10 hugely delayed video games that turned out great anyway

For those of us who don’t have a working knowledge of game development, the process is indiscernible from magic. From a vacuum, a sumptuous imaginary environment is conjured, alive with possibility and interacting systems. Imagine trying to slap a date on how long that process might take. 

And yet developers do, and we take them to heart. And then we cry into our hands when games don’t arrive on their release date, because that means it’s likely garbage now and we’ll end up drawing fecal matter autographs onto toilet walls like in Duke Nukem Forever because that’s what delayed games make you do. 

This article is here to wipe away your tears and show you the folly of that thinking. Because many titles with profound timekeeping impairments turn out just fine in the end – better than fine, in fact. Absolute worldies, like these.