Final 12 months, we discovered that Sony had cancelled a number of of its live-service initiatives, considered one of 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 response to 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 obtained launched and appears to have performed 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 response to Schreier’s sources, Atrues was going to seek out himself in Hades.
“A free thought was for gamers to manage totally different variations or points of Atreus as they battled by way of Greek hell, and to have some type of cooperative gameplay and ongoing help,” writes Schreier.
Unsurprisingly, the undertaking was struggling because the small crew, which hadn’t launched an unique title in practically twenty years, discovered itself attempting 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 undertaking 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 undertaking 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, but it surely was shot down, not by Sony, however by one other firm.
I’ll be sincere, not one of the cancelled sport’s ideas sounds interesting to me, however I might have taken it if it meant Bluepoint may keep alive. In fact, when it failed (which it most likely would have), they might have been left in the identical boat. Or if it had by some means been profitable, they might have ended up engaged on it full-time, and the Bluepoint we knew would have disappeared, so I suppose it was a lose-lose state of affairs.
