God Of War 3 - No More Quick Time Sex Scenes For Kratos!
 

In the beginning, there was chaos.

Or are there? The demo for this was rated "M," with "Strong Nudity" being one of the reasons why. The other reasons being you fight a water dragon on a titan. ...Yeah. It's gonna be typical GoW. Poor us. (Sad face.)

A good drinking game for this trailer is when you see something awesome, you take a shot.

Pretty sure he actually does get to shag Aphrodite at some point. There are also lesbians in that same scene too. Which is nice.

So yeah, pretty much everything we've come to expect from GoW, only bigger, shinier and more epic than ever before, which is all I want from this game. Demo was great, can't wait to get the full game on Friday.

Yeah, he shags Aphrodite. Her handmaiden's watch. It was entertaining to say the least.

I'm guessing that he doesn't actually kill her then? His whole policy of "I'll kill anyone who stands in my way", must mean she at least, doesn't oppose him. So I'm guessing at least one Olympian escapes his wrath by the end.

I'm particularly interested in the God fights in this one, especially Hades. It better be suitably awesome and gruesome.

It's a pretty gruesome game so far. he kills people in such mean and painful ways. He's really a not nice person. He needs to take anger management classes. The minotaur you face as normal enemies you quick time kill them by ripping open their stomach and the guts spill out everywhere.

Last I checked, the Greek Gods weren't nice people. Aphrodite did make Medusa ugly for being more "fair" than her.

I would think Kratos might accidentally kill her if she stepped in the way like his own benefactor.

-Edit- or decides to try a seductive tactic that backfires horribly for her.

I'd buy that for a dollar
 

Imagine the headlines if they pushed a game where you play a manly man like Kratos and, as part of the main plot, have your way with a woman and then brutally murder her. It won't matter if she's a bitch queen of evil gods. . .

I kinda hope he DOES do that now, just so the developers can go "He's fucking KRATOS. He doesn't care about what society thinks of him, I mean hell he pretty clearly has some horrific anger issues besides all of this."

As much as I hate the idea of interactive rape, it's not like that totally isn't in character for Kratos.

But yeah, roommate got his copy, gonna start when I have some free time (never).

Sex = death = big bucks. I predict in less than three years we'll see a big name game based on killing people while you rape them, pursuing this formula to its natural conclusion. If Jack Thompson doesn't shit out his liver when he hears about it, it'll be a fantastic day for news media. :3

Oh I never said she wasn't horrible, I just figured she wasn't much of a fighter, so when Kratos turns up she goes down the prostitute route to save her own life, which is what I think is the case here. And I highly doubt Kratos would just kill her for kicks; he kills because he's angry/threatened by the things he kills. If something or someone is no threat he doesn't need to kill.

He's out to kill those who appose him, if Aphro is offering him sex in exchange for sparing her, he'll do it.

Well they have this whole Zeus is Olympus thing going on, so I totally see Kratos being like "Eh I'll spare you from a horrible death since it won't matter anyway."

Been playing a few hours so far. I think I just killed Gaia, though I suspect she may turn up again later. This game rocks.

Oh and without doubt the best opening level I have ever played. That whole thing was fucking stunning.

Coming from the same guy who said the ending of Mass Effect 2 was full of "random and unearned" deaths I give you his reasoning as to why GoW3 is too long and boring.

Now I've only read the first paragraph, but that was enough to stop me from reading the rest of his article. If he is indeed serious, then Anthony Burch should stop giving his opinion about games.


In unrelated news, GoW3 is awesome, and the fight against Poseidon at the beginning of the game is one of the most Epic things I've seen. Especially the ending.

Bah, if I want to hear somebody complain about the game, I'd wait for the Yahtzee review.

I think the thing I like most about the game so far, besides the awesome Poseiden fight, each god you kill unleashes some new horror upon the world, slowly transforming everything into an apocalyptic wasteland.

I would like to run across a few more Titans though, haven't seen any of them in a while, so the whole "war" doesn't seem to be happening. Mainly I'd like to kill Atlas. That would be great.

EDIT; Forget everthing I just said, I just fought and killed motherfuckin' Cronos!! Holy shit I can't believe that just happened!!

