Wednesday, November 07, 2007



72 comments:

Jason "Shirts" de Heras said...

Greatest.Game.Ever.

Anonymous said...

cory I just wanna say something...
you´r great man...really...
GOW III won´t be the same without You...

Anonymous said...

sad day

Max A said...

I bought ET back in the day. Peanut M&M's yum. See you on Friday! Try to enjoy the little bit of time off you have in your life now.

Anonymous said...

Dude. What are you moving on too? Pleeeeaaaase tell us! Is it even involving video games? Who's gonna be GOW III director? Why would you ever walk away? Quell your fan base man! Arggghhhhhh!

s said...

???

Anonymous said...

I am just glad that you had the time to approve the Cloris Leachman model. ;)

Anonymous said...

He went to go work with Dave Jaffe....

Anonymous said...

Holy crap! An ET/FoL crossover! FINALLY!

Anonymous said...

It's like when Bryan Singer left the X-Men movies after X-Men 2 to make the crap that was Superman Returns and that popcorn director got hold of X-Men 3 and shit all over it. GOW III...the game that could've saved Sony. I don't blame you Cory, I would jump before the ship sinks too. # million units sold in a year sucks.

Unknown said...

From what I gather...you think that GoW3 is not living up to expectations and it's also taking too much time away from your family life.

I can't say I blame you GoW was the best new franchise of last generation, so good that both games are absolutely perfect. So I can imagine the amount of pressure that lies with making this game better than the last especially when the last was perfect.

Good luck man and I wish you weren't leaving SCEA I could use some more of your awesome PS games. That being said, I just got a copy of GoW:COO a few days back and it's frikkin awesome.

Anonymous said...

Moving to EA?

Anonymous said...

Thanks Cory for gow2 good luck for your new project.
Good work for all gowteam on gow3.

J.Goodwin said...

Scooby Doo, bet on it.

Anonymous said...

don't tase me, bro.

Anonymous said...

I heard they locked him in at a $40,000 salary and refused a raise. He was forced to look elsewhere. Good for him. Can't live on that shit out in LA. Hopefully he makes something better than Calling all Cars as his next move....

Anonymous said...

Well, your negative comments from 2 blogs ago (and other ones) make a lot more sense now. I'm not trying to judge you, but you really should have been 100% sure that you could carry the GoW series before taking over from Jaffe.

I wish you the best of luck in whatever you are doing, but as a fan of the God of War series, I'm very disappointed you did this and bailed on the fans/series.

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Confirmed: Next Gen E.T. Game

Anonymous said...

Timetable, you're an idiot. If you were in his position and someone offered you more money, you would take it too. Like he should stay at a lower pay rate cuz the series will die now. Pleeeeeaase. Cory's a stand up guy and he'll do well wherever he's going.

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BRIAN CRECENTE SUCKS DONKEY BALLS AND I LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE POOP ON MY FACE

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Andrew Kangas said...

Seriously Timetable! WFT? Screw yourself for the fans?

GOW I&II are amazing. Its not like the people who made those games died. Cory and Jaffe are still alive, and who knows, maybe they can now get back together. I'm excited.

Plus, Sony is going down in a ball of flames.... Good time to bail Cory. Why make an excellent game, for God knows how long, for the least populated system?

Anonymous said...

I would like to know where you got your information about him leaving over pay.

The whole point of what I said was that if he wasn't 100% sure he could go through with carrying the series (including the workload, the pay, ect.), then he should not have gone through with taking over the series.

And what is up with the name calling?

Anonymous said...

wtf??? ok nice cory. haha i got the psp demo and it is soooo sick how you guys added that collectors thingy its so sweet. ive had like 5 friends trying to buy it from me lol.

Anonymous said...

Andrew-

See my other comment. He shouldn't have accepted the responsibility if he was going to bail out. Period.

As a fan, I'm disappointed in the move and he did bail out on the series/fans of the series. What, am I supposed to be doing nothing but praise his every move?

And your "Sony is going down in a ball of flames" comment is rather strange. If it wasn't for their support, you would have probably never even heard fo the guy.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm could these pictures be saying something about family and home (as in ET phone home). Maybe he decided to leave to attend to family matters and to spend more time at home.

Anonymous said...

I think he just doesn't want to look jacked up anymore. Roam free now Barlog. Hit the gym and go out for that directing slot open for the GOW movie that Jaffe was talking about.

Anonymous said...

@ max a: it was Reese's Pieces you idiot!

Anonymous said...

fact: Sony will crash like the industry did back in the day.

Anonymous said...

Saw the link / news on GameSpot... wish you the best!

You heading back to Four Lakes to pursue your original dream of becoming Pro-Beach? ;)

Anonymous said...

I am still holding out for a Golden Girls/Who's the Boss fighting game.

Take the water wings off!

gary Z said...

GOW s neva gonna be the same again..sony s gonna be pissed for screwing up wat could hav been its epitome... feel sad for the man Cory.... but it ain`t over yet u got a lot more to offer ....TIS S NEVA THE END !

Anonymous said...

"fact: Sony will crash like the industry did back in the day."

fact:the xbox 360 is NOT going to win this gen due to the lack of variety and faulty hardware.

fact:cory balrog is not god of war,god of war is not cory balrog.The series will live on without him,god of war 3 will be epic.

fact:god of war will never make it to the xbox 360 or nintendo wii.

