‘God of War’ and ‘Twisted Metal’ creator David Scott Jaffe is known for being very open about his feelings and he isn't known for his restraint while expressing them. Jaffe likes to share his opinions
This time the developer of the upcoming PS4 Exclusive 'Drawn to Death' had something to share about the #LetTheDevsSpeak hashtag which would imply that developers are afraid speak out in the public.
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.
Jaffe right. There are some people who truly believe that when they mumble something about gaming on the internet that they are speaking for the vast majority developers and gamers. Some people are just so full of themselves just because they think or believe that they have some sort of inside knowledge when the sad truth is, they are just as clueless as everyone else.
Arrogance...
He does have some valid points now and then but most often I really don't get the guy
Jaffe is so freaking awesome.
I love his games but he can be really ignorant. The only problems that exist are the ones he has, anything else is BS according to him.
This culture of fear is not just confined to gamedevs, pretty much anyone is terrified of losing their job just for expressing an opinion on social media. I've had friends in a few different jobs get fired because they were moaning about a co worker or the work environment (without mentioning any names, or the workplace). And that also comes from employers fearing backlash from investors/staff if they don't deal with the problem in the quickest and easiest way possible, contract termination, rather than just ignore it and tell the complainant to grow the fupp up.
I worked for a call centre that held a contract with Microsoft, dealing primarily with XBL troubleshooting and complaints with the UK (Based in Ireland, we never dealt with irish customers for obvious "I will set your building on fire" reasons) and HR were a bunch of miserable exploitive deletives who would comb your social media and bring up stuff you posted the next day as being "totes inapropes yo", luckily mines all set to private but I'd witnessed a lot of people get called in like they were dealing with the stazi.
Quit after a month, theres a wonderful site here with reviews from former employees to give you an idea of that hellish place.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Re...
Recently the horrid reviews went viral locally, so you can see lately theres been a lot of very short "positive" reviews that are clearly plants :P