>Everyone is hyped about new God of War just for the sake of it being a new god of war
Can anyone prove this man wrong, the new God of War is perfect example of how the industry is getting so bland and dumbed down that people, even action fans will be excited for utter shit as long as it has the image and namesake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6vIDCK7iQ
>>343328531
i love god of war but every time i learn something new about the new game i get more and more pissed
by the gods what have you become kratos
>>343328531
>it's different so it's bad
wow Brit, you're so smart
>>343328531
everything has to become linear cinematic walking simulators with scripted events
>>343328531
I have no problem with people liking the new GoW, just don't try to pass it off as the developers making it more "mature". I fucking hate when the fans shield behind the mature buzzword.
>>343329612
You have a very simple child like mind
Funny how tumblr praises it because Kratos is raising another man's son.
>>343328531
Slashers are a dying genre and GoW was more like a parody of them (it was fucking piss easy and straightforward compared to DMC or Ninja Gaiden) So its obvious they will change it
>>343328531
>Mashing square for 8 hours is somehow better
It can't be worse than that
>>343329934
>Slashers are a dying genre
>GoW was a parody because it was easy
Firstly, nice appluading the complete death of variety in the industry.
Second, easy =/= parody. Is Kirby a parody of platformers because it was made for a different audience to Mario games?
>>343330193
Yes, because Kirby is for babies, it's barely a platformer, there's no challenge, much like God of War, they might as well be the same game
>kratos taking care of his wife's son
>sonyfag nu-males are excited for cuck propaganda
>>343328531
Everyone's like what did you do to Kratos but few remember that almost everyone hated him by the end of God of War 3.
I'd been happier if they abandoned the character and went full reboot, but light reboot is okay. The game doesn't sound bad at all. Giant bosses, large regular units, large areas to explore, enemies to fight, and it's one of the first positive father figures we've seen in gaming in awhile. With SJWs and Leftists jamming propaganda down our throats that to me is something worth celebrating. Especially since Kratos doesn't sound like a cuck, but a stern parent.
>>343330294
But how does that make it a parody you idiot?
Do you have any goddamn clue what that word means?
Frankly you're the baby here.
>>343328531
WE LAST OF US NOW
>>343328531
I expected another hack and slash, not this 'Last of Us' cinematic bullshit.
>>343330346
>it's one of the first positive father figures we've seen in gaming in awhile
Did the Last of Us just stop existing suddenly?
>>343328531
God of War was never good, and 4 looks terrible.
has anyone confirmed if it's his biological son
will there be a DNA test in the game
>>343330432
>defending cuck of War and Cuckby
They're meta parodies, David Jaffe himself said GoW was a parody of the genre by stating that the combat is not as good as DMC. Cuckby is pretty obvious, it's a deconstruction of the genre.
>>343330568
When it suits the shilling, yes
>>343330568
i fucking wish
>God of War 4: The Last of My Wife's Son
>>343330697
>David Jaffe himself said
Source?
Also, putting "cuck" into a word as a form of argument is fucking juvenile. You're still idiotically thinking an easy version of a more difficult genre is parody.
>God of War
>over the shoulder slow-paced drama
What the fuck? 4theplayers up my ass! Had this been any other franchise it would have been met with universal rage, but Sonnyggers will swallow anything.
This looks like a melee version of The Order 1886
>>343331242
That already happened with Ryse.
>>343329612
It's no different than the other LoU clones
>>343329612
Yeah just like DmC
This game is not God of War in any sense
>New, shitty weapon
>New location/mythos
>New gameplay style
>Kratos is completely different than before
People who are excited for this are retards.
hey anons y u fags afraid of change? is okay to grow anons, is okay to try something different in the 4th iteration. is okay not to be a scared mommy boy anon fag, anon
>>343331315
Yeah but Ryse was made by a different company.
This looks like all they learned from The Order was you need to put the game in an established franchise for it to sell more.
>>343329612
>something different automatically good
sure buddy
>>343331647
wahh wahh wahh it's not the same as what we had before...
if you want the same, go play the old one you fucking faygcat. so tired of you whining bitches crying when something is different than it was before. scared faggots
The two big first party exclusives Sony revealed at E3 were The Last of Us: Norse Edition and The Last of Us: More Zombies Edition. It's fucking ridiculous.
>>343330294
GoW2 is harder than DMC3.
>>343330530
But the Last of Us is a better game than most hack n slashes.
The only way I can explain all the hate for this new game is that people are simply so young they don't remember just how stale GOW was by the time 3 came out and what a wet fart Ascension was. If this was just another rehash it would have been met with complete apathy and <1.5mil sales. Nobody wanted another old GOW, the only people who claim they do are people that changed their mind after E3.
>>343330646
they've said it multiple times in interviews , he calls him father, kratos is literally the anti-cuck it's just a meme for the lulz
the whole "your mother taught you to hunt" is from norse tradition , women taught children hunting while the men were busy trading and raiding
>>343328531
>makes post
>gives zero evidence or reasoning to back up claims
>>343331874
....what did he mean by this?
>scripted event
>action sequence with minimal interaction
>scripted event
>action sequence with minimal interaction
>scripted event
>action sequence with minimal interaction
AAA-studios just don't give a shit anymore. Play one and you have played ten.
>>343332073
THEN KILL THE SERIES AND MAKE A NEW ONE
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with people?
If the Blades of Chaos, angry Kratos, Greek mythology thing is played out, they should make a new universe. And a game with a new name.
