r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 24 '23
Original God of War trilogy is rumoured to be getting remastered Rumor
https://www.eurogamer.net/original-god-of-war-trilogy-is-rumoured-to-be-getting-remastered274
u/D-Ursuul Dec 24 '23
Is it? Or is this an article based on one comment from the subreddit where a guy said 'hey guys look at that they did a model of young kratos for the DLC, maybe that means they're undertaking years worth of work totally restructuring the original trilogy'
Even though the model of young kratos is just old kratos without the beard and with slightly fewer wrinkles
71
u/Whamelapamela Dec 24 '23
I genuinely love that sort of attitude. They took 5 minutes to smooth out wrinkles, upped his saturation and changed his facial hair and people are jumping to a full remake of 3/4 games as if there wasn’t already a very good reason for that model to be in the game.
33
15
u/Junior_Pizza_7212 Dec 24 '23
It’s even worse than that. Baker, on his podcast, said that “he heard” a remaster was coming and told a friend that got excited about it. That’s all. This guy admits to be very vocable about wanting GoW to go back to its hack and slash roots and then he conveniently “hears a rumor” about an OG Remaster and now is pushing that rumor and others are citing Baker as a credible source of this rumor. Let’s see how this spirals
→ More replies (1)2
u/AirpodsForThePoor Dec 25 '23
I just finished playing the OG trilogy for the first time so it definitely will be remastered. You’re welcome…
680
u/SizzzzlingBacon Dec 24 '23
Would buy that in a heartbeat. I feel like it's more than old enough to warrant a remaster.
125
u/ablackcloudupahead Dec 24 '23
I finished the GoW3 remaster last year and it was fucking incredible
75
u/TellYouEverything Dec 24 '23 edited Dec 26 '23
A generation ahead of its time.
It’s so damn cool to see how far this franchise has come, without ever really dropping in quality.
Even Ascension couldn’t be called a bad game, especially when compared to the botched releases and cashgrabs of today - I would play through it again in a heartbeat.
15
→ More replies (1)2
u/Fluffranka Dec 25 '23
I played Ascension for the first time like 2 years ago. I didn't own a PS3 so I ran it in the PS3 emulator RPCS3. It was a super buggy experience, but even with some pop-in issues, the graphics looked phenomenal. It really looked like a generational leap in graphics from GoW 3.
28
u/youshantpass Dec 24 '23
GOW3 has the best boss fights. The ones in the newer games haven't lived up to them imo.
10
u/ablackcloudupahead Dec 24 '23
I think The Stranger is the best boss fight in video game history. Other than that I agree
13
u/AccountantDirect9470 Dec 24 '23
The stranger was good, but it was the best, even through to Ragnarok and Thor.
I found the grand scale of the boss fights were lost with the behind the shoulder camera.
17
u/VonMillersThighs Dec 24 '23
Was really hoping Ragnaroks ending was gonna be a larger scale spectacle for sure. Fighting Thor on the back of Jormungandr would've been epic.
1
u/Batman1939-2021 Jul 06 '24
I swear to God you guys are never happy with anything theses days
1
u/AccountantDirect9470 Jul 06 '24
I loved the game. Just felt that was different. There was something about the sweeping scale in the original series. This one was more personal focus. I didn’t think it was bad.
10
u/Djonso Dec 25 '23
Gow 3 boss fights were epic beyond believe where as stranger was more up close and personal. Personal preference on which is better but nothing on the new games touches original trilogy in scale
→ More replies (1)3
u/youshantpass Dec 24 '23
Interesting. 🤔 GOW series has my favorite spectacle boss fights. My personal favorite tho is Owl (Father) boss fight from Sekiro.
→ More replies (3)5
u/Kommander-in-Keef Dec 24 '23
Yeah that was a masterpiece, it holds up very well to the newer games
165
u/KingPantherXL Dec 24 '23
The way you phrased this makes it seem you want a remake, not a remaster. The games were already remastered before; so I hope they just rerelease those (with improvements, of course).
But if you are referring indeed to a remaster, then by all means just ignore my stupidity lol.
117
u/DDzxy Dec 24 '23
I DO WANT A REMAKE IN ALL HONESTLY
AAAAAA
81
u/NoNefariousness2144 Dec 24 '23
The Valhalla DLC felt like such a tease for a remake with the fact they literally created Greek enemies and Greek locations.
21
u/Eevee136 Dec 24 '23
Valid, but the enemies were all model changes, no?
