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>>14614011

Ive been asking the same since it came out an all my friends were jerking off with those games.

Not only is kratos an unlikeable asshole, but the game isnt really that fun either.

Its a set piece delivery mechanism not unlike Uncharted. Normalfags with no standards love that shit.

It was created and meant to be an accessible Devil May Cry, so for the average person who isn't good enough to git gud at DMC, it's a fun game.

>edgy "badass" protagonist

>titties

>QTE filled gameplay

It was designed to appeal to 13-year-olds and it worked.

>>14614046

That makes more sense, I enjoyed DMC1 just fine when I was a kid.

>>14614047

Yeah that's an apt summary.

>>14614027

To be honest with you, this is one of very few hack 'n' slash games I've actually played myself. The only other one that comes to mind immediately is in fact DMC 3, but even though I'm relatively green to hack 'n' slashes, I could still very obviously feel how shallow this game was. Not only that but it was extremely buggy as well. I fell through the map at least 7 times, and I won't even get started on the janky hitboxes and lack of lock-on.

>>14614011

>How in the world did this game get the kind of praise that it did?

Because the vidya industry was dead and actual gamers had been replaced with retarded niggerfaggots by the time God of War came out. So they herped, and derped, showered it with praise because it made their tiny casual brains tingle.

>>14614011

It's not as bad as its horrendous walking simulator reboot. GOW was never some high brow, technical action game, but at least it was a game, as opposed to being a terrible, pretentious movie.

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>>14614123

Are you screwing with us?

I mean people have shit taste, stop expecting everyone to have as good as taste as you

>>14614011

It was one of the setpiece monsters of the mid 2000s. Alongside Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War, it introduced this concept of amazing looking action setpieces even when the actual gameplay behind it is too shallow. And people loved that shit when it came out.

Granted, of those three, only God of War was not a good game under the hood. Even then, the spectacle it showed along its accessibility basically made it an instant hit.

I told people to like it as a joke.

Same reason people love star wars, anon, objectively garbage taste. It stretches to processed foods, public schooling, worship of whoever's in charge regardless of their agenda, etc. etc.

I never wanted to be anything like a hipster, but darn it all if you don't have to be one nowadays by necessity.

>>14614308

Are you done with your faggotry yet?

>>14614308

Tits or gtfo

>>14614308

I know I gave it a chance and I regret every second. Are you trying to say 2 and 3 are better? I'm skeptical to say the least.

>>14614356

I didn't say you were. You could be a tranny. You're enough of a cunt that you could be either one.

>>14614411

I've had enough of you. Ironic shilling is still shilling.

>>14614123

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>>14614444

Your attempts at larping as an SJW are pathetic. Its fine to shit on the original games, but to say that the next one is going to be awesome and using SJW lingo is insanity.

>>14614011

No idea. I've heard people go as far as to say Ninja Gaiden was made obsolete when God of War came out. Maybe it's just because of all the tits?

>>14614520

I can tell you with the utmost certainty that NG has superior cheesecake if Team Ninja's other work is anything to go by. Not that it's that much of an achievement for anything to beat GoW in that department (much like every other department), the most you get in the first game is like 2 pairs of very low poly PS1-tier bolt-ons. But hey you can see the nipples I guess?

Sony money and normalfags, what else?

>>14614027

This game single handedly made me hate button mashing QTEs, even now button mashing QTEs are a deal breaker for me.

>>14614563

>But hey you can see the nipples I guess?

That's what I'm talking about. Nipples in a (console)games were a big deal back then.

>>14614928

Didn't 3 sell really well too? Provided that's the case, why the fuck did they mess with it anyway?

>>14614959

>It's fun

So is watching paint dry

>>14614011

Critics have extremely shit taste and will constantly flip flop on whether a game is good or not.

>>14615037

>pic

goddamn when did the edgelord teens find this place

I got gifted those games back when they came out. They were cheap instagraftication romps of over the top violence and pointless button mashing events to more efficently kill enemies which was somewhat required on higher levels just because they ended up such giant sacks of HP you wanted gone pronto.

I think what I remember most was, outside going for the stupidly high difficulty levels which were mostly making everything hit like a truck and have mountains of health to grind down was just how stupidly easy it was if you didn't crank it up. Everything about it was designed to be a power fantasy almost impossible to fuck up. You really had to intentionally be shit or truly be shit to lose playing GoW. Which is why it was so mind numbingly dull. Go one place, kill everything, go another place, kill everything, go sound like your having a hernia pushing the gimmick block for a bit, OH HEY TITS, move on and kill some more everything, wash rinse repeat.

That's about all I really remember outside Kratos fucking up the entire pantheon and then shitting all other Athena's batshit insane plan to take over by killing himself. But now he's somehow not dead and having to take care of a brat that's not even his in a rehash of another game because fuck being original anymore.

It's an okay drinking game lineup because it's so fucking simple to beat but that is basically it. And even then I got plenty better that are actually fun to play shitfaced instead of merely occupy my time with.

>>14615062

The only newfag here, is you. You keep embarrassing yourself at every turn. Best to just leave this thread, pal. There is nothing you can do to repair the damage you've done.

Sad, just sad. I pity you.

>>14615069

>Literally no fucking argument

>Just trying to stir up shit like a /tv/ tier nigger

Pathetic, back to the cotton fields

>>14614308

>A bit too complicated

The worst part is I can already imagine a game journalist actually saying this unironically.

>>14615069

You don't type like anyone I recognize.

>>14614959

What did you have fun with Anon? I'm really trying to understand here.

>>14615125

Shitposting about it here

>>14614011

Published and marketed by Sony, there exists no other reason, I didn't get it either, my brother recommended it to me, and at that time I hadn't even yet played Devil May Cry and could tell it was shallow.

God of War is probably the most egregious of the sort of games where no alternative exists so people see it as the height of the genre, but in God of Wars case superior alternatives do exist and even pre date it, other examples of this shit are The Elder Scrolls and Borderlands.

>>14614100

I remember an instructor in my army training showing and gushing over the kill scenes in the third game, and at that time I hadn't even played any clover/Platinum Games, I played TW101 as the first one and it blows the fuck out of everything in the God of War series, especially the kill scenes, it's so stupidly satisfying to slice Laambo in half with his own sword and listen to him complain about it afterwards, but it's the culmination of gameplay events that really make these satisfying.

