Treblaine said:
Snotnarok said:
No, you're missing the point and being quite bloody rude at that, I'm glad you read a single sentence out of what I've said and thought that's all there was to it. It wasn't just the fact he was stabbing in the face, the animation is identical, save a cross instead of blade. It's not the action, it's the exact motion. There's nothing being built or improved it's the same-identical thing. And that was just a single reference since every aspect of the game seems to have been taken from GoW, moves, finishers, even how health/money/magic flows to you.
It's one thing to take something and improve upon it, but to take it and be identical while bringing nothing to it is not okay. Though my theory is this is just about bringing a God of War clone to 360.
But that's the thing it is NOT absolutely identical, this is just a case of convergent evolution. Both games are trying to achieve the same effect they are likely to do it in similar ways.
This is a pointless argument to make because by the same logic you could equally say that Duke Nukem is a byte for byte rip off of Doom, "oh they move the same".
Yeah, it's extremely derivative but who cares? God of war 1 and 2 were great games, God of war 3 has been a long time coming, I don't know why people aren't happy that they get more games that have the fighting element they love. I guarantee you Dante's Inferno will have more original ideas than God of War 3 but people for some weird reason turn into patent/copyright lawyers and can't resist the urge to become insufferable buzzkills.
"even how health/money/magic flows to you. "
Oh COME ON! Are you saying GoW now has a patent on game design for items dropped by enemies floating towards the player, you mean unless they pay a licence to Sony then the player is forced to do any annoying run around the map picking up all the souls? Bullshit. And God of war wasn't even the first game to have "magnetising dropped items" anyway.
"my theory is this is just about bringing a God of War clone to 360."
Could this explain your snobbery? Seems like a pretty good win for gamers if you ask me, the only possible negative is GoW is only that tiniest bit less unique.
Except you should know the PS3 version plays far better than the 360 version, I hope you are not going to be too stubborn to check this game out, especially if you are a God of War fan.
You're not getting it, I'm saying every bit of the game is identical, it's EVERYTHING. Dante runs, attacks, dodges
identically to Kratos, he has the EXACT same moves that are
animated. It's not being improved on, it's not slightly altered, it's not EAs take of the GoW genere it's LITERALLY EXACTLY God of War, the same gameplay, the same quicktime events with some incredibly minor changes. Come on when you're fighting a big monster and the quick time events come up where it slows down identically like God of War.
To your comparison, Doom was violant and gory as was Duke Nukem, but Duke Nukem has different weapons or weapons that functioned differently, it has it's on feel and attitude, and has it's own world. Besides Duke being this wise ass with a thing for tits Doom was alone in a hell world trying to escape. They feel like totally different games despite being so very similar.
I did compared the PS3 and 360 versions, the PS3 version has flat textures and there's no contrast with colors. This isn't off screen shots or videos, I have both consoles and grabbed the demo for both and it's no contest. I had the same problem with the original Assassins Creed, except that had major framerate issues on PS3 along with lack of contrast.
To be honest, play what you want man, I have money for one new game after Mass Effect 2 and I'd rather spend it on God of War 3. I don't think the game looks all that good, you may, but I just don't and that's fine to have a difference of opinion. If you like it go right ahead and buy it, tell me about it too if you like it I'd love to hear it. I just don't care for it, it looks too similar to God of War for me personally to spend the extra 60 bucks that I don't have. I'm by no means calling this game bad, I'm saying it doesn't have enough for me to spend the money on it is all. Try and understand where I'm coming from at least, I'm not trying to say "no one get it".
