It's a shame this promotion doesn't extend to Australia . Oh well, guess I just have to wait until the demo hits PSN.nextwish said:Woo hoo! Got my God of War 3 demo with bonus District-9 Blu-Ray movie
george_us said:Just picked up District 9 so naturally the God of War III demo was the first thing I tried out.:lol
I need this game...now
Arsenic said:I decided to wait to finish GoW collection before i tried the demo.
And im underwhelmed :/
Watching people play it was amazing but once the controller was in my hands, it just became annoying to play through.
I know the framerate would suffer, but to me the controls were very sluggish and i found myself repeating the same moves over and over. the gameplay simply isnt as fun as the previous two games and i pray they make some slight changes.
anyways, the visuals were great, as expected. and the scale is even better than i thought it would be. after shooting down helios and seeing the titan move was fantastic. my only grip is that the lighting is too dark in some areas (not the cave area, obviously thts meant to be dark) but its hard to enjoy the animations when u can barely see them in a dark hallway.
another issue i have with this demo is the placement of the QTEs. not only are they too small but they are further away from the center of the screen, forcing you to look away from the gorgeous killing animations and lose attention. it was much better the way they are placed before.
as for the gameplay again, i thought GoW2 was a huge step down from GOW1 regarding the Chains setmoves. and now even more with this demo. they seem to favor more to the " cool" factor rather than effectiveness. again, hopefully some changes are made before they release the final game.
Arsenic said:I decided to wait to finish GoW collection before i tried the demo.
And im underwhelmed :/
oneHeero said:
The QTE's are placed oin the screen in the same area as your controller. So if a button pops up on the right, its O. Making it easier to focus one what's going on since you always know the button on the right is O.
Gummifaust said:I did the same. But I was underwhelmed by the graphics of the demo. The tunnel sequence looked pretty good but the rest was only good in my opinion.
And the violence was too extreme. I suppose it's a great way to impress teens. But I don't need this anatomy lesson.
Arsenic said:I decided to wait to finish GoW collection before i tried the demo.
And im underwhelmed :/
Watching people play it was amazing but once the controller was in my hands, it just became annoying to play through.
I know the framerate would suffer, but to me the controls were very sluggish and i found myself repeating the same moves over and over. the gameplay simply isnt as fun as the previous two games and i pray they make some slight changes.
anyways, the visuals were great, as expected. and the scale is even better than i thought it would be. after shooting down helios and seeing the titan move was fantastic. my only grip is that the lighting is too dark in some areas (not the cave area, obviously thts meant to be dark) but its hard to enjoy the animations when u can barely see them in a dark hallway.
another issue i have with this demo is the placement of the QTEs. not only are they too small but they are further away from the center of the screen, forcing you to look away from the gorgeous killing animations and lose attention. it was much better the way they are placed before.
as for the gameplay again, i thought GoW2 was a huge step down from GOW1 regarding the Chains setmoves. and now even more with this demo. they seem to favor more to the " cool" factor rather than effectiveness. again, hopefully some changes are made before they release the final game.
believe me i went into the demo with that in mind. i just hope they dont leave behind some of those annoyances (personally)_leech_ said:You have to remember that the demo we're playing is over 7 months old now, i'm sure a lot of what was off in the demo is fixed by now (hopefully).
Arsenic said:I understand it makes sense, im just talking about how my eyes react to the popups. Maybe its because my tv is too big, or the distance from it is too far, but i did not have this problem with the previous two games, ever. (i did GoW2's final boss QTE crap in one shot).
I thought so too but after a few runs i couldnt get used to it. it probably is just my personal preference, or my tv size.Papercuts said:It's probably because it's new and you weren't used to it(they never placed them similar to the controller layout in the last 2 games). I love how the buttons are on the sides of the screen after a few runs of the demo.
Messypandas said:anyone know when the demo drops for us riff raff? (don't think the district 9 dealios in my country)
H.Cornerstone said:God of War is just as much of an adventure game as it is an action game, therefore 60fps isn't as important as DMC or Bayonetta.
It does.Tom Penny said:Shouldn't it look considerably better than DMC and Bayonetta then?
jett said:doesn't seem like it will at this point. Maybe an updated demo might be in the cards? While the demo is REALLY AWESOME, it's also really unpolished.
templeusox said:It does.
Rez said:is there anyone here who actually prefers a variable 30-60 frame-rate over a locked 30?
God of War isn't exactly DMC/NG/Bayonetta, it would play just fine at 30.
_leech_ said:One thing that just popped in my head while in the middle of replaying GoW Collection... in the first game they made a huge deal about a mortal killing a god, even needing Pandora's Box to do it... but in the GoW III demo you just rip Helios' head off :lol
nextwish said:Woo hoo! Got my God of War 3 demo with bonus District-9 Blu-Ray movie
Kittonwy said:Still debating whether I should pick this thing up or not.
Kittonwy said:Still debating whether I should pick this thing up or not.
I honestly see it as just a different style... bayonetta has a very anime like appearance, God of War is going for this painting classics feel, but even stating that yes its still on another level :lol :lolHomerSimpson-Man said:Why the heck is Bayonetta even brought up in discussions involving visuals? To even give it a decent shot at visuals discussion would mean to put it closer to DMC4 or Ninja Gaiden, but even then, ehhhhh....
I look at this and something like Bayonetta and think geez, Sony devs barely treat their games like its the same generation of hardware in comparison. Textures, geometry, polygons, shaders, lighting, essentially everything involving graphics; it's like another level completely.
Rez said:you'd assume Helios has already been weakened in this demo, otherwise he'd be a giant stomping around ala Hades
Kagari said:March 16th for America it seems.
Final Fantasy, Yakuza 3, and Heavy Rain at the end of February.Afrikan said:GEEZ......
MLB The Show 10... March 2nd
Battlefield Bad Company 2.......March something
and now GOW3.....March 16th
I'm probably missing something.
Kagari said:March 16th for America it seems.
fighting more than one of them at once (with each in different forms as the battle progresses) is going to be fun.Dabanton said:Yeah pretty impressive demo.
I loved fucking up the Chimera. The reveal that it was creeping behind you was awesome.
The final bit of the demo with the flying was a bit tricky though.