>>14614047

And his father abandoned him

>>14615196

I think you replied to the wrong anon.

>>14615691

Yes, goyim. Nu-God of War is just like Dark Souls. You want to be hardcore don't you? So play our mongrolized, casualized version of DS meets TLoU.

>>14615740

>Ninja Gaiden has XXXY

>God of war has □□□△

Wow, these combos are so totally different, that's amazing.

No but really, GoW may not be as deep as glorious Nippon action games but I still found the first game to be a pretty damn good time. Quick time events certainly didn't age well though. GoW2 was OK but the way the first game ended, it really never should have been made. The PSP prequel games made absolutely no sense within the context of the first game, so at that point the series starts to feel like a joke. God of War 3's main issue I felt was that all the weapons felt to similar, except for the first weapons I guess but even that one couldn't resist having an attack that involved flailing chains around. I didn't play Ascension other than a demo of it, and it just felt weird to control, again for prequel reasons.

NuGod of War looks awful.

>>14615845

too* similar, except for the fist* weapon

Fuck me time for sleep.

>>14615758

>Dark Souls of action genre

I thought Dark Souls is Dark Souls of action genre.

>>14615863

no anon, you are wrong

http://archive.is/ib18I

>>14615691

Help me to understand how GoW1 was good, and also kindly point me to where I recommended that anyone purchase or otherwise play the new one.

>>14615952

I don't have to educate you :3

>nugod of war is 2 weeks away from being released

>threads start popping up not simply talking about god of war, but specifically trashing classic god of war titles

GoW was never some sort of pinnacle in gaming. But it was far from shit. It didn't start the violent craze, we had this amount of gore back in the 90's. It didn't start the QTE craze, RE4 is far more responsible for popularizing it and still it wasn't the progenitor of QTEs. If anything, those FMV games on sega CD and such were a bigger culprit. It wasn't the top tier CUHRAYZEE game either, it never claimed to be one.

It was a brutal, bloody, pretty difficult, slightly repetitive action game about fucking greek goddesses , fucking over greek gods and ripping&tearing ordinary greek wildlife in the process.

And now they're taking THAT franchise and turning it into a TLOU clone. If it can happen to GoW it can happen to Mortal Kombat, Devil May Cry, Hotline Miami, Carmageddon, Painkiller, Serious Sam, Shadow Warrior and Blood.

This isn't our first rodeo, pardner.

>>14615978

it produces weak bait

>>14615982

My friend if you want to aim the autism at anyone aim it at this guy >>14615993

Old God of War is garbage and I feel like if a worse reboot wasn't about to come out you wouldn't be trying to defend it like you are.

>>14614831

Finally someone knows what's up. The true greek hero and people never gave him a chance. Maybe due to Brittney Spears not showing tits yet everyone in GOW showing tits?

>>14616001

that guy is right though, you probably never played it

It popularized QTEs, it was an instant hit with the game journos.

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>>14616019

I get the feeling a lot of people on this board never actually play the games they love to bitch about and decry as "the worst piece of shit ever made".

>>14616060

Just filter him, he's some sort of gamercuck autist that will continue to shit up the thread if you let him, just because he's a special snowflake protected by mark & his shit mods.

>>14616046

(((They)))

>>14616046

>why would I defend something now if I had always liked it?

It's not very common for someone to defend something this shallow and entry level here, and with your very blatant Aspergers I'd expect it even less.

>>14616266

By that logic Tetris, Kirby and Shantae are all terrible games not worth defending and should all grow up and be transformed into dating sims with automatic checkpoint saving system.

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>>14615758

>If you hate older GoW games you like the new even worse garbage

Kill yourselves shit eaters, anything done by Santa Monica is fucking garbage.

>>14616283

The games you've listed off don't pretend to be complex and aren't praised as such. Not to mention the fact that they are honestly probably all more deep than GoW when you get down to it given that GoW is literally just mashing square with some rolls and blocks here and there with a gratuitous amount of QTEs to break it up. Regardless, at the end of the day, if you feel like everything is bait and shilling, why play into it by responding to the thread at all? Contrary to what you seem to believe, saging and dumping your bait folder isn't a downvote. Why waste the time?

>>14614831

Throw a bit of Castlevnaia: Lament of Innocence in there as well.

>>14616328

>The games you've listed off don't pretend to be complex

neither does God of War or it's creators

>and aren't praised as such

point me to a dozen articles from "professional gaming journaists" praising original god of war titles for their complexity

>just mash square

beat god of war using only square and some rolls and blocks here and there on at least normal difficulty and stream/record it

>why are you responding?

not letting the cancer and misinfo spread

>>14616354

>beat god of war using only square and some rolls and blocks here and there on at least normal difficulty and stream/record it

I literally just did yesterday. That's why I started this thread. I'm not going to do it again just because you think your precious hunk of shallow, overrated garbage is any better or more complex than it really is. As far as the claims of it not trying to pretend to be complex go, I don't know what your impression of hack 'n' slash games is exactly, but I've always thought of them to be pretty mechanically complex games that took some learning to get good/succeed at. When someone makes a hack and slash game, I'd wager that most people would expect complexity out of it. If they wanted to make a shallow set piece "junk food" title, why not drop the bullshit masquerade and just make a Quantic Dream type game? As far as trying to not let "the cancer and misinfo" (read: people disagreeing with my unapologetically shit taste) spread, all you've managed to do is show your ass and act like a retard in a thread that was created to try and understand what people liked about the game. Congratulations on that if that was anywhere near your goal Anon.

>>14616354

>beat god of war using only square and some rolls and blocks here and there

That is literally how most people beat the game.

>>14614011

The same reason you will start seeing this about shit like Undertale - the rejects of then-/v/ are the "oldfags" of today's /v/ and there is no one left to keep their shit tastes in check.

>>14616410

well I just beat Devil May Cry a few minutes ago without using anything other than Ebony and Ivory. But I'm not going to prove that.