Actually...it was Athena that cursed Medusa because she was raped in her temple by Posiden.

The story my latin teacher told me was that medusa bragged about her beautiful hair and stuff so Aphrodite cursed her.

So there's three different variations for you.


On topic, I want GoW III so fucking much but I don't have a ps3. = (

According to wiki, Flare is right. On there it mentions a few different versions of the same story, but there's absolutely no mention of Aphrodite anywhere. So yeah.


In other news, FUCK satyrs! You cheap ninja goat bastards!

I know what you mean. The only problem I had when I played through on normal was when you re-visit the 3 kings/judges in Hades. Right when you get there you have to fight a flaming cerberus that spits out kamikaze hounds non-stop, and up to two satyrs, depending on what you do. (Pro tip, don't kill the first satyr until you've ripped off the second cerberus head).

But yeah, satyrs have always been the hardest enemy in the GoW games. I love the grab kill though once you've weakened one enough. Mmm mmm mmm, satyr kebab.

Also, I was a moron on my first playthrough and barely looked at the text hints, thus missing out on the whole "use Helios' head when there's gold dust around" and therefore missing out on a bunch of hidden chests.

Main problem I had with them was during their first encounter, during Heras garden section when 2 of them attack you. I died like 5 times on that bit and I couldn't work out why. Eventually resorted to lightning chain spam, seems to be the best way to deal with them if you can launch them into the air. Didn't have as much of a problem with the Cerb/Satyr fight though, mainly because I just threw everything at the Cerb first and by the time he was dead the Sats were half dead anyway.


Yeah, I was at least 1 gorgon eye short and about 8k red orbs missing so I couldn't upgrade everything. Must've missed quite a few of those chests somewhere. It seems they're easily missed. I also missed about 4 godly possessions somewhere, but no idea which ones.

Hades Helmet - bottom of Styx river after you kill Hades
Helios' Shield - to the right of his dead body
Hermes' Coin - go to trail of blood in upper right corner from where you killed him.

They're all easily missed.

Gotta admit Hermes is a pretty fun sequence even though he's a cocky little bastard.

And Poseidon got his @$$ beat... Whoa boy...

Hades Helmet was easy to find. It's actually one of the standard GoW moments where the camera points one way and you say to yourself "what's that? I'm supposed to go that way but there is no evident wall behind me? Screw that I'm looking behind me first."

Helios' shield I missed on the first time though, same with Hermes' coin and a few others. I'm at Aphrodite's love palace on my hard difficulty play through now, and I have all the items up 'till that point.

Also, I don't think it's possible to upgrade everything on a normal play through. I think you need to have the god item that increases the number of orbs you get (I think it's Hermes' coin), and then replay the game on a difficulty you've already beaten.

Also Hawk, the God items are listed in the menu in the order they are found, so it's not that hard to figure out which sections of the game you should be keeping your eyes peeled for missed loot.

Yeah I knew I missed Helios' shield. Didn't know about the coin though. There were still 2 others before Heras cup, I'm guessing those are things belonging to Hepheastus and Aphrodite, those are the only 2 I don't think I picked something up for.

I'll get them at some point.

Anyone tried out the challenges yet? They're as difficult as ever, I can only manage 2. I was never good at those though.

Ok so I'm a lying SOB. Just finished up my Titan/hard difficulty play through and I maxed out everything in the labyrinth, with a couple thousand red orbs left over by the time I fought Zeus.

Also, I'm missing two God items. One of them is somewhere between Poseidon's conch and Hephaestus' ring. I assume this belongs to Aphrodite but I couldn't find anything in her room and I have no idea how to get it, unless the only way to get it is to refuse to bang her the first time. The second item I'm missing is the last one, so I dunno who's it might be.

edit -- As for the challenges, I haven't beaten Get Stoned or Knockout, although I haven't even tried Knockout yet. Get Stoned is just frustrating as hell. Bare Hands was pretty annoying too, but mostly because of the time limit. I got lucky though and managed to push one of the stone statues and the cyclops off the ledge.

Am I the only one that thinks Hercules is a Big Boasting Muscle for Brained idiot?

And Hera... Wow. That is NOT what I expected.

-Edit- Found Hercules' Shoulder Guard. Beat him, dip in water, at bottom.

