Stig Asmussen would like Metroid-sized break for God of War

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I don't think the developers of God of War can be comparing anything to Metroid. Development time or their hope for 'maintaining the quality'. Yes, this is my very bias opinion, but God of War games are very repetitive and lacking in originality (in my opinion). And the fact that there's been 3 of them in the last 5 years probably has something to do with that. You can't really turn around and say the quality will go up if you just 'stop making them for a long time like Metroid'. They need to spend MORE time working on a sequel and trying to change the games formula.

Metroid games don't just take a 5 year break, then suddenly come back all 'fresh and new' with the same old ideas. They spend a lot of that time developing new gameplay and design ideas. I mean, look at Metroid: Other M. I have a feeling these developers would do the opposite, given their track record with God of War. Even after a '10 year hiatus', the game would still be about mashing buttons and dodging pre-programmed 'cinematic' attacks.  Because that's what the series has gotten popular for and to change it now would make fans angry (and therefore sales go down).

nordlead said:

Bamboleo said:
I'm still not getting what metroid has to do with this.

Super Metroid - 94

Metroid Prime - 02

Obviously it was a "big" break, and he must be a fan of the series.

I'd just like to point out here that Metroid Prime was developed by a different group than Super Metroid (Retro Studios).  While Metroid Prime was being in development, the original developers of Super Metroid and the original Metroid games (R&D1 and Intelligent Systems directed by Yoshio Sakamoto) were developing Metroid Fusion.  Which released on GBA at the same time as Metroid Prime.  So not only did we get 2 Metroid games at the same time as each other, but from two different development groups.

Then, to top it off, two years later, we got Metroid: Zero Mission, once again developed by R&D1/Intelligent Systems and directed by series creator Yoshio Sakamoto.  While at the same time, Metroid Prime 2 came out 8 months later.

So its not like we've had a lack of Metroid in the recent years.