What? they patched it to be easier? I never knew...God of war had some bullshit segments in the past, but that one is just utterly broken. I mean the siren enemies' tracking attacks are just fucking madness.
Shit was the worst. Ruined the last third of the game in what was otherwise pretty fun and reasonably challenging. The combat falls apart and it highlights how useless the elemental changes really are.
Capcom coming back to their senses and letting Itsuno bring Devil May Cry back to its roots with DMC5 definitely helped him look at DmC: Devil May Cry in a more positive light
@@TheSuperSmashBros01 to be fair, might be because instead of dmc dmc being the last game in the franchise with nothing new on the horizon he now gets to look at it as something of an awkward phase the franchise got past.
@@deathseraph3 This is exactly the case. Now we can look at Dmc:Dmc much more fondly as an entry that did its own thing. Rather than the game that stole away a beloved franchise.
@@LilBoyHexley Tbh I didn't have a problem with the DMC reboot. Sorta did what it was supposed to do, it got new players into the games lol. The bad publicity from the reboot, got DMC's name into the spot light, and then the remaster kinda popped off. On top of that, the game really did have things that made DMC. . . DMC. Just sort dropped the ball in actually selling it well to the fans.
@@ShatteredGlass916 Sony Hates the OG trilogy, it represents brutal old age masculinity. They think its junior level story telling because Kratos isnt crying every 5 seconds.
Chains of Olympus has a killer ending, but most of the game just feels like filler. It's just "you've gotta save Helios for reasons" with gameplay and levels that seem out of GOW1. Ascension's visuals are absolutely beautiful, but the story and gameplay are uninspired and I truly hate the back and forth between playable flashbacks and the prison opening. Feels so out of place in the series, like it's a fake game. Ghost of sparta is amazing, tho. Truly deserves as much love as the numbered entries.
I'm still wondering why Sony hasnt ported the series to PS4 with all the new fans god of four (get it?) gained. Its easy money. Still, I would love a remake of gow1 because it hasnt aged well. Too many annoying sections make it really frustrating to play now a days, not to mention the sequels vastly improved its foundation. A remake like Resident evil 1's (the same game, just with new graphics, enemies, levels, bosses, etc) + gow'1 story (the undisputed best in the series) would be the ultimate god of war game and a perfect way to say goodbye to the greek era.
Yeah, and even the fourth game, I think, Dante's inferno was also pretty cool. Was surprised by the sudden character and some gameplay element changes but ultimately felt like a real God of War game
@@hopelesssituationwarrior6996 nah, remakes should be reserved for Ascension. They could make Rage Meter being more user friendly. Maybe make Rage Meter that didn't go down after every small hit (or completely drained once you stopped hitting), or maybe made them less of a hassle to filled up. Maybe make Rage Meter Attacks only took a portions of the meter instead one full bar, since all of them (aside Hades) are kinda lame (basically treat Rage Meter like Magic Bars, with portions). Also, for f*ck sake, BRING BACK NEW GAME+ FUNNY COSTUMES. It annoys me that even in New Game+, the game subtly kept reminding you to check multiplayer by making the New Game+ costume the Multiplayer's Armors, like c'mon.... *R I S E O F T H E W A R R I O R C A M P A I G N* Before the release of this game, there's a short graphic novel titled "Rise of the Warrior". It tells the story of the playable multiplayer character (the bald guy Kratos almost save in Hecatoncheires). And GODDAMN IT'S GOOD. It tells in depth on how the Furies works, how they ensnares mortals, it even ties in with the Village of Kira and the Oracle before Castor usurps. Also, the fork-lookalike chain weapon used in Multiplayer is apparently this guy's original weapon before he is imprisoned lmao
@@chuckbellerose8474 Naw bro, sorry to have to tell you, but it wasn't. "Shad Gaspard who did the motion capture for Kratos has been found dead. On Wednesday morning (California time), the body of retired WWE superstar Shad Gaspard was found washed up on Venice Beach in Los Angeles.May 21, 2020" - Nintendosmash Also, looking up his name on Google says he died... Could have just said that, didn't have to do the whole quotes and everything, but I did, so no going back now.
Correction, "The titan Hechatoncheires" is false. Titans and hechatoncheires are two separate species in Greek mythology, and the same applies to God of War. In fact, Zeus enlisted the help of the hechatonchires to overthrow the titans. That hechatoncheires you're referring to is Aegaeon, the first to break a blood oath, and whose body was turned into a living prison by the Furies. Another famous hechatoncheires you might've heard of is Briareos, whom the deuteragonist of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed is named after. Despite being an original character separate from the myth, he too has multiple eyes, as the hechatoncheires were distinguished by their multiple arms and eyes.
How does one manage to come across such info and then retain it?? Kudos! I couldn't read half of those words because I'm a Cro-Magnon ape, but perhaps I'll look into this further because it really is interesting as hell. The limit of my knowledge of Greek mythology begins and ends with the original GOW series lol.
I remember when Ascension was coming out, they really tried to hype up the co op mode. That's why it flew under my radar. That was the time in gaming where EVERY game had to have co op.
To be fair, people were just tired of GoW after 7 years of basically getting the same game... Watch the "Raising Kratos" documentary, Sony actually threaten to dismantle Santa Monica Studios and fire all the people involved after how bad this game bombed...despite the fact they were the ones who kept demanding a GoW game to be out almost every year.
Game journos: GoW2018 finally gave Kratos depth and complexity Fans that witnessed the Kratos evolution from man to god slayer to hollow husk of anger struggling with his remaining humanity over the span of 7 games: Excuse me, what?
Although I'm yet to play the 2018 game I dislike it primarily for this criticism and although I can contribute this mindset to most people probably didnt play Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta which gives additional depth for Kratos' motivations and status in Gow3, but mostly feel like the change in direction of controls and POV kinda feel like a miss step or downgrade. What is amazing in the new game is the single take shot, but in no way is new Kratos better than oldschool Kratos (even though their technically the same person). Still cant wait to play it though to confirm if my current feelings will remain.
@@TheZAibatsu i mean that's fair but those are very different kinds of gameplay and everyone plays favorites weather they like it or not, i like the game for what it is but i knew full well it wouldn't go back to the old style as much as i wanted it
@@Dabajaws my main point is og Kratos was so influential to games as a whole yet new Kratos feels like he's following trends (apart from the single take shot thing- which doesn't affect gameplay and is more an aesthetic feature while control wise it feels like they tried to be more soul's-ey).
To all those ppl that say the new Kratos is more more mature and isnt just a pissed off, one note lunatic, so how should this new Kratos react if Thor kills Atreaus? Cos clearly the rage he had from losing Caliope and his wife didn't justify Og Kratos' staus in Gow3 in yalls opions ?
Man, I gotta say, I really loved TGB's analysis on Kratos' characterization here and what he was like by the end of the Greek era. Kratos is a character that's a lot like Caim from Drakengard in my opinion. A character that, when you see him in his proper games, just comes off as an insane, revenge-obsessed, murderous monster, but when you get a full understanding of the shit they experienced prior to that point, and the shit they would go on to experience afterwards, they suddenly become much more tragic, at least in my eyes. I sure as shit don't let the blur of trauma that is their backstories justify or take away from the horrible shit they'd go on to do, but like TGB said, in Kratos' case, when you spend years doing favors to the gods seeking just one thing, and the one thing they give you is not only something you didn't even want, but something they plan to revoke later on, it becomes much, much easier to see why Kratos fell so deep into insanity and hatred seeking his revenge against the forces that repeatedly screwed him over and over because they're a bunch of fickle assholes.
@@EmotionTheory He was the main antagonist character of Drakengard 2 (Frankly, Caim was one of the few things that game absolutely fucking _nailed._ ) and is speculated to be _Red Eye,_ the head of the Legion in the backstory to NieR, but unfortunately, that's about everything in terms of game appearances from Caim, which is a colossal fucking shame IMO since he kicks all kinds of ass. The Drakengard series got more into his backstory and how godawful it was like for Kratos here in Ascenion in the Drakengard 1 and 3 prequel manga, where we see the day his life irrevocably went to shit... and all on his 18th birthday, no less! Like Kratos in God Of War 1, we learn the gist of Caim's backstory in his first game, Drakengard 1, but the manga really shows it off in detail and it's frankly so horrific that, to me at least, it quickly turned Caim into a tragic figure shaped into something monstrous by a merciless, shitty world. The fact that in all of the Drakengard routes, horrible shit keeps happening to him and he gets no happy ending whatsoever doesn't help matters either.
