New Sticky! - God of War 3 Edition

To everyone dissing the graphics, This is not the final build or anywhere close to it, it just the frame work.

Sony's studios share information with each other, from Killzone to Resistance, they help each other with all the techniques. So I believe they are just getting the game up and running and that we should see something comparable to what Jaffe saw around E3

i always had deliberately low expectations of the trailer, so it didn't disappoint me though i thought they'd try to focus less on kratos, and better show off the PS3's power by showing some huge environments or somethingakif22

[QUOTE="akif22"]i always had deliberately low expectations of the trailer, so it didn't disappoint me though i thought they'd try to focus less on kratos, and better show off the PS3's power by showing some huge environments or somethingBread_or_Decide

[QUOTE="akif22"]i always had deliberately low expectations of the trailer, so it didn't disappoint me though i thought they'd try to focus less on kratos, and better show off the PS3's power by showing some huge environments or somethingBread_or_Decide

i thought it looked fine. my greater concern is that it runs @ 60 fps. if it can do that and include some polish to the current graphics im more than happy as long as the game play remains up to the previous installments.

Just like Ninja Gaiden, the graphics haven't improved as much as expected as the series moves into the next gen... Wonder why...comeonthehoops

I've only played God of War once with a few of my friends while we were drunk at 1 in the morning. It's safe to say I didn't get that good a play of it to make any real opinion of it. I got to the hydra boss and we watched Cheech and Chong :)

The graphics are a bit pantsy, especially considering the hype. It's comparable to games like Hellboy. Still, it's far from the worst looking game ever, but I wouldnt be surprised if I hear "OMG TIHS TEH PROOVESES TEH 360 HAS RAECHED TEH PEAK" for the next bajillion years. However, cows are free to say what they want about Uncharted 2. Now THAT was awesomeness.

Teaser was pathetic. Even the mgst teaser site is much more better than this in a way lol.

Lets wait for the real trailer.g0ddyX

[QUOTE="-Mad_Rhetoric-"]

why is Kratos wall running? is he trying to be like Ryu or something?

also those lion gruntlet glove things are a rip off of dantes Gilgamesh

NAPK1NS

okay this is what David Jaffe recently said on NeoGaf about the new VGA trailer:

"Originally Posted by davidjaffe: So my take on all of this, FWIW:

a- The footage aired on Spike looked meh. It was dark and grainy and I was watching on a SD television. But the SAME footage shown in screen grabs from this thread- which I guess was taken off an HDTV playing the footage in HD- was 100% ONE of the two GOD OF WAR 3 things I saw when I was in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. It is NOT the thing I was raving about- as I made clear in a video post a week ago- but I still think it looks darn good. To me, the stuff Spike showed when viewed in proper resolution looks like a AAA God Of War to me. It doesn't rock my world but it doesn't look: meh. It looks like I'd expect a next-gen GOW to look. Granted, the team still has a long way to go and I imagine the final game- in all areas- will look much better. But I still thought it looked good. Fair to disagree but at least you know where I am coming from/where my barometer is set for my expectations of AAA next gen graphics.

b- What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings. I imagine it will be shown soon, but I have no idea. I also assume that the Spike stuff was turned in earlier than the stuff I saw (that I raved about) as the stuff I saw was for a meeting and didn't need to be edited, reviewed by Spike,Sony marketing,etc. The stuff I saw that I raved about was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had aleady been turned into Spike so it was 100% older. Not that I thought it was bad- again- just I can see how the new stuff I saw looked further along, for sure. And to give you an idea, the stuff I saw that I raved about looked about 25-30% better than what you see in this thread (the Spike footage played on HD). If that's not exciting and cool enough for you, fair enough. It happened to blow me away and remains the best looking console game I've ever seen…beyond Gears 2 which so far is the best looking console game ever released.

