Why? I thought he has done some excellent work so far
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God of War: Ascension single player details
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Why? I thought he has done some excellent work so far
Here's the quote I was talking about earlier. It's from IGN UK. I haven't seen it anywhere else and I'm not sure if it's accurate but it's the closest thing I've seen to a real description of the story for SP.
The Furies are perfect for a GoW game so I really hope this turns out to be true.
IGN UK said:
The Furies are perfect for a GoW game so I really hope this turns out to be true.
Oh, OK. Cool. Looking forward to it.
I should be doing hw
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Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Framerate in gow3 almost never goes all the way down to 30. It averages at 50 probably. Hovers between 40 - 60 most of the time, has very high quality motion blur, and really feels very smooth. Definitely smoother than 30FPS game ever could.
Perhaps the build quality and materials of Greek chests simply improved over the course of Kratos' lifetime?
or chests got stronger.
Also there will be some new fancy groundbreaking cloth tech.
hyperbole by me they just said new cloth tech
Todd hinted that we will see him without ash at times, so flashbacks make sense.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012...r-announcement-live-from-santa-monica-studio/
It starts at 37:30
Gah thank you.
Blah, terrible, another prequel set during the same completely irrelevant time period as CoO. What happened to this one being set before Kratos earned the title of the Ghost of Sparta? That would have actually added to the story.
Nizz
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Yep, I'm fine with the framerate in GOW3. And if it's going to be the same in Ascension then I'm good with that. GOW3's framerate felt great to me, the game felt responsive and smooth.
Motion blur was used beautifully also. I see that they said Ascension would have more color in the game than GOW3 but I felt like GOW3 was plenty colorful as is. Reading this thread I feel like replaying through GOW3 again. Game was beautiful and played awesomely.
Haha I think you guys are reading too much into that.
Its and old mechanic thats finally getting updated.
I agree with this. Health and mana chests are present in some of the combat areas and finding the right timing to open them is part of the gameplay.
I'm happy to hear that the game will be closer to God of War I in length, 2 and 3 went on too long and ended up losing momentum as a result.
Yeah, very disappointing. We've had 3 games that have billed themselves as 'origin' stories and were nothing of the sort.
Yeah, very disappointing. We've had 3 games that have billed themselves as 'origin' stories and were nothing of the sort.
SLEEPS7ALK3R
Banned
He's mainly been involved in Zack Snyder movies, and those movies' soundtracks are majorly comprised of licensed music.
The 300 soundtrack is awesome. Tyler Bates is perfect for this game.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Great news about the chests.
How long is GOW 1?
How long is GOW 1?
I'll take ten copies please.
8 hours if you're slow.
ProfessorMoran
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When you're locked if it drops and you go below 30fps, you drop right to 20fps, this is when you get your annoying stutter. The point of variable fps is so you don't have stutter, but you might have screen tearing, unless you have tripple buffering.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Locked means locked, not v-synced. If it was locked it wouldn't go below 30, period.
It sounds to me like Kratos will be tormented by hallucinations which is a fantastic opportunity to create interesting boss fights even though the gods and titans won't be the enemies this time around. They could also use it as an excuse to make tedious hallucination narrative scenes that can't be skipped and serve merely to annoy the player on repeated playthroughs. I hope they choose wisely.
Well at least it isn't playing during the period where he already was a god. Kind of annoys me in Ghost of Sparta. Or was there a reason why he (as a god) has to use a ship to get to a location, or why he just doesn't rip everyone apart as some 50 meter tall Kratos? (like in the beginning of god of war 2)
ProfessorMoran
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What you want the game to crash if by whatever reason the game has to drop to 29.99 due to that extra pixel from a particle effect? It's not like you have an imaginary gremlin looking at your game pointing a finger at the game saying "you're locked at 30, locked or I'll shut this shit down!", you're basically throwing perfectly good shit out of the game until there's no reason for the game to go below a certain framerate because it's not rendering as much anymore, even then you could possibly have that extra particle effect or transparency effect that might give your framerate a little dip.
Either wise, bad. I enjoyed God of War III far more than either of the other two. For me...
GOWIII > GOW >>>>> GOWII
God of War III's art direction and cinematography was why I fell in love with it as much as I did, as well as the ending. Loved the parallels they were using when Kratos basically destroyed the world and Pandora serving as hope/love (a way to get back to his family).
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I don't "want" anything. I was pointing out that you were talking about v-sync but calling it locked, which is different. A locked frame rate does not necessarily mean the game will drop to 20fps if it can't render 30fps. That's what v-sync means, if you're assuming a 60Hz refresh rate. Am I wrong about this?
Lifejumper
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Is the track playing over this video new?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJcGolZ2ezk
Sounds awesome.
Sounds awesome.
Callibretto
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I still kinda want a button to get into first person view or over the shoulder camera so that you can really see everything around you.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I was just playing GOW1 last night because of all these GOW:A threads, and there are several beautiful, impeccably framed scenes in the Athens area. It emphasized for me what was missing in GOW3. I can't remember any strikingly composed vistas in that game, though there must have been some. The atmosphere of GOW1 just really holds up. Jaffe is a great man. (And obviously the team is top notch, too.)
That said, I have no problem with allowing camera nudging.
snoopeasystreet
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So if this follows the bigger and more bad ass approach that video game sequels then it would mean that kratos' exploits in the other god of war games were less impressive in context.
The video footage from jeuxvideo shows gameplay with him without ash so it's confirmed.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I thought all that footage was of multiplayer, i.e. not Kratos.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Very good newsThe new system about opening chest is also highly welcome. I hope it is the same with health/magic fountains as well.
Indeed. I actually though that GoW3 was 60fps until i've recently read that i was around 45fps. From what i can recall, i never noticed any slowdowns in GoW3.
Then you're not sensitive to framerate, cause I dunno how could you mistaken GOW3 for a 60fps action game, it achieves 60 when there's nothing on screen for mere seconds and you can feel the game lacking responsiveness during combat.
I think the variable framerate is the better option for GOW, doesn't introduce stutters like in PC games if that's what you guys are thinking about. Although I sincerely doubts it averages 45fps during combat gameplay in the majority of situations, is there a DF analisys to confirm such a thing?
I mean, it looks exactly like Kratos and there are no other players running around, so I don't know. They even do the camera pan-in thing they did in GoW3 on this character, so it's obviously Kratos. I doubt it's multiplayer. Might be though, but even then, it's Kratos with normal skin.
I mean the first video here @ 6:56:
http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/jeux/god-of...sion-meilleurs-moments-video-actu-489962.html
You're right. It's Kratos, or someone very, VERY similarly looking. Looks like a couple of seconds of a single-player footage, nice find!
It's the MP character default body. I saw the pan around in another, brighter video too. The face looks a bit different and the body type is a bit bulkier than Kratos. Different tattoos too. I'm not sure what the context of that scene is though since I don't see other players unless they're in another part of the map and there's a staggered start or something.