Check my other post for updates as I look around.

Ok so I finally beat the last two challenges. Knockout was super easy, you just ride a cyclops around, smashing things off the arena. Get Stoned was much harder, but I found that using the Hermes shoes to launch people into the air and have 'em float there helps a bunch. I'm pretty sure I just got lucky though.

Also, yeah, I was really shocked with how they did Hera. Although since her husband runs around making babies with random women all the time it kind of makes sense.

Also I found the last God item, turns out I was only missing Aphrodite's thing. Although that still leaves something missing in that menu, and I have yet to figure out what it might be. EDIT -- Ok so turns out the last thing in the menu is the Boreas ice stone thing.


Here's the full item list though:

Zeus Eagle - In Gaia's heart at the beginning of the game. Climb the vines on the right side of the room before moving the pillar.
Hades' Helm - What Jagos said
Helios' Shield - What Jagos said
Hermes' Coin - What Jagos said
Hercules' Shoulder Pad - What Jagos said
Poseidon's Conch Shell - In the room where the Poseidon Princess is
Aphrodite's Garter - Turns out it was behind her bed
Hephaestus' Ring - After you kill him, it's beside the water pool to your left.
Daedalus' Schematics - In the room with the portal portraits, it's one of the two chests hanging from the ceiling.
Hera's Chalice - This one is the hardest to find out of them all. I'm not telling how you get it though!

Kind of a huge jump for Kevin Sorbo, isn't it?

Finished it. As I said on twitter...that's kinda like an ending.

Bwahaha, Destructoid has seriously gone off the deep end haven't they? I gotta dig up that No More Heroes 2 analysis. "THIS GAME REPRESENTS GAMING AS A WHOLE - MY CAT TALKS TO ME!"

I love how he talks about how God of War II wasn't boring even though the plot progression was like taking a shit into molasses, and GoW3 is, because, uh, dunno?

Wow... I just finished the game.

There's a few people I feel sorry for. Pandora, Hephaestus, even Poseidon (after seeing his note). I'd feel sorry for Hera but she got what was coming to her.

Man, it took me 5 hours just to find this one! You did it so quickly, there's gotta be a better way!

Touche. This version takes the cake though. He fell into Too Dumb to Live territory when he wanted "a challenge"

I hate that post-credits OMG KRATOS MIGHT BE ALIVE bullshit. Dude, he got gutted by the Blade of Olympus. He's done, worm food, stop with the To Be Continued!

To be fair, this isn't the first time he's been gutted by the Blade of Olympus. And maybe he didn't walk/crawl/roll away, and someone dragged his lifeless corpse somewhere.

Also, I'm curious who Zeus was referring to at the end when he told Gaia "Perhaps you should have used your other pawn" or something like that.

Edit - Maybe Kratos has a (twin) brother! And it was he who Zeus was referring to, and also him who dragged away Kratos' corpse at the end! Then GoW4 will have co-op!!!!!!

Well Darkfire; In one of the unlockable cutscenes in the first game there was mention of Kratos' brother, and it was implied he might appear at some point as a villain. This was back before they really knew where they wanted to go with the series, so it never got used, but maybe now that the main series is over this idea will resurface in some form.

Personally I would like the series to end now, because you don't get much more closure than that, but there are definate indications of them wanting to do something more at some point. Not right away, but some time in the future.

Well, you have at least two gods that need to be dealt with plus the world is plagued with chaos. There are a few things you can do as you mention but the bulk of the story won't be as epic as GoW III is.

IIRC the entire point of this was to end all of the gods. I had figured his killing himself was an act of penance as well as a way of depriving Athena, the one last god, from any sort of power. He wanted it to be a world of Man, and that was it. Why he didn't just kill Athena, especially since he A- did it already and B- she seemed like she was vulnerable is what really befuddles me.

There's also the question of how exactly Athena and Zeus became spirit forms. It never gets explained! Horsecrap.

But yeah, in the soundtrack for God of War I there was a bonus feature after the last track like two minutes of silence in where he talks about his brother. It was meant to be foreshadowing but they never explained it once they realized Kratos getting along with anyone, let alone the gods, was not going to happen. Plus the whole Zeus=Father thing.

