God of War III PS3 Bound, Barlog Leaves Sony 37
Gamespot is reporting big news in the God of War world today. Fans of the series will be happy to know that the company has confirmed the next game will be released on the PlayStation 3. At the same time, the company also announced that God of War II producer Cory Barlog is no longer with SCEA. "Barlog's departure remains shrouded in mystery. So far, he has shared no information about his future plans on his personal blog, where he last posted in mid-October. His exit comes just under four months after God of War series creative director, David Jaffe announced he was leaving SCEA's employ after 14 years."
Ohh Barlog... (Score:4, Funny)
I read this as Balrog leaves Sony...
too bad, that woulda been bad-ass
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But? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sorry I just couldn't understand why GOW2 wasn't a PS3 Exclusive? It would be like Microsoft coming out with Halo 3 for the XBox.
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I don't think it makes a lot of sense to release an A class title as an exclusive for your last generation console when your current generation console has been out for six months!
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The XBox was a failed console? Sorry but that is just weird view of the world. The XBox was very popular.
I don't really agree with the idea that XBox was a failure (though for different reasons than you I suspect), but is it really that alien to you that someone might think so? Just to play devil's advocate, here are some very good reasons a person might consider it a failure:
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Only being popular in North America? North America is a HUGE market. I frankly don't think that an American made console will ever do well in Japan. The Japanese market is far more nationalistic than the US market. Heck PCs had a hard time making it in Japan. Fujitsu and a few other Japanese PC manufactures made MS-DOS but not PC compatible machines for years that dominat
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I am so sick of hearing this meme bandied about the Internet. It's frankly a little racist, if you ask me - "of course the Japanese are xenophobes!" Let me refute this bit of armchair cross cultural punditry.
I live in Japan and people like to buy quality here. Usually that is associated with a Japanese company, but not always. Apple's products, t
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PRGs are a lot more popular in Japan than the US. FPS are more popular in the US than Japan. Guess what, I am am not a huge FPS fan and I do like RPGs. My favorite games are RTS games and Flight Simulator.
You are correct that part of it is being attractive to Japanese tastes. The problem is that Japanese software companies don't really seem interested in porting to the XB
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Keep in mind that the PS2 is still way outselling the PS3.
Microsoft wanted none of that, so they burned their bridges from the start, by stopping Xbox-1 production when the 360 was released. It was probably costing them too much to source those 5-year old PC parts anyhow.
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Right, but Strategically for Sony it would be better if they had a system seller available when the system launched or early in its life, to promote adoption of the console. The PS3 has some good games now, but none that are system sellers in the way that MGS4, or God of War would be.
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I think that Microsoft stopped production of the XBox for the same reason that Nintendo stopped production of the GC. Nobody was going to buy them. The PS2 is still selling because they are still releasing games for it. People are still writing for it because the PS3 didn't fly off the selfs.
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I can tell you why... (Score:4, Insightful)
Film at 11. (Score:5, Funny)
In a related story, the sky is blue. More details as they come in.
They're taking the Barlogs to Microsoft! (Score:1)
"What did you say?"
Dialog (Score:1, Funny)
Sony: I can't let you leave.
Balrog: No! I'm leaving 4 realz!
Sony: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
*lighning bolt*
end scene
From an anonymous source... (Score:3, Funny)
What does this mean for GoW? (Score:4, Insightful)
GoW2 was even more so incredible in story, game play and just all out fun for mature people.
Taking the PS3 out of the equation (I have one) what does his departure mean for the series?
How much input did he have, how much of the game was because of him? Will his departure leave the GoW franchise an empty shell the same way When Peter Molyneax left Bullfrog and EA made a valient attempt at Dungeon Keeper 2 and Populous whatever. Ultima became a nothing when Garriot left...
People hate Sony, and Microsoft, and some cheer when good people leave those companies. But what do these departures really mean to the Game franchises we love?
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Dungeon Keeper 2 was more of a face lift, but was otherwise an excellent game and what DK1 should have been. Shame that it doesn't run on XP (for more than 5 minutes at a time anyway). Populous: The Beginning was a rather different game, but excellent on its own merits.
What did Molyneaux bestow on us in the meantime? Black and White, a virtual pet with a mediocre RTS tacked on and a control sche
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From the summary:
His exit comes just under four months after God of War series creative director, David Jaffe announced he was leaving SCEA's employ after 14 years.
So, no. They lost both it seems...
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Rumour has it that he and not Jaffe influenced GOW1 and GOW2.
I'd love for GOW3 to be kickass and I do hope it is but it sure is a shame to see this guy go if he was the primary influence.
Sony need all the support they can get right now, despite the haters - so many internet posters fail to realise, without Sony - we'd only have Microsoft (for the 'hardcore' gamers) to rely on and frankly that idea doesn't please me.
(no, I'm not a Sony fanboy, I'll be buying both consoles eventua
Why should fans be happy? (Score:2)
Why be happy about a game being released, exclusively for the most expensive console with the lowest market share?
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Besides, you're better off whining about Wii sequels. I can stand right in front of dozens of titles I want, cool accessories, etc, and have no hope of buying a Wii. This hasn't changed for about a year now. That being said, I'm not shedding any tears because the sequels to my favorite games weren't released for the Game Cube
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XBox 360 Core = $279
Wii + 1 game = $298
XBox 360 Core + 1 game = $338
XBox 360 = $349
PS3 40Gig = $399
XBox 360 + 1 game = $418
PS3 40GIG + 1 game = $458
XBox 360 Elite (with 2 games bundled) = $499
PS3 80Gig (with 1 game bundled) = $499
I'm sorry, but no matter how you try to cut that up, the price of entry to play GoW3 is a lot more with the PS3 than on anything else. Let me just show you the price of entry for every system:
Wii = $298
360 = $338
PS3 = $458
There's a $40 gap between price of entry between W
Barlog shouldnt leave sony! (Score:1)