GOD OF WAR

Just keep hitting away with Blades of Athena over and over again. It's tedious but it works.

This is the kind of thing I can't stand in video games. If I even catch a whiff of this kind of "action" I stay far far away.

Whatever ico boy.

(j/k. It is a real pain just button mashing over and over again)

I remember having to kill some giant monster in Tomb Raider (or possibly TR II?) which took approximately FOREVER to do, and it involved running around in a wide arc, shooting unemptyable revolvers at it for probably 20 minutes total. I could go for like 4 or 5 minutes at a time before losing focus, I'd have to press pause, make some tea, and go back to it. Eventually I was like "wait this is supposed to be fun"

(cf: racing the same races in Gran Turismo over and over again with a tricked-out car, just to get enough money to get an even more tricked-out car.. so that you can advance to another race that you race over and over again)

I have yet to try this game.

(cf: racing the same races in Gran Turismo over and over again with a tricked-out car, just to get enough money to get an even more tricked-out car.. so that you can advance to another race that you race over and over again)

this isn't really the place to defend it, but, this kind of action can be really great, in a haiku, pleasure-of-small-diffs kind of way. but yeah it's kind of enforced aspie-dom too

I remember having to kill some giant monster in Tomb Raider (or possibly TR II?) which took approximately FOREVER to do, and it involved running around in a wide arc, shooting unemptyable revolvers at it for probably 20 minutes total. I could go for like 4 or 5 minutes at a time before losing focus, I'd have to press pause, make some tea, and go back to it. Eventually I was like "wait this is supposed to be fun"

God of War is not really like this, however. The action is very fast and intense and sometimes gets slightly button-mashy but the programmers are very good about mixing up/varying the enemies, environments and puzzles so it doesn't get boring.

i just started playing God of War 2 and the scale of the the first level already outdoes anything in the first game, which is quite an accomplishment. The PS2 is really being pushed here graphically, this game looks AMAZING.

Just stunning, isn't it? My hands are like claws!!! Bloody hell though, fantastic fun.

I'm quite into highly repetitive nonsense in video games, especially that which leads to even more highly repetitive nonsense.

We spent hours and hours racing around the maintenance tunnels in Dead Rising to get the "Zombie Genocide" achievement, and almost as long taking them on without weapons to get "Karate Champ".

Finishing things like that gives me a fuzzy "yes, I never have to do that shit again!" feeling, so I inevitably crave more of it. The same feeling I get completing a game in one fuckoff all-night session with a friend, only to put the disc back in the box at the end and say "let's never speak of this again" (thank you, Eternal Darkness.)

Right. 3 hours straight is enough! Nearly cross eyed. Such a lush game though. Tense as all hell though! Fear me fellow supermarket users in the next half an hour, I'll be bring my Spartan skills down on you something rotten. Or something...

I'd love to know how far people are! Okay use strikethrough. I've just arrived at Temple of Euryale I think. Having good luck with finding Griffon's Eyes and Phoenix Feathers.

(playing original)

wow this game is kind of long!! the last adventure-type games i played were on pc like 5 years ago, which were all notoriously short (call of duty, i look @ u), but srsly this is kind of a big game

1 annoying thing: i kept fucking up a certain section and after a number of checkpoint reloads the game switched me to easy!! and i can't switch it back. lol pwnt?

I dunno actually. I don't think so. Not be thick but is there an option in "Options"?

The game is v v long. The hard part can be after some intense battle trying to find a savepoint! I can still remember one bit of it that stopped me from going back to playing it on hard, I couldn't face the literal days it seemed to take me to get past it. You'll know once you're there!

As to the second, I'm fairly near the end, I'm magicked out and powered up to the hilt. Working on maxing out Blades now and various other things. Quick question (Spoiler about maxing out life )I found the Magic of Gaia. Is there a Life of Gaia as well? I dunno if I've missed it. I'm at the Phoenix anyway

Finished! Hands are like claws! Good end, that's all I'm saying. Missed one v important thing that I'm now regretting. Everything pretty much maxed out. Can't face challenges!

finished the first one, it was fun! i ended up with a vague sense of disappointment, mainly cos the nu-metal take on greek myth never really hooked me; i kept wanting more riffs on that. i mean "pathos verdes III"?? come on, take 1x intro greek class, the name doesn't make any sense! + there's tons of mechanical trappy-type shit in the game and no HEPHESTUS? no dionysus either, i wanted crazy russ meyer maenads and stuff.

real fun tho.

except the rotating knife-wall climbing puzzle bit. whoever put that together needs to be slapt.

Okay, that wasn't my problem at all (first para)

Rotating wall knife thing was bullshit (see me on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 3:44 PM). My hands still tense up with the thought of it all!

Also, I'm too effusive. This thread shames me. I'm like an emotinal G23U5 here!

fuck yes!

