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God of War Ascension |OT| Gods up, Foes down
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Which difficulty?
keltickennedy
Member
Looking at your avatar I would rate it right below Revengance end boss difficultly level. I had way harder of a time getting through that than the trials.
Look at my previous posts. Make sure to use all of the secondary abilities and magic.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I felt similarly. Some narration here and there could have kept things going. As it is, it lacks a sense of propulsion. The music (or lack thereof) doesn't help with that feeling either.
EekumBokum
Member
Have they confirmed they are working on it? I have to wait a week to play, might as well wait a bit longer if it is on the way.
What exactly are the sound problems everyone has been talking about. To me i think I just barely notice sound really when i play games. But i can't remember a point during this game where I thought the sound was off. I'm probably just not listening though.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The lack of music is just bizarre. It's a much quieter game than GoW1-3. There are long stretches of time where there's nothing but the (really quiet) sounds of your attacks or pushing objects around.
JohnnySasaki86
Member
I have a theory. Every other GOW game had an amazing opening with a so so last boss fight(GOW3 end was thematically cool and creative, but not that huge on spectacle). If you remember the behind the scenes from GOW2, they said that starting with GOW2 they develop the first part of the game LAST.
Does anyone think its possible they threw this idea out the window, and now developed the last part of the game last? btw I still think the opening of this game was great, just not as good as GOW3, but almost as good as GOW2.
protonion
Member
About 2 hours in.
So far this is better than gow3! It feels closer to the ps2 titles which I like.
The last part of the intro fight is insane! My hair stood up during the final hits.
The second level gave me gow1 vibes. Nice optional puzzle there too!
The one I'm now had a killer sub boss!
Qtes are more involved than before and way more fun to do.
I'm early in the game but I don't get the negativity.
So far this is better than gow3! It feels closer to the ps2 titles which I like.
The last part of the intro fight is insane! My hair stood up during the final hits.
The second level gave me gow1 vibes. Nice optional puzzle there too!
The one I'm now had a killer sub boss!
Qtes are more involved than before and way more fun to do.
I'm early in the game but I don't get the negativity.
Just got all the health and magic upgrades on my own again. These collectibles have been easy to get since they started putting more than you need in the game. At least I don't believe it was always like that since god of war 1 and 2 are the only games in the series I didn't get all the eyes/feathers. I only started noticing how easy it was to get them all when 3 and the psp games came out.
Salz01
Member
I played more of the MP than I wanted to last night. Lol. I have a hard time clicking with it. The guard and parry, seems so frustrating to me. It's like it works but then doesn't. Plus one map in particular drives me nuts and I wish we could vote to bypass it. Will try MP again to see if it clicks with me. It's amusing.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I feel like they're trying to be really atmospheric about it, like Dark Souls or some shit, but it doesn't match the tone or feel of the other aspects of the game at all. So maybe they just totally botched the sound design by accident?
For me, playing on stereo setting, some sound effects are occasionally missing in mini cutscenes, the music starts and stops at odd times. It's little things like that that are very surprising given the studio's pedigree.
There are also stretches of the game where, seemingly on purpose, there's no music and just environmental ambient sound. For me those sections often felt unfinished rather than however they were supposed to feel.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
It's like that in the first two, but I feel they've been easier to find ever since GoW3.
I do like that once you reach Max eyes/feathers, they replace them with a larger than normal amount of red orbs, so it's still worth going out of your way a bit to find them. I fully maxed Kratos only by the final chapter, so there's a nice steady curve for upgrades, at least.
Jigolo
Member
Just beat Castor. Holy shit that boss fight was done so well. At the beginning of the fight I didn't know whether to move or not when I was on that floating rock. Thought it was part of the video, it looked that good.
Yeah the story is nothing to write home about. It's just Kratos trying to get those thoughts and memories out of his head.
Yeah the story is nothing to write home about. It's just Kratos trying to get those thoughts and memories out of his head.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I'm not 100% sure (edit: yes i am) but I think they've always put more in the game than you need to find. 1-3 had secret chests that instantly upgraded your health, magic, or gave a shitload of experience. Those are a lot easier to miss.
keltickennedy
Member
I have a theory that the final boss was actually a
boss Kratos would of fought at the statue of apollo level. They ran out of time and reworked it to be oily and dark so it could fit in with the fury sisters final fight
What happened to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FxcU5qGuq84#t=768s
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Having finished Ascension, do you have any advice about how to prioritize upgrades?