c- **** you idiots with the painting thing. It's not semantics, it's not a trick phrase. If you know God of War then it doesn't take much of a leap to assume I meant the footage looked like a painting of the concept art or a realistic, but bold and dramatic Renaissance era ****painting. I am well aware a painting can be Andy Warhol ****or can be Wind Waker ****or can be- as one eloquent Gaffer wrote- simply them wiping their ass on paper and calling that a painting. But come on…is this really something you want to bust my balls on? We can argue and debate- when the footage comes out- if you agree with me that the footage DOES INDEED feel like a GOD OF WAR painting/GOD OF WAR concept art piece come to life…that seems a fair debate. But do you people really want to keep wasting your time and energy acting as if I was trying to sneak something by you because the term 'painting' can encompass all art ****? I think it was pretty clear what I meant. If I had seen something in GOD OF WAR 3 that indicated the art ****had changed to a PAINTED Manga ****or a WINDWAKER painted ****or even something that tried to emulate the painted stylings of one particular neo gaffer's fecal paste splattered onto a sheet of Charmin, then I would have hinted at something like that…but I didn't so isn't it kind of obvious what kind of painting I meant?

d. Some of the venom aimed at me is amazing. I'm not out to get anyone, I'm not out to screw anyone over. I was expressing my feelings on a game I had seen. It was not PR it was not spin it was not marketing. It was being jazzed about some ultra cool graphics and tech and I was sharing that info and excitement. I stand to gain NOTHING if GOD OF WAR 3 is a success. Hell, I stand to lose more if it is a big hit given that if the game fails- which it will not come close to failure, by the way- but if it DID fail, I look even better because then folks will go, "well, see what happens when Jaffe leaves...the game falls apart" and my stock goes up. Not that I want that to happen and not that that will happen given the talent on that team and what I have seen so far, but all I am saying is: to those who think this was/is some sort of attempt at starting a hype train, use your heads.

Take care- eager for the footage I saw to come out and then have that discussion/debate. Later ya'll… David"

hmm..............if an admin see's a mod disruptive posting what would he do? :P Ratchet_Fan8

okay this is what David Jaffe recently said on NeoGaf about the new VGA trailer:

"Originally Posted by davidjaffe: So my take on all of this, FWIW:

a- The footage aired on Spike looked meh. It was dark and grainy and I was watching on a SD television. But the SAME footage shown in screen grabs from this thread- which I guess was taken off an HDTV playing the footage in HD- was 100% ONE of the two GOD OF WAR 3 things I saw when I was in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. It is NOT the thing I was raving about- as I made clear in a video post a week ago- but I still think it looks darn good. To me, the stuff Spike showed when viewed in proper resolution looks like a AAA God Of War to me. It doesn't rock my world but it doesn't look: meh. It looks like I'd expect a next-gen GOW to look. Granted, the team still has a long way to go and I imagine the final game- in all areas- will look much better. But I still thought it looked good. Fair to disagree but at least you know where I am coming from/where my barometer is set for my expectations of AAA next gen graphics.

b- What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings. I imagine it will be shown soon, but I have no idea. I also assume that the Spike stuff was turned in earlier than the stuff I saw (that I raved about) as the stuff I saw was for a meeting and didn't need to be edited, reviewed by Spike,Sony marketing,etc. The stuff I saw that I raved about was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had aleady been turned into Spike so it was 100% older. Not that I thought it was bad- again- just I can see how the new stuff I saw looked further along, for sure. And to give you an idea, the stuff I saw that I raved about looked about 25-30% better than what you see in this thread (the Spike footage played on HD). If that's not exciting and cool enough for you, fair enough. It happened to blow me away and remains the best looking console game I've ever seen…beyond Gears 2 which so far is the best looking console game ever released.

c- **** you idiots with the painting thing. It's not semantics, it's not a trick phrase. If you know God of War then it doesn't take much of a leap to assume I meant the footage looked like a painting of the concept art or a realistic, but bold and dramatic Renaissance era ****painting. I am well aware a painting can be Andy Warhol ****or can be Wind Waker ****or can be- as one eloquent Gaffer wrote- simply them wiping their ass on paper and calling that a painting. But come on…is this really something you want to bust my balls on? We can argue and debate- when the footage comes out- if you agree with me that the footage DOES INDEED feel like a GOD OF WAR painting/GOD OF WAR concept art piece come to life…that seems a fair debate. But do you people really want to keep wasting your time and energy acting as if I was trying to sneak something by you because the term 'painting' can encompass all art ****? I think it was pretty clear what I meant. If I had seen something in GOD OF WAR 3 that indicated the art ****had changed to a PAINTED Manga ****or a WINDWAKER painted ****or even something that tried to emulate the painted stylings of one particular neo gaffer's fecal paste splattered onto a sheet of Charmin, then I would have hinted at something like that…but I didn't so isn't it kind of obvious what kind of painting I meant?

