Final 12 months, we discovered that Sony had cancelled a number of of its live-service tasks, one in all which was some type of God of Struggle spinoff by developed by remake specialists Bluepoint. With Bluepoint now shuttered by Sony, we’re beginning to get some particulars, together with what the God of Struggle title was going to be.
Journalist Jason Schreier has the report over at Bloomberg. In accordance with his sources, Sony hoped God of Struggle may help quite a few spin-offs, “…like its personal smaller model of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.” A kind of – God of Struggle: Sons of Sparta – simply bought launched and appears to have finished okay, even when it didn’t set the world ablaze.
Bluepoint’s live-service title was apparently going to star Atreus, the son of Kratos. In accordance with Schreier’s sources, Atrues was going to search out himself in Hades.
“A unfastened concept was for gamers to regulate totally different variations or points of Atreus as they battled by means of Greek hell, and to have some type of cooperative gameplay and ongoing help,” writes Schreier.
Unsurprisingly, the challenge was struggling because the small staff, which hadn’t launched an authentic title in practically twenty years, discovered itself making an attempt to create a live-service sport.
“Some Bluepoint staffers grumbled that they need to be engaged on one other conventional motion sport like Demon’s Souls or God of Struggle Ragnarok moderately than a live-service challenge that few of them appeared to need to make.”
Schreier notes that regardless of assist from Santa Monica, Bluepoint didn’t make a lot progress and “floundered” for years.
The challenge was then cancelled outright, and Bluepoint was left pitching concepts. We even discovered that they as soon as once more pitched the concept of a Bloodborne remake, nevertheless it was shot down, not by Sony, however by one other firm.
I’ll be trustworthy, not one of the cancelled sport’s ideas sounds interesting to me, however I’d have taken it if it meant Bluepoint may keep alive. After all, when it failed (which it in all probability would have), they might have been left in the identical boat. Or if it had one way or the other been profitable, they might have ended up engaged on it full-time, and the Bluepoint we knew would have disappeared, so I assume it was a lose-lose state of affairs.
