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[Arsenic]

I've died more times in combat in GoW3 than GoW1 and 2 combined and i'm not even done yet.

Are you playing on Titan mode?
This game does require you to roll a whole lot more than the previous two games. The grunts follow you more precisely, theres no sound indication of a combo-interrupting hit from an enemy. See: Cursed Leginnaire

 

[tirminyl]

Maybe I should complain that GoW 3 isn't more like UC2?

I've been thinking about this game more and more after beating it yesterday night. The only low point or disappointment for me was that the ending was spoiled for me during the Sony GDC conference. Not to mention I was on a media blackout (trying my best) about the game for months.

 

[Crisco]

The cerebus and satyrs fight wasn't too bad for me. I used the gorgon soul summon on the hades weapon to turn the satyrs to stone and shatter them.

 

[Arsenic]

Maybe I should complain that GoW 3 isn't more like UC2?

I've been thinking about this game more and more after beating it yesterday night. The only low point or disappointment for me was that the ending was spoiled for me during the Sony GDC conference. Not to mention I was on a media blackout (trying my best) about the game for months.

How id they spoil it? And i hate how they include some of the final boss fight in the launch trailer. Absolutely unnecessary

 

[Animator]

Fuck the asshole who designed the challenges. The most unfun piece of shit I ever played. El matador one is the closest I came to putting the controller through the tv in my life.

 

[B33]

The first

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Zeus

sequence is killing me.

I don't recall the past

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final boss

encounters being so difficult.

 

[see5harp]

Damn the other day I came up with some generic story to argue that I wouldn't care about spoilers in GOW3 and turns out the generic story is actually exactly what happens in the game. That opening sequence was still great, but the game never really gets to that level again in the second half. Those flying sequences were still much less annoying than the Space Harrier levels in Bayonetta (still really annoying though).

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

The first

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Zeus

sequence is killing me.

I don't recall the past

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final boss

encounters being so difficult.

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Ares

was more of a bitch, and

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those 2 sisters of time

were much more of a

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counter fest

. This at least gave you the option to take health down using your magic or "rage of the gods".

 

[Dogenzaka]

Ares was more of a bitch, and those 2 sisters of time were much more of a counter fest. This at least gave you the option to take his health down using your magic or "rage of the gods".

You could use magic and rage with Ares too. I took Ares down in a matter of seconds just by using my rage and Army of Hades. The part that pissed me off in GoW1 was the stupid family sequence.

Fuck the asshole who designed the challenges. The most unfun piece of shit I ever played. El matador one is the closest I came to putting the controller through the tv in my life.

Only challenges I enjoyed were GoW1's. Everything else became ridiculous in attempt.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

I'm playing on normal and so far I've only used square, square, triangle to kill everything. Will the game force me to do anything differently later on?

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

You could use magic and rage with Ares too. I took Ares down in a matter of seconds just by using my rage and Army of Hades. The part that pissed me off in GoW1 was the stupid family sequence.

I spoiler edited my post, but there was nothing earth shattering in there.


Wait...there was magic in the Ares battle? I have to youtube it to see if I'm an idiot now.

 

[pistolpete2940]

Am I remembering wrong? I couldve sworn that you could use magic and rage of the gods at the same time in the previous games. I can't do it in GOWIII

 

[B33]

I'm playing on normal and so far I've only used square, square, triangle to kill everything. Will the game force me to do anything differently later on?

Yes.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Some guy on the making of vids said that Kratos was 8'6"....O_O....WTF....he looks nowhere CLOSE to that height.

 

[Raist]

:lol :lol :lol

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Poseidon's mistress

 

[CurlySaysX]

Jusst got this game and Jesu Cristo! the graphics are insane.
The bar has been raised.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

So a big WTF at the randomness of the checkpoints....sometimes you re-spawn literally right where you die, and other times you are really far back leading to some frustrating 'die/repeat large section' BS. Im playing on Titan so im noticing this alot more than if i were on a lesser difficulty.

 

[Weenerz]

Rage of the Titans ability is such a throwaway skill, Kratos skips around far too much to really be effective and the

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Cestus from Hercules

do plenty of damage to everything.

Finally finished the game, I enjoy almost everything about the game, I just wish it was longer and that they took out the stupid flying events for the

Spoiler

Chains of Balance

. I mean, it wasn't so bad for the first time, but having to do it like 3 or 4 times just got old.