You keep saying that I think it's some holy grain of gaming. Why? I said it was fun and well made, not complex.

also, you seem to be confusing hack&slash with CUHRRRAAAAYZAAAY. DMC, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, Van Hellsing and Nightmare before Christmas fall into this category. GoW is more akin to a 3d brawler/beat 'em up.

>I wanted to know why people liked this game, but first let me shit all over it for no reason

I told you why I liked it, it's fun. Square for trash mobs, triangle combos for larger dudes, stuns for cyclops, grab and toss for small guy that will peck at your health if you don't get rid of them or gain some distance immediately, magic for crowd control and sniping archers, parry for some breathing room when out of magic. It's a fun cycle. And it stayed fun for at least 5 games (I never played Ascension). I'd like it to stay that way, there is no need to have a game that has almost nothing in common with the original material to sully its name and then be hailed by journos as TRUE GAMING EXPERIENCE! for years to come.

>>14616420

most people play on easy? sucks to be them to be this boring

>>14616538

Is this the new meme spacing?

>>14616538

>it's fun

That's flimsy as fuck. What makes it fun? You say this cycle (which the game does NOT require you to use by any stretch of the imagination) is fun, but I'm not understanding how one could find doing your "cycle" or especially just mashing buttons to be fun throughout what shouldn't feel like such a long game, clocking in at like what, 8 hours? But it's so repetitive and shallow that it feels closer to 80. It's a total slog, you're not illustrating properly what's enjoyable about the game, and I'm still not seeing why you keep bringing up the reboot.

>>14615691

Why do the recent influx of nu-right pussies constantly talk about "soy"? These newfags are obsessed.

>>14615062

>new

How?

Cake kike is meme-hated but having a poorly drawn red anon execute him like that is edgelord-tier

>>14616605

It's not adding up, Anon. You're straight up pretending that you have to play on easy for the combat to be shallow and easy, and you've praised the game for being cyclical which could only really lead one to believe it lacks variety. It does, since as you progress through the game, all that really changes is the enemies getting different skins and bigger health bars. Sometimes they send more at you and they do more damage. "It's fun" doesn't address anything, and the way you've attempted to assess it has made it sound almost as bad as someone who was going out of their way to make it sound as repetitive as possible.

>>14615845

The joke is that Ninja Gaiden has actual combos whereas in God of War you just press the same button over and over.

>>14616704

>You though, you make it sound like the game is indefensible

It pretty much is

>like it's bottom tier trash that you had to waste 8 hours of your life on

It was indeed a waste

>I'm just wailing through them with square

I was

>I wish there was something else I could do besides tap square

I did indeed wish that, if only the game actually encouraged it by making it not viable to mash square

>magically win every fight on Easy

It was normal.

>people liked the game before the dark ages began

Where at, on fucking NeoGaf? Brother, if you think that people didn't used to shit on this game on this site and before the GG exodus, I don't know what to tell you other than to lurk more. I get and appreciate that you're trying your best to fit in with the shill talk but you're not quite there yet. Maybe refrain for a few more months and you'll get there eventually.

>blah blah reboot, soy, etc.

For the umpteenth time, I could not give half a fuck about the reboot my friend. I guess if you want to be super duper obtuse, yes, I decided to give this game a go because the new one is coming and it reminded me of the hordes of normalfags revering the first one like it was the Mona Lisa of video games.

>>14616744

> I could not give half a fuck about the reboot my friend

sure, that's why you made this thread now and not near god of soy release date

>nuh-uh I'm the oldfag, this was before goobergabbers

fuck outta here

>>14616810

and not any time other than near god of soy release day*

>>14616693

This has been known for ages

I also heard some US states also use compounds to purify tap water and that said coumpounds contain estrogen.

>>14616823

That has already been explained, aspie. You're so mad you can't even form a coherent post. Face it, you're just looking for something to be outraged about.

>>14616923

I have plenty to be outraged about as is. Doesn't mean you should get away from talking shit about a good game while passively shilling for the new one.

Sure, it's just a (((coincidence))) you started talking about us always being at war with Eastasia.

>>14616813

yeah the OC used to be good like the anton & coolpecker modeler shitting on mark, now it's just lazy larper shit.

>>14614011

the game is more than the sum of it's parts

>first and so far best use of QTEs integrated into gameplay

>fluid controls and well placed camera

>gore, tiddis and edgy epic moments

>brain dead but satisfying combat just a little bit more complex than old school beat em ups

>it had a semi technical side to it, you couldn't just brute force and buttonsmash your way through hard mode

>plenty of climbing and puzzles to break up the monotony and keep things fresh

>death traps to avoid everywhere

>leveling and secrets for the grindcucks and collectatonfags

>top notch presentation

>back in the day, the Temple of Pandora chained to Chronos's back while he was doomed to cralw forever in the desert was the most "Woah" shit anyone had seen in vidya

There are shit games, and then there are shit games that you finish, remeber and talk about for generations, GoW was the later, each and every one of it's parts may have been done much better in other games, but it's not like they were shit in GoW, not a single one the game parts is awfull on it's own (unlike the new one with unskipable walking segments and that stupid nonstoptalkin NPChild) and the game managed to blend them all masterfully

God of War is to Vidya what Michael Bay Transformers would have been to movies had there been no human characters

>>14616962

If you'd have actually been around here instead of NeoGaf you'd know I'm right. It's been real though buddy, but I'm about to have to hop off of here and take a nap. I'd recommend you check out ResetEra for a really cool forum for like-minded people since you seem to be taking your old pals leaving NeoGaf so very hard.

>>14614831

Fuck, used to play Rygar all the time on MAME as a kid. That was good shit.

In reference to OP, i think i beat the whole GoW on PSP while watching tv and just mashing on one button the whole time while moving forward. Shit was easy.

>>14617036

If it were any other day (or if new TLOu wans't on the way, rather) I would've just explained why I liked it, said "To each their own" and called it a day. I don't like Devil May Cry games, but I won't shit on them because they're objectively good games except 2 and DMC that have an extremely high skill ceiling.

>>14617062

GoW isn't objectively good however

It's objectively average to mediocre

>>14617083

I disagree. I think it's slightly above average.

