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God Of War
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I am working on my backlog so I pop the next game on the list and its God of War. I just finished Tales of the Abyss yesterday and Xenosaga II a couple of weeks back so I for one am unsure how this game plays.
My friends told me to go buy it since in thier words "Its similar to Prince of Persia". Well I bought it and after playing for a couple of hours, I really can't seem to get into the mood for the game.
I like Prince of Persia and bought all 3 of them for my Gamecube. I am familiar with these types of games so I can play it.
But why can't I seem to get into it? The Story to me in the begining is he falls down and then you fight. Hell, you only have to press square all the time and most of your enemies will die. The Hydra battle was ok, but the main part was animation. Its retains it wow factor for only a couple of minutes and then your in Athens smacking around enemies and ripping there head and such.
Is there any point to continue this? The manual for the game didn't tell me anything and the whole story is like "Stop Aries". Does the story get further developed as I play on or is it the same smash kill thing all though the game? When will I be introduced to the back story? I mean I could get into Price of Persia because it had an awsome story and kept with the game. Here Katos just smashes stuff. I can't get that.
My friends told me to go buy it since in thier words "Its similar to Prince of Persia". Well I bought it and after playing for a couple of hours, I really can't seem to get into the mood for the game.
I like Prince of Persia and bought all 3 of them for my Gamecube. I am familiar with these types of games so I can play it.
But why can't I seem to get into it? The Story to me in the begining is he falls down and then you fight. Hell, you only have to press square all the time and most of your enemies will die. The Hydra battle was ok, but the main part was animation. Its retains it wow factor for only a couple of minutes and then your in Athens smacking around enemies and ripping there head and such.
Is there any point to continue this? The manual for the game didn't tell me anything and the whole story is like "Stop Aries". Does the story get further developed as I play on or is it the same smash kill thing all though the game? When will I be introduced to the back story? I mean I could get into Price of Persia because it had an awsome story and kept with the game. Here Katos just smashes stuff. I can't get that.
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Not really. I liked Prince of Persia and I found the Prince was actually quite cool. I can't say I have played anymore games like this, but comparing it to Prince of Persia, I find God of War, lacking in something.
The Prince and Kratos are about as disparate a character as you can get, WW notwithstanding.
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But in all honesty this game is SO AMERICAN why would you put the disc in your ps2 get it out.
I gotta say, one thing I really like about the Prince was the way he treated women. Not that I condone it, but he's the first videogame character I have ever seen act that way. Pompous asshole.
No matter how hard I look at it, I can't decipher this sentence.
And PoP and GoW are pretty different. Since y'know, the Prince spends all his time jumping around solving fun platformer puzzles and treating women nicely while Kratos... spends all his time ripping heads off, slaughtering innocent bystanders, and treating women like the objects they are so he can kill God and forget his own past.
He's taking a shot at Katchem. What a dick
I understand that boss fights are supposed to be over the top, but regular fighting isn't very interesting and that composes of 90% of the game. Will you get more normal attacks or is it just a combinations of attacks that are given when you upgrade your weapon?
But seriously, I see what Katchem is saying. The fighting wasn't very exciting. Sure you have like 100 different combinations, but I was able to get through most of what I played using the same move over and over.
Yeah. I'll second this. You had a lot of variety in the game, but the game didn't make the variety very necessary....
Still it was an above-average example of this type of game....
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I agree. And fuck tight-rope walking. And backtracking a level against the will of the camera (as in, leaving a health chest alone, then going back for it while the camera continues to point ahead, meaning you face the camera and get to see about 1/3 of an inch ahead of you). And also fuck pan-climatic Minotaurs. Hey, welcome to the fire pits, here's a minotaur to fight. Desert? Minotaur. Ice level? Mino-fucking-taur. Not that I don't like stabbing them in the brain, but I like doing other things, too.
It's like they were developing GoW, had like 3 hours of amazing content, and tossed in some puzzles to make it "a thinking-man's human-destroying simulator", and then went way overboard and plopped in shit 'puzzles' including pushing fragile boxes on uncooperative conveyor belts filled with enemies who crave broken boxes and human blood to round it out.
But seriously, the good stuff far outweighs the bad, just don't give up on it until you're done.
Agreement.
Plus, combat was button-mashy dull.
Shallow, shallow game.
Prince of Persia: platforming/puzzles with fights in between to make the game seem longer.
God of War: fighting with platforming/puzzles in between to make the game seem longer.
At it's core, God of War is about the fighting, where Prince of Persia is about the puzzles. So at a glance they seem similar for mixing those two elements (puzzles and fighting) but they both focus on different things.
I'd be far more impressed if they had the comedy violence with an actual good game under it.
Shallow is exactly the right word for what you just described.
Ripping the head of the Medusa is fine but doing that for the 10th medusa? It gets a little repetative. "Oh Look there is the medua. Light Attack, Light Attack, Light attack, circle, spin once, spin agian head ripped off, done." It would be better if they would have at least kept more attacking options or even cool types of killing blows you could do.
I will complete this game however, for the shear factor its in my backlog and I have chosen it.
Try pushing more the just the light attack button, its not the games fault you have no imagination. And how can people actually not be interested in a twisted epic story based on Greek mythology?
It's also hard enough that you can't button mash.
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It gets worse. Wait till you see GoW2.
Normal Mode. I don't go into hard mode unless I have beaten the game first.
A question, do you know more of the story as you progress or is it a continuation of go there. kill. now go there and kill some more? Do I get to see more of the backstory on Kratos?
GoW and GoW 2 are absolutely amazing games. The first one was a bit easy in the beginning but if you played it, like it was intended, on hard and Spartan, you'd feel like you actually fucking accomplished something when you beat a boss, or a minotaur, or two minotaurs.
EDIT - And yes, you see MUCH more of Kratos's history throughout the game. It's touching. Especially the end.
Well there's your issue. On normal mode, you can pretty much press square through the whole game and say 'I win.' I can see how you'd think the fighting system is shallow if you havent played hard or really fucking insano-hard modes yet.
See, why should I have to play it on hard to get the experience? It a game, it should deliver regardless of hard-ness level. PoP didn't need to play on hard and on normal even enemies gave you a run for your money.
How far are you in GoW? There are pretty hard parts, even on Normal. And PoP's monsters are giving you a run for your money? They're INFINITELY easier than what you experience in GoW or GoW 2. The only frustrating thing about the monsters in PoP (the first one, at least) was how dull the combat got.
I am where I can see Ares in Athens and have to go find the oracle. In the area where you walk past houses and there are archers and some minotaurs as well as Gorgons. I am not talkign about GOW2, I don't even know if I would want GoW2 because GoW 1 is thus far uninspiring.
yeah but that's because you're a fucking dork.
It's a game.
Wait...you're less than 3 hours into the game? ...
You JUST started. You need to shut the fuck up about the difficulty.
I mean, did you even get to the part where the fucking guys pop out of the ground yet and spin their shit into your colon?