 

[Snipes424]

Fuck the asshole who designed the challenges. The most unfun piece of shit I ever played. El matador one is the closest I came to putting the controller through the tv in my life.

I almost did the same thing trying to get "get stoned"

 

[Ninja Scooter]

finally got to spend some time with this game since its been eyeballing my from my shelf since Tuesday...so far im loving it but is the double jumping fucked and imprecise for anyone else, or is my X button borked? Its causing a lot of headaches on some of the simplest of platforming sections for me.

 

[tapedeck]

I know the Ultimate Edition is kind of a ripoff but I have to say I really like the Challenges of Exile they are damn fun, alot more enjoyable then the Challenges of the Gods IMO.

finally got to spend some time with this game since its been eyeballing my from my shelf since Tuesday...so far im loving it but is the double jumping fucked and imprecise for anyone else, or is my X button borked? Its causing a lot of headaches on some of the simplest of platforming sections for me.

Yeah alot of people are having issues with double jump/flying. For me it seemed like the wings wouldnt come out soon enough after hitting the button sometimes.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I know the Ultimate Edition is kind of a ripoff but I have to say I really like the Challenges of Exile they are damn fun, alot more enjoyable then the Challenges of the Gods IMO.


Yeah alot of people are having issues with double jump/flying. For me it seemed like the wings wouldnt come out soon enough after hitting the button sometimes.

i kind of figured out that you have to jump well before a ledge instead of right at the edge, but its still kind of cheap feeling.

 

[RavenFox]

finally got to spend some time with this game since its been eyeballing my from my shelf since Tuesday...so far im loving it but is the double jumping fucked and imprecise for anyone else, or is my X button borked? Its causing a lot of headaches on some of the simplest of platforming sections for me.

Posted a few times in this thread why. A design decision by the devs so you won't walk off edges. There's a dead spot at the edge so you have to jump well before you reach the edge of a platform.

 

[dralla]

The first

Spoiler

Zeus

sequence is killing me.

I don't recall the past

Spoiler

final boss

encounters being so difficult.

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use air dash to avoid all his attacks. when he jumps in the air shoot him with the bow, it will knock him out of his attack

i loooove that fight. the enemy is a little 'bullet spongey" though

 

[Guts Of Thor]

So I just played up until the 1st save point and had to stop because I don't think I could handle the awesomeness.

This is going to be one hell of a game.

 

[Butane123]

Just got done with it. What an amazing game.

 

[Helmholtz]

Played for like 8 hours today, I think I got pretty far. Just killed

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hercules

.
Graphics and scale are quite impressive. I was kind of disappointed that the classic God of War formula seems to be unchanged though. I also found it surprisingly difficult on normal, some of the bosses took me multiple tries.

 

[Raist]

Holy fucking shit @

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Cronos

That's one epic kill.

And lol,

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Hephaestus

that was sad :lol

 

[Caj814]

:lol :lol :lol

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Poseidon's mistress

I was nice enough to go check back

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to see if she was alright. . .outside of her disembodied severed arms she could have probably used some more upper body training:lol

 

[Corran Horn]

Replaying for the hell of it with fear kratos on easy mode taking some videos. Holy shit this is easy. Bosses trigger next stage in like 2-3 hits :lol

 

[WilyRook]

The cerebus and satyrs fight wasn't too bad for me. I used the gorgon soul summon on the hades weapon to turn the satyrs to stone and shatter them.

Thanks for posting this. I've been poring over this thread just for pointers for that fight, and after a couple tries I beat them using exactly that: stoned the satyrs. Playing on Titan, too.

 

[templeusox]

The documentary on the UE is pretty cool.

 

[Papercuts]

Thanks for posting this. I've been poring over this thread just for pointers for that fight, and after a couple tries I beat them using exactly that: stoned the satyrs. Playing on Titan, too.

I tried that but it seems really sketchy. The satyr doesn't always get stoned, and you don't really get many uses of the magic.

 

[NeoUltima]

Is the receipt of your costume code not suppose to be instant? Put my Amazon code into the GoW3 site awhile ago now, still no email.

Why couldn't Amazon just give a code to use on PSstore >.< wtf

 

[Darkatomz]

GOOD F*CKING LORD...

