A Difficult Update About Hytale
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Can I be the first to say:

NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I guess the writing was on the wall considering the game has been in development hell for many years, but I still look back at the original announcement trailer and think about how cool this game could have been. It was essentially sold as Minecraft but better - with proper combat, better exploration, powerful dedicated modding tools, and more. It was to be created by the creators of probably the biggest Minecraft server ever, which meant they understood the ins and outs of the game and what it needed to improve.

What a shame. At least we got Vintage Story.

  • themoken@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    19 hours ago

    Duke Nukem Forever did ship… Years late and it was a total mess of a decade’s worth of gimmick mechanics that killed the franchise, but it did make it out the door.

    Still fits as a cautionary tale about switching engines, I just had to double check I didn’t hallucinate that game.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      19 hours ago

      A game with that title shipped. I don’t think it was, in any sense, the same project. Not even as a ship-of-Theseus situation. A different studio started from scratch.