I can't believe that no one has been enough of a wanker to point out that the Mona Lisa is in the Louvre, not the National (of England) Portrait Gallery. Guess that's me then!
Almost every single Castlevania game, since before God of War existed, has been titled (blank) of (blank).Zenode said:i was thoroughly disturbed by some of the analogies in that video
Does anyone get the title
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Lords: Damn cant think of anything
of: God of war
Shadow: Shadow of the Collussus
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......
So just ignore the part where I talk about originality of execution?CynicalMarcus said:No, it did not. Action platformer where you're facing down legions of creatures of myth using a whip based weapon? Castlevania did that in 1983. God of War was the first game to take the ideas that Castlevania brought forth years upon years beforehand and successfully bring it into 3D.FieryTrainwreck said:No, they were mythological originals. That's not the point at all. We're talking about video games. In the context of this medium, God of War originated its particular breed of gameplay -CynicalMarcus said:Mythological monsters and chained whips were Castlevania originals. You need to wake up.FieryTrainwreck said:Mythological monsters. QTEs. Chained whips. Wake up.Gamurga said:No, no, no.dennett316 said:I can't agree with this. If the joke is getting old it just shows you how stagnant the games industry has become in terms of the outright theft of successful formulas and the repackaging of the same damn game for the seventy squillionth time. People keep buying them though, hence the need for the joke.ranyilliams said:i think you should stop using the whole "like god of war...but" joke...its getting old.
That's like saying that the game industry is stagnating just because they still make First Person Shooters, or RTS-Games or games of every other existing genre.
You can't just invent something completly new every time you develop another game.
Even so, it only perfected it. Lament of Innocence came out two years prior, utilizing similar gameplay. I'm guessing that you've only been playing games for about six years now?
FieryTrainwreck said:So just ignore the part where I talk about originality of execution?CynicalMarcus said:No, it did not. Action platformer where you're facing down legions of creatures of myth using a whip based weapon? Castlevania did that in 1983. God of War was the first game to take the ideas that Castlevania brought forth years upon years beforehand and successfully bring it into 3D.FieryTrainwreck said:No, they were mythological originals. That's not the point at all. We're talking about video games. In the context of this medium, God of War originated its particular breed of gameplay -CynicalMarcus said:Mythological monsters and chained whips were Castlevania originals. You need to wake up.FieryTrainwreck said:Mythological monsters. QTEs. Chained whips. Wake up.Gamurga said:No, no, no.dennett316 said:I can't agree with this. If the joke is getting old it just shows you how stagnant the games industry has become in terms of the outright theft of successful formulas and the repackaging of the same damn game for the seventy squillionth time. People keep buying them though, hence the need for the joke.ranyilliams said:i think you should stop using the whole "like god of war...but" joke...its getting old.
That's like saying that the game industry is stagnating just because they still make First Person Shooters, or RTS-Games or games of every other existing genre.
You can't just invent something completly new every time you develop another game.
Even so, it only perfected it. Lament of Innocence came out two years prior, utilizing similar gameplay. I'm guessing that you've only been playing games for about six years now?
God of War, as a video game, is an original creation. Nothing that came before it feels the same.