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Cory Barlog on God of War 2 and 3, Wii, Ninja Gaiden, Too Human

ZeroTolerance

Junior Member
Cory Barlog writes on his blog: "So I felt a bit cheeky today and I thought I would answer your questions in a post Mike. It could be because I hate typing long responses in the comment window as well...but either way here it is in all it's somewhat not so spectacular glory."

From the interview:
- Cory Barlog is going to be doing some work in games as well as in film.
- Games that are character and story centric are the only games that interests he.
- He would love to make a game on Wii.
- He thinks that the Ninja Gaiden games are extremely well made.
- God of War 3 will make the Playstation 3 sweat, "but it will be a mild sweat".

http://corybarlog.blogspot.com/2008/01/questions-questions-questions.html

I will bet his next game will be for the wii unless he is already working on a different PS3 game.
 

Acosta

Member
Borys said:
KITTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOONWYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

Don't cry.

Is this necesary?

Balrog seems a very talented one, whatever he does it will be interesting -but I'm really curious about the "film" stuff-. Where is he working at this moment?
 

EktorPR

Member
Acosta said:
Is this necesary?

Balrog seems a very talented one, whatever he does it will be interesting -but I'm really curious about the "film" stuff-. Where is he working at this moment?

YouShallNotPass-full.jpg
 

BeeDog

Member
Someone should beat this guy up and demand he leaks info on God Of War 3. Can't. Take. It. Any. More.!.
 

ZeroTolerance

Junior Member
BeeDog said:
Someone should beat this guy up and demand he leaks info on God Of War 3. Can't. Take. It. Any. More.!.

He is not working on God of War 3 dude. But the game will build up from where he left off.
 

Tieno

Member
After Heavenly Sword, I hope their cinematics, voice acting and 'angry' Kratos is a little better.
 

Erebus

Member
J: finaly what happened to the european demo's of god of war 2? hahaha ;)

Seriously I have no idea. The Euro PR and marketing guys were all up in that business so if they dropped the ball it would not surprise me...the whole killing the goat thing was clear eveidence of that one. :)

Euro PR incompetence confirmed!
 

Prince8

Banned
From the interview:
- Cory Barlog is going to be doing some work in games as well as in film.
- Games that are character and story centric are the only games that interests he.
- He would love to make a game on Wii.
- He thinks that the Ninja Gaiden games are extremely well made.
- God of War 3 will make the Playstation 3 sweat, "but it will be a mild sweat".
This is a wise man speaking, give him some more credit.
 

Tieno

Member
badcrumble said:
On the other hand, God of War has gameplay.
Ay, Heavenly Sword also has good/decent gameplay. I played Heavenly Sword the day after God of War 2 and the difference in story presentation and voice acting is baffeling, it was just too much of angry Kratos and gods growing big. Had the x-men 3 syndrome where they just went too over the top and big that it lost meaning and grounding. I didn't care, which certainly wasn't the case with Heavenly Sword.
I do want God of War 3 to have it all.
 

Prince8

Banned
Tieno said:
Ay, Heavenly Sword also has good/decent gameplay. I played Heavenly Sword the day after God of War 2 and the difference in story presentation and voice acting is baffeling, it was just too much of angry Kratos and gods growing big. Had the x-men 3 syndrome where they just went too over the top and big that it lost meaning and grounding. I didn't care, which certainly wasn't the case with Heavenly Sword.
I do want God of War 3 to have it all.
Well Heavenly Sword had good cutscenes, voice acting etc, but really, everything else was terrible. The gameplay was plain boring, the "shooting" parts didn't fit in (and were just terrible). As for graphics, the character models of the normal enemies looked terrible, only Nariko and other main characters looked nice. I played two hours and to be honest, if that Sony party wasn't so damn boring, I wouldn't have done the second hour.
 

MCD

Junior Member
G: how do you feel about NINJA GAIDEN? itagaki was very positive about god of war!

Gaiden is a good game...though much to hardcore for my blood. I like to enjoy a play experience, not get my ass handed to me by it.
:lol
 

Lightning

Banned
I mean, we were just getting used to 20-30 million when the next gen came around and now big games are costing double. I heard MGS4 costs 70 million. Which actually sounds ludicrous to me, but in a way it doesn’t if you factor int he MGS4 and MGS online...and the tons of cinematics and long development time...it could get up to that.

Cory just has to be kidding? MGS4 is costing Konami/Sony 70million to make? Fucking hell....
 

Quazar

Member
Lightning said:
I mean, we were just getting used to 20-30 million when the next gen came around and now big games are costing double. I heard MGS4 costs 70 million. Which actually sounds ludicrous to me, but in a way it doesn’t if you factor int he MGS4 and MGS online...and the tons of cinematics and long development time...it could get up to that.

Cory just has to be kidding? MGS4 is costing Konami/Sony 70million to make? Fucking hell....

Very interesting if true.

EDIT what was said about TH?
 

Neo C.

