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Chevinator123 on 10 March 2013

Really? That's what the fuss was about?



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Chevinator123 on 10 March 2013

Sessler is fucking dead to me, apparently the trophy name is because the character Orkos chooses to help Kratos instead of his mother not because you beat the boss



SunofKratos on 10 March 2013

I have watched a lot of the campagne through youtube the last days. And what i can truly say ( i saw about 3 hours) is that it matched GOW 3 pretty easily in everything. Sure i need to play the whole game ( my game will arrive on tuersday, so expect a review from GOW Ascension next weekend at latest from me).
The scene with the mechanics snakes alone is more epic than everything i saw this whole gen.



ethomaz on 10 March 2013
Aldro said:

Game is out in terms of videos etc and here are what three users on GAF who I personally thought seemed like the type who were "Lol its GoW, how can it not be as good as the rest" felt after watching/glancing through =>

"Watched the entire walkthrough on youtube(while skipping around a lot), just to check out the "epic" moments and such. Definitely a step below GOW3 in that regard, and the story is silly and superflous."

"Watched the entire game. This is def super puzzle focused compared to GOW3. It also has a much much better combat system. The story is dumb and the boss fights are very very bad and in my opinion is easily the worst of the series."

^Quote to the one above: "Yup so true. sigh.."



Seems rather clear to me that the SP didn't have that much thought into it compared to the mainline entries.

lol the guys watched the best in moments in the YouTube... oh god... and the imerssion of the game

Anyway it is a prequel... not a direct sequel... so the story is expected to be a little worst but the added features are great.



eFKac on 10 March 2013
darkknightkryta said:
ethomaz said:

darkknightkryta said:

I've played both and I'm telling your right now Tomb Raider is better.  So far that I've played (Passed the prologue) God of War does nothing God of War 3 hadn't already done.  Which leaves you with that plastic looking texture work and overall lack of detail (By detail I mean extra stuff, plantation, mud, animals running around, etc).  Tomb Raider really blew me away.  Other than shading, Tomb Raider is quite a bit better looking than Uncharted 2 and 3.  They even did the "Burning building" better than what Naughty Dog did in Uncharted 3.  Overall larger areas than God of War too.  Plus once I get Tomb Raider running on my PC I can start looking at what the PC version did better cause I have a hunch the PS3 version of Tomb Raider isn't too far behind its PC counter part.

Are you playing the PC TB? Because the PS3 version don't came close to U2 or U3... and Ascension just destroyed U2/U3 in graphics terms.

Yeap... Uncharted 3 is better than GoW3 but I have to agree Ascension is in another level.

No I'm playing the PS3 version, near the end of the game actually.  I put in the PC version now to see how much further they went with the game's engine.  And yes the PS3 version does come close, it goes further.  There's only four things Uncharted does better, shading, animations and models and water. As far as models go only the main characters in Uncharted look better (Thugs you kill look about the same quality), and Lara herself looks just as good as Drake does (Other characters, not so much).  Tomb Raider gives you more freedom and larger environments than all 3 Uncharteds, keeps up the level of detail and gives you better lighting.  Yes I was wrong about the cutscene render farm, they use 8 PS3s: https://twitter.com/cbalestra/status/104624986450440192.  Ascensions doesn't do anything better than God of War 3, it's more refined, you have more moving environments, but the overall look and lighting quality stayed the same, up until the end of the prologue anyways, I need to finish up Tomb Raider before I move on with God of War.

Edit: I'm thinking too much of Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3's size of levels are just as big, looking at it again.

Just to add something to the graphics debate. The closest we have right now to objectivity is the Digital Foundry face-off (even though i rather trust Lens of Truth more) that states that the console of choice with the better version of Tomb Raider is the PS3 but from the few words and the title they rather think that it doesn't surpass Uncharted.

On topic: after playing the demo I'm convinced to buy the game anyway, but was rather expecting higher metascore.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

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tonymarraffa on 10 March 2013

WTF? It's got an 80 on Metacritic! what did you expect a 99?



gigantor21 on 10 March 2013
tonymarraffa said:
WTF? It's got an 80 on Metacritic! what did you expect a 99?

The other three games got above a 90; GOWIII got a 92. A 12-point drop from one game to the next is pretty steep to me.



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tonymarraffa on 10 March 2013
gigantor21 said:
tonymarraffa said:
WTF? It's got an 80 on Metacritic! what did you expect a 99?

The other three games got above a 90; GOWIII got a 92. A 12-point drop from one game to the next is pretty steep to me.


It'd the end of the gen. Get used to it. Halo 4 gotan 87! Titles are being scored lower than normal.



gigantor21 on 10 March 2013
tonymarraffa said:
gigantor21 said:
tonymarraffa said:
WTF? It's got an 80 on Metacritic! what did you expect a 99?

The other three games got above a 90; GOWIII got a 92. A 12-point drop from one game to the next is pretty steep to me.


It'd the end of the gen. Get used to it. Halo 4 gotan 87! Titles are being scored lower than normal.

Considering the criticisms I've read in reviews and other posts alongside that drop--namely, a weaker single player experience alongside multiplayer I don't give two fucks about--I can't not be worried. Especially when it sounds like the problems I had with GOWIII (lame story, scale overtaking the gameplay) were exacerbated even further.

That's on top of their going with an expansion of Ghost of Sparta's elemental system (which I never liked) and weapon drops, instead of giving you a permanent, varied arsenal like the other games. And I wanted them to focus on the period BEFORE Kratos was tricked into killing his family, not after.

The fact is, I didn't think GOWIII deserved a 92 at all. So to see critics giving this such a lower score gives me pause.



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Aldro on 10 March 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Aldro said:

Seems rather clear to me that the SP didn't have that much thought into it compared to the mainline entries.

Eh, people expect too much out of prequels. There's only so much they can do with having to re-write the script. Think back on the most popular prequels, Resident Evil 0 comes to mind. No matter what, they rarely are loved by the series' veterans.

Yeah ofcourse thats true. It is a prequel after all. But I think everyone wanted a sequel after III so the comparisons are bound to happen.