Speaking to GI, Rohde denied claims that Move, 3D and so on are forced on every developer, and it’s his job to protect studios from having things shoved on them that don’t make sense.
“We do what’s best for every single game,” he said. “It’s simply not the culture at Sony to say, ‘OK, here are 10,000 initiatives. Everyone must do those things no matter what effect it has on all the games.'”
“Games come first.”
“And that’s why all the great studios like Naughty Dog and Santa Monica, they’re going to help lead by example across all of our group and do great things. And if they don’t think something makes sense, then we’re not going to force it down their throat.”
“It’s my job to create a giant umbrella and protect the studios from that because the game is first. There’s a name for that. My nickname is the Shit Umbrella,” he said.
And God of War with its rather “forced” looking multiplayer?
“We talked about [multiplayer] within Worldwide Studios even back during the development of God of War 3. ‘Should we think about multi-player here?'” he replied. “And the foundations of what is in Ascension right now, we started to build that during the development of God of War 3 because we wanted to do it right.”
“They tried very, very hard to make sure that they were crafting a multi-player experience that did not feel tacked on because it is totally standard and I totally agree with the sentiment across the industry that it’s a box that a lot of game teams check.”
“God of War is a single player experience and they found a pretty neat way to turn this multi-player. It still has that whole God of War feel.”
Taylor Made
All I’m saying the GoWa multiplayer best not have trophies, I’m just here for the SP!!
The shit umbrella that’s just a wack nickname that’s the worst uncool nickname u can ever give anyone!
Youles
I think quite a few developers are backing out of long-winded multiplayer trophies as they know it annoys people – Resistance, Killzone and Uncharted certainly took a step backwards in their latest installments. I wish RockStar would too! ;)
Taylor Made
I know you not talking about killzone 3 lol the only reason I ain’t platinumed that game as much as I love the multiplayer is cause of online trophies. I only play guerilla warfare. I’m more of an offline player tbh most games I play are story concentrated that’s why I never got into CoD.
Is the vita resistance online trophy heavy or it’s like the ps3 version? R3 that is
tonycawley
Developers just need to know why people are playing their games. It’s stupid that call of duty games trophy lists are single player only when 99% of people play it for multiplayer.
There’s nothing wrong with online trophies in games that are played a lot online, its games that are mainly single player that have excessive online trophy demands that are dumb.
So god of war, your multiplayer is not the main focus so only put in a couple of easy onlines trophies at most.
Having said that, the mass effect 3 online was excellent and unexpected and i kinda wish they’d put more trophies in for the online there.
tonycawley
Vita resistance has 1 online trophy – play an online game, thats it.
Taylor Made
Lol Tony that’s a good point actually for CoD I guess since its online based it makes sense, the trophies are more online based.
Mass effect, honestly I haven’t fit the online trophies since you can get them in the SP apart from one that requires a lot of online I think but I speaking for myself I suck online, I remember playing K3 thinking I’m a bad mother shut your mouth, then I went online & calmed down lol. Also like now my Internet is down so I rely on my 3G vita more than anything to access online.
Thanks for the vita resistance, waiting til it’s cheap, Youles is so kind at dropping things for people find in the near section
Youles
Ha ha, I’m actually really mean and selfish – but sometimes the game drops things through Near without me knowing ;)
The Resistance online trophy is the easiest Gold trophy you’ll ever get – you can even finish last, it doesn’t matter.
Forrest_01
Going back to KZ3, the trophies for multiplayer on that were a LOT less intensive than KZ2 – Take a look at the online trophies for that game if you don’t believe me!
In fact, i have done all of the mp trophies for KZ3, which is practically unheard of for me, so they are definitely easier (than the previous installment anyway!).
Unless of course you are talking about the online version from the store… & in which case, they are all online trophies aren’t they?? :S
Youles
Sounds like he has a pretty interesting job – nice read.
cc_star
If only EA employed a shit umbrella to stop their tacked on multiplayer & co-op etc as they attempt to leverage the value of online pass.
Forrest_01
That is exactly why they will never employ a person such as this though – The more crap that they can shovel in that they can charge for, the better (for them of course)!
& to be fair, who can blame them if people are prepared to pay for it?
Gadbury
A lot of people couldn’t see Uncharted’s multiplayer working out. It did.