer seemed to us. They will appear.
Even with minimal changes, the delay was a wise decision for both Rockstar and players. The occurrence of cops and ambulances in Liberty City would not call anyone to anyone shortly after the violent death of the thousands.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The contemporary reward for the shortest delay is divided between Vice City and San Andreas. In the old days before downloading game stores and patches from day to day, producers guessed how much physical product they would have to produce on the date of the shelf, and sometimes guessed. Rockstar delayed vice president Up to seven days to give them time to produce more disks (and thus satisfying the huge demand for the consequence of GTA III).
San Andreas on PS2 also hit the streets a week later than planned, a A strategic decision aimed at providing a development team for several additional days to polish their two -year project.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Okay, such a real conversation: GTA Handheld Games goes hard … enough that it is worth vacuuming your ancient portable PlayStation or DS to try them out. GTA excellent expeditions to conveyors usually come on time, but the stories of vice city for PSP He was delayed by two weeks in North America and longer in some parts of Europe.
The best GTA of all of them (fight me!) Did not reach exactly on time. Extremely creative and complicated DS Gamechit shelves Two months later than expected. When he finally arrived, he blew up critics and this is one of the great gaming tragedies that nobody bought it … Maybe we play in Chinatown Wars 3 on our new Switch 2s if they did.
Grand Theft Auto IV
After GTA III changed the landscape of video games, the waiting for GTA IV was felt. Rockstar Leeds sought a stratosphere with a completely new generation of the console left and a completely new generation of work. By bringing them a vision to reality, ultimately required Several months of delays.
Grand theft Auto V
The greatest console game of all time has passed. GTA V finally landed in September 2013, but it was originally expected that it would arrive in the spring of the same year. But at the end of January 2013, Rockstar published the following message:
“We know that it is about four months later than originally planned and we know that this low delay will be for many of you, but trust us, it will be worth more time. GTAV is massively ambitious and elaborate game and just needs a little more Polish to be standard, and more importantly, you need. We can be.
They were not wrong. GTA V has become the most successful console game of all time, and next to RDR2 it is a real jewel in the Rockstar crown.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Speaking of RDR2 … This is not part of the GTA series, but this is the best Rockstar game and I love to talk about it. According to the tradition of delays based on Rockstar quality, we add some addition, mentioning Red Dead Redemption 2, which has been delayed twice, First spring 2017 For quality assurance purposes. . second delay He came in February 2018, pushing RDR2 until the end of October. Rockstar’s statement explained that it was a quality problem again.
“We are pleased to announce that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on October 26, 2018. We apologize to everyone disappointed with this delay. Although we hoped that he was playing earlier, we need a little more time for Polish.
“Thank you for your patience and we hope that when you play the game, you will agree that waiting will be worth it. In the meantime, check these screenshots from the game. We are looking forward to sharing with you much more information in the coming weeks. ”
It was a delay, like everyone else, was flowing, providing a real work of art still unparalleled in adventure games.
So friends, don’t despair. GTA 6 will come, and when it comes, it will almost certainly be very, very good. See you at Vice City.
Jared Petty is the former IGN editor who likes to write about how wonderful and stupid video games are. You can find it in BlueSky as PettyCommajred.
