| darkknightkryta said: @Gamer_of_the_Year I'll try not to spoil anything but the story I've seen so far is very intriguing. More thought was put into it and I was surprised with the beginning cause I was expecting something else entirely. The game sort of starts off with Uncharted in that it throws you in the middle of things and then goes into a flashback leading up to current events... at least I think anyways, I'm not going to really play much more until I finish Tomb Raider. @Heavenly_King I know I'll get slammed for liking Lair, but I haven't trusted reviewers since I read IGN's review for it and it was all lies. You never know what kind of builds reviewers are given. Plus it's gotten worse since. Reviewers have this elitism now where if they can't get some instant gratification it'll get slammed, plus the way they've screwed up with reviewing games early on really hurt them now since anything lower than a 9 sucks according to them. Publishers buying reviews is becoming a huge problem too which is making things worse. There's no credibility in gaming journalism anymore. I used to go to IGN to read their reviews because they used to break the game into categories and go into great depth with each, sometimes I'd be reading a 4/5 page review because of the depth. Now it's all 1 page garbage written by people who have no more writing experience higher than elementary school. To sum up about God of War though; Is it getting a bit stale? Yes I think it is, and this should be the last game that's made classically. Do I think it's worth less than a 9 yet? God no. |
The "in medias res" plot line is very intriguing indeed. I was wondering how in the world the game would OPEN epic considering Kratos and his wife would still be together. That makes perfect since actually. Only logical way to pull it off (unless they, which I assumed they would do, started us off the middle of an epic battle when Kratos was a General ala "Heavenly Sword" which I loved it's intro too).
I just can't understand how humanizing Kratos, showing him being a family man and caring husband and father then showing his wife and child brutally murdered (by HIM because he was set up to do so) cannot be riveting? I mean Sony Santa Monica would have to REAAAAAALLLLLLY get lazy to screw that up and not make it compelling.