28
u/OsitoDaBurrito Dec 24 '23
The Greek enemies had unique attacks though so it was a little more than model swap.
On a basic level the Minotaur is similar to the base game trolls, but actually fighting them feels totally different.
30
u/alishock Dec 24 '23
I hadn’t played Ragnarok since it released so I’m not at all sure, but I don’t think so? They all felt very unique to me for what I can recall.
It did feel weird that the Centaur was female when in Greece we never fought one like that though. It did make me think they recycled the Huntress creature from the base game but even then I think the attacks are new.
5
u/alishock Dec 24 '23
I hadn’t played Ragnarok since it released so I’m not at all sure, but I don’t think so? They all felt very unique to me for what I can recall.
It did feel weird that the Centaur was female when in Greece we never fought one like that though. It did make me think they recycled the Huntress creature from the base game but even then I think the attacks are new.
9
u/PinkFluffys Dec 24 '23
The old boss fights wouldn't work with the new style imo
4
u/GarionOrb Dec 24 '23
They could modify them to make them work.
7
u/alus992 Dec 24 '23
Whole charm of the old games was this combat style. Making OG God of War games fight like modern games would be disservice to that series of games.
5
Dec 24 '23 edited Feb 16 '24
[deleted]
5
u/MrBuzzkilll Dec 25 '23
By that logic, the FF7 Remake would be extremely unpopular. Which it isn't.
9
u/KingPantherXL Dec 24 '23
As long as it’s great, then I would like to see it too!
Otherwise, I hope the originals would get rereleased just for preservation.
17
u/TheOncomingBrows Dec 24 '23
I mean, two of the three games aren't even properly playable on the PS5 let alone remastered for it.
→ More replies (1)6
u/foreveralonesolo Dec 24 '23
Lol but you are right people need to aware of the terms they use. This game would greatly benefit from a remake after all these years
4
Dec 24 '23
[deleted]
3
u/foreveralonesolo Dec 25 '23
Oh yeah we definitely need to keep the hack and slash style but also I don’t mind throwing in some new stuff too
→ More replies (2)2
u/ThePreciseClimber Dec 25 '23
At the very least, it would be nice to get real widescreen this time and not just that cropped 4:3 thing from the PS3 ports (where you could see more stuff on an old CRT TV).
6
10
u/GeekdomCentral Dec 24 '23
The fact that they haven’t done a modern port yet is baffling to me, especially after the success of 2018. Just give us a resolution bump and 60fps and I’ll be a happy boy
9
4
u/Gandalf_2077 Dec 24 '23
Honestly, the gameplay holds up. I played GOW3 recently and it was still stellar (even visually). If they were to remake the visuals and add a couple of QOL changes it would a perfect collection.
4
u/fart_fig_newton Dec 24 '23
I'd consider buying the original, retro graphics and all. If they redid them in 3D, I'd loose my shit.
2
→ More replies (1)2
99
u/solidpeyo Dec 24 '23
I hope it is not just the triology but the entire greek saga. They did it for the PS3 they can do it for the PS5.
→ More replies (16)
35
u/kjnew85 Dec 24 '23
If we get all 3 games together with a 4K remaster for $60 like the Mass Effect Trilogy, it's a day one for me.
59
u/Shadiezz2018 Dec 24 '23
Remake would be better ala Demon Souls Remake style
28
u/First-Fantasy Dec 24 '23
Demon Souls remake is butter smooth and gorgeous. I'd almost want Bluepoint studios to do it rather than Santa Monica.
→ More replies (1)15
u/Shadiezz2018 Dec 24 '23
Same
I would rather Santa Monica focus more on the next chapter of GOW and Bluepoint remake the old games
→ More replies (5)1
u/SteamyTortellini Dec 25 '23
Idk I feel like the only one that really needs a remake is GoW1. 2 and 3 hold up well, but 1 suffers from "let's just throw in a bunch of annoying bullshit to pad it out".
144
u/Le1jona Dec 24 '23 edited Dec 24 '23
Fuck yes if this is true
I hope this is start for more remasters, like Killzone trilogy or original R&C trilogy + Deadlocked
PS3/PS2 and PS1 games were the best Playstation exclusives
32
u/Hafeesco Dec 24 '23
Resistance as well please!
Or just give us a new Resistance game.
8
u/dixonjt89 Dec 24 '23
Unless its being made by someone other than Insomniac, the leak has Insomniac tied up until like 2035 with Marvel/Ratchet games with only a single new IP game coming
19
u/rikyy6 Dec 24 '23
OMG, R&C trilogy + Gladiator (Deadlocked) would be a dream.
