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The Generation Shift

Gaming goes through generational shifts. With a slew of quality games being released across multiple systems on home consoles, mobile gaming taking off as a legitimate platform in itself and the sheer technological power that is available to utilise for gaming, it’s hard to doubt anybody that states that we have entered a new ‘golden age' of gaming. However, as with all the generations before this one, we have to start looking forward to what is to come in the next generation. It’s hard to imagine what else there is for gaming, as it’s astounding as to what we are doing in the current generation. Well, here are a few things that Gamerspot would personally like to see in the near future.

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Brosy4983d ago

There are examples of a couple of the things he mentions already in this generation.

Oblivion and Skyrim both have scaleable difficulty. Notice how there is no "level grinding" to get past more difficult enemies in Oblivion and Skyrim? Thats because you only face enemies that are in your level range. From easy to hard.

And the morality in video games has been explored in the Fable I.P.. It's Lionheads take on morality and it's up to the gamer to decide if they like Lionheads vision. But you certainly change throughout the game and the game world reacts to you according to your deeds.

daveng884983d ago

Thanks for the points about Skyrim. I did state in the article that I'm wasn't entirely sure about progressive difficulty (especially since I've never played Skyrim or Oblivion), so it is good to see that it's being implemented in some way or form.

I do have to disagree about Fable with the morality system though, since it's a bit flawed in its execution. The point I was trying to get across in the article was that morality needs to have a bit more weight to it, rather than just being 'there'; switching morality is all fine and dandy, but there needs to be some real progress to make it happen, not just donate money to become good again. If it could become more realistic, it would give some real substance to the whole idea of having a moral stance, and require some real thought about in-game decisions. To me, it would be about making it difficult to go back if you stray too far down a path.

Thanks for reading though.

GenericNameHere4983d ago

PLEASE DEPOSIT 40 QUARTERS??!!
Thank goodness I don't live in CapcomWorld!!

TheDivine4983d ago

Brosy has good examples. I love Fable to death but i cant wait to see the idea expanded upon. Like when you can do a quest which causes a bridge to built down the road which leads to a new area. I want more things like this and how the villagers respond to your deeds by hating/fearing or loving you. I also like the idea of scaling difficulty in theory. It would be the perfect challenge for everybody but so far it just removes any real challenge. I love hitting a boss that destroys my ass and makes me devise a good strategy and practice. In skyrim i never got a challenge. There were a few points where i died but never anything truly hard.

daveng884983d ago

The Fable system is crying out for someone to take to a new level. The framework for a really comprehensive morality and action/consequence system is there; it just needs a push in the right direction.

Progressive difficulty is a bit of an iffy subject, since having that extra challenge as you stated is something that would be counter-productive to the idea of it. Perhaps having scalable difficulty in the main areas of the game, whilst still keeping that fixed ridiculously hard boss/fight would be a good balance between both options? We can all dream...

Thanks for reading.

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Alanah Addresses God of War's Sex Scenes

Alanah Pearce, who was a writer at Sony Santa Monica for several years and worked on God of War Ragnarök, has shed more light on the sex minigames which cropped up in the series' earlier entries.

SoloGamer137d ago

🙄 is this all she could come up with for content? sheesh

127maXimus36d ago

Other than looking like that, why does anyone care about what she has to say about anything?

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How to Play God of War Games in Chronological Order: Kratos’ Full Story

Kratos’ story in the God of War series now spans more than twenty years of video games. Throughout that time, the character has appeared across different eras

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Insider Claims Next God of War Game Stars Faye, Targets 2027 Release

NateTheHate says the next God of War game will star Faye, feature action focused gameplay, and aim for a 2027 launch.

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-Foxtrot48d ago (Edited 48d ago )

So let me get this right Corey said he didn’t want to spend 15 years of his life on the one franchise and decided to do a new IP which is why he didn’t do Ragnarok…but his new game is now a God of War prequel about a character who’s dead using Norse mythology.

I don’t get it, I thought it would be a brand new IP

Lightning7746d ago

Corey's game was suppose to be a new AAA scifi game. If it's GoW spin off that shouldn't take 8 years to develop, its kinda weird.

I think it got scrapped.

Christopher46d ago

Not sure, but if it's a new IP with new writers, new concepts, and the like that formed up mostly after the last game, I wouldn't expect much out of them for another two years at least. I'm not saying it isn't canned, just he wouldn't start on it until Ragnarok was done and they have a long cycles for new IP development.

Santa Monica has built up enough and utilizes other in-house Sony studios to support their stuff often, so I wouldn't be surprised if they can juggle many new games at once. Especially with Sony now pushing for more support after their Live Service decisions.

