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A late impression of God of War III
Friday, March 26, 2010 |
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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I like his tips. I know when I play RTS games I am a major horder, but it does make sense that you would want to build as much as you can. I have the mentality that I need to save for a dire situation.
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I like his tips. I know when I play RTS games I am a major horder, but it does make sense that you would want to build as much as you can. I have the mentality that I need to save for a dire situation.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
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Always glad to Lance.
I must have forgot that they promised to erase his memories, and I would be pissed off too if I had to keep all of what had happened throughout that first game in my own head. I get that he was still a tortured soul and I don't think he did anything more than what a bored mythological god would have done. I read stories about bored gods doing this and that all the time. Heck even in games like Black & White and Pocket God I find myself getting bored and destroying my people.
I am always in geek territory, plus, you're on a website about video games, I think it would be harder to get out of rather than get into geek territory. I have always seen him as that too, and I understood his dilemma and could feel for him in the other three games, but it sounds like when you're describing that scene from Chains your humanizing it. Reading it how you put it makes me feel for it way more than I did when I played through it. I felt like how he threw her off his leg was not so much of how a caring father would do it, but as someone who didn't realize what he was doing and just wanted to kill the object of his anger, would do it. I felt like it was not a hard choice, and he didn't think about it until after he had done it. He was blinded by rage, like how he killed her in the first game. Kratos is the kind of guy that doesn't stop and reflect on what he is doing until the job is done.
I think Jaffe did an amazing job, and Kratos is a completely tragic character, but it felt like once Jaffe left the project the tragedy of the character became under-shadowed by his lust for vengeance. I felt like he was a sympathetic character, and if the first game would have ended the way this one did it wouldn't have felt so sudden of a change, but since I felt Kratos falling into this spiral of rage, vengeance, and just general dissatisfaction at the world and everything throughout the series, to have it end as him jumping back to being that tragic, sympathetic character from the first game, just felt odd. If you play the third game, or watch the ending, you might understand how I feel. There is a significant change within the last segment of the game that I didn't really see coming aside from a few notes on the floor, and that's the part that made me feel the way I do. If it ended the same, but the change wasn't so sudden, I could have completely understood it, maybe if they started the change in the middle of the game.
I love all mythology, not only when it comes up in video games, and I love talking about it as much as I can, so I thank you for your initial response.
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Always glad to Lance.
I must have forgot that they promised to erase his memories, and I would be pissed off too if I had to keep all of what had happened throughout that first game in my own head. I get that he was still a tortured soul and I don't think he did anything more than what a bored mythological god would have done. I read stories about bored gods doing this and that all the time. Heck even in games like Black & White and Pocket God I find myself getting bored and destroying my people.
I am always in geek territory, plus, you're on a website about video games, I think it would be harder to get out of rather than get into geek territory. I have always seen him as that too, and I understood his dilemma and could feel for him in the other three games, but it sounds like when you're describing that scene from Chains your humanizing it. Reading it how you put it makes me feel for it way more than I did when I played through it. I felt like how he threw her off his leg was not so much of how a caring father would do it, but as someone who didn't realize what he was doing and just wanted to kill the object of his anger, would do it. I felt like it was not a hard choice, and he didn't think about it until after he had done it. He was blinded by rage, like how he killed her in the first game. Kratos is the kind of guy that doesn't stop and reflect on what he is doing until the job is done.
I think Jaffe did an amazing job, and Kratos is a completely tragic character, but it felt like once Jaffe left the project the tragedy of the character became under-shadowed by his lust for vengeance. I felt like he was a sympathetic character, and if the first game would have ended the way this one did it wouldn't have felt so sudden of a change, but since I felt Kratos falling into this spiral of rage, vengeance, and just general dissatisfaction at the world and everything throughout the series, to have it end as him jumping back to being that tragic, sympathetic character from the first game, just felt odd. If you play the third game, or watch the ending, you might understand how I feel. There is a significant change within the last segment of the game that I didn't really see coming aside from a few notes on the floor, and that's the part that made me feel the way I do. If it ended the same, but the change wasn't so sudden, I could have completely understood it, maybe if they started the change in the middle of the game.
I love all mythology, not only when it comes up in video games, and I love talking about it as much as I can, so I thank you for your initial response.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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No need to be sorry. Yes, I have read Greek Mythology, I've read a lot in fact, and I know who Zeus was. Did you read the part where I said "To me, Zeus, although despicable, was the good guy in the series." I acknowledge him being a horrible figure, and I also state that I was not talking about who Zeus was throughout Mythology, rather who he was in this particular series, because, I doubt Kratos cared about Zeus' character. What exactly did he do in this story that was so horrible? He took away Kratos' powers as a god because he was abusing them, sure he did it in a messed up way, but he was just trying to save himself and his fellow gods, self preservation. If there was something more that I missed from the games then let me know.
