The title is set a few years after the events of the last game, with the freezing winds of Fimbulwinter having come to Midgard.

Sony released the first look at God of War Ragnarök gameplay last week.

“So, to be able to say you could probably start God of War 2018 and then play God of War Ragnarök and feel like you’re getting the entirety of the story, and I kind of want that to happen maybe before my kid is in college”. Notice: To display this embed please allow the use of Functional Cookies in Cookie Preferences.īarlog added: “Being able to kind of condense it and feel like, you know, that experience I had when I got the extended edition box set of The Lord of the Rings, and I was able to say wow, I can sit down and have 13.5 hours of this experience playing them one after another back to back, and I just thought that was fantastic, amazing. “And we could make it an ocean and make those ripples go for thousands of miles, but is that necessary and is that beneficial, or are we feeling like it’s just spreading it too far apart, the ripples get too far apart, and you sort of lose the plot a little bit”. “Because most of what we were trying to do from the beginning was to tell something about Kratos and Atreus, that the core of the story’s engine is really the relationship between these two characters and the complexity radiates out like ripples in a pond.

He added: “I feel like we’re asking too much, to say the actual completion of that story taking that long just feels too long, and given sort of where the team was at and where Erik was at with what he wanted to do, I was like look, I think we can actually do this in the second story. “I think one of the most important reasons is the first game took five years, the second game, I don’t know how long it’s going to take but I’m just going to throw out that it’s going to take close to a similar time to do this, right, and then if you think, wow a third one in that same, we’re talking like a span of close to 15 years of a single story and I feel like that’s just too stretched out.” Speaking to YouTube channel Kaptain Kuba about the decision to wrap up the Norse story in two games, Barlog explained Santa Monica Studio didn’t want players to have wait 15 years to experience a trilogy.

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