I just don't think they're going to bring it up again since everything - and I mean everything - has already been killed.

Athena and Artemis

Of course... There are other gods

Call me wrong on this one but I thought Artemis was just a woodlander and therefore had nothing to do with Olympus? Or maybe she was one of the fatalities of when Zeus went all batshit and started torturing/threatening the other gods?

See what I mean? God of War isn't exactly a story-heavy game.

Well seeing as Artemis killed a Titan, presumably during the war, I'm gona go with her being a God, at least in this series.

But yeah there's still a load of things to kill. Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite, Atlas, Typhon, Deimos, that electric Titan dude, Ixion, tons of people he didn't kill whose fates were never explained. Some of them might have been killed during the last game, but we don't know for sure.

Artemis is a god and one of the 12 important ones. Well in mythology anyway

The way the game was set up made me think that killing Zeus was what ruined everyone, hence why Athena tried to protect him. So by killing Zeus every god fell automatically; Hermes and Helios and whoever were just working directly for him. Hence why those few tried to protect him from Kratos, but by the end, there are no gods?

So yeah, moral of the story God of War's story isn't very clear.

No I knew she was a god, I just didn't think she spent time on Olympus.

I don't think so Mirai, seeing as Zeus was the youngest of the gods anyway. Everyone else had already been eaten by Cronus before Zeus was even born, so there would be no reason why him dieing would mean the rest of them die. I mean hell, Kratos is his son and he didn't die immediately after Zeus just because Zeus died.

So there could easily be a few survivors. And even if all of the Gods did die for inexplicable reasons just because Zeus fell, what about the Titans? We never saw most of them die either.

And please don't forget Athena. That's still her daughter no matter the circumstances. It seems we know who's being set up as a Big Bad Boss in the next one.

What I found odd though... How she didn't even flinch from the blade and expected it. It's the whole "Kill or be killed" thing of the Gods... It was weird that the blade was meant for her on two levels. Personally, it's like she had no response other than to die. Second, it may have been a part of her that would poison the blade.

You've seen Hades. And she was forcibly taken to be his bride. She and Hera probably had a lot to talk about over her chalice.

Nah, Zeus is top dog. Kinda like Ra for Egyptian gods. They aren't protecting Zeus because they would lose godhood otherwise. They protect him because that's the one that freed them from Cronos AND allows them reign over their domains. Poseidon may worry for Zeus' mental instability, but in the end, he follows orders to fight against the ones that would destroy the world or else, lose domain over the waters of the ancient realm. Same as everyone else.

I guess it's symbolic that Aphrodite came out unscathed. The world still needs love and you can't really kill that. Athena, I'm not so sure about.

I would play the shit out of that.

I was actually kinda disappointed in this one.

For one thing, gods I expected to kill.

Gods I actually killed:
Poseidon, Hades, Hermes, Hephaestus, and Zeus. Not gonna count Hera or Helios (who wasn't even an Olympian) 'cause they weren't even fights. Probably shouldn't count Hermes either because he was goddamn pathetic.

I also was rather disappointed in the backtracking. I already went to hell and killed Hades, why do I have to go back? How about instead of having me go back to hell and kill some judges to release a chain after I've gone back to the labyrinth (which I already danced about on top of earlier as well during the path of Eos), you have me hunt down Demeter or Artemis?)

The game also felt way too short for what you do. They could have easily squeezed in... seven or eight more boss fights, and given a few more gods entire areas or stages to go through.

And the story kind of annoyed me at the end. I didn't mind Kratos trying to save Pandora. I didn't mind her dying for nothing. What I DID mind was all this power of friendship and hope and bullshit at the end of the game. That was so anti everything God of War that it just pissed me off.

It also felt a whole lot LESS epic than God of War/God of War 2. Everything in the first two games was bigger than life. Here you were fighting things much larger and much more powerful than you. However, the Greek Pantheon was a total let down after killing the fates and gaining power over time itself. Especially seeming as they made the entire pantheon so damned pathetic. Zeus and Hades were the only two that even gave me a proper fight.

I'm not saying it wasn't a good game, but I was pretty disappointing compared to the first two.

