Why I Won't Be Playing God of War 3
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I might recommend DarkSydePhil:
http://www.youtube.com/user/darksydephil#p/c/EB74ADDB2BD76A76/1/_4ysbpyNMB8
http://www.youtube.com/user/darksydephil#p/c/EB74ADDB2BD76A76/1/_4ysbpyNMB8
i only wish i could bring my PS3 or 360 on vacation. My wife is pretty cool but i think she would not be cool with me bringing my home systems on vacation. oh well i just have to make due with my DS and PSP.meganmeave said:
susan can come over with and watch me play god of war 3. bring the husband and we can have a pary!
I can see how some people would say god of war is a button masher. You have to play on the higher difficulties and it becomes much more interesting and fun. There you actually have to block, evade, and choose which attacks to use.
i appreciate what you are trying to say. i have been a long time watcher of video game play through whether sitting next to my friend on the couch watching the great sci fi flick half life to the log book and scorekeeper for my girlfriend as she endevoured to get a 100% on a JRPG. watching a spectacle is a fun, watching a beautiful spectacle is better, and watching a beautiful spectacle with a good story is great.
However (and i feel really bad saying this knowing that somehow you seem to be targetted by flamers on this site) please stop heaping praise on a game that hasn't released yet. maybe i'm that weirdo stick in the mud guy for this franchise but i hate seeing god of war get unjustifibly praised for its hacky slashy prerelease. yes it looks awesome but so does bayonetta, devil may cry, darksiders and dante inferno. and here you are praising god of war's bad storytelling while those other games got lackluster reveiws because of bad storytelling. being a reveiwer means trying to be objective and trying to be objective means being even handed. if other games are slcked off for bad writing so must god of war. if god of war scores points for bad writing than so must the others.
but for all i just said i realize that i am not being entirely fair. if you just liked the god of war series and can't really put your finger on what it was thats fine, and frankly that why i didn't like the game. i played the first game for four hours wating for the game to start then fell asleep while playing the game. needless to say i am not a fan. so maybe i'm wriong and just getting angry at god of war for being super popular when i hate it so much but this for some reason this article struck my hate nerve enough to warrant a post.
However (and i feel really bad saying this knowing that somehow you seem to be targetted by flamers on this site) please stop heaping praise on a game that hasn't released yet. maybe i'm that weirdo stick in the mud guy for this franchise but i hate seeing god of war get unjustifibly praised for its hacky slashy prerelease. yes it looks awesome but so does bayonetta, devil may cry, darksiders and dante inferno. and here you are praising god of war's bad storytelling while those other games got lackluster reveiws because of bad storytelling. being a reveiwer means trying to be objective and trying to be objective means being even handed. if other games are slcked off for bad writing so must god of war. if god of war scores points for bad writing than so must the others.
but for all i just said i realize that i am not being entirely fair. if you just liked the god of war series and can't really put your finger on what it was thats fine, and frankly that why i didn't like the game. i played the first game for four hours wating for the game to start then fell asleep while playing the game. needless to say i am not a fan. so maybe i'm wriong and just getting angry at god of war for being super popular when i hate it so much but this for some reason this article struck my hate nerve enough to warrant a post.
My wife has the opposite problem, I can't play RE4 when she's around. Her shrieks startle me more than the game.Freebird. said:
But I feel the same way as Susan. Some games (like any Resident Evil game) I prefer watching than playing. I feel the same way about Heavy Rain: I don't like the controls and would prefer to watch someone who knows how to make it look good. In my game it looks like all the characters are high on pcp... or is that just the game.
But Fallout 3? If either of us starts playing Fallout 3, the other is sure to sit and watch.
Well I know my cousin is freaquently making me play certain games so he can watch, namly God of War, Uncharteds, Killzones, Battlefields, Metal Gear Solids, Fallout 3, and Assassins Creed 2. My mother also enjoyed watching me Fallout as well.
