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Sony Santa Monica Hiring For 'Large-Scale New Project'

IbizaPocholo

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God of War Ragnarok Developer Hiring For 'Large-Scale New Project'

A new job listing for Sony Santa Monica re-confirms that the God of War Ragnarok developer has a new project currently in development.
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In a recent job listing for Sony Santa Monica, the studio confirmed that a new project was already in development. The job listing is a significant one, as Sony Santa Monica is seeking a new Art Director. The Art Director position won't be working on God of War Ragnarok, however, as that position is already filled by Rafael Grassetti. Instead, the new Art Director is being brought on to help lead the development of an entirely new unannounced project.

In several instances, the Art Director job profile mentions ad "new unannounced title," a "new journey," and a "large-scale new project" at Sony Santa Monica. Obviously, the language is extremely vague regarding what that project might be, but what's significant is that it's new and yet to publicly be confirmed. As for other details about the project, all the profile says is that Santa Monica Studio builds "genre-defining games" and that the position will be helping establish style guides for "environments, characters and creatures."

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Airbus Jr

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SlimeGooGoo said:
I don't play awards, and no amount of "muh awards" will make a game fun

Also, God of War 3 was a much better game.
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As a matter of fact your opinion are meaningless to me and the rest of us as the game is generally or widely acepted as great

Anyway youre dragging this conversation into something its not supposed to be

This is SSM new project and has nothing to do with GOW

Will be great youre not coming here to shit or moving the goalpost of this article
 
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EDMIX

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SlimeGooGoo said:
I don't play awards, and no amount of "muh awards" will make a game fun

Also, God of War 3 was a much better game.
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You not thinking a game is "fun" or "better" doesn't really make it so. Thats simply your view.

If you think something is better, sure, good luck lol

But clearly this team can do those concepts well based on the sales and reception of their latest titlte, so trying to question them making a new IP is silly simply solely based on your fucking feelings.

Thats like a new Call Of Duty being announced and me saying some salt shit like "huh? woooooooowz They've didn't even managed to make a better FPS than ReSpawn or DICE, what are they even talking about broz?"

Sure, one can feel that way, buuuuuut that doesn't fucking question the team making a new IP, breaking records in sales or awards or something like that. Nothing wrong with a view man, you simply force yours to an ridiculous degree
 
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SlimySnake

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SlimeGooGoo said:
"Genre-defining games"

They've didn't even managed to make a better action game than Platinum and Capcom, what are they even talking about?
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It's an action adventure game. It was never an action only game. Literally the first game had platforming sections that were infamous for being unforgiving and downright impossible.

Action games like DMC, Bayonetta and Vanquish fall under a different category.

GOW has more in common with metroidvanias than DMC. It's like comparing RE2 to Vanquish. Makes zero sense. GOW is genre defining in ways RE4 was back in the day. They took the linear action adventure narrow corridor formula and introduced a big hub world with side quests while expanding on the metroidvania design. Action games dont typically have you rowing a boat going from island to island solving puzzles and doing side quests.

Your entire premise is flawed.
 
Kokoloko85

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Disappointing to know there still hiring for it.

I thought the whole point of Cory not directing Ragnarok was so that they was working on another project with another team.

Its been 4 years since GOW 2018, which means this project probably wont be ready till 2025-2026 at least…. Lame
 
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Vaelka

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Akuji said:
Salty
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He's not wrong tho lol, '' genre defining '' is really sniffing their own farts which is always cringe imo.
It's like that Obama meme of putting a medal on your own neck.

They really don't do anything new and unique what they do is just the same tired tropes everyone else is doing.
Even if you think they did it well it's still true.

Edit: As much as I hate current day Blizzard, Blizzard would have the right to call themselves '' genre defining '' I think that's just objectively true I don't think anyone could seriously argue against that. Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo are all genre defining IP's absolutely and they did do new things that changed the genres.

SlimySnake said:
. Action games dont typically have you rowing a boat going from island to island solving puzzles and doing side quests.
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The boat that felt incredible tacked on?
The puzzles were just generic braindead action game puzzles I mean cmon.

Y'all need to stop granting games all of these honors and awards simply because you like them.
I dunno how anyone in their right mind could look at GoW and think it's genre defining like have you played a game before or is it the only game you've ever played?

Airbus Jr said:
Gow did win 2018 goty man neither platinum or capcom did so does the previous 3 game are also legendary ips

No amount of salt from you can cover that fact
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Ah yes those highly respected awards that are taken very seriously /s.
 
