God of War 3

Oooookay.......settle down, Dave.....

Granted, I believe him about the graphics, but, jeez...

New trailer is available at Sony's website (downloadable in 720/1080p).

Man, that video really gets me excited about some cur-gen God of War mayhem. Assuming the video was rendered with the engine it looks great and really reminds me of why I love the first two games so much. It does remind me that I need to sit down and finish Chains of Olympus at some point.

Looks great, but it's hardly "OMFG a painting come to life!!!".

Well, twenty seconds of footage is hardly a world changer. I think it looked quite good, but I agree with Singer. Jaffe must have seen a lot of something else to get so effusive.

I was hoping we'd see an idea of release (Fall 2009? or something) with the teaser, but no such luck.

Still, this and RE5 are my #1's for whenever they come out.

Still very anxious about this. As it stands, this game is the only that will without a shadow of a doubt get me to throw down for a PS3. That said, the trailer's nothing special, and the disappointment of Halo 3 still has me wary about the game.

Graphically speaking, this doesn't look like too much of a step up from God of War II. With Jaffe and Balrog gone, I'm afraid that this game is going to share the same problems that many post-N64 Rare games had: all the people that made those games great are gone. This game has a strong chance of being "Brett Ratner's God of War III."

On the other hand, Chains of Olympus proved that on some level, a good God of War game can exist without Jaffe or Balrog's involvement.

Lion Hands! Can we get Deer Hooves later to run faster?

Actually, he gets lion boots too. And Kratos forms the head.

Well, it looks like Jaffe is now saying that what he saw was much more recent and better looking than the footage they showed at the VGA's. I wonder how people would have responded to the footage if they hadn't just read a news story about Jaffe having an episode over the graphics. You have to think that at this point Sony would rather he just stop talking altogether.

1) Jaffe should stop talking. There is no need to build interest in God of War III.

2) The VGA teaser seemed pretty disjointed. There was no narrative, and it seemed like random action images. God of War II had a few exceptional trailers, but they came late in the process. It almost feels like they just picked some random footage.

3) Regarding the Lion Boot joke, it's possible Kratos is using Hermes' boots at the beginning, when he walls runs to spear the centaur. Who knows? I am assuming the boss fights will involve some Greek gods.

The look of the game is a non-issue. We all know it'll look good. It'll look like a top-shelf game regardless of Jaffe's hyperbole. But the trailer showed nothing that sets this entry apart from the rest other than better graphics and a pair of bronze Hulk Hands.

You lot are so fucking hard to please.

Bronze Hulk Hands are what this series has been lacking I tells ya!

I'm just waiting for the point where Kratos gets screwed over by the Titans. You know it's going to happen so it's just a matter of how much he'll flip out when it does.

I'm rooting for Hercules to be a recurring boss throughout the game. Spawn of Zeus on spawn of Zeus violence: it's in effect y'all!

I would like some SoC-esque Titan takedowns... those shambling mounds of treachery need to be put back in their place - lion hands style!

New trailer.

Kotaku's impressions of the game. Definitely sounds like God of War and I'm definitely excited.

Y'all can keep your Killzone 2, God of War III is the absolute, gotta have it, must buy first day thing I'll be buying.

And I don't even own a PS3. My room-mate does, though.

Joystiq also has an article up. Unfortunately they're saying that they don't think it's coming out in 2009. I don't know if Sony would really want to wait until Spring 2010 before releasing this game though.

And yeah, watching the trailer, reading the previews has me more psyched than pretty much any other game.

The sole reason that XBox owners have to be jealous of PS3 owners.

I wouldn't say 'sole'. I think that Uncharted is definitely a worthy exclusive as well. But yeah, God of War is definitely the big known exclusive.

Trailer's excellent. When GoW3 comes out, 360 owners will then move onto the next title due out for the platform and claim "That is the real title 360 owners will be jealous of".

I expected better from the 360 owners of this forum by now. Or have I clicked on IGN by accident?

It's true though. I'm not one of those "PS3 is teh suxxorz" guys, but there aren't really many games that make me want to own the system.

I miss the sixaxis controller like crazy, and am sad that I haven't been able to support the console, but it's not because of blind loyalty to the XBox (this is my first, btw).

God of War III is the game that makes me regret trading my PS3 from Christmas for a new XBox.

The game doesn't sound particularly close to completion, so hopefully by the time it rolls around I can scoop it up along with a reduced-price PS3, the next MLB: The Show game and whatever Team ICO is making. That's enough of a game library for me!

You didn't say that. That's why I said pipe down.

Which system has a quite a long history of "3 Rings of Death" not even six months into its' use? Not the PS3.

:facepalm:

Probably because they're playing it so damn often!

Oh yay. Here we go.

This is not going to be a stupid PS3 vs. 360 thread. The epic size and scale of God of War's greatness should clearly dominate this thread. I really dug the trailer and the gameplay impressions make it sound like they're doing some cool new combat stuff as well.

The fact that it'll scale from a couple enemies to say 50 on screen enemies gives me hope that we'll get to see some ridiculous battles and destroy even more stuff.

