A Cool God Of War PS4 Feature Was Rejected From The Tomb Raider Reboot

@JustPlainLucas: If Last of Us clone is worst case scenario, ill be happy. I cant get into that game because of the setting. I hate jump scares & zombies (close enlugh to zombies), so being able to know what the fuss was all about will be cool, & in a world that I can appreciate. I understand your worries, & they are well founded. The old GoW is gone for now. I like what I hope this new one turns out to be more than I will miss the arcade like gameplay from the 1st 3 (didn't play Ascension, though I bought it. I sold it with my ps3 to get a ps4 since no backwards compatibility. RIP classic GoW....for now. Next gen will have your back, surely (or at least some of these cash soaked companies should be making some darn awesome clones of it with this hole in the marketplace for this style of game).

@zer0day: agreed, but the people he was referring to seemed to be coworkers & department heads, etc that he had tried to convince (at least from my initial reading. I'm not going back to check).

@zer0day: Perfectly said. I was thinking this while reading the article and trying to decide why this feature would matter to me.

@Bellum_Sacrum: I understand your sentiment and I'm in the same boat as you. However, there is a place for more cinematic games in the industry. As long as there are games continually being developed for each demographic, there should be no reason to place a stigma on the games that the western game industry has been adopting for the past decade. I first saw this with the first Uncharted game and was hoping for a more explorative game, like a 3D metroidvania, but I was rather disappointed and have just seen the series as a missed opportunity.

I'm not a fan of western entertainment as a whole anymore and is why I've been primarily (almost exclusively) consuming Eastern entertainment, both games and shows/movies, but I'm not going to bash the western industry and claim people are failures for what they want or like to do. As long as people aren't trying to ruin what I enjoy, I see no issues in what the western entertainment industry does or if people liking it.

Honestly, the western industry is pretty much dead to me.

@Bellum_Sacrum: Hey, thanks for sharing your opinion, interesting to read/hear. However, I have to disagree with you on two things you mentioned politely.

• First and foremost these individuals are not failures, and referring to them as such while you have no clue whatsoever of the time and passion they put into their work is, no offense, incredibly narrow-minded on your behalf. They have dedicated their time to perfecting and practicing their craft, which is a hell of a lot more than others would even dare try. Some games don't meet the public expectations, but the ones that do it do so in an exemplary way. I would suggest not jumping to criticize others work, without understanding the process and difficulties that go with it, but instead, try putting yourself in their shoes and learning something on what they are doing to construct valid reasoning for your opposition better. Or an even more preferable approach would be to support their endeavors and help them shape the games in the way the fans and public would like to see it, rather than criticize it.

• Secondly, Games are not meant to be dumbed-down interactive movies, I agree, but in no way whatsoever are games developed into what you described. Instead, they are becoming more detailed and magnified by the effect the game's story, and visuals have on our experience. Unless you're a die-hard pre-21st-century 2D game fans, which is perfectly fine, I genuinely don't see in what way the improvements in cinematography and visuals for video games can be detrimental to the industry future. In any case, it has been the push the industry needed to reach a wider audience, and it has done so quite successfully.

I honestly do value your opinion, and the time you took to write it out, but I just can't help but disagree with that point of view. Best wishes and hope you eventually manage to find something that fits your taste.

@Bellum_Sacrum: don't like beautiful graphics with a cinematic flair? sounds like you should stick to indi games then. problem solved. oh, and kirby might also be your cup of tea :D

i just hope you find something that makes you happy and less spiteful towards other gamers and the majority of developers because you have done a fine job insulting pretty well everyone in the industry.

@Bellum_Sacrum: The gaming industry being much newer than the movie industry, even scraping the surface when it comes to cinematographic quality is a big win for the medium. As long as games don't sacrifice gameplay quality in order to push forward their cinematographic creativeness, then the industry can only thrive from this.

PS: cory barlog is not a failure who wanted to be in the movie industry, he's worked all his life in gaming and made one of the industry's most successful franchises. Just cause he wants to improve the cinematography aspect of his games doesn't mean he's secretly in love with the movie industry lol.

@RaveNRolla:

It's not "no loading", that's just an addded bonus so to speak. It's the fluency of the camera, meaning it never switches between different camera angles, it controlls all the scenes from just moving the one camera shot. Here's a video that explains it better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RpwPcfhB8

@DevilStrider: Soul Reaver had few load times, but didn't have the camera style he's talking about. All the Legacy of Kain games were full of traditional cut scenes where the camera switches to pre-set angles like in a movie. It sounds like the camera he's describing is more like someone is following and just recording everything live with 1 camera, which worries me that this will be like Kratos meets Blair Witch Project.

@DevilStrider: ... no one ever said it was never done before.... :|

@DevilStrider:

Lol who acts like this wasn't done before? They just say it's a cool feature...