Why do companies KEEP thinking that copying a popular video game is going to make your game popular

why do companies KEEP thinking that copying a popular video game is going to make your game popular
or that it should become the standard of the gaming industry

with the succes of TLoU it seems sony wants to focus on 'deep' and 'emotional' storylines because they think that's what sells now
almost all of their E3 was filled with story-heavy games and I can tell you right now more than half of the people that watched the show already forgot the names of these 'games' and that their release will be a complete flop

but the worst part is that sony actually thinks that putting this trend in a fucking GoW game is a good idea
dude, let's turn kratos, a guy who is always pissed off while mindlessy slaughtering hundreds of mythological creatures into a father figure with some kind of deep backstory
WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING
how can you possibly think the GoW fanbase would want to play this?
Why are you so fucking retarded sony?

If the kid dies early on it could be salvaged, otherwise I'm as excited for this one as I have been for most of the other ones which is not very

But didn't you know that The Last of Us with its depiction of parent-child relationships was declared the Citizen Kane of Gaming?

Citizen kane was not praised for its story.

>Le spartan rage

>Not realizing you're gonna end up playing as the kid

>Kratos tells the kid how to use the bow
>Bow knowledge gained
>Kid notices the tracks on the ground
>Tracking knowledge gained

It's obvious

Yeah, i have to agree with user: it looks more like a rite of passing the torch from Kratos to the new protagonist. We'll see.

Ssssssh, we just wanna get mad over our assumptions.
Don't ruin it.

how is that a good thing?

Would be so much better if all the xp shit was a red herring and the kid does die and Kratos has a justified rampage

>why do companies KEEP thinking that copying a popular video game is going to make your game popular
Because it's proven that it works?

He's being a passive aggressive faggot. Obviously. Are you retarded?

I liked TLoU

>GoW fanbase
The casuals that couldn't get into DMC and just want to mash square and see gore onscreen.
A joke since 2005.

Yes, why wouldn't Sony Santa Monica make a game similar to the Souls franchise and the Witcher, two of the most popular fantasy franchises of the last two generations?

Ironically the God of War fans are the very ones that always argued that Kratos is more nuanced than people think.

It doesn't mean anything.
All we've been introduced to is the new setting and characters.

Nothing at all to get pissy about, as they've made it obvious the Kratos gameplay is temporary.

i am sorry but gameplay looks slow and boring
>le forced walking and boring exposition
>le last of us
>le spartan rage
>le walking
>le no blood
>Le generic enemies
>le resident evil 6 camera

how do you fuck up this awesome concept? Just let me kill all those fagots of Norse Gods....Who want to play Last of Us with Norse mythology?

> more than half of the people that watched the show already forgot the names of these 'games'

You are actually right on this one. With all these third-person story-driven action/adventure games set in mountainy regions it's hard to tell anymore what's what.

This video games as art thing is all a marketing ruse.

That kid will die, triggering Kratos's thirst for revenge.

Nothing emotional or deep about a stupid and predictable revenge story like that.

What you SHOULD be pissed about is that Sony has probably removed the titties. There will definitely be no titties in this game just when technology is catching up to photorealistic spank bank material.

GOD OF SKYRIM
i just want to climb that mountain!

Still a fun game, homo

Fuck you I want to play Dad of War

implying GoW was ever original to begin with
implying you really want more of the same
implying you wouldnt have complained no matter what they did
implying you know shit about the game and that the whole game will be like what they showed that might be just a prologue

There's a reason Bayonetta copied GoW

>New Norse setting
>Kratos is older and slower
>Teaching a kid how to survive and fight
>All relevant gameplay/story/xp-gain is related to the kid
>Kratos is still Greek themed (Spartan Rage)
>Kid is Norse themed
>New God of War on a new generation of consoles and fans

Yeah, Kratos is gonna kick the bucket.
All gameplay relevant to him is just used as a set-up, not at all indicative of actual gameplay.

Shit move, as I wanted to see actual GoW gameplay, assholes.

That's still a problem, I don't want to play as a bitch kid.

It really, really irked me that the kid kept calling his father "Sir". That's so out of place and immersion breaking.

Other than that it looked okay, I guess. I'm not interested but I'm sure a lot of people will like it.

Little kids in games and movies are always the worst.

also irl

>Not wanting to be DAD OF WAR
>Not passing on your knowledge to your first born son
>Not wanting to make him a man

all kids should call their fathers the Sir

>It really, really irked me that the kid kept calling his father "Sir". That's so out of place and immersion breaking.
No it isn't. Not anymore than the fact they're speaking English.

