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In his latest article for Zero1Gaming, join Chris as he discusses some more of his potentially unpopular gaming opinions.

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Godlovesgamers4683d ago

Funny. I cam late to GoW and ended playing the HD Collection like you and LOVED IT! How can that many amazing puzzles, action set pieces and epic boss battles ever be considered boring? Maybe you just weren't in the mood for playing that kind of title? At first play, I HATED Red Dead Redemption, HATED it. Didn't play it for like 6 months, came back to it and started a new game and Loved it!

Cod4 MW though was a hard pill to swallow, it just seemed a little to close to home in terms of current events, it really felt like American -the Good Guys Propaganda. Loved the MP but SP just pinched that nerve.

Pisque4683d ago

square square circle X X Triangle XX square square spamming is boring

Godlovesgamers4683d ago

You know what? You don't have to be a total killjoy and downplay the game. There's plenty of different combos, evasive maneuvers and magic powers to use in the game, aside from the puzzles, sounds, graphics, bosses, story, and epic scale of it all.

GoW games don't get great reviews because of "spamming".

fsfsxii4683d ago

God of War's combat might be shallow but everybody doesn't seem to know that it lets you do combos easily. Very easily you can switch weapons and continue your combo, not all H&S games do that

Tontus4683d ago

God of War's combat isn't even shallow though, I believe it is the only game to get the combat perfectly balanced where it's not too complicated (Japanese games) or too shallow like Enslaved for e.g.

It's accessible and so it's easy to learn but if you take the time & effort to master the combat system it's very deep too, look here: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

The guy who wrote the article sounds like a monumental twat, they obviously didn't even give God of War a chance, to be honest it soeunds like they didn't play it for more than 10 minutes as they neglected to mention the story, music, magic, bosses, environments, puzzles, enemies or anything. And it's not full of QTEs you only have to use them to finish boss fights, they are optional during standard fights.

It's no more repetitive than any other game from a beloved series and the main trilogy is one of the most acclaimed in gaming history. It's not an unpopular opinion to not like GoW, it's a wrong one. Not everyone has to love it but everyone should appreciate it's high quality and the fact it has kept its dying genre alive.

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3-4-54683d ago

GoW, I played the multiplayer and it was just ehh. It didn't suck, but I didn't get all the hype.

Too much brown.

The human eye can see over 5 million colors.

They used no where close to that. The "Art Style", if you can call it that, was lazy at best.

It can't be that realistic when I go outside and literally don't see much brown, I see tons of other colors, but then play GoW and it's brown everywhere as if that is somehow realistic.

It's like people have forgotten how colorful the real world is.

xxBiG_BoSSxx4683d ago

wow. if that's what you were pressing while playing God of War then I can see why you'd dislike it.

It must be pretty hard to get into a game when you're jumping in the middle of combos.

mt4683d ago

all games are basically "square square circle X X Triangle XX square square"
they are called buttons.

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jakmckratos4682d ago

the first god of war pales in comparison to 2 and 3 and that's saying somthing because GOW was an amazing game. Im sure QTE's have been around before GoW but this was probably the first game that I played that both had them and made cinematic events out of them. You got to appreciate games from the time period they came from or not play them at all.

Wni04683d ago

Bioshock 2 is better in almost every way, (graphics, gameplay, controls,) but the first is a better game --> if we are comparing two art pieces.

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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.

SoloGamer179d ago

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

127maXimus79d 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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-Foxtrot90d ago (Edited 90d 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

Lightning7788d 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.

Christopher88d 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.

Cacabunga88d ago

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

Eonjay88d 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?

-Foxtrot88d ago (Edited 88d 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.

Profchaos88d ago

I agree i think i smell shite

KyRo88d 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.

Eonjay88d 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.

KyRo88d 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__88d ago (Edited 88d 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__88d 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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Lightning7789d 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

LucasRuinedChildhood89d ago (Edited 89d 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...

Lightning7789d ago

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

fr0sty88d ago

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

Mr Logic88d 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_88d 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.

Zeke6888d 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_87d 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_Sakai88d ago (Edited 88d ago )

Try something new already!

__SteakDeck__88d 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 88d ago

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

jznrpg88d 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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