A number of factors should be taken in to account before calling something like this hyperbole, none of which include your opinion.
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God Of War Is More Than Game Of The Year- It’s A Celebration Of Second Chances
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A number of factors should be taken in to account before calling something like this hyperbole, none of which include your opinion.
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If only they gave Evolution studios another chance as well.
LUNATICS UNITE!!! i havent lost faith that Motorstorm will make a comeback in some form. Idk if it will be a remake, a remaster or a brand new game sadly Evo wont be able to develop it. Pacific Rift is the greatest off road racer that i have ever played and Arctic Edge is second best lol.
If only they gave Evolution studios another chance as well.
LUNATICS UNITE!!! i havent lost faith that Motorstorm will make a comeback in some form. Idk if it will be a remake, a remaster or a brand new game sadly Evo wont be able to develop it. Pacific Rift is the greatest off road racer that i have ever played and Arctic Edge is second best lol.
Nice read.
After Ascension I too was almost done with God of War, now it's one of my most sought after franchises. Hell it's better than the franchise has ever been. This new God of War is actually the only one to ever potentially peak into my top 10 all time games list. Crazy how one reboot could so effectively change all that.
Good on Sony and Santa Monica for seeing the project through, and naturally congratulations to the entire team and Cory on the success.
After Ascension I too was almost done with God of War, now it's one of my most sought after franchises. Hell it's better than the franchise has ever been. This new God of War is actually the only one to ever potentially peak into my top 10 all time games list. Crazy how one reboot could so effectively change all that.
Good on Sony and Santa Monica for seeing the project through, and naturally congratulations to the entire team and Cory on the success.
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Compare to Monument Valley, Arctic Edge and the Epic Pacific Rift, Apocalypse was just a good game, not great nor bad, just good. Pacific Rift on the other hand, boiiiiiiiii thats an EPIC game.
No idea what SSM's possible closure (no idea if even true) has to do with anything regarding the quality of the game. GOW was safe? Ok....and? KInd of like Mass Effect: Andromeda was safe? It seems you want to say "safe" as to somehow diminish the accomplishment of God of War. Safe, obviously, doesn't mean a game is going to be good or great. What Santa Monica achieved with God of War is truly awesome. Was the award the other night titled Most Safe Game of the Year? No, I don't think so.
"yet another Uncharted clone/cookie cutter Sony moviegame"
And that is a cookie cutter response that has been copied and paste time and time again across forums every where. It is just a knee-jerk false criticism that has been used by those whose personal preferences in gaming do not align with PlayStation for obvious reasons. Bottom line: it is an extremely narrow point of view and hardly original.
It's a fantastic game and worthy of the prize, but the media really loves milking the shit out of these Sony games.
If god of War is a uncharted clone than what game isn't lol. That's like saying Batman is a uncharted clone. Dark Souls is an uncharted clone.
Did you make this image?
That's a slightly funny imagine but so skewed cause you can take any image from any game and do that.
On topic: I didnt know they were so close to be closed. I always thought of them as a Sony staple developer. God of War 1-3 were highly ranked and highly successful games. I know Ascension didnt set the world on fire but I didnt think after one (Average) game it would be grounds for a closure.
I'm personally very torn between GOW and Red Dead 2 as my personal game of the year. GOW was the first one of its franchise I played through completion and just adored, from the story to the combat and the look of the game, it's almost a masterpiece.
Yet on the other hand Red Dead 2 is also a huge achievement. From the moment the game starts, its flooring on how beautiful and meticulously everything is. I haven't beat it yet, I think I'm at the end of chapter 4 but boy the story is finally picking up.
Either way, I can't disagree with either of those two games for GOTY!
I think it's amazing how this game was even allowed to be done using GoW's name. It was really a risky project thanks to that.
That's the reason why I wanted studio to win the award. GOW development was such a rough and bumpy ride. I almost teared up when they won.
Stig's canceled game was supposedly like 100 million dollars down the drain. That's like making a MCU movie and then never releasing it.
