Some of you might have already heard about this, but the new God of War will have no camera cuts during the entire game. It's all shot in one long take, which is mighty impressive. This also means that cinematic scenes and gameplay will always perfectly blend into eachother.
Now the director talked a bit more about this bold decision and how they are going to realize it:
Barlog: The aspiration when I got back was to tell a much more personal story. God of War is traditionally known for these cinematic, pull back cameras, which I think are fantastic. But trying to get in there and really get to know the character a little more, I realised it'd be interesting if we got closer.
The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that. We do it because it's a language that we're familiar with. It's hard to not do it, I'm realising that now, but it's a challenge that I really wanted to take on. I'd been looking for a project that I could do this on and I felt like this was the one. There was big resistance, but I have probably one of the best teams in the business, so as much as they were pushing back, I think they all kind of wanted this crazy challenge.
So yeah, there's never going to be a situation where we cut away and show you what someone else is doing. The trailer you watched shows snippets of the game, which unfortunately we've edited together, that's really because I want to give a good cross-section. In the actual game itself, you're never looking away. That doesn't necessarily mean that Kratos is always on-screen, there are things that motivate us to look away, but we're always returning and usually trying to frame Kratos so he's anchoring everything that you're looking at.
For me it really comes down to when you experience something amazing, you go see the Grand Canyon or something like that, you don't have a crane camera behind you giving you a vista shot to make it look amazing. That's a postcard. What you have is you, standing on the edge, looking around and just being in awe of what you're seeing. In games, I think we can do that. We can experience it from that perspective and I think that's amazing. It's not limiting. We're finding so many amazing things we can do with this: the sense of scale, even when you go against something that would be considered medium-size in previous games, it feels fantastic.
Here's an example of how this one shot take is realized during cinematic scenes:
Shifting the camera in this scene with the shot arrow is both artistic and very smart.
Maybe you're right, although I'm a fan of weird features on faces. Like I miss Lili's more masculine bitch face in TTT2 and her more prominent jaw she had in early T7, pronounced jaws and chins are.... Oh my godOh and this is awesome that they are going to do something like this visually for the game. I hope they do it well like the Inn scene in the first kill bill movie.
It will be cool to see how it looks during action scenes. The camera following the arrow was creative so It will be interesting to see what else they can come up with.
Stop lying to that little alien girl.
Girl... Seriously though the similarities are astounding...
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I know you've been suggesting Xenoblade and I might one day play it but this sequel... Not liking the look of it.
I love that game's artstyle... the faces, clothes everything! It reminds me of Billy Hatcher, another childhood game I used to playYou guys are mixing something up here (which is easy though I have to admit).
These alien faces are not from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but from Xenoblade X.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has this very generic anime look:
But I guess generic, kawaii anime faces are still better than Xenoblade X's alien faces....
The costume designs though... D:
You guys are mixing something up here (which is easy though I have to admit).
These alien faces are not from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but from Xenoblade X.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has this very generic anime look:
But I guess generic, kawaii anime faces are still better than Xenoblade X's alien faces....
The costume designs though... D:
Girl... Seriously though the similarities are astounding...
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I know you've been suggesting Xenoblade and I might one day play it but this sequel... Not liking the look of it.
Both of these are sexualized but they went a strange route with the boy's using those giant armor chaps
He basically has chaps on which are sexual to begin with because of the crotch and ass windows they give (also see Xtina's Dirrty era and DOA's cowboy dlc) and underneath it he has a skintight onesie which also exposes his thighs. It seems more like an outfit they'd give to a female character imo
Yeah it kinda looks jarring on him since he looks so young, it's kinda like 9S. I'm not at all complaining since y'all know I love me some 9s and A2 ass/them in general but because 9S looks so young it can feel strange when he's left in just his short under shorts and top unlike A2 and 2B who look at least 18 although they look kinda young too if you actually take a sec to look at them
. Also this game looks amazing! The world and characters are already really interesting. Just casually flying around in a jet pack.
