In lieu of new games, we get.. God of War III?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Sony some days. Today is one of them. Continuing their trend of not offering new first party games, they've announced God of War 3. Again. I'm almost sure this will excite some people, but honestly, Sony, where the fuck are the original games for my PS4?

What a time to be aliv……zzzzzzzz

Will cost $40, which is the insane part of this. Price was confirmed on an ongoing stream, and it's already up on Amazon for $39,99.

It will be released on July 17th, and here's the trailer.

lol, this current gen continues to be content chugging along with the most boring and safest of game releases. I'm sure this was the result of an "Oh fuck, we really don't have anything else for this year!" reaction to Uncharted being pushed back

This is really becoming a frustrating trend for sure.

This is a PS4 remaster I assume? The top of the page doesn't have the PS4 as a system for GoW 3.

"This is the definitive edition of one of last generation's classics."

Minimum development cost, low expectation of sales immediate critical approval. This is the cycle we're in, folks. Indies have to pick up the slack but, being indies, they work at their own pace and you'll only get 1-2 first-party AAA's a year. HD's kind of gutted things.

Eh, I love remasters, so this doesn't bother me. Though I think it's weird that they went for GOWIII over Ascension, just from a technical standpoint. GOWIII is the better game though, so I can't complain.

I'd be fine with rereleases if there was something - anything - in the visible future that was an honest to God new game. Dust off Crash Bandicoot. Make a chintzy little platformer with Jak and whatever. Literally anything.

It's March, what were you expecting? If Sony has anything up their sleeve they're gonna wait until E3

No GoW: Ascension, huh? Funny how that worked out.

GoW III does start out with a bang, murdering Poseiden is just awesome, that whole fight, and the 1st person. Just awesome.

It sure doesn't look remastered..

I don't know that it's accurate to say a remastered God of War III is in lieu of new games because I can't imagine there are significant resources being diverted away from other projects in favour of this. It is kind of a bummer that Sony still rely so heavily on remastered games to plug holes in their first-party lineup, though. I hope they're saving all the good stuff for E3.

Stuff like this is why I kinda don't want VR to work - it'll become the next logical step to take with this nonsense. I can see the tagline now - "Experience the intensity like never before! BE the head that Kratos chops off! God of War III HD Remaster. VR!!!! Coming soon for PS4 and Oculus Rift!"

Also, how long before publishers start trying to put out downscaled versions of the HD remaster for last gen consoles, just to see how many suckers bite on it?

@conmulligan: The fact that there are ANY resources going into this is a bit much.

*long drawn out wet fart noise*

Greatness Awaits

THE MOST EXTREME

@lawgamer: That should be a reason to look forward to VR as they will not be able to get away with doing remasters for it. I highly doubt we will see any remasters, even of first person shooters.

You know, I like God of War III a lot, but come on. This is just getting absurd at this point. They couldn't even include the first two GoWs with it?

The last week of gaming news has sucked.

Does GOW3 even need a remastering? I recall that game running and looking really great already.

@sparky_buzzsaw: Yeah, that's fair. If they're going to lean so heavily on rereleased games, there are dozens of titles I'd want them to tackle before God of War. I could maybe understand it if they had gone the Master Chief Collection route and collected the whole trilogy, but this seems like a particularly effortless port.

QTEs will be much more responsive in 1080p and 60fps...

I never played God of War III, so this is OK with me.

This generation of consoles seems to be the 'remastered' generation instead of the next generation of gaming.

That game still hold up today just fine imo. I just bought ps4 for bloodborne and p5 but looks like nothing is coming for a while after that.

No shit, I own the GoW collection on PS3, its a great collection and honestly GoW 3 looks really sharp on PS3 seems like the last thing that needed an "update".

@evilsbane: Yeah. I mean, watching the trailer for this, I think that it still looks pretty all right. But there's no way in hell I'm paying $40 to be able to play it on a PS4. Or $40 for it at all at this point. I paid my $60 on day one, and I still own that disc!

I have to be honest, I'm not sure why people are surprised. Sony was very slow on building the PS3 library. Everything they've showed before the PS4 launched made it pretty clear this was going to be another slow one. We're not even two years in. Give it another year and great games will start coming out at a good pace. In the meantime, Bloodborne seems to be the first exclusive that's going to be amazing, that's this month. We might see another one this year.

