Honestly I'm not sure how I feel.

I don't like the idea of this team being wasted on revisiting the old games. It could be a complete reimagining though, essentially a soft reboot but with the same core story arcs.

It could also just be a new lick of paint and not as ambitious as we think (Oblivion remake).

Feel like this sort of thing should of been planned a while ago and outsourced. A shame Bluepoint were wasted on a live service GOW game when they could of probably just done a new original single player game (also in the GOW franchise). I think that's probably what Sony actually intended for the 20th anniversary (live service game)

I doubt they will remake the other games, from thosd they only made Ascension themselves, even as part of the series story, it they would remake those they would have had it announced now too.

It would be weird to have this 1, 2, 3 remake, then another one with games between 1 and 2 in them, if they wanted to tell the whole story in remakes it would have been now.

As this is developed in-house, I expect a very high quality work, so even as they have some assets and the whole story and sequence already layed out for them to build the remakes around, it'll take considerable time to put together with their new vision of what it needs to be now.

But I'm fairly positive their only other game is Cory's game, indeed, but when that is released that team will move on to make Santa Monica's next new game as well, while helping with the remake, so likely only affecting their schedule heavily as the next game is in its concept phase and the remakes becoming a side project when that new game goes in full production.

God of War 1 in special deserved to get the modern game treatment, 2 as well, but less.

It'll be nice to have those important games being available now that diminishing returns are in full effect, so most of the franchise, as in, all of the "numbered" titles (in-house sequels to 1, so 2018 being 4, and Ragnarok being 5) are now mostly in the same quality level, and gaming won't advance that much visually in 2045 as it did from 2005 to 2025, so keeping those games consistent and "modern" for a long, long time.

I feel like your point that it'll take a considerable time because it'll be high-quality work is reason as to why they wouldn't include all 6 games in 1 remake project, especially when you consider that Ascension has a somewhat unique feel and look to it compared to the rest of the series. 

And then of course there's Sons of Sparta, the prequel of prequels. This remake is probably years out, depending on how much is going into it. But not really enough info to go on right now. 

Fair.  Remove the silly sex scenes because they are immature dribble. 

I suppose one thing I could see happen is that the mini-game itself is removed, but the off-screen sex is still in place. I imagine they'd edit the GoW3 one to be more similar to the others, though. 

The actual sexuality in the game is fine, to your point the mini game should go.  I thought it was silly 20 years ago and find it even more silly today.

Especially since the game is so stellar otherwise.  

Having sex with multiple women, and also drinking, was a part of what Kratos did to try to forget his nightmares and blame.

There is even a cutscene very early on 1, that after it is not working he screams mad at Athena and she uses it to ask him to finally go kill Ares.

On God of War 3 the scene with Afrodite is actually her using it to trade information with Kratos, she uses him because she was lusting for men, by that point Kratos is already not even wanting to do it, he is fully focused on revenge.

They cannot take away it from the games, that is part of his character development later on. The minigame itself being removed, not the scenes and when they happen, well it's fine, it's not like the minigame has anything to do with it, even as I would not ask for anything to be removed at all.

I'm already seeing some people asking Kratos is less brutal in some scenes, and what the F is going on with people? Kratos becoming a monster is a major part of his redemption on 3 ending and his hard work to prevent Atreus becomes like him on 4 and 5, and his full acceptance in Valhalla, that even while he was a monster and became the God of War, he also did care a lot for his family and his brother in arms too.

Santa Monica rewriting him to be tamer would be a disservice to the series, the character and the games already out.

Firstly on the sex stuff. What you're talking about is story telling. The scenes don't need to pan out 1:1 to convey him being a sexual hedonist. They can keep it explicit without necessary showing it in the same way.

As for the violence, I think them taming it down (My reference is GOW3) is very likely simply as a reflection of more modern graphical presentation. I still expect it to be gruesome, but more an 8 on the scale if the original was a 10.

None of this would equate to a disservice imo. You don't need to see The Boys level of gore in order to understand Kratos is violent. I think people should just chill a bit in the anticipation of things being toned down and just wait to see whether what is delivered actually works and does service to the characters and story. 

Edit: And tbh scratch everything I just said because we really don't know anything about this or the ambition behind it. I will just wait until we actually have something to judge/talk about.

Kratos did what he did, he has already done it, it's not about he needs to be more brutal, or he needs to have sex all the time, it's about depicting what he did when he did, for the exact reasons he had.

About the sex, it being somewhat differently presented? Sure. It being removed? No.

About the violence, as you used numbers, if it was a 10, than it should keep being a 10. Why would Kratos need to be less violent? The guy was the embodiment of violent madness.

Toning it down is indeed a disservice.

Why are people so sensible? The game will be rated in line with what it presents, so the public knows it.

Again, those things already happened, people know exactly what to expect, and games or any kind of media, having explict content is completely fine. Games like Mortal Kombat or series like Game of Thrones, they are what they are.

God of War is what it is.