>>14616573

DO IT FAGGOT

>>14615660

OW THE EDGE

>>14616589

>You say this cycle (which the game does NOT require you to use by any stretch of the imagination) is fun

you clearly played it on easy m8

GoW is brainless but not retarded, you try rushing through the game with nothing but the square x 3 combo and you'll get your ass kicked

>>14616646

>You're straight up pretending that you have to play on easy for the combat to be shallow and easy

it ain't pretending faggot, on harder dificulties enemies hit like a truck rush you like a mosh pit and they just keep coming in droves no matter how many you kill

you think it's easy trying to fight 3 gorogns at the same time who try to petryfiyo while harpies divebomb you from above and some damage sponge tank enemy rushes you?

>you've praised the game for being cyclical which could only really lead one to believe it lacks variety

you can't be so retarded as to take that literally

>>14616744

>hurrdurr it's shit goyim, it's always been shit go buy the new one

tell me more about how old school hack n slash/beat em up and tomb raider tier exploring are shit

>I did indeed wish that, if only the game actually encouraged it by making it not viable to mash square

do try playing on Normal instead of just easy, you'll encounter enemies who not only block you but will attack you from the side while you are distracted with another one

>hurrdurr go back to neofag

>>>/oven/

>I could not give half a fuck about the reboot my friend

then the timing and shilly content of this shill infested tread must be (((pure coincidence)))

>>14617013

>hurrdurr i'm an oldfag and your a Neofaggot

>>14617036

can't blame the anon for his suspicion, this tread is full of shills, the timing is to perfect and it has all the hallmarks of kike damage contro OP (((we can't shill the new one so let's shit on the old ones to try sweep the newone's problem under the rug as a non issue)))

>>14617055

PS2 Rygar was shit, inferior to GoW in every way, but it still had it's charm

>>14617083

>It's objectively average to mediocre

THIS

though i'd place it on top tier medicre, it has good production values

thing is (((OP))) tryies to shit on it as if it was EA bad wich is not the case, it's a casual game cosplaying as hardcore but it's not like the hardcore crowd couldn't enjoy it as brainles time waster

not every meal you eat has to be a five star, i fancy a bigmac every now and then and GoW is exactly that

>>14617206

How is it slightly above average

It has good presentantion and basic as fuck tedious hack and slash gameplay that's even beaten by fucking Spartan Total Warrior which was released in the same year.

>>14617211

>can't blame the anon for his suspicion, this tread is full of shills, the timing is to perfect and it has all the hallmarks of kike damage control OP

Except everyone is talking about how GoW was always shit because normalfags and cuckchan retards actually think they were good, some even a masterpiece.

The new game is also a piece of shit that's being fellated by Sonyggers and normalfags.

>(((OP))) tryies to shit on it as if it was EA bad wich is not the case

What the fuck does that even mean?

>>14617272

The camera work is legendary, there is endgame content in form of extra challenges, fighting feels responsive, impactful, chunky and overall satisfying.

It's a good game. Not a deep one.

>>14617272

>Spartan Total Warrior

I played that one

it was faster and had more enemies but i wouldn't call the fighting better

the Thermopila tactic of hiding behind the block button while you wait for small opening to chisel away at enemy HP and numbers whit fast weak attacks worked way to well whenever you were cornered

>everyone is talking about how GoW was always shit because normalfags and cuckchan retards actually think they were good

<hurrdurr these people i don't like like something so this something must be shit

>What the fuck does that even mean?

you know what i mean

all these faggots crying that old GoW was always as bad bubbsy 3d or superman 64 when we all know very well the game is a solid 7.5 or even an 8 maybe

was it casual as fuck?

sure

did it set up anoying trends that shat up the industry?

yup, it normalized QTEs just like survival horro games normalized tank controls

was it overhyped by $onyggers?

you bet your thumbs it was

was so completly irredimable that it was imposible to have agood time playing it?

absolutelly not

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>>14614988

Lurk moar dear marketers.

>>14617419

Where have all these posters that do one sentence per-line come from? This isn't a fucking chat room.

>>14617446

>marketers

>for not liking a basic game made for edgy dudebros

>>14617638

Should have stopped here:

>ID:4a997

>>14617638

you see anon

God of War and similar games are kinda technical but not technical enough to carry a whole game with nothing but the battle mechanics

even remooving the QTEs

GoW still had climbing, obstacles to avoid, puzzles to solve and kept throwing new things at every corner

That Spartan game was just GoW fighting mechanic only faster in a much larger and emptyer map with more enemies

GoW shit tier combat didn't get old until end game cus the game was not entierly rellying on it to keep the player entretained

Spartan Total Warrior did, and that tipe of combat gets old very quickly if it's the only thing the game puts on the plate

>>14617674

Stop hitting enter after every line you cuckchan faggot.

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>>14617702

>>>/cuckchan/

>>14617704

>>>/oven/

>>14617717

>Those were even more boring than the combat itself

meh to each his own, i must have been a chimp in my past life cus i always like climbing and jumping no matter wich game it is

>So did Spartan and both do a godawful job at it

almost everyone at the time did a god awefull job at puzzles in action games

i was starving so much that even the meh stuff of god of war felt like an oasis in a desert

kinda like wich P5 wich came out during a vidya drought of Animu JRPGs and starved fanboys ate it up

turth be told i can't remeber when was the last time i had a good puzzle in an action game

>Both are average to mediocre games, one is simply fellated to hell and back because it's an exclusive

it got shilled to hell and back but it ain't just shilling that puts GoW slightly above the meh tier, the game is actually fun

>inb4 hurrdurr muh "fun" buzzword

if you can't feel fun why the hell do you play vidya?

>Same with the new one

nigga, the new one is bottom tier right along Telltale's games and Gone Homo, no PS2 game ever made it that low

>now some normalfags are actually seeing what happens to a development studio and a brand after a decade

i don't remeber there being so much decline from gen to gen in the NES>SEGA/SNES>N64/PS1>PS2/Gamecube era, even if there was a steady decline over time, it wasn't the catastrophic fall in quality that was the PS3/360>PS4/X1 era

Had you heard 10 years ago that GoW would be turned into a walking sim, would you have believed it?

