Infamously incompetent yet strangely successful eroge maker Overflow has delayed its flagship interactive anime Cross Days for a staggering 6th time.
The game, originally scheduled for 27/2/2009, was first delayed to 24/4/2009, then to 26/6/2009, 20/11/2009, 18/12/2009, 29/1/2010 and now “finally” 19/3/2010, making Overflow the 3D Realms of eroge developers, and about as successful.
The huge number of successive delays probably suggests a development and QA fiasco, so just what shape any putative final release takes is anyone’s guess.
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Lmao how there are so many bugs in these types of games, and I thought Socom:Confrontation was bad
They still planning for a more bloody gamer ending.. XDDD
Who's the girl in the middle?
The one with the maid outfit?...is Kotonoha...looks like you can steal her from Makoto.
I mean, who's the girl with the orange hair?
Probably Otome Kato.
Kotonoha-sama~
They should make Kotonoha Days already
There are enough Kotonoha maniacs to overflow (pun intended) the GDP of a small country
Apart from fixing bugs and stuff, my guess is that they want to build up as much anticipation as possible for the game at this time.
Remember, infamy often leads to some people racking in the cash.
There might be some truth to it. But I think generally it is not a good idea to keep the product in development cycle longer than it should be, especially since they haven't released any new games after Summer Days(OK maybe except the PS2 port). No cash flow, no R&D, no new product. And it still costs you money to generate publicity(ads, promotions) even if you missed the release schedule. Well at least they are taking their time to get it right this time. Hopefully no more ridiculous patch for consumers.
I like "Edelweiss" very much.
"The game, originally scheduled for 27/2/2009, was first delayed to 24/4/2009, then to 26/6/2009, 20/11/2009, 18/12/2009, 29/1/2009~~~~~"...waah?
Scheduled for FEB 2009.. delayed to MAR 2009.. again to JUN 2009.. to NOV 2009.. DECEMBER 2009...
...One more delay again in >>>JANUARY 2009<<<!!!
Now I know you'all be making this shit up now~
Actually the wait has been much longer than what it appears to be. 0verflow first released the info about Cross Days way back in 2007, long before they even have a release date for it. And then the release date came close and got delayed, delayed, and delayed...now for the sixth time. Quite unusual for an eroge.
I sense Nice Boat ending...
Is this the same company that made School Days? :|
The visuals are quite similar.
...You don't know much about eroge do you?
Delay Days....
When they finally release it, it won't work unless you download 1.5 TB of patches.
I actually wish they'd go back to their old style of games. Large Ponpon and Summer Radish Vacation were some of the first eroge I ever played and still some of my favorites. Of course there is a very specific reason *why* I like them so much, but still... It would be nice for them to go back.
reminds me of socom for ps3 was over 14 months till they released their first expansion after the original announced due date.
Fuuuuuuck! I've been waiting for this forever! But I haven't given up hope, always bet on Duke!
The demo(s) have been out for half a year. They're near unplayable and have so many bugs/errors it's absurd.
No real surprise that it's delayed yet again.
They may release bugsy games and the delays are definitely annoying, but out of the the few eroge I've played, School Days remains the one I've enjoyed the most and Summer Days sports the hottest animated loli action scene of any game to my knowledge...
If anything, more time put into a game benefits it.
Of course to amateurs like the authors of this site it may seem like a bad sign.
But frankly, as I am a lead programmer for a game studio too, if we gave every game 6 more months, every single one of them would turn out for the better.
Good thing I never really liked Overflow. Their art is a bit too pale for me.
You can add Cross Days' release date to this list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36ACwwyscY&NR=1 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36ACwwyscY&NR=1]
reminds of that one fully animated eroge... it was so buggy first you had to download more than 3gb of patches.
what was the name again?
I think that was Summer Days. Same company, too.
i'd say a yacht..
A NICE YACHT...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?!?!?
How long before the anime adaptation?
Four years at least IMO.
Times that by ten if you want to get the date we'll get this game translated.
NICE DELAY
Maybe this will be the 1st time the Vaporware Awards would a Japanese Eroge for 2011?
Should this game unable to come out by the end of the year..
Nice boat?
If you don't understand what that means.. You're obviously retarded.
No, that guy had the luck of not have watched that shit
you mean THAT BOAT in School Days?
*shudder* still gives me the creeps....
none of us on this site experienced the Nice Boat episode, and yet by some grace of god we've heard of it. Strange that, memes spreading and such.
I dont think you know what it means. So explain it.
Man... not AGAIN! -_-
i heard the originally game school is shit?
That's just another way of saying
"It will be released alongside Duke Nukem Forever"
Ah, that joke doesn't work any more because Duke Nukem Forever is not likely to be finished. 3D Realms just fired the time that worked on it last month.
*team*
Oh yeah, "Duke Nukem Forever (in Development)".
I wonder if the company can't pay the devs because the company officers spent corporate funds on gambling, and are now gambling like mad to try and "make up" the lost money.
(That's just a random, semi-plausible theory.)
The actual story is just that the head was too much of a perfectionist. Every time a better and newer game engine was released, he just HAD to switch everything over. A specialist that was brought in said that they could have released it years ago and still made millions, but the game was never good enough for that guy.
@Anon 12:14 21/01/2010:
My "random, semi-plausible theory" was referring to the Cross Days management, not the Duke Nukem folks.
Still, you gotta (_carefully_) pick a graphics engine and platform set and go with that, or you'll never get a product out the door.
i lol'd
Sir, I'd like to give you a cookie.
Now, if only Duke Nukem Forever was an eroge...
Then what about the brothel posted on the 'teaser' screenshots, and the strip clubs with strippers you can ACTUALLY pay in the old Duke Nukem?!