I'm still a little concerned that Kratos is going too 'crazy' in this one and is just trying to destroy everything just for the sake of it. I also don't like the idea that they're thinking of taking all your powers away at the beginning. That's such a cheap move that pissed me off at GOWII that I couldn't imagine them doing it again.

I can understand forcing you to lose some of your old items but if they make it like GOWII where they were replaced with identical but differently named powers, I'll lose it. Just take away the old powers and introduce new ones. Do something that indicates that everyone else is stronger being so close to Mt. Olympus so that compared to them Kratos does start off weaker. Just don't knock be back to where I started with the original God of War that's just mean.

Sorry, Bees?! was just trying to introduce a little light heartedness into it. = (

And yes, the Metroid-ness of the second one annoyed me, but they were able to cover it up well enough through the story, I thought.

Who are you kidding, Nachos? You want them to treat you mean, taking away all your powers.

You'll play it and love it

Metroid-ness?

Sorry dude, it wasn't a dig at you personally - but your comment could easily lead to someone else making another "off the cuff" remark and then the whole thread derails.

Truf. I thought we, as a messageboard, had moved past that. :: sigh ::

Referring to how in (almost) every Metroid game, you lose all your wicked awesome powers at the beginning and have to get them back throughout the course of the game.

Ah. Gotcha. And yes, that was lame in GOWII. We also need to discuss the most important aspect of this game: next gen pixel boobs.

Well, I guess since many of your powers in GOWII are given to you by the Titans they could probably take them back or something (setting it up for Kratos to take on both Gods and Titans in this one)? And losing the weapons could be explained by him being a bit butterfingers as he climbs up the mountain.

I guess I just don't want them taken away only to be replaced with identical powers with the same names.

Come up with something new. The bit where he's got Helios' head from the preview sounds pretty awesome. Less crank turning while hordes of things attack you would probably be nice as well. I hope they put some more puzzles in it though. Puzzles that involve you murdering people to solve them are always fun.

I always enjoyed smashing that one guys head into the book to wake up the phoenix or whatever it was in God of War II. Or using corpses or living people to hold down buttons and what-not.

Yeah HD pixel boobs and sex minigames with SIXAXIS controls. Um, yeah ... make sure that part comes up while my girlfriend isn't around. Although I guess she didn't really care when I played the Conan GOW rip off before and there were naked ladies everywhere.

My history with the GOW games has always been the same as with the GTA games: Buy, play, beat the story, play some more then trade.
Still dont own a PS3, but I do own a used (yet brand new) "Valkyria Chronicles" i managed to snatch up for 20 bucks at work....might get a PS3 in the coming months, but so far its FFXIII, Heavy Rain, the new Team ICO game and MGS4 the only titles i will own for it.

You know that Final Fantasy XIII is coming out for 360, right?

You could miss MGS4. Or borrow my copy. I'm one of the people who found it entertaining and even I couldn't argue a reason for someone buying it.

Theres a team ICO game coming out? They really need to make a sequel to Shadow of Colossus, a game such as this on the PS3 would make me giggle like japanese girl.

Oh man, it looks like there is a good chance gow3 won't come out this year, if so theres going to be tons of pissed of fanboys.

Yup, but i'd rather pick the PS3 version if i own both consoles by the time it comes out, especially if its just one Blu-Ray disc.
Resident Evil 5, on the other hand, goes into my 360 list for online co-op.

GoW3 was never going to be 2009. If anyone's going to be disappointed, they're doing it because they're silly.

The deciding version of FFXIII will be the lead development platform. The fact it's gone multi-format concerns me slightly that the 360 might be the lead development platform. If so, doubly-screwed for PS3 owners, since this'll mean the 360 version runs better and the PS3 version will get a wonderously large non-optional install.

I am no longer on the cutting edge of the 360 v. PS3 debate, so I am confused as to why the installs are needed. Some sort of read speed problem? Frankly, I love my big black Blu-Ray player, but isn't the reason for Blu-Ray in terms of playing games completely negated by the installation? Multiple DVDs installed to the harddrive could have accomplished the same thing.

You're on the money - it's read speed.

Gaming on BD is essentially only benefitted by the 50GB capacity, which nobody would ever dare install in it's entirety - in fact the largest install would only ever be of the core components in a game that are used most frequently (freeing up the disc to load less demanding assets). The sad thing is that most developers double up data to make it access quicker (due to how BD reads information) rendering a lot of that space moot!

The problem would have easily been solved by putting 4X BD drives into PS3s from the start, which throw ridiculous amounts of data (constantly), but the cost was so ridiculous initially.

It'll never be a problem for BD video, which i've always assumed you mostly use your PS3 for anyway(?) - since the data transfer on HD audio/video is so tiny compared to gaming. For the heavy gamer, it means managing HDD space occasionally.

The 360 has such a poor presence in Japan i'd imagine there's some kind of financial incentive not to release it there?

That's positive news that it'd be a port, but then again - with the 360 being so simple to design for, there's no reason why the 360 port wouldn't be identical.

I'd even put money on it fitting on a single DVD9.

If you can't fit Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, or any of those on a single DVD-9, I can't imagine FFXIII fitting on there.

Thanks for the info. Double up data on BD disks? Clever solution.