@@maxfordgaming9278 There are a lot of elements they don't understand, or are purposely misinterpreting to make 2018 seem deeper than it actually was. Not to self-promote but I put out like an hour and a half long analysis video about it a few days ago, so I'm a little hyped up about GoW at the moment lol.
@@Dan_Kanerva It's a bit of an arc, he was slightly more dismissive towards the franchise in older videos. Heck, he is not even as harsh on the soft reboot in this video as he was around the time up to it's release in 2018.
@@Xfushion2 i begin to wonder if a norse reboot wouldnt have been better at this point...... A new character that brings ragnarock upon the norse pantheon.
I think it speaks volumes of your work that a video talking about a 2013 action game is more interesting and entertaining than the plethora of analyses of newly released games found on this website. And the same can be said about the many videos you’ve made before this. Always looking forward to what’s next :) Hope you’re keeping well Charlie 👍
This could be me overthinking it, but the familiar moves being hidden behind the rage power up could be a show of Kratos' progression, showing how his rage became a part of him.
This was the hardest of the old God of War games. I powered through this on PS Now streaming but I actually liked the changes it made to the classic GOW combat. Too bad it wasn't received as well.
I needa play God Of War Acension. It's too bad that game isn't on PS4-PS5 as I would have played it. I think God Of War 3 has the best combat of the OGs but God Of War 2 was my favorite because it had the best boss fights imo of the OGs, gameplay was solid to but the magic was OP as hell in 2. Currently going through the latest God Of War prepping for Ragnarok.
It's interesting to see Brit's evolve on his assessment of the GoW series. From "Just a shallow spectacle action game" to "Pretty good, rather uninteresting story" to "A great experience that really unites the gameplay with the narrative." It's to the point where Acension is considered the better game to Revengeance! Could you imagine having that opinion half a decade ago? Rest in peace OG GoW. Better than the new one in every way.
Still prefer Revengeance But man I miss the old, stylish god of war DMC5 proved you don’t need to dumb down the combat and put crappy rpg mechanics to revive your series.
@@kermitwithamustache3885 DMC5 did dumb down the combat tho, compared to 3 and 4. Not saying it's not a good game tho. But my favourite by far is 1, the atmosphere is unique.
It boggles the mind, Charlie really should dive into the older entries. Most series fans and high level players consider Ascension to be the worst entry (barring Dad of Bore), 1 and 2 are just...so fucking good.
@@Walamonga1313 thats your nostalgia speaking, DMC 5 is better than 3 and 4 even if it doesnt have inertia. The only thing i can imagine being better in the previous games is the story in 3. But just the selection of weapons alone makes dmc 5 better, cant go back to rebellion in dmc 4 and 3 after using dsd, cant go back to giglamesh or beowulf after balrog
I find it so bizarre that ONLY God of War III got remastered for Ps4. Like did they expect newcomers to the series to start with the 3rd mainline game?
Unpopular opinion: Ghost of Sparta is the best in the early series. While lacking 3 and Ascension's flair; GoS had an incredible amount of variety in gameplay, substantial world building, great story, as well as compelling and interesting character exploration.
It's interesting how GoW's first multiplayer feature gets a brief mention in this video and then glossed over. Ascension's multiplayer while new and needed a better matchmaking function was still very good, and one of my favorite things about Ascension.
as bad as it was, at least it was a one time thing. and if you weren't buying second hand games, it didn't really affect you in any way. when they got the idea to make it a subscription like Xbox though, that's when shit got bad imo. if gaming was already an expensive hobby, then that shit straight up turned it into a luxury. it's funny though that most online games seem to be broken and rely on microtransactions nowadays, so I personally feel like I'm not missing anything.
Why didn’t this get a remaster ? Imagine a ps5 remaster for all the old school god of war games? Easy money. Kingdom hearts did it on ps4. Halo did it in Xbox and pc. It’s doable and old fans would pay for it.
Sony isn't all about that "old fan" money. New Sony wants that Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Originals cinematic casul crowd money, so expect a remaster of the latest game for no reason and everyone pretending the older games don't exist.
The Trial of Archimedes is easily the worst part of this game. Took forever to get past it. Apparently, there’s a patch to make it more forgiving, so even the makers of the game admit that it’s rigged!
My first hard playthrough ended in failure there. Could not beat it. So and to replay there whole damm thing. And this is the one, gow were u. Can't turn down the diffculity. Shameful but I was ready to give up my soul
@@ИгорьКратоссов Not to mention the Labyrinth in GoW3 and well, the final battle against Ares in GoW1 where they took away your powers in order to make it a more, “dramatic fight”. Seriously, whatever idiot who keeps making these cheap difficulty spikes in each God of War game needs to meet with Kratos’s Blades of Chaos.
If Ascension came out for the ps4 in place of Dad of war, it would have been received way better since by that time, a nice old school 3rd person action game like God of war would be refreshing. I freaking love Dad of War but they did decide to go for the last of us-esque narrative which the market was oversaturated with then.
Sadly, this is all Sony wants of its first party studios anymore. Just about all the legacy talent behind those excellent games associated with the brand have abandoned ship and gone rogue. Good for the industry, but disappointing for the longtime fans like me who just want a diverse assortment of games to play with that Japanese spirit of creativity and innovation.
@@12ealDealOfficial That's just not true. If it were we wouldn't have just got Returnal/wouldn't be getting the new Ratchet. Sure there's a lot of first party games that are doing their take on the "mature" storytelling Naughty Dog has made their brand, but it's not like every Sony published title is a 15-20 hour story based third person shooter like the Last of Us or Uncharted. You're really devaluing the talent at places like Sucker Punch, Guerilla, Housemarque and Insomniac (just to name a few).
@@GiveawaySoul They're not quite there yet, but based on the murmurs about their future plans, their recent treatment and moves they've pulled on their in-house studios and the general out of touch corporate shitshow they've had going on for a bit now, that seems to be the direction Sony's brass is currently steering the company towards.
This game was infuriatingly unbalanced on hard difficulty onward. Enemies were also able to shoot at you from off camera. Combined with that new meter system meant for a not very fun time.
@@button421 Same can be said for all greek gow games, tho Ascension feelt very far away too excesive compared to other games (unbalanced difficulty, each game had some difficulty spike but ascencion is unbalanced in a lot of places in hardest difficulty)
I hated Ascension. I finished the game shortly after completing the series (1-3 and both PSP games) and I felt it was easily the weakest entry of the bunch. The combat would swing wildly from really easy to frustratingly hard (the portion where you get magic for the first time kept kicking my ass and I was on Normal). Kratos tended to blend in with the background which made it easy to lose him on screen (can someone explain to me how it's easy to lose track of a six foot white and red murder hobo?) The story was the least engaging, but that's to be expected when you've already done a prequel story and finished the main story. Where else can Kratos go without it contradicting what's already been established? This game didn't need to be made, but it's existence, IMHO, is all the evidence I needed to get on board with a God of War reboot.
One particular reason you remain one of my top favorite TH-camrs Brit, you review games that are either underrated, no one else cares about, or games people long forgot about or never played, on top of amazing hot takes about Modern gaming today.
What a legend. I respect a man who can stick to his guns and review the GOW games of old whether in the hell it's trendy or not. What's the new games out right now? Fuck you, that's what's out! We're talking about a PS3 game bitches! I've seen a lot of the RE: Village reviews that have been fun to watch, but TGBS is a cut above and manages to inspire interest regards of what is on the table for discussion.
@@557deadpool Ugh....This is one of those YT comments I had left & forgotten until now, and seeing it again brings on dangerous levels of cringe. I'm pretty sure I thought I was leaving a hilarious comment, and I've probably done the same shit in person with other people. Holy shit! That's a scary thought lol Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything. I'm glad you reminded me of this! I try to carry myself a certain way whether online or off, but a year o lockdowns made me far less self-aware fuuucking hell. But yeah, seems like everyone reviews older games now lol. TGBS I believe is the only one who does and also happens to be swole as all fuck!
Reboot was incredibly dull. Just another Last of Us, instead of the hack n slash action game we all knew and loved. That said, after Ascension I don't think we would've kept getting games like GOW1 or 3. They would've just kept changing the perfect formula into something annoying and unrecognisable.
I'm so happy that were finally talking about god of war in a universe where every sentence doesn't end with a half assed joke about press x to win. Like we can finally unironically enjoy god of war. I've waited for so long.
