Cory Barlog Continues to tease Ragnarok

[LED]

I bet that there are problems in GOWR's development, they’ve been eerily quiet on it, either that or it’s just Sony's extreme fixation on winning GOTY awards & getting as far away from Elden Ring’s hype as possible, they're meaningless to me as a costumer, Elden Ring got those GOTY awards on-lock this year, so they better give up on that front, I know it means the world for these companies, look at how ER surpassed Bandai’s sales expectations because of the critical acclaim it got, scored a 97 on Metacritic, the hype for it is too great.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

I bet that there are problems in GOWR's development, they’ve been eerily quiet on it, either that or it’s just Sony's extreme fixation on winning GOTY awards & getting as far away from Elden Ring’s hype as possible, they're meaningless to me as a costumer, Elden Ring got those GOTY awards on-lock this year, so they better give up on that front, I know it means the world for these companies, look at how ER surpassed Bandai’s sales expectations because of the critical acclaim it got, scored a 97 on Metacritic, the hype for it is too great.

I do remember people saying the same thing when Red Dead Redemption 2 scored a 97

 

[Swolf712]

I bet that there are problems in GOWR's development, they’ve been eerily quiet on it, either that or it’s just Sony's extreme fixation on winning GOTY awards & getting as far away from Elden Ring’s hype as possible, they're meaningless to me as a costumer, Elden Ring got those GOTY awards on-lock this year, so they better give up on that front, I know it means the world for these companies, look at how ER surpassed Bandai’s sales expectations because of the critical acclaim it got, scored a 97 on Metacritic, the hype for it is too great.

I doubt they're gonna potentially hurt their financial forecasts for the quarter Ragnarok was due out in just to "duck" Elden Ring in a few GOTY Award Lists. I mean by this logic, they may as well not bother next year either what with BOTW2 dropping, right?

If it wins, so much the better, but SIE is a business first and foremost. They're gonna drop it when it makes the most sense for them and their product.

EDIT: And yes, we know there were development issues. Namely, Christopher Judge requiring some pretty significant surgery setting development back by a good bit, plus COVID. No sense wringing our hands about it though, she'll come when she comes.

 

[LED]

I do remember people saying the same thing when Red Dead Redemption 2 scored a 97

Well it’s different now tbh, RDR2 was just an evolution of RDR1, GOW 2018 reinvented itself from its predecessors, it had an actual impact, GOWR I suspect won’t do much of that as it’ll just be the continuation of 2018, which isn’t bad at all, I’m sure it’ll be a phenomenal game, whereas with Elden Ring, it actually made a huge impact, a new IP, pushing the open-world genre forward, a complete departure from FROM’s previous Soulsborne games, I strongly think Elden Ring will be the measuring stick for open-world design from now on, other developers will be deeply analyzing it.

 

[LED]

I doubt they're gonna potentially hurt their financial forecasts for the quarter Ragnarok was due out in just to "duck" Elden Ring in a few GOTY Award Lists. I mean by this logic, they may as well not bother next year either what with BOTW2 dropping, right?

If it wins, so much the better, but SIE is a business first and foremost. They're gonna drop it when it makes the most sense for them and their product.

EDIT: And yes, we know there were development issues. Namely, Christopher Judge requiring some pretty significant surgery setting development back by a good bit, plus COVID. No sense wringing our hands about it though, she'll come when she comes.

Yeah that makes sense honestly, they’ve been this quiet with TLOU 2 beforehand.

 

[Dr Bass]

Well it’s different now tbh, RDR2 was just an evolution of RDR1, GOW 2018 reinvented itself from its predecessors, it had an actual impact, GOWR I suspect won’t do much of that as it’ll just be the continuation of 2018, which isn’t bad at all, I’m sure it’ll be a phenomenal game, whereas with Elden Ring, it actually made a huge impact, a new IP, pushing the open-world genre forward, a complete departure from FROM’s previous Soulsborne games, I strongly think Elden Ring will be the measuring stick for open-world design from now on, other developers will be deeply analyzing it.

Totally off topic on this one but ... why? I can't think of a single new thing it did for open world design. Great game but pretty basic in that sense. It's literally travel from point A to B via foot, horse, or grace. Maybe could continue this in the official ER topic ...

 

[ParaSeoul]

I'm thinking they delayed the announcement just because of the snitch leaks.

 

[ParaSeoul]

So this guy is either a loser who has nothing else going or has some kind of cushy job where he can actually just make calls like that

 

[Yobo]

Totally off topic on this one but ... why? I can't think of a single new thing it did for open world design. Great game but pretty basic in that sense. It's literally travel from point A to B via foot, horse, or grace. Maybe could continue this in the official ER topic ...

Nothing new, just taking to a new tier of quality

 

[Darth Vader]

Well it’s different now tbh, RDR2 was just an evolution of RDR1, GOW 2018 reinvented itself from its predecessors, it had an actual impact, GOWR I suspect won’t do much of that as it’ll just be the continuation of 2018, which isn’t bad at all, I’m sure it’ll be a phenomenal game, whereas with Elden Ring, it actually made a huge impact, a new IP, pushing the open-world genre forward, a complete departure from FROM’s previous Soulsborne games, I strongly think Elden Ring will be the measuring stick for open-world design from now on, other developers will be deeply analyzing it.

How did elden ring push the open world genre forward? It's a souls game in an open world setting. Nothing new there.

 

[Deleted member 131]

Likely everything comes out today anyhow btw as it seems the release date has been circulating

Would actually be funny if it was indeed a mole hunt and The Snitch had been given wrong info

 

[ParaSeoul]

How did elden ring push the open world genre forward? It's a souls game in an open world setting. Nothing new there.

And that actually ends up making the game a little too. I like open world games when done right but ER has pretty much all the open world issues the genre normally has. Don't know how its getting that much praise. Most people just seem to be comparing it to the worst offenders of the genres and claiming its a big leap.

 

[ParaSeoul]

Likely everything comes out today anyhow btw as it seems the release date has been circulating

Would actually be funny if it was indeed a mole hunt and The Snitch had been given wrong info

What even are the likely theories on who he is?

 

[Darth Vader]

What even are the likely theories on who he is?

There's rumors he's a Youtube employee that has access to videos uploaded ahead of time.

 

[Deleted member 131]

What even are the likely theories on who he is?

Someone working for YouTube after these videos get uploaded

 

[Three]

As someone who's eager for the game I'd hate to see a delay but to be honest from a business perspective a delay might make some sense too. PS5 sales seem to promote game sales and the PS4 install base seems to be having little effect. So with that in mind what would you do? Sell after Christmas when install base is high and steal some of the other competing releases thunder or just before Christmas sold as a possible pack in for those buying a PS5, but then be competing with TLOU1/COD?

I hope it's the latter with TLOU1 being a possible pack in (price of console + price of game) but what do Sony have planned for H1 2023? Is spiderman 2 planned for H2, is it set to even make 2023?

 

[Theap99]

This is getting fucking ridiculous

 

[ethomaz]

So this guy is either a loser who has nothing else going or has some kind of cushy job where he can actually just make calls like that

Well his Job is basically the same as Kojima.
He is God of War’s creative director and writer.

 

[Cragarmi]

This is why I don't like leaks, when they don't pan out the fan base just gets

 

[Sharinghack]

Well Sony since TLOU2 leaks really tightened up. Those really hurt and created a wave of hate surrounding the game.