>>14617211

>you clearly played it on easy m8

I don't know what to tell you my friend. I played the remastered version so I could take a picture of the trophy if you'd like. Was there a trophy for the different difficulties? I have my trophy notifications off because why would I care about them normally. As far as all the other shit goes, I really don't know what to tell you. Are there shills in this thread? I couldn't tell you but I'm not one, and I've also already explained why I made my thread so close to the release of the new one, even though you've conveniently glossed over that fact. I really have no idea how you and this other Anon have your heads so far up your asses that you think someone calling out an old "classic" for having glaring flaws is anywhere near equivalent to saying "GO BUY THE REBOOT RIGHT NOW! IT'S BAD BUT THE OLD ONE WAS TOO SO I'M TELLING YOU GO BUY IT!"

>>14618414

>I really have no idea how you and this other Anon have your heads so far up your asses that you think someone calling out an old "classic" for having glaring flaws is anywhere near equivalent to saying "GO BUY THE REBOOT RIGHT NOW! IT'S BAD BUT THE OLD ONE WAS TOO SO I'M TELLING YOU GO BUY IT!"

the same damage control shilling tactic is being used in the last jedi, if you can't deffend the current one, shit on the old one. and it ain't the first time i've seen such tactic, especially from Sony, i remeber similar shit back when they were making Spiderman and Ghost Busters

there's also the insistance on the "hurrdurr press square to win" meme even though that wasn't the case with this game, as i said before it's a brainless hack n slash not a retarded one, enemies with shield at the start literally force you to hit them with triangle otherwise you wont damage them but you keep insisting on the "button mashing" meme and expecting people not to think you're a shill who hasn't even played the game

>Was there a trophy for the different difficulties?

PS2 games had no trophies, harder difficulties just gave you a harder game.

did you play this on a remastered PS3 version? or did you just outed yourself as a shill who didn't even play the game?

>Are there shills in this thread?

there are a lot of deleted comments and for what i can tell based on the replies they were deffending nu GoW using SJW lingo so you tell me if there are or are no shills in here

>>14615691

>if you don't like a generic popular action game you're this cuckchan meme

>>14616997

>not a single one the game parts is awfull on it's own

No, but they aren't really entertaining either. It's style over substance

>>14618539

>or did you just outed yourself as a shill who didn't even play the game?

Yeah the other guy wanted to talk about me baiting but you really take the cake Anon. Congrats because I really should have caught on before now.

>>14614011

Nostalgia.

>>14614011

Just curious, but are you attempting to put down the original series in the hope that people wont find the new GOW as the pretentious walking sim it'll inevitably be?

it has aged somewhat poorly though

> feminism taking hold in society

> women want more jobs

> more games and media about men taking the mother's place in a family.

Really make's you think.

>>14614011

>So, I just beat this hunk of garbage. How in the world did this game get the kind of praise that it did?

It was a big hit amongst american juggalo kids back in the early 2000's.

>>14625567

What even is nazbol?

>>14629529

I don't understand why they hate it. Yeah, it's mindless, but it's supposed to be. I had a good time with it.

>>14619033

>hurr durr this game is shit but i still played it all the way through

>i legit played it, want me to show you my achivements from playing on hard?

>a PS2 game

>achivements

wew lad

>>14629518

Autism.

I've shifted from trying to understand the game's fandom among normalfags to trying to understand the egregious amount of shill calling in this thread. It seems like hardcore projection to me. Somehow someone trashing an overrated game is shilling but talking about your fandom of a series about to get a new release isn't. Especially suspicious is the shill calling in the first place. Why go out of your way for that if not to try and prove you aren't one yourself? There's no way that someone could actually have the thought process of "if you like a game, you're a shill, if you don't like a game, you're a shill too."

>>14629628

>did you play this on a remastered PS3 version?

You explained it yourself, shill

>>14631741

UNLEASH THE SOY

You can talk shit about the old GOW games till the cows come home and there's a lot of stuff i'd agree with but they're still actual action games with a pretty clear cut between gameplay and story. Game would start and you'd be put right into the action pretty quickly, sometimes immediately. You'd play the game, beat bosses, find secrets, unlock new shit, it was actually a game. Even at it's worst it's better than the stunts they're trying to pull with the new GOW game. Even sadder is how reviewers still think they're so wise and mature for liking a games story and padding out their reviews with babys first english class tier shit.

>>14631743

What a great allegory for the god of war franchise: Beaten and battered by soy.

>>14631740

>>14631741

>>14631743

Are there difficulty settings? Cause this guy is brain dead and his health barely moves from all the punishment he's getting.

>>14631740

and this is why people liked it

it just looks cool

>>14631815

I'm willing to bet this is just a tutorial boss of sorts. Hard to tell since everything looks the same under all that snow.

>>14631815

looks like damage is dictated by the cinematic sequences, even the old games you'd have to get the health down normally to activate the flashy QTE kills

>>14631740

>>14631741

>>14631743

>capeshit school of fighting of endless punching and launches with no consequence or payoffs

>both can punch rocks, throw boulders and jump dozens of feet in the air

>axe attacks cause blood to fly in the air but nothing actually touches the white snow

>"cinematic finisher" causes the character to fucking slide into position as its initiated

>fight ends with a limp necksnap instead of ripping his spine out of his body

>>14631830

Someone posted the fight with the electric dragon guy and it was the same thing, he barely lost any health despite getting hit multiple times and fucking up shit to the point where the game had to tell him what to do.

>>14631834

>For all that journalists claim to fawn over "muh cinematics",

journos don't know anything about cinematic craft, otherwise they'd be reviewing movies, they also don't know anything about writing otherwise they'd be reviewing/discussing literature. The got their foot in the game medium because playing OOT as a kid is the only credentials it asked for and now that they're a bit older the feel threatened by the idea that they're adults reviewing games, they don't like the word "games" because it doesn't make them sound mature, they don't like things that remind them they're playing games because it makes them feel less mature. A large part of these gushing reviews is just the reviewers stroking their own cock thinking about how great it is to play a game and feel smart for it

Dumb, edgy, fun, similar to Warhammer 40k lore. A bunch of other idiots began praising it because it was a "deep story about the futility of revenge" which gave it move universal acclaim than something like Halo or Call of Duty.

