Cory Barlog

I'm trying to be better for my son. And regretting every moment that I'm not spending with him.

— Cory Barlog

The Resident Evil' series. Not only are they great games, but the creators' willingness to reinvent the game every so often is…

— Cory Barlog

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

— Cory Barlog

It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.

— Cory Barlog

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

— Cory Barlog

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes…

— Cory Barlog

My thing I always go back to is that sense of finishing 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Night,' and that castle flipping over,…

— Cory Barlog

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a…

— Cory Barlog

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

— Cory Barlog

We're growing into an entertainment medium as opposed to 'We make games. We make Mario jump.' We no longer have to focus…

— Cory Barlog

I enjoy flawed heroes that actually struggle, you know, with their own sort of path and are not really aware that they…

— Cory Barlog

Competition doesn't drive me. It's not to say that competition is bad, it's not to say that competitive games are bad because…

— Cory Barlog

Find your own way into your story. Find your own way into your game.

— Cory Barlog

I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

— Cory Barlog

Puzzles are always a difficult thing, I don't think I've played any games where the puzzles are perfectly contextualised, unless the entire…

— Cory Barlog

And I could see - this franchise is very successful for Sony and I think it's awesome. I was big part of…

— Cory Barlog

So Kratos is always angry, and he spent a considerable amount of time after 'God of War' trying to be away from…

— Cory Barlog

The thing I really liked about the early 'God Of War' games was the idea that from the menu screen it felt…

— Cory Barlog

The Uncharted' series really pushed me as a developer. They managed to raise the bar with every single release and produce an…

— Cory Barlog

Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad…

— Cory Barlog

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

— Cory Barlog

Having a kid motivates you to really take stock of yourself and how much of yourself you want to be reflected back…

— Cory Barlog

There are some who expect every game to make a dramatic change the way that 'Resident Evil 4' did over its predecessors.…

— Cory Barlog

Every creator has to follow what they believe. That's the message I would love for every single executive to get, to clearly…

— Cory Barlog

I think the best thing you can do with a 'Superman' game is to kind of explore the psychology of what it…

— Cory Barlog