The canceled project before God of War cost them a massive amount money, tens of millions of dollars, and caused them to lay off like 50 + staff. Before that Ascension was basically a flop, especially compared to GoW3
If it's true that they were on the verge of being closed, I don't think Cory could make a new IP as his next game, first a sequel to GOW and if it's still successful then a new IP.
He's probably directing GOW2 regardless tho.
He's probably directing GOW2 regardless tho.
Agreed, but after posting a critical and financial disappointment, then cancelling a game they spent a TON of money on, it would have been easy for sony to downsize that studio and limit investment, instead it appears that they got all the support and funding they needed to make their game, and the payoff ended up being worth the risk.
In the universe of a thousand reboots I find it hard to think of it as anything more than a very good video game that was soft rebooted. Not really a magical second chance story
Keep in mind that it's an underperforming GoW game, a new IP canceled, and then 6 years on a GoW "reboot", with the one shit take and extreme changes to combat/ game direction.
Sony funding GoW in the capacity they did was extremely impressive.
Sony funding GoW in the capacity they did was extremely impressive.
I know people have opinions and all but these posts are just ridiculous.
The article makes a great point, people and teams need the ability to fail in order to turn out something as special as God of War. The award was rightfully earned, in my opinion.
However, a title like "A Celebration of Second Chances" is hilariously ironic considering what website this topic is on. You don't have to look further than some of the replies in this very thread to see the comedy in it.
However, a title like "A Celebration of Second Chances" is hilariously ironic considering what website this topic is on. You don't have to look further than some of the replies in this very thread to see the comedy in it.
And here we go....
lolDid you make this image?
TREES!!!!
Damn, lol
The potential for '86 was insane, so disappointing how it turned out. Galahad was a great protagonist imo.
I'd be down for a sequel.
Damn all those game are better than red dead 2, days gone is not out yet so the jury is still out on that one. Sony killed it this generation. God of War, Uncharted 4 and Horizon are amazing achievements.Did you make this image?
Depends on the situation, and if the right people are in charge. Imagine PS5 launching with Order 1888.
Wasn't it Shannon actually? Cory was brought back SPECIFICALLY to reimagine God of War.
The game is amazing and rightfully won GOTY awards. Game of the generation for many.
And yes, SSM wasn't going to shut down.
I'd rather he didn't direct GOW2. What made the original trilogy great was the Star Wars approach of different directors and different eyes in the lead. You can absolutely tell 3 different people made 3 games in the same series and it's great.
I mean what I'm about to write in the purest (and non hyperbolic) way possible, God of War changed my life. I might do a small video essay on it in the next month and share it but I was really happy it was recognized publicly for something that touched me emotionally.
I mean, it's hard to name another franchise that took such a drastic turn for the better. Absolutely well deserved.
I'm always insanely humbled to see comments like this, as I think a lot of the team is. I'm so glad the game was able to have such a positive effect on you!
GoW winning that award made me unreasonably happy, considering how much I generally don't care about awards in media.
That game just had literally everything I love and look for in games, like a cool fantasy setting, good skill based combat with satisfying upgrades and abilities, and really strong focus on narrative and characters. The thing that puts GoW above Witcher 3 for me is the smaller and more focused story experience - less meandering and a more intimate experience.
It's also the first big game I played (not counting the "me and wife" games like Mario Odyssey) after the birth of my daughter. So that fatherhood aspect to the story and Kratos' development gave me many manly tears.
That game just had literally everything I love and look for in games, like a cool fantasy setting, good skill based combat with satisfying upgrades and abilities, and really strong focus on narrative and characters. The thing that puts GoW above Witcher 3 for me is the smaller and more focused story experience - less meandering and a more intimate experience.
It's also the first big game I played (not counting the "me and wife" games like Mario Odyssey) after the birth of my daughter. So that fatherhood aspect to the story and Kratos' development gave me many manly tears.
I've played it three times and tend to agree that it follows the Sony formula to a tee. I preferred the hack and slash action of the original games.
It's his subjective Game of the Generation.