The interesting question remaining, is what did Sony actually wanted from the purchase to begin with? Did they want them to immediately start making original content, would they have been happy them being a remake and support studio? 

I didn't play the Marathon demo but I did play the Horizon Hunters test last Friday and yesterday, I can't say specifics because of "legal" reasons but I can say that I was interested before testing it and I'm still very much interested.

I just don't see how that game is going to survive if the Horizon community doesn't give it a chance.

I think it's still wildly short sighted. 

Hey, why don't you guys work on remaking some older PS2/PS3 games, while figuring out your new game project?

A proper remake/remaster of Resistance, InFamous, Killzone, etc. 

NateTheHate said Santa Monica new game is a God of War game, but with Faye (Kratos spouse in the Norse saga) as the main protagonist. So it's a game that predates the Norse saga.

Should be announced this year and release in the first half of 2027.

Why the actual fuck would they want to not have Kratos as the main character?

"But Kratos has gotten X games" yes, and he should be the lead in every single one of them, not Atreus, not Faye, not Freya, not Athena, or anyone else.

FFS. The game should be great as they ever make them to be, but I don't understand why Sony needs to try to distance from popular characters they develop so much.

I didn't know there was a test for the Horizon game, was it in person and you are under a NDA?

I can't tell if yo enjoyed it or not lol

NateTheHate said Santa Monica new game is a God of War game, but with Faye (Kratos spouse in the Norse saga) as the main protagonist. So it's a game that predates the Norse saga.

Should be announced this year and release in the first half of 2027.

Why the actual fuck would they want to not have Kratos as the main character?

"But Kratos has gotten X games" yes, and he should be the lead in every single one of them, not Atreus, not Faye, not Freya, not Athena, or anyone else.

FFS. The game should be great as they ever make them to be, but I don't understand why Sony needs to try to distance from popular characters they develop so much.

I think it'll be ok.  There are a vocal part of the GoW fanbase that have been interested in a game where you play as Freya, Thrud or even Seth (if set in Egypt). 

But would've been great if this dude didn't say anything. Reveal would've been epic. 

I think the game itself will be ok, but will the reception actually be?

For once, you can 100% expect a big backslash from the usual pieces of shit about a woman being the protagonist, combined with the fact she is the protagonist in place of Kratos no less, so from the start there will be a lot of negativity and active pushback online, there are a LOT of those people out there, the discourse will be insufferable.

Sony going with Sucker Punch, Santa Monica, Guerrila Games and Naughty Dog, pretty much all their best studios for the games with narratives, all having women as protagonists at the same time, boy oh boy, those pieces of shit will have a stroke, and you can't ignore them anymore, they have big influencers and a big ammount of people willing to be dicks in every single social media you can imagine, every day, regurgitating their idiocy.

After that, there is people that share part or most of what I think. Part of it can be either they'll get it regardless, but also the other part that is extremely sad Kratos is not the protagonist, but unlike me, that part is also prone to become uninterested in the game because of that. I'm really sad, but not uninterested.

If it is mostly the history of Faye fighting Thor, than Kratos and at least midway Kratos and her start liking each other, he is a big part of the history and is mostly always present, specially as a playable option (which would mean Faye has the Leviathan Axe and Kratos is still using the Blades of Chaos, despite his disliking to them, before Atreus is born, I can see some ray of light there, but not salvation, pretty much the same as TLoU2, people hated having to play with Abby midway even as we get back to Ellie, but some still hate the game because of existence of that Abby pov.

Anyway, I'm so disappoint this is their project even as I'm sure the chances of me liking the actual game are very high, and that God of War remake makes even more sense now because that's their way of not letting us without Kratos for a decade, but I'm also sad it was leaked, and I understand why Jason did not, Santa Monica will already suffer the negativity from now on without even being able to show anything for months.

I think the game itself will be ok, but will the reception actually be?

For once, you can 100% expect a big backslash from the usual pieces of shit about a woman being the protagonist, combined with the fact she is the protagonist in place of Kratos no less, so from the start there will be a lot of negativity and active pushback online, there are a LOT of those people out there, the discourse will be insufferable.

Sony going with Sucker Punch, Santa Monica, Guerrila Games and Naughty Dog, pretty much all their best studios for the games with narratives, all having women as protagonists at the same time, boy oh boy, those pieces of shit will have a stroke, and you can't ignore them anymore, they have big influencers and a big ammount of people willing to be dicks in every single social media you can imagine, every day, regurgitating their idiocy.

After that, there is people that share part or most of what I think. Part of it can be either they'll get it regardless, but also the other part that is extremely sad Kratos is not the protagonist, but unlike me, that part is also prone to become uninterested in the game because of that. I'm really sad, but not uninterested.

If it is mostly the history of Faye fighting Thor, than Kratos and at least midway Kratos and her start liking each other, he is a big part of the history and is mostly always present, specially as a playable option (which would mean Faye has the Leviathan Axe and Kratos is still using the Blades of Chaos, despite his disliking to them, before Atreus is born, I can see some ray of light there, but not salvation, pretty much the same as TLoU2, people hated having to play with Abby midway even as we get back to Ellie, but some still hate the game because of existence of that Abby pov.

Anyway, I'm so disappoint this is their project even as I'm sure the chances of me liking the actual game are very high, and that God of War remake makes even more sense now because that's their way of not letting us without Kratos for a decade, but I'm also sad it was leaked, and I understand why Jason did not, Santa Monica will already suffer the negativity from now on without even being able to show anything for months.