Kratos spent his time doing what Ares wanted of him and that's what caused him to kill Ares and become the new god of war, Kratos began abusing his powers and using his Spartan army to take over all of Greece. This caused the other gods, and Zeus, to become worried, so Zeus devised a plan to strip Kratos of his powers, once doing so Kratos became inraged and sought vengeance, not caring what gods got in the way, which is why they were all bastards to him. Those other heroes may have not been please by the gods, but Kratos became a god! He had no reason to not be pleased.
Zeus may have done bad things, but in this story Kratos was the bastard, and the Gods may have been more revered out of fear than love, but I doubt Kratos cared about what other people thought, he was a selfish, inraged Spartan wanting nothing more than to kill his father for stripping him of his power.
Again, I know Zeus was a bad, bad guy, but in God of War, not all of Greek Mythology, he seemed, to me, to be the good guy looking to preserve his power, and who could blame him for that? Also, my post was about the sudden change in Kratos being filled with hope and becoming a good guy within the last couple of minutes of the game, and Zeus being filled with fear and becoming a bad guy who wants to murder his son, because before I remember him not wanting to murder Kratos, just make him calm down, he even offered to let Kratos become a god again as long as Kratos obeyed him, so he was being actually kind of okay to him.
Finally, I wasn't talking about whether or not Zeus was a horrible person in general, just how he was to Kratos, because that's all that really matters to this story.
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No need to be sorry. Yes, I have read Greek Mythology, I've read a lot in fact, and I know who Zeus was. Did you read the part where I said "To me, Zeus, although despicable, was the good guy in the series." I acknowledge him being a horrible figure, and I also state that I was not talking about who Zeus was throughout Mythology, rather who he was in this particular series, because, I doubt Kratos cared about Zeus' character. What exactly did he do in this story that was so horrible? He took away Kratos' powers as a god because he was abusing them, sure he did it in a messed up way, but he was just trying to save himself and his fellow gods, self preservation. If there was something more that I missed from the games then let me know.
Kratos spent his time doing what Ares wanted of him and that's what caused him to kill Ares and become the new god of war, Kratos began abusing his powers and using his Spartan army to take over all of Greece. This caused the other gods, and Zeus, to become worried, so Zeus devised a plan to strip Kratos of his powers, once doing so Kratos became inraged and sought vengeance, not caring what gods got in the way, which is why they were all bastards to him. Those other heroes may have not been please by the gods, but Kratos became a god! He had no reason to not be pleased.
Zeus may have done bad things, but in this story Kratos was the bastard, and the Gods may have been more revered out of fear than love, but I doubt Kratos cared about what other people thought, he was a selfish, inraged Spartan wanting nothing more than to kill his father for stripping him of his power.
Again, I know Zeus was a bad, bad guy, but in God of War, not all of Greek Mythology, he seemed, to me, to be the good guy looking to preserve his power, and who could blame him for that? Also, my post was about the sudden change in Kratos being filled with hope and becoming a good guy within the last couple of minutes of the game, and Zeus being filled with fear and becoming a bad guy who wants to murder his son, because before I remember him not wanting to murder Kratos, just make him calm down, he even offered to let Kratos become a god again as long as Kratos obeyed him, so he was being actually kind of okay to him.
Finally, I wasn't talking about whether or not Zeus was a horrible person in general, just how he was to Kratos, because that's all that really matters to this story.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/11286910014
http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/11286910014
I've been pretty sad with David Ellis leaving 4 Guys 1 Up, the episodes leading to his leave were pretty somber, but with all the guest spots he's doing on awesome podcasts I'm getting more of him then ever. It's making me realize he isn't actually going anywhere.
Monday, March 29, 2010
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10956066641
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10956066641
Just started listening. Good listening while working ;>
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10553154115 Just downloaded the episode, will listen when I start working.
http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10553154115 Just downloaded the episode, will listen when I start working.
Monday, March 15, 2010
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10458580613. I had a lot more fun in the Bad Company 2 demo than I had in what little I played of Modern Warfare 2, although I'm still stuck in Battlefield 1943 for my multiplayer gaming on account of me being poor.
http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10458580613. I had a lot more fun in the Bad Company 2 demo than I had in what little I played of Modern Warfare 2, although I'm still stuck in Battlefield 1943 for my multiplayer gaming on account of me being poor.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10457424970 - I'd prefer the Bioshock 2 Collectors Edition box. I was replaying Metal Gear Solid while I listened to this podcast, and it helped calm my frustrations on the fist fight with Liquid. The same things I yelled about when I played it so many years ago hadn't changed.
http://twitter.com/DustiMills/status/10457424970 - I'd prefer the Bioshock 2 Collectors Edition box. I was replaying Metal Gear Solid while I listened to this podcast, and it helped calm my frustrations on the fist fight with Liquid. The same things I yelled about when I played it so many years ago hadn't changed.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
"e wanted one of these since I saw the first demo years ago, now I want one even more if I can get a game of D&D; going on it."
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"nk you both"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
I signed up, but came out with one ticket, is there anyway we can check to see if the code worked?
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