Sorry to hear youre leaving cory,but i honestly cannot show sympathy if youre leaving because of pay.

Anonymous said...

GoW III is doomed :(

Anonymous said...

Good luck with your next project. Thanks for GOW2.

Anonymous said...

Hey Cory I hope you land well, I'm sure you will, you're super talented and you probably already have something lined up. Long Live MK:Monks those were the days huh? Everyone in our little group applauded your efforts on GOW2. How cool is it to go from animation lead at PX to game director on GOW and succeed! dude you're living the dream. So keep on being a creative force, get some rest for once, you did your job and fought the good fight. See ya on the flip flop -Joel P

Anonymous said...

It's so easy.

He's answered why he's leaving :

ET = Rushed. W/e he's working on is being fast tracked.

FoL = Family.

'nuff said. Luved GoW2 btw.

Zombie Katie said...

jo and blair were totally banging.

Anonymous said...

I don't know about that analysis. He has said his next project had something to do with the Facts of Life cast. The rushed part of your theory may be right though.

Anonymous said...

You're moving back to Pennsylvania with your family???

Anonymous said...

Think of the children Barlog... Think of their sad faces after they learn you have left the studio that made you famous, the studio that forged the greatest action/adventure game ever created. How could you Cory, how could you?

So the man that crafted God of War 2 is leaving, and the future is bleak indeed for all of us fans of God of War, will we ever see a quality God of War game again, or will Barlog move to one of the two other platforms of the current generation (god forbid, sony/playstation fo life).

I can only hope he makes another good game, more fans, and then completely destroys their hope in the franchise he started.

Samuel Coelho said...

It was Cory's effort that drove him so far...

Anonymous said...

GOW 3 is not doomed...It continue without Jaffe and It will continue without Cory...easy as that

Anonymous said...

thr s gonna b a GOW 3 but i doubt it gonna hav the same caliber n creativity wen cory n david were around !

Anonymous said...

i trust the rest of devs behind GoW III so i think it will be great, but its definately not going to be the same.

Samuel Coelho said...

Jaffe participated in the development of GoW II as creative director, and I'm sure that he'll continue to be around SCEA while GoW III is being cooked... Maybe Cory will be doing the same thing, I really don't know. But one thing is certain, GoW III will still be a awesome game cuzz what we've been seeing in these game wasn't the work of only one or two guys, that's obvious.

Anonymous said...

SELLING OUT FOR Microsoft XBOX 360???? (SELL OUT)

Anonymous said...

Say it isn't so. Sucks whatever happened forced you into this. GoW and GoW2 were great games. I was kind of worried about GoW2 when I found out Dave wouldn't be as involved. You blew away all expectations.

Good luck to you man.

Sadeq said...

good luck man, I hope this will make you happy and gives you a better career/life

looking forward to your next game

Rex said...

Word. Born and bred to rip and shred.

Anonymous said...

I am going to go with:

Some games suck and can send a company to the shitter...

Such events are facts of life...

Anonymous said...

hey,
sad to hear about you leaving the project. good luck in the rest of your career m8, ignore all the bitches around, they are mearly spoilt brats ;)
enjoy the rest of your life mate, you did some fine work, and some of us appreciate it an awful lot, and for this we thank you.


why do all of you assume just because a new machine comes out, and it doesnt outsell everything else its going to fail???

yet you all go out and buy god knows how many 360's and constantly say, if one more breaks thats it, nap's

you wanna talk about things being rushed, M$ are king of that department

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James Che said...

JOEL! Stop it. Cory left before MK or BYW2. You didn't work with him on "MK:Monks", 'cause he didn't work on "MK: Monks" himself. You're making up memories.

Anonymous said...

Thank god he left. He took home all the shit house paper every fucking friday. Now I can shit on Saturday again.

Anonymous said...

From David Jaffe's blog:
ps. Yeah, I knew about Cory leaving a few weeks ago. It's not my place to give any real details...that's up to Cory. But I'll say these two things (cause I've been asked alot about it since the news broke):

a- the GOW team is one of the best in the game making biz. Losing key members of a team- from any department- is always a struggle. But I have no doubt the team- being as amazing as they are- will shake it off and get back to work on what promises to be the best game in the series (assuming they follow the creative and tech ideas I've heard about so far).

b- Cory's moving on to some sweet ass stuff, from what I hear. I'm sure in due time he'll spill some beans. And when he does I'm sure you guys/gals will be as happy for him as I am...some neat things could be going down for our Mr. Barlog in the coming months/years...so stay tuned!

Ok, I'm done. Gotta get to bed early for the flight to SF so not even gonna reread this for typos and obvious spelling mistakes...hope it makes sense! See ya!

Anonymous said...

Isn't this the same guy that used to trash people on Fat Babies? Amazing..

Zodiak said...

I'd nominate it for GOTY! lol.

Mriceguy said...

Please write a post of what's going on Cory...

Anonymous said...

I suspect he's leaving the games industry.

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

JAMES!!!.. True, he didn't work on "MK Monks" I never said that. He did however work on "MONK" when it was a secret Sony first party game. If I recall correctly that is... Monk with it's smooth combat animtation was the foundation for MK and at the time, the only component missing in GOW which is exactly why Sony inspired Cory, Bruno and yourself to hop on board one after the other. And to your credit, they picked the best. I wish you all the best, and stop the flame, you're being silly -J

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