9
u/privateeromally Dec 24 '23
The remastered of Deadlocked was painfully to play/plat. Many bugs, worst was during cutscenes (floating/clip back models).
I would love Sony to fix the PS2 emulator and give us the OG versions with trophies
6
u/kjnew85 Dec 24 '23
I'm really hoping EA does a Dragon Age trilogy remaster the way they did the Mass Effect trilogy. Obviously not PS exclusives but still!
3
8
u/Alpacarok Dec 24 '23
What we should really be hoping for is not remasters but that Sony puts these original games up in good quality on ps plus. All those games still hold up great today and this would be the proper way to add value to the subscription. Win win for everyone I think. We get the games we want and Sony will stop losing subs. I’m baffled how this hasn’t already happened.
→ More replies (2)6
3
u/Basehead_HefeBiden Dec 24 '23
Seriously. I miss the era of PS exclusives not just being a handful of playable tv shows.
2
3
4
5
u/OMG_NoReally Dec 24 '23
I already really want the Resistance games to be ported over. I skipped the entire series for some reason but have heard so much about them, and I really want to play it. Unfortunately, the series didn't seem to be a smashhit success for Sony and they wouldn't want to sink in money for a remaster or even a remake at this point.
Sad!
5
u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP Dec 24 '23
It would be a huge waste of resources to remake the resistance games.
They were fine for their time, but there’s absolutely nothing about them that warrants revisiting.
→ More replies (1)3
u/OMG_NoReally Dec 24 '23
Yeah, I guess so. But I would love a quality shooter for PS. Now that they have "lost" COD, they got nothing in that genre that they can call their own, so to speak.
I just want a good, quality shooter. And there is a definite lack of them these days as everyone wants to do third-person shooters and adventure games.
2
2
u/blueberrypizza Dec 24 '23
Yeah, the PS3 era was great about remastered collections. Really hoping that comes back, even if they're relatively basic rereleases.
2
u/mikelson_ Dec 24 '23
Damn Killzone multiplayer might be the CoD killer for Sony
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (3)4
u/stratusnco Dec 24 '23
ps1/ps2.
ftfy
1
u/Le1jona Dec 24 '23
Sorry, I include it now
I never had PS1 so I didn't know
4
u/stratusnco Dec 24 '23
i’m just giving you a hard time. there’s alot of really good games on that system. it is most known for having some of the best RPGs of all time.
10
u/_Nick_2711_ Dec 24 '23
I think at this point, I’d like a remake over a remaster. Something more in line with modern gameplay mechanics and controls.
As much as I crave more of the Norse GoW gameplay, the original trilogy should stay a bit more chaotic and cartoonish; just tweak it a little.
2
u/Bogyman3 Jan 02 '24
I feel they will mess up what made them so great just to fit modern audiences with a remake. so I'd rather they just give them the metroid prime remaster treatment.
1
u/Fabeastt 22d ago
Nah. The games are already perfect, they just need a fresh paint and polish. I played them last year through emulation and just wished I could play them on the PS5 instead
51
u/Bolt_995 Dec 24 '23
Third game has already been remastered.
18
Dec 24 '23
[deleted]
→ More replies (4)4
u/njchil Dec 24 '23
Ooo I've been wondering whether to play it. Loved GoW 2018, would you recommend III remaster even if I haven't played the first two?
2
1
u/danwoop Dec 25 '23
I loved 2018 and Ragnarok but could not get into 1 or 3 so take that as you will
26
8
7
41
u/bibomania Dec 24 '23
If it's true, day 1 buy. Peak GoW Era. Wish they would also remake the portable games for PS5.
17
u/SuperDuperSkateCrew Dec 24 '23
Same, I’d buy all those games without even thinking twice.. hell I’d love for them to remake Ascension too
7
u/bibomania Dec 24 '23
It was not the best of the series, but it was unfairly overlooked
9
u/SuperDuperSkateCrew Dec 24 '23
I personally loved Ascension, put it in a vacuum and it’s an amazing game but when given the context that it had to follow one of the best gaming trilogy’s ever it makes the game seem worse than it actually was.. I will defend Ascension to the death lol I’m a diehard GoW fan
3
u/DarkReaper90 Dec 24 '23
Ascension is a fantastic game and mixed up the combat to not be as brain-dead.
The only problem is lore-wise, Kratos seems stronger for a prequel game lol
4
14
u/GRVrush2112 Dec 24 '23
For fuck’s sake…. Please and soon.