One game im surprised you never spoke about is Onimusha: Dawn of dreams. Hack n Slahs RPG with a deep combat system, dope story, dope characters, and awesome RPG elements.
1:50 Don't forget that king midas made an appearance in the game as well, he's a very well known greek myth too (the king who turns everything he touches into gold if you're wondering).
The issue with modern god of war is that in when you play kratos you play a strange rooted "weak" Kratos but cutsceens makes kratos look like the god slayer he is
@@introduction1266 I think he means the dissonance between gameplay and Lore, stuff like flipping the temple, pushing the bridge etc Things that show how strong kratos is, but then he hacks away at a single enemy instead of just punching through them. In the old games you had a dozen enemies or more flying around as kratos unleashes his attacks and combos.
@@DomeLP09 there is no dissonance because Kratos is strong all the way through but the game will not be easy because of that. Kratos is actually stronger than he was in the last games according to the director. He unleashes all his power when he needs to. It doesn't make sense for gameplay or for story for him to go all out from beginning to end. Besides at the beginning you can tell he hadn't been in a fight like that in a long time so over time he gets back to where he was and even over that power in the past games. Not to mention he's trying to teach his son how to control his anger. Now that would be dissonance.
@@introduction1266 Yeah, that narrative about Kratos being "actually stronger than he was in the last games" flies completely out of the window as soon as you run into a draugr with purple healthbar that tanks hundreds hits and offs you with single one, or alternatively once you encounter one of those colour-coded plagues of game design which you can't damage at all without switching weapons. So not only is this supposed to be the same madman who toppled the head brass of Greek pantheon single handedly, but the game director would also have us believe this to be the strongest he's ever been (not the only thing Gory Barlog had said in regards to the game, that struck me as complete baloney either), despite the game doing absolutely nothing to actually demonstrate this and instead it sets us up for bunch of loot-grinding BS if we'd want to see even a fraction of that strength in regular combat, since apparently Kratos has gotten too old and lazy now to be bothered to actually try in a fight where him and/or his son could die, without putting some armour on or blinging up his weapons. And ofcourse the Sloth of Sparta can't be bothered to jump over anything without designated button prompt anymore either, even if it'd look like something your average mortal could bypass with relative ease, neccesitating in lot of pointless detours, waiting around for the ginger preteen to throw you a ladder or rope and hideously tedious rockclimbing instead of any actual platforming.
Little mistake, his name is Aegaeon, not Hecatonchires. Hecatonchires just means "one-hundred hander" and describes a type of giant in Greek myth who were the offspring of Gaia and Ouranous. They were born after the Cyclopes, who were born after the Titans, Ouranous thought they were all disgusting so he had all of his children imprisoned underground, in his wife. Kronos later castrated his father Ouranous and freed his fellow Titans, but he told all the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires to go fuck themselves and left them in their underground prison. So when Zeus made plans to overthrow Kronos; all of the cyclopes and hecatonchires sided with him, except for Aegaeon, who inexplicably decided to side against Zeus in the Titanomachy, the war where he prevailed as King of Olympus, he was the only Hecatonchires to do so, which is why the Furies tortured and imprisoned him.
For anyone interested, God of War 3 Remastered on ps4 is 10 bucks, if you didn't claim it for free back in 2018. I do wish this game got more recognition, but I think after how amazing 3 was, it's understandable. I did play the multiplayer back when it was still kicking, was pretty fun.
Thought this game wasn't all that great from what I've heard people say way back when, but I'm glad this video proves those thoughts wrong! I'll be sure to pick this game up before they eventually close the PSN store on PS3
Ah Ascension... it was the best looking GoW game before IV came out. That was it. All I got besides that one thing was a mediocre story, lackluster villains, nerfed Blades of Chaos, weakest rage ability to date, lack of new weapons, generic magic attacks, and a depressed Kratos. Those elements made me regret my purchase of Ascension very quickly and I was happy to part with the entry then return to play Chains of Olympus again.
Seriously, first I discover your Jak and Daxter Analysis, then I find that whole series of Ratchet and Clank, then the Devil May Cry 5 review, AND NOW THIS! when you add the Sly Trilogy Retrospective from B-Mask, you both have covered my entire childhood!
Here is my dream God of War game and its very non-conventional. I want a game that takes place during Kratos' years as an army General for the Spartans. You command large armies in a simplified RTS. However, like in Brutal Legend, you can personally jump into combat at any given time, lending your aide and your powers. Enemy generals can do the same (like the barbarian king with his awesome hammer you see in god of war 2). The combat here will be zoomed in and it controls like the old god of war games, hack and slash/dynasty warriors esque. You can turn the tide of that one battle, but you lose overview of the rest of the battle and sacrifice micro management of the rest of your troops. Throw in magic you unlock throughout the game as the gods bless you more, and mythical creatures you encounter in harder late game armies, as well as the ability to recruit your own creatures. The story follows to where Kratos gain ares blessing and he gains the blades, and after that point you start doing more and more horrific campaigns in servitude to ares. Eventually killing your own family. This will allow us to actually feel Kratos pain more directly, because so far all the tragedies are always in the past and references. Ascension uses flashbacks etc, but I never felt any of the game really made us 100% sympathize and feel his pain. A game like this could do it.
3 and Ascension's visuals are gonna age better than reboot. Reboot still looks good but by the end of the current gen of consoles it's only gonna look ok.
extremely underrated game. To this day i am not quite sure why it got a bad reception at the time, while I can totally see it being inferior to GOW3, its unarguably still a very good game.
Just discovered your channel and been on a binge ever since. Your love for the first ratchet and clank game is very like mine haha, one of my favorite game series i've played and literally the first game I ever played was onimusha warlords. I saw you did a review on it 6 years ago and I was wondering if you were willing to cover the other ones? It's some of the best games i've ever played. Bit dark souls like but story, setting, weapons. It"s all so fantastic!
This section where you talked about Ragnarok being more like the originals has aged poorly I’m from 2022 nothing has changed much it’s more of the same but more boring this time
i kinda felt that Ascencion was kinda of a wasted oportunity ,insteady of showing how Kratos escaped from Ares control, would be interresting playing as General Kratos,with him a little bit before his defeat and the pact with Ares(could be a way to introduce the mecanic of taking diferent weapons from the ground),and later having Sparta as a hubworld were you would take missions in the name of Ares, they could even mixed little bit of musou there(another better oportunity to introduce the multiplayer), ending with him killing his own family and discovering that missions were leading to plan of Ares taking over Olimpus,and Kratos messing up his plans and freeing himself from Ares servitude.....
I think with a few tweaks to its mechanics this game really could have been one of the best combat systems ever created. The way they implemented the rage mode and secondary weapons are honestly brilliant. But with that said there are shitty cooldown based items, that do the work for you, and the square square triange combo is more exploitable than ever, thanks to the rage mode where it gets a big explosion effect. Also some of the enemy designs like the brutes with their ground tracking attack can just go, and the bosses are still pretty horrible... A little bit of balancing and some intresting items could have gone a long way, in making Ascension into a classic. Also the counterattack is much better then in the older games, but it really needed a little bit of nerfing. I mean...It's just waaaay too powerful....
I specifically remember playing this game from start to finish in a single night. I rented it from Redbox and honestly enjoyed it. I didn’t care about the story or anything but I did like the combat, it was fun.
God the combat was so good in god of war 3. The 2018 god of war really was only a success for me in terms of the presentation and story, but the combat was such a step down from the previous games in the series. And because of that I have yet to play that game a second time and only watch the cutscenes on TH-cam. Whereas God of War 3 is a game that I play at least once a year. Best in the series imo
The only gripe I had with this game was Kratos being difficult to see when the camera zoomed out a bit during combat. In terms of gameplay, this was my favourite GoW title. I've also wondered why this GoW title doesn't have a PS4 remaster. I know it wouldn't sell much but I'd definitely appreciate it..
Yeah, I don't know. I only played it once, but the game didn't really stand out to me that much. I appreciate Kratos being more human, but for the most part, it just felt kind of paint by numbers to me. I also remember the camera pulling waaaay too far out at times which made the meter reset on damage feel more frustrating. The meter reset, plus temporary weapon pickups also reminded me of Bayonetta, which made me wonder why I wasn't playing that instead.
