After the initial reveal of Asura's Wrath, many gamers (GOW fanatics) began saying that it was a God of War rip off. They cited that Asura's Wrath contained (what Jaffe has referred to as) on screen mini-games. Thus making it a clone or rip off of God Of War, when it's not! One can say the development team was inspired by God Of War, but that's it! A lot of these "fanatics" believe that God Of War was the first game of it's kind, when it's not! Before God Of War, there was Devil May Cry, which is where God Of War is derived from! These "fanatics" could care less though! This question is not answered as easily for some as it is others. Therefore, I will breakdown, why Asura's Wrath is not a God Of War rip off and or clone!
When one says a game is like another there are many factors that come into play, the 1st being the actual gameplay. Therefore asking this question is the most important,so does Asura's Wrath play like God Of War? No, it doesn't. If you look at Asura's Wrath's gameplay video's, you will note the gameplay is far different than God Of War's. Yes, there are "on screen mini-games" (i.e. quick time events) but they are so far advanced of God Of War's, thus they've been expanded on! In the same way God Of War expanded on what Devil May Cry started! If anyone at Santa Monica studios says they didn't use DMC as inspiration for GOW their lying because it's evident that they used DMC as the foundation for GOW.
This is the exact same issue Dante's Inferno had when it came out, which in it's case, is true! I mean both God Of War III and Dante's Inferno play EXACTLY the same. Everything from battle mechanics down to taming and riding beast! In fact, the development team was asked the very question of were they inspired by GOW, to which they blatantly lied and said "No, we haven't even seen it" lol really? any real gamer knows the truth! Anyways, this is the point I'm trying to make here, when two games play the same as one another, then it can be said it's a rip off and or clone!
In a true comparison of the two games, what do they really have in common, besides the obvious, (i.e. quick time events, similar atmospheres) nothing, the gameplay style varies greatly! That's really what this comes down to and if any gamer is familiar with "Clover Studios" they will have or should have noted what Asura's Wrath is actually like and that is "God Hand"! The gameplay mechanics are identical, they've just been expanded upon, making it possible for Asura to do the things he does! Asura's R2 burst rapid button press, is equivalent to gene's rapid button presses in God Hand! Thus the answer is finally revealed, Asura's Wrath is like God Hand, not God Of War!
Shaz from Pixel Swish: "The ROG Xbox Ally is another step towards Team Xbox’s 'Play Anywhere' strategy, and perfectly embodies the company’s future and how we’re all going to be playing an 'Xbox' in the future."
The funny thing about Xbox going more PC-like is that I’ve been saying this for over a decade and finally seeing it come to fruition. People use to hate the idea, but now are embracing it, and all I want is to be put on the payroll lol.
On a serious note, I think this is the best route going forward for MS. They don’t have to get out of the hardware game altogether. They can make their home console $300 entry & $600 premium home consoles and from there partner with other hardware makers for anything beyond that. Focus on being a publisher and creating a strong OS / Cloud option for other devices like desktop, handheld PCs, streaming devices, etc…
I honestly think they should also look into NVIDIA as well, with NVIDIA starting to make their own CPUs. Their CPU is already on par with AMDs best laptop CPUs of the previous/current generation which is more than enough, and a RTX 5000 / 6000 laptop GPU hybrid (DLSS 4 / DLSS5) could do wonders for them, and bring some much needed diversity back to console hardware.
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I don't know why you'd expect them to still develop new consoles at this point. Ditching all exclusives and putting the Xbox logo on a ROG Windows device is a pretty clear message.
This isn't a good thing for Xbox. It's a long winded goodbye.
For the same reason they still have a laptop hardware lineup even though they have Windows.
Having some kind of retail presence for visibility and marketing won’t really affect them in any way.
I still expect them to have 1 or 2 SKUs that they won’t sell at a loss but will continue the trend of selling way less than the competition (though its still selling millions), just like they have their Surface laptops even though they could happily coast knowing practically every third party out there (or the end consumer) will pay them for the Windows license
You realise thos indicates that their next xbox will be an xbox branded pc right? And will cost pc prices as a result. So look forwards to a 600 dollar and 1000 dollar version with vast performance differences, with the upper range having similar performance to the ps6 that will be like half its price. The 800 dollar rog ally x makes this abundantly clear.
I saw this years ago. I don't see how it took this long for people actually close to the industry.
I said this years ago, mind you I know nothing about computers, but I always thought Xbox would go more PC-like.
As I said, and always said, I know squat about PCs, so I thought Xbox would become modular. I don’t know if that’s the right word, but I thought they would build a basic frame/shell and gamers would be able to configure their Xbox how they wish, similar to PC and buy motherboards, sound cards and graphic cards. I don’t know if that’s practical or even possible though.
This was when they first entered the gaming space.
I think consoles are so cheap and punch above their weight is because everything is so tightly designed around each component. Opening up to multiple permutations with modules would probably make it more expensive to build, develop for, and manage. It's not impossible, but probably gets in that gray area where it's not much different than a garden variety PC.
Well to clear up my thought process on the matter, I figured they would every so often within a gen like a pro model system, give gamers the proprietary parts.
Let’s say the original Xbox they built it modular in mind, so certain parts they would manufacture newer slightly more powerful components. That way you can either stay with the original configuration, or swap out the parts you choose, building your own pro. Then when the next gen comes around a new even more powerful components that would put the system in the Xbox360 range. Then another half step to tweak your system to a pro of that gen.
I guess similar to how I see people here talking about new 4080 cards, I’m just making up an example, and every so often people mention nother with a number larger than the last indicating it’s more powerful.
I understand what you’re saying about how it’s much easier to just have a closed system, and much cheaper. It was just something I thought might happen when Microsoft introduced the first Xbox.
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Today, SCS Software officially announced Project Coaches, the next evolution for Euro Truck Simulator 2, adding buses to the game.
The game is looking good GoW comparisons or not.
Looks more Japanese, which means it'll be much crazier and more exaggerated. I'm going to be laughing my ass off while I'm playing this, and that's a good thing.
Been saying the same thing about GoW and DMC for years.
all games copy something like a movie or past game
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Have similarities in some parts.
Kratos' pissed, Asura's pissed.
Greek Gods, Hindu Gods.
Both have divine powers.
Quick Time Events.
Asura's could stand as it's own game.
But it gave me impressions that, this game is a Japanese Shonen-fied with manga spirits of God of War ideas & concept.