How about something that hints at Norse mythology instead of the SAME FUCKING NAME as the first game.
>>343332457
Are you implying that a god of war is unique to Greek mythology?
>>343332073
So instead of trying to innovate, think of new things and change the formula they just slapped Dark Souls melee onto a Sony-Brand Cinematic Story then set it in the most predictable mythos to go to next. Then to show how """"innovative"""" they think they are they call it God of War again.
>>343328531
I'm happy /v/ gets triggered that CUHRAZYYY HACK N SLASH games are dead.
I get off real fucking hard when /v/ gets dragged out of its bubble and finds that their preferred genre of game is not as hot as they tout it to be.
DMC sold like shit and now it's dead.
Ninja Gaiden sold like shit, now it's dead.
Bayonetta sold like shit, now it's dead.
God of War isn't like it used to be.
And Uncharted, Last of Us, Gears of War, Gran Turismo, Forza are all breaking millions of sales.
I RELISH in the butthurt
>>343328531
>guy who tossed some random chick between some huge gears, crushign her so her meat and bones and keep a door open
>going on a sensetive father and son journey
... you wot mate?
>>343332105
Why are you talking about your own post
What an idiot.
GoW was one of the greatest action games at the time. That's why it was so successful. Shit on that scale was never done before. The graphics were good, the gameplay was solid, and the tone was excellent.
>>343332659
You relish it why?
>>343332585
Are you implying Kratos can change as a character and yet go right back to killing gods of war?
They should have either called it God of War and made it unrelated to the first games, or called it some other god and kept Kratos. Not both.
>>343332168
i believe anon is simply trying to express his frustration with the overall conservative opinions displayed by most of /v, who, more often than not express disdain towards videogames when they stray from the tried and true. by the 4th game in a series (not including the psp/vita games), this anon would hope the devs would try something different. It seems like.. idk.. the obvious thing to do???
>>343332659
Haha, epic!
>>343332659
Wait why are you happy, I don't get it?
>>343332730
Santa Monica Studios finally got round to watching The Road after Naughty Dog recommended it to them.
>>343328531
Well the last game didn't sold as much so the devs decided try a different business decision and cast a wider net. hack and slash is considered a niche game nowadays and making games is a business. Look at Witcher 3, that game has mediocre combat mechanic and most veteran consider it as a glorified Gwent client but it got amazing reviews due to the story and the setting. People want more narrative in their games!
Also the PS4 will get Nier Automata, the new Berserk game and the Rumored new DMC. So Stop making a big deal about this, Anon
>God of War
>shoulder button zoomed in slow-ass melee makes it God of Minor Skirmishes
This is what pisses me off the most.
>>343332808
you literally knw nothing about the game aside from e3 footage please stfu and stop being a faggot. wait for the game to come out before u express your judgement which is, at best, grasping at straws in the fucking dark. faggot
>>343328531
They're hyped because they quite literally turned God of War into The Last of Us 2 in Norse times.
The trailer they showed only had 2 things I recognized as even being the same IP, which was Kratos and the Rage meter and that's it
>>343328531
I hated God Of War 1-3
They were very bland action games that had a few okay cinematic scenes.
If they change it and it turns out better then that is good.
If they change it and it turns out bad then nothing of value was lost since the franchise was always shit.
If your opinion differs from this its because you played the games as a child and grew up thinking they were really good just because it had violence and sex
And if you did play these games as children your parents didn't love you enough to care about the type of content you viewed.
>>343333002
Now this.... this i can get into ;)
FUCK THE GOD OF WAR SERIES>In 6th grade I had half my middle finger nail accidentally lopped off by another kid during gym class and it scared the shit out of me and hurt really bad.>Because of this I can unironically say that nail gore triggers me. This ain't no tumblr bullshit, when I think about it or see it I have to feel my hands to reassure myself my hands are okay.>Bitch of an ex forces me to watch Higurashi, I know it has a nail gore scene so I skip that episode but it's still a shit anime regardless and it was quite insensitive of her.>Watch Screwattack's Top 10 Goriest Games for some reason. They show the boss in GoW3 where Kratos rips off the giant guy's nail with his twin hook things. Instantly click out because I'm overwhelmed with memories and the disgusting feeling of pain
And now to abandon thread before some chucklefuck posts it.
>>343332814
making a TLoU clone is not straying from the tried and true you illiterate monkey
>>343333002
>hack and slash is considered a niche game nowadays and making games is a business.
https://mynintendonews.com/2015/05/04/hyrule-warriors-sales-exceeded-1-million-units-worldwide-on-wii-u/
I think people are really jumping the gun.
Did you not see the rpg elements?
Did you not see the hints of open world at the end?
I think it's taking a Dark Soulsy approach and people aren't catching it.
>>343333039
You're definitely 16 and have shit taste. It doesn't even matter, I know people like you make up most of the video game market now.
But you have shit taste.
>>343328531
I was interested until they revealed the kid stays alive all game. At that point I just lost interest.
>>343331206
fuck you i am not swallowing any of this horseshit i am shitting liquid hate right now
>>343330530
Why is the last of us being used for this meme?That was not a 'movie game'
>>343328531
>>343333216
>on the wii u
They have no multiplats. What else are nintendrones going to buy?
>>343332776
>GoW was one of the greatest action games at the time
It was never good and was always a pale imiation of DMC
If you honestly think anything God of War did besides cause QTEs to become nore prevalent was unnovative or new you are not only retarded you are just plain wrong.
>>343328531
It's rare to see so much concentrated autism.
