God of War Official Thread

I just beat it and I'm pretty disappointed at the final stages.

First off, why do so many developers feel that alien planets or otherworldy areas have to be jumping puzzles? They'll give an entire game which is primarily ground-based and suddenly when you leave Earth or shift planes or whatever everything suddenly reverts back to 8-bit logic where reality is a blantantly convienent series of platforms and beams.

The final battles sucked. All of them. The Hydra and the Minotaur were fucking sweet, both of those were awesome bosses that conveyed scale really well and just plain felt like you were taking on huge mythical creatures. Then I got to Ares and was presented with a normal battle - the exact same kind I'd been doing for the last 10+ hours - only with lesser powers. Whee. The whole time I was playing I was expecting something really fucking kickass to come, and when Pandora's Box was stolen I figured it'd be something like he would be wearing the box as a necklace and you would have to fight your way up him. Maybe there'd be a cliff you were standing on and he'd punch the rock, whereupon you'd have to run up his arm, battling to stay on, breaking off his armor and using the mini-games to wear him down, until finally you'd have access to the box and would unleash it right on him. Something that really showed off just how damned ENOURMOUS Ares is and a real god-like battle.

But no. Pandora's Box, the power of the Gods, just makes Kratos bigger. Whoopdie-fucking-shit. The true power of the box that damned humanity is a a living piece of e-mail spam. And on top of that his attacks are retarded, the only reason he poses any danger is because he's got an unblockable that he can do at almost any time which can be comboed up to like five times. Then there's the beauty which is how the final battle has probably the worst camera of the game, it's like all of a sudden they had no idea how to present the basic concept of two people on screen. I'd be fighting with the camera displaying a 2D version of a 3D plane with Kratos totally hidden because Ares is blocking my entire view, thus giving me no idea how far I was and making it a lot harder to read his animations.

And let's not get into the retarded protect mission.

Idiotic platforming aside, this was a pretty good game up until they totally dropped the ball at the end and forgot they were working on something kickass, and somehow mixed it up with the final area of some random C-rate action game. It's like right at the end they suddenly decided to hand it over to the developers of Kingdom Hearts or something.

Some really good work, guys, but better luck next time on finishing the product.

At least the unlocked videos were cool.

ARGH! This game is pissing me off! I'm at Ares(no big spoiler here so eat me) and the level before him was asshat! Why the fuck do I need to run across a rotating pole with blades on it that hit you and kill you instantly. ARGH! Fucking 3d platforming is QUEER! Plus theres a slut ass part that makes you climb a giant spinning thing with blades on it that seem to hit you easily and make you drop to the bottom. Plus the tower goes on forever. Then to make it more fun theres another one! 9.8 my ass. Best game ever..my ass! Its a great game and all but the queer 3d platforming brings the game down a bit. Its not unplayable or anything its just cheap and frustrating when your kicking ass all the time and then get instant deaths all of a sudden. And what really irked me even more was dying a bunch then the game asking to put it on Easy mode. FUCK YOU!!!!! Its not your combat that I need easier. Its your QUEER 3d, jumping, 1 hit death, ass camera shit I need easier.



Damn, you would think I hate the game. :D I had to get this off my chest. And FUCK YOU ARES YOU JERKOFF ASS PIRATE BITCH! :D

:lol: This might be the first time where EvilMog007 and I are on the exact same page.

yea, the final boss could have been better, but I liked it anyway.. except, of course, for the protect your family thing..

But I think using the giant sword that you ran across earlier in the game was an interesting way to help the whole sense of scale for the final battle.

and Hades fucking rocked.. screaming bodies falling from above = kick ass.

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But I think using the giant sword that you ran across earlier in the game was an interesting way to help the whole sense of scale for the final battle.

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That was indeed awesome, but watching someone pick up something in a cutscene shouldn't be the coolest part of a videogame battle.

Which reminds me: Does anyone know exactly how to perform the counter on Ares? Sometimes he randomly blocks an attack and the game slows time and if I mash on hard attack and block I'll usually get the mini-game, but it wasn't 100%.

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and Hades fucking rocked.. screaming bodies falling from above = kick ass.

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Oh, it certainly looked cool. It just played like ass.

If you're hitting him, and he starts to block, you'll get the struggle, but if he starts blocking IMMEDIATELY, you'll get countered

That fight was uh, cute on hard. One unblockable fireball/spines combo at start? You=dead.

I finished this over the weekend and I'm now running through it on hard. I really liked it, but I'm with all of you guys, Hades fucking sucked ass. Those two towers to climb were quite possibly one of the most obnoxious things in a videogame ever. And yeah, the last boss fight wasn't nearly as cool as the first two. I really wish there were more boss fights in the game as well. But all it all it was a great fucking game. The story was awesome.

Did they make Hades evil? I hate that, Hades isn't a bad guy.

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Originally Posted by johnk_

yea, the final boss could have been better, but I liked it anyway.. except, of course, for the protect your family thing..

But I think using the giant sword that you ran across earlier in the game was an interesting way to help the whole sense of scale for the final battle.

and Hades fucking rocked.. screaming bodies falling from above = kick ass.

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Dj beat the game last night, and we enjoyed it quite a bit. I did kinda felt it was too easy (much easier than DMCs for example), and kinda short. Still boss battles kicked ass, well most of them anyway.

And Hades WAS awesome. Just loved Its Raining People mood.

As for Hades platforming, spinning logs walks and towers climbing, I am with you guys. I saw some of it, and the rest, heard dj complaining about it, in the other room.

This game does so many things right I've lost track.

Mining the red stuff. YES! Finally a developer gets it right. None of this sitting around going between rooms farming exp like some fucking MMORPG as in Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden(Though at least NG had the "bug" room). God Of War gives enough exp to keep the weapon/spell levels together and allow for a bit of customization over time, yet never detracting from the game itself.

The Camera- Again it's absolutely gorgeous. For once I only needed one hand to count the number of times the camera screwed me up in a bad way. None of this jumping across a pit only to have the camera shift and the next thing you know you're jumping into space. And the way the camera smoothly shifts over to your next task is just wonderful(The little touches like in one scene while I pulled a switch I spotted a treasure chest just tucked away in the back, un-noticeable when I was next to the switch and not holding it.)

Swimming doesn't absolutely blow for once. Okay granted there's no water combat but thank the Gods am I happy for that.

The entire game is just a cinematic masterpiece. Aside from Metal Gear Solid 3 and a handful of other titles this is one of the few games that really puts the "Next Generation" ideal forth. The sense of scale is awe-inspiring.

Choice cuts
When you first see Ares laying waste to everyone.

While scaling the mountains of Pandora's Temple you can see the titan below you crawling along the sands.

The real-time carnage being wrought in Athens, moving along as enemy troops waste the good guys.

The man in the cage pleading for his life as you drag him to a sacrifice for the Gods

Ares, way out in the middle of Athens heaving that column all the way to Pandora's temple to kill Kratos..felt just like reading some Greek Mythology.
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Okay well nevermind. There is just far too much good stuff going on in this game and I fail to see the hatred or even dislike going around for it. Looking forward to the next playthrough on God-difficulty. The Presentation alone puts this game over most others this generation, it really feels like an epic.

Granted there are many instant death situations but at least there are plenty of checkpoints.

Though I don't like Hades' look. They actively went out and made him look evil, sort of like a ghost or something with hollow eyes and a gaping mouth..like it would suck the soul out of somebody.