>>14631838

huh

well the old GoW had difficulty settings, so there might be a really big chance the webm is in journalist mode. The tutorial pop ups late in the game might be in all of them though, since that's what modern games have been doing.

>>14615863

No, that's Evangelion.

>play 15 year old game

>WHY DOESN'T THIS GAME PLAY LIKE GAMES NOT BUILT FOR A 20 YEAR OLD PIECE OF HARDWARE

another case of /v/ discovering a popular game to hate on

>>14631891

Well, dear NeoFAGgot "anon", maybe you'd like to point out some of the game's praiseworthy qualities?

>>14631891

There's plenty of 15 years and older games that are still loved and celebrated for being just fuckin' good. God of War is trash, and Dad of War is gonna be even worse.

>>14614011

GoW was always a Devil May Cry for casuals. normalfags ate the QTEs like the sheep they are and thought it was good.

>>14632017

what are you so excited about? A rotten cherry on top of a shit sundae?

>>14632133

Did you forget about the boston salt party?

>>14631991

ATHENA WAS ALIVE ALL ALONG AND IS USING THE NORSE GODS TO KILL KRATOS

>>14614011

As many stated before not THE ultimate game, but it was a nice game: stupid, gory, hard, fair and looked good enough in its time

The new GOW looks slow and very recycled but hey gotta milk that cow

The dude was designed to look as aggressive as it could, so any further accessories actually diminish the character

answering to bait, go play vidya instead fag

>>14632327

>>14632366

>>14632717

Should we get a party going?

Go ahead if you want, but it's a bit late imo, footage was found on a public site, the same where "the stranger leak" footage came from:

http://whatifgaming.com/god-of-war-the-blades-of-chaos-cinematic

but I guess since it's still not been released yet, it's a possible neo-fag/resetera tear milking potential.

>>14632935

>It came from a simpler time

Nigger it was years after DMC1 and the same year as DMC 3.

>>14632935

I'll agree, it's a good game for mindless fun, and a great introduction to the genre if you never played anything similar, because of this I then discover the devil may cry games.

>>14632958

What's your point?

>>14632935

<Having standards was your first mistake.

Prove that this isn't more or less what you meant.

>>14632958

and they're both from a superior genre that publishers seem to actively want to kill

>>14632977

it didn't "come from a simpler time"

It was a shallow cinmatic QTE filled shitshow made for normalfags with more flash than substance.

In fact the model quality in it for a 2005 game was really awful.

>>14632958

>I like this game more because I probably played it first

>I'm somehow not biased

Anon, two games can be good even if one of them is better.

You should try GoW on the max difficulty, the difficulty is fine tuned for that.

I doubt any of you even bothered since it requires a second playthrough.

>>14632996

I remember the health pools for some enemies being fucking savage on the harder modes that could be a bit of a drag

The only objectively good thing about it is that it is actually structured like a Greek tragedy. The following games weren't, but the first one was because they didn't expect sequels, I guess. Combat is pretty simple in general in this game, I had to look for different combos to do because the square square triangle bullshit is objectively the best, and for some reason the first magic you get is also probably the best spell in the game. The setpieces and design are pretty good.

>>14632996

>You should try GoW on the max difficulty, the difficulty is fine tuned for that

No it fucking isn't. All it does is boost damage values, health pools and speeds up the QTE prompts.

Enemies don't get new movesets, no increase in enemy count, no remixed levels or enemy placement.

It makes an already tedious slog even more tedious.

>>14633003

Great job not even trying to defend your normalfag trashfire of a game where you can't even skip cutscenes first time around.

>>14633002

Yeah, it really best at harder diffuclties, I think I enjoy the second one best, although, 3 was going in the right direction with faster weapon switching.

>>14633004

I agree the bit about the first story structure, and the story of all other games being garbage, and even inconsistent on the spinoffs. And yes, gameplay, was a bit too simplistic, and doesn't encourage variety, but I try to be somewhat stylish.

>>14633010

I'd say the built it with that difficulty in mind, and didn't bother to adjust it for lower difficulties.

>>14633025

>where you can't even skip cutscenes first time around.

Okay, I'm pretty ludologist, but who the fuck actually does this?

>>14633010

So how does the original compare to the remake on PS3?

>>14633050

Goy of Soy is exactly what this franchise deserves after capitulating to the Xplay cokehead whining about misogyny.

I wouldn't care about this awful excuse of a beat em up existing if the developers behind it had half a spine but they clearly don't.

>>14633059

>I'm pretty ludologist

Thats a fancy word for being a faggot

>>14633071

What remake? Unless you mean the HD "remaster" in which case its the same game with a widescreen hack and some texture replacement.

The bad models are even more apparent without the PS2 interlacing artifacts to hide them.

>>14633075

>capitulating to the Xplay cokehead whining about misogyny.

I forgot about that shit, they even put a patch in softening one of the sections considered more difficult because casuals ruin even fairly casual games

>>14633003

So you can't? I'm not surprised. Even at that age, I could recognize DMC as the superior series.

I was serious BTW. Could you prove that you didn't really meant "don't come in with standards and game will be good" because expectations are based on standards?

>>14633086

Wait what happened?

>>14633087

>Even at that age, I could recognize DMC as the superior series.

Bull shit, you pretentious dickhead.

>>14633090

sessler went on a huge rant about how he disliked that one of the trophies was called "bros before hoes" in regards to a scene where Kratos stomps the shit out of some lady boss to save a guy, so they changed it to 'bros before foes". There was a Trials of Somethingorother sections where you hadto fight through 3-5 stages of increasingly difficult enemy waves with no checkpoint and IIRC they gave it a checkpoint and toned the whole thing down. I'm pretty sure i pulled the plug on my ps3s internet at the time so i could play it pure and it wasn't that tough if you actually used the tools the game gave you

>>14633094

Dude DMC crazy combos and the change in difficulty and challenge stick out, I played Gow first and DMC after, and DMC is just better dude, even my teenaged self could tell, despite the lovely tits in the Gow.

>>14633090

Adam Sessler complains about GoW3 misogynistic achievement. That reminds me. Why did the journo fags latched on to DmC: Devil May Cry?

>>14633094

QTE boss battles always looked gay but that is besides the point. My point is how is "don't go in with expectations" from "don't have standards" or "just turn off your brain".

