God Of War

Good lord, what a pain.

Alright, so I'm at the Challenge of Poseidon, battling that wolfpack of Cerberus that just grows and grows and grows.

this fight lasts me 20 minutes. This is a really, really repetitive fight. You have little recourse except to guard camp , toss the pups to stun anyone and beat the crap of out everyone with Rage of the Gods. It takes me 4 tries. Each time I beat the whole lot of them, the game refuses to load and break the barriers.

I am this close to selling the trilogy on general principle. Should I?

No suggestions, then?

Yeah, selling. Good riddance XD

Meh, I liked the series for what it was, but I do prefer the battle system for Devil May Cry, Bayonetta and from what I've seen so far, Asuras Wrath.

edited 20th Jun '11 4:30:43 PM by Demongodofchaos3

Seconding, thirding, fourthing, nthing.

I made it to shortly after you rescued Athena's oracle or whatever in the first game before just getting bored of it.

One thing that hasn't been brought up that I absolutely loathed was the magic system. Devil May Cry works on a meter you restore by attacking enemies, and thus encourages you to use it whenever you need to. God Of War just uses an archaic MP bar that can only be restored through rare power ups and the occasional checkpoint, which pretty much encourages saving them until you fight a boss.

So does anyone have something positive to say about the series, or is this decaying into a complaints thread?

I would have loved it had it not been for how glitchy and wonky as hell it was. Any game that wants to render itself unplaylable probably doesn't want me playing it.

And that stupid derail caused by Indigo Dingo? That's why. Indigo Dingo.

I was ok with the game as far as gameplay is concerned, but my money stays on Hideki Kamiya's work.

edited 21st Jun '11 1:20:46 AM by Schitzo

I love this series. :D Music's awesome, and the action's simple but fun, which combines with a surprisingly creative level design team with a real ability to generate epic environments and senarios which are just about one guy hitting four or five things.

yeah, the musics great. One of the bonus vids you unlock by completing the third one actually talks about how the orchestra doing the stuff for GoW actually loved doing their stuff for this game because it gave them a chance to go balls to the wall all out with the epic music, which I thought was really neat.

Just a bump to say that Chains of Olympus and Ghosts of Sparda are being ported to PS 3 as God of War Collection Volume 2.

(Also, I like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry AND God of War (and Dante's Inferno))

This is the worst awesome game I've ever played.

I really, really want to like the series. But well, read the top of this page.

I've only fully played the third game. On one hand the scale of the battles, the graphics, the soundtrack and the brutal finishers are all awesome. On the other, the combat quickly gets repetitive (four near-identical weapons don't help), the platforming sucks and the story is the biggest shitdump I've ever seen. All in all, I'd give it a 7/10, maybe.

Okay, I just finished III and looked over the Headscratchers page. Why again did Kratos need to open Pandora's Box again?

edited 2nd Oct '11 6:34:22 AM by Mullon

So he could defeat Ares as a giant.

No I meant in the third game.

I believe it's so that he could use that same power to take out Zeus. Although, considering his god count in that game, you have to wonder why he bothered...

Because Zeus is fearsome? You have to know that Zeus screwed Kratos over for no less than 2 times. One for draining him with a cunning sword, another one for using Athena as a meat shield, giving him a guilty run for the money. If that's not enough, then consider how he fried Gaia's hand

Athena jumped in the way on her own, I'm pretty sure.

Also, Kratos kinda screwed up first when he started doing the exact thing that put Ares on the chopping block in the first place.

Leaked concept art for God of War 4 reveals an exciting new direction for the franchise: http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/7665

I think it's safe to call that a clear improvement

And God of War just became 20% more interesting to me.

What's with everyone and their little sistaer (especially their little sister) going on and on about My Little Pony?

The composer will be Tim Williams.

I hope they keep Mike Reagan as well. And Chris Velasco.

edited 4th Jan '12 2:01:50 PM by Vox