This video rocks! I would have liked it though if you had mentioned that this was the sixth game with this formula and people just got tired of it. Which is the reason that Sont went for a soft reboot, a clean slate, gameplay and story wise with the much revered Kratos still intact.
i really like the gore in old god of war games,all i remember about the new one are these really tame looking wounds and orange blood. Like one is ripping through actual flesh and other is Gatorade.
This is like a slap to the people who loved the 2018 GOW cos "Kratos was never deep in the original games" and I remembered how I nearly cry playing Ghost of Sparta. While 3, for me, had the weakest stories across the franchise, GOW have always had engaging stories and each games open up quite a number of layer to Kratos. In the words of a guy on youtube whom I cant remember the video of, Kratos have always been deep, you cowards!!
Can't wait to watch your video on this game that I have conflicting emotions for. Also your channel makes videos that I care about more than almost every other channel, so thanks for that.
It's interesting how less harsh and more understanding towards God of War 4 Gaming Brit is compared to the review video he made of it when the game first came out. I understand that the game is still not for him, but I like that he is trying to understand the game on it's own merits and intentions and even find some value in it, even if the experience is ultimately not his cup of tea. I'm curious as to what caused him to change his attitude a bit, but regardless it's a great and nuanced approach to games criticism. Good job sir.
Probably just calmed down now that the media frenzy of people beating on the classics to prop up the new one has died down, it's one thing to like or even prefer the new one but it's another to tear down what came before to prop it up and that is what I think rubbed fans of the classics the wrong way more than anything else. The media and even the studio joining in on dumping on the classics didn't help either. You can see similar cycles happen whenever a series gets a major reinvention for better or worse, it always splits the fanbase and starting another flame war.
IDK why people complain about this game. Its good. Only complaint i have is the changed combat: 1. with combos being locked behind rage meter that can be all lost upon one hit. 2. Elemental powers dont really matter except the ULT 3. Pickupable weapons, well... Never really used them so idk? Mabye usseles BUT i have to say that new Chain grab and those two items that slow time and spawn a kratoses phantom are soooooo good and can, by itself almost make up for all these 3 things listed, almost, still good game i would recommend
that mace weapon stuns brutes and you can pretty much cheese them with it but yeah, apart from the shield, the other weapons are kinda useless. and the "spartan kick" is a pretty useless move as well.
I've always had a huge soft spot for this game. It's scale is amazing and the combat was so nice and refreshing from the other god of war games. It's a real shame that a lot of people disliked it or pushed it aside
I really hope they end up showing at least a little of the old Greek Kratos in Greece to show he how he escaped it all. But my expectations are extremely low. I think it will be just Dad of War 1.5. Let’s hope for decent boss fights and the return of the Blade of Olympus.
All my favorite video essay you tubers just wake up from the grave in May? Feel like every one is dropping suddenly! I love it! We got a summoning salt video too!
I feel like I very much dismissed Ascension back in 2013 - for some reason I found it instantly forgettable after I beat it, call it franchise burnout maybe - but this has me tempted to go back to checking it out.
I really enjoyed Ascension throughout my first play-through but after I beat it on Hard then moved too Titan Mode I did think that the combat wasn't very consistent and when any main bosses or mini-bosses did any sort of attack at all would one hit you and the enemies throughout the whole game had way too much health and it felt like your blades did no damage or on the hardest difficulty everything was too damn expensive to be practical like for 80% of the game your only using the Ares Flame Element because the other ones were too expensive for red orbs and you have too save those orbs for The Blades Of Chaos too the last 2 upgrades combined is 85k orbs then upgrading your Items such as The Clone of Orkos abilitie and your amulet combined they are 10k so thats 95k orbs combined and the elements add even more The Ares one costs 8k total too fully max out and is genuinely the best one while the Hades and Zeus ones are good they are too much for practicality and overall the game is buggy like on my Play-Through of Titan I had become Softlocked and was unable too progress and that kind of killed it for me.
It would have been cool if they’d saved the GoW 2018 prequel story for a game that goes back to the original gameplay style, or something akin to it that bridges that gap. Given the size and vagueness of the gap with relation to 2018 it was really ripe for that kind of presentation.
Yo brit a lot of new action games are coming out like lost soul aside, black myth wukong, ff16,ninja gaiden collection, bayo 3 (probably) why don't you make a video taking about the upcoming action games would love to hear your opinions
Thanks dude my first video and I loved it could never get a ps3 and after years I finally got one in good condition, can't wait to experience the full story of Kratos. Finished everyone even the psp versions. But 3 and ascension. Thank you for the all work.
This video contains spoilers for Greek mythology.
Dose Ganymede ever appear? Or the giantomachy
Anyone who played this game will remember: "The Trial of Archimedes".
If you beat that section before they patched it to be easier, you a real one.
What? they patched it to be easier? I never knew...God of war had some bullshit segments in the past, but that one is just utterly broken. I mean the siren enemies' tracking attacks are just fucking madness.
Shit was the worst. Ruined the last third of the game in what was otherwise pretty fun and reasonably challenging. The combat falls apart and it highlights how useless the elemental changes really are.
This is why I keep refusing to update Ascension whenever I play it.
I played it through even hard mode...
Yeah, knowing that there is a patch for it is kind of understandable
Yeah the Trial of Archimedes was really tough before that patch, but i completed it before the patch.😎🔥
The entire TH-cam community: "lets review Resident Evil 8"
TheGamingBritShow: "here is a review for a game nobody played 8 years ago"
I mean why review it if there are a thousand others?
It's God of War, pretty sure people played it.
I'm honestly sick of hearing about RE Village lol.
@@Gruntvc same, the Lady Dimemes alone killed my interest
Creeps from the corner:
“I played it about three years ago”
Showed the games to my friends recently, I love it.
Silence.
He's definitely gotten a fair amount nicer to the games compared to a year ago. Must be the fact that we're living in a post dmc5 world.
TGBS before DMC5: "This fails to satisfy me".
TGBS after DMC5: "I found my game, happiness, and tranquility".
Capcom coming back to their senses and letting Itsuno bring Devil May Cry back to its roots with DMC5 definitely helped him look at DmC: Devil May Cry in a more positive light
@@TheSuperSmashBros01 to be fair, might be because instead of dmc dmc being the last game in the franchise with nothing new on the horizon he now gets to look at it as something of an awkward phase the franchise got past.
@@deathseraph3 This is exactly the case. Now we can look at Dmc:Dmc much more fondly as an entry that did its own thing. Rather than the game that stole away a beloved franchise.
@@LilBoyHexley Tbh I didn't have a problem with the DMC reboot. Sorta did what it was supposed to do, it got new players into the games lol. The bad publicity from the reboot, got DMC's name into the spot light, and then the remaster kinda popped off. On top of that, the game really did have things that made DMC. . . DMC. Just sort dropped the ball in actually selling it well to the fans.
I had to remind myself throughout this video that that's a PS fucking 3 title, and not 4
god damn those GoW games were absolute technical masterpieces
And they still are honestly
It's ashame Sony didn't care to port this game to future console/ or to port it tk PC, despite it's multiplayer would benefits a lot from PC release
@@ShatteredGlass916 Sony Hates the OG trilogy, it represents brutal old age masculinity. They think its junior level story telling because Kratos isnt crying every 5 seconds.
@@AlternateKek Sony is a Japanese company, they don't care about American politics of Gender.
@@AlternateKek is that why they remastered it for PS4
Its crazy to think the God of War series spans seven games now. Ascension and the psp games really do get lost in the shuffle
Chains of Olympus has a killer ending, but most of the game just feels like filler. It's just "you've gotta save Helios for reasons" with gameplay and levels that seem out of GOW1.
Ascension's visuals are absolutely beautiful, but the story and gameplay are uninspired and I truly hate the back and forth between playable flashbacks and the prison opening. Feels so out of place in the series, like it's a fake game.
Ghost of sparta is amazing, tho. Truly deserves as much love as the numbered entries.
I'm still wondering why Sony hasnt ported the series to PS4 with all the new fans god of four (get it?) gained. Its easy money.
Still, I would love a remake of gow1 because it hasnt aged well. Too many annoying sections make it really frustrating to play now a days, not to mention the sequels vastly improved its foundation. A remake like Resident evil 1's (the same game, just with new graphics, enemies, levels, bosses, etc) + gow'1 story (the undisputed best in the series) would be the ultimate god of war game and a perfect way to say goodbye to the greek era.
Ascension asked for it with that awful combat meter thing. Chains and ghost yes they're very underappreciated.