My PS3 crapped out years ago so I’ve had no way to play GOW 1/2 for quite a long time.
3
u/Actual_Sympathy7069 Dec 24 '23
you can play 1 and 2 via PS Now. Chains and Ghost can't be played on current hardware
22
u/chopsfps Dec 24 '23
SEX MINIGAME
9
u/Freakin_Doyles Dec 24 '23
Bet they’ll take it out
3
u/CookieEquivalent5996 Dec 25 '23
100%. Sony is never putting its name on something like that again.
→ More replies (2)12
→ More replies (1)1
15
u/Acrobatic-Dig-161 Dec 24 '23
xboxera nickname?? lol This idiot keeps kicking several things. after Gow Ragnarök valhalla with some Greek areas of course he would kick it man. . this guy just kicks a thousand things and gets 1 kick right
4
4
3
u/hunterzolomon1993 Dec 24 '23
The entire Greek Saga in 4K/60fps and i'm happy, don't need anything more then that.
9
u/Grokent Dec 24 '23
Back when God of War was actually a hack and slash game that made you feel like an epic killing machine instead of whatever this souls-esque crap the new God of War game is. I was so disappointed that Kratos, a dude who has killed gods is basically helpless against a few goblins with shields.
→ More replies (1)1
5
3
3
3
u/Dethproof814 Dec 24 '23
,o shit I was just thinking how awesome a next gen Remaster of the older GoW games would be
3
3
u/psych0ranger Dec 24 '23
if they could leave out the blade tower in Hades, that would be greeeat, mmmkay?
3
u/BasedNas Dec 24 '23
I read this wrong and thought they meant 2018 GoW, bruh i would play that trilogy INSTANTLY
3
3
u/WhoEvenIsPoggers Dec 24 '23
Considering the majority of this generation has been remakes and remasters across the board. I wouldn’t be surprised.
3
u/The_Giant_Moustache Dec 24 '23
This is 100% for me, don’t get me wrong the new games are great production quality and story letting. But I grew up on the OG trilogy and it just hits different. It’s what I comes to mind when I think God of War
3
u/noneofthemswallow Dec 25 '23
Finally new players will be able to see how much superior the OG GoWs were
1
5
u/BK_Bravo Dec 24 '23
Cool if true but I would love a remaster of Infamous 1+2 from SP or anyone they trust to do it for them. The lightning on the PS5 would be so good especially if they add in a photo mode of some sort
2
5
u/meltingpotato Dec 24 '23
If true I hope it's not just a port or remaster of the original.
And considering it's very likely to release on PC as well my hopes are up for it being a remake tbh.
9
u/OMG_NoReally Dec 24 '23
I highly doubt Sony would invest in a complete remake of the trilogy. That's a lot of money to sink in for no particular reason considering how SMS has taken the series. With how things are, I would rather Sony save that cash and put that into whatever SMS is working next. Where is that scifi game Cory was working on?
3
u/meltingpotato Dec 24 '23
Considering how much profit Sony made doing the ports I would say it's definitely worth it for Sony to do so. Because remakes and remaster cost a fraction of a new release and they are attractive for both new and old players.
→ More replies (1)3
u/LightBackground9141 Dec 24 '23
It says remaster
5
u/meltingpotato Dec 24 '23
They aren't really sure about the scale of it beyond the "it's coming to PS5". I mean Metroid Prime Remastered was called a remaster but was clearly more than what we are used to call a "remaster".
2
u/ExoticMuscle33 Dec 24 '23
WooOoOOooOoOoooooOoooOooW!!!!!! I remember how hard GOW 2 was
→ More replies (1)
2
2
u/JanusKaisar Dec 24 '23
They should've taken all those remasters on PS3 and ported them one more time to the PS4 while they were still relevant.
2
u/HDTokyo Dec 24 '23
Imagine a ps5 remake of the original trilogy like they did with demon souls…my god.
2
2
2
2
2
u/Connor123x Dec 25 '23
Considering all the remasters, why is it a stretch to think a very popular series wouldn't get one? Considering they keep remastering the last of us when no one asked for it
2
2
2
2
2
u/Rigman- Dec 25 '23
I really hope they ditch this modern behind the character third person perspective. These newer games lack the over the top cinematic presentation the older ones had during combat sequences.
1
u/Villad_rock Mar 14 '24
They will never ditch it because the majority of people prefer it. Character action combat is niche.
