And by terrible, you mean awesome.
Still, I'm not entirely sold on God of War having multiplayer. We'll see.
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God of War: Ascension multiplayer confirmed [Update: Gameplay Video]
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And by terrible, you mean awesome.
Still, I'm not entirely sold on God of War having multiplayer. We'll see.
Nope, it was great fun.
Lovegooder
Banned
And cringing? Facepalming? Closing the tab?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Ugh, no thanks to MP.
Square Triangle
Member
Lol, people jumping of the bridge because of Multiplayer.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Support a game having MP ??
A single player franchise that has MP shoehorned in after some games in a desperate attempt to sell a few million more units. I'm tired of it.
Live Free or Die
Banned
oh you've played it already?
gundamkyoukai
Member
The same was said about UC and it was better for it .
I don't have to. It's MP, I've played it in other games already. There's really nothing drastically new or original to do, you kill other human players. *yawn*
gundamkyoukai said:
Disagree. The games could have been better without it instead of just ok shooters.
Haunted
Member
Who plays GoW for the story or characters? C'mon now.
It's all about the setpieces and their scale and seeing familiar faces from mythology realised with good tech.
Hopefully seeing the light and scratching the MP.
GuitarAtomik
Member
At first I was like "LOL", but after watching the video it looks pretty interesting. If it was just straight deathmatch I still think it would be a whatever mode but integrating the other puzzlish GoW mechanics in to objective based modes could be cool.
seventynine
Member
Thankfully they're paying no attention to this train of thought. Also how could you possibly know that resources are being wasted by adding multiplayer?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Bro, you are one close minded gamer. The multiplayer gameplay looks excellent. You should not judge until you actually play it.
I've already played it. The guy in the stream even said it's basically Domination. I did that in COD and other games.
MP is just killing other people with nothing else involved. That's boring to me and it's been done in a thousand games already.
spookyfish
Member
God of War: Mercenaries?
God of War Party 9?
God of War: Powerstone?
God of War Party 9?
God of War: Powerstone?
gundamkyoukai
Member
What about us that don't give a fuck about fps games .
You still going to get your SP so you don't have to worry .
Live Free or Die
Banned
Just curious. Did both of you not buy Mass Effect 3 because it had multiplayer?
Let it be know. Derrick01 is either psychic or from the future, and has totally played a lot of action adventure beat em ups with the scale of God of War before. Because, I mean, that's totally a plentiful genre, well represented, and all!
*rollseyes*
Do you know every member of the team at SSM and their entire portfolio of games throughout each of their careers?
Todd mentioned that the internal team has grown and that they have dedicated designers for the multiplayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBpejwtxwJk#t=4m25s
Angry Fork
Member
The argument is that resources spent on multiplayer could've been used on SP to make it better. It's not the fact that it has multiplayer. For example Bioshock 2 had multiplayer but it was done by a separate team with separate resources. I'm 100% okay with this. But when you have 1 developer with a fixed budget and fixed number of people I'm not okay with that being split for SP/MP just to try to sell more or prevent used sale bs.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I didn't buy ME3 because I don't give a shit about the ME games. I'm gonna buy GoW: Ascension for the SP, but I'll ignore the MP part just like I've done with all other games with MP parts I've bought this gen. I'm not so much pissed at them including MP, I'm pissed they spend the entire announcement talking about a feature I just don't give a flying shit about.
Hey, if anything, we have already been granted a fantastic banned gif from this game's existence lol.
I find this absolutely repulsive. Brutality has its place, I'm usually fine with it in Tarantino's films or Suda 51's games, but here it just seems glorified.
aliencowz7
Member
If you have been doing it for games all gen why are you so upset now over it? Just don't play the MP, not that big a deal you still get your game.
I bought ME3 because I wanted to tie my saves together and there's no way to legally rent a game on PC. But ME3 was a rushed mess and I'm sure MP played some part of that as it's more work for the game's director to keep track of.
Anyway between this and the game being a prequel it's fallen to rental status now. They've done a fantastic job at killing the game before even showing any SP footage. It's impressive really.
gundamkyoukai
Member
It's not a fix team just a while ago they were getting new guys for MP.
I'd love to see where you got the info about SSM being split up to work on multi/single player and having single player resources being spent on multi.
Please enlighten me. I'd love to know.
Oh hey, how about that Fork?
Sheesh, some people.
And the singleplayer games have been the same since God of War 1. They are doing something new which is great.
SP is just killing people to reach the end?
Aside from dear esther, flower, and journey, no other singleplayer game this generation since HL2(last gen? 2004) really impressed me.
You are making a very very ignorant comment "I've already played it". rofl, comments like that make me angry.
Angry Fork
Member
Because he likes GOW singleplayer and doesn't want it to be watered down or less in length/quality because of the inclusion of multiplayer?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I edited my post before you quoted it.
Also, not every goddamn SP game needs an MP mode. Guess next gen we'll be seeing new Monkey Island DD games with deathmatch modes
Every workhour that is put into the MP is a workhour that the SP will be missing. Just look at ME3 and its pathetic N7 missions.
Angry Fork
Member
Those new guys could've been used for SP is my point. I don't like the idea of shoe-horning multiplayer in SP games to begin with, just based on principle. It rarely works and I just don't care. COD is the only series I can think of where it turned out well and the MP is more fun. (Although COD is proof of watering down SP as well)
I'd rather have them innovate the single player as it is pretty stale but them doing this makes me doubt even more that they'll bother changing anything. This is their "hey look we did something new!" thing, even if it is just another MP game.
Oh my god, some of you guys have zero idea of how game development works. Zero.
It's hilarious and frustrating at the same time. I'm out of this thread.
lolz, that's tame by GOW standards.
There is no evidence to even remotely suggest that it'll be watered down or shorter in length and/or quality.
He can start crying fowl when that's the case. For all we know this could turn out to be an Uncharted 2 situation where the campaign is even bigger and better.
Yup. I'm done. Ignorant children here.
Exactly.
The MP is just there to ensure additional sales, there's no reason why the God of War franchise should suddenly step into the multiplayer territory.
Seraphinianus
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this is like the people who say "they could've been working on finding a cure for cancer instead!" in threads about minor scientific advancements.
anyway, i'm not too hopeful about this, but that's because it's god of war, not that they added multiplayer.
transience
Member
Man, Sony needs to slow down with God of War. This is like the 8th God of War release since the series debuted in 2005. This might be cool (no idea either way) but I don't really want to dive into yet another God of War game with likely the same arsenal of moves (plus 1-2 new subweapons, of course). God of War's up there with AC and COD for franchises that are just getting slammed into the ground.
gundamkyoukai
Member
When you hire more people that are suppose to help make the MP there not going to put anything into SP anyway .
D
Deleted member 81567
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So is this a new trend where hack and slash games will have MP?
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