GOD OF WAR

I mean it's why I went for the PS3 instead of the 360- though most games nowadays are fine, some still have problems on ps3 (Ghostbusters, for example). I'm willing to make a slight tradeoff in graphical quality for stuff like more platform-exclusive titles I like, the aforementioned blu-ray player (I DO care very much about visuals for movies), etc

I have obtained (with Chicanery, also Wiles) the GoW 3 E3 demo. Fun, quite pretty, ludicrously violent. There is no quicker way for a game to get on my good side than to throw a swarm of disposable mooks at me then flash the instructions

BATTERING RAM: HIT O TO GRAB AN ENEMY, HIT [] TO CHARGE

Murdering a horde of skeletons with nothing but other skeletons is one of life's simple joys.

<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/14/dream-theater-adding-even-more-metal-to-god-of-war-iii-soundtrac/#comments";>Oh dear.</a>

ha!

wth is wrong with this board

this thing is ALMOST out, where's the hype

that's true actually. I like these games, and the early reviews are <3 <3 <3, but I'm not that excited about it. Why?

Sequelitis

I would be excited about this if I actually had $$$ to buy games right now, I loved the first two.

God of War III is kind of amazing. one awesome set-piece after another. it's not especially cool when you basically have to murder a naked slave-lady, though.

but that's what I'm into!

I liked watching my friend play the first one more than I enjoyed playing it - I assume this version will be the same.

n/a, I'm in the same boat as you - would love to play it now, but no money, especially after just doing my taxes. Will definitely get it somewhere down the road though (as well as a few other games I've had to skip this month). But the other thing is, no money doesn't matter as much as just no time, or to be more precise, I already have more games I want to be playing right now than time to play them to my satisfaction, so no real need to pick up more and more games, no matter how good they look. There's just too many games!

I need local friends with PS3s who I can borrow games from.

Maybe we should have a "take one for the team" program where when there's a shortish game without much replay value we buy one copy with a paypal fund and send it around one dude to another

The first level of GOW3 is hilariously epic. That's how people learn to play this game? Crazy!

pretty every level is hilariously epic.

Just finished GOW1 on the PS3 rerelease. Looking upthread, am I the only one who found the final fight stupidly hard? Phase 1 was OK, the temple fight was manageable once I learned to spam Army of Hades and Poseidon's Rage and use that square+square+triangle move to keep enemies knocked down, but the fighting game tug-of-war phase with all the unblockable attacks, urgh. I ended up dropping down to easy after making it through the majority of the game with little to no trouble, and he went down in less than a minute. It seems to me there should be something between making me want to snap the controller in half and turning the final boss into a joke.

i'm at Zeus on GoW3, playing on titan and regularly screaming at the teevee

wow. most depressing ending ever. And a five minute unskippable credit crawl!

overall, one of the better games I've played this year but more of a slog. Who could care about Kratos at this point? He's an irredeemable asshole and he spends the whole game killing EVERYONE

Here's the plot of GoW3

Spoilers, I guess, but part of what makes this game somewhat unengaging is this litany of death without any interesting grounding:

You kill Leviathan. You kill Poseidon. You kill Helios. You kill Hades. You kill Hermes. You kill Hercules. You kill Hera. You kill Chronos. You kill Hephaestus. You kill (sort of) Daedelus. You allow Pandora to die. Along the way, you kill some three or four thousand grunts. You kill maybe a hundred innocent people. You kill Zeus. You kill yourself.

You are super player.

So I played the original God of War for the first time and went through it this weekend. Pretty crazy game!

Maybe unfair to judge it in certain ways as it came out seven years ago, but man, I figure by 2005 action game designers should have known things like "3D catwalk balancing sections are never fun" and "Resident Evil is the worst game to take after for puzzle design". But the combat is still quite visceral and fun.

The story is somewhat too serious, almost to the point of self-parody at times. But who cares about that? SO MUCH RAGE, UGH UGH. Some really great boss fights.

Just finished GOW1 on the PS3 rerelease. Looking upthread, am I the only one who found the final fight stupidly hard? Phase 1 was OK, the temple fight was manageable once I learned to spam Army of Hades and Poseidon's Rage and use that square+square+triangle move to keep enemies knocked down, but the fighting game tug-of-war phase with all the unblockable attacks, urgh. I ended up dropping down to easy after making it through the majority of the game with little to no trouble, and he went down in less than a minute. It seems to me there should be something between making me want to snap the controller in half and turning the final boss into a joke.

Nipples!

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:08 PM (6 years ago)

Not sure I'm gonna bother with the others though. Probably better off moving onto Godhand or Bayonetta...

dear lord, i looked into my shameful backlog records and realized I bought the game back in December 2009, back when God of War was merely four years old

so the new one is getting pretty much universal rave reviews. Anyone played it yet?

not yet - don't think it's officially released until next week

the wave of hype has def intrigued me but it seems to be impossible to pre-order a copy for anything less than full price, which is nuts

i also wanna know whether, five years on, nhex has cleared the original gow from his backlog

ah okay. The "single shot" thing sounds particularly interesting...

ha! i eventually did finish it, probably not too many months after that post. my opinion remained the same, dumb fun, but a bit clunky, typical for that generation of action games. GoWs 2 and up - still unplayed six years later. the backlog guilt keeps me from going for the new one...