Bet you're the kind of faggots that also complained RE7 looks too much like the cancelled PT.

We know nothing about the game. This could be just a tutorial setpiece not indicative of the game, or could be changed entirely. There was no release date or anything announced so it's likely still in development and could undergo changes. Stop trying to predict what a game is going to be like based on a 5-7 minute trailer.

Do we actually know if he's his father though

MAYBE
ITS NOT HIS FATHER????????

>DUDE THE KID IS PISSING OFF KRATOS SO HIS RAGE METER IS RISING BUT HE REALIZE HOW SILLY HE IS SO METTER START GOING DOWN
>LOL SO ADORABLE, KRATOS IS SUCH A SWEETIE XD XD XD XD

I hate gaming in current year

GoW is actually interesting now and retards like you are mad about it. Fuck off

>GoWfag thinks MGSV was a cripple escape-from-hospital simulator
Fuck off retard.

Hope Kratos is killed by Thor or Odin and then the kid years later becomes an angry asshole like his dad. You know you want it.

first of all he isnt Kratos... he cant be. That just doesnt make any sense. This is a reboot so why would a Spartan called Kratos be in Sweden with a kid?
And no he isnt going to kick a bucket because its too creative and bold.. Its more interesting to just copy Last of Us concept.

We're probably gonna have a time skip and he's not gonna be a bitch kid but a bitch adult

Is this bait? Strict fathers make their kids call them "sir" all the time, or they used to at least

You sound like you've either never played GoW 3, or are still in puberty.

...

>American traditions

Speak for yourself. I played a shitload of both GoW and DMC and I'll be glad if the next game is good,

>previous GoW game was shown off by Kratos breaking the skull open of an elephant man, stabbing his brain then double jumping away

>the next GoW is slower than For Honor

>people are actually happy because "mature storytelling in interactive medium ludonarrative dissonance more zombies pls

Will this war on masculinity ever end?

it'll sell the best and review better than any other GoW. Just watch.

>MGSV flashback

News Flash for you my dear faggot. If it looks and smell like a shit. Its going to be shit. You dont create this much from resources just to tease fans. Everything shown is in the game and it looks and feels terrible.

Wait, so is the kid his? Or did Kratos just get with his mother? I know the kid calls him father but a lot of kids do that to stepfathers. The way that he talks to him sounds like he tries to disassociate a bit. When the new stuff leaked a while back I didn't think that they were gonna stick a kid with him, especially seeing how what happened to his Greek wife and child was a major point of his character.

Yes kid called him father when he unleashed spartan's rage.

>uses spartan rage
>can't be Kratos

People love open world sandbox with crafting and pointless rpg elements

It's the single most mindnumbing genre out there

or an edgy donte clone teenager
which actually seems pretty likely

>father
That's just his accent, he actually said "mom's husband"

>they think that's what sells now
but TLoU did sell well and they got high praise for it. you cant blame them for trying

and what do you know, the actual game ws shit too
your point?

> being a shit kid and disrespecting your parents
I'm not American and I called my and mother the equivalent of Sir and Madam when I was a brat.

GoW os more popular than TLoU though.

I think its neat, not enough dads in vidya

Why are you pretending that this is anything new? That's how the Jews of the corporate world see things. There's no such thing to them as creative expression or innovation because it's seen as too risky an investment. So everything that gets the OK has to follow a formula that has been proven to be profitable in the past.

People are happy because they're trying something within the IP that's different instead of just making more of the same. It's only shitty western games that suffer from this lack of innovation between titles.

You play any GoW you've played them all, any CoD or BF you've played them all, any Halo you've played them all, any assassin's creed you've played them all, etc. Japan on the other hand has drastic changes from game to game in most franchises. Meanwhile in the west you get more variance in gameplay in fucking Madden year to year than you do in almost anything else.

It's not surprising people are happy to see a game in a series actually be more than identical to it's first release after a billion releases.

This.

Now THAT would be a good way to pull the rug out from under your feet.

>parents are doting
FUCKING AMERICANS
>parents are strict
FUCKING AMERICANS

>he doesn't get the metaphor

Kratos represents the hero figure of Greco-Roman mythology, he's an old and lurking figure here. The son will be the main protagonist of the game and represent the hero figure of Germanic-Celtic-Norse mythology, you'll be fighting shit like Odin, trolls, valkyries, etc.

