God of War Official Thread

[MarkRyan]

Anyone else have problems with grappling enemies when the circle appears overhead? If there's more than one enemy nearby, it's an utter pain in the ass sometimes and frustrates me to no end.

[MechDeus]

Anyone else have problems with grappling enemies when the circle appears overhead? If there's more than one enemy nearby, it's an utter pain in the ass sometimes and frustrates me to no end.

It annoyed the hell out of me until I taught myself to just not go for the kill unless I have a straight shot at the enemy. If there's a group of three packed together I'll just pound them some more and not bother performing a Fatality unless I really need the health, in which case I'll try to roll around to either get in a better position or make them spread out.

I'm actually now at the point where I'm killing them too fast, the circle usually only appears for a split-second during the middle of a combo and they're dead by the time the combo finishes. It would've been nice if they had make the grapple auto-target whoever could be grappled insead of just any ol' enemy, but oh well.

[MarkRyan]

It bugs me most when fighting two cyclopses simultaneously. Those finishing moves are totally necessary, but it's such a pain and you get your ass kicked if it messes up.

[MechDeus]

It bugs me most when fighting two cyclopses simultaneously.

I'm not sure if I'm fighting a different breed than you are since I'm probably earlier but I've yet to have any trouble with them, my biggest trouble enemy group are those lanky knights that guard most of the time. Being able to stab them in the back with their own swords usually makes me feel better, though.

I actually have more difficulty with the way that walking into enemies is an auto-reflect. Sometimes I'll try to barge my through a couple to get to one guy that's weakened or in circle state, but instead I just bounce off the guys not doing anything and then we all stare at each other while waiting for the recoil animations to finish.

[Error]

OK whats the deal with this block puzzle? Mark I went to IGN and discovered you were doing the guide, and you havent gotten that far yet. So get on your horse would you?

Nevermind, the gamefaqs message board put an instruction in backwards.

[MarkRyan]

Yeah, I'm doing the guide, but I've been swamped with crap at work. My progression is slow, but hopefully things'll be better next week (and I've got today off).

[johnk_]

OK whats the deal with this block puzzle? Mark I went to IGN and discovered you were doing the guide, and you havent gotten that far yet. So get on your horse would you?

Nevermind, the gamefaqs message board put an instruction in backwards.

are you talking about the puzzle you have to solve to get the green necklace?

[Victrix]

Done, finished it on Spartan. The last several fights were brutally difficult. My PS2 locked up last night on the last fight, I was less than pleased.

I also forgot to use the Muse Keys I found them both, but didn't use them where they had to be used, and missed my chance to find whatever they unlock.

edit: Poked around, looks like I didn't miss anything major by not using the keys. Yay

[Error]

Ya the big tetris like puzzle, but i figured out what i did wrong. One of those staring you in the face mistakes.

[marwan]

i was under the impression "God of War" supports 1080i, i look through the option screen and all i see is "progressive scan"

did i miss something, or was i miss-informed?