Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5038094-20150128004621/@comment-1210805-20150204123851

42.98.53.33 wrote: Soul reaper wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Besides, wasn't the FOX Engine supposed to cut down significantly on development time? It really shouldn't take this long to develop especially considering that the FOX Engine was purported to cut down immensely on development time. The FOX Engine is supposed to cut down development time of FUTURE titles, MGS or otherwise. The reason it's taking so long at the moment it because MGSV is being built alongside the FOX Engine. One is being used as a guide for the other but resources are being shared between both. Future games wont have this issue as the FOX Engine will already be complete. On the one hand it cuts down development time, on the other, it also means the producers can develop games with more complex ideas with less time, so if MGSV is more complex than previous MGS games (at least in terms of the world size, new game play elements, new online mode and many other aspects of the game), then in some ways it is pretty fast already. Look back at MGS4, it took almost 4 years from MGS3's release to complete where as it only takes about three years for MGS2 and MGS3, but then MGS4's scale is nowhere close to TPP's and we at least got GZ by now (after MGSV's development started as one game in around 2012).

That said, I do prefer to shorten the wait, it really feels like a "9-years' wait" in some sense... MGSV started development well before 2012. We know Kojima wanted to release Ground Zeroes immediately after Peace Walker, which means it was likely in development alongside the 2010 game. He was teasing the open world "Project Ogre" as far back as 2011. And we know that the problems with Rising caused internal delays, followed by them learning about the next generation of consoles. All of those have contributed to an increase in development time.

I'd go as far as saying that the game was in the early stafes of development during 2009. According to Kojima, MGSV was developed alongside the FOX Engine. The engine was also being used in Metal Gear Solid Rising, which was announced that year. Assuming it launches this year, the game seems to have been in development for 4 to 6 years.