Fans Believe God of War 2 Could Be Part of PS5 Showcase Event

"Try to calm down and keep your expectations at a realistic level."

IT'S HAPPENING BOY!!

@Octane Hello, happening boy. I'm dad.

There's a higher chance of Silent Hill than God of War being there.

Next to zero chance of this happening.

Word up atreus son

I'll be happy with just a release date and price. Anything more at this point is a bonus.

There was me hoping for a sequel to Pong. FML.

I think is a 0,01% chance, but I'll bet on those odds... it was released before Spider-Man, I believe from some interviews that the story for sequels was pretty much in place so, and as well as Spidey, the characters are already existing as some story archs, so... why not?
If they can put something like God of War on the launch windown then is pretty much game over

Cory loves to troll. I think if it was coming tonight he would have been more likely to have done nothing at all to his twitter page. But. BUT we can dream!

I’d love for this to be a thing tonight, but it probably won’t be. Maybe next year we’ll get a trailer.

Not happening tonight.

GOW is coming but just not tonight.

I'd file this in the category of: Improbable but not impossible.

If it turns out to be true I'd expect a lot of people to be disappointed with the resulting game given how long I'd expect a game of that scope to take just for voice acting and mocap, let alone adding and testing features people would consider 'next gen'. This may be my own misinterpretation of how narrative-heavy the last game was, as it's one of those games I've not played and am looking forward to cracking out via BC once I've got my PS5.

Could be a hype teaser but wouldn't expect much else

More chance of Croc remake being announced tonight than this tbh

If a launch title it would be fantastic.

And One more reason I need to keep expectations in check I can actually land a PS5 at launch.

@Agramonte LMAO!!!!! You have a better chance of winning the lotto, getting hit by lightning and marrying a supermodel all in the same day than God of War 2 being a PS5 launch title!

@theheadofabroom I think part of the "charm" of developing on the PS5 is the ability for developers to get quick turn around times. I think the plan is to make the leap less strenuous this time and to bolt things on to engines rather than re-write them from the ground up. So it depends on a number of things, how scalable is the engine Sony Santa Monica use? And what work was done on the narrative arc. In many respects the high end assets probably already exist, so if the engine is scalable and modular a new GoW in 2021 isn't utterly bonkers. Just look at the turn around Insomniac have achieved. Do I think it's likely they'll show it tonight? No actually I don't, becausr I don't think they need it, unless the PS5 is $700's.

Logo trailer hype. Just finish hard mode the other day.

Indeed Cory does like to do a lot of trolling on Twitter. Personally I don’t think it’s shown today but it definitely wouldn’t surprise me. We all know it’s in development, it just depends on how far along it is and does Sony want to reveal it now or save it for another time.

@Grindagger Why? The game has been out for over 2 years at this point, a teaser would totally be in the realm of possibility

Skip GoW2 and jump directly to GoW3

All depends on whether Sony is going to keep this presentation launch-focused or not. If not, then a big megaton "one more thing" announcement isn't beyond the realms of possibility, I think. It would certainly be very brief and be little more than a mood setter/title reveal, but still possible.

@Mafia_Man19 If you gona dream, dream big 😅 (rather win the loto, for sure)

More concern on getting the PS5 in the first place. What games they announce is irrelevant if I cant get the box

Yeah no, don't think so

Been looking forward to this presentation all day at work 😄

Oh PushSquare debunking a rumour..
Soooo...... that means there is a good chance?????
Interesting..

Well the 1st God of War was excellent came as a bolt out of the blue for a new franchise for PS4 so the sequel God of War 2 should be excellent.

Don't think this is happening lol

I would take a 10 second trailer with the logo and coming 2021 date. It would bring the house down.

Isn’t it weird the vague promise of stuff in 2-3 years is far more exciting than the stuff you’ll actually be playing in 2-3 months?

Sure there’s a moral in this somewhere....

I don't really care whether it does/doesn't get shown today, but Sony is usually good about showing us things well in advance so we know what to expect in the future.Even if God of War is shown, I don't see it being a launch window title. The last game was only like 2.5 years ago.

Spiderman came out around same time of God of War and the Spiderman game coming at launch is just an expansion more than a sequel, though not hating at all as I'm so amped for Miles Morales! However God of War was very successful and they will want to take plenty time to make sure the sequel lives up to the first game. Maybe we get it by end of 2021 but I would expect it in 2022. Only way we get another God of war around launch would be if they made a 1.5 game like Miles Morales.

