[Cause]

Its a good game. Its a great game in fact. The graphics are, well lets just say I have been left confused more than once if I was still watching a cut scene or if it was time for me to take control. The level design and scope and scale of the environments is epic. The opening ten minutes of the game as you climb Gaia as she climbs Mt Olympus and as you fight Poseidon were incredible.

That said in my mind God of War 3 fails were its predecessors failed,though yes they are still great games, and that in my opinion is the game play itself. Your repertoire of moves is limited. Even when you have 4 kinds of weapons all of your attacks are essentially copies of each other. They all have a grapple attack, a spin attack, and a super attack. I find myself spamming the same combo then dodging over and over again. It is what works best. Then I compare this to something like Devil may cry 4. Compared to the kinds of combos I can pull of in DMC4 and forced to pull of to survive make GOD of War seem a bit basic.

So why did GoW3 get such high praise and hype while DMC 4 falls into obscurity? Whats your opinion?

[Grief]

Quite possibly it's because of exactly what you mention. It looks great, and isn't that difficult because of the simple controls. Having played it at a friends, I found I got tired of it fairly quickly. I prefer challenging games, with tricky combos, because when you manage something difficult, there's more of a sense of accomplishment. However, I have friends who get frustrated and give up on really challenging games quickly, and they also are the friends who rave about GoW3.

The great looks and easy controls give it a large audience.

[Gothos]

One word on this: Aphrodite.

[Cause]

Gothos, on 09 June 2010 - 12:14 PM, said:

One word on this: Aphrodite.

I thought Poseidon's princess looked much better. In fact Aphrodite was quite lack luster. Even the women in the GoW2 baths were better looking.

[Gothos]

What I meant was negative: a sex minigame? Really? Holy Shit, that's some weak ass idea for an action game (of course, banging Aphrodite would be a good idea for an existing Kratos, but game quality wise it's something of a disaster).
It's unbelievably cheesy and oh so obviously aimed for the 14 year old boy demographic. It says all kinds of things about the directions games are taking these days.

[Cause]

They made it into a tradition so they had to put it in. Though I hear you. My father sometimes reads his newspaper in the same room as I while I game. When that part of the game came I clearly remember thinking I was glad my father was not in the room. Still I am of two minds about it. I don't really think its something to be embarrassed about, though I would have been, anymore than I should be embarrassed when I read the song of ice and fire and two characters have sex or when as commander sheperd I pursue a relationship with an alien.

[Gothos]

Embarrased? No. But it's weak considering gameplay. It appears in more and more games, so-called "romance" that's just token sexuality to draw people in, a real cheap shot. It's lazy, it's cheap, it's disappointing.
Look at Bioware. Compare "romancing" from Baldur's Gate, BG2, Nameless One and Deionarrah from Torment... compare that to the shit they throw in in Dragon Age and Mass Effect. They swapped context and depth fro visual candy and boobs.

[Jusentantaka]

Cause, on 09 June 2010 - 11:52 AM, said:

So why did GoW3 get such high praise and hype while DMC 4 falls into obscurity? Whats your opinion?

GoW3 is newer and everyone was looking forward to it for forever. DMC4 is "old" so no one cares anymore. Irrelevant that DMC4 is better, its older so it cant be as omgz wtfs cuul!

[Cause]

But even when it was new it did not recieve anywhere near the kind of hype GoW3 did and yet I really think that in many ways its a far better game. I also bet reviews of GoW beat DMC4 nearly always.

[Jusentantaka]

Well then its because Kratos IS ANGRY ALL THE TIME AT EVERYTHING. And Dante is just too cool to get pissed off at things. And as everyone knows ANGRY provides more depth than luloz gey! songs and a plot. Plus the whole Dante-as-Jesus-Assassinating-the-Pope flies over the head of the teenage demographic.