God of War TV Show Will Try to Appeal to Everyone

So uhm, just like every Sony-owned TV adaptation in recent years?

Amazon prime not sure they can make a good show

An empty promise. By this i read they will use the god of war branding and IP to tell whatever story they want. Ala the witcher.
As you can tell, i have no hopes. Show runners are just thieves trying to repack their personal rejected work into a known ip to make it sell while betraying everything the source material is and ending in disaster.

The original(s) GoW was a true hack ‘n’ slash with fast paced , high octane action that would be 100% better as an action film .

This….reimagining or new GoW they got going on could be a drawn out TV show with seasons i guess .

Does anyone know if Cory Barlog is involved with the show like Niel Druckmann was for The Last Of Us?

You know what they say, “When you try to appeal to everyone… it always works out great!”😬 👍

They should have chosen HBO for all their shows. Stop making shows for everyone, not every show, like every game, is for everyone. Know your audience and make a show for them. Last of us proves that shows can be successful, if you don't try to appeal to everyone.

@jrt87 EXACTLY!!! I keep saying this and everyone shouts me down "it's not for you it's for all the people who don't play games, and there's so many more of them!"

And I keep wondering, if in depth movie-like presentations can't make enough money selling to gamers, and can't draw the masses into playing games equal to film like they intended, so they just take the stories and repurpose them back into traditional storytelling mediums where "most" people will experience them, effectively invalidating the need for a movie-like game to begin with, then why are we wasting our precious gaming time on games that want to be movies, instead of games that want to be games? Let film and books tell the expanded universe character narratives and make the games into games again. The whole point of the "interactive movie game" was to bring gaming to the mainstream masses by giving games validity in the public by just making them imitate film, right down to cinematography. The whole tv-ification of gaming screams that the experiment failed and that gaming still never gained acceptance and film is still the primary audience for storytelling.

Though maybe that's the point. Storytelling is now for film again and gaming will be live service multiplayer pay-in casinos from here on out.

That's basically code for "If you're a big fan of this particular ip you're probably gonna absolutely hate this"

@NEStalgia oh get over yourself.

to play GoW/LoU you are talking a $500+ outlay, if you arent fully into gaming you arent paying that.

to watch the show its $20 subscription which people will pay.

then who knows maybe a % go out and buy a console.

maybe Sony should sit around gaming like Phil, instead of branching out

Then it's a failure from the start.

@AmanK_Art my question exactly! Cause if not I am already worried.

OH BOY......... this is a big red flag, IMHO. "By trying to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one".

I just hope Tom Holland won't star as Kratos.

@themightyant Comparing it to books and film is both very different in one regard and very similar in another. Different because the two mediums are completely different. One is an audio-visual medium, and one is the written word. Both hit different sensory stimuli and are processed very differently, where as games is just changing an audio-visual interactive medium one for an audio-visual passive medium. Isn't that what Let's Plays are for?

OTOH, it's the same because, basically, nobody reads books and everyone watches TV, so it's the exact same process of just ignoring the niche medium to focus on the mainstream. The problem is though that books and film both exist for the sole purpose of telling a narrative. Whereas in games, a narrative focus comes in place of other game-specific focuses. A tradeoff isn't made in the book so that it can be adapted to screen (usually...then there's the Harry Potter series that feels like the books were written by WB for screen adaptation foremost after the 4th...) whereas a game trades off game-exclusive designs in favor of emulating screen only for it to be usurped by screen anyway.

@stvevan Normally I'd give you the point on entry costs, but that's not so true anymore, you could subscribe to PS+ Premium and stream GoW and TLOU, for not much more than the premium video services cost. Yeah, GoWR isn't there yet, and PS+ doesn't stream PS5 yet (which is asinine, but that's another thread) but bottom line is, we've partly crossed the barrier to entry bridge for the audience you're talking about. It's not cut and dry anymore.

