An opinion piece reviling the bias discussion of the violent danger of violent video games by Eric Burnett on CNN and defending David Jaffe's impassioned response.
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.
Let me just kill a few hookers and ill get a few "points" in GTA.....these guys are so ignorant about video games, in fact, and its obvious that they did not even play the games they where even talking about...
Lol the guy "trained" in a video game and taught himself how to shoot/hold/aim a gun? Well then I guess I know how to drive because I'm an expert in Gran Turismo...Or maybe I know how to play the guitar because I've mastered the art of Guitar Hero? You see how this works people? Her face is so punch-able but she's also so bang-able at the same time...My penis is confused.
It's an issue that will sadly never go away. We'll see it next gen, infact, we'll see it in September when GTA V rolls around and the next mass shootings happens.
If you watch the video, it's fascinating to me to see them talking what Obama's new proposal for tighter gun control could have on the companies the produce these weapons. It's millions and millions dollars. They then follow that up with 'It's violent video games'.
They say repeatedly these games end up in the hands of children. If that bothers you then parents should get off their lazy arse and stop that, rather than making companies do the parenting for them. However, what do you think kids, young boys in particular, want? Do these people completely forget what it was like to be a kid. I remember when I was 12 years old, I wanted to watch actions films and my friends an I would play fight a lot. We'd then sit and play games like Tekken and wow you should of seen our reaction when we first saw God of War.
This is exactly what kids want because young boys want blood and action. Call of Duty isn't the highest selling game because some little psycho kids are training to shoot up their school, they just want to shoot things and be annoying little shits down the mic. Apart from the mic part, how is this any different from us watching The Terminator and Robocop when we were kids?
We live in this almost contradictory time where parents want to coddle their kids but don't want to take on the responsibility of a parent. So the parent takes the stance of "My kids shouldn't be playing these games!" rather then sitting down and having and a talk with your child. They might see that they're just like any other kid that enjoys playing games.
The movie industry has much more influence on people but seems to get a free pass, who the hell went for a swim after watching jaws, people buying rambo knives because of rambo films, etc etc