>>343332659
>Comparing over the shoulder 3rd person shooters and racers that have sold well for ever to button mashers.
I know what you're trying to say, but your post is so retarded it needs its own containment zone. Because hack and slashers were always niche, you can count them on your fingers and GoW is the shittest one of them all.
>>343328531
>it's another British guy who likes to rant about shit
Haven't seen this episode before.
>>343333187
and this is based on what???? the fucking intro level where you happen to have a son with you???? like it's fucking written in stone that you have the kid follow you around all game long????? ya good logic you fucking dipshit
>>343333002
Ascension didn't sell because it was shit and had dumb tacked on multiplayer.
>>343333002
Witcher 3's much deeper than anything you'll get in the new GoW. I don't get where the idea that it has terrible combat comes from, playing it on the hardest difficulty forces you into not just pressing click to win. Does a game need to be Devil May Cry 3 to be good?
>>343332085
Then why don't they look anything alike? Why did they make Kratos into a numale?
>>343333339
there are more exclusive games in total on wii u than ps4 and xbone combined, so idk what epic gag you're trying to convey
>>343328531
Self-shill threads are just as cancerous as GoW: Wife's Son edition
The boy looks like Koksal Baba
>>343333165
>triggered by fingernail gore
>posts an ebin reaction face from Steel Ball Run, of all things
Fucking anime onlys, I swear to god.
>>343333361
GoW2 is undeniably one of the best action games of all time.
>>343332384
and retards eat this shit up.
i can guarantee you the most popular games of this e3 besides zelda which already has a cult status would be the new gow and watch dogs 2.
as much as people here laugh about watch dogs trying to be hip and cool with the young audience this is exactly what it does and it does it successfully.
normies don't give a shit about hamepaly or mechanics its all about marketing.
>suddenly /v/ were huge fans of the original mediocre L1+Square qte fest of the original trilogy
>Moves from Greek mythology to Norse mythology
>Kratos gets cucked
Potery
>>343333232
oh great just what people wanted
>>343333257
you literally know nothing about my taste, fuckstain. all ive expressed is an opinion that most of /v/ acts like spoiled cunts whenever a game strays from what it was 10 years ago. If anyone can make a judgement here, it's me, and that judgement is that fucking retards like you fear change, and if you'd have your way every game would be like fucking pong.
>>343333232
>rpg elements
>open world
>Dark Soulsy
All reasons to hate the game
>>343333497
No it isn't you mouth breather. No game that requires square square triangle to win every fight is good. It is a brainlessly easy hack and slash.
>>343329934
>It's piss easy
See I'm convinced everyone who says this hasn't even played it. The harder difficulties are quite taxing and while the game isn't nearly as technical as those games it's far from easy at the hardest one. Also those fucking challenges....
>>343333394
Guy's been doing this since like 2011, dude
>>343329612
>>343333232
>Dark Souls with less depth and forced story segments
Thanks, anon. You've shown me the light.
>>343333509
>watch dogs 2
no, it was battlefield 1 and for honor or new spiderman.
no one cared about watch dogs 2. people only watched the trailer and talked about it because they were curious what it would look like.
>>343328531
When I saw the leaks from GoW on /v/ I had zero interests in the next GoW.
But the E3 presentation caught me. The little combat that we saw suggest that the gameplay will different unlike the previous game with the Chaos Blade.
I'm also interested how the interaction with Kratos and his son will workout from a story perspective.
>>343333417
>I don't get where the idea that it has terrible combat comes from
the game is old now, old game = overrated because retards.
god of war was one of the best franchises ever made in its prime, the issue was the series wrote itself an extremely conclusive and irreversible ending, and everyone who made the original games so godlike all left and moved onto other shit, and david jaffe became a diehard twitter SJW.
>>343333481
Actually I had realized the slight hypocrisy of my statement once I realized "Oh yeah, Johnny fires his nails like a gun".
Though they aren't exactly gory with it and once it's well established it just becomes a minute detail in the art.
>>343333039
Holy fuck these past few days has been a real summerfest
>>343330697
>can't make a game as good as DMC
I-It's a parody! It's on purpose I swear!
>>343333638
>square square triangle
Love this meme. Makes it so easy to spot shitposters or straight up shitters.
>got GoW3
>never played the others
>fuck it, I've nothing better to do
>play it, fight all the famous gods like Poseidon, Hermes, Zeus et al
>wonder what the hell you were fighting in the first two games
Seriously, all of the big players were in 3
>it's a "/v/ demonstrates how patrician it is by shitting on a not-that-bad series" thread
God of War
Halo
Gears of War
Borderlands
These aren't great game series, but they at least focused on gameplay. Nothing good happens when even they become more casualized and terrible. It means "niche" titles will slowly slide towards being more casual as well.
>>343328531
Thank you. Auto-subscribed.
I'm not willing to dam the game till we see more of it. Many trailers like this don't really show what the game is like and it is perfectly possible there will be times when the camera pans out and you have a proper fight
Yeah it is a shame we don't really have a main stream character action game, but has everyone forgot about accession? Was it even called that? There was a resounding we are sick of this because everyone was
>>343333730
chillout anon, enjoy a beer smoke suuuum nice wii if you got it enjoy the good games that are already out
>>343333638
>I never played on anything higher than normal mode: the post
Dad Of War.
But seriously what's with the trend of being an Action Dad these days? Not that there's anything wrong with it.
>>343332776
God of War sold because of the three bossfights and nothing else. Nobody would shut up about the Hydra That's probably why Shadow of the Colossus got made.
