Jeff Grubb: Greek God of War game internally delayed to 2026
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SJRB
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vaibhavpisal
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2026 tentpole quota is met.
Giallo Corsa
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Is this the supposed 2.5D one ?
Kacho
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The one he talked about last month. He's trying to save face because it was MIA during Sony's showcase.
Mibu no ookami
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With delays to the TV show, I'm not surprised that we wouldn't get something this year even with the anniversary.
They haven't even cast a Kratos yet.
kpopSuperstar
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Jeff Grubb announce upcoming announcement and delay before anyone even heard about it. What a fuck is this shit.
Oh, the "small in scale" one, was it? Which coming from GOW18, it's pretty disappointing, so hope SSM isn't wasting time with a small game from the overused greek mythos
Kacho
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Yeah, Tom Henderson said it was a 2.5D/metroidvania game.
Back in February Grubb said Fairgames was delayed internally, which seems legit
AmuroChan
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It's the perfect cover because it absolves them of any accountability when they're wrong.
mckmas8808
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It's clear to me and everyone else that Jeff Grubb has insiders. But yeah.............this one seems like a "I messed up, so I'll change the story" going on.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeah, Tom Henderson said it was a 2.5D/metroidvania game.
Back in February Grubb said Fairgames was delayed internally, which seems legit
Yeah, he's been pretty consistent. Some folks just hate him out of principal, I guess.
Bernardougf
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Not announced vaporware cant be delayed
Punished Miku
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I'd be down for a 2.5 D game. I'm pretty tired of God of War at this point, but any bigger budget 2.5D game is welcome.
It could have been delayed for all we know. Going off the Marathon delay they seem to keep these things pretty closely guarded even from staff and probably updated projections around their business meeting. Assuming any of this is real.
It could have been delayed for all we know. Going off the Marathon delay they seem to keep these things pretty closely guarded even from staff and probably updated projections around their business meeting. Assuming any of this is real.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
You trying too hard my boy!
same
Bernardougf
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Lol better than spending time on this current dogshit dad of war they are now.
He always was a Dad of War, the whole point of the greek games was trying to revert/undo/erase what he did to his daughter and wife
Millennial/GenZ logic: Kratos tries to be a father to his son: "dogshit/weak/gaaaay"
Fbh
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Still sort of interested in seeing this. Hopefully it's real.
Yes because those Millenials grew up with the badass Kratos hunting down gods on a brutal quest for revenge instead of the Kratos that constantly interrupts the actual gameplay to walk and talk to his annoying son about how fighting and war are bad and they shouldn't fight the gods...which might be an interesting approach for a book or movie but doesn't make for compelling gaming IMO.
He always was a Dad of War, the whole point of the greek games was trying to revert/undo/erase what he did to his daughter and wife
Millennial/GenZ logic: Kratos tries to be a father to his son: "dogshit/weak/gaaaay"
Yes because those Millenials grew up with the badass Kratos hunting down gods on a brutal quest for revenge instead of the Kratos that constantly interrupts the actual gameplay to walk and talk to his annoying son about how fighting and war are bad and they shouldn't fight the gods...which might be an interesting approach for a book or movie but doesn't make for compelling gaming IMO.
hououinkyouma00
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Is this the one that is supposed to be 2D?
If so I could care less. I want a real GoW back in ancient Greece.
If so I could care less. I want a real GoW back in ancient Greece.
Little Mac
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Judge Magister
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2.5D side-scrolling action-adventure metroidvania like POP The Lost Crown.
I also miss old GoW but i doubt they'll ever bring it back.
rabbity-thing
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Greek? Why?
Go to Egypt.
..... or israel
Go to Egypt.
..... or israel
__SteakDeck__
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You forgot Marvel Tokon and potentially Wolverine.
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Evil Calvin
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Don't......think.....it was ever supposed to come out in 2025
Physiognomonics
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Also The last game by Barlog was in 2018. More than 7 years ago. What's happening here?
For reference GoW 2018 took 5 years.
For reference GoW 2018 took 5 years.
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L*][*N*K
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The leak suggests it is a 2D Metroidvania staring Demos, Poor GTA 6
Angry_Megalodon
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They will show some goofy artwork and six months after, cancel it.
Topher
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Jeff Grubb is Sony's showcase announcer at this point
Varteras
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Which is wild to me. The answer has been there the whole time.
"SAY ZEUS AGAIN! SAY! ZEUS! AGAIN!"
"I'm killin the gods, muthafucka!"