d. Some of the venom aimed at me is amazing. I'm not out to get anyone, I'm not out to screw anyone over. I was expressing my feelings on a game I had seen. It was not PR it was not spin it was not marketing. It was being jazzed about some ultra cool graphics and tech and I was sharing that info and excitement. I stand to gain NOTHING if GOD OF WAR 3 is a success. Hell, I stand to lose more if it is a big hit given that if the game fails- which it will not come close to failure, by the way- but if it DID fail, I look even better because then folks will go, "well, see what happens when Jaffe leaves...the game falls apart" and my stock goes up. Not that I want that to happen and not that that will happen given the talent on that team and what I have seen so far, but all I am saying is: to those who think this was/is some sort of attempt at starting a hype train, use your heads.

Take care- eager for the footage I saw to come out and then have that discussion/debate. Later ya'll… David"

Gameslave_

I like what I saw even though it was in SD. The only thing that concerns me is the framerate, which I have no doubt could be 60fps if the developer were not shooting for a native resolution of 1080p.

I was however dissapointed that they showed barely any gameplay. The logo of the game seemed to make up the most of the time in that video.

Jaffe should have kept his mouth closed.jakarai

[QUOTE="Gameslave_"]

okay this is what David Jaffe recently said on NeoGaf about the new VGA trailer:

"Originally Posted by davidjaffe: So my take on all of this, FWIW:

a- The footage aired on Spike looked meh. It was dark and grainy and I was watching on a SD television. But the SAME footage shown in screen grabs from this thread- which I guess was taken off an HDTV playing the footage in HD- was 100% ONE of the two GOD OF WAR 3 things I saw when I was in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. It is NOT the thing I was raving about- as I made clear in a video post a week ago- but I still think it looks darn good. To me, the stuff Spike showed when viewed in proper resolution looks like a AAA God Of War to me. It doesn't rock my world but it doesn't look: meh. It looks like I'd expect a next-gen GOW to look. Granted, the team still has a long way to go and I imagine the final game- in all areas- will look much better. But I still thought it looked good. Fair to disagree but at least you know where I am coming from/where my barometer is set for my expectations of AAA next gen graphics.

b- What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings. I imagine it will be shown soon, but I have no idea. I also assume that the Spike stuff was turned in earlier than the stuff I saw (that I raved about) as the stuff I saw was for a meeting and didn't need to be edited, reviewed by Spike,Sony marketing,etc. The stuff I saw that I raved about was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had aleady been turned into Spike so it was 100% older. Not that I thought it was bad- again- just I can see how the new stuff I saw looked further along, for sure. And to give you an idea, the stuff I saw that I raved about looked about 25-30% better than what you see in this thread (the Spike footage played on HD). If that's not exciting and cool enough for you, fair enough. It happened to blow me away and remains the best looking console game I've ever seen…beyond Gears 2 which so far is the best looking console game ever released.

c- **** you idiots with the painting thing. It's not semantics, it's not a trick phrase. If you know God of War then it doesn't take much of a leap to assume I meant the footage looked like a painting of the concept art or a realistic, but bold and dramatic Renaissance era ****painting. I am well aware a painting can be Andy Warhol ****or can be Wind Waker ****or can be- as one eloquent Gaffer wrote- simply them wiping their ass on paper and calling that a painting. But come on…is this really something you want to bust my balls on? We can argue and debate- when the footage comes out- if you agree with me that the footage DOES INDEED feel like a GOD OF WAR painting/GOD OF WAR concept art piece come to life…that seems a fair debate. But do you people really want to keep wasting your time and energy acting as if I was trying to sneak something by you because the term 'painting' can encompass all art ****? I think it was pretty clear what I meant. If I had seen something in GOD OF WAR 3 that indicated the art ****had changed to a PAINTED Manga ****or a WINDWAKER painted ****or even something that tried to emulate the painted stylings of one particular neo gaffer's fecal paste splattered onto a sheet of Charmin, then I would have hinted at something like that…but I didn't so isn't it kind of obvious what kind of painting I meant?

d. Some of the venom aimed at me is amazing. I'm not out to get anyone, I'm not out to screw anyone over. I was expressing my feelings on a game I had seen. It was not PR it was not spin it was not marketing. It was being jazzed about some ultra cool graphics and tech and I was sharing that info and excitement. I stand to gain NOTHING if GOD OF WAR 3 is a success. Hell, I stand to lose more if it is a big hit given that if the game fails- which it will not come close to failure, by the way- but if it DID fail, I look even better because then folks will go, "well, see what happens when Jaffe leaves...the game falls apart" and my stock goes up. Not that I want that to happen and not that that will happen given the talent on that team and what I have seen so far, but all I am saying is: to those who think this was/is some sort of attempt at starting a hype train, use your heads.