People want sequels because they want an improvement on a familiar game with more content.
Changing genres in an established franchise is a spinoff, and should be reflected as such in the name/advertising. The only times changing genre worked for a mainline game was when ridiculous, dimension-adding leaps were being made in gaming hardware, and even then popular games stayed faithful to their old games.
Prove me wrong.
>>343333518
Its like the zelda cycle
I think I will name it the hipster cycle
Everytime a game or series that was percieved dead gets revived people start remembering it foundly because they think the new one looks like shit because they are bitter faggots who can't accept change. No matter how bad a game is they will praise it as >>343333497 clearly proves. The god of war games only real legacy is making more cutscenes, cinematics and QTEs in games popular. In reality switching to a cinematic game is a natural evolution since god of war is one of the causes of modern cinematic games with flash and production value over gameplay and substance.
>>343332730
I love how feminists got butthurt about a fucking TROPHY that a WOMAN wrote in Ascension, but completely missed this.
>>343328531
That basically said everything /v/ has said for weeks.
This place is typically a shit hole but sometimes it makes me feel like this is the only sane place on the internet.
>>343333992
Then fucking innovate instead of slapping together two other games and calling it a day.
Would you be fine if the new Zelda was an OTS Last of Us Clone just called "The Legend of Zelda" because Skyward Sword was a bit mediocre?
>>343333892
>not so bad series
The word you're looking for is mediocre
And the hype that the underages surround those games with is annoying as shit.
See overwatch.
>>343332805
>>343332917
not him but i'm happy because i just don't have the patience for those kinds of games anymore. i'm perfectly content with walking simulators as long as they're well-made. i don't know why /v/ gets such a hate boner for games like these. just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.
>>343334052
because dads suck and I think it's mostly getting to the point where we're all allowed to express that opinion w/out being castrated ergo more games/films/tv/books can explore the truly weird topic of dads w/out being immediately shat on.
except on /v/, apparently
>>343333892
>Halo
>Gears of War
>Borderlands
Were all games with actual substance to them. Don't lump crap like god of war in with them.
>like the new God Of War
>Only played GoW3 and it was just so-so for me
>>343328531
>Devil May Cry is dead/pachinko
>Ninja Gaiden is dead
>Bayonetta is dead
>God of War, the most popular hack and slash, is TLOU
How did it come to this? Why do normies not like hack and slash games? Do they hate doing cool combos with swords and melee weapons that much>
>>343333441
yeah and they all sell like shit, the lack of third party support is killing slowly but surely killing nintendo
>>343334354
splatoon sold nearly 4.5 million copies.
>>343334105
Nope, some of us just remember games as 7/10s from out past. When they're dredged up and turned int absolutely garbage, we notice and post about it.
I loved the first and second games in the series. After a while, I played better games and my tastes improved. But it's still sad to see and okay series go to shit.
Oh and your shit about cutscenes, QTEs and cinematics is nonsense. Games like DMC and Bayonetta had tones of cutscenes. And the QTEs in GoW were either optional executions or like sprinkled in like RE4's.
>>343334176
>Then fucking innovate
Good innovation is incredibly difficult, a big risk and even if you do it well people may not care or understand and will go "well it just looks like GoW still and the last two were boring"
There is nothing inherently wrong with taking a series down a different path
>Would you be fine if the new Zelda was an OTS Last of Us Clone
It they made a good game then yes. You seem to be really obsessed with going reeee Last of Us when it wasn't a bad game and acting like every game is that now
>mid-late 2000s
>every game franchise starts turning into Call of Duty since they can't innovate whatsoever
>people hate it
>mid-late 2010s
>every game franchise starts turning into Uncharted or Assassin's Creed since they can't innovate whatsoever
>people love it
What went wrong?
>>343334304
>the most popular hack and slash
Please stop lying to yourself.
>>343333703
>and david jaffe became a diehard twitter SJW.
No he didn't you fucking moron. If anything he became the exact opposite of that. Did you hear that interview with him where they accused him of being a misogynist and he just blew them the fuck out about it?
>>343328531
Why is Sony doing this shit?
It's in all their games now.
I don't have a fucking kid, I hate kids, I don't have paternal feelings towards shitty little gremlins who aren't even related to me.
>>343334052
Because Sony bases all of their shit on demographics and bar graphs, and apparently most gamers are now middle aged men and so now everything has to be about breeders and their hellspawn.
>>343334304
Women and children can not into abstract thought
>>343334538
http://thegg.net/opinion-editorial/david-jaffe-is-a-big-hypocrite-calls-out-a-prom-picture-for-being-sexist-and-racist/
that was before, they infected him too dude.
>>343334426
cool, so one game actually did well
and the it's pretty much losing all support after next month
zelda is probably all they nintendo has left to be considered a consistently respectable company nowadays. with how much effort they put into it, it's basically their final gambit
>>343334748
sorry for my shitty typos, i'm not very focused right now
>>343334748
kill yourself, you are a burden on this planet
but its awesome the industry its change in a litle bit
>>343334545
>Why is Sony doing this shit?
>It's in all their games now.
Gaming equivalent of Oscar Bait. Pandering to the "Muh feels means its art now" crowd infesting the press and normalfags buying it.
Hilarious how quick people dropped Uncharted 4 after they realized it's boring as shit compared to Doom and Overwatch. No one talks about it except hardcore Sonyfags who only post review scores and screenshots. Games so unfucking remarkable you'd forget it exists unless you remind people of it.