And I'm not sure it's a good argument that games were trying to become a legitimized mainstream medium, possibly foolishly by just immitating film, but whether it's because of cost to entry or other reasons, that doesn't seem to have worked and we're back to it NOT being a practical medium for storytelling where film does the job better for more viewers regardless. Going back to, why bother having movie-games, if the movie-audience isn't there?

Let's view it in reverse. TLOU was a super highly regarded game for it's amazing story, and acting, etc, etc, etc. Then the TV show based on it comes out and it's highly regarded for it's story and acting ,etc. etc. By a lot more people.

But if we flip it. What if they hit the mass market first, TLOU was a TV show FIRST, and then there's a video game that plays like an interactive version of the TV show. Does it get critically acclaimed for being lock step cloning of it's own TV show for a smaller audience or does it get viewed as a TV licensed game, decent filler?

(Doesn't apply to Factions which isn't my cup of tea, but does it's own very video game thing not cloning cinema, which is the point. While I'm not into MMO, it at least does a video game thing only the video game medium can do rather than just recreating film only to cancel itself with a do-over as actual film.)

@CRASH64 Oh come on of course he won't.......... he'll play Atreus instead 😜

I'm not optimistic for a God of War show. So much of the game leans into the violence and adrenaline of the action to create it's feel. It would already be difficult to get the balance of that right for a TV show, and my suspicion is they're not even going to try.
The Last of Us, as a story, was a good story wherever it was told (even if the game will always tell it best). You remove the game from God of War, and I'm not convinced the story will hold up in the same way.

If they don't get Christopher Judge playing Kratos, what's the point even?

@ThomasHL GOW 2018 is a brilliantly told story (Ragnarok feels a little rushed in comparison), but it doesn't need a TV adaptation to tell that story, the game already does it well. Unless episode 3 is going to feature Sindri and Brok growing up together and slowly becoming more bitter with each other.

So like, God of War made for nans? Nan of War?

@trev666 I know this is animation but I thought the same thing until I saw invincible

this already sounds bad... please God, they are gonna butcher Kratos

So it's going to suck? Awesome.

@you4rhea came here to say this 😅

Stick to one creative vision and create something in a way that fits that vision and it can live or die by that vision, and most likely it would turn out very good, if the person hired to be in charge has any talent or respect for the source material/mythology of course.

Otherwise we get:

"but what if Kratos had hair, that looks cool"

"But what if the axe is two axes and they merge to make one duel handed mega axe"

"What if Kratos could fly too, I did research and it turns out that people like flying heroes, Thor can kind of fly in Marvel, right? so now we can tap into that market if we play our cards right"

"Time travel?!"

"Animated talking dog sidekick?"

All winning ideas, let's get to work!

Worst possible way to make something creative and artistic. You end up with a version neither likes.
With this sole statement I have no interest in watching this.

@Octane
If this was 15 years ago then I would be all over Judge playing Kratos but dude is almost 60 now, I don't see it working.

I gave up on 2018+ games so that story/gameplay isn't for me. Same as everything else Sony wants to be cinematic. When it was balanced sure and it's fine to cross to other mediums I just don't like the way they already are handled 2016+ era of IPs existing or new so why should I give Sony my money/time.

Also how do you get 'we have a kid and a god killer father' to appeal to everyone what kind of logic is that whether demographic or those into action, mythology, a father son story, whatever the case of appeal. To me appealing to everyone means no audience, make it clear who your audience is, is it for teens or fathers, action or those with a 'deep' narrative. I mean God of War I more so saw appealing to teens maybe with Greek but more so adults than fathers aka adults regardless of Greek or Norse eras of the series so 'everyone' is a stretch there I think.

@PegasusActual93 So is Kratos lol. The TV show will be about the Norse story arc, not the Greek one.

I mean, I heard he has some back problems, so I don't know how comfortable he is running around. Maybe a stunt-double to do the action stuff? I don't see anyone else able to portray Kratos IMO.