Why You Shouldn’t Expect Beyond Good & Evil 2 Anytime Soon

There’s nothing worse than a tease, especially when said tease keeps popping up every couple of years and makes you think something’s about to happen. Up until recently, no one but Jade Empire fans knew how that felt. No one, that is, except for fans of Beyond Good & Evil. There was a trailer for the sequel years ago along with gameplay footage, but it kind of fell off the radar. A lot of people have been asking why Jade and Pey’j aren’t having new adventures, and Ubisoft’s Michel Ansel finally gave us a reason: they want to wait for the next console generation. According to Ancel, the sequel has some “technical issues”, and he brought up some similar issues with the original:

“The first Beyond Good & Evil, when I sent the technical document to Sony, it was the time of the Emotion Engine on the PlayStation 2. We had the feeling that we could do whatever we wanted. We sent them the document, it was about planets, going from planet to planet, towns to towns and all these things. But in the end, what we were really about to do was far less than what we wanted.

“And of course, the scope of Beyond Good & Evil is large – you’ve got the city, the ocean, the moon and the space ship. But the space ship was designed to go from planet to planet, and it was frustrating to have those limitations. And my thing is that we really want to make the game that was previously imagined, with all this feeling of traveling. Mass Effect did a good job on that side, and I think that there are a lot of things to do to continue in that direction, with storytelling and a massive world.” 

So there you have it, folks! They want to make the game incredibly beautiful to look at and give you a better game to play. There’s definitely nothing wrong with that; after all, it’s better to have a delayed game that’ll be awesome than a rushed game that only 1 out of 30 people like, amirite?

[Via GamesRadar]