| bananaking21 said: i really doubt Asmussen's project has been worked on by a small team for about 3 years now (up until GoW:A released). if a game is in its 3rd year into development it would be by a small team for all that time. and i doubt sony would have teased it at gamescom along with ND and media molecules games which we know have been in development for 2 (nd) and 2 and half years (MD) for now. it would make no sense to wait 3 years for the main staff to finish a game instead of hiring new people while they wait for that game (GoW:a) to be finished. also i remember readings (leaks) that the main team is infact working on stigs game and that the GoW:A team is the new team. on another note its pretty obvious that cory barlogs new game is another one from Stig Asmussen's project. why would cory make an "oceans 11" kind of team for a game that is 3+ years into development? he is making a new team for a new game, and personally i cant wait to hear more about it. and i agree with you about what you said about Cory's game being a new GoW. it doesnt make sense. and we know stigs new game isnt a GoW either. so i cant wait |
We don't know exactly how Santa Monica handles their projects and staffing. Considering that this is already new territory for Santa Monica in having multiple projects going at once, would it really be that hard to believe that Sony wanted Santa Monica to make another God of War game but greenlit Asmussen on his PS4 project and he was given a small team to start? Afterall, what was Asmussen doing since he wasn't working on Ascension? If you insist that Asmussen had his own decent sized team going while Ascension was being developed by another team and Barlog only recently came back and is claiming he's building his new team... does that mean Santa Monica has three teams? What was the bulk of the Ascension team doing before Barlog came back because from what I can tell that was a gap of about 3 or 4 months. Also, isn't only having a small team working on a game and waiting until more people are freed up to tackle it the exact thing that we heard Japan Studio was doing about The Last Guardian? Even a small team can make a lot of progress in 3 years and we have no idea when Asmussen's game will grace the PS4. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a game that is still years away has been teased. Especially when it's just casually mentioned as "a game" without giving a name or teaser video.
I'm not saying you're wrong at all. I'm just wondering what you think based on that. Is Santa Monica gearing up for two teams or three teams? If Asmussen had his own basically full team going then that means Santa Monica already had two teams and we didn't even realize it until recently. Then what is Barlog doing? What he said doesn't make it sound like he's taking the current staff. It sounds like he plans on making a whole new team. If he is infact taking the bulk of the Ascension team then what were those guys doing before he came back? So many questions. Poptarts.