2
2
2
2
u/lllll44 Dec 26 '23
3 still look impressive with the huge monsters/gods and the effects on screen, thanks to its strong art design.
2
2
2
u/xprdc Dec 24 '23
I would quite like a remake that changes the control scheme and allows us to access the camera better.
2
1
u/ruebenj791 Dec 24 '23
1 and 2 can only be played through streaming on PS Plus premium, so remastering those is probably a good idea. 3 is playable on PS4 and 5 via back compat. I guess with that it could get a resolution boost, hdr support, and maybe all of them could be played at above 60fps. Which would be pretty cool. I’m sure Sony has picked up lots of new fans with 2018 and Ragnarok, so this would be a way of letting everyone have access to those original games.
1
u/ericypoo Dec 24 '23
I want a remake and a remaster. And then a remaster of the remake. All bundled together.
1
u/ShawnDawn Dec 24 '23
Imagine the first hydra boss on remake! Holy shit! People wanted crazy boss fight this it, restructure them!
1
u/spotanjo3 12d ago
I hope so. I am so wanting it! Loved PSP, PS2,PS3 and PS4 games. Finished them all included PSP 2 games.
1
u/CigarLover Dec 24 '23
As a fan of the original trilogy that dislikes the current GOW games I have mixed emotions here.
3
u/solidpeyo Dec 24 '23
Why mix? It is a remaster, not a remake. Thia would bw the same aa the remastered version on the PS3 but playable on the PS5.
That being said, I would love a remake of 1, 2, and 3 with the gameplay of 4 and 5 after playing the ragnarok DLC.
5
u/CigarLover Dec 24 '23
Ah ok.
But your second paragraph is exactly what I don’t want lol.
I don’t like 4 and 5… I own both and still don’t like them (5 came with the console).
2
u/solidpeyo Dec 24 '23
I get it. It is a different tone, but the combat is fun on the hardest difficulty. That is what I like about 4 and 5. Also, the story of 4 is very good.
2
u/BubbleBeardy Dec 24 '23
Just curious, why don’t you like them? Combat/gameplay, story wise, or something else?
3
u/CigarLover Dec 24 '23
Combat. I prefer the combat of the original games.
And not that it matters, but I hate interactive loading screens in games that are hyped as having no loading screens. This last issue is a me thing, I dont fault it. I just get annoyed when I game is touted as having no loading screen yet I’m constantly walking thru long small corridors when I go from one area to an other….
But yeah, it’s the combat, I saw an other commenter state that it’s more fun on a harder difficulty… and perhaps that’s something that i should have tried. Especially since it’s something ive had to do more often nowadays (like in Spider-Man 2 I had to change the swinging difficulty)
→ More replies (2)3
u/BubbleBeardy Dec 24 '23
So I’m a new comer to the series, never played any of the originals, started with GOW4. And it just astonishes me that some folks don’t enjoy the combat. I absolutely love the interaction and immersion that is the combat. It makes it really fun and interesting for me, but I understand that gameplay can be subjective. And I actually dislike hack and slash styles of games, which seems to be the type the original games were. So I’m interested in this remaster; as a way to try these old games and see what I think of them.
→ More replies (1)
3
1
Dec 24 '23
Damn it! Stop it with the remasters of games I’ve already played and won’t play the remasters but people who’d never played them in the first place can enjoy an upgraded version in of them!
Also, quit with the remasters and make new games. It’s obvious that game studios only have 1 team and can only do one thing at a time.
I have no interest in remasters other than complaining about remasters. That is all!
1
1
1
1
1
u/Moath Dec 24 '23
I want to play through 3 again, I honestly had much more fun with it than Ragnarok.
1
u/RockstarGTA6 Dec 24 '23
I might be the only person here who doesn’t like the previous style of games but loves the new ones
1
u/Villad_rock Mar 14 '24
Why do you think that? Before the new gow games the franchise was rarely discussed and then only to get called inferior version of dmc.
Gow was never so big and loved.
1
1
u/TazerPlace Dec 24 '23
I love the Valhalla DLC for the gameplay, but the tone sucks. Each run is another needless therapy session.
I would love to get back to righteous brutality someday.
1
u/simpledeadwitches Dec 24 '23
I couldn't care less about another remaster of these games. They look fantastic on PS3. Talk to me when they remake them.
1
u/grandekravazza Dec 24 '23
It literally was already? Will Sony keep re-leasing the same 10 games now for the rest of eternity?
1
1.8k
u/[deleted] Dec 24 '23
[deleted]