Bioshock Infinite suffers another setback

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Developer Irrational Games have once again delayed the release date for Bioshock Infinite.

The game was set to be released on February 26, but the studio have now pushed the date back to March 26.

The games Creative Director, Ken Levine reasoned the pushed back release date as:
“It’s primarily polish and bug fixing,”
Levine then continued to add
“You know, 'let’s make that narrative scene that much better. Let’s do another pass on the timing of that scene. Let’s do another balance pass.’ It’s a game we could have shipped in February. It just wouldn’t be the game that we think the fans deserve. And that doesn’t mean it was far off from that, but they deserve what they deserve. And when we ask people to pony up a lot of money for this game, we have to feel confident that we’re giving them something that they deserve.”

“I knew I was going to take some slings and arrows about it, but I always just said ‘look, at the end of the day, the slings and arrows will go away. The game will last forever.’”

With so many big name developers recently releasing what feels like half finished games, It's nice to know that this studio cares enough to release a properly tested and hopefully well polished game.

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griff321Posted:

This game is going to make a joke of bioshoke if its not in rapture then screw it its not gonna be good in a happy bright environment like in Infinite why is it every game is becoming a joke I'm quitting gaming here pretty soon no one delivers what they used to gaming is dead to me and many others I know I Miss the good old days when games were great and not half assed like halo 4 and black ops 2 were and actually sold complete

OmittingCoderPosted:

Goddammit. Well at least I know it'll be a good game.

VisionaryMGMTPosted:

Dragify
Pummpy1
thunderxl I understand why their doing it but this game was supposed to come out in November 2011, and now its march 2013?
All games coming out like halo cod have 0 bugs and if their are their patched in a day.
Also cod games are made in 1 year, halo takes 3 but its 10x better.
If you wanted to do something REALY good for the fans you should work twice as hard and make it come out an extra 2 months early in december for christmas.

Call of duty is made in 2 Year's.
It was mainly this cycle
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
They get 2 years each to make the game. But IW is pretty much dead now. And Im not sure who is doing the next game


IW already stated they were working on Mw4, where have you been?


Infinity ward is pretty much a group of people now. It's pretty much dead as a company.

DragifyPosted:

Pummpy1
thunderxl I understand why their doing it but this game was supposed to come out in November 2011, and now its march 2013?
All games coming out like halo cod have 0 bugs and if their are their patched in a day.
Also cod games are made in 1 year, halo takes 3 but its 10x better.
If you wanted to do something REALY good for the fans you should work twice as hard and make it come out an extra 2 months early in december for christmas.

Call of duty is made in 2 Year's.
It was mainly this cycle
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
They get 2 years each to make the game. But IW is pretty much dead now. And Im not sure who is doing the next game


IW already stated they were working on Mw4, where have you been?

Pummpy1Posted:

thunderxl I understand why their doing it but this game was supposed to come out in November 2011, and now its march 2013?
All games coming out like halo cod have 0 bugs and if their are their patched in a day.
Also cod games are made in 1 year, halo takes 3 but its 10x better.
If you wanted to do something REALY good for the fans you should work twice as hard and make it come out an extra 2 months early in december for christmas.

Call of duty is made in 2 Year's.
It was mainly this cycle
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
IW
3arc
They get 2 years each to make the game. But IW is pretty much dead now. And Im not sure who is doing the next game

thunderxlPosted:

Mortar It is good to see that instead of releasing an incomplete game, that they're taking the time to further build the game. I am positive that because of this, those who get the game will not feel too upset because of there no longer being a multiplayer aspect to the game.

Why do we have xbox live if we cant play with our freinds.
I dont know about you but i wanna spend the time i have on live and get what i payed for.
They should have at least coop.

thunderxlPosted:

I understand why their doing it but this game was supposed to come out in November 2011, and now its march 2013?
All games coming out like halo cod have 0 bugs and if their are their patched in a day.
Also cod games are made in 1 year, halo takes 3 but its 10x better.
If you wanted to do something REALY good for the fans you should work twice as hard and make it come out an extra 2 months early in december for christmas.

HabitatPosted:

At least they are doing there job properly unlike Fifa where effectively everyone who has bought it so far was and is a beta tester while they fix the issues after the release

BoylerBehPosted:

I just hope the game is worth the wait...!

Activez-Posted:

Vlif
Mortar It is good to see that instead of releasing an incomplete game, that they're taking the time to further build the game. I am positive that because of this, those who get the game will not feel too upset because of there no longer being a multiplayer aspect to the game.


Just about to write the same thing


Epic Games pushed Gears 3 back 6 months and still failed to sell a complete game.

I seriously hope that Bioshock isn't the same.


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