Games Inbox: Will God Of War Laufey be a good game?

The Wednesday letters page is worried about the September release schedules, as a reader is unconcerned at not being able to afford a ROG Xbox Ally.

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Unexcited state
So that God Of War Laufey looked good… can’t say anything else surprised me or excited me about the State of Play though. I don’t feel we really need a new God Of War game, and would’ve preferred to see Santa Monica Studio do something new, but I’m sure it’ll be a good game.

I’m not sure how much the State of Play being a little dull is the fault of Sony, compared to the fact that everything leaks out in advance, but while this might be happening at the same time that E3 used to, you’re definitely not getting the swarm of new announcements you used to get back then.

Lots of the games looked good but apart from release dates I don’t feel I really learned anything new about any of them. It was informative rather than being exciting, is probably how I’d put it.

I’ll be interested to see how it compares to Xbox on Sunday, because I expect they’ll try and go all out with reveals and such, even if Sony don’t need to be that desperate. I’m not sure what I’m expecting from Summer Game Fest but that’s such a slog given how long it is – I think I’ll just see the edited highlights the next day.
Gorf

A familiar mess
Watching the State Of Play and it seems everyone was so terrified of being out at the same time as GTA 6 they’ve decided all to release in September instead.

Even if Nintendo or Microsoft don’t announce anything for September (which is unlikely) the Sony presentation has already packed out the schedule in a way which means some titles are going to suffer.

I’m hoping the new Control game isn’t one that suffers in the scrum, as it looks excellent.

You would think that when putting together this show someone might go ‘Hang on, these are all a bit bunched up aren’t they?’ But then logic and sense rarely seems to feature in release schedules.
Euclidian Boxes

GC: The problem is only Sony knew all the release dates ahead of time and most of these publishers will be finding out about them at the same time as everyone else. Now that everything is made public, they have the chance to change them, as that last week of September is madness. We share your pessimism that they probably won’t though.

As predicted
I don’t regret staying up late to watch the State of Play but now it’s just finished I can barely remember any of it. God Of War Laufey looked good but also not very surprising. I know nothing is allowed to just end nowadays but I’m really not sure there’s much point in making the game, especially when the only new gameplay idea seems to be making it more like Devil May Cry.

Couldn’t you just… play a Devil May Cry game if that’s what you wanted to do? It looks great though, so I’m sure it’ll be cinematic and all that, so I might give it a go if I can get it cheap, but I’m not exactly going to pre-order it or anything.

It was fine, I guess, but the days of being blown away by these kind of livestreams, where it’s shock reveal after reveal are long gone. Now it’s more like waiting to see how much of the rumours were right, which this time was almost all of them.
Focus

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Game of the show
Well, I know what must have been GC’s favourite game in the otherwise predictable State of Play: The Lost Wild! Anything with dinosaurs is good with me too and this one looked really good. Weirdly I got confused with it at first, as I thought it was the trailer for the movie The End of Oak Street, which the beginning of the game trailer seemed very similar too, whether on purpose or not.

I’m not clear what the explanation for the dinosaurs is in the game, but I appreciate it using current scientific information and for making it look so cool and realistic. Here’s hoping it plays as good as it looks. Even better, let’s hope it’s the start of a new trend for dinosaur games, then we can finally get Capcom to take notice!
Radar

Unwanted story
I would be very glad if the success of Forza Horizon led to lots of games trying to do similar kind of things but as much as I want to see Clutch succeed, I’m really not sure adding a story is the way to make your game seem different.

I don’t think it’s an accident that other racing games have little or not story so I’m not really sure what they think they’re going to gain by bucking that trend. At best, if the game’s good, I’ll just end up ignoring the story. After all, as bad as the tournament stuff is in Forza Horizon it’s fairly easy to ignore and switch off.
Tolly

Luxury device
I agree that releasing another ROG Xbox Ally (I still don’t understand what the ROG bit means) seems a bit silly but I think the other reader has it a bit wrong. Obviously, spending a grand or more on a handheld console is not something most people are going to want to do but I also don’t think they’re really missing out on much.

None of these PC handhelds have exclusive games, they’re just a way to play existing PC games on a specialist device. If you want to be portable most ordinary laptops can play indie games at the very least, plus the Switch 2 has most of the same ones. So you’re not even really missing out on that portability front.

I’d put this sort of thing into the same category as the PS5 Pro, where even quite hardcore gamers see them as an unnecessary luxury and not something they want to spend money on or, more importantly, feel like they’re missing out on if they don’t have one.

We’d all love to own whatever hardware takes our fancy, I’m sure, but they’re just not essentials or anything that’s going to have a big impact on the rest of gaming. I feel that Project Helix will fall into that category as well. It’s a neat option if you’ve got infinite funds but it’s not something any ordinary gamer actually needs.
Grando

GC: ROG stands for Republic of Gamers, which is a brand Asus uses for most of its gaming hardware. They seem really keen on it.

Nintendo discount
Good Star Fox preview, GC. I pre-ordered the game from Currys straight after reading it.

I don’t normally pre-order but there was a 10% discount for doing so, which meant I only paid £40.49 for a physical copy with free delivery too.
Arteta26Legend

GC: Currys almost always seems to have that sort of deal for Nintendo games, to the point where it almost seems like an official relationship.

Spaceship adventures
I really like the sound of the Star Fox 64 remake, but I also like the idea from the Reader’s Feature at the weekend, of turning the series into a space trading game. I feel this would be a great idea as the problem with all the games after Star Fox 64 is that they’ve got so far away from the original game, which was focused on the spaceships.

They kept trying to turn it into a generic modern shooter, but Star Fox needs to be either an on-rails shooter or something where you’ve got a bit of freedom. To me, using something like Elite as your starting point sounds great, especially as I’d love to see what Nintendo would do with that kind of idea.

I consider the absolute worst Star Fox game to be Star Fox Adventures, which had nothing in common with the original games. It was just a boring Zelda clone, with no puzzles or anything that makes Zelda good, and then the Star Fox characters dumped on to top. I know it used to be a different game, before Star Fox was added, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a bad Zelda clone.

So I think you’ve got to stick to the spaceships as the focus first of all. The characters are cool (or amusingly not cool, depending on how you want to think about it) but you shouldn’t base the gameplay around them, in my opinion. I don’t even pick Fox in Super Smash Bros.
Curly

Inbox also-rans
My kids are going to love those Lego Pokémon sets. I was shocked at the prices of the first lot they announced but these are pretty reasonable. It’s crazy how much adults are willing to pay for Lego nowadays.
Olliephant

These Pokémon sets are all well and good but where’s my Lego Arwing?! Don’t tell me that wouldn’t sell, and if it wouldn’t make it anyway!
Benson

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