Yeah, and even the fourth game, I think, Dante's inferno was also pretty cool. Was surprised by the sudden character and some gameplay element changes but ultimately felt like a real God of War game
@@hopelesssituationwarrior6996 nah, remakes should be reserved for Ascension.
They could make Rage Meter being more user friendly. Maybe make Rage Meter that didn't go down after every small hit (or completely drained once you stopped hitting), or maybe made them less of a hassle to filled up. Maybe make Rage Meter Attacks only took a portions of the meter instead one full bar, since all of them (aside Hades) are kinda lame (basically treat Rage Meter like Magic Bars, with portions).
Also, for f*ck sake, BRING BACK NEW GAME+ FUNNY COSTUMES. It annoys me that even in New Game+, the game subtly kept reminding you to check multiplayer by making the New Game+ costume the Multiplayer's Armors, like c'mon....
*R I S E O F T H E W A R R I O R C A M P A I G N*
Before the release of this game, there's a short graphic novel titled "Rise of the Warrior". It tells the story of the playable multiplayer character (the bald guy Kratos almost save in Hecatoncheires). And GODDAMN IT'S GOOD. It tells in depth on how the Furies works, how they ensnares mortals, it even ties in with the Village of Kira and the Oracle before Castor usurps. Also, the fork-lookalike chain weapon used in Multiplayer is apparently this guy's original weapon before he is imprisoned lmao
This just makes me miss the old voice actor for Kratos. Not to knock Chris Judge but I mean Carson will still be my favorite.
T C Carson was the so damn good as kratos
@@surferOS101 I couldn't agree more
Didn't the new Kratos actor die?
@@purgejmi I looked it up and apparently it was a hoax
@@chuckbellerose8474 Naw bro, sorry to have to tell you, but it wasn't.
"Shad Gaspard who did the motion capture for Kratos has been found dead. On Wednesday morning (California time), the body of retired WWE superstar Shad Gaspard was found washed up on Venice Beach in Los Angeles.May 21, 2020"
- Nintendosmash
Also, looking up his name on Google says he died... Could have just said that, didn't have to do the whole quotes and everything, but I did, so no going back now.
Correction, "The titan Hechatoncheires" is false. Titans and hechatoncheires are two separate species in Greek mythology, and the same applies to God of War. In fact, Zeus enlisted the help of the hechatonchires to overthrow the titans.
That hechatoncheires you're referring to is Aegaeon, the first to break a blood oath, and whose body was turned into a living prison by the Furies.
Another famous hechatoncheires you might've heard of is Briareos, whom the deuteragonist of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed is named after. Despite being an original character separate from the myth, he too has multiple eyes, as the hechatoncheires were distinguished by their multiple arms and eyes.
Doesn't "hechatoncheires" literally mean "thousand arms" or something?
Damn. That’s actually pretty friggin’ interesting.
Granted, you could’ve made all that up and I’d still believe you lmao
@@ChronicNOTAG heka means hundred
How does one manage to come across such info and then retain it?? Kudos! I couldn't read half of those words because I'm a Cro-Magnon ape, but perhaps I'll look into this further because it really is interesting as hell. The limit of my knowledge of Greek mythology begins and ends with the original GOW series lol.
@@johnnybensonitis7853 If you're looking for a digestible way to take in some of this lore, Mythos by Stephen Fry is pretty fun!
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow next? :)
Yesss, both main entries please
Hell, even do the Mirrors of Fate too. Just to complete everything.
Like Ascension, LoS is a highly underrated character action game that I love
Oh, good one
Dante's Inferno, too.
I remember when Ascension was coming out, they really tried to hype up the co op mode. That's why it flew under my radar. That was the time in gaming where EVERY game had to have co op.
To be fair, people were just tired of GoW after 7 years of basically getting the same game...
Watch the "Raising Kratos" documentary, Sony actually threaten to dismantle Santa Monica Studios and fire all the people involved after how bad this game bombed...despite the fact they were the ones who kept demanding a GoW game to be out almost every year.
I remember playing it on beta, it actually was pretty fun.
I remember when fable 3 did that and I feel the single player suffered for it. Still a great game though, one of the greatest franchises imo.
Coop? You mean multi-player?
The multiplayer was legit good.
Game journos: GoW2018 finally gave Kratos depth and complexity
Fans that witnessed the Kratos evolution from man to god slayer to hollow husk of anger struggling with his remaining humanity over the span of 7 games: Excuse me, what?
Although I'm yet to play the 2018 game I dislike it primarily for this criticism and although I can contribute this mindset to most people probably didnt play Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta which gives additional depth for Kratos' motivations and status in Gow3, but mostly feel like the change in direction of controls and POV kinda feel like a miss step or downgrade. What is amazing in the new game is the single take shot, but in no way is new Kratos better than oldschool Kratos (even though their technically the same person). Still cant wait to play it though to confirm if my current feelings will remain.
@@TheZAibatsu i mean that's fair but those are very different kinds of gameplay and everyone plays favorites weather they like it or not, i like the game for what it is but i knew full well it wouldn't go back to the old style as much as i wanted it
@@Dabajaws my main point is og Kratos was so influential to games as a whole yet new Kratos feels like he's following trends (apart from the single take shot thing- which doesn't affect gameplay and is more an aesthetic feature while control wise it feels like they tried to be more soul's-ey).
To all those ppl that say the new Kratos is more more mature and isnt just a pissed off, one note lunatic, so how should this new Kratos react if Thor kills Atreaus? Cos clearly the rage he had from losing Caliope and his wife didn't justify Og Kratos' staus in Gow3 in yalls opions ?
@Zerozerozero that's like your opinion man
Man, I gotta say, I really loved TGB's analysis on Kratos' characterization here and what he was like by the end of the Greek era. Kratos is a character that's a lot like Caim from Drakengard in my opinion. A character that, when you see him in his proper games, just comes off as an insane, revenge-obsessed, murderous monster, but when you get a full understanding of the shit they experienced prior to that point, and the shit they would go on to experience afterwards, they suddenly become much more tragic, at least in my eyes. I sure as shit don't let the blur of trauma that is their backstories justify or take away from the horrible shit they'd go on to do, but like TGB said, in Kratos' case, when you spend years doing favors to the gods seeking just one thing, and the one thing they give you is not only something you didn't even want, but something they plan to revoke later on, it becomes much, much easier to see why Kratos fell so deep into insanity and hatred seeking his revenge against the forces that repeatedly screwed him over and over because they're a bunch of fickle assholes.
Was Caim in more games than the first Drakengard?
@@EmotionTheory He was the main antagonist character of Drakengard 2 (Frankly, Caim was one of the few things that game absolutely fucking _nailed._ ) and is speculated to be _Red Eye,_ the head of the Legion in the backstory to NieR, but unfortunately, that's about everything in terms of game appearances from Caim, which is a colossal fucking shame IMO since he kicks all kinds of ass.
The Drakengard series got more into his backstory and how godawful it was like for Kratos here in Ascenion in the Drakengard 1 and 3 prequel manga, where we see the day his life irrevocably went to shit... and all on his 18th birthday, no less! Like Kratos in God Of War 1, we learn the gist of Caim's backstory in his first game, Drakengard 1, but the manga really shows it off in detail and it's frankly so horrific that, to me at least, it quickly turned Caim into a tragic figure shaped into something monstrous by a merciless, shitty world. The fact that in all of the Drakengard routes, horrible shit keeps happening to him and he gets no happy ending whatsoever doesn't help matters either.
Kratos has always been so much deeper than 2018 shills want people to believe.
@@UnderTheBun facts,the critics doesn't understand his character.
@@maxfordgaming9278 There are a lot of elements they don't understand, or are purposely misinterpreting to make 2018 seem deeper than it actually was. Not to self-promote but I put out like an hour and a half long analysis video about it a few days ago, so I'm a little hyped up about GoW at the moment lol.
Did anyone else find the noise the QTE sound effects make when hitting a button in this game, extremely satisfying?
You are a huge tsundere for this franchise.
"it's not like I like your combat system or anything, ανόητος!"
he likes all God of War games , literally the one exception is the fast paced Dark Souls
i mean...
God of War 2018
@@Dan_Kanerva Dark souls is arguably faster tbh, especially dark souls 3.
@@kevinnigins9488 i would say the only souls games that are faster are Bloodborne and Sekiro
@@Dan_Kanerva It's a bit of an arc, he was slightly more dismissive towards the franchise in older videos.
