God of War reaches exciting milestone, Playable from start to finish

@dynamitecop: Its the truth. I loved the series before and as much as people bitched about the story it was far better then any other game in the genre.

People bitched about it being simple and mindless. They said the series was getting repetitive and now people are bitching abouting it being to emotional and a straying away to far from the series roots. You cant make everyone happy.

What you said about me isn't the truth, don't flip this around.

Just as I found Resident Evil 4 to have destroyed Resident Evil, the same will happen here.

There's a reason new IP's exist, gross experimentation.

I don't know about God of War 4. The combat really looked like a HUGE step backwards to be quite honest. (RYSE). What's up with all these "cinematic" games these days...

I don't even know if we can call it God of War 4, I can't tell if it's a continuation, a total reboot or both...

Yes, and it does look very much Ryse in terms of combat, which is fine for a Roman game based in plausible reality, not this though.

I don’t know about anyone else here but when I saw the God of War 4 trailer (and the “live” gameplay for that matter.) the first thing that stuck out in my mind was how it differed from its predecessors in gameplay. That’s not a bad thing at all but I can understand how some lifelong fans of the series might be upset.

The other thing that stuck out for me was how it seemed to have a feel closer to The Last of Us. I can’t blame the developer for that at all. It seems The Last of Us has left a remarkably significant impact on the gaming industry at large, and for good measure. It’s not surprising that other developers are taking cues from it in their respective work.

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Think of it this way, you know the cancer of the video game industry known as Call of Duty and how that has influenced so many other things negatively? Yeah, well that is now happening with this cinematic bullshit and it's branching out into things it shouldn't touch...

Game development has become a cycle of shitty trends and following these trends simply to make more money... Not because it's the best direction for gaming or will bode something truly unique, but rather because the whole of video game consumerism is filled with casualized movie buff idiots who will buy this shit...

How is this news? maybe we should get an article now whenever a dev commits to master branch.

Another world class SONY excluive inbound to pack the already barn bursting amount available.

@Heil68: "Another world class SONY excluive inbound to pack the already barn bursting amount available."

Does that include PaRappa The Rapper?

That's why Indies are doing so well.

I cant keep track now that there is over 1,000 games available for gen leading PS4.

5 hour game confirmed

Lol We literally saw an INTRODUCTION and people think they know the game from start to finish. Now that's what I call "imagination".

Based on your posting history I'd be a fool to takee you seriously everyone knows your a fakeboy. I think you brainwashed yourself into believing you're something different but people like me will knock your azz back to reality. LOL

I'm excited simply based on previous God of War games. The trailer obviously took a different approach, but I trust that it will very much be the God of War of past.

Hermits have a lot of nerve talking about PlayStation exclusives. They're still desperately throwing money at that joke Star Shitizen lol. As for Lemmings the Xbox brand is basically dead so why even bother lol. We don't need to bring up how every single game they got this gen was a flop now do we?

@Heil68: "I cant keep track now that there is over 1,000 games available for gen leading PS4."

PS4 has a 1000 exclusives?

GOW 1 & 2 was awesome. It started getting stale at #3. Let it die so I can remember the fond memories of yesteryear.

@lhughey:

At 3 or after 3?

They showed the pacing of the game, they showed the combat model, they showed the camera system, they showed the narrative model.... They showed literally everything you need to know as to how the game is going to function... What do you think isn't being shown here that is supposedly going to be different and wildly vary from the video?

You don't even know what a fakeboy is...

I lost interest while playing GOW3. I would rate GOW2 in my top 10 of all time.

Actually more, I was being conservative.

Rise of The Last of Uncharted War Raider 4: Us God of Tomb

Pretty much. All Sony's games are interactive movies.

Previous God of Wars started off slow with very little gameplay. Witcher 3 started off slow with even less gameplay. This is a stupid arguement. lol

We all know you love hating on Sony and worshiping MS but now your trying to play nuetral. Your soul point in the topic is to troll and hate on GoW. What's funny is you actually believe your own lies, It's sad really.

YOU don't even know what a fakeboy is, Fakeboy...

Why are you making excuses for what can be clearly seen? They show the gameplay itself and the mechanical functionality of the combat, you can see it, the combat mechanics are comparable to Ryse and it's trying to be some cinematic story like The Last of Us, there's nothing to argue about...

I'm not trying anything, I am neutral, I happen to really like the previous games and am a very firm believer in the non-bastardization of game franchises.

I'm not hating on God of War you completely oblivious human being, I'm defending it, this is not God of War, this is horse shit.

@Heil68: "Actually more, I was being conservative."

lol

@lhughey: "I lost interest while playing GOW3. I would rate GOW2 in my top 10 of all time."

What, your nuts if you didn't like 3.

What was your impressions on the 2 PSP outings?

It’s how the game starts the story and develops the characters and gets the gamer involved emotionally in the game.

• Do not make your protagonist perfect. That makes it harder for the gamer to relate to them, along with making your story less believable and harder to engage the gamer in. Instead, use a mix of qualities from both columns to make a more rounded character. However, make the character 60% good, and 40% bad.
• Just as you don't want to make your protagonist the perfect being, you should avoid making your "villain" of the story all bad. Use the same method of rounding the character as described before, but instead make your antagonist 60% bad and 40% good.
• Create character personalities that are ranging from 90% good and 10% bad to 50/50. The closer the character is to the protagonist, the more rounded they should be. Instead of making the protagonists friends 90/10, try making them 60/40 or 50/50. Once again, they are easier to relate to this way. Repeat to create the antagonists' peers and associates, except making them 90% evil and 10% good, and so on.

Santa Monica has done this to perfection from what we have seen. A Brilliant move and I expect the game to move towards what we are used to in a hack and slash GOW game.

A obvious most expensive CE day 1 purchase for me.

Lol What excuses? We haven't seen much of anything . Everthing you say is pretty much guesses and blind critsm. One thing for sure it's obvious you don't keep up with GoW. Most everything you say is copy and paste from GoW E3 hate videos. LOL that footage is OLD news. People that follow Cory in social media knows the combat has a tone of features we haven't yet seen They also confirmed 100 enimies on screen, semi open world gameplay, hords of enimes, challenges and more unkown features

Lol Please. You are from neutral . Since my return at gamespot I never seen you praise not ONE Sony title, fakeboy.

The gameplay may be different but it definitly has the essense of GoW. The new GoW makes Kratos feel human and it makes me appreciate the series evenmore. When it's all said done no one knows how the game ultimately feel. They are currently adding features to every aspect of the game. Anyone who played GoW since the original would know it needed a serious reboot even the combat felt too famalliar. Cory Balrog understood this..

What exactly are you defending other than whining in a forum about a game you nothing about. Keep pretending like you know what the game is like from start to finish, I really don't care tbh, but I will continue exposing your fraud azz just for the lolz.

It looked awful, so sluggish. And looks like it will have many cut scenes to hamper the gameplay.