"HURR DURR GOD OF WAR PUSH MASH SQUARE TO WIN"
>meanwhile, every single game in existence has Arkham combat but dumbed down even further
old GoW
>>343333398
Makes more sense to judge what's been actually shown than speculate all the ways it could possibly be different.
>>343334748
For reference.
He makes a good argument that whenever proper gameplay is replaced with some cinematic horseshit with even LESS gameplay, it's a bad thing.
And he's completely right.
>>343334748
zelda its the best game in the e3 in this year xD
>>343334526
Which game is more popular?
Sales are a pretty good indication of popularity and GoW wins handily there.
>>343333216
Hyrule warriors has no competition from the third-party, An exclusive from other platforms has to compete with other bigger franchise games from the third party on the same quarter every year! So it's more riskier to release an Exclusive from Xbone or PS4 compared to Nintendo. Knack sold 1.6M and still considered a failure. so your comment is only relative to the Wii and not the state of the genre.
>>343335057
new GoW
>>343334982
>>343335098
>thread complains that cinematic games are stale
>would rather play Super Mario Rehash over and over again
Something something cuck, something something objectively, something something wife's son.
Everyone can go home now.
>>343335106
That's what decent people on /v/ have always said.
Shitposting retards, on the other hand, seem to prefer it when series with actual gameplay become worse. As if that somehow improves their favorite niche video games.
>>343332814
This
There are 12 God of War games including the re-release. Even if you did innovate in some way the game is going to still feel familiar and people are just kind of done with it. That is unless the game largely changes it up, like they have done here
Why does /v/ have a hard on for DMC and Bayonetta?
They're called hack and slashes for a reason. What is the appeal of repetitively buttonmashing the same enemies over and over with no room for multiple strategies or environmental destruction?
What makes that more fun than this?
What I don't understand is why everyone is fine with this game's gameplay when Ryse was universally shat upon for being almost the exact same thing.
I've seen nothing to show me that this won't just be the same kind of gameplay with maybe a TINY bit of extra depth.
>>343335530
i would've had the patience to play this game if it wasn't Just Loading 3
You are responsible for this
when Nintendo made consoles with lower graphics and innovative controls with games focused on gameplay you shat on it because it didn't look as pretty and "mature" (in terms of sex and violence, not complicated or deep themes) as the others
Now devs spend all their budget in graphics and ebin scripted scenes to get hype, thousands of preorders and deliver cinematic experiences that no one will remember or replay in a year
I'm glad Nintendo seems to be loyal to their idea of gameplay, and they might literally save the industry with Zelda BotW. /v/ is a lost cause but normies and people that actually play games instead of fighting for them on the internet seem to love it
Nothing of value was lost
It took GW franchise 3 mainline games to get ANY gameplay and combo depth and generally it never evolved into at least something interesting from button mashy trash with heavy usage of annoying as hell QTEs
While i don't agree with new direction it's just changing one shit concept for another
>>343335334
bloodborne is considered widely by this board to be "the reason people bought the ps4" yet it sold doubly worse than a $60 super mario level editor
and dont even get me started on the trophy stats on that game. not even half of those 2m buyers beat the game, yet everyone had an opinion on it
>>343335640
Cause no one is saying wow the gameplay looks so amazing, people are saying they are bored of what the series was and are open to it trying something different.
>new genre: sjw hunting simulator
why even call it god of war tho?
>>343335530
>They're called hack and slashes for a reason.
Actually, they are called brawlers.
>>343335801
I didn't say anyone thought the gameplay was amazing, just that people are fine with it. What makes Ryse's one-button QTE finisher combat bad whilst GoW's one-button QTE finisher combat is OK?
>>343334509
>There is nothing inherently wrong with taking a series down a different path
What makes you think people are angry simply because it's changed and not because of what it's changed into?
The established appeal of the God of War series is its epic scale and fast paced combat. The new God of War has slow paced combat and a super restricted perspective. And the one thing it carries over from the old God of War is the surrogate child plot from GoW3, which everyone hated.
Why would you expect this to be good?
>>343328531
DELETE THIS
>>343333165
I've lost multiple nails and I don't have have problem.
Perhaps you should seek help.
>>343335530
5 seconds of that clip has more gameplay than the entirety of the new God of War. That's why people are complaining, you dope.
>>343335793
I bought a ps4 for this baby right here and GT Sport in VR. Days Gone looks really cool and Uncharted 4 and The Witness are my favorite games so far this year.
I couldn't give less a shit about boring ass Bloodborne
>>343333417
>Witcher 3 combat is considered hard and deep
Oh please, now you're delusional. I finished the game on deathmarch with same strategy I used on normal. My Ursine armor was not even mastercrated and my Gnomish and Black Unicorn has no fucking runes on it!
>>343334996
I don't know how the company even stays afloat, their entire fucking library now is almost entirely composed of those games, TLOU, Dude Raider, Order 1886, I'm shocked they released Ratchet and Clank, you would think the excitement would make PS4 user's heads explode, though they did lower the framerate to lessen the shock of playing a fucking videogame for the first time in 8 years.
Do people actually enjoy this crap, or is it more of a situation where they don't have a choice?
>>343336323
How is fighting, shooting a bow, and dodging fire not gameplay?
>>343336327
You sound alright. Like a rational human being who buys the games he is actually interested in.
>>343333808
Well, he did say in interviews that he doesn't think combat system in GoW is as good as DMC, but his point was never replicating that. He really liked DMC, and wanted to make game like that which was accessible to larger audience.