Heck, he is not even as harsh on the soft reboot in this video as he was around the time up to it's release in 2018.
The God of War I hear nobody talk about.
until now
and all we are going to get now are stupid boring Dad of War crap since that shitty game via marketing was hyped beyond all reason.
Been on a God of War kick lately, so this is perfectly timed!
Incoming weirdos getting super mad at Brit for not liking God of War 4 even though what little he said about it here was really tame
I didnt liked it much. Had it been made with the same style of combat ad epic scales it would have been far better
@@SIGNOR-G Agreed, it was a fine game but gameplay wise doesn't surpass God of War 3.
@@Xfushion2 i begin to wonder if a norse reboot wouldnt have been better at this point...... A new character that brings ragnarock upon the norse pantheon.
I actually like the GOW4 combat alot because there so much you can do with weapon abilities.
@@outkastshadowking2719 to each their own i guess. I just prefer the action style of the "Greek Era"
I think it speaks volumes of your work that a video talking about a 2013 action game is more interesting and entertaining than the plethora of analyses of newly released games found on this website. And the same can be said about the many videos you’ve made before this. Always looking forward to what’s next :)
Hope you’re keeping well Charlie 👍
This could be me overthinking it, but the familiar moves being hidden behind the rage power up could be a show of Kratos' progression, showing how his rage became a part of him.
This was the hardest of the old God of War games. I powered through this on PS Now streaming but I actually liked the changes it made to the classic GOW combat. Too bad it wasn't received as well.
I bet it came across like an afterthought.
I tried but I could not get into gow: ascension combat. I liked gow 3 combat way more
Honestly, I liked this one's gameplay the best.
I think 1 is more difficult, the difficulty of ascension comes from a broken combat system
I needa play God Of War Acension. It's too bad that game isn't on PS4-PS5 as I would have played it.
I think God Of War 3 has the best combat of the OGs but God Of War 2 was my favorite because it had the best boss fights imo of the OGs, gameplay was solid to but the magic was OP as hell in 2.
Currently going through the latest God Of War prepping for Ragnarok.
Always a good day when GBS uploads
Real talk
Facts
I found 15 dollars!
The fact that this game never got a remaster on PS4 is just sad
Considering it almost killed the franchise, Sony just pretends it doenst exists.
@@Jose-se9pu Since when did that happen?
It's sad that only 3 ever got remastered for Ps4.
@@Jose-se9pu Modern Sony seem pretty content to pretend everything they released before the PS4 doesn't exist.
@@BIaziken2 gowA was straight ass.
It's interesting to see Brit's evolve on his assessment of the GoW series. From "Just a shallow spectacle action game" to "Pretty good, rather uninteresting story" to "A great experience that really unites the gameplay with the narrative." It's to the point where Acension is considered the better game to Revengeance! Could you imagine having that opinion half a decade ago?
Rest in peace OG GoW. Better than the new one in every way.
Still prefer Revengeance
But man I miss the old, stylish god of war
DMC5 proved you don’t need to dumb down the combat and put crappy rpg mechanics to revive your series.
@@kermitwithamustache3885 DMC5 did dumb down the combat tho, compared to 3 and 4. Not saying it's not a good game tho. But my favourite by far is 1, the atmosphere is unique.
It boggles the mind, Charlie really should dive into the older entries. Most series fans and high level players consider Ascension to be the worst entry (barring Dad of Bore), 1 and 2 are just...so fucking good.
@@Walamonga1313 thats your nostalgia speaking, DMC 5 is better than 3 and 4 even if it doesnt have inertia. The only thing i can imagine being better in the previous games is the story in 3. But just the selection of weapons alone makes dmc 5 better, cant go back to rebellion in dmc 4 and 3 after using dsd, cant go back to giglamesh or beowulf after balrog
No its not better lmbo. You must be smoking crack if you think the old gow is better
27:13 DMC 5 did this. Kept the stylish flashy combat system and made it very immersive at the same time... GoW 5 take notes please, don’t let us down
Well, brace yourself. Disappointment is coming..
@@justlloyd7881 ye probably
Probably gonna pull the last of us 2 plot, where revenge is bad for the main character but good for the villian.
@@Ab-he4vf Then why was Abby rewarded for killing Joel?
@@jackm4536 maybe you didnt do things but the pace was glorious and the scale of the various adventures were always grandious
ngl this game could easily pass as a PS4 title with those visuals
It’s crazy how I just pulled out this game over the weekend. 2013 was filled with so many good games
still better than 2018 imo
Hell no
@@glenwarne6492 god of war 4 is the most overrated game of all time
@@perseastheodoropoulos7367 that's like your opinion man majority of people loved it
@@glenwarne6492 the game divided its old fans tho
@@perseastheodoropoulos7367 not really only small portion of it most people who are gow fans do love this game
Oh boy my Favorite God of war Game that Never Get Remastered for Some reason.
I find it so bizarre that ONLY God of War III got remastered for Ps4. Like did they expect newcomers to the series to start with the 3rd mainline game?
Because meh out of 10
For me all The next god of war game needs to do is a add a jump button and zoom out the camera. I’ll be satisfied if this happens.
Got to say i love the old gameplay and wish the new games drink more from this extremely fun and refined take on combat that defined the franchise.
Unpopular opinion: Ghost of Sparta is the best in the early series.
While lacking 3 and Ascension's flair; GoS had an incredible amount of variety in gameplay, substantial world building, great story, as well as compelling and interesting character exploration.
YES!!! Finally one more person that agrees. Whenever I replay the old games (story order), it's the one I'm looking forward to the most.
It's interesting how GoW's first multiplayer feature gets a brief mention in this video and then glossed over. Ascension's multiplayer while new and needed a better matchmaking function was still very good, and one of my favorite things about Ascension.
Remember when Sony was pushing those online passes? 🙄
as bad as it was, at least it was a one time thing. and if you weren't buying second hand games, it didn't really affect you in any way. when they got the idea to make it a subscription like Xbox though, that's when shit got bad imo. if gaming was already an expensive hobby, then that shit straight up turned it into a luxury. it's funny though that most online games seem to be broken and rely on microtransactions nowadays, so I personally feel like I'm not missing anything.
God of War Ascension is actually my favorite in terms of game design and gameplay
Why didn’t this get a remaster ? Imagine a ps5 remaster for all the old school god of war games? Easy money. Kingdom hearts did it on ps4. Halo did it in Xbox and pc. It’s doable and old fans would pay for it.
Especially those who prefer old God of War over new God of War
It doesnt really need one, it's still one of the best looking ps3 games
Personally I'd love a collection for the PSP games
@@HellfireComms We already got that via God of War Origins Collection
Sony isn't all about that "old fan" money. New Sony wants that Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Originals cinematic casul crowd money, so expect a remaster of the latest game for no reason and everyone pretending the older games don't exist.
The Trial of Archimedes is easily the worst part of this game. Took forever to get past it. Apparently, there’s a patch to make it more forgiving, so even the makers of the game admit that it’s rigged!
My first hard playthrough ended in failure there. Could not beat it. So and to replay there whole damm thing. And this is the one, gow were u. Can't turn down the diffculity. Shameful but I was ready to give up my soul
@@ИгорьКратоссов Not to mention the Labyrinth in GoW3 and well, the final battle against Ares in GoW1 where they took away your powers in order to make it a more, “dramatic fight”. Seriously, whatever idiot who keeps making these cheap difficulty spikes in each God of War game needs to meet with Kratos’s Blades of Chaos.
If Ascension came out for the ps4 in place of Dad of war, it would have been received way better since by that time, a nice old school 3rd person action game like God of war would be refreshing. I freaking love Dad of War but they did decide to go for the last of us-esque narrative which the market was oversaturated with then.
Sadly, this is all Sony wants of its first party studios anymore. Just about all the legacy talent behind those excellent games associated with the brand have abandoned ship and gone rogue. Good for the industry, but disappointing for the longtime fans like me who just want a diverse assortment of games to play with that Japanese spirit of creativity and innovation.
@@12ealDealOfficial That's just not true. If it were we wouldn't have just got Returnal/wouldn't be getting the new Ratchet. Sure there's a lot of first party games that are doing their take on the "mature" storytelling Naughty Dog has made their brand, but it's not like every Sony published title is a 15-20 hour story based third person shooter like the Last of Us or Uncharted. You're really devaluing the talent at places like Sucker Punch, Guerilla, Housemarque and Insomniac (just to name a few).
