The Gamer's Quarter

Mister Toups · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject:

FUN FACT:

The cyclops creature model was supposed to have a penis in God of War, but they had to "cut" it, probably cause they were worried that the breasts were a risky enough move on their own. I'm serious, check out the commentary on the "deleted monsters" extra feature.

I thought the sexuality and violence were handled well and fit the setting of the game perfectly. Having the oracle wearing that translucent... thing was maybe a bit excessive, but aside from her and the harlots at the beginning of the game, that's really all there is in terms of boobage. It's worth noting that the breasts were actually somewhat realistically rendered compared to how they are usually represented in videogames -- they weren't magical gravity defying "fun bags", but rather hung off the ladies' chests like heavy bags of fat ought to.

As for the morality thing: it's role-playing. When you play a game like God of War, you aren't being yourself, you are being Kratos. So you do things that he would do. He is characterized as a heartless bastard not just in the cutscenes but in the gameplay. I thought it was well done and made me feel like I understood the character on a deeper level. Besides if you've read Greek mythology, ancient Greek heroes often performed some pretty atrocious acts, either on their own or at the whim of the gods.

ANYWAY ITS ALL ABOUT THE GAMEPLAY AM I RITE
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Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

Weird. I enjoyed the begginning and ending parts a lot but thought things really started to hang around the rings of pandora thing.

I thought the way you got out of Hades was pretty brilliant.
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

I beat this bitch (God of War) last night. I know what shaper was talking about with the whole disliking of the hades part. It was awesome imagery at first, but it quickly started feeling a lot more like a set of scripted video game challenges than an actual environment. As much as it didn't quite work, I do think that it helped to set it apart from the previous areas. I've got to say that I was extremely impressed with how they handled the story in the end. Whenever it was possible to put the story in the hands of the player they did so and it made the sequence feel more like the end of a story than the end of a game. I appreciated that.

As for how the story itself ended... well yeah, it was a kind of an annoying twist, but it was a twist that thankfully kept the story from being too predicatable.

I think I'm going to try to finish up Metal Gear Ac!d some time this weekend and pick up Psychonauts next week.

-Wes
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

I actually don't have high hopes for Psychonauts any more. I'm only getting it out of curiosity. I played it for a few minutes at GDC and every single thing I did seemed to be accompanied by a cutscene. Tim Schaffer has said before that the reason gamers don't think story is important is because they haven't been given a story worth caring about. I think he's wrong, but we'll see...

-Wes
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ApM · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

The damned demo doesn't run on my PC. My graphics card is slightly too ancient. Since I don't have an XBox, I guess I have to wait until the PS2 version comes out and find out if it's an abomination or not (3rd-party port to creakier hardware than my PC makes me jittery).

Maybe I can fake it out into thinking I have pixel shader-capable hardware. There are ways.