>>14633101

Oh yeah I remeber, that game was a huge pile of shit, remembered they fucked up a lot of it, they screwed up the guards and counters and took the alziest option when confronted with the "all sub weapons are chained blades" criticism was just to have the same weapon with slightly different combos and different elements. I barely remeber playing it, I had to replay it because I really don't remembered playing my first time, I only remembered after finishing.

>>14633110

Thanks for proving me right in my post here >>14633050 (You)

>>14633113

I'm pretty sure you're just parroting what other anons said and framing it with being what your "teenaged self" totally thought back then, because that's really believable anon, congrats. You were truly the wokest anon back then and didn't even knew it.

>>14633133

>Why did the journo fags latched on to DmC: Devil May Cry?

to attempt to be contrarian once they saw fan backlash at the changes. Never forget these people don't like video games much to start and the particularly don't like THOSE DAMN DIRTY GAMERS . Original DMC games are also pretty anime and anything japan related is target for these urchins because they can still pull the "why is japan so gross and weird" card despite it being wildly hypocritical of them.

>>14633141

>Thanks for proving me right in my post here

Except my post had nothing to do with that

Maybe next time actually read what you are replying to instead of going into your defensive persecution complex.

DMC 1 was released in 2001 and was a massive commercial success. If you really think nobody played it and people are just "parroting what other anons said" despite it being complete truth when they call God of War a bad game then you are fucking delusional.

>>14633143

It's not, I played DMC 3 first and agni and rudra with rebellion were the shit, and infinitively better than all the weapons in gow, that alone makes DMC stand well above gow.

>>14633133

>Adam Sessler complains about GoW3 misogynistic achievement. That reminds me. Why did the journo fags latched on to DmC: Devil May Cry?

No clue, I remember the dude calling Dante a fag and shit, probably he had connections or some shit, no clue otherwise.

>>14633159

>I played DMC 3 first

I meant to say DMC 3 was my first DMC game, but I played Gow before that

>>14633075

>Thats a fancy word for being a faggot

It's a fancy word for "I don't think story is a good 'reward' for gameplay in games." Educate yourself, nigger.

>>14633151

>Original DMC games are also pretty anime and anything japan related is target for these urchins because they can still pull the "why is japan so gross and weird" card despite it being wildly hypocritical of them.

Yeah, funny enough a lot of journo fags are always talking about diversity but are also the "lol Japanese games suck!" crowd. People in /v/ are also like that too.

>>14633075

>>14633086

>>14633090

>>14633101

>>14633133

And to think reviewers used to be excited about "a menage a troi on a bus"

>>14633133

>My point is how is "don't go in with expectations" any different from "don't have standards" or "just turn off your brain".

Typo

>>14633133

>Why did the journo fags latched on to DmC

suporting Ninja Theory was part of the (((narrative>mechanics))) agenda pushing

it insulted a Nip IP known for chalenge & fun

it shilled Ninja Theory who would go on to keep producing mediocre non game poz and and it was another push into the "videogames are art" meme just becos the game had pretentious 3deep5u story written by emo hippsters

>>14633820

That was actually a pretty good answer.

>>14633150

sorry

make a new schadenfraude gow4 bread then

>>14614011

It was relatively shallow but still good gory fun with excellent graphics for the time and some really neat set pieces and visual design. It never really made a pretense of being anything other than "murder your way through Greek mythology by mashing the attack button" and on that level it was a total success.

>>14635409

4chan is down, I see

>>14635409

>soundless webm

>In the same thread where there are ones with sound

>Absolute shit taste

Thanks for reminding me how much shit 4cuck is.

>>14614172

or maybe your taste is the shit one you faggets

thats the funny thing about opinions

>>14635409

What the absolute fuck am I watching? People think this looks fun?

>>14635409

its the dark souls of god of war

>>14635463

Too bad those fuckers don't know what

LURK MORE

means.

>>14635409

Of course the cuckchanner has a soundless webm and shit opions. Fuck off.

>>14635409

haha sonytards say the darnest things.

>>14616693

>doughnuts

what?

>>14635865

yep…you should know if you didnt drink soo much soy

>>14635903

Got a problem with that, Tubby?

>>14636107

RoTJ and onwards are all bad tbh

>>14635463

I just saw on the homepage one of the top threads on /pol/ is a "4cuck Refugee" thread. Amazing how all times of day on that place they will talk about how much worse it is here but when they have no other option they come here to shit up the boards with their taint.

>>14616693

>Miso soup in the list

Fuck, I was hoping to use that for breakfast food prep. What's a good breakfast setup that's healthy then? I remember seeing a chart that compared different breakfasts among countries.

>>14635409

>souls-like

>no stamina management

>low mobility

>throwing axe

I hate to break it to you, but attacking with the R buttons and blocking with an L button doesn't make a game Souls-like, just like moving with WASD and using mouse look doesn't make World of Warcraft TES-like.

>>14636248

4chan pilgrim here, honestly I don't see much of a difference between the two besides traffic volume and 8chan not being run by a psychopathic gookmoot. Also this one has a /canada/ board for some insane reason. Still, interesting to see how you all live I guess? >>14633647

Generally this, the gameplay seems decent but the politics and atmosphere surrounding the game seem to have completely sucked the soul out of it.

>>14636250

It's fine, it's fermented and has no effect unless you overconsume it like a tard. And if you do, you'll die of salt poisoning instead.

I'm not buying the new god of war. The reason is that it plays like a movie and I will treat it like a movie and watch it on stream.

>>14636274

>4chan pilgrim here

>the gameplay seems decent

I believe you.

>>14636339

Oh come off it, the game itself looks shit and will probably play like a movie more than a game, but the core elements of actual combat look solid enough. You can say' hey this game looks like it'll have good x' while also saying 'the game looks like shit and I won't be buying it', christ man.

>>14635409

>the core elemnts

What would that be?

Smashing the R buttoms to attack and the L1 bottom to defend without any concern for stamina management and incredibly restricted movement and?

>>14636274

Get the fuck out

>>14635865

>lurk more

Do you expect person who can't even read the thread to lurk?