If they do tease the sequel, I'd be curious to know how far through Atreus's life they skip. I kinda hate when they skip right to early adulthood. There is more story to tell about Atreus's childhood with Kratos. I don't want to just skip right to him being a full on God. I want to experience his growth during his most formative years and watch him become badass slowly. Ideally the game picks up very soon after first game, maybe a year later at most.

I doubt it, but would be pleased to see it. I hope they don’t take quite as long to move to the next mythology this time though.

@SirAngry glad to hear the leap isn't too bad from a dev POV. I guess in that case maybe, I just thought the GoW games were quite cutscene-heavy, which generally means bringing in fresh voice actors and mocap, which I'd guess has been hard to do over the course of 2020.

I'd taken the 'self contained expansion' bruhaha to be that while SM:MM is a full game, they've mostly been able to reuse existing animation and switch out textures, add extra shaders and particle effects, and tweak their pipeline to produce something of an action-heavy total conversion mod. That's not to lessen the technical achievement, but I was thinking the logistical puzzles would be very different.

Gow2 is launching after the stream tonight on PS4 then gow3 is a launch title for ps5. Word up son

no way they show GoW today. it's too soon. and they shouldn't show it. this should be about launch games and what's coming in the next 4-6 months.

Press 'cross' to doubt.

@theheadofabroom well, according to Insomniac they've completely reanimated everything for Miles Morales. But the point about reusing assets is what I was driving at. Previous gen you'd produce hi-res models, then down scale and make shadow maps etc. from the hi-res models. This gen you can pretty much chuck the hi-res models in the game as usable assets. That's a fricken game changer for the development pipeline. Realistically Sony Santa Monica could've been dual tracking their development like Insomniac did. There's already rumours that's what Sucker Punch and Guerilla were up to as early as 2016. Just saying rather than having to email high quality assets out to China or India to down res and turn into game assets, we're probably looking at most of it being in-house now. In terms of recording cut scenes... Yeah, there I'm not so hot, but Sony do have a number of impressive mocap facilities nearby, and it doesn't matter I guess when that's done, front end it or back load it, as long as you know the narrative you can work around it I think. Just to be clear though I don't think we'll see GoW2.

The last GoW was in development for 5 years. Let's say the transition from PS3 to PS4 was not that easy, and maybe development time can be reduced now from PS4 to PS5 but take in account also Corona Virus this year. Even if they started working on the sequel immediately after GoW I don't see this game realistically come out earlier than late 2022 ... At best. It's better they don't announce nothing and nobody will be disappointed. We don't need a 10sec logo trailer to know that the game is in development.

I don't think we will see GoW2 as a launch title (or launch window) but I do think we might get a teaser of things to come. It's a good way to show those interested in Sony's eco system, what it means to be part of this eco system. Yes WE all know that GoW2 is coming at some point, but confirming this for the masses would get some serious hype going. (This goes for all potential games that we know can't launch in the launch window, but might be shown nonetheless.)

@SirAngry yeah that was the standout moment for me in the UE5 demo - not sure whether that's just to do with their standard pipeline and tools though, whether down-scaling might occur for some build targets bit be much lighter weight? Looking forward to there being some finished projects based on next-gen engines so developers can give us the nitty gritty.

@theheadofabroom Well my artist friends have been creaming themselves over the quality of assets they can now use. It's actually understandable, I never thought about it this way, but rarely have got to see graphics artists work as they actually intended it to be seen. A friend said to me months ago that she'd struggled with this all her time in the industry, and it was like going into an art gallery and all the painting were smeared with Vaseline. The artists will always find ways to disappoint themselves and push too far, but I hope we do get closer to being able to realise their visions.

@SirAngry heh, just so long as we don't start needing better artists - I knew a few who junior illustrators who worried about that with the last gen, but luckily there all still working. I guess imposter syndrome is as strong for artists as it is for the rest of us.

@theheadofabroom imposter syndrome is real, I honestly don't trust people who don't have doubt, you need to be humble when working in a big team, and to constantly stay on top of things you need to have that drive to keep up to date.

@thedevilsjester you were spot on today.

2021 - if the pandemic sticks around I wouldn't be surprised to see that slip. If it had been this year is eat my hat. If it had been launch I'd knit a new hat to eat…

@Ha1frican I called it right though

@Grindagger Wait how? You you said next to zero chance and it was definitely there lol

@Ha1frican It was a logo. If that was the expectation then I'm not sure why this would even constitute as news? Everyone knows a sequel is coming. No date, no gameplay, nothing other than a mocked up motion graphics logo.

@Grindagger Which is literally what everyone here was talking about. A logo, a title, and a release window. That’s a teaser.