Simple, Fallout isn't a FPS, it's an RPG (the aiming sucked on consoles, on PC it was fine). When Oblivion was made, Bethesda decided to tak all of the innovations from Morrowind, throw them out the window, promise way more then they could deliver, stick their heads up their asses, and release an unfinished game. Oblivion just wasn't ready to be released, it was too ambitious, and you can tell the parts that they left out.

Agreed!, Bayonetta is just a knock-off, while God of War is the real deal. But, hey, if you like women with glasses running around with gun shoes ( and I mean who doesn't  ) then thats just your tastes buddy. God of War is in a league all by itself when compared to other hack-n-slash games. 

I'm thinking DMC came out before GoW. Its hard to say that Kamiya knocked off the game that knocked off his original creation.

I think what he means is that Bayo is a DMC knock-off.

But who cares anyway ! DMC is awesome, Bayonetta is awesome....just not  God of War level awesome. If DMC and Bayonetta had decent stories that weren't awkward or plain....stupid they would be much better than GoW...

Then again...my love for GoW may be because of my love for Greek mythology...

DMC created the genre, God of War perfected it.
God of War II pushed the genre further.
Bayonetta matched it. 2 months later, God of War III becomes the king again.

GameInformer : ".....the team at Sony Santa Monica was elevating the scale and intensity to a level that once again proves Kratos is the undisputed king of the genre."

Destructoid : "Without question, God of War III sets the new gold standard for action games, clearing and then raising the near-impossible bar that was set by its previous installments. For many years to come, this will be the game by which all others in the genre are compared, and I suspect we won't see anything like it for quite some time."

IGN AU : "Kratos has earned an enviable position at the head of his genre's ladder - and we don't think there's going to be another hero quite like him, in a series as consistently outstanding as this, for a very long time."

Everyey.it : "God of War 3 does not represent a revolution in the genre. But it is massive, and brutal, and thrilling, like no other action game in this generation."

GamesRadar : "Add a memorable cast of characters and buckets of gore, and Kratos’s last adventure is also his best yet."

You need to be more clear, as you said after your GoW III paragraph: So yeah, how are these games screwing up such simple things?

And it seems everyone else in this thread interpreted as GoWIII=sucks.

I assumed this was pretty clear:

What isn't clear about that?

I really agree with this, back in a Heavy Rain or Silent Hill thread and I commented on the poor design, not just the controls though that was one point, but the controls to the simicircles that were annoying to do while in the QTEs to choices you had to make and the actions don't tell you shit other than a direction to hit and when you're talking you have one vauge word circling your head... its hard to see sometimes, at times you're timed on what you talk about, and then if that wasn't enough the one word doesn't tell you enough about what you could possibly say.  Like "trick" it could range from being a raging retard to being very sly, Bioware solved this shit last gen when you had full explanations to what choices you could make... it's a very poor design choice to me.

God of War III was developed for over three years by a huge team. I would say that's plenty.

As for Ratchet and Clank, I don't see this repetition problem that every reviewer seemed to notice. Space exploration with moons, etc. was new. The Zoni were new. Clank recording gameplay was new. Azimuth was new. Hell, it's difficult to find things in that game which weren't new.

@ Twestern: Lol at your thread becomming a Bayonetta vs GoW3 battleground

Anyway, I think part of it has to do with the expertise of the developers, at least in the case of Fallout 3 and Bethesda. The developer generally make FP fantasy RPGs with no gunplay. Is it that suprising that the shooting element isn't going to be quite as good as the RPG elements. It's the same with Mass Effect, Bioware are only just learning to do shooting mechanics.

As for Heavy Rain and it's movement controls it is a bit odd. All I can say is that the developer obviously disagreed with you and thought it was fine to put it in the final product (not sure why myself). Can't comment on Deadly Premonitions as I haven't seen or played it. And finally, God of War 3... wait until it's released, it may have some suprises we don't know about.

There will always be games where the mechanics just aren't up to scratch for the time.