>>14635409

>this rapefuge getting all those (you)s even though I uploaded the whole fight with the stranger and with sound too

double nigger

>>14636430

The only reason anyone cared about Gears was because of the multiplayer. Does this even have multiplayer?

>>14636441

PvP, who can drink enough soy that they let their wife have a bull first.

>>14636277

How much would constitute as overconsumption? I saw one example as a small bowl.

>>14636504

I can only tell you the level of consumption of your averague so boy, that is, every meal you consume must have at least 3 soy based products, including beverages.

>>14616704

Anon why is it fun to press the tryingle for larger mobs? Square for small ones and stuns for cyclops? You're just describing a match the color game ffs

>>14636632

Sorry for the punctuation, im retarded

>>14636632

Those tiny pauses you get when you hit multiple enemies in succession, the slow down during your final triangle combo windup and resulting explosion, the satisfaction of figuring out cyclopses instead of being raped repeatedly.

Try it out, it's fun, should be playable on any semi modern rig via PCSX2.

>>14636656

I played it man, i used to like it. My main critic to the game is this, the point of the game is to overpower gods, which should be really difficult to do right? Well guess how you do that? through qts! the main point of the game is achieved through the most stupid gaming mechanic ever imposed on us.

>>14636678

Qtes damn

>>14636491

After 3 and whatever the name of that WiiU game oatmeal cookie worked on I can't seem to remember the name of I think that'd be a blessing in disguise.

oh wait we could always just get a Yaiba 2 never mind

old god of war was never good, and i bought it at launch back in the day. beat it, the hardest part of the game was the ending obstacle course with bad hit detection.

nu god of war is a shitty QTE event that looks like skyrim with uncharted/assassins creed tier combat.

i dont know why anyone in this thread would defend the first god of war, it usually gets (deserved) hate here. this thread didnt have to exist, /v/s opinion on this game has been fairly open and shouldnt be shocking to OP.

>>14636775

>steak with spaghetti

that's a weird combo

>>14636802

>spoon

its not that hard to eat spaghetti…

>elbow macaroni

if youre going that route; rotini is where its at. and that sauce in the steak pic looks like someone just crushed a can of hunts tomatoes into a pot of cooked pasta.

steak and pasta mixed is still a strange combo

>>14636274

>4chan pilgrim

>the gameplay seems decent

i'm a post exodus fag, never been to 4chan, always heard they were plebs with shit taste…

i thought it was just a meme

>>14636945

>watching RLM

>this music comes up

cheap ass hack frauds

Make a mixed salad out of lettuce, corn, yellow and/or red bell peppers, spinach, cucumbers and (cherry) tomatoes. If you have fried chicken breast lying around, cut that shit into pinkie thick slices and toss in. For sauce, take a table spoon of mayo, table spoon of sour cream, toss in salt, pepper and red paprika. Shake it up and enjoy.

>>14636678

the QTEs to finish off bosses felt like rewards actually, Ares was a fucking hard fight so it felt rewarding to see him getting staved in the face with a giant sword right after a killer one liner, it felt like thos moments in MGS 3 & 4 when you are forsed to pull the trigger to finish The Boss or when you have to button mash in the microwave corridor

God of War's problem is that these momens came way to often, every boss and though enemie had a QTE, they would have been less dull if aside from punishing you for failing them they had some kind of score or xp reward for pulling them succesfully hitting the buton with the right timing, like in Legend of Dragoon or Shadow Hearts

>>14636945

>chinese food

I always thought that was slightly oxymoronic, chinese will eat fucking anything. fuck I love buffalo sauce

>>14636854

>if youre going that route; rotini is where its at

I prefer orzo. I make a meat sauce with cube steak or ground Italian sausage meat, then add it to orzo. Shit's fast, easy to make, and tastes great if you use a flavorful meat.

Also, this is probably the best derailment of a thread I've ever seen. We need more /ck/ derails.

>>14637088

it's not like shills care

>>14637083

I don't like rice except for fried rice or plain rice served with curry. For any other occasion, I'd prefer a pasta.

>>14637088

God of Soy isn't a topic worth discussing, so you've done this thread a service by steering it into flavor country.

>>14637135

I downloaded only the gameplay video to fix some cuck webms, was there anything interesting in those other videos?

>>14637142

I also like 1-3 but wouldn't dream of buying nu-God of War. It's a textbook definition of the modern gaming pozz.

>>14637217

Youtube is 3 months older than God of War.

>>14637227

I meant before finding it on youtube

>>14637250

I really hate these overly minimal UIs. All the text looks placeholder.

>>14637351

was there anything good besides KRATOS SMASH in that video?

>>14637402

I meant chaos blades one. Also, shit before the lanklet spawned was even worse, his son is a faggot.

nice to see journigger hasn't stopped fighting giants as if it was a TPS

>>14637452

>>14637402

>throws axe over and over donte style

>boss does same swipe pause move over and over

some of the worse "gameplay" & bossfights i've ever seen

>>14637452

Now that there's a thread about GoW again that sadly won't sink, I'm wondering if I should repost stranger fight again or if I should add fight with a giant with his son being a faggot (I have a feeling it's out there somewhere on youtube).

>god-of-war-the-stranger-fight-whatifgaming-exclusive-aka-real.mp4

>>14637498

>donte style

Was DmC a third person shooter too?

>>14637517

DmC also had a disgustedly strong axe with a easy to spam projectile.

>>14637517

>should I repost

go ahead

>fight with giant

other than this one? >>14637452

>>14637567

fuck, I meant this one >>14637402

Yeah, the kid is invincible during "gameplay" and all he does is chip away at the enemies and occasionally procing some status effect.

Is this the same model but with orange decals instead of teal?

>>14637578

>Is this the same model but with orange decals instead of teal?

of course not, anon, it has a different animation at the end :^)

>>14635876

Doughnuts are typically made with the cheapest generic vegetable oil you can buy (which happens to be soybean oil) and since doughnuts take a shitload of oil to make, they use the cheapest, since healthy customers do not increase their profit in any substantial way.

>>14639903

This goes for chain doughnut stores and independent bakeries unless they explicitly tell you they don't. Any sort of big pastry will be made with vegetable oil to make it last longer on store shelves.

I liked the environments and atmosphere. Pretty much everything else was shit though.