>>343336171
>The established appeal of the God of War series is its epic scale and fast paced combat
And people had become bored of it because it had ramped that up as far as it could go. People were done with it
>And the one thing it carries over from the old God of War is the surrogate child plot from GoW3, which everyone hated.
Cause the style it had didn't mesh well with it and everyone was bored with the story of GoW
>Why would you expect this to be good?
Cause at worst it looks competent and it is more interesting than if it was just Kratos being angry again taking on greek god again with the same basic combat again.
>>343328531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6vIDCK7iQ
>>343336468
It's not gameplay in that you're being constantly fucking interrupted by cutscenes. And what is between them borders on visual novel levels of complexity.
>>343336338
I sure do love it when some amazing epic l33t gamer guy comes in to say "BUT I FOUND IT FUCKING EASY!" as if that's some form of argument.
Also where did I say that it was hard or insanely deep? I said that it wasn't just click to win like everyone says it is and there are actually options to combat. Again you've proven my point that /v/ thinks a game has to be DmC3 to have good combat.
>>343334209
How would you feel if you were deprived of your walking simulators? You wouldn't like it and would like people shitting on you for that, so stop acting like a child
>>343336042
>OK
Cause it does just look okay. Stop trying to tell everyone what their opinions about other games were
>>343336216
Not him, but I guess it changes from person to person, also he was a kid so you know traumatic experience at a young age and all that
Good to see his fear didn't get in the way of enjoy top tier mangas.
People ITT who have played the new GoW, and know what the combat will actually be like: ZERO.
You people are so dumb it hurts. NONE OF YOU KNOW JACK SHIT ABOUT THIS GAME, yet you have a massive circlejerk over how awful you assume its going to be.
>>343336529
>People were done with it
Then don't make another God of War game, idiot.
>Cause the style it had didn't mesh well with it and everyone was bored with the story of GoW
And people evidently AREN'T bored of it now?
>Cause at worst it looks competent
But it looks slow and shallow and overly scripted.
>>343336768
You can totally tell how the game is gonna be, he can have 145 more moves but it doesn't change the game is the last of war now.
>>343336768
You're fucking naive, and it should be obvious to you.
>>343336686
Yes, but what differentiates it from Ryse's universally panned combat? Please explain, because I see nothing.
>>343336657
well, i wouldn't because the trend fits itself to that genre, but i wouldn't really get butthurt either because it probably means i'm not in the business' demographic anymore and it might be time for me to move on to a more productive or satisfying hobby
>>343336768
But don't you want to go back to the good old days of Ascension anon?
Everyone loved that game so much, it even changed up by focusing more on the blades to expand their use. I remember everyone very clearly stating I want more Ascension
>>343328531
idk I never played God of War. I like this new one. From what I remember, nobody cared for Ascension, so this direction makes more sense. It's also really early in the game from that demo.
They already said things get grander from then on. What I saw from that demo was the best thing from E3 and was different and daring, so I'm on board. Also Forza Horizon 3 looked dope.
>>343335076
this logic is literally autistic.
>>343336338
people like you also brag that souls games have always been ~~~soooooo ez~~~ as if hindsight isn't 20/20 right?
>>343336621
I just hope it was mostly cutscenes because it was the trailer. A trailer is supposed to showcase the game and all, but maybe the actual gameplay will turn out to be better? I want to hope GoW won't become a moviegame, it was never an amazing series but it was cool for what it was
I liked God of War for what it was, but this looks alright. Not GOTY material, but still decent.
>>343336768
>HOW DO U KNO, IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE SHIT
>>343337003
>Ascension sucks
>let's just throw the baby out with the bathwater and copy TLoU, what's the worst that can happen, we'll get MORE sales?
You should stop being a passive-aggressive ironic cunt, maybe then you'd see the other side's arguments.
>>343336906
>Then don't make another God of War game
Why can't a series reinvent itself?
>And people evidently AREN'T bored of it now?
Cause this has taken it a different direction
>But it looks slow and shallow and overly scripted.
Well it has got 1/3 of the old games right, you haven't played it and we know very little about the gameplay. It is silly to get so enraged for a series that never had strong gameplay and now we will see how it goes
>>343333232
People who say this looks like Dark Souls have fetal alcohol syndrome.
>>343336768
Should people not draw their conclusions from material that company releases? Why should we always expect the best?
>>343334526
jesus christ i thought some series were safe from this contrarian "this great beloved classic series was never actually classic and beloved" bullshit /v/ loves to spout these days
it's like when mother 4 fangame was making the rounds on social media and /v/ couldn't stop arguing and shitposting about how earthbound/mother was never actually good, trying to put it through a modern review lens
don't do that shit. it's fucking stupid.
>>343336950
Again stop telling everyone what their opinions are
Cause Rise never looked to have an interesting story and the combat doesn't look to be constant obvious QTE. There even seemed to be ways to interact with the environment. We know little about the gameplay and I'm willing to give it time instead of throwing a hissy
>>343328531
Let's just call this shit what it is from now on:
An Interactive Movie
Because that's all this is. It's not a video game.
>>343333287
it wasn't a movie game but it was a walking sim with pooey poo level design
>>343337182
irony
>>343337184
>Why can't a series reinvent itself?
Because what's the fucking point besides brand recognition?
>Cause this has taken it a different direction
But the plot is the fucking same, the presentation is just more "down to Earth". You're Kratos, you have a shitty kid now, you kill a bunch of Gods. There is no substantial departure from convention regarding plot.