Take care- eager for the footage I saw to come out and then have that discussion/debate. Later ya'll… David"

desyple

[QUOTE="jakarai"]Jaffe should have kept his mouth closed.Gameslave_

I think Kratos is a cool guy. eh kills bad guys and Gods and doesn't afraid of anything.Jandurin

[QUOTE="-Mad_Rhetoric-"]

why is Kratos wall running? is he trying to be like Ryu or something?

also those lion gruntlet glove things are a rip off of dantes Gilgamesh

TreyoftheDead

Dante's Gilgamesh? :?

some info about the game.

"FOSTER CITY, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced today, the unveil of God of War(R)3 - the last installment of the multi-million unit franchise - exclusively on the PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) system. The first game-play trailer was unveiled last night at the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Los Angeles, showcasing the game's beautiful cinematography and its groundbreaking depth of scale that is four times larger than its predecessor on the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, God of War(R)2. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's, Santa Monica Studios, God of War 3 will bring epic battles to life with stunning graphics and an elaborate plot that puts Kratos at the center of the carnage and destruction as he seeks revenge against the Gods who have betrayed him.

"We have large shoes to fill following the success of the previously released God of War titles," said Stig Asmussen, Game Director for God of War 3. "But with refined gameplay and jaw-dropping visuals, I guarantee that God of War will give fans what they have been eagerly waiting for, and much more."

Set in the realm of Greek mythology, God of War 3 is a single-player game that allows players to take on the climatic role of the ex-Spartan warrior, Kratos, as he treads through the intimidating heights of Mt. Olympus and the dark depths of Hell once more to seek revenge on those who have betrayed him. Armed with double-chained blades, Kratos must take on mythology's darkest creatures while solving intricate puzzles throughout his merciless quest to destroy Olympus.

Utilizing a new game engine built from the ground up and state-of-the-art visual technologies, the development team behind God of War 3 have made significant strides in giving players the realistic feel of actually being on the battlegrounds. With texture resolutions being quadrupled since God of War 2, God of War 3 will feature fluid, life-like characters, as well as dynamic lighting effects, a robust weapon system, and world-changing scenarios that will truly bring unmistakable realism to Kratos' fateful quest. Players will have a chance to join battles on a grand scale with many more enemies on- screen and be able to interact with levels like never before."

The graphics felt average IMO not better than Gears 2 or Killzone 2, though I think they had to rush it to keep the hype going, hopefully it will improve, if not, it's not really a big deal. God of War 3 will be sweet no matter what.Drukter

Anyone who has ever played a GoW game should know that minotaur thing is not even "boss size" :P

We will see more in the next few months. Anyone who thinks this game will be anything less then a hit is fooling themselves.

For all the people complaining about Graphics: http://www.psu.com/Jaffe--God-of-War-III-already-looks-20-30--better-News--a0005775-p0.php

Eat Sleep Play Co-Founder David Jaffe has once again come back to talking about God of War III, reiterating that the footage he previously raved about was not the footage shown during the SpikeTV Video Game Awards. According to Jaffe, the game footage shown in the new trailer is old and the game is already looking 20-30% better.

"What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings," wrote Jaffe on his blog. "The stuff I saw that I raved about was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had already been turned into Spike so it was 100% older."

"And to give you an idea, the stuff I saw that I raved about looked about 25-30% better than what you see in the Spike footage played on HD. If that's not exciting and cool enough for you, fair enough. It happened to blow me away and remains the best looking console game I've ever seen."EVOLV3

i love the k-west sig. where'd you get it?

God of War 3 doesn't look that good. It looks like an Xbox game in HD.Soulja_West

I wouldn't go that far, just that it wasn't as great looking as people said it would be.

Though of course I don't expect to see this 'till 2010, so they got plenty of time to work with it.

do PS3 haters think that the 10 sec trailer showed the final built of GOW3?? Being so early in development i am pretty much sure that in the coming months we'll get to see more gameplay footage showing different locations and better visuals... its just way too early to judge Gow3's visuals..