I still haven't played 2, but I heard it rocks. The original was fucking solid, as far as I'm concerned, and really raised the bar for those types of games.
RIP Hacker.
PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
Posts: 565
Posted:
Jul 30 2007 09:26 pm
The first is all I played, kicked ass but annoyed me a few times.
greeneyedzeke
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Posts: 287
Posted:
Aug 12 2007 01:41 pm
Syd can back me up on this one... I was bitching ENDLESSLY about part II. I think I put a curse of every member of every development team member's family. Like, those fucking Medusa bitches with the freeze-one-hit-kill shit made me almost chuck my controller. And the fucking non-ending....
That being said, I do actually really like both games a lot. And "Chains of Prometheus" on PSP looks pretty badass.
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
Aug 12 2007 03:51 pm
greeneyedzeke wrote:
Syd can back me up on this one... I was bitching ENDLESSLY about part II.
It's true. He was.
We'd be in the middle of an AIM conversation and then he'd leave to play GOW2, only to return angrier than he was before.
I never used to read the reviews in Variety, but I love that they're written so unabashedly from a sales prospective:
Variety wrote:
Sony’s blockbuster Playstation 2 series “God of War” has been squeezed onto the handheld PSP, where the spectacle loses a little of its epic proportion and the tried-and-true gameplay feels a little more tired-and-true. “God of War: Chains of Olympus” is a solid adventure with plenty of blood, breasts and Spartan beefcake along protagonist Kratos’ roadtrip to Hell and back. But sales might suffer a bit as fans of the series find that our hero’s efforts this time owe more to Sisyphus than Hercules.
Right... It's about the customers.
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FNJ
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Posts: 12294
Posted:
Mar 04 2008 09:27 pm
DMC3 is better.
Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
Posted:
Mar 04 2008 11:26 pm
I want to play GOW, but I never seem to get around to it.
Black Zarak
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Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
Posted:
Mar 04 2008 11:46 pm
I've played 1, it was pretty cool but the kind of game that once you beat it, there's no real reason to ever play it again.
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
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Posted:
Mar 05 2008 12:14 pm
My only problem with GOW is their interpretations of mythology... That and it's similar to a project of mine in development. Luckily, the changes it forced me to make are for the better IMO.
Oh, and GOW reminds me a lot of Shaolin Monks.
"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
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TheRoboSleuth
Title: Sleuth Mark IV
Joined: Aug 08 2006
Location: The Gritty Future
Posts: 2739
Posted:
Mar 05 2008 03:20 pm
Tebor wrote:
My only problem with GOW is their interpretations of mythology
If by interpretation of mythology you mean "turn everything we can think of into some kinda monster to kill." The only thing they managed to get right was that the gods were a bunch of jerkasses.
The game itself is okay, but I preferred God Hand. In addition to the hero not being some constipated cliche, the button mashing in God Hand required that you get up close and personal, rewarding a well timed but aggresive playstyle. Swift dodging, attacking them just before they hit you to counter, breaking their guard, God Hand demands that you develop some twitch skills. God of war rewards poking the enemy, juggling, and spamming magic until you get to shenmue them to death.
Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
Posts: 1062
Posted:
Mar 05 2008 05:48 pm
I've heard the GOW games are somewhat like Shadow of the Colossus was... which if it's true, means I'll be out buying all GOW games tomorrow. I loved SOTC.
Any truth to this claim?
Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us.
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16136
Posted:
Mar 05 2008 06:36 pm
Kubo wrote:
I've heard the GOW games are somewhat like Shadow of the Colossus was... which if it's true, means I'll be out buying all GOW games tomorrow. I loved SOTC.
Any truth to this claim?
i cant see the comparison really.
GoW is more action based than SotC was imo
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TheRoboSleuth
Title: Sleuth Mark IV
Joined: Aug 08 2006
Location: The Gritty Future
Posts: 2739
Posted:
Mar 06 2008 02:13 am
Kubo wrote:
I've heard the GOW games are somewhat like Shadow of the Colossus was... which if it's true, means I'll be out buying all GOW games tomorrow. I loved SOTC.
Any truth to this claim?
They are completely different.
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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Posted:
Jul 15 2008 06:35 pm
new teaser trailer for GoW III:
Klimbatize wrote:
I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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Location: phoenix, az usa
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Posted:
Feb 10 2009 12:01 am
paying the clone factory (or clone shop... i forget what they used in the PS games) to dig up this thread only because 1up.com has a week long featurette on God of War III.
I never played GoW because I won a copy off of eBay that froze before the first boss battle. I sent it back to the guy and told him it didn't work, and got the SAME EXACT COPY in the mail a week later. Did the exact same thing. Fuck that guy and fuck God of War.
"Well I don`t judge most things by graphics, reality has amazing graphics, and I don`t like it, that`s why I play video games." Laminated Sky on Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
Posted:
Feb 11 2009 12:50 am
I never played God of War... I preferd DMC much better as a game till 4 which kind of is slow and sucky...
