Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games

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twintail said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

How it wasn't decided to have Bluepoint go from the cancelled live service God of War game to heading development on the God of War remake trilogy will forever be one of the biggest fumbles!

Like, it was right there!

As I mentioned in the GOW Remake thread: the remake only exists to not waste the resources that went into the live service title (which is smart). 

But I suppose now not seeing BP attached to it should've raised alarm bells. The only thing I can think is that BP themselves were pitching other ideas that were not being greenlit, and the remake was more a Sony idea that they've pushed onto SMS (or someone at SMS was smart enough to suggest this idea).

Disappointing news. More so because Sony has 1 less studio and 75 people are out of a job rather than out of any reverence for their work. I only ever played their remasters of GOW1, GOW2 and Ico, so I don't have much of an attachment to their work. 

Playing the remake of Shadow of the Colossus live for some friends some years ago was such a great experience.

Bluepoint remade some of my all time favorite games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls, it was remarkable how it seemed like they choose my favorite games to work on, even were involved with God of War multiple times.

One director from there was a fan of The Legend of Dragoon and wanted to work on it if possible, he said before Sony bought them, but now... it's gone.

Everything they did was great and now it is no more.

I'm going to watch the intro for SotC remake again right now, for the good times.