| GOWTLOZ said: This Sony IP you're talking about is the biggest hack and slash franchise so yes if any game can do it its God of War. Monster Hunter is primarily an RPG and not a hack and slash game and Bayonetta 2 is overtracked and hasn't even sold a million. Even if it had a million sales these days that is not enough to revitalize the interests of publishers in a genre for AAA games. |
That Sony IP was desfined as both action adventure and hack n' slash for the first 3 games and their spin-offs afterwards. THe current unreleased game however is not defined as a hack n' slash and is instead defined as "action-adventure", under that single definition it does not mean that it will "revive" another genre that it is not defined as. It's like saying one genre revives another but not reviving it's own first.
If you want to argue now for the enw one being hack n' slash, then we can now argue the same for MH as it;s gameplay features a hack n' slash variety, especially with the latest one having multiple combat styles.
You don't need hundreds of millions of sales to revive a genre completely. As long as people make games for it then the genre will still go on. The RTS genre for example is still going on but we've yet to see a "base-building" C&C style RTS that rocks the world to come out yet.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
