I will say that I'm conflicted. On the one hand, my biggest problem with God War was always its protagonist. He'd make a great villain in any other game, but I just can't get behind him as the character I'm supposed to play as. Combine that with simpler action mechanics, and I usually found that God War didn't have much charm or replay value to it compared to others of its kind.
...But after watching that, I'm reminded that there's barely anything else out there these days. Just Platinum's games, Nioh, and whatever Ninja Theory spews out of its gaping orifaces...I actually wanted to play God of War after seeing that. It looked fun. I almost forgot what that felt like...
The game... I mean, obviously I can't say it looks terrible. Look how much money has been thrown at it. What I can say is that it looks ENTIRELY unappealing. Not even kinda-sorta unappealing in that "I'd play it if I found it for cheap or got it free" sort of way. It doesn't even look like something I'd want to try.
I mean, I always thought that GoW games were overly brutal and puerile with their perpetually angry protagonist, but... that was better than whatever this is supposed to be.
@Octane I'm up to 103 puzzles completed. It's... interesting. Spent most of my time with it today messing around with tetromino puzzles. Honestly, I've spent more time copying the puzzles on paper and solving them there than actually figuring them out in game. One thing I like about it is how wonderfully fast it boots up. I double-click the icon, tell it to start... and ten seconds later, I'm in.
Yeah Mr Vomit has a point. They could do the PS2 program in the same way Microsoft are doing Xbox 360 games.
They'd have to do it game-by-game but then once they release a patch, you could just put the original ps2 game into the console and it'd play. The PS4 can read regular DVDs, which is what the PS2 games are.
Obviously Microsoft are doing this to cover for their lacklustre first party lineup though. That's why they're doing it for free I'm guessing.
That's kinda working actually. I'm gonna get an Xbone at some point, at least in part because I never had an Xbox 360 or an Xbox so the backwards compatibility would really make it good value for money (they're dirt cheap to buy used already)
@Dezzy You're right, they're about €100/€120 used, even the S isn't a lot more. But you can get a new one for less than €200 as well, and its price will drop even further this year's holiday season. Now, if I could find a game or two to play on it... There's Sunset Overdrive, but that's all I can think of unfortunately.
As for God of War, the new art style looks a bit more appealing to me, and I couldn't stand the old Kratos look. He's... fine now. I think Sony wanted Santa Monica to do another IP, or try something new after the last one, but they convinced them to do at least one more in the GOW franchise, and this is the result. We'll see how much the cut-scenes there are in the game, trailers are often heavy on the cut-scenes, but the game is supposedly 25-35 hours long, so it could go either way.
@Octane Up to 131 puzzles now. But no lasers yet. I've also stumbled across a puzzle that seems impossible atm. Not because of some difficult logic, but because it has a big metal bar across the middle preventing me from moving my lines as freely as possible. So I left it.
While I admire the way the game teaches you rules without explicitly tutorializing, I sometimes feel like not every rule is established well enough for the game's logic to jump in difficulty like it occasionally does. The puzzles are a lot of fun when you know all the rules, or when it feels like the rules are introduced gradually enough, but sometimes it twists the logic of a puzzle sequence before it has fully explained a crucial aspect of the design, leading to frustration.
But I'd still say the game does a mostly admirable job of teaching the player by exposing them to, and making them engage with, a gradation of increasingly complex examples of its logic languages.
@Ralizah Interesting! By your puzzle count and the fact that you haven't encountered any lasers yet, I assume you're roaming the island BOTW style solving puzzles all over the place.
I think the game wants you to mess around with the tutorial panels, and try out different combinations to see what's possible. Then it throws a difficult puzzle at you that can only be solved if you fully understood the rules.
I don't recall any puzzle that can't be solved because of a physical obstruction. Try solving it from a different angle perhaps?
@Octane I free-roamed the island during my first day of play. Encountered a lot of puzzle types, and spent a lot of time in a treetop area until I got to puzzles that were frustrating me. The next two I spent completing everything in the Tetrisy area with the gates and flooded rooms (which was strangely anti-climactic: I'm pretty sure I completed all of the puzzles, including the one with a gigantic grid and dozens of tetris shapes in the last unlockable room, but after beating it... nothing changed. Whereas, in previous rooms, I unlocked something somewhere else in the area.).
Right, I just think certain rules aren't... established enough by some tutorial panels. Not a huge deal. I muddled through with enough experimentation.
At the moment, I'm exploring some facility where I have to separate different colored shapes into their own discrete areas (never figured Blow for a racial separatist, but there you go ).
It's a clever game. And the fact that it's so easy to log in and out of, combined with the fact that a lot of the puzzles seem to be solvable "out of game," means I can keep playing it throughout the year.
If I come across the puzzle again, I'll snap a screenshot and share it. It just doesn't seem possible to complete as is.
@Octane I'm pretty sure I completed everything in the purple section of tetris swamp, but I'll go back to the red section and see if I missed anything.
Yeah, that sounds right. I'm not as big on the color puzzles so far, but perhaps they evolve into something interesting.
Currently Playing on January 13, 2026: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (PC)
Oh, before I forget: EA's Anthem might be delayed to 2019...to the surprise of no one, I'm sure. The 2018 date was "Never realistic," apparently, and it's a big, complex game with a lot of moving parts. Still, the bigger question is, "will it launch with a ton of game-breaking bugs and balance-swinging microtransactions?" Oh, and "will they rip out important sections of the game so they can sell it later as DLC, because Destiny did it (and clearly no one got angry at Bungie for anything with that game, am I right?)?"
@CanisWolfred I think the answer to all of those questions is yes. I can't see an outcome where all of this would go over well. I mean, it's EA, and it's their Destiny clone. Worst case scenario it's the worst parts of Destiny combined with the worst parts of EA, followed by the closure of Bioware.
@CanisWolfred I think the answer to all of those questions is yes. I can't see an outcome where all of this would go over well. I mean, it's EA, and it's their Destiny clone. Worst case scenario it's the worst parts of Destiny combined with the worst parts of EA, followed by the closure of Bioware.
Which is a shame, since they are also working on the next Dragon Age game. Not that I'm a big fan of that series, mind you, but Inquisition was alright, at least. Certainly a lot better than Mass Effect: Andromeda. Though, I guess both got bogged down by busywork....does anyone even remember ME:Andromeda? I just sold that one last week. Got tired of looking at it...
I wanna get what you guys are smoking to think closing Bioware Edmonton is even a remote possibility. That's like their flagship developer, it would be like Activision closing Bungie. EA obviously likes having a wide portfolio.
Their games sell. Moreover, you can use personal conflicts to justify every assumed negative outcome imaginable, that doesn't necessarily make a one of them rational though.
@Haru17 It's not a personal conflict. I have no stake in EA, their businesses, or any relation outside of working in the same industry.
The reason I say "It's EA!" is because...well they have a track record that betrays them. We can only extrapolate forward based on the past, and the past has shown numerous times the following:
Games underperforms
Studio gets downsized, put on smaller tasks, work on another IP
Fails to perform, gets shuttered.
That's what I am referring to. Not anything personal, just looking at the cold hard facts. You work for EA, you have that knife and proven history over your shoulder at all times.
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@YummyHappyPills Interpersonal conflict, bias, slant — whatever you want to call it, it causes you to extrapolate beyond what is certain and assume whatever fits your narrative.
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