@el-shmiablo said in The PS5/PlayStation Next/NeoStation/PS Neu/Whatever:

The series has dealt with different pantheons since the second game (does a montheist religion like Christianity actually have a pantheon?) and it is all in the same universe. The game references previous entries regularly, and it is all very much connected.

Easter eggs. Different from showing the living, breathing Odin in God of War II. It's not right in my face.

I'm pretty sure I ripped many, many people clean in half in the new God of War.

The violence was tame. Sadistic violence was rooted in God of War's identity. It was entertaining.

Sex and nudity were not as prevelant in Norse culture as they were in Grecian cultures. It would make very little sense for the game to feature those things just because.

Assuming the Norse pantheon is the only candidate, I would have brought sex and nudity in anyway, because that was also a part of God of War's identity and it amused me. Adultery was common in Viking life and people didn't have as much privacy or clothes.

Your rebooted game doesn't sound much like a rebooted game, and more just a retread of the exact same things that the previous games did.

You think that because you have no imagination. Some tonal things DO need to carry over if this reboot is to pretend that it is part of the same series. If this really was a faithful sequel, they would have called it God of War IV.

Also, the camera I mentioned would have enhanced the combat and allowed platforming, so screw the zoomed over the shoulder cam.

@el-shmiablo said in The PS5/PlayStation Next/NeoStation/PS Neu/Whatever:

God of War needed a tonal shift. While I still absolutely adore the original games, Kratos was very one note, and bringing him into this generation as the same old rage filled killing machine he was at the end of the series would have been ridiculous and tone deaf, especially considering there was nobody left for him to be angry with since he killed them all.
God of War 2018 featured much more varied and in-depth gameplay elements than any previous GoW before it, and features a similar gameplay to cutscenes ratio to 3, perhaps even more considering the non-linear nature of the game and open ended hub style design of the world.

A better reboot for God of War would have been creating a whole new character in a different pantheon, instead of going with this incredibly stupid idea that the cartoon he used to be turned into this placid guy and journeyed to another universe. It was an awful change. Mixing pantheons is also stupid because they each have different explanations for the nature of the universe and the believers thought their stories encompassed the world. It's why I like Batman but can't take the DC universe seriously. My rebooted series also would have had continues musical scores (instead of depressing silence and walk and talk shit) like the old games, a narrator, gory violence, sex, nudity and wide fields of view (perhaps a combination of fixed cameras and fully controllable cams that are pulled much farther back). You would have had different weapons and a new character with different motivations, but it still would have been God of War. The soul was torn out.

Speaking of Die Hard, that is a series that SERIOUSLY needs a change up. The last few entries in that series have been absolute garbage exactly because they are still trying to be "badass" action films and nothing else.
If anything, John Maclain has de-evolved with every new entry. The first movie was incredibly progressive for it's time, with John having a full character arc revolving around how his machismo and stubbornness had been one of the main contributors to his failed marriage. Now he is just a big dumb shootyman who is angry because he is supposed to be on vacation can't you tell by how many times I repeat that in the movie?

I don't care about the Die Hard series. The first movie is good, but I prefer the original Lethal Weapon. My point was turning the original movie into high art. It would be such a dumbass decision.

I disagree. Pretentious is a great word to describe SCEA's film envy. It's especially funny when they try and fail to turn something like God of War into high art. Imagine Fox trying to do that with Die Hard. They often forget to make it fun in all their pretention.

That Last of Us, Part II trailer started that way because Druckmann is a social justice warrior (a term I almost never use but which fits him). Any other reason is secondary.

@el-shmiablo said in The PS5/PlayStation Next/NeoStation/PS Neu/Whatever:

Also, go full steam ahead with the "pretentious" film games. Personally I quite like it when developers respect the emotional intelligence of their players.

They don't. It's more like manipulation. Movies do it ten times better. Movies/TV shows are my favorite hobby. Most games suck at it.

On a related subject, I like the 1996 Wachoswki movie Bound, about a lesbian who tries to help her lover rip off her mob boyfriend. It's stylish and fun. Somehow, playing as Naughty Dog's lesbian isn't appealing to me. Maybe because they're trying to be so righteous about it. I find it lame that a lesbian kiss is how they chose to introduce the first gameplay trailer, like I'm supposed to care so much. Remind me of the last time a cinematic trailer started with a kiss, gay or straight. Druckmann's characters just aren't that likable.

@dipset Better games. Less film envy and pretentious emotional crap. More Japanese titles.

An alternate controller that can be used for every game, one made for aiming. I don't want to aim with my thumbs in games that are half about aiming. Since most console players are on a sofa, maybe a laser motion controller. Buttons on the back of the normal controller. I want more options when I'm playing my games. Even though I want more options, I would remove the touchpad. Almost all the PS4 games I played used it as a simple button press instead of a swiping mechanism. Infamous had some clumsy swiping to spray walls and in Gravity Rush 2 I brush it by accident all the time, which causes my character to switch powers. So annoying. It's just not a good feature. The Options button has been moved to a place more awkward because of it. The PlayStation button should double for both the home screen and recording. Maybe after holding the PlayStation button for two seconds, one of the options that comes up is saving the last XX minutes of gameplay. I want my second Options/Select button back. I've uploaded like two videos in all the time I've had my PS4. I don't need a special button for that feature.

More movies. Little Mermaid and E.T. were used. Perfect like new quality. I love how people just sell their movies after redeeming the codes.

Shoah is a foreign ten hour documentary about the holocaust. Haven't seen it.

Gonna wait a long time before I buy this. Sony just doesn't make enough very good games anymore. My favorite PS4 games were Gravity Rush Remastered (a PSP game), Shadow of the Colossus (a PS2 game) and Until Dawn. Uncharted 4 was overrated, Infamous was overrated, The Last of Us was overrated and Horizon was overrated. God of War plain sucked. I preferred the original trilogy. Bloodborne was good, but it's the only Souls game I've played only once. It's been a year and I just don't feel like going back. The world is so samey and, even though I beat it in 22 hours, I found the difficulty more irritating. I also was a bit tired of the formula by this fifth game. Still haven't touched the Old Hunters DLC. Anyway, I think it's a shame Sony switched their focus so much to western developers in the PS3 generation. They're just not as talented as the Japanese console devs. I'm more impressed by the few games I've played on my Switch. Their California headquarters is also considerably more cowardly.

Sony Imposes Limitations to Sexual Content in PlayStation Games Following #MeToo Concerns: https://wccftech.com/sony-limits-sexual-content-playstation-games/

Stopped caring about CG reveals like fourteen years ago. Gameplay or go home.

Liked it the first time, but didn't find it great. I expect it will be better the second time. Can't believe it's already been ten years since I read it.

Never mind. Used Gachiin's Sugar to drop on him in the first phase and then immediately dropped on him in the second phase. I don't know if I would have figured out that you can deathblow this boss from above myself, which makes the win feel cheated. But whatever.