God Hand by comparison was pretty amazing, as was Bayonetta. (Bayonetta I waited almost as long to get around to, maybe I got to it three years ago?) Both exceeded GoW in outrageousness, gameplay and stupidity, proving you should go all in with this sort of thing. The sober shift in the new one to emulate The Last of Us looks interesting.

So this is pretty fun! The story hasn't really taken off for me (scenes that are supposed to be infused with emotion or wonder are falling flat), but at least the dialogue is sharp and funny.

I like the gameplay though, and at least for me the puzzles have been a highlight, sitting at the sweet spot between comprehensible and challenging.

Combat is good, but at times I wonder if I'm just button mashing since there are so many moves and combos available.

If nothing else, this game is doing a great job of making heavy melee attacks actually worth using.

The fingerprints of The Last of Us are all over this game.

Something very weird is how depopulated the world is. OK there are plenty of monsters, but not humans.

before i played the game,

- minor mechanic-based spoiler -

i accidentally saw a complaint that all of the puzzles involve looking up and then throwing an axe at some switch. i wish i wouldn't have read that, because then i spent the entire game with that in mind, until by the end i was just wandering around saying "guess i'll throw an axe at the sky" as i explored new areas.

And finished. A little surprised at how short the main game is. The praise for the story is not warranted IMO, but I really enjoyed killing monsters. That is my review of this game of war called god of war.

So I'm not much of a gamer (haven't owned a system since NES), but back when I lived with some gamers I played God Of War I and II and had a blast and was thinking about trying to pirate one of these to help fill the quarantine time.
1) Which is the best of the series?
2) Am I wrong in thinking If I just get the right usb wireless controller I can play one of these off my PC, either straight up pirated or through some other <$40 means?

I'm a bit into this now and really enjoying it. It seems like a real technical marvel, but that's coming from someone who has more or less missed out on decades of advances.

The fingerprints of The Last of Us are all over this game.

I'm still enjoying this, though I can see why someone might not like this type of game. It's almost more of an interactive cartoon, but some of the puzzles and battles are tricky. Looks great throughout, of course, really impressive. The one problem I've run into (which I haven't yet tried to remedy, maybe it's easy) is sometimes I'll, say, open a set of doors that in turn seems to advance the story, but it then forces me forward when I was hoping to backtrack and get some other stuff/exploring done first. I think I'm still pretty early in the game, though, so I assume there will be time for exploration later. On the plus side (which again could be a negative for some) nothing is so difficult or confusing that I've had to look up solutions, so I've been playing it blind, which means I have no clue if I'm missing tons of stuff. I assume I am.

2) Am I wrong in thinking If I just get the right usb wireless controller I can play one of these off my PC, either straight up pirated or through some other <$40 means?

Still loving this game, tons of fun, impeccably designed and written so far, just challenging enough at times, but imo only when you want it to be.

Had my first valkyrie fight, which was pretty cool (and I understand they only get more difficult). I really like the writing in this, and heck, the relationship between bonehead and his kid; when Boy was awol I kinda missed having him around! But there are so many fun details, from listening in to Atreus yapping with the talking head to watching the boy waste time while I'm standing around, exploring, sliding across ice. A lot of work went into all of this, and if there is some degree of repetition in the battles and boss reskins, I'm not bored of them yet. The only drag is the fast travel system, which is (ironically) kind of tedious, but it's not the end of the world.

I miss Josh Plays Dark Souls

Bloodborne is in the queue! DS2 is not off the table, either. And Sekiro.

Nice. I think you would have the best time with Sekiro, since it's tuned for single player. Bloodborne is a little faster paced (aggression is encouraged), DS2 is slower paced (more similar to DS1 in that respect, although in every other respect its the odd one out - animations, mechanics, etc). And Sekiro has a very particular rhythm as far as defense and offense are concerned, but it's cool.

Second valkyrie down. I basically move the plot forward one step at a time, then spend a bunch of time on side quests. Only just now realized that I haven't been upgrading as often as I should, and that I haven't equipped some pretty powerful stuff I had in my arsenal. Dunno if it's my settings, but one thing I like that makes things easier is that when you die a few times in a row, it seems the next time you start the fight the enemies are already down in health a bit, like a handicap. Makes you feel less bad for being, like, one Sparta Fart away from beating a boss before dying, since you don't have to start from scratch the next time.

You've taken down more Valkyries than I have now!

This game could be called "God of Spam," lol.

I've not been following a guide for this one, because it's pretty straight forward, so I literally have no idea how far I have to go, but I feel pretty overpowered right now, which is still kind of fun. It could simply be because I did something out of general order and came back over-equipped or something. Also, only just now realized the neat trick this game plays with load times. It's all designed to look like one seamless interrupted "shot." That is, the only time the screen goes dark is when you die and restart. Other than that, the cut scenes and other stuff is integrated seamlessly and unbroken into the action, which is cool.

Oof, maybe I got lucky with those first two valkyries, because the next two I faced kicked my ass with "Dark Souls" expediency. That's usually a hint to come back later, especially when it comes to optional bosses.

Amusingly, I just finished the main storyline. I was convinced there was going to be some sort of bait and switch and final boss or something, but then the credits started rolling and I thought, huh. Oh well, there are still all these side quests and other things to do. And I find the writing and design and all that stuff absolutely impeccable, so I may stick with a bit longer, just for fun.

Anyway, that's the downside of not following any guides. Surprises abound, but no one to intervene and say, hey, you are getting close to the end of the game, maybe take a break from the main quest and go do all this other fun stuff first.