Cacabunga46d ago

I hope we get something to get excited about.. has been dry for a long while from WW studios

Eonjay46d ago

What are you basing the idea that the GOW spinoff is Corey's game? Wouldn't that make more sense to have the team that did Ragnarok produce the rumored title?

-Foxtrot46d ago (Edited 46d ago )

Why? Because it’s been 8 f***** years at this point since the 2018 game.

Corey’s is expected since he’s been working on his for longer

To have the God of War Ragnarok team put out Valhalla DLC and this new title 5 years after the last game while Corey’s is still a no show would be insane at this point.

The leakers point to this being his game aswell.

Profchaos46d ago

I agree i think i smell shite

KyRo46d ago

I hate how predictable Sony Studios have become. They are pretty much the GOW, Horizon and Spiderman studios now. They are great games but let's mix it up a bit. We used to give Xbox sh*t back in the day for being the Forza, Halo, Gears rinse and repeat but Sony is becoming the same.

Eonjay46d ago

The next four games coming out from Sony Studios are:
Marathon
Saros
Wolverine
Intergalactic
This is after Ghost of Yotei and Astrobot. So its more than a bit of a stretch to claim the are only doing God of War, Spiderman and Horizon.

KyRo46d ago

Eon, Marathon is on other platforms and something Bungie was working on before the Sony buyout.
Wolverine is yet another superhero third person cinematic melee combat game.
Intergalactic is another cinematic, third person melee combat game from what we know.
Saros is nothing more than Returnal reskin so far. It's all very boring, uninspired and safe.

Releasing other games doesn't mean they're not heavily relying on the same IPs over and over again just as Xbox did back in the day.

__SteakDeck__46d ago (Edited 46d ago )

@KyRo Now you’re contradicting yourself. First you say, PS is releasing the same franchises. But when @Eonjay gave you a list of the new franchises PS is working on, you’re going back to the usual Xbox fanboy talking points, saying they’re just more 3rd person games. Just be quiet man. Also. I wonder if you have the same take about Nintendo because they have been releasing the same franchises for 40 years.

__SteakDeck__46d ago

@-Foxtrot Seems like Cory had this planned for years. https://fandomwire.com/it-i...

He also teased it in his IGN interview after GOW 2018 released.

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Lightning7747d ago

So they were suppose to be working on s New AAA IP something in the scifi genre. Did that get scrapped? They pulled back on LS and refocusing on the platform. Does that also mean less risks in the AAA space and going back to the same ip

LucasRuinedChildhood47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

"Does that also mean less risks in the AAA space and going back to the same ip"

Sony Santa Monica games:
Kinetica (2001) - PS2
God of War **(2005)** - PS2
God of War II (2007) - PS2
God of War III (2010) - PS3
God of War: Ascension (2013) - PS3
God of War (2018) - PS4
God of War Ragnarok (2022) - PS5
God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla (2023) - PS5

Spin-off God Of War games from other developers:
God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008) - PSP
God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010) - PSP
God of War: Sons of Sparta (2026) - PS5

https://www.enworld.org/med...

Lightning7747d ago

It was rumors they were doing a game that wasn't GoW at all but a brand new IP entirely.

fr0sty46d ago

Likely another team doing the new GOW while Corey works on the new project.

Mr Logic46d ago

You're confused. The sci-fi game was being directed by Stig Asmussen after GOW3. They worked on it for 3-4 years until it was canceled and he left the studio.

Extermin8or3_46d ago

The science fiction game was scrapped a decade ago. People are getting stuff mixed up. We never had any info what Corey's project actually was.

Zeke6845d ago

He said himself "I would love to do something completely different, sci-fi would be fun to explore" We will see what I do, but I wont work on next God Of War".

That was just months after GoW 2018 was released.
So nothing gets ""mixed up". When he said that most of us hoped he would indeed do a sci.fi game to mix things up a little. Sadly Sony seems to have pulled the reins on that.

Extermin8or3_45d ago

@Zeke68 Sony have pulled the reigns on nothing there is literally an interview form about 6 years ago where he talks about the fact he has a prequel story he'd like to see told but it has to come after Ragnarok. He even hints at Faye being playable/protagonist. The game won't be called god of war either apparently.

Jin_Sakai46d ago (Edited 46d ago )

Try something new already!

__SteakDeck__46d ago

Do you want Nintendo to try something new as well? Because they keep releasing Mario and Zelda. GOW is PS’s biggest franchise. You don’t move on from that.

GrmpyolGamer 46d ago

If that's true then it's not really a God of War game then is it

jznrpg46d ago

If it’s fun with a good story I am fine with it. Definitely unexpected but that could end up being a good thing. Only time will tell.

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