>you haven't played it and we know very little about the gameplay
Why are you anticipating a better game than what we've seen?
ITT: we pretend GoW was a good series
You guys are just bitching to bitch about something. Stop acting like you cared about this series in any way.
>>343337373
"Cinematic Experience"
"Player-Driven Story"
"Seamless Story & Gameplay"
"Character Deconstruction"
anymore?
Well Uncharted 4 is the best game ever and No Man's Sky will be revolutionary according to highly reputable sources so I'm done with gaming. Squad is the only thing I've played since December
>>343336731
Higurashi was pretty shit senpai.
>>343334526
It's the most popular one commercially cuz it sold the most, so among plebs its the most popular.
>>343334515
Yeah, you should try DMC2 and DmC if you want bigger areas. They're probably more your speed.
>>343335530
Actually Kamiya referred to DMC 1's genre during development as stylish hard action. The good hack and slash games are actually challenging, exciting, and rewarding to experienced players. There was a /vg/ general dedicated to this genre, but they're dead now.
>>343335240
But don't you want to feel the deep, emotional drama and protect your son!?
If this isn't just an outright new story line, then I might have to watch an LP just to see how bad this is.
I rarely make posts about outright disliking a game but this seems to be one of the most disingenuous turds to come out of the recent market.
>>343337551
>projecting
>>343337551
It was bad before but at least it was a mindless action game.
Now it's barely even a game and the combat is slow as shit.
>>343337551
ITP: we pretend making an action game shallower and slower will make it better because it's "different"
>>343337459
>Because what's the fucking point besides brand recognition?
Why does there even need to be a reason?
>But the plot is the fucking same,
Yep, Kratos was sure yelling about his family and killing gods
>Why are you anticipating a better game than what we've seen?
Cause what we saw looked fine, you are acting like we saw a broken mess
>>343335240
Actually I take it back. This isn't Souls lite. This is Ryse lite.
>>343334513
>Mid-late 90s
>Everyone tries to make Doom clones and 3D Platformer collectathons
People have been following trends ever since games first started.
>>343328531
>kid already has receding hairline
J U S T
U
S
T
has there ever been a bigger blunder, /v/?
>>343338070
>Why does there even need to be a reason?
Why should it change then?
>Yep, Kratos was sure yelling about his family and killing gods
You're right, it looks way more retarded than that.
>Cause what we saw looked fine, you are acting like we saw a broken mess
It didn't look "broken" but it clearly looked like bland garbage.
>>343338070
>Why does there even need to be a reason?
Because generally games try to justify their own existence by offering something people enjoy and engage with besides evidently meaningless residual narrative from the established series? Why would a person who liked God of War like this?
>Yep, Kratos was sure yelling about his family and killing gods
He's literally yelling at his child and killing generic mythological creatures.
>Cause what we saw looked fine, you are acting like we saw a broken mess
A game doesn't have to be broken to be unenjoyable. In fact the best gameplay is usually slightly broken.
>The game isin't even remotely about the past GOW experience
>not even interested enough in the game to be mad about it anymore
Anyone else here?
>It's GoW mixed with RE4
Of course /v/ doesn't like it.
>>343338693
You'd have way more of a point if you weren't exaggerating constantly
>Why should it change then?
Cause as said people were bored with what it was. Why is it wrong to take a series like that in a completely new direction? There is no reason you can't use something established to do it
>He's literally yelling at his child
You mean when he slightly rose his voice and then stopped? That is different from the mass murdering machine of before
>killing generic mythological creatures.
But you said gods and he isn't doing the same shit at all. Before he would murder up entire civilisations wrecking everywhere just cause he was a dick. If these are in fact so similar why are you angry about the story?
>A game doesn't have to be broken to be unenjoyable
But you are acting up like it is broken when at worst this just looks competent with some minor intractable stuff. You seem so overly upset about this
>>343338905
Yeah everyone was clamoring for more over the shoulder third person melee combat, RE4 did that so fucking well.
>>343339315
No one was clamoring for another GoW either, so instead of pushing out a forgettable game from a dried out series, they try something else. It might be shit, but at least it's new shit.
Why does /v/ keep saying EVERY game is like The Last of Us now?
This new God of War isn't at all really.
And I can only think of The Last of Us.
Everything else from triple a games off the top of my head, Alien Isolation, Far Cry 4, Halo 5, Gears 4, Sunset Overdrive, Titanfall, Battlefield, Gran Turismo Sport, Just Cause 3, Metal Gear Solid 5, Steep, For Honor, Fallout 4, Witcher 3.
NONE of these games are like The Last of Us.
>>343339509
It's the new calling every game scripted and cinematic
yeah, because after 6 god of war games following the exact same style as GoW1, we really needed a 7th. Nevermind the fact that ascension experimented with the core gameplay and sold far less than GoW3, they totally should've kept the exact same controls and mindless combat!
nah, im ready for something new. Maybe this will be shit, but maybe it wont. regardless I've had my fill of that type of gameplay in GoW. It's beaten by nearly every other game in the genre.
>>343339745
>Nevermind the fact that ascension experimented with the core gameplay and sold far less than GoW3,
This, they tried to change up while keeping the core the same and it didn't work
>>343336650
Well Witcher 3 don't have decent hit box (which they have not fix), enemy have less than 4 counter moves which makes the combat seems dated, some signs are just OP and every thing is fucking insultingly telegraphed. So makes you Witcher 3's combat not mediocre. Also I didn't say Witcher 3's combat terrible, I said Mediocre.
