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God of War Ascension |OT| Gods up, Foes down
- Thread starter Canis lupus
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So your not having fun?
the trophy title?
The gaming industry is full of sensitive people.
yup.
I guess... as a female I wasn't offended in the slightest.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
This game is effing cheap, man >_<
Very frustrating fights
Very frustrating fights
Dragon1893
Member
You've got to be kidding me...
I mean, really?
I mean, really?
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
That came from a female tweeter and Sessler actually retweeted it.
Pachterballs
Banned
comes out here in 2 days. Can't fucking wait for it!!!!!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
At least it's a minor change due to minor backlash. They've been bigger "wait, reverse this shit!" changes from Sony
lol
At least it's a minor change due to minor backlash. They've been bigger "wait, reverse this shit!" changes from Sony
STILL bitter about that. At least the dude in Second Son looks like a normal human being this time.
Glorious.
Meatvillain
Banned
He looks infinitely more douchey than that redesign ever did though.
(Partly because the redesign was great)Canis lupus
Member
What I find funny is that one of those journalists disappointed by the trophy name used the term "vaginal companion" to refer to his girlfriend, or so I heard.
To be fair its a huge continuity fuckup.At least it's a minor change due to minor backlash. They've been bigger "wait, reverse this shit!" changes from Sony
Well good on you. It amazes me how upset people get over the smallest things.
BadAss2961
Member
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Someone lay down some combat and enemy encounter tips. Just passed the half-way mark, I think. I thought I read there were certain ways to make encounters easier, especially boss battles.
BadAss2961
Member
The change was warranted because that guy simply is not Cole.
He seems a little sheepish about his own reaction in his responses to her, saying that he wasn't trying to speak for anyone else and maybe just needed a nap.
It's possible he was in "fuck this game" mode after a frustrating part, too.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I don't mean to single you out; this is basically my response to the idea that it's okay because a woman chose it, or because a woman wasn't offended.
Unless you (the general "you") represent all women, it's irrelevant that you're female. It would be relevant if you were arguing against the claim that "all women were offended." But no one said that so no one needs to argue against it.
Yeah, I saw a video where he basically said he couldn't review a game because he couldn't get past a certain part. Definitely could have been in "fuck this game" mode.
Edit: Found it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUswZNa1N8
Dragon1893
Member
Oh come on, you can't completely change the appearence and voice of a character and say it's the same guy.
I'm not arguing which design is better, just that it doesn't make sense.
If the devs want a new character they need to go all the way like they did with second son, not create a completely new character model and pretend it's the same guy lol.
Imagine ND announcing UC4 with a completely different protagonist and then saying "that's Drake".
God of War IIs combat was a mash of poorly executed changes on the formula that God of War I established. First of all they removed the parry timing leading to a heavy attack, and that's fine! But it's not fine when they deliberately left in the slowdown animation leaving you with nothing until well into the game when you get the golden fleece hours into the game. Originally you were suppose to get the fleece much sooner, but it got shuffled around, and the gameplay up to that point was stilted and awkward because of this useless slowdown that served no purpose but to kill the flow of combat. Once you got the fleece, it still wasn't as fun as the parry from the original.
The block mechanic: People complained in the original that you couldn't block fast enough at times, so instead of merely reducing the delay between button press and block, they made the block instant and spam-able. This allowed you to abuse it against harder enemies and it was just a sloppy solution all around. that broke the intended combat against harder enemy types.
Rage of the Titans: I don't think I need to go into why this was poorly implemented. It was tacked on an completely op.
Enemies: enemies in God of War II were frequently just annoying in terms of design and placement. II really tried to ramp up enemies doing very fast light attack interrupts and it was poorer for it. You were semi frequently put into a situation where you were trying to do something like push a block or turn a lever while waves of enemies would spawn at you, it was just annoying and worse than pushing that cage in the original, because those enemies were limited in number and had more lenient tells for their attacks. The highlight would be the poorly designed sequences were you had to protect the scroll readers, on higher difficulties. A decent amount of the new enemies were just annoying or unfair to fight unless you exploited the combat system (like the armored guys with the ball and chain).
Alternate weapons, there's no argument that the alternate weapon (sword) was under developed in God of War I, but all of the alternate weapons in II were garbage and just not practical to use versus the blades at all. They were a waste of orbs.
Art design. II has the worst art design in the series bar none. It's inconsistent and while you're on an island moving ever closer to the center, the areas clash so much that you're hard pressed to ever feel that sense of progression. It was also responsible for the sub par designs of the rest of the Olympians (none of them ever measured up to Ares from the original). They had to design all of the gods at once to shoe horn them in for a cutscene, and it showed, haunting even God of War III.
I also dislike GoWII because Kratos was much more of a meat-head, it invalidated the ending of God of War I and generally just pigeon holed God of War III, leading you up to fighting a boss whom you had already decisively beaten in II. Not to mention how it completely ignored all of the logical plot threads it set up itself through introducing time travel. Krtatos not once even thinking to save his family for instance. It was just an extremely sloppy and poorly thought out sequel to a highly self contained and well thought out original.
CoO had at least on par encounter design, better level design, better combat, and better sub-weapons and spells, massively more consistent art design and proper sense of progression through its environments. It was just all around a better game.
SniperHunter
Banned
awesome
I just find it odd you had two guys fighting the crusade against sexism when she (the writer) is obviously much more experienced with the issue than they could ever be.
Meatvillain
Banned
Let us men decide what's offensive.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Nope.
It's just that one's gender is less relevant than one's beliefs and knowledge, which a person of either gender could hold. Of course women have unique experience with sexism that men don't, but I'd argue that a smart man who studies social issues could easily have a better perspective on sexism than an uneducated/dumb woman. Likewise, a smart woman could easily have a better perspective on men's social issues than a dumb man.
And to be clear I am in no way saying Kagari isn't qualified to comment. Just that her gender is not a deciding factor in the merit of her perspective.
Square Triangle
Member
Yeah but when we first starting talking on Twitter, I thought you were a Bro. You will always be a Bro to me
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
None mainline? Has this been confirmed not mainline and is a
spin off?
And before someone says it a prequel, so is MGS3 and DMC3
Dragon1893
Member
I'm glad there's a thread to discuss the trophy issue, OT would get really messy otherwise.
This was a non-issue from the start and it's disappointing that ssm felt the need to change it.
So let's carry on.
I think co-op might be pretty awesome, makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
This was a non-issue from the start and it's disappointing that ssm felt the need to change it.
So let's carry on.
I think co-op might be pretty awesome, makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
BadAss2961
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Question, I played the demo, but does it get better than that? It had it's highs and lows. But it could just me being spoiled by GoW3's intro.
We are all spoiled by GOW3's intro. Although some parts in the demo were pretty fucking impressive.
Anyone who cares kinda sucks. It's a video game story. I'd rather play with a hot bro than some ugly fuck for continuity's sake.
Fact of the matter is Cole just fucking blows.
There you have it... GOW4. Kratos finally finds a way to safe his family giving him a new motivation built on hope. He will be more desperate than ever, making him more vulnerable.