I really don't remember hard mode being THIS hard in any of the other God of War games at all. Took me 45 deaths just to get past

Spoiler

the scorpion boss which drops the ice crystal thinger, and now I'm having some issues in the wave room where Pandora hangs.

I don't remember the last time a game made me so damn angry.

 

[WilyRook]

I tried that but it seems really sketchy. The satyr doesn't always get stoned, and you don't really get many uses of the magic.

It could've been luck. I only missed once though. Before I 'fired' the gorgon I ran straight at the satyr 'till I was about 3 strides away from 'im.

Again, could've been luck...

 

[roMonster]

Bought the game today and played it for a few hours--all i can say is...

:O

Got to

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hephaestus

and when I saw him moving in the background--

:O

 

[Corran Horn]

Is the receipt of your costume code not suppose to be instant? Put my Amazon code into the GoW3 site awhile ago now, still no email.

Why couldn't Amazon just give a code to use on PSstore >.< wtf

im still waiting too....too much traffic/errors/etc I guess.

 

[Caj814]

As far as difficulty goes. . .on Normal I died about 5-6 times when it came to enemies while I probably died

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70-80 times from pitfalls because the jumping and air gliding is very very inconsistent

 

[Melfice7]

Got to

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hephaestus

and when I saw him moving in the background--

:O

thats such a simple area yet so amazing

 

[abstract alien]

Just a question. How stable is the framerate in regards to the 60fps? I know it's only 30fps when doing some "titan/whatever other crazy shit happens", but how is it during normal ass kicking?

 

[Raist]

Just a question. How stable is the framerate in regards to the 60fps? I know it's only 30fps when doing some "titan/whatever other crazy shit happens", but how is it during normal ass kicking?

Smooth. I personally don't really notice the "drops". Motion blur and slow-mo helps, I guess.

I'm stuck in the

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fucking labyrinth. Just after killing Hera. I've filled the second cup but then I have absolutely no idea what to do :I

edit: nevermiiiind

 

[MvmntInGrn]

Smooth. I personally don't really notice the "drops". Motion blur and slow-mo helps, I guess.

I'm stuck in the

Spoiler

fucking labyrinth. Just after killing Hera. I've filled the second cup but then I have absolutely no idea what to do :I

If you are where I think you are.

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Move staircase piece to bottom area, as far down as you can. IIRC place it so it looks like its going up to the left towards and empty cup.

Press the big button (activates the green-mode thing), carry Hera's body to the now accessible staircase (that you just put in place) and put her in the cup to hold it down.

Now you can move the staircase to the button (so you have enough time) and go up.

I'm horrible at explaining things, so I don't know how much help that will be :lol

 

[abstract alien]

Smooth. I personally don't really notice the "drops". Motion blur and slow-mo helps, I guess.

That's reassuring. So long as it doesn't run like he demo did during the usual beatdowns, I'm all good.

 

[Rikyfree]

Yay, got the titan trophy! Beat

Spoiler

Zeus

in one try. The cerberus? Easily over 15 times. Fuck whoever designed that fight.

 

[Raist]

Ok this is ridiculous :lol

Spoiler

MOAR CYCLOPS

 

[ghostmind]

Finished my first playthrough on Normal and watched the first "behind the scenes" featurette. The amount of "making-of" content available is insane.


What a fucking awesome game.

 

[MirageDwarf]

I'm dying more than I used to in normal mode in GoW I/II. Game also throws mini-bosses now and then. I thought Hades was tougher than I expected as a second boss. You get silver trophy for killing Hades.

I highly doubt that but is it possible to upgrade everything to max in single run? If I have to make choices, which one is the best weapon to upgrade?

 

[Rikyfree]

I'm dying more than I used to in normal mode in GoW I/II. Game also throws mini-bosses now and then. I thought Hades was tougher than I expected as a second boss. You get silver trophy for killing Hades.

I highly doubt that but is it possible to upgrade everything to max in single run? If I have to make choices, which one is the best weapon to upgrade?

Oh you can definitely upgrade all weapons in a single run on titan mode and below. I did it with over 15k left over. But to answer your question, I upgrade the blades to lvl 3 first, then the bow, then max out the blades, then work on the cestus till maxed out. From there you can do whatever you want.

 

[Raist]

w t f

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Is that scorpion boss a joke? I mean, you have to spam with these crappy gloves, and its main attack is like, impossible to dodge :I