God Of War's director, Cory Barlog, revealed that he had a couple DLC stories written for Kratos' latest adventure, but that the time investment and ambition of the team would have made it "a little too big!"

Speaking to IGN on Beyond's God of War retrospective at around 33:30, Barlog discussed why God of War, our Game of the Year for 2018, ended up not releasing any new story content after its release last April.

"There was a time when I wrote a couple of DLCs that we were talking about. Ok, what if we did release some other stuff after?" Barlog said. "You know, there are interesting ideas but I think the amount of time we’d have to put into it, it would start to end up kinda like a Left Behind or a First Light kinda thing where it’s just so big...like Lost Legacy of something like that."

"I think I have a difficulty with the lower ambition portion, that I end up [saying] ‘maybe it’s a little too big!’"

Barlog, in his comments, was referring to The Last of Us: Left Behind, inFamous: First Light, and Uncharted: Lost Legacy, which are more or less standalone games released as DLC as opposed to smaller stories added post-launch.

Barlog continued by saying that being able to go back in and add content to games after they launch, which wasn't possible during the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 days, "does tempt you, as a creator, to potentially put flashlights in the hands of soldiers, kind of thing."

He mentioned that as his values change, he does have the urge to go and change them and add new things, but, for Barlog, he leans toward putting the effort towards new projects, saying "that’s a delicate place, because I think I would want to make something new."

One of these new things will hopefully be a follow-up to God of War, which many fans will be craving after the game's fantastic ending.

For more on God of War and Cory Barlog, be sure to check out why God of War is IGN's 2018 Game of the Year, Barlog's pitch on his Superman game idea, and how *that* moment came to be near the middle of God of War.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who loves Cory and the teams ambition, and can't wait to see what they do next. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.