Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken Duke Nukem Forever's record for longest game development time
The 15-year journey of Beyond Good and Evil 2 has wearily passed another milestone: it's been in development even longer than Duke Nukem Forever, the game which still holds (though presumably not for long) the Guinness World Record for «Longest development period for a videogame».
Well, actually, BG&E2 officially crossed that threshold about a hundred days ago, it's just taken us all this long to notice. As originally pointed out by GamesIndustry.biz editor Brendan Sinclair(opens in new tab), the painful labour that brought us Duke Nukem Forever lasted 5,156 days. BG&E 2's first trailer(opens in new tab) came out on May 30, 2008: 5,239 days ago. Heck, the game had already been in development for a year or so when that trailer dropped, so it's actually been even longer.
A few people have pointed out that the original description and trailer for BG&E 2 bear little resemblance to the version of the game that trailered at E3 2018(opens in new tab), suggesting the comparison with Duke Nukem might be unfair. To be honest, though, a quick scan through the many and varied trailers that came out for Duke Nukem Forever(opens in new tab) over the years shows a game that kept shifting in size, scope, and staff. We even saw an unreleased build of it(opens in new tab) earlier this year that bore little resemblance to the Duke Nukem we got in 2011. For my money, the comparison is a fair one.
It's a dubious honour, to say the least. Ubisoft continues to insist—to our astonishment(opens in new tab)—that the game is still in the works, and it was only two months ago that BG&E 2 got a new lead writer(opens in new tab), so presumably something is still happening with the project. Still, after 15 years, and with the series' creator (if you
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