Is it more important to max your elements or max your blades?
I'm assuming that in the endurance fight near the end, some powers might be more useful than others.
It's been that way in every game. Once you get all of them, the eye and feather chests turn into red chests. You must've missed a ton in GOW 1 & 2
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I kinda stopped upgrading the blades around level 3, and started focusing more on the elements. For the amount of money you need for level 4/5 blades, the returns aren't really worth it for me. At least not over getting that lightning magic for example, which straight up runs shit, including the endurance run near the end.
Lion Heart
Banned
Can you change difficulty levels real time? I'll probably start on Normal, if its easy, I'll bump it to hard.
After GOW3 I thought I had enough of Kratos. I have only played a for 1 hour but the little changes they made to the game I am enjoying very much.
I really want to see how far SSM can take GOW on the PS4 but there is some things that really need to change.
Like the finishers, I appriciate that they added another level with the grappling but I want to have atleast (Interactive) choice on how I should violently kill the enemies(gut them, break them,dismember)
The first boss presentation was great but the battle was boring, I am tired of mashing and ducking,then QTE, game designers must come up with more unique ways to fight giant bosses they should look at shadow of colossus for inspiration.
Can wait to see what the game still has to offer.
I really want to see how far SSM can take GOW on the PS4 but there is some things that really need to change.
Like the finishers, I appriciate that they added another level with the grappling but I want to have atleast (Interactive) choice on how I should violently kill the enemies(gut them, break them,dismember)
The first boss presentation was great but the battle was boring, I am tired of mashing and ducking,then QTE, game designers must come up with more unique ways to fight giant bosses they should look at shadow of colossus for inspiration.
Can wait to see what the game still has to offer.
Normal
I'm finding it nigh-impossible not to take so much damage that I don't have a chance in hell in the next trial. The first fight alone is probably the hardest fight in the game.
And on top of all this, I get to the second trial, beat all the enemies, and the game glitches out on me. I think there's a enemy stuck in some geometry or some shit.
lol
You have the goddamn Blades of Chaos why the hell would you want to use a piece of wood?
No, you can't.
RPGCrazied
Member
So, how long is it? I'm sure someone has it beat by now.
The One and Done
Member
Decent length. 9 plus hours long easily.
RPGCrazied
Member
That seems longer than the other games, I'll probably get it around $30.
Jigolo
Member
shit, sorry. edited. Is there a button for spoiler tags here?
bigace33
Member
Yikes! The intro boss fight is every bit as epic as GOW3 and it's Titan's vs God's intro. The graphics in this game is amazing. The scale on that one particular fight with the
This is definitely a God Of War game, and I can't wait to see what is coming next.
Giant head with giant teeth was just mind blowing as far as visuals.
This is definitely a God Of War game, and I can't wait to see what is coming next.
there are some cinematics.. where there is only voice acting, and no sound effects, like footsteps, or punches or ya know, no sound foley work.
it is pretty bad.
Jigolo
Member
i spell it out each time. Weird because the mobile version of the site has the button right next to 'bold'.
Anyway it seems SSM has raised the difficulty on this one. Playing through it on normal and I do find it harder than GOW3 on the same difficulty.
Anything to do about the "game-breaking" glitch that is the manticore fight in Chapter 27?
Loving it so far, just wish the glitch hadn't stopped me.
JohnnySasaki86
Member
yea like when picking up an enemy and using them as a battering ram. Theres no sound effect when you run into the other enemies. This was fun in GOW3, but now with no sound, its pretty lame...
Seems to be. Really fun too! MP is definitely not a useless tacked on addition.
Audio is fine in MP?
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
The problem with the combat in this game is that you are blocking 75% of the time. That shouldn't be happening in a game with so much combat. Kratos feels weak because he doesn't do a lot if damage and you are reduced to guarding for a large majority of pretty much every fight.
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Try to restart the Chapter via Chapter select?
I did, I restarted the chapter and the same issue still is there. Only way to bypass it is continue from chapter 26, even then, if you die in Ch.27 the glitch starts all over again.