@@GiveawaySoul They're not quite there yet, but based on the murmurs about their future plans, their recent treatment and moves they've pulled on their in-house studios and the general out of touch corporate shitshow they've had going on for a bit now, that seems to be the direction Sony's brass is currently steering the company towards.
This game was infuriatingly unbalanced on hard difficulty onward.
Enemies were also able to shoot at you from off camera. Combined with that new meter system meant for a not very fun time.
That gauntlet near the end of the game tho 🤯 at least it was ultimately doable.
on hard it fun on titan its hell
@@button421 Same can be said for all greek gow games, tho Ascension feelt very far away too excesive compared to other games (unbalanced difficulty, each game had some difficulty spike but ascencion is unbalanced in a lot of places in hardest difficulty)
I hated Ascension. I finished the game shortly after completing the series (1-3 and both PSP games) and I felt it was easily the weakest entry of the bunch. The combat would swing wildly from really easy to frustratingly hard (the portion where you get magic for the first time kept kicking my ass and I was on Normal). Kratos tended to blend in with the background which made it easy to lose him on screen (can someone explain to me how it's easy to lose track of a six foot white and red murder hobo?)
The story was the least engaging, but that's to be expected when you've already done a prequel story and finished the main story. Where else can Kratos go without it contradicting what's already been established? This game didn't need to be made, but it's existence, IMHO, is all the evidence I needed to get on board with a God of War reboot.
And how come nobody talks about the horrid camera angles and pitch black lighting?
The rage meter is basically the concentration meter of Vergil god of war version.
This game was actually better than 3. Pappy did a great job with this one.
One particular reason you remain one of my top favorite TH-camrs Brit, you review games that are either underrated, no one else cares about, or games people long forgot about or never played, on top of amazing hot takes about Modern gaming today.
My favourite GOW was the first one,but Ascension had smart gameplay mechanics despite being a little clunky compared to the order games.
What a legend. I respect a man who can stick to his guns and review the GOW games of old whether in the hell it's trendy or not. What's the new games out right now? Fuck you, that's what's out! We're talking about a PS3 game bitches! I've seen a lot of the RE: Village reviews that have been fun to watch, but TGBS is a cut above and manages to inspire interest regards of what is on the table for discussion.
......you act like he's the only one who reviews older games
@@557deadpool Ugh....This is one of those YT comments I had left & forgotten until now, and seeing it again brings on dangerous levels of cringe. I'm pretty sure I thought I was leaving a hilarious comment, and I've probably done the same shit in person with other people. Holy shit! That's a scary thought lol
Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything. I'm glad you reminded me of this! I try to carry myself a certain way whether online or off, but a year o lockdowns made me far less self-aware fuuucking hell.
But yeah, seems like everyone reviews older games now lol. TGBS I believe is the only one who does and also happens to be swole as all fuck!
I still like the Devil May War games more than The Last of War.
Imagine unironically thinking ps4 GoW combat is better than the stylish combat we had until Ascension
Reboot was incredibly dull. Just another Last of Us, instead of the hack n slash action game we all knew and loved. That said, after Ascension I don't think we would've kept getting games like GOW1 or 3. They would've just kept changing the perfect formula into something annoying and unrecognisable.
@@kermitwithamustache3885 calling it stylish is a.bit of a stretch
@@kermitwithamustache3885 brutal*
I'm so happy that were finally talking about god of war in a universe where every sentence doesn't end with a half assed joke about press x to win. Like we can finally unironically enjoy god of war. I've waited for so long.
huh?
What are you on? God of war combat has been good since the literal first entry.
How can you press X to win if QTE's are activated with the Circle button and attacks are the Square and Triangle buttons
One game im surprised you never spoke about is Onimusha: Dawn of dreams.
Hack n Slahs RPG with a deep combat system, dope story, dope characters, and awesome RPG elements.
He should speak about Onimusha 2 and 3 first.
@@sirfrightmare4506 been waiting since that Onimusha christmas video review and everythings been silent since.
I can't 'til him Somecallmejohnny review Onimusha 2.
1:50 Don't forget that king midas made an appearance in the game as well, he's a very well known greek myth too (the king who turns everything he touches into gold if you're wondering).
The issue with modern god of war is that in when you play kratos you play a strange rooted "weak" Kratos but cutsceens makes kratos look like the god slayer he is
What do you mean weak and at what part?
@@introduction1266
I think he means the dissonance between gameplay and Lore, stuff like flipping the temple, pushing the bridge etc
Things that show how strong kratos is, but then he hacks away at a single enemy instead of just punching through them. In the old games you had a dozen enemies or more flying around as kratos unleashes his attacks and combos.
@@DomeLP09 there is no dissonance because Kratos is strong all the way through but the game will not be easy because of that. Kratos is actually stronger than he was in the last games according to the director. He unleashes all his power when he needs to. It doesn't make sense for gameplay or for story for him to go all out from beginning to end. Besides at the beginning you can tell he hadn't been in a fight like that in a long time so over time he gets back to where he was and even over that power in the past games. Not to mention he's trying to teach his son how to control his anger. Now that would be dissonance.
@@introduction1266 Yeah, that narrative about Kratos being "actually stronger than he was in the last games" flies completely out of the window as soon as you run into a draugr with purple healthbar that tanks hundreds hits and offs you with single one, or alternatively once you encounter one of those colour-coded plagues of game design which you can't damage at all without switching weapons.
So not only is this supposed to be the same madman who toppled the head brass of Greek pantheon single handedly, but the game director would also have us believe this to be the strongest he's ever been (not the only thing Gory Barlog had said in regards to the game, that struck me as complete baloney either), despite the game doing absolutely nothing to actually demonstrate this and instead it sets us up for bunch of loot-grinding BS if we'd want to see even a fraction of that strength in regular combat, since apparently Kratos has gotten too old and lazy now to be bothered to actually try in a fight where him and/or his son could die, without putting some armour on or blinging up his weapons. And ofcourse the Sloth of Sparta can't be bothered to jump over anything without designated button prompt anymore either, even if it'd look like something your average mortal could bypass with relative ease, neccesitating in lot of pointless detours, waiting around for the ginger preteen to throw you a ladder or rope and hideously tedious rockclimbing instead of any actual platforming.
Little mistake, his name is Aegaeon, not Hecatonchires. Hecatonchires just means "one-hundred hander" and describes a type of giant in Greek myth who were the offspring of Gaia and Ouranous.
They were born after the Cyclopes, who were born after the Titans, Ouranous thought they were all disgusting so he had all of his children imprisoned underground, in his wife.
Kronos later castrated his father Ouranous and freed his fellow Titans, but he told all the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires to go fuck themselves and left them in their underground prison.
So when Zeus made plans to overthrow Kronos; all of the cyclopes and hecatonchires sided with him, except for Aegaeon, who inexplicably decided to side against Zeus in the Titanomachy, the war where he prevailed as King of Olympus, he was the only Hecatonchires to do so, which is why the Furies tortured and imprisoned him.
For anyone interested, God of War 3 Remastered on ps4 is 10 bucks, if you didn't claim it for free back in 2018. I do wish this game got more recognition, but I think after how amazing 3 was, it's understandable. I did play the multiplayer back when it was still kicking, was pretty fun.
Thought this game wasn't all that great from what I've heard people say way back when, but I'm glad this video proves those thoughts wrong! I'll be sure to pick this game up before they eventually close the PSN store on PS3
Ah Ascension... it was the best looking GoW game before IV came out. That was it. All I got besides that one thing was a mediocre story, lackluster villains, nerfed Blades of Chaos, weakest rage ability to date, lack of new weapons, generic magic attacks, and a depressed Kratos. Those elements made me regret my purchase of Ascension very quickly and I was happy to part with the entry then return to play Chains of Olympus again.
This Game is a personal favorite. Thank you for covering it 👍🤙
Seriously, first I discover your Jak and Daxter Analysis, then I find that whole series of Ratchet and Clank, then the Devil May Cry 5 review, AND NOW THIS! when you add the Sly Trilogy Retrospective from B-Mask, you both have covered my entire childhood!
Here is my dream God of War game and its very non-conventional.
I want a game that takes place during Kratos' years as an army General for the Spartans. You command large armies in a simplified RTS. However, like in Brutal Legend, you can personally jump into combat at any given time, lending your aide and your powers. Enemy generals can do the same (like the barbarian king with his awesome hammer you see in god of war 2). The combat here will be zoomed in and it controls like the old god of war games, hack and slash/dynasty warriors esque. You can turn the tide of that one battle, but you lose overview of the rest of the battle and sacrifice micro management of the rest of your troops.
