Topic: Anyone thinks that LOS has a better origin story than LOI?(plz use spoiler tags)

[KaZudra]

God Of War is just a Typical Overrated game that Ripped off other games of the same Genre and used an amercianized super flawed plot involving Kratos whining about something he did and after understanding the situation a sequel comes in where he is just betrayed by everything that has a name.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Sorry, but if you're going to make a statement like that, then you should say Rygar made that move, then Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, and GoW copied it. That's what everyone seems to tell me anyway.

That said, they play differently. And GoW should've copied more from DMC and NGB.

If your talking about the Rygar for PS2 then your wrong.

Devil may cry came out in August 23, 2001 while Rygar for ps2 came out in November 12, 2002.

So my statement still stands that Devil May cry was the first to do this style of gameplay in 3D.

[crisis]

God Of War is just a Typical Overrated game that Ripped off other games of the same Genre and used an amercianized super flawed plot involving Kratos whining about something he did and after understanding the situation a sequel comes in where he is just betrayed by everything that has a name.

God of War isn't overrated, it deserves all the awards & praise it gets because it's a genuine fun series to play. You just hate it because it's popular amirite?

The plot is heavily based on Greek Mythology, dunno what's "Americanized" about it. Ever hear of the term tragic hero? Greek Mythology is chock-full of 'em, which is what Kratos is.

[KaZudra]

God of War isn't overrated, it deserves all the awards & praise it gets because it's a genuine fun series to play. You just hate it because it's popular amirite?

The plot is heavily based on Greek Mythology, dunno what's "Americanized" about it. Ever hear of the term tragic hero? Greek Mythology is chock-full of 'em, which is what Kratos is.

This does apply to God of War 1, below applies to all that is sequels.

One, not tragic, Never had a great loss due to the ONLY thing they can do is kill him, and did not.
Two, If it were heavily based on Greek mythology, Zues would have killed Kratos at the start of 2
Three, GOW3 was rated perfection, Lack of variety in weapons, a ridiculous story, great graphics, dissapointing unlockables, and most of all, plotholes GALORE, yeah its totaly diserved it [/sarcasm]

I did my best to see what was good in it, I really did, but I saw it for what it was, God of War was THE game, it did deserve the awards, but 2 and 3 ruined it to the point of ridiculous, and the problem was is i got more popular the more stupid it got.

[crisis]

One, not tragic, Never had a great loss due to the ONLY thing they can do is kill him, and did not.

He lost his entire family (mother, brother, wife, daughter) what's more tragic than that?

It should be obvious by now that permanently killing Kratos isn't an easy task.

Two, If it were heavily based on Greek mythology, Zues would have killed Kratos at the start of 2

Zeus DID kill him, but Gaia had the power to bring him back. Did you not pay attention to the plot at all?

Three, GOW3 was rated perfection, Lack of variety in weapons, a ridiculous story, great graphics, dissapointing unlockables, and most of all, plotholes GALORE, yeah its totaly diserved it [/sarcasm]

"Lack of variety in weapons?" What were you expecting, for him to have Alucard's SotN arsenal? And nearly every game story nowadays has plotholes, who the hell cares?

I did my best to see what was good in it, I really did, but I saw it for what it was, God of War was THE game, it did deserve the awards, but 2 and 3 ruined it to the point of ridiculous, and the problem was is i got more popular the more stupid it got.

That's too bad you feel that way, your loss I suppose.


P.S. sry for derailing the topic, just had to make a few points

[Flame]

He lost his entire family (mother, brother, wife, daughter) what's more tragic than that?

The fact that it is a commonly used plot device.

[KaZudra]

Dude, The Tragic Hero suffers a great loss at the end, not the beginning, this is just another revenge story ruined by sequels

[Flame]

Dude, The Tragic Hero suffers a great loss at the end, not the beginning, this is just another revenge story ruined by sequels

Especially in classical works.

[crisis]

again, what's the big friggin' deal? It's still an awesome game series.

Castlevania has revenge stories as well. Belmont wants revenge on Dracula for kidnapping girl, Grant wants revenge for his destroyed hometown, Dracula wants revenge on God and humans, etc.

[PFG9000]

Bah, let Kamui whine about how much he doesn't like God of War.  Thousands of gamers disagree with him, myself among them.  My only beef with the series is that it uses sex/nudity to sell.  It's a damn fun game to play though, and last I checked, that's what games are supposed to be all about.

[thernz]

i didn't actually like gow's (or rather gowii, the one i played) combat. didn't feel as tight as i would've liked. felt kinda shallow actually, even when disregarding qtes (i dont actually remember any of the qtes anyway so).

i had fun giggling at dinosaur roaring colossus though. i dont remember much else of the game though besides vague elements like uh, ship level, lava level, blue level, boss fight in temple with water. i remember having to kill innocent people as part of puzzles and etc. and not liking that. i think i got disgusted at playing as kratos because of that and stopped. except it was at the last boss when i stopped anyway so that was kinda derp.

uhhhhh
yeah.

on the other hand, ninja gaiden was clunky as hell to control despite the nice combat and it was just totally bland design-wise.

i really wanna play rygar. ; - ;