The game came out Tuesday. Also, this is not a review, thus I am free to voice my completely unobjective opinion.rayen020 said:
Metal gear solid works best for this. remove yourself from the need to play, and enjoy the whole overblown, overwrought, yet often brilliant spectacle. Also, my girlfriend quite enjoys watching me play team fortress, what with the humour, style, excellent dialogue and so forth, yet she's terrified to even touch the keyboard with it. Ironically enough, as all of Valve's single player games lose a lot when you're reduced to spectator, when a lot of the impact comes from putting you as squarely in the game as possible.
The cat's out of the bag:
Sorry if that was already said or in poor taste, it just sort of... fell out.
Susan likes to watch.
Sorry if that was already said or in poor taste, it just sort of... fell out.
Hm...on the one hand I agree with the sentiment, but...it only applies for instances when I know the player is at least as good as, or better than, myself at that particular game. Watching someone masterful at a game play can be a real treat. I was more fascinated watching professional tournament play of Starcraft on freaking Youtube than I ever was playing the game myself (I'm terrible at it). Watching jokesters playing around in Team Fortress 2 can be amusing. Seeing someone just zoom through something like Shinobi without getting touched is impressive. All of that in addition to having time to appreciate details I'd have probably overlooked were I playing the game rather than observing.
On the other hand, if I'm watching someone worse play, it is TORTURE. Dear lord. Watching someone stumble through Left 4 Dead when I can hear the boomer from two rooms away, and he STILL walks right into it and blows it up in his own face? Watching someone completely run out of rockets trying to shoot down a gunship in Half-Life 2 because they can't figure out how to hit it? Someone dying on the same jump in over and over and over and...
AAAGGH JUST GIVE ME THE CONTROLLER(/keyboard) BEFORE I BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH IT!
...so, ahem. Yeah. Maybe watching God of War 3 would be nifty. I'd just have to make sure the "actor" I'm watching knows his lines before the curtain rises. Otherwise I'm demanding a refund.
On the other hand, if I'm watching someone worse play, it is TORTURE. Dear lord. Watching someone stumble through Left 4 Dead when I can hear the boomer from two rooms away, and he STILL walks right into it and blows it up in his own face? Watching someone completely run out of rockets trying to shoot down a gunship in Half-Life 2 because they can't figure out how to hit it? Someone dying on the same jump in over and over and over and...
AAAGGH JUST GIVE ME THE CONTROLLER(/keyboard) BEFORE I BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH IT!
...so, ahem. Yeah. Maybe watching God of War 3 would be nifty. I'd just have to make sure the "actor" I'm watching knows his lines before the curtain rises. Otherwise I'm demanding a refund.
While I can see where you are coming from Susan, I don't think I can agree. It's probably because I ended up reading the entire article as "I'll just take half of the experience and be happy," and that just doesn't work for me. Even with Uncharted 2, I can't stand to watch other people play while I don't get to play. I'll end up taking out my handheld instead of watching someone else do awesome things that I could be doing. Other than that, I've never had trouble being utterly astonished by the God of War visuals while playing. I often times find myself doing the QTE's with my jaw dropped followed by sounds of shock as I shout, "Oh! That is not supposed to bend that way!"
Overall, I respect your opinion, but simply can't agree with it.
Overall, I respect your opinion, but simply can't agree with it.
That game makes me feel terrible for whoever is playing.Formica Archonis said:
Who doesn't? The Internet's just made it so easy to find free videos of all sorts. Amateur or professional-quality, catering to any preference and genre. I have one directory with over 40 GB of video from just veritable acrobat [http://www.archive.org/details/C64Gamevideoarchive]!Yog Sothoth said:
Made you look.
Ha ha, well played, Sir!Formica Archonis said:
There was a topic in here somewhere... I can't seem to find it, though...
I've never been scared by watching someone play a horror game. Controlling the character themselves, making them push forward by your own will, constitutes far more of a horror experience than just watching a game. e.g. When watching someone play F.E.A.R. I wasn't scared at all but then I played it and nearly shat myself.
