GZ's Josh Wirtanen writes: "David Jaffe is a man who’s carved out a pretty important piece of video game history, having his hand in phenomenal game series like Twisted Metal and God of War. So, on some level, I respect the man, if for no other reason than that he’s kind of a big deal in the industry. But sometimes, he just flat out makes it impossible for anyone to take him seriously."
Terri writes: "In a recent video released by the creator of the God of War series, David Jaffe, we can see that Jaffe is not fond of the direction PlayStation took regarding the franchise, and in particular, Kratos himself."
Well, I personally think that Santa Monica did an absolutely phenomenal job with Kratos, showcasing insane character development in all the right ways.
Wasn't Jaffe the one who got stuck on something easy in Metroid Dread and started bashing the game because of it? From what I played of GoW 2018, they actually gave Kratos some much-needed depth. I definitely plan to finally go through the newer entries once my PS5 comes in.
This whole video was essentially him finding comments to back up his own opinion. "It looks like a lot of people think..."
Yeah, well what do the review scores, sales, user scores, and completion rates on the last two say? Anything on that?
People won’t like it I know but he’s entitled to his opinion being the games creator
I totally disagree but it’s not going to ruin the game for us who do like it
Game director David Jaffe reveals that the original God of War 2005 was considered for a first-person viewpoint.
Im very glad it did not end up that way. In first person you would lose the scale the game has. That is something i really appreciate about the GoW games is the immense size and scale of the environments and how the camera zooms out to show it in a much grander view.
One of the unlockables in the original God of War was a first person representation of God of War. A consideration for a spin-off/sequel was presented as a FPS in modern times. The military finds the dead Titan (Chronos I believe) and goes into the mountains where Kratos found Pandora's Box. Very interesting idea and gave me Clive Barker Jericho vibes.
Maybe the Egyptian era for the PS6 would switch to first-person just to keep things fresh
David Jaffe says he doesn’t believe a new game is in the works; “I haven’t heard a thing".
IF a new game is in the works (I hope so), I don't care if Jaffe is part of it or not. There are a lot of talented game directors out there. Twisted Metal might be his baby, but Jaffe isn't a guarantee lock in developing the best version.
Jaffe is all over the place now. Whenever he gets brought up it’s on some weird shit. I wouldn’t blame Sony for leaving him out of the mix even though I still respect his older works.
Well his "revival" of the franchise sucked out loud, so not sure what he expects.
The guy should seriously just stop talking and maybe I don't know...produce a game.
I actually think Jaffe understands journalism much more than most of these 'game journalists'. Increasingly journalism is turning into basic PR for companies. With journalists all trying to please publishers, developers and platforms in the hope of gaining 'exclusive' tidbits of info.
That is PR, not journalism. You are meant to be scrutinizing all those whom 'pay' you to the nth degree. As you are meant to be the consumers (us) best friend. Our gateway of what we should be focusing on.
Instead it has turned into little more than a lapdog industry for whomever pays.
What Jaffe is offering is no different than a Pulitzer prize, except aimed just at the games industry. When the very people you are trying to scrutinize, are offering up idea's of how to improve an industry which is meant to be 'against' them you know something is wrong.
The point of would be to make 'games journalists' compete. As developers do, to become the best they can be. A competing industry creates much better content and in turn a more knowledgeable consumer base.
And don't get me wrong. This is happening to the world of journalism as a whole. It's all going down the toilet.
Look at dog poo....
Look at Games "journalism"...
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I understand
The thing is, it's rarely journalism, it's just regurgitate press releases or flamebait articles. Eurogamer & Edge are about the only websites to get interesting thought provoking pieces.
the only website I actually enjoy is giant bomb. Everything else is just the same bs with a different template.