Member
Lightning said:
I mean, we were just getting used to 20-30 million when the next gen came around and now big games are costing double. I heard MGS4 costs 70 million. Which actually sounds ludicrous to me, but in a way it doesn’t if you factor int he MGS4 and MGS online...and the tons of cinematics and long development time...it could get up to that.

Cory just has to be kidding? MGS4 is costing Konami/Sony 70million to make? Fucking hell....
Probably advertisements included. I can't imagine 70 million development costs alone.
 

[Nintex]

Member
70 million?
So that's why it needs to sell 1 million on the first day, Konami put all their resources in the game.:lol
 

Tieno

Member
Ark-AMN said:
Umm, what exactly was said about Too Human?
Click the link

H: what are you thoughts on TOO HUMAN? back then you said no comment :)
Well, first let me start of by saying that I think Dennis is a good guy. I was pretty pissed when that EGM article came out and made it seem like they were calling us out and saying that our game was garbage and they, from the Miyamoto school of design, were going to rock our world. I even made some comments at our press release about it, one that I though were so subtle no one would get it, and Matt Leone called me out on it. It was good fun. I actually got to talk to Dennis later at some conference and heard the whole story about the article which was cool. Very hard to trust everything you read in the press due to the lack of context for quotes that are used. Regardless I liked the guy. he says some crazy things, and sues epic, but I think he is a really genuinely nice guy with a damn fine pedigree of games.

Then the whole E3 demo happened and I was a bit bummed. I mean, it was clear that the game was too early and unpolished to be at E3. Something that I imagine Dennis knew as well, but alas it was on the show floor. It was a hard lesson for those guys to learn about showing something that is not ready. You could see that the game had potential, and Eternal Darkness rocked my world, so I reserved comment to wait for them to put out something that they were truly psyched about.

As for what I think now...I still haven't seen enough to make a comment. just some new cinematics and short gameplay vids. I am not too psyched about dual analog control. Hopefully they do it better than Rise to Honor or Death by Degrees. The control in those games was garbage.
 

Kintaro

Worships the porcelain goddess
_dementia said:
I know development people traditionally play few to no games, but it's laughable he can't even get by on Normal.

Just because you're good at making games, doesn't mean you're any good at playing them (see; Jaffe, David). :lol
 
Prince8 said:
Well Heavenly Sword had good cutscenes, voice acting etc, but really, everything else was terrible. The gameplay was plain boring, the "shooting" parts didn't fit in (and were just terrible). As for graphics, the character models of the normal enemies looked terrible, only Nariko and other main characters looked nice. I played two hours and to be honest, if that Sony party wasn't so damn boring, I wouldn't have done the second hour.

graphically the game is stellar...actually all the boses look great...also, the environmental graphics definitely trump any other action present/future that have been revealed
 

Clevinger

Member
ZeroTolerance said:
- Games that are character and story centric are the only games that interests he.
- He thinks that the Ninja Gaiden games are extremely well made.

Wait, what? Ninja Gaiden has one of the worst game stories ever, and whose character's personalities go no further than what they look like...
 
70 million for MGS4?

Did Konami hire Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Mike Myers for voice acting?

Yeah, I'd say 1 million day one is a minimum for any game with a budget crossing even $50 million.
 

Grampasso

Member
Lightning said:
I mean, we were just getting used to 20-30 million when the next gen came around and now big games are costing double. I heard MGS4 costs 70 million. Which actually sounds ludicrous to me, but in a way it doesn’t if you factor int he MGS4 and MGS online...and the tons of cinematics and long development time...it could get up to that.

Cory just has to be kidding? MGS4 is costing Konami/Sony 70million to make? Fucking hell....
So how many copies should they sell WW to break even?
 

Prince8

Banned
nelsonroyale said:
graphically the game is stellar...actually all the boses look great...also, the environmental graphics definitely trump any other action present/future that have been revealed
Well to be honest, it's just like with Just Cause, your blinded by the overall look of the game, but when you play for an hour you're going to see that it's actually not really impressing at all, that games like Ninja Gaiden/God of War last gen had better overall character models etc.
Clevinger said:
Wait, what? Ninja Gaiden has one of the worst game stories ever, and whose character's personalities go no further than what they look like...
Ryu is God, he doesn't need to talk cheesy stuff like Dante to stand out.
 

yukoner

Member
Clevinger said:
Wait, what? Ninja Gaiden has one of the worst game stories ever, and whose character's personalities go no further than what they look like...

He said, other than Character driven story based games, the other type of games he likes are pure fighting/action, he respect NG for it's combat.
 

Onions

Member
- Games that are character and story centric are the ooooooooonly (i.e vaderoooooonly.gif)games that interests he.

this guy seems to pack a high caliber irony-cannon...

ninja gaiden is awesome, though. the balrog, redeemed!
 

Madman

Member
Next time, post the WHOLE thing. People virtually never read the actual source. When you don't post the whole thing, you get a thread like this that is FILLED with innacurate information that can be turned into "fact".
 
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