While the Sony Santa Monica umbrella spans many games via its external development collaborations, its internal studio is best known for the God of War franchise. In fact, Sony's "God of War team" has never worked on a game outside of that iconic franchise. Santa Monica Studio director Shannon Studstill talked about the studio's attempt at moving away from Kratos, and what ultimately brought them back to the franchise with next year's Ascension.
Given how God of War 3 ends, it provided a perfect opportunity for the team to give Kratos a rest. However, when asked if the studio had explored creating a non-God of War game, Studstill frankly admitted "yes." In fact, there were even prototypes developed "very early," albeit "not in this development cycle."
Studstill was not shy admitting that the franchise's tremendous success is one reason why the studio has yet to move on. "There are creative reasons and business reasons," she admitted. Adding, "I think there was still some story...
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Might be in a minority here but I didn't enjoy any of the sections playing as Atreus or having companions at all. If I had my way it'd be Kratos on his lonesome from start to finish. Straightforward action gameplay without the endless boring chatter.
Used to be such a huge fan of this series. Sony's milking of the franchise without the content really evolving swiftly put an end to that. I also preferred David Jaffe's original vision for GoW3, which Sony turned their backs on. It ended up being a pretty good game regardless, but it could have been so much more.
LOL at people complaining at GOW being milked.
God of War I - 94 Meta
God of War II - 93 Meta
God of War III - 92 Meta
God of War Chains of Olympus - 91 Meta
God of War Ghost of Sparta - 86 Meta
If they are "milking" the franchise, then this surely has not affected the quality of the game, unlike some franchises. Not to mention God of War III is the highest selling of the franchise which shows an increase of popularity. So you're telling me that they should stop God of War games even though they keep selling AND still are excellent games in terms of quality. LOLOLOLOL
As long as GOW has good stories to tell who cares? At least it's not like other franchises who branch off into all sorts of crap like cart racing or tennis or basketball or who keep making a franchise and each story is worse then the last. Kratos's life is a complicated one and it takes more then one story to explain it all. It isn't like Mario where each and every game is about how the princess is captured or like Zelda where the princess is either captured or going to be captured and we fight a so called mystery villain who always turns out to be Ganon.Why don't people beg for those games to end? How come it is always Sony and friends that must end their franchises early while everyone else can keep going forever and raking in the money?
Keep 'em coming Santa!