Where should I start the God of War series?

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ZenfoldorVGI said:
Naz, know this. This series is not about gameplay, never has been. The gameplay is not deep. It is very, very shallow. The game can be easily beaten with the Square Square Triangle button combo. The gameplay isn't the reason you play this game.

This was a game based off DMC, but it decided to take a different route. Instead of being about deep combat and character leveling(the leveling in GoW is shallow and unnecessary, besides increased your weapons strength to match that of reskinned enemies), the game is about the story, and the puzzles.

A lot of people don't like pure action games. They aren't really into games that require a lot out of you mentally to master, and they don't feel much of a sense of satisfaction for mastering them. There are people would would rather have puzzles, and work things out, and have a pretty fun relatively deep button masher with a great story, some puzzles, and interesting badass character design and development.

What your problem is, is that you went into the game thinking it's about the gameplay, and not the overall experience. That was my problem as well, because there is a shitload of that boring ass gameplay, lol, so I figured that was the point.

It's not. Believe it or not, some people really dig those puzzles, and they even say(on the gamefaqs forums, because I've researched this) that the puzzles and ease of difficulty are what make the game superior too some of its deeper rivals like Ninja Gaiden.

So, knowing that the game is based entirely upon its story, puzzles, ease of access, production values, and main character, there is nowhere to start, but the very beginning, if for nothing else, to take in the relatively small amount of story the first game provides.

If, like me, you are a fan of deep gameplay, and are expecting this to be a DMC clone with a better story that you just can't seem to figure out how to access, give up. It's not that. The gameplay in God of War is nothing if not shallow, and I'm assuming the first time you figured that out, like myself, you were climbing or on some sort of a rope, playing a minigame to perform a finishing move, or in the midst of a quick time even, instead of using a button combination or a technique.

Every boss battle, every enemy, and every scenerio has one strategy. Square, Square, Triangle.

This might be the most insulting post I have ever read.