Zero Punctuation: God of War III
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It's an absolutely epic game. Brilliant work on the review. How does he manage to point out the stuff so well? You can recognize a lot of the things he says so well sometimes. Brilliant.
you sounded kinda tired. still awesome though.
Do Yakuza 3 pleas. I'd bet you'd definitely like it.
Do Yakuza 3 pleas. I'd bet you'd definitely like it.
While I hate it when the games lose their mojo with new installments, and it starts to look that they equate "sequel" with "bags of money" and nothing else, I really think I'll give God of War 3 a blind eye on this matter. Seriously, the first two games were absolutely brilliant and the third looks just shy of that, so it won't be hard for me to find excuses for Kratos and fill the story gaps with imagination myself. I mean, that's what games used to be about right? You have people who love the crap out of Rogue, and it's just a bunch of letters and signs dicking about on a black screen. If people can play that game and just forget about everything that's missing, I think I can enjoy GoW3 in the same way and have tons of fun while at it.
I prefer to believe that after Athena died (spoilers) in God of War 2, and Zeus just waved his dick in front of his face, Kratos kinda lost his shit and decides if Olympus will deny his vengeance on Zeus, than all of Olympus shall die (wait, he actually says so in the cutscene, so it's less "i prefer to believe" and more "he said so in the cutscene").
So it's justified that he doesn't really give a shit about any of the gods anymore. Or the world. He saved it so many times and yet he's still plagued with his past, so he decides, fuck it, it's going down. He's been tricked by Ares, Persephone, Charon, Icarus, hell, almost every figure from Greek mythology has just plain pissed him off.
So yeah, being a fan will help you justify anything, and it's hard not to be a fan of the God of War trilogy, when it's so spectacular.
But I am kinda annoyed with how unconvincing Hades looks. I mean, it's the place of the dead, once you die, you're not supposed to get out. And yet he gets out for the fourth time.
I prefer to believe that after Athena died (spoilers) in God of War 2, and Zeus just waved his dick in front of his face, Kratos kinda lost his shit and decides if Olympus will deny his vengeance on Zeus, than all of Olympus shall die (wait, he actually says so in the cutscene, so it's less "i prefer to believe" and more "he said so in the cutscene").
So it's justified that he doesn't really give a shit about any of the gods anymore. Or the world. He saved it so many times and yet he's still plagued with his past, so he decides, fuck it, it's going down. He's been tricked by Ares, Persephone, Charon, Icarus, hell, almost every figure from Greek mythology has just plain pissed him off.
So yeah, being a fan will help you justify anything, and it's hard not to be a fan of the God of War trilogy, when it's so spectacular.
But I am kinda annoyed with how unconvincing Hades looks. I mean, it's the place of the dead, once you die, you're not supposed to get out. And yet he gets out for the fourth time.
Honestly, I'm really surprised that he didn't mention the flying bit a the beginning. That was, wuite possibly one of the coolest, and most frustrating game set-pieces, that I have seen in a recent game. Not a bad combination though. Eh, all in all, more same-y slash-fest-itorium (not necessarily a bad think, but not very exciting).
There is nothing wrong with variety, but when all the additional weapons and magic spells are rather useless, or at least not really better than the ones you had before that, they are not really necessarySextusMaximus said:
It seems to me like the developers, at some point near the end of the development process, thought something like: "You know what, why not add a little variety to the game and give the player some additional weaponry?"
Then they added some weapons, that all look somewhat familiar and change absolutely nothing in terms of gameplay...
I don't call something like that variety...I call it obsolete.
I think the only reason this game exists, is because the two first games looked so good (for being on a ps2), that everybody wanted to see how good it would look on a ps3 
Now THAT'S what I call an unbiased review. It's good to finally see someone bash GoW 3 for being the same exact thing as the other games, and for Kratos's character becoming excessively one-dimensional.
Voice different? I'd put it down to sheer exhaustion from the fact he did just open up a place of alcoholic consumption.
Oddly enough I think this is the first review I've heard of his that makes me want to actually play the game without horrific imagery of a british man having sex with the CD.
Oddly enough I think this is the first review I've heard of his that makes me want to actually play the game without horrific imagery of a british man having sex with the CD.