I seriously doubt it's going to be a prolonged escort mission.

fact that he uses spartan rage in sweden is the most retarded things i have seen in years.
Also lets replace qte with pressing r3+l3 and then watch him struggle to kill some larger enemies.

This.

Citizen Kane was praised for it's cinematography- the plot was kind of an after-thought.

Why couldn't the "journalists" who gave TLOU such a title do a quick Wikipedia search to find that out?

A lot of the people making these games are middle aged men themselves, trying to relate to their families. I don't blame them for writing stories like this and wanting to express them.

And what innovations did Tlou do?

The last game like God of War was Bayonetta , two years ago, on a console that barely anyone owns

Games like the new God of War come out every month

So yes, I want "more of the same" instead of them trying to be "unique"

Why not just call them Mum and Dad? Don't you love your parents? Don't your parents love you enough to encourage it? Were you adopted? Do you live in a "my wife's son" scenario?

Not him, but I think you missed the point of the post.

*Bayonetta 2

>not calling your father GOD and KING

Britcuckistan, everybody

Him being in Sweden doesn't suddenly mean he isn't from Sparta.
We have no idea how thay section controls and if it did take complete control away it could very well just be a tutorial thing so I'll wait before I judge that completely.

if you want something different then create something different. You dint take hack and slash franchise about killing gods and change it to hunting dears with a bow.

When Naughty Dogs wanted to change gameplay they created the Last of Us. They didn't call it Uncharted reboot. Faggot

I wasn't referring to MGSV so I have no idea what you're talking about. They made ascension 4-something years ago and it got lukewarm responses other than it being the same God of War. I'm personally excited to see how they'll mix it up even if it turns out to be shit like you supposedly think it will be based on again, a 5-7 minute trailer of a game that is still in development.

I'm not British.

It's just good parenting, I guess. They didn't stop me from calling them mom and dad too, user.

> select all images with sandwiches

>Not respecting your daddy as your superior who is better than you in every way possible and trying to pass on his knowledge

Angry Kratos got old anyway. I hope he will be a calm Dad most of the game.

>games in the same series are all similar to each other
Can someone please explain why this is a bad thing

I was watching this reveal next to a giant God of War fan. He was fucking excited. I thought it looked fun too. I know that this is the wrong place to enjoy things, but fuck you.

not a red blooded American, close enough

It's fucking 2016

Think he's the step-father but has feelings for the son but feels guilty about replacing his own family hence why at the end he goes to put a hand on the kids shoulder then decides to pull the knife out instead.

Ascension got lukewarm response because it wasn't polished with almost broken controls and camera. Also recycled story of previous games.. They wanted mulitplayer but single player was forced in.

I don't get you people. You make it sound like they made him into some kind of weird pussified "my wife's son" fag. None of the dialogue or interactions in the trailer suggest this. What is the problem with actually giving some characterization beyond GGGRRAHAHH I'M SO FULL OF RAGE I NEED TO LITERALLY MURDER THE SUN!!

He's gonna grow up. Kratos dies and you play as Kratos son.

>Why do companies use the past to try to model the future?

Because that's how the human brain works?

>a tutorial setpiece not indicative of the game

So a waste of time? What the fuck is the point of a tutorial which doesn't teach you about how the game is going to work?

I'm Australian.

I call my parents cunts. At least they love me.

Is there any implication that Kratos is impotent? I see no reason to believe that he isn't raising his own son here.

No? He canonically had a child before this one.

Out of all the franchises you could make into a cinematic experience and you assholes picked God of War? The most mindless button-mashing action-filled slaughtermess in the world?

Admit it, Sony ONLY picked it because 1. The brand sells and B. Making an actual God of War would require effort.

This

I hope in DMC5 Dante has to go through midlife crisis and the player has to make him walk to the pub to get drunk, then hunt deer and zombies on the way home

In fact, why not have Lara Croft get breast cancer in the next game?

because that's what kratos was? You can't suddenly turn a raging maniac who slaughters millions for selfish goals into a caring and loving father
it's just forced, retarded and it comes of as a cheap cash-in on TLoU hype

>Out of all the franchises you could make into a cinematic experience and you assholes picked God of War?
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The GoW series is a deep, emotional storyline with a father figure protagonist you fucking autist

I wouldn't exactly call him caring. That "hover hand" at the end really nailed how that kind of character should act imo