They could just put GOW3 on PS Now. Pretty obvious why it's not on there now.

It's so disappointing to see creative businesses this bereft of... creativity. It's like the video game industry's version of the reboot/remake bullshit of the modern movie industry. I imagine it has to be occasionally soul-crushing to work in those industries if you're made to just shit out remake after remake instead of being given a chance to make something new.

I guess this is what happens when the financial stakes get so high and the bosses of creative industries are just glorified accountants.

@zevvion said:

That's what people said a year ago. I think people are getting a bit wary for good reason at this point. I know that, of course, games will come eventually; but the industry DOES appear to be fundamentally changing. "Give it another year" isn't especially comforting.

Remember when video games were good?

Yes, I remember all the way back to last night when I was playing Cities: Skylines and Hotline Miami 2. Those were the days.

This is why I bought a PS4 over an Xbox One, or Wii U, to play old ass fucking games in PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL 1080p!!!(it's the only thing that truly matters in life)

PS4 is truly the best place to play PS3 games.

This is a shitty trend but to be honest I think a lot of people that didn't own PS3's would be happy to see games they missed get re-released.

I was one of those people when the PS4 came out, I never owned the PS3 and was hoping there would be collections of the games I missed.

I ended up buying a PS3 for cheap later down the line but I'm not gonna get worked up over this.

It's cliche at this point but if you don't like it then don't buy it.

I have too many new games for PS4 already and too little time to care about GoWIII (eugh). Chalk it up to me being busy, but it is what it is.

Huge Ass Rant:

Man, I hate God of War. Congrats to people that missed out on playing this for whatever reason, I guess.

Honestly both Xbox and ps4 are disappointing. The generation gap in hardware is not as big as it should be. They both lack games. Originality. I would also include Wii U because even though they have had a ton of hits so far, it's the same stuff over and over again.

This is for the players.

@geraltitude The big problem is that usually you have some decent launch games to tide you over. Last gen by this time we had Gears of War among other pretty iconic game series. I can't remember them all off the top of my head but they were pretty good entries for the launch window. This generation has not eased us into the wait required for good games. There aren't many good title to fall back on. A lot of people spent money on these consoles and are still waiting for that one big game - I still am. I own all of three games for the PS4: Destiny that it came with, InFamous and Dragon Age. I really enjoyed two of those but since then I've been waiting. I'm hoping Bloodborne will be good but if it's not.. then I get to wait another 2 months before the next big release comes along - Witcher 3 - and I actually have that ordered on PC. After the Witcher 3 the only thing I can think of is Phantom Pain all the way in septembers.

I get that games take 2-3 years to make, but we also need games to play in the meantime. They managed it last generation somehow.

@geraltitude: So then why not shore it up with forty dollar budget games, with either old or new IPs? We don't need a steady flow of AAA games, but a few indie titles a week is pretty weak. No one's saying these need to be Modern Warfare sized games.

It's just a repeat of the PS3 though. I don't want to sound like an ass, but if you didn't see this coming; you didn't follow it closely enough.

NEXT GEN!

You know I get what you're saying. You're right, these things doesn't just make themselves, they take time and that's cool. But this was not a problem last generation. 2006 and 2007 had plenty of new inventive IP's, new iterations on excisting franchises and plenty of B-list releases to hold over when releases were drying up. So what the hell happened? Did AAA game development just become so fucking bloated and financially out of control that we should be grateful if we have to wait 2, maybe 3 years before these boxes get going? How is that okay?

This reminds me, I should play GoW 2, again. On the PS2

Sure, why not. I'll take an excuse to play this game again. It also means it's one step closer to releasing an HD remaster of the first three Uncharted games, which I really want.

“We’re remastering God of War III!” is an announcement that would be merely odd, were it not emblematic of a greater trend of desperation. Alex N.

So what you are saying is Nintendo's buiness model should be called desperation?

I've never played it, so neat. However, it would be cool to get like... actual new games.

Great for the people who came from Xbox 360 to PS4 and maybe never had the chance to play any of those games. As for me i already played it on PS3, so don't see any reason why i should re buy it.