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Christopher Judge shares personal story "...Ragnarok was delayed because of me. August 2019, I couldn’t walk..."
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I hope he feels better now. Teal'c is the man!
And it's great to see how Sony Santa Monica Studio handled this.
And it's great to see how Sony Santa Monica Studio handled this.
Speaks to Sony's quality push that this was such a big factor. Pandemic and all, I feel like other factors made delaying a reasonable choice but it's great to hear a story of the industry actually giving a shit without conniving or pushing too hard.
The eternal cynic in me won't be shocked if he gets attacked by internet scumholes over this. Anyway, glad he's doing better.
Just said yesterday that while I didn't find GoW writing to be anything special, Judge definitely elevated was he was given. Dug his performance.
Just said yesterday that while I didn't find GoW writing to be anything special, Judge definitely elevated was he was given. Dug his performance.
Hold up.
Is this actually a thing that some chuds have said?
ive seen it a little on twitter, usually from folks clowning on those fuckwits for doing so
pretty embarrassing, lol
Whenever I see twitter posts coming from most of SSM employees I see love and passion for life and their craft. It gives me hope.
You don't delay a project just because of this. Like, this is good PR and I don't doubt that the story was as wholesome as it's told and Santa Monica greatly values him as part of what makes God of War shine, but even if they considered a delay because of it, from 2019 to 2021 there would have been another hundred reaasons and situations for them to delay the game.
Wow, those surgeries are no joke. Hope he's doing well now.
Like others have said, his work on gow was amazing.
Like others have said, his work on gow was amazing.
Damn, I had no idea he was in that rough of shape. Hope he's doing fine now.
I wouldn't be surprised if Santa Monica was going to delay anyway for whatever reason (wouldn't be surprised if the timeline lines up with PS5 support), so it was easy to accommodate him.
I wouldn't be surprised if Santa Monica was going to delay anyway for whatever reason (wouldn't be surprised if the timeline lines up with PS5 support), so it was easy to accommodate him.
He's obviously doing much better now or he wouldn't have shared this , that's great ! To those out there discounting what effect this would have - any mo cap featuring judge would have been post-poned a solid 6 months , that's a LOT of recovery. That timing would have seen him ready to get back to work around February or March of last year … and uh sadly we all know what's been going on since last March.
Between this , the pandemic , usual game delay reasons , I kind of wonder if the GOWR we end up with will be bigger than first planned …
Anyway , props to Sony for not recasting his motion capture while he was injured.
Between this , the pandemic , usual game delay reasons , I kind of wonder if the GOWR we end up with will be bigger than first planned …
Anyway , props to Sony for not recasting his motion capture while he was injured.
Omg the amount of surgery he had. Glad it all went well and yeah if the game needs to be delayed or cancelled cause of this who cares, his health is the most important thing. Sony and ssm being able to work around that and not replace him were doing the right thing.
Glad to see the studio was there to support him through the whole endeavor. Judge seems like such an awesome guy, I'm glad he's doing better.
I agree with you, they were probably going to delay the game anyways.
As a person with back troubles myself, I say to all you youngin's -- stretch! I don't have nearly the problems Chris had and back pain is absolutely brutal.
Considering motion capture is a huge part of the game, delaying it because their star is unable to do the motion capture absolutely makes sense.
The star of the game literally just said that he was the reason it was delayed.
I mean, justifiably so....the man IS Kratos, and they can't do the game without him, but he literally said so himself. Disagreeing with him on this is certainly a take. Not sure what kind, but a take nonetheless.
Really wonderful to see SSM doing this. Everyone probably assumed it was due to COVID but it's awesome that they delayed production so Kratos could be a part of this <3
Even then with Ratchet this year and Horizon next year, Sony is still putting out amazing games, so we can wait on Ragnarok. Hopefully not TOO much, though ;)
I mean the game wasn't announced until October of 2020 for a 2021 date (which obviously isn't happening now) so this would have been after Chris went into surgery. I assume they thought he'd be back sooner than he was so he could do the Mocap.
Even then I highly doubt the game would come out in 2019 when GoW came out just a year before that, come on now.
Even then with Ratchet this year and Horizon next year, Sony is still putting out amazing games, so we can wait on Ragnarok. Hopefully not TOO much, though ;)
I mean the game wasn't announced until October of 2020 for a 2021 date (which obviously isn't happening now) so this would have been after Chris went into surgery. I assume they thought he'd be back sooner than he was so he could do the Mocap.
Even then I highly doubt the game would come out in 2019 when GoW came out just a year before that, come on now.
So you know more than Judge with regards to this particular project? Or you thinking he's embellishing and talking it up?
Yep esp if he had the surgery in late 2019, COVID kind of helped to give some extra cover on the Mo-cap issues as well. But now makes sense if say he still wasnt in a good spot yet. Between both hips and back that is a huge toll on your body. Def could set back a project by at least 3-5 months and that is huge amount of time as well, then another delay would be the work from home stuff as well so that sets things back again so it just compounds the delays.
Honestly weird people think someone who said this absolutely unsolicited has some other motive. Its crazy lol.
Absolute fucking legend. He didn't even need to share this information with the masses, major respect for him for coming out and opening himself up to attack from absolute losers who are going to blame him for the delay of the game now.
This happens alot, actually. Especially in movies where the star is injured like Indiana Jones 5 or Mission Impossible 6. This isn't some QA tester at an outsourcing partner, this is the literal star of the game who would be expected to motion capture his scenes and act with other actors. It's a very physically demanding job, even if he's not doing the combat mocap.
Sure you do, all the time. It doesn't mean there couldn't have been other delays after this for other reasons, possibly in part because of the earlier delay.
No need to be so aggressive 💀 I don't work on this game but I work making games for a living, want to post your CVs or smth to check which one has a better insight on how a production delay works? This forum sometimes...
But my point was, this is just one of the reasons that could make the team evaluate the delay of the project. If everything worked out perfectly for an earlier release and Sony needed GoW out by a certain date pre-2022, you could bet they would have recasted (at least, for this title). The incident happened "early enough" so an alternative solution could have been found. Now, if the situation was "the actor for our protagonist is not available, we can not release the game optimized enough in 2021, covid set us back a few months and content is just not ready", then you have a delay (which is what possibly happened, considering the scope of the project). The story that Christopher is sharing works well because it shows the studio took him into consideration as a big part of GoW's DNA and speaks well for the team, but the statement that "the game was delayed because of me" would be as true as a 3D modeler of the game saying "the game was also delayed because of me".
