So I thought I should mention that there's going to be a fourth God of War game, a prequel called Ascension. But then I realized the God of War games bore me to tears and all I could really say about it was "wanking motion," so here's the trailer for Bethesda's new first-person-something-or-other instead. It called Dishonored, and you're parkouring and killing Assassin's Creed style, but you have a magic hand and there are fascist soldiers and stilts and I don't know what else. Seems like it could be cool. A hell of a lot cooler than a surly dude covered in clown paint fighting the same three mythical Greek monster for a fourth time, at least.
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You know, I'm really surprised that there is less "ZOMG GOD OF WAR ROK FUK U ROB!" fanboy outrage than what I had expected in response to Rob's jab up there. Glad to know that there is still a certain degree of class in Topless Robot, and for that I thank you all. -bows-
Also, yeah. This game is interesting enough to warrant a second look. I'm still wary about the first person parkouring deal though, since Mirror's Edge didn't get the reception that it deserved before. It really is a novel idea, but waaaay too many things can go wrong in it's execution.
I'm intrigued and yet pessimistic at the same time. While the art direction is certainly memorable enough with its "Lovechild of Bioshock and Half-Life in Victorian England" vibe, the possible problem I see involves the parkour part of the equasion. Think of how difficult parkour would be if your peripheral vision was limited to a six by three inch box about three inches away from your face. You would be tripping over low walls and stairs and grinding off your face whenever you jump and miss a ledge to hang on to.
I'll still buy it, though, just for the chance of possibly collossus-climbing those walkers. Doubly so if we could hijack them and use the bows.
However, you don't care for Uncharted, so your opinion on quality is questionable at best. Speaking of, did you ever even get a PS3 and PLAY Uncharted?
I did, actually. Liked Uncharted 1 all right, very much enjoyed 2, haven't played 3 yet.
If you've played Uncharted 1, you might wanna skip Uncharted 3 altogether, Rob. Here's a review by someone who is waaaaay meaner than you, for reference purposes:
Bethesda isn't making this game. Arkane is. They are separate studios, both under ZeniMax publishing.
Nobody said it was developed by them. This game is published under Bethesda, meaning they're in charge of the marketing, promotion, and management of the game. Just like games under the Rockstar banner aren't credited to Take Two.
Looks interesting. I'd be much MORE interested if it were third-person instead of first, but it could still be good.
As far as proof of concept trailers go, this is good, but gameplay trailers resonate with me so much more. Show us something soon, Bethesda.
As much as I usually hate it when this happens (Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid, et cetra), the only thing that might sell me on a new GoW is a change in protagonist. Kratos is just an obscenely unlikable character, and that was really intriguing the first game when he had this arc, transitioning from tortured and violent human into the titular God of War, but that arc was over 4 games ago, there's no where interesting you can go with the character. Once you've killed a dozen gods it gets all samey. It needs serious change, action games get repetitive as it is, there needs to be something that makes the game distinct.
As for Dishonored, I kind of wish it wasn't so blatantly an assassin's creed knock off. But I love the steampunky feel of it and if the gameplay is anything like the cinematics I am pretty sold.
yeah remember when Assassin's Creed was a first person "shooter" in a dystopian future and also the very first video game that you could stealth assassinate people in? nah me neither. ;)
Touche, I was more on the parkour elements, which have kind of become a staple of every game these past few years, but I do see your point.
My main thought during that whole trailer was that there is no way the game can ever look that good. I'm already a bit disappointed.
"Listen, killing me won't solve anything!"
*slits throat in a millisecond without any hesitation*
"Okay, maybe it solves things a little..."
Seriously, the setting alone has me incredibly intrigued, & the rest of the game looks damn good so far as well. Count me in.
Shocked Rob. Agree with a lot of what you say on here, give you your dues when we disagree but to be so against GOW... Shcked and disappointed! What a series. Don't know how they kept the 4th quiet for so long. Excited!
I finally got around to buying and playing the whole series when HD versions were made available of GOW1 and GOW2 (and HD PS3 conversions were made available for the PSP entries). I have thematic problems with the games, but only insofar as the writers apparently wanted me to have thematic problems, so that's okay. Gameplay was entirely satisfactory to me.
But unless they're going to do something significantly different this time and make actual progress in some way, I'm not interested yet and I doubt I ever will be.
...what's that? They're going to do a prequel on topics which we know all the most salient points about already? Where he isn't a superhuman killing machine yet? Which means they'll either have to scale him back in some way that doesn't fit the series, or they'll have to buff him up to the point where being given his powers was meaningless?
So they won't be making actual progress in some way, and are likely to be making anti-progress instead. Got it. I'll just go replay those five games I already paid money for, if I ever care to follow Kratos' story again. (Which I probably won't but who knows.)
I'll grant that I could respect the designers if they decided to bite the arrowhead and force the player to play Kratos as a human who can barely kill three or four other normal humans at a time without dying, and who would consider a boss-fight to be any of the medusai or minotaurs he slaughters more-or-less at will once he becomes Zeus' hitman. I don't foresee that being any serious selling point to the game at all, as it would involve taking real risks at being too different from what the market expects from a GOW game, but I could respect it.
I would only be interested in it, though, if they connected it to some kind of redemption for Kratos to face up to post-GOW3 (kind of an extension of what Zeus put him through with Pandora at the end--which has already been done!) Or if they were seriously going to explain narratively why he's such an unlikeable murderous selfish cretin. (Which the other games have also pretty sufficiently done, too: raised in Sparta to just be that competitive, beloved brother was kidnapped.)
A bit too late for that, really. The whole redemption theme was supposed to be carried out at the end of the original GoW, in keeping with its classic Greek Tragedy plot structure, before it was viciously retconned by the sequels.
I kinda agreed if they instead did a change in protagonist for every game that follows up the previous one, where the plot sets the protagonist to take down the hero of the previous game. I think it teaches a really profound, Yoda-esque theme: hatred only begets more hatred, and would make for a wonderful story.
I'm betting the first DLC is going to be a costume pack to make him look like Ezio or Altair. Best part about that DLC: it's a first-person game, so no one will even see the costume!
Bethesda? Here is hoping they will properly QC the game before it's released. Or, at the least, create a console-version of the console, so PS3 and XBox players won't be stuck when a quest breaks.
Bethesda isn't the developer on this. Arkane is the developer. They're both under the ZeniMax umbrella.
I concur. GOW is lame. I've only played the first and the third. The first was pretty good, but the third was a button-mashing indulgence in violent excess that put games like Manhunt 2 (the AO version) to shame.
You said Kratos is a clown.You criticized Kratos.Kratos is angry at you!Kratos want revenge.KRATOS WILL GO BACK FROM HELL TO KICK YOUR ASS !(your only chance to survive is giving him nudes women)
