Many installments of God of War have come and gone in the PlayStation era. While it is a milked franchise, I do think it has a couple of legs left on it. I’d bet a decent amount of money that one or maybe two installments may be coming in the next couple of years. Santa Monica is a proven studio and will most likely finish off the series the right way. I have, what I think, are two great ideas to finish the series. The best part about it, is that owners of the new Sony systems would get the best of both worlds.
GoW has already seen two prequels: Ascension and Chain of Olympus. I think one more could be done. A pre-pre-prequel if you will. While I loved the game play of Ascension (the second half at least), I did not enjoy the story for the most part. It wasn’t exactly terrible, but it wasn’t the most fascinating of stories. It really under delivered on what I thought it could be. The super bowl commercial made it seem like something it was not. For people who have not seen the commercial, it basically showed an emotional Kratos and his hardship with going off to war. Ascension did show off an emotional side of Kratos, but it did not do it justice. If I were Santa Monica (or any developer handed the series), I would take the series even further back. Kind of like Xbox One’s Ryse, I think GoW could go to to that kind of style. Kratos could be a regular warrior without the crazy powers. The story could be all about his path to his pact with Ares. The beginning would be somewhat like the commercial I stated earlier. Kratos leaves Sparta to defend his home country in a 300esque way. The main story would have a focus on the major battles around Sparta with the Persians and have Kratos reflect on how much he wants to be with his family. The ending of the game would have Kratos form his pact with Ares. Kratos storms the battlefield with his new powers and demolishes the opponents. The ending could kind of be like Heavenly Sword with acquiring God like powers and destroying hundreds of enemies. The very last part distracts the last player from the surroundings and has you kill more soldiers with ease and forcing the player to make the mistake of killing Kratos’ family. That would be my ending scene of my pre-pre-prequel of God of War. They could touch more on Kratos’ sensitive side and build a really dramatic scene at the end of the game. I think this game could fit perfectly on the Vita. Not only would Vita get another AAA game, but it would also help Sony sell systems. It would be my perfect GoW game for the Vita.
My second idea is for the PS4. GoW 3 kind of left the series with room to go further. The best thing about it is that they could possibly implement co-op for this game. Having the PS4 can help bring the carnage to new scales. The story in my newest sequel would follow up the game right after *Spoiler Alert* Kratos kills himself. He would be sent to the underworld to meet his fate. Now if you played any GoW, you would know that Kratos can get out of the underworld and is pretty good at it. He wouldn’t settle for it again in this story. However, he also doesn’t want to do it alone. Kratos find his brother and they both go to break out of the underworld. Breaking out wouldn’t be to live again though. It would be so that Kratos and Deimos can get to heaven. The main story in this would be progressing through the underworld and having a much deeper universe down there. The underworld could have a bunch of different environments. The developers can take many different paths with the underworld. I’d personally like them to have an ending battle that involves most of Kratos’ old bosses with a new one mixed in. That part might not be the best of ideas, but that’s what developers get paid to do and can come up with something better. For the ending, I’d like Kratos’ ultimate goal is to get to heaven to see his family. After Kratos and Deimos have the last epic battle, they can walk into heaven. Kratos can then find his wife and daughter hold them tight. My ending would involve them holding hands walking off into a bright light. The series would end off on that note. It may not be perfect, but I do think it would be a fitting end to the series.
GoW may have some legs left in it, but will the developers get it right. I’m sure they will, but only time will tell. Do I hope my ideas happen? Absolutely. Do I think there could be better ideas? Sure do. I can only hope the series ends off the right way. I really want the series to continue, but I also want it to end with the next installments. Santa Monica and Sony are both creative and can focus on getting a new and more ambitious title out. What do you think?
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Shift Up has released Stellar Blade day one update 1.002 on PS5, and those who preloaded the game should be notified of this update.
Do you really not know this is about the n-word or are you saying that black people can't get offended because it upsets you?
I can't believe they're censoring this game on day 1. Games just aren't the same.
/s in case it's needed. I'm fine with them making these changes that they might not have known is culturally insensitive to some people in the big ole world. But that's just me.
They are censoring something that is deemed offensive by Journalists quoting the offensive term verbatim. They are typing it intentionally in articles while in the game it's a wall texture saying Hard next to a unrelated 3d model sign that says R store. Is it offensive or not? Crazy town.
At least IGN just shows the term with a screenshot of the game. Because it's their "discovery" and to not show hypocrisy in their HUGE vitue signal.
Hard R is the not offensive way to describe an offensive term. Are they going to type "Ha$$ R" or not use the term now?
Oh, hey, I agree with you that IGN and other journalists are dumb. Not disagreement there. But, I think for a game going out to millions of people across the world? It's not something they want associated with them. It's just horrific PR.
Add to the horrific PR nightmare that this is the first major Korean-developed Sony-published title, if I'm not mistaken.
There aren't that many Korean developed titles in general. And the allowance of this only would drive a bigger fissure in east vs west especially after Final Fantasy XVI released featuring no black characters at all...
Not a good look for Sony regardless of how you personally feel about it or the people that talk about it.
I'm not saying it shouldn't have been changed. It's an easy fix and looks like it was an easy fix.
But the word HARD being too close to the letter R being a horrific PR nightmare and a indication of a racist developer is beyond crazy.
I'm offended by the sight of blood a d violence and find violence to be very insensitive...
We can all play stupid and pretend to be offended by graphics and fake worlds.
I really enjoyed the demo.
I'm going to play through and max out on story mode then go to the challenge mode afterwards.
This game is very challenging but fun.
Especially for timing on the parrying and blocking.
Got the Deluxe Digital Edition (PS5) pre ordered.
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Poised to make its mark, Stellar Blade is a stylish adventure but, will it cut through the competition to soar past comparisons?
I think the only direction for this to go is for him to actually fight new gods from another pantheon.
I know every says Norse, but that's too obvious. I say Egyptian, Indian or even Japanese. Regardless the story should be that the other pantheons see what Kratos did and they're scared that it might happen to them. So they take the initiative and try and hunt him down.
Yeah I wouldn't mind other gods, but to be honest I don't want them to stray to far away from Greek mythology. It would be kind of weird to me if I saw Kratos in a a non Greek universe. It would be hard to justify it.