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Chukhopops

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People really think GoW is on par with Platinum/From on a gameplay point of view? I liked GoW but there’s no way it matches the combat depth, enemy variety and skill ceiling that games like Astral Chain, Sekiro, Bayonetta or DMC (the Kamiya ones) had.

It’s not even a criticism of the game, it’s just that to me it doesn’t even try to compete with those.
Tiago Rodrigues said:
God of War (2018) sold better, won more GOTY awards and reviewed better than all action games from Platinum and Capcom but okay, go off lol
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You really think game journalists can appreciate a game like Bayonetta? You really think there is the same amount of marketing and brand recognition between God of War games (which exist since 2006 or something) and P* games?
 
Gaelyon

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It would be the first AAA game Santa Monica would develop outside of God of War (assuming it's not related to GoW) since about 2005. A new IP from such a talented studio is a big news for me. The creative director job will be decisive for the artistic direction and the tone of the project, so depending on who will be hired it could give a clue...
 
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Kokoloko85 said:
Disappointing to know there still hiring for it.

I thought the whole point of Cory not directing Ragnarok was so that we was working on another project with another team.

Its been 4 years since GOW 2018, which means this project probably wont be ready till 2025-2026 at least…. Lame
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Late 2024...😎
 
SSfox

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SlimeGooGoo said:
I don't play awards, and no amount of "muh awards" will make a game fun

Also, God of War 3 was a much better game.
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While GOW is one of my favorite game of all time, but i fully agree with you on awards.

Speaking about preferences, as much as I loved gow3 and i think it has the best boss fights in the saga, but as an overall game i would put it below gow, gow2, gow 2018, and also ghost of Sparta.
 
Rickyiez

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God of War only won that much accolades because it appeals more to mainstream. It’s a decent game with great presentation , but that’s about it . Casual plebs wouldn’t even bother to learn JC or learn the depth of the combat system in DMC , they rather just spam one or two buttons and feels good. Hence these games will never be as well received or as popular as Sony games.
 
Kokoloko85

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Rickyiez said:
God of War only won that much accolades because it appeals more to mainstream. It’s a decent game with great presentation , but that’s about it . Casual plebs wouldn’t even bother to learn JC or learn the depth of the combat system in DMC , they rather just spam one or two buttons and feels good. Hence these games will never be as well received or as popular as Sony games.
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Or maybe to some people God of War is just a better game in every department
 
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Topher

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SlimeGooGoo said:
I don't play awards, and no amount of "muh awards" will make a game fun

Also, God of War 3 was a much better game.
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If you are unable to realize that most find these games to be a hell of a lot of fun (thus the awards) and that your personal opinion doesn't trump that then that is your problem. Either way, why don't you post in threads of games that interest you instead of trolling this one?
 
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Tiago Rodrigues

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Chukhopops said:
You really think game journalists can appreciate a game like Bayonetta? You really think there is the same amount of marketing and brand recognition between God of War games (which exist since 2006 or something) and P* games?
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Ah yes, Bayonetta. Too hardcore for the common journalist to "get" or appreciate.
 
SSfox

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Tiago Rodrigues said:
God of War (2018) sold better, won more GOTY awards and reviewed better than all action games from Platinum and Capcom but okay, go off lol
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God of war is one of the best game ever and is legendary game, but definitely not because of awards or journalists reviews, but simply because it was legendary. Plus Players feedback matters much more than journalists or awards.

There are some good journalists, like gametrailers (now they're easy allies) or gamespot early 2000, but overall specially of nowadays Gaming Journalism stinks.
 
Topher

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Vaelka said:
He's not wrong tho lol, '' genre defining '' is really sniffing their own farts which is always cringe imo.
It's like that Obama meme of putting a medal on your own neck.

They really don't do anything new and unique what they do is just the same tired tropes everyone else is doing.
Even if you think they did it well it's still true.

Edit: As much as I hate current day Blizzard, Blizzard would have the right to call themselves '' genre defining '' I think that's just objectively true I don't think anyone could seriously argue against that. Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo are all genre defining IP's absolutely and they did do new things that changed the genres.



The boat that felt incredible tacked on?
The puzzles were just generic braindead action game puzzles I mean cmon.

Y'all need to stop granting games all of these honors and awards simply because you like them.
I dunno how anyone in their right mind could look at GoW and think it's genre defining like have you played a game before or is it the only game you've ever played?



Ah yes those highly respected awards that are taken very seriously /s.
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Imagine getting this triggered over the marketing of a job announcement.
 
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