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LurkerJ on 14 June 2016

Just saw the video. This is definitely not a God of War game.

It looks like it can be a good game and can hold its own without the God Of War title. They could've used a different character and a different title and it wouldn't have annoyed anyone.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 14 June 2016
DoctorHorrible said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Can you give me a little more to work with? I'm happy to debate this point.

I argued how God of War seems to borrow the narrative, thematic, and mechanical structures of The Last Us. Tell me why you disagree.

GoW has always been scripted and over the shoulder. And ohhhh what a coincidence. Snow. In Norse setting. They totally ripped it off. And the troll. A total rip off of a bloater

I'm trying to have a debate in good faith with you. You respond with sarcasm.

That's disappointing. If you ever want to really unpack these ideas and challenge each other, please stop by my wall. If not, enjoy the rest of the day.



golfgt170 on 14 June 2016

I really liked the new take on the game. I believe GoW was deperate for a change after all these years. And Ascension proved that



AnthonyW86 on 14 June 2016
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Teeqoz said:

Heh, I don't see the comparison at all, but each to their own I guess.

 

I'm not a GoW fan (haven't played them), so coming without a set perspective of what a god of war game is, I thought it looked great. I have a few friends that are into GoW though, and they seemed very excited to see a change in the formula. Though they are also Dark Souls fans, and this seems a bit Dark Souls-ish, so maybe that's the reason.

Not at all? A grizzled father figure guiding an inexperienced young person through a dangerous wilderness? The scripted sequences? The over-the-shoulder camera? The walking simulation? Stopping to admire the scenery? A young person hunting a deer in the snow?

I dunno. I really think Santa Monica took a page from Naughty Dog here.

I agree with you, it mostly resembles TLOU. However i fail to see why a combination of three of the best Playstation franchises in history would be a bad thing.



Slimebeast on 14 June 2016

It's not ruined, it looks incredible.



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Teeqoz on 14 June 2016
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Teeqoz said:

Heh, I don't see the comparison at all, but each to their own I guess.

 

I'm not a GoW fan (haven't played them), so coming without a set perspective of what a god of war game is, I thought it looked great. I have a few friends that are into GoW though, and they seemed very excited to see a change in the formula. Though they are also Dark Souls fans, and this seems a bit Dark Souls-ish, so maybe that's the reason.

Not at all? A grizzled father figure guiding an inexperienced young person through a dangerous wilderness? The scripted sequences? The over-the-shoulder camera? The walking simulation? Stopping to admire the scenery? A young person hunting a deer in the snow?

I dunno. I really think Santa Monica took a page from Naughty Dog here.

Well, I can see some of those similarities, so I guess "not at all" was sort of exagerated, but "Uncharted/TLOU with a norse paint" is much more exagerated, and I certainly think the short sequence we saw is no where clsoe to enough to make a statement like that, 



Nem on 14 June 2016

I agree with you. They are trying to make souls meets god of war, but that completely misses the point of GoW, wich is just mindless fun. Big massive spectacles where you own stuff. Babysitter simulator looks interesting, but it doesnt look like GoW.

It's the problem with today's market. The number of different genres keeps reducing. I guess action games don't sell enough millions to justify making more. :/ This keeps getting worse.



Slimebeast on 14 June 2016

It's interesting that it plays just like Ryse now. I wonder how they were thinking when they designed it. Ryse was a commercial failure, although very underrated.

God of War looks even better. This is the game I must get a PS4 for.



DoctorHorrible on 14 June 2016
Veknoid_Outcast said:
DoctorHorrible said:

GoW has always been scripted and over the shoulder. And ohhhh what a coincidence. Snow. In Norse setting. They totally ripped it off. And the troll. A total rip off of a bloater

I'm trying to have a debate in good faith with you. You respond with sarcasm.

That's disappointing. If you ever want to really unpack these ideas and challenge each other, please stop by my wall. If not, enjoy the rest of the day.

It's pointless to debate the nonpoint. GoW already had those elements. Do you think when the action picks up and the puzzles start coming the camera won't be more fixed/dynamic depending on the situation like the rest of the series? Do you think taking place in the snow is borrowing ideas when it fits the setting that people have pegged it for the whole time?



Veknoid_Outcast on 14 June 2016
AnthonyW86 said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Not at all? A grizzled father figure guiding an inexperienced young person through a dangerous wilderness? The scripted sequences? The over-the-shoulder camera? The walking simulation? Stopping to admire the scenery? A young person hunting a deer in the snow?

I dunno. I really think Santa Monica took a page from Naughty Dog here.

I agree with you, it mostly resembles TLOU. However i fail to see why a combination of three of the best Playstation franchises in history would be a bad thing.

Oh I agree. There's nothing wrong with this new interpretation of God of War per se. But I don't want to lose the old hack and slash God of War to get it.