I kind of want that to happen before my kid is in college.”Ĭonsidering the prevalence of drawn-out franchises both in video games and movies nowadays, hearing this is a little surprising, but it is a welcome sentiment.
He said he wanted to be able to say “Hey man, you could probably start God of War 2018 and then play God of War: Ragnarok and feel like you’re getting the entirety of the story’. Given where the team was at and where Eric was at with what he wanted to do, I was like ‘Look I think we can actually do this in the second story 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’.”Īdditionally, he also likened the target experience to be akin to watching the Lord of the Rings box set for the first time – being able to watch all three films back-to-back in one twelve to thirteen-hour sitting. I feel like we’re asking too much to say the actual completion of that story taking that long… it just feels too long. Then if you think a third one in that same, we’re talking a span of close to fifteen years of a single story and I feel like that’s just too stretched out. 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 a close to a similar time.
“I think one of the most important reasons is the first game took five years.
