Hey all, I’m back with a look at a topic I felt I should cover for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s all about delayed video games that were still hits.

Well as I mentioned in a previous Video Game Tuesday, some games get delayed a ridiculously long time and generally they don’t do well like Duke Nukem Forever. But there are exceptions that found commercial success once they were finally released, and I figured I’d include some of those to highlight the fact that sometimes it really is worth waiting, even if it’s pure torture for us fans.

Starcraft 2: While work officially on Starcraft 2 wasn’t begun until 2008 and released two years later in 2010, it actually had started to be developed way back in 2003. But the success of World of Warcraft had Blizzard shifting resources towards that instead of the potential sequel to one of the best RTS games ever that brought them such fortune.

Final Fantasy XV: Originally announced back in 2006 as Final Fantasy XIII Versus, it was in development for over 10 years before finally being released in 2016. I still love the first half of Final Fantasy XV, as it’s easily one of the best titles that really shows details of all the little things that can create an adventurer’s party with a solid core of cohesion that is such a staple of fantasy fiction. It’s not as great as some of the older Final Fantasy games, or even the wildly successful reboot of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, but it still looked and sounded amazing at a time when people were not sure about the future of the beloved series.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: And, of course, we can’t forget to mention this game, which was the longest we had gone without a new mainline Zelda title of any form. Breath of the Wild is still regarded as one of the pinnacle standouts of open world gameplay in a series that had up to this point been fairly linear. Breath of the Wild is still hugely popular to this day. Now if only Nintendo would update the Switch’s hardware.

That’s it for this week’s Video Game Tuesday.