StreetsofBeige
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Dont think this 2.5D game was ever supposed to release in 2025 unless Sony wanted to do a last minute stealth trailer and launch. Year is already half over.
simpatico
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Oblivion success while being dog shit will inspire many more stealth drops. There's no time to deconstruct the previews and find out why you shouldn't buy it.
How many more copies of Veilguard and AC Shadows would have sold with a stealth drop? I think a whole lot. Imagine if they stealth dropped Marathon. Millions of copies would have sold before anyone figured out it was trash.
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nial
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"Every game must be a system seller"
I didn't know God of War 2018 was developed by a single person.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
Not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying that every game must actually fulfill a clear purpose.
PS understood this last gen: First, Best or Must.
This satisfies none of those requirements, and doesn't make any sense beyond that. There are plenty of sidescrollers on the market that suit much better than God of War. There's a new Shinobi coming, a new 2D Ninja Gaiden, Silksong, Bloodstained 2, Planet of Lana 2, etc. And that's just the major stuff. SOPs and other events are filled to bursting with a bunch of shovelware in the same vein.
The vast majority of God of War fans are not ones to play this or, like most fans of the genre, already have more than enough options from more suited franchises and experienced teams to choose from. It's no less ridiculous than the idea of making a live service multiplayer title with the IP was.
Whether you like to admit it or not, there is a lack of system sellers for the PS5. We already have lower tier supplementals like Returnal, upcoming Saros, Rift Apart, Astro Bot, the final one being the most successful.
SSM should not be spending precious time and resource doing something that will absolutely not do well for PS.
Generic
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I want!
nial
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Most of your post is the result of the assumption of SMS being the core developer of the game, they're not, their role on the project is, at most, a tier above their old production work on externally-developed titles (God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Journey, The Unfinished Swan, The Order: 1886, Bound, etc.).
'First, Best or Must' is an interesting philosophy, but I question how much Sony really applied it in the past. Even with the big stuff, how was something like Killzone first, best or must for anything?
I don't see the lack of systems sellers on PS5, if anything, Sony provided big guns early on a generation that had already established their dominant position from the beginning, from a historically third-party driven ecosystem.
Insanemaelstrom
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Next year, the same leakers:
Greek god of war game internally cancelled
JK
Greek god of war game internally cancelled
JK
FalsettoVibe
Member
Summed up for everyone.
ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
We don't know for sure, all that's been said is that SSM is supervising the project. But even if it's limited to a set of consultants from SSM, it's still too much a waste of resource/time from them, and too much brand capital from PlayStation overall.
So the FBM condition was set by Shawn Layden in the PS4 gen. I'm not sure about the specific year. Earliest would be 2014, latest would be 2018. But if not the explicit policy, very similar tenets had been running through the organization as soon as the PS4 gen started.
'First, best, and must': PlayStation boss Shawn Layden shares the secret recipe behind Sony’s global gaming empire
"At its heart, game production is a creative activity. And as a creative activity, it really comes down to the people behind the project."
www.businessinsider.com
As an aside, I like this quote. Sony seems to have forgotten:
Since we only code to one platform, we really want to be the leader in showing everything that platform can deliver. We don't have to make choices to create technologies which will run across many different target technologies. We just lean into the PlayStation thing solely. And it allows us to focus our attentions there.
Edit: Thinking on it some more
nial
, Killzone is a pretty interesting case. It came around at the point when Call of Duty was perhaps the prime driver of the 7th game industry boom. The "must" in that was felt by a lot of studios/publishers. "We must have a FPS franchise that acts as a direct competitor to CoD, or at least rides the wave."
It's the same reason so many smaller studios try to copy-paste the Soulsborne formula. Frankly, you can argue it's the whole reason Sony pursued the live service agenda. "We must have a recurring revenue game".
I give them more grace for making this "we must jump on the supposed bandwagon" mistake in the mid-late 2000s than I do now; because that was a mistake, and they should've learned the lesson.
Shuhei was made head of PS Studios in '08 and greenlit the Demon's Souls, Puppeteers etc probably as the "Firsts"/quirky titles. He has literally explained that Sony wasn't primarily trying to maximize sales with every game, but to make PS holistically appealing as a platform. Ultimately, that's what FBM is about. Layden just made it explicit.
The Must/Best games for PS first party imo are the cutting edge AAA action-adventure games of many kinds the brand is identified for. That's what they're best at and the rest is largely satisfied by 3rd party.
All of those big guns we're cross gen though, which was a very big long term mistake. Other than that, each of those big guns were, frankly, underwhelming on a creative level.
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