2nd one v impressive, i love the additions (chain swingy shit) and the tweaks, and the visual improvements.

i love that the items you get don't just add some crazy power (tho there are those) but CHANGE your existing moves, like the golden fleece allowing counter attacks

rite now i'm stuck on 'crossing the lowlands,' the obligatory swinging puzzle challenge that i knew would be visited upon me at some point.

and the gorgon eyes and phoenix feathers and big red orb chests are WAAAY harder to get to this time around. in the 1st one, it was like, ok i'm supposed to walk up-left here... let me walk down-right, then? oh lookee more stuff. in 2 there are a bunch that are in PLAIN SIGHT but impossible to get to. i'll have to replay it with a walkthru after i'm done.

2 discs! jesus

apparently there's some kind of sex button-press challenge in like the SECOND ROOM which i completely walked past

yeah I did the same thing and then restarted just to see it. <---SAD

ps the second disc is just a bts DVD

in like the SECOND ROOM

You mean at the Colossus or after?

way before you fight the colossus, when you drop into an indoor pool type place, the chicks are behind a breakable screen.

apparently there's some kind of sex button-press challenge in like the SECOND ROOM which i completely walked past

Found that first time. This game took me so long because I had to destroy everything for globes and things. Also yeah, boxes much harder to find. Also a total trek each time. The hardest part was finding the urns. Well worth it though!

God I loved this game. Playing through with urns I can't remember max number of hits but it was well into the three thousands, eternal rage of titans = :))))

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Cheers but it seriously gets so easy with it, you just keep pounding away. The weapons in this one compared to the last are a bit useless, very slow or difficult to aim.

yeah i haven't used the hammer or spear at all, and i was way into that sword in the first one -- the sound on that was great

the whole atlas section is incredible!

just knocked off the fates (WHAT IS WITH ALL THE FUCKING TITS IN THIS GAME IT IS CRAZY) but i haven't done zeus yet -- pumped!

Dude. Mark spoilers!

The graphics are amazing. I actually checked my hit thing, closer to five and a half thousand. They stop giving you anything except globes after two thousand. Such a great game but do you find voices in the background hard to hear?

what spoilers??

waht u mean voices in the background? like ambient cries of battle etc? i think the sound is pretty good overall

Atlas bit etc. It's no biggy. No I mean bits where say Gaia talks to you during a battle and it's hard to make out.

Yeah this game needed a subtitle option

?? all i can think of her saying is the "let the rage of the titans etc" when you fill up your meter. are there other things?

restarted on hard and am at cold titan. This game. It's such. wow.

just got this from ebay and it arrived today. am addicted now. it's very easy isn't it? maybe it gets harder. I like easy games though cos I suck. And am playing it on "easy". So it does exactly what it says on the tin in that respect...

I find I just bash buttons and spin around and flail at everything. Just got that lightning magic, much better than the shitty bow.

Also screw you giant fucking fate woman's stone head. Smashing stuff is great fun in God of War. I like the story too, there's nothing particularly likeable about the main character, he's just a violent villain with a stupid quest.

It's kinda pointless to play it on easy, I think. Medium is beatable but challenging enough to keep things interesting.

Cool, maybe I will change to medium. I wonder can I do this midgame. Hope so.

Shit I can't. Oh well, reckon I'll continue on Easy rather than play all the way through again on medium.

Just got that lightning magic, much better than the shitty bow.

Amen!

Shit I can't. Oh well, reckon I'll continue on Easy rather than play all the way through again on medium.

Noooo! Just restart, you're not that far in and it would make things a lot more interesting.

Glad you like it though.

further in now....I can't be bothered fighting the colossus and stuff.

I'm now at the part with the swimming and the gigantic pillars.

it's very easy isn't it? maybe it gets harder. I like easy games though cos I suck. And am playing it on "easy".

hahaha

Well, if you just want to see the story there's no point in making it harder on yourself, I guess. I played on Spartan and there was only a couple parts towards the end that gave me any trouble, but even the final boss seemed easy to me. God of War I on Spartan was a lot harder, I thought.

the medusa was tricky enough

well, died a lot but took a half hour maybe

Does anyone ever use that Stone Stare? Never have but I'd say it'd be good with the bloody near indestructible Cyclops. Except kill their riders on the ground before they get on, all much simpler! I was really slow when I hadn't figured that out!

Well, if you just want to see the story there's no point in making it harder on yourself, I guess.

One thing I like about the game is that, if you pick a difficulty level that's too hard for you and you continue to fail, it will politely suggest that you suck and allow you to continue henceforth at an easier level. So even if you pick a difficulty that's too much for you, you don't have to start from scratch if it turns out to be too daunting.

Yeah it never told me that :P

is there any way to check what neat combos you've powered up to.

it gives you that one message but I forgot at least 3 of the moves I've learned.

L1+square and L1+circle are my bread and butter.

yeah it's all in your pause menu somewhere

The problem with the make it easier option is that it's only for battle sequences, not puzzles. You also can't switch back.