>>343339480
>No one was clamoring for another GoW either
THEN WHY ARE THEY MAKING ANOTHER ONE AT ALL
MAKE A NEW GAME
>>343339846
>>343339745
The changes Ascension introduced were stupid, though.
Locking out half the combo list if the player gets hit during a fight isn't fun. Who would've guessed.
>>343339953
>were stupid, though.
Cause trying to change things up while keeping the core the same is very difficult. And if you do it twice in a row and sales keep falling that is very bad for a series
>>343339949
Why didn't you bitches whine when Silent Hill became a hallway-walking sim jumps scare game?
oh that's right
>it's only ok when japs do it
/v/ is so shit.
>>343334209
You're essentially saying "Man, when I was a kid I had so much time to play all these crazy hard games, but now that I'm older I feel happy playing walking simulators. I relish in the fact that you kids will never be able to experience what I did!"
t. 28 year old who would rather have an old style GoW with modern day graphics/production value/scale
t. 28 year old
>>343339745
>>343339846
>ascension is bad because they fucked with the formula
>let's fuck with the formula more
This can only go well.
>>343330568
You wot m8?
>>343332814
Innovation isn't deleting what makes the game part of that franchise.
It is like if Mario Kart suddenly became an FPS. Why even call it Mario Kart anymore? Same situation here. Should have just made a new IP, everyone knows Norse gods can be killed so it isn't copying God of War
BUT U GUISE ITS SO CINEMATIC
>>343334209
Dud stop pandering to them and calling these games fucking "walking sims"
The Last of Us is not a walking sim
The Witness is not a walking sim
Uncharted 4 is not a walking sim
God of War will not be a walkingsim
These games are NOT Dear Esther. They have gameplay components.
>>343332659
>sonypony using sales as last resort argument tactic
Shocking
>>343334209
If a game isn't constantly kicking my ass, it's not a real game.I'm 26.
>>343340324
>t is like if Mario Kart suddenly became an FPS
THE GAME CLEARLY STILL HAS COMBAT AND HINDS OF EXPLORATION PUZZLES
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE CAMERA
>>343328531
I personally never really cared for God of War until I saw the e3 preview this year, yet I am excited to play it.
Wanna know why? Because Last of Us is my favorite game of all time.
>>343339745
>Nevermind the fact that ascension experimented with the core gameplay and sold far less than GoW3
I'm not sure that I'd consider
>taking away combos and abilities from the player if they get hit
>1 weapon as opposed to the third game's 5 weapons
>jerking around the camera during set pieces to make it harder
to be experimenting. Just a bunch of really awful design decisions.
>>343340181
Huh? Pretty sure no Silent Hill after 2 got a positive reaction, from anyone.
>>343340572
Have you seen the combat? It's incredibly slow. The difference isn't just the camera.
>>343340660
I'M TALKING ABOUT SILENT HILLS!!!
PT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
video games will never be like 1998 or whatever year you get off on. Just shut up and play your vidya
>>343329934
>it's a "parody"
>it's bad
It's an homage you dumb fuck. Like Machete or Expendables are to action movies.
It's made to be over the top, and in that way GoW is fucking brilliant.
>>343340241
ascension tinkered with it, it was still a god of war game. it just had mechanical changes regarding combat, some were good and some were bad. point is that was their attempt to change things up while staying true to the series, and it failed. So now, they were either going to go back to GoW3 combat, which is fine but repetitive and has been the same since 1, or do something new. glad they did something new. Seriously, 6 fucking games. pick up the GoW saga on PS3 + ascension if you want things to stay the same.
>>343340726
It's more up close and visceral.
>>343329612
God of War should have stayed what it is. It was somewhat unique and fun.
Now it's similar to most mainstream games, striving for that cinematic "gold standard" of action games. Pure nonsense, but as long as these games get 9s and 10s, who cares...
>>343340181
PT isn't a Silent Hill game, and the Silent Hill game it was meant to tease was cancelled.
>>343328531
>Can anyone prove this man wrong
He's the one making the claim, he has to do the proving.
>>343340734
Calling PT a walking sim jump scare game is silly, unless you always considered SH to be that.
It felt very much SH2 to me.
>>343340856
>God of War should have stayed what it is. It was somewhat unique and fun.
You know damn fucking well if they came out showing a prettier god of war 3, /v/ would be shitposting saying wahhh look at this casual shit. they replaced dmc 5 with thisss. Or nobody would even be talking about it like The Last Guardian.
I love god of war. I love the last of us.
Dunno why they felt the need to make this father son shit but I guess we will see
i hate these threads, it's basically "Why doesn't MTV play music videos anymore?" but directed at the video game industry
here's a hint:you're not the target audience anymore
>>343328531
>If god of war is different it's bad
>If souls games are different it's good
>If Nintendo rehashes its bad
>If call of duty changes its good
It's like it's subjective OP you fag
>>343340802
>point is that was their attempt to change things up while staying true to the series, and it failed.
>now we're going to do the same thing to a further degree
SEEMS LEGIT AS FUCK YO, NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
>>343341051
>>343341020
>Calling PT a walking sim jump scare game is silly
>It felt very much SH2 to me.
/v/ is so full of shit. you're literally walking through a hallway barely interacting with the environment with NO combat. And there are jump scares EVERYWHERE. It was NOTHING like Silent Hill 2. Where's the fog? Where's the flashlight? Where's the wooden plank?
>oh but it's japanese and made by kojimbo so it's ok for it to be le spooky walking sim
I fucking hate this place.
