God of War shows why I consider SSM better than ND and you might as well

[fauzman]

taus90 said:

fauzman said:
They are both equally good though i admit i havent played all their games yet.

I will point out that ND have made a variety of genres ranging from pure platform (crash) to action adventure with hugely greater realism and a focus on TPS over 3 consoles. SSM has only worked on the single IP with similar play styles (most recent game excluded). Food for thought no?

Sony Santa Monica has incubated team and helped with development and produced far more games than ND, Journey, Order 1886, Fat princess adventures etc, majority of Xdev team are from SSM, Unfortunately they had to cancel their new Sc-Fi shooter, coz it was turning out similar to Destiny, Right now ND pedigree is excellent writing and production values, but not so good gameplay mechanics, with GoW SSM proved they can give an ND level story with equally deep gameplay.. took me 30 hrs to finish it. 

Well we dont know to what extent they helped out on all the other games you mentioned above so that doesnt necessarily mean much.

Also i dont see why people complain so much about the gameplay. Its all very well to criticize them but i dont see anyone suggesting alternatives. I havent played GOW yet so cant comment on it. But certainly the prev games have had very similar gameplay across all prev 3 games.

 

Note that i am NOT saying ND is better (i think they are equally good). Just pointing out that imo ND have stretched themselves and worked more varied genres.