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Cities Skylines 2 console release delayed indefinitely
Interfectum
Member
They really fucked up with this game. From Hero to Zero...
GHG
Member
What do you mean "gonna be"?
The game is a disaster. They took the gamepass money and ran.
Tell’em Keb
Member
Someone put their water pumping station downstream from their water drainage pipes.
StereoVsn
Member
It is already a train wreck on PC. They have been trying to patch things up with varying degree of success.
What a shit show though. I just don’t get how they went from Skylines 1 to Skylines 2 (especially the terrible initial release) and though it would have been ok to release.
Edit: Also, Paradox hasn’t been performing well overall so not sure how much more rope the studio has of the game keeps tanking.
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diffusionx
Gold Member
This game was released in alpha state, at best. The sim is fucked, the performance is fucked, the content is fucked. At this point I don't know if it will ever be finished.
Sybrix
Member
Cities Skylines 1 was such a good game and destroyed Sim City.
Skylines 2 is a colossal mess, the whole simulation mechanic is broken, you can build a city but the city doesnt work, peds, input output doesnt work at all.
AND STILL.... they push out DLC!!!! It's so laughable.
This mess of a game would never run on console, it wouldnt work.
The game will be ready in 2 years time hopefully.
Skylines 2 is a colossal mess, the whole simulation mechanic is broken, you can build a city but the city doesnt work, peds, input output doesnt work at all.
AND STILL.... they push out DLC!!!! It's so laughable.
This mess of a game would never run on console, it wouldnt work.
The game will be ready in 2 years time hopefully.
TrippleA345
Member
absolut disaster
amigastar
Member
Yeah and thats too bad, because i wanted the second game to be good
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Not really surprising considering the mess the game still is on PC. Also, VGP apparently has the console version in "stock" so hurry up guys!
SportsFan581
Member
It's unfortunate this this is still in such bad shape, the first one was a fun little time waster. You've got to wonder how they managed to botch a sequel this bad.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
A bit dramatic, it's not like it's at risk of being canceled. It's just delayed past October, and there won't be an update until August (which is only 4 weeks away).
Neon Xenon
Member
Given the amount of issues the game's been having since launch (maybe calling it "Early Access" would be more appropriate), no shit the console release has been delayed indefinitely.
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cash_longfellow
Member
ChorizoPicozo
Gold Member
these kinds of games are PC-centric anyway. do they really sell well on consoles?
Hudo
Member
It seems there's a market. I mean, Microsoft even bothered to port Age of Empires II: DE with a control scheme specifically made for the controller. And people tell me it's actually not bad for a console port. (It seems it was heavily inspired by what Halo Wars did)
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TransTrender
Gold Member
Right?
Was there an engine change, or a complete turnover in employees?
It's crazy the PC version launched as bad as it did and still remains bad.
EDIT: Looks like both games use Unity.
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diffusionx
Gold Member
this is actually the third delay for the console release - it was originally supposed to be released same day as PC, then pushed to spring, then pushed to October, now who knows. And the game is now, almost a year after release, still a total mess with major performance and gameplay issues. They also refunded all the preorders - whether it comes out at all is an open question.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Another case of a traditionally PC-developed game gets developed for console and results in a lower output quality. Quit doing this, devs.
Little Chicken
Member
I understand why there's so much emphasis on traffic in these games, but I'd like it if their next game promoted more walkable cities and placed more emphasis on public transport and environment/wellness (sound pollution, criminal activity, corpos v small business, etc).
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
It's just a matter of making it work. It'll happen. Good things take time.
GHG
Member
Puscifer
Member
It already is, they fully admitted their publisher made them launch it before optimization. Cities By Diane on YouTube made a long video about how even the water physics are broken compared to the first game leading to accidental flooding of entire cities without explanation
Mercador
Member
I would bet on a team change but you never know. Pandemic was difficult for everyone. I wonder if working from home got any impact on videogame industry.
GHG
Member
People need to stop blaming the pandemic or using it as an excuse for incompetent developers/publishers.
We are well past that point now and this is an industry that was one of the least impacted from a pipeline perspective.
this what went wrong ???????????????????????????????????
StereoVsn
Member
Yep, bike lanes, walkable cities, etc, would be cool.
But you still need traffic and public transport regulation.
StereoVsn
Member
Ops stuff generally doesn’t matter, but architectural sessions differ in my experience. My company is now back to getting bunch of architects in a room for a few days vs weeks of remote back and forth. Took me two years to convince management on this.
For dev stuff, it depends on a project, hard to generalize. If it’s agile, IMO, it helps to have folks in same place unless people are super disciplined.
If it’s more regular waterfall stuff, remote is usually fine.
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sendit
Member
This is from the developer AMA Reddit thread:
You can see where their head was at. It's actually wild to me that you can be a developer/game designer and think this way.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
They were willing to sacrifice their previously strong brand image for short term profits.