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Ninja Theory co-founders Tameem Antoniades and Nina Kristensen discuss the state of the gaming nation, looking back on flagship PS3 title Heavenly Sword, Sony's troubled launch, and the trials of being an indie in a world of super-publishers and studio acquisitions. The Making Of Kung-Fu Chaos, the chop-sockey party game developed in the studio's Just Add Monsters days, features in E189.
First things first: why no Heavenly Sword 2?
"Well, with Kung-Fu Chaos, we worked exclusively with Microsoft; with Heavenly Sword, we worked exclusively with Sony. And it's really a time for us to go cross-platform, so we ultimately turned it down. As a studio, we feel it's the right thing to do. It makes things more commercially viable - and as an indie we have to be very commercially aware. It was great to work with Sony and get really intimate with the PS3 hardware; going forwards, that positions us to execute things properly on both PS3 and 360."
Newly uncovered concept art images gives us a fresh look at Ninja Theory's canceled PlayStation exclusive, Heavenly Sword 2.
Imagine renewing Nariko by her being reborn into a land devastated by a wayward God. Mourning the loss of his son to a world he redevoted himself too. And Nariko is navigating the warped land finding herself with a new energy fueling her to save the people from this wrathful god. Only to find out that the god is no other the Kratos the Divine killer
Sony was like, if no one's gonna make a GoW killer, well do it our fucking selves
Honestly I would love to just see Nariko a character that can traverse the multiverse of Sony IPs and explore alternative story lines that are contrary to the stories ending.
Heck to see Nariko in GoW universe then after the events of correcting that alternate reality. It places her in uncharted universe or syphon filter.
Create a purpose for the character that also gives praise to older franchises and let us relive them in unique new ways.
I was wondering how a sequel was possible with the way the first one ended. I definitely would love another game in the series, especially now that I know Sony owns the IP. I initially thought it was Ninja Theory who owned it. It really demonstrated the graphical power of the PS3 at the time. Some of the boss battles were epic, especially the final one!
They should have done a sequel, Anna Torv was great in it.
They could have easily revived her somehow.
They should've remastered Heavenly Sword
The game was gorgeous at the time of release but I remember the frame rate being awful on certain scenes
Instead they made a half arsed movie years later. PS360 era has waaaay too many games left behind on it. Honestly it's like every generation prior to the PS4/Xbone gen is like an alternate reality of gaming. You can pinpoint the moment gaming shifted to a more mainstream focus.
That movie blew chunks. The animation looked like it was done in Daz studio and the entire pacing of the film felt like that of those cutscene vg movies that you seen on yt.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.
Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.
resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword
Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2
Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.
There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.
Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence
The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
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Get back to us when you make a REAL game, Ninja Theory.