This year's TGA Best Game of the Year has been announced. Elden Ferry won the championship with a relatively large advantage, and of course, it also won four awards, including Best Role Playing, Best Art Director.
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On the contrary, although God of War 5, which was released in November this year, won five awards, it obviously failed in the competition.
More media claim that God of War 5's failure lies in the late release date.
Indeed, the time limit is an extremely important factor, which has made the discussion of Elden Fargo, the promotion of player 2 creations, game playability development, plot mining, etc. have been put into play. In other words, over the past year, Elden Fargo has matured and is waiting to be selected by various awards. Is
God of War 5 really missing the opportunity to fight for the best game? If so, then God of War 5 can be delayed for about two months to compete for the second year's annual game, but Sony and Santa Monica do not have such a choice. The reason why
God of War 5 will not be delayed or released early may be very simple, it is because of money. Sony will not compete for the best game title with Elden Ferry in advance for the sake of the best game, nor will it delay the popularity of two months or affect the reputation due to the delay in tickets. From the perspective of the product, God of War 5 chose the best time to sell.
Similarly, many industry insiders knew after the launch of Elden Ferry that God of War 5 had very little chance of winning, so there was no need to arrange time to sacrifice profits to touch.
First of all, completing the Elden Farring is a hexagonal warrior game that integrates art, music, plot rendering, freedom, action and one. The "overdifficult" that might have been criticized has also been softened, leaving only a problem of "mostly unsatisfactory endings". It may be compensated by DLC in the future.
In contrast, God of War 5 is not considered a sufficiently phenomenal game. First of all, the open world claimed by Santa Monica is not open enough, the overall plot connection is still linear, the types of weapons and characters are fixed, and the side plot is still linear, with very low freedom, which is more like a mythical version of the mysterious sea.
Secondly, the story line of the God of War and the basic requirements of the previous work are high, which is a double-edged sword. Immortal fans who follow the story will hardly lose their fans, but for this reason, it is not enough for new players to just complete God of War 4, which is a relatively high cost.
Third, innovation is not enough. The reason why God of War 4 can dominate the game in 2018 is not only the reason why the offensive people is "not strong that year" (actually, I think God of War 4 is not as good as Assassin's Creed, it's not wrong to just send it to him.), it mainly relies on a transformation and its success label. The transformation here of course includes the transformation of gameplay and the transformation of Kui Ye's personality.
In fact, in the process of 3-4, the transformation of God of War lost a considerable number of fans. After all, the switching of perspectives and the changes in the game core (strongly attractive points) have discouraged many players who were originally expecting it, but the relatively successful transformation has made most players forgive it, even if it loses the iconic perspective, iconic decryption, iconic violence, iconic size gap, iconic repetition scene utilization, iconic mechanism, and iconic light and shadow special effects.
But God of War 4-5 did not add enough cores to replace everything it lost. The emotional narrative of father and son, and the growth chicken soup could undoubtedly not satisfy the original fans' desire for blood and madness. Kui Ye, who was entangled in emotions and interpersonal relationships, also made people unable to sustain after the massacre of God of War 3.
There is no doubt that God of War 4 and 5 tell a good story, which can be regarded as a masterpiece. But when it is named the God of War, it becomes inappropriate.
In other words, God of War 5 hopes to influence more fans with the name of a "good game", and no longer force us to involuntarily fall in love with it like a "God of War".
When such a war god stands in front of the faded person again, it is a little unsustainable. So, is that war god dead?
