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COKTOE on 31 May 2013

The negatives you list seem to be commonly held opinions, and are the main reasons I might never buy it, in spite of the fact I very much enjoyed GOW:A's predecessors.



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green_sky on 31 May 2013

Good review Jay. I've only played the main trilogy and yet have to check out origins collection and this one. I think series deserves 3 year break now.



Jaywood2010 on 31 May 2013
mutantclown said:
JayWood2010 said:
mutantclown said:

I would say

Story 6.0
Gameplay 9.0 (beat it on Titan, no patch)
Graphics 9.0 (by current PS3 standards)
Content/value: 8.5 Just for the campaign. It's cool to replay using other weapons you didn't use as much in the 1st playthrough (first time we're able to do this in a GOW game since traditionally a couple of weapons you get very far into the game) and Titan mode is a really awesome challenge. That's a good 30-35 hours as single player game. If you really get hooked on the MP mode (which I didn't care about), it could go higher.

Overall 8.4


All I can say is that I commend you fro beating it on titan mode lol  And i can certainly see why it took you 30 hours lol


Well, I played first on hard (no Trials of Archimedes patch), it took me around 13 hours to beat. Titan Mode (no patch) took me around 14 hours to beat (Trials took me 3 hours to beat, last boss 2 hours. For comparison, l beat the last boss on hard in my first try, LOL).  I replayed some sections to get all the trophies and platinum. I then beat new game plus (hard) for pure fun  using the relic that regens your health but made no upgrades to health or magic, all weapons maxed out though, it was pretty easy, took me like 5 hours to beat.


Yeah the last boss wasn't my problem.  Just the  furnace alevator and the Trials of Archimedes.  The Furnase wasnt horrible, just annoying lol  Trials of Archimedes was just -_-




       

green_sky on 31 May 2013
JayWood2010 said:

Yeah the last boss wasn't my problem.  Just the  furnace alevator and the Trials of Archimedes.  The Furnase wasnt horrible, just annoying lol  Trials of Archimedes was just -_-

Was this after the patch where they added more checkpoints. 



Jaywood2010 on 31 May 2013
green_sky said:
JayWood2010 said:

Yeah the last boss wasn't my problem.  Just the  furnace alevator and the Trials of Archimedes.  The Furnase wasnt horrible, just annoying lol  Trials of Archimedes was just -_-

Was this after the patch where they added more checkpoints. 


I didnt get any checkpoints -_-  The furnace is like 10 minutes of nonstop enemies flooding you and The Trials I had to kill the nagas and electric ladies, continue to the next floor and kill the next 3 waves without a checkpoint.  The first time I made it past the Electric ladies and mad it to the next floor i died and had to restart and kill the electric ladies again.  I just wanted to say screw it im done but i continued.




       

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green_sky on 01 June 2013
JayWood2010 said:
green_sky said:
JayWood2010 said:

Yeah the last boss wasn't my problem.  Just the  furnace alevator and the Trials of Archimedes.  The Furnase wasnt horrible, just annoying lol  Trials of Archimedes was just -_-

Was this after the patch where they added more checkpoints. 

I didnt get any checkpoints -_-  The furnace is like 10 minutes of nonstop enemies flooding you and The Trials I had to kill the nagas and electric ladies, continue to the next floor and kill the next 3 waves without a checkpoint.  The first time I made it past the Electric ladies and mad it to the next floor i died and had to restart and kill the electric ladies again.  I just wanted to say screw it im done but i continued.

I see. Seems like i misread about the checkpoints. You just get more red and green orbs. http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/26/god-of-war-ascension-patch-to-tweak-trial-of-archimedes-diffi/



S.Peelman on 01 June 2013

I ordered this game yesterday. An online retailer here had a sale, it was €20. I loved God of War 3, which I only recently beat, so I figured "Why not?". Should be arriving any day now. Can't wait to play it actually .



green_sky on 01 June 2013
S.Peelman said:
I ordered this game yesterday. An online retailer here had a sale, it was €20. I loved God of War 3, which I only recently beat, so I figured "Why not?". Should be arriving any day now. Can't wait to play it actually .

Prepare of battle with intense rage face.

 



S.Peelman on 01 June 2013
green_sky said:
S.Peelman said:
I ordered this game yesterday. An online retailer here had a sale, it was €20. I loved God of War 3, which I only recently beat, so I figured "Why not?". Should be arriving any day now. Can't wait to play it actually .

Prepare of battle with intense rage face.

 

lol

I've been practising rage faces for days now, naturally .