They could also bring in some of the lesser gods from Greek/Roman Mythology. Morpheus - God of Sleep, Nemesis - Goddess of Revenge & Retribution, Demeter - Goddess of the Harvest (Wife of Hades), Dionysus - God of Wine & Madness, Janus - God of Doors, & there is Artemis, who is Goddess of the Hunt in the Percy Jackson books, but I'm not sure if that is based on anything specific.

And I could go on. Not having gotten around to finishing GOW3 just yet, I'm not really reading too much into any posts. Just thought I'd drop in & mention a few names.

SWB

They did Morpheus in Chains of Olympus, the PSP game. You never actually kill Morpheus, it's all dealing with Cronus, Persephone, Hades, and Artemis, with a great bit about Kratos' daughter.

Watch from here.

It always bugged me you didn't kill enough of the Gods in God of War. They said that God of War was to be a trilogy of games involving there own telling of the fall of the Gods of Olympia and we only get to kill what, 7 gods through out the series or so? I wanted to kill more. This game did make me sad for the same reason it disappointed Krylo. Not enough God Murdering!

Yeah but I'd still call the deaths of most of the gods a resounding defeat for Olympia. And it's not like you could kill all of them, I reckon the Titans probably got the rest. I mean by the time they turned up and got their game on 2 were already dead, one was in prison, and 2 more fell pretty quickly after that.

By the time you climbed your ass back up to Olympia who knows who was dead?

FTFY

Persephone is (was) the daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades. In greek mythology winter is caused by Demeter's sadness/depression each year as her daughter goes to spend half the year with Hades in the underworld. During the summer are the months which Demeter is allowed to spend with her daughter.

That said, however, I agree. She could have been in the game. Would have made more sense in the garden section than Hera, given their respective spheres of influence. Might have even managed to be an actual boss battle.

It wasn't even that so much as that most of the gods you DO kill are pathetic.

Poseidon--cool until you knock him out of the water, then dies like a bitch.

Helios--no fight at all, you just tear his head off after a titan injures him (granted you help slightly by shooting out his tire).

Hermes--Most pathetic 'fight' ever. There are, literally, standard enemies that are more difficult to kill. And not just the satyr fucks, either.

Hera--You snap her neck with one hand, no fight at all.

Hephaestus--Completely pathetic 'boss fight'. Only marginally harder than Hermes.

I dunno, I just know that every single god fight (that wasn't Zeus or Hades) was a let down AND there weren't enough of them.

I think the Cronus fight makes up for all crappy boss fights in every game ever though.

The Cronus fight WAS pretty cool, but I had more fun fighting Zeus in the end. Cronus was basically a bunch of normal enemies + QTEs.

Cronus was, however, very epic and visually appealing, and a lot of what I actually play God of War for, however, it wasn't really MUCH better than the Kraken at the beginning of God of War, or Zeus at the end of God of War 2, or Medusa in God of War 2, or the giant Minotaur in God of War 1, etc.

The difference being the Cronus boss battle was the only one that was really epic and amazing in this game. Every other battle just felt like a let down compared to the other games in the series.

Poseidon I'll give you. But damn... He got his ass beat like no other. I really wish they could have given him more personification than what they did.
From the sounds, he didn't want to fight at all and was the wisest one.

I feel there's going to be another one that gets to the ones missed.

She was already in God of War.

She was in Chains of Olympus for the PSP, and she's actually the final boss because she wants to unmake existence, because she hates being trapped with Hades forever. That's why when Hades fights you he gets all pissed and talks about how you killed his wife. Cause, well, you did.

Also I pretty much agree with all of those points and in about two hours that'll be on the Dojo in a review.

Mirai, like I said to Swibz, Persephone is not Demeter.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that Persephone in Greek Mytholgy didn't actually have any powers/abilities other than having 'dat ass' and getting Hades all hot and bothered... and then being stupid enough to eat the food of the underworld.

Though you might have misunderstood me and thought I meant Persephone should be in the game... in which case, no, I meant Demeter could have.

The killing her daughter in Chains of Olympus thing would have just added more fuel for the fight.

Yeah, I did, since all I caught was "She" and despite the fact I thought Hades getting all pissed was pretty cool.

My mistake.