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Another perfect score added on Metacritic a few days ago, now at 41 in total. Nice!



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JustThatGamer said:
Another perfect score added on Metacritic a few days ago, now at 41 in total. Nice!

the one from CD-Action ?

"Cory Barlog and his team achieved what many thought impossible – despite having changed almost everything Santa Monica managed to preserve that elusive spark that makes God of War game feel like a God of War game. They created one of the defining titles of the current generation and a technical marvel whose stunning beauty in motion words cannot describe. And there’s one more thing. Barlog’s touching reaction to his masterpiece’s scores shows that even in the world of huge budgets, micropayments, loot boxes and sales forecasts there still is a place for artists who pour their hearts into their work. We need someone to remind us of that once in a while."

^ this.

I dont want gameing to end up like the movie industry, where its just chase the safe money.
And where its mostly about how easy & profitable you can make movies, and no longer about the atristy in it.



JRPGfan said:
JustThatGamer said:
Another perfect score added on Metacritic a few days ago, now at 41 in total. Nice!

the one from CD-Action ?

"Cory Barlog and his team achieved what many thought impossible – despite having changed almost everything Santa Monica managed to preserve that elusive spark that makes God of War game feel like a God of War game. They created one of the defining titles of the current generation and a technical marvel whose stunning beauty in motion words cannot describe. And there’s one more thing. Barlog’s touching reaction to his masterpiece’s scores shows that even in the world of huge budgets, micropayments, loot boxes and sales forecasts there still is a place for artists who pour their hearts into their work. We need someone to remind us of that once in a while."

^ this.

I dont want gameing to end up like the movie industry, where its just chase the safe money.
And where its mostly about how easy & profitable you can make movies, and no longer about the atristy in it.

Yeah that's the one, it's very important to shine a light on creators like Cory Barlog who clearly have a passion for their craft and not just simply playing it safe to chase the money.

In Sony Santa Monica's case they were in a terrible position after GoW: Ascension's lukewarm critical & commercial reception and a cancelled game, they could've just given us another standard GoW game which, providing its quality was inline with the trilogy, would've been successful. Instead with Barlog at the helm they took a huge risk to reinvent God of War and that passion to pursue a creative vision over playing it safe gave us the most acclaimed & bestselling game in the series, this is what the industry needs more of now more than ever.



I'm interested in playing this but I'm waiting until it gets a few price cuts 



Wonder if we'll see some dlc later this year.



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TallSilhouette said:
Wonder if we'll see some dlc later this year.

Probably not. 

https://segmentnext.com/2018/04/25/no-god-of-war-dlc-planned-cory-barlog-explains-why/



Yeah I don't want to see his team spend any time on creating additional content for it. Instead, I think they should focus their energy on the next entry. Sony should really try to align its teams for some strong early releases for the PS5 and being able to announce the next God of War game, after how well this one did, around the time they announce their next console would generate quite a bit of buzz. I'd also like to see that studio try and get back to what they were attempting before. Having multiple teams so they can keep projects churning along.



Just noticed another perfect score was added a few days ago bringing the total to 42. This is equal to The Last of Us which previously had the most perfect scores of any Sony exclusive. Nice.



JustThatGamer said:
Just noticed another perfect score was added a few days ago bringing the total to 42. This is equal to The Last of Us which previously had the most perfect scores of any Sony exclusive. Nice.

Good catch.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

JustThatGamer said:
Just noticed another perfect score was added a few days ago bringing the total to 42. This is equal to The Last of Us which previously had the most perfect scores of any Sony exclusive. Nice.

Holy shit. Matching the last of us is quite an achievement