God Of War Ragnarök Will Wrap Story Because Trilogies Take Too Long - Kotaku

In an interview with God of War YouTuber Kaptain Kuba, game director Cory Barlog said that while there are several reasons for Santa Monica to finish up the rebooted God of War series in two games, the main one is time.

Barlog specifically mentioned the five years it took to develop the 2018 entry and, assuming it takes the same time for Ragnarök and a possible third game, said that Kratos’ Norse storyline would suffer from being stretched across some 15 years.

I don’t know how long it’s going to take [to finish the second game], but I’m just going to throw out that it’s going to take close to a similar time, right, to do this.

As such, Barlog said Ragnarök game director Eric Williams could totally tell the story he wants in the second game and have that serve as the reboot’s definitive conclusion.

“Given where the team was at and where Eric was at with what he wanted to do, I was like, ‘Look, I think we can actually do this in the second story,” Barlog said.