Pour out a, uh, Fosters? As a result of this arvo has been correct buggered by the shock delay of Damaged Roads, the upcoming Ozzie CRPG that was certainly one of our most anticipated video games of November till it all of a sudden grew to become certainly one of our most anticipated video games of 2024, and that is, um, honest dinkum. Or perhaps it is not. God, I want certainly one of our Australian writers was on-line.
Damaged Roads was initially set to hit beneath per week from now, on November 14, however the devs at Drop Bear Bytes have introduced that the sport will likely be delayed “till early subsequent 12 months” in a publish on Twitter. “Whereas the sport is now content material full,” learn the announcement, “it’s also coming in longer than we initially anticipated at ~30 hours of gameplay and practically 400,000 of dialogue.
“As you possibly can think about, it is extraordinarily time-consuming to correctly take a look at all these,” says Drop Bear, so the devs have determined to present themselves a bit extra time to do it. “This was not a straightforward choice,” says the group, nevertheless it’s “determined that to make sure we ship the best high quality product, it will be finest to delay the sport’s launch only a bit longer.”
So no Damaged Roads for us in 2023, which might be for the very best even when it’s a disgrace. We have been in a little bit of a CRPG renaissance these previous couple of years between video games like Disco Elysium and Baldur’s Gate 3 (though actual heads are nonetheless shouting in regards to the wonderful and unjustly underplayed Pillars of Eternity video games), and I’ve all the time seemed ahead to BR as a part of that revival. So have the devs, who say they’re “unashamedly copying Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Pillars 2, Baldur’s Gate.” Heck, we even stated it had the potential to “turn out to be the subsequent Disco Elysium” in a preview final 12 months.
These are a few of my favorite video games ever made, so I am very wanting to see what Damaged Roads turns into as soon as the devs have overwhelmed it right into a form match for launch. Till then, although, I assume the renaissance is on maintain.