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God of War: Ascension multiplayer confirmed [Update: Gameplay Video]
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Unless there are two separate teams working on the modes. Santa Monica did do some hiring for a new God of War game a while back, no?
This is SSM we are talking about here.
Chuck Norris
Banned
The art doesn't look Greek
I think they were saying something in one of the interviews about the multiplayer being mythological but not necessarily tied down to Greek mythology
I think they were saying something in one of the interviews about the multiplayer being mythological but not necessarily tied down to Greek mythology
Haunted
Member
True, that's a possibility.
Chuck Norris
Banned
They did some hiring for online multiplayer experts as well IIRC
TBH I think a more melee based MP could be a lot of fun if handled correctly.
Assuming the engine can handle it I'd love both competative and coop - for example imagine a coop where you and three other allies have to team up to take down a huge colossus? A survival mode would also be great where you fight swarms of AI foes in a team.
Regular DM would work too so long as it was balanced. I'd love to play "Capture the Flag" GoW style too - Capture the Head anyone?
Anyway, I won't dismiss the MP until I see it. I think the franchise could support it well.
Assuming the engine can handle it I'd love both competative and coop - for example imagine a coop where you and three other allies have to team up to take down a huge colossus? A survival mode would also be great where you fight swarms of AI foes in a team.
Regular DM would work too so long as it was balanced. I'd love to play "Capture the Flag" GoW style too - Capture the Head anyone?
Anyway, I won't dismiss the MP until I see it. I think the franchise could support it well.
Callibretto
Member
7 maps didn't sound a lot, but I understand it might take longer to make because each of those maps may have setpieces like the cyclops titan we saw. I'll at least play each of those maps at least once to see the setpieces. don't know if it'll hold for long play though. it'll be much more interesting if every maps have boss battle with varying difficulty, at least that will give me incentive to play the mp multiple times to level up my character and beat the mp. or if the mp have a little bit of story
That's right, I remember that too actually. I think they're being honest when they say that SP isn't going to suffer as a result of this.
SSM has been helping out other teams most recently Starhawk, it's a huge team
Haunted
Member
To be fair, I've seen too many games fail due to a tacked on mode they didn't really need to just keep quiet about it.
Uncharted 2 managed to pull it off and had a great campaign, but there's a reason it's lauded as the exception and not the rule. That they're saying in the initial announcement that the campaign will be shorter than in previous games shows that they're aware and are trying to preemptively manage expectations.
New single player stuff
Improvements the the engine
Improvements the the engine
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ascension-preview-introducing-the-gods-of-war
well look at it this way, they have had 2 years at least to work on this, by most accounts this will release in 2013, that will be 3 years since god of war 3's release.
I personally think SSM are great developers, so I think they can do some great things with three years to make a game like this. I am wondering if they had to make a new engine to support MP though, or if they just had to tweak the exsisting GOW3 engine.
I think E3 is going to be pretty good this year.
shinobi602
Member
Same here. I'm getting great vibes about this.
Phoenician_Viking
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Chuck Norris
Banned
Hoping the multiplayer combat is less mashy. I want to be able to punish button mashers
Angry Fork
Member
Hope this game bombs hard so it can be a lesson to stop focusing on multiplayer and wasting resources that could be used on SP.
Promptless minigames have me excited. Imagine branching paths of brutality, where there isn't a fail state as such, just what you do changes with button presses.
Hell yea. Fuck videogames.
compile an info list about the game , very helpful in subsequent discussions
Oh give me a break.
We've had five epic adventures with Kratos already. I'm ready for just a little something different.
Callibretto
Member
I'm actually optimistic about U2 mp when it was first revealed, even after U1 I thought it could be great in mp, the addition of climbing and jumping looks like something that can make it great fun to play mp.
I'm not sure how GoW multiplayer will work, but after seeing the video and a couple previews, I'm pretty hyped about this.
mysticwhip
Banned
i'm liking the change in art direction. That cyclops looks amazing.
R_thanatos
Member
I have no problem with this kind of multiplayer 4 vs 4 ( team based )for the right to kill a giant cyclops ?
I Love this idea ..like totally .God of war needed new blood ( literraly ) and new ideas , they are already showing that ...so far i have no problems
I Love this idea ..like totally .God of war needed new blood ( literraly ) and new ideas , they are already showing that ...so far i have no problems
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BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I have to say the MP looks way better than the first screens showed implied.
entremet
Member
How would it take resources? God of War games get massive budgets.
Angry Fork
Member
I'm okay with different if it's different singleplayer. MP is completely unnecessary in these singleplayer games and everyone will play it for 2 weeks and then it'll die like every other tacked on multiplayer game in existence. Complete waste of resources.
aliencowz7
Member
Cause multiplayer can't be created without being tacked on right? MP done right is just as big a benefit to ANY game as a well crafted singleplayer campaign. Just cause you don't like multiplayer doesn't mean you are the only target audience in the world.
Remember when call of duty games were singleplayer only and then they added some in depth multiplayer? What a waste of resources for that company.
What is this shit?
Eh, I'm going to choose to be optimistic at this point. I was skeptical, but those gifs look really awesome. Also, I doubted ND before Uncharted 2 and it ended up having one of my favorite single players of all time as well as my favorite multiplayer this gen.
People wanted new gameplay ideas to keep God of War from getting stale, myself included, so I'll wait to see how it plays out.
Hmm sounds interesting.
Callibretto
Member
aw goddamnit, I was hoping this is before Kratos killing his family...
Multiplayer was still terrible though
It especially feels empty because you know there will be no ultimate resolution to the central conflict until GoW1. It sounds like a pointless stepping stone.
Square Triangle
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Name dropped GAF!
Angry Fork
Member
I still have a right to bitch about it though. Different demographics will be annoyed if you go separate routes which is obvious. I'm in the demographic that doesn't want resources wasted that could've been used to polish and add levels to singleplayer. I don't care about multiplayer in SP games and don't want it.
This right here. I'm glad they're trying something new.
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