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God Of War 3 Director Stig Asmussen Explains How He Almost Accidentally Named Kratos After Himself

While visiting Respawn to learn about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Game Informer took some time to chat with Stig Asmussen about his time with God of War.

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IamTylerDurden11791d ago

I have little interest in deserters, unless of course they come back and make a Game of Gen like the recent GoW. Dr Marks, Stig, Adam Boyes are all dead to me. I kid.

CaptainIronbat1791d ago

So Hironobu Sakaguchi too and Amy Henning perhaps? Bit harsh dont you think?

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TheColbertinator1790d ago

Deserters?

He is a developer and seeks new opportunities for himself wherever they might be. Nothing wrong with that.

Additionally Stig stepped out but as we can all see after both him and Jaffe left, the God of War franchise is in good hands.

Melankolis1790d ago

Fortunately, only a few companies are affected by a person or two left (even the important ones).
- Sony Santa Monica, David Jaffe & Stig Asmussen left.
- Naughty Dog, Amy Hennig left.
- Sony, Phil Harrison left.
The companies still okay though.

UltraNova1790d ago (Edited 1790d ago )

And yet all studios made far far better games after they left... coincidence?

No single person is so important that the general direction and focus of the studio can be derailed as long as they have one.

hulk_bash19871790d ago

One of the biggest reasons I have faith that Fallen Order is gonna be is is in large part because Stig is involved. GOW3 is one of the best action games to come out of the PS3 generation.

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Blank1791d ago

This was an interesting backstory of how the names came about for the game and Kratos. Although the fact marketing can effect artistic choices irks me a bit which I assume is the norm. It makes me wonder what other artistic changes were changed in other game franchises this was a good light article.

Sirk7x1790d ago

Almost anything you've ever enjoyed as far as entertainment has had higher-ups with their hands in it. Some of the best ideas that people have ever had, that they poured their hearts into, someone told them it wasn't marketable and crushed it. Money money.

AK911791d ago

It's weird for me at this point as a fan of the GOW series I can't imagine any other name for Kratos other than well Kratos also they were really planning to call the series Dark Odyssey? That would have been so lame.

TopherMan1790d ago

Says "Sophisticated_Chap" . lol

Knightofelemia1790d ago

Glad they went with Kratos the name suits him and he looks like a Kratos. Stig sounds more like some biker name used in Sons of Anarchy.

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff21831d 5h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan14h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin12h ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_11h ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

MrNinosan8h ago

@Notelin
I am one of the few who bought Days Gone on release day and loved it completely.
However, "more online trash" is phrased like Sony has put out alot of trash online games.
We got what, 2 games? Helldivers 2 and GT7, 2 of the most sold Playstation games where both is loved by millions.

You, me and especially shinoff has no idea if Fairgames, Marathon and Concord will be trash.

Just because we (as in you and me) don't love or support online games, doesn't mean millions of other do.

And we don't know what Bend Studio is working with? We don't know if they're forced to make a online game or another amazing single player experience.

The only thing we do know is that it's not Days Gone, sadly due to poor sales the first 6 months.

shinoff21836h ago(Edited 6h ago)

More online trash wasmt meant how insee it comes across. I should've worded it different I was meaning the focus they currently have on it.

Anything online is online trash to me. How long did naughty dog spend on that dumba last of us multiplayer, how about Concord, or even the other couple we hear about. I fk with Sony because rpgs and their 1st party single player games. Been like that for years. I hate seeing them waste time, money, and talent on trash. I understand bot every game is gonna be for me but this focus they've seem to had on multiplayer is extremely disheartening. Even at the state of play the only things I was really feeling were Astrobot and silent hill 2 and I'm content with that, not everything is for me. It's just the online focus I hate. Ms bought up 3 to 4 wrpgs developers, Sony just ignores rpgs 1st party wise.

And a days gone 2 would've been much better then whatever online sht bend is working on. I do know sometimes I get very idk emotional. I do need to work on toning that down a bit lol

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-Foxtrot1d 5h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink20h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

shinoff21836h ago

I mean it's not out of the realm of possibility at this point.

Grilla14h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl52313h ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin12h ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-6411h ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga9h ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

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excaliburps15h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla14h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

derek8h ago

@Notellin, of course you'll believe an embittered ex-employee with an axe to grind because it's evil Sony he's complaining about. You guys act like days gone was this huge success and somehow Sony hates easy money a sequel would have generated. The game was mid and so was the response to it. They're still supporting the developer who is making a new ip that could be great.

shinoff21836h ago

Days gone was fantastic. I bought day one but didn't get around to it for months. When I finally did I was pissed at myself for waiting so long lol

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P_Bomb14h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing6914h ago(Edited 14h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip11h ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

-Foxtrot6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

But if it’s true what this guy says it sold better than Death Stranding

Yet that got a sequel and Kojima aside out of them both DS didn’t really NEED a sequel compared to Days Gone which ended on such a cliff hanger twist.

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Greetings from the newly minted CEO - Shams Jorjani

Operating under the username BigKahuna_AGS, Jorjani created a lengthy thread on the Helldivers subreddit to introduce himself to the community following his appointment as CEO in early May.

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Frostpunk 2 Dev Talks Creative Risks, Supply and Demand, and More

Game Rant speaks with Frostpunk 2 co-game director and design director Jakub Stokalski about everything 11 bit poured into the sequel.

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