Throw in magic you unlock throughout the game as the gods bless you more, and mythical creatures you encounter in harder late game armies, as well as the ability to recruit your own creatures.
The story follows to where Kratos gain ares blessing and he gains the blades, and after that point you start doing more and more horrific campaigns in servitude to ares. Eventually killing your own family.
This will allow us to actually feel Kratos pain more directly, because so far all the tragedies are always in the past and references. Ascension uses flashbacks etc, but I never felt any of the game really made us 100% sympathize and feel his pain. A game like this could do it.
3 and Ascension's visuals are gonna age better than reboot. Reboot still looks good but by the end of the current gen of consoles it's only gonna look ok.
When Gow ascension came out I remember having a ton of fun playing multiplayer, I played it every day for a couple of months.
Would love a video about the Prince of Persia SoT trilogy
1:25 Kid Icarus: Uprising wants a word with you
extremely underrated game. To this day i am not quite sure why it got a bad reception at the time, while I can totally see it being inferior to GOW3, its unarguably still a very good game.
Just discovered your channel and been on a binge ever since. Your love for the first ratchet and clank game is very like mine haha, one of my favorite game series i've played and literally the first game I ever played was onimusha warlords. I saw you did a review on it 6 years ago and I was wondering if you were willing to cover the other ones? It's some of the best games i've ever played. Bit dark souls like but story, setting, weapons. It"s all so fantastic!
Sometimes I go back just to play the I lntro of this game
The virgins DmC and Metal Gear Rising vs. The chad God of War: Ascension
This section where you talked about Ragnarok being more like the originals has aged poorly
I’m from 2022 nothing has changed much it’s more of the same but more boring this time
Been waiting on this one since the tease back with the DmC/Revengeance review.
i kinda felt that Ascencion was kinda of a wasted oportunity ,insteady of showing how Kratos escaped from Ares control, would be interresting playing as General Kratos,with him a little bit before his defeat and the pact with Ares(could be a way to introduce the mecanic of taking diferent weapons from the ground),and later having Sparta as a hubworld were you would take missions in the name of Ares, they could even mixed little bit of musou there(another better oportunity to introduce the multiplayer), ending with him killing his own family and discovering that missions were leading to plan of Ares taking over Olimpus,and Kratos messing up his plans and freeing himself from Ares servitude.....
I think with a few tweaks to its mechanics this game really could have been one of the best combat systems ever created. The way they implemented the rage mode and secondary weapons are honestly brilliant. But with that said there are shitty cooldown based items, that do the work for you, and the square square triange combo is more exploitable than ever, thanks to the rage mode where it gets a big explosion effect. Also some of the enemy designs like the brutes with their ground tracking attack can just go, and the bosses are still pretty horrible... A little bit of balancing and some intresting items could have gone a long way, in making Ascension into a classic.
Also the counterattack is much better then in the older games, but it really needed a little bit of nerfing. I mean...It's just waaaay too powerful....
Im with you i also prefer the old style of combat of god of war than the new one
I specifically remember playing this game from start to finish in a single night. I rented it from Redbox and honestly enjoyed it. I didn’t care about the story or anything but I did like the combat, it was fun.
I played this game after I finished the new God Of Bore for the ps4, it was like eating steak after being fed lettuce for days lol, very satisfying.
God the combat was so good in god of war 3. The 2018 god of war really was only a success for me in terms of the presentation and story, but the combat was such a step down from the previous games in the series. And because of that I have yet to play that game a second time and only watch the cutscenes on TH-cam. Whereas God of War 3 is a game that I play at least once a year. Best in the series imo
The only gripe I had with this game was Kratos being difficult to see when the camera zoomed out a bit during combat. In terms of gameplay, this was my favourite GoW title. I've also wondered why this GoW title doesn't have a PS4 remaster. I know it wouldn't sell much but I'd definitely appreciate it..
Yeah, they could've easily bundled it with the God of War III remaster for PS4. Two solid games for the price of one, easy money.
Yeah, I don't know. I only played it once, but the game didn't really stand out to me that much. I appreciate Kratos being more human, but for the most part, it just felt kind of paint by numbers to me. I also remember the camera pulling waaaay too far out at times which made the meter reset on damage feel more frustrating. The meter reset, plus temporary weapon pickups also reminded me of Bayonetta, which made me wonder why I wasn't playing that instead.
I just replayed this like two months ago too. I think it’s kinda slept on and I wish they would bring the multiplayer back.
I actually liked this game way more than 3. I just liked everything about it more.
This video rocks! I would have liked it though if you had mentioned that this was the sixth game with this formula and people just got tired of it. Which is the reason that Sont went for a soft reboot, a clean slate, gameplay and story wise with the much revered Kratos still intact.
i really like the gore in old god of war games,all i remember about the new one are these really tame looking wounds and orange blood. Like one is ripping through actual flesh and other is Gatorade.
"This video contains spoilers for the Greek mythology"
I really loved this game, thought t was very underrated at the time. This video was a treat!
Way better review than the Completionist
Just got the platinum trophy tonight. Enjoyed the game, hard mode wasn't difficult. Worth the $10 from the ps3 store.
how did you get past the trial of Archimedes man, I'm currently stuck there.
Ascension game mechanics was peak.
still way better than 2018
This is like a slap to the people who loved the 2018 GOW cos "Kratos was never deep in the original games" and I remembered how I nearly cry playing Ghost of Sparta. While 3, for me, had the weakest stories across the franchise, GOW have always had engaging stories and each games open up quite a number of layer to Kratos. In the words of a guy on youtube whom I cant remember the video of, Kratos have always been deep, you cowards!!
Finally someone else who loves this game this game is too overlooked by the fanbase
Can't wait to watch your video on this game that I have conflicting emotions for. Also your channel makes videos that I care about more than almost every other channel, so thanks for that.
It's interesting how less harsh and more understanding towards God of War 4 Gaming Brit is compared to the review video he made of it when the game first came out. I understand that the game is still not for him, but I like that he is trying to understand the game on it's own merits and intentions and even find some value in it, even if the experience is ultimately not his cup of tea. I'm curious as to what caused him to change his attitude a bit, but regardless it's a great and nuanced approach to games criticism. Good job sir.
Probably just calmed down now that the media frenzy of people beating on the classics to prop up the new one has died down, it's one thing to like or even prefer the new one but it's another to tear down what came before to prop it up and that is what I think rubbed fans of the classics the wrong way more than anything else. The media and even the studio joining in on dumping on the classics didn't help either. You can see similar cycles happen whenever a series gets a major reinvention for better or worse, it always splits the fanbase and starting another flame war.
IDK why people complain about this game. Its good. Only complaint i have is the changed combat:
1. with combos being locked behind rage meter that can be all lost upon one hit.
2. Elemental powers dont really matter except the ULT
3. Pickupable weapons, well... Never really used them so idk? Mabye usseles
BUT i have to say that new Chain grab and those two items that slow time and spawn a kratoses phantom are soooooo good and can, by itself almost make up for all these 3 things listed, almost, still good game i would recommend
that mace weapon stuns brutes and you can pretty much cheese them with it but yeah, apart from the shield, the other weapons are kinda useless. and the "spartan kick" is a pretty useless move as well.
I've always had a huge soft spot for this game. It's scale is amazing and the combat was so nice and refreshing from the other god of war games.
It's a real shame that a lot of people disliked it or pushed it aside
I really hope they end up showing at least a little of the old Greek Kratos in Greece to show he how he escaped it all. But my expectations are extremely low. I think it will be just Dad of War 1.5. Let’s hope for decent boss fights and the return of the Blade of Olympus.
All my favorite video essay you tubers just wake up from the grave in May? Feel like every one is dropping suddenly! I love it! We got a summoning salt video too!
I feel like I very much dismissed Ascension back in 2013 - for some reason I found it instantly forgettable after I beat it, call it franchise burnout maybe - but this has me tempted to go back to checking it out.
Always a great time when you upload man! Notifs are on!
I was never into GoW and didn't care for Kratos, but recently chose to get the two PS3 GoW's just because I love hack & slash games.
GoW 3 is best imo
Great games, yet I find sad how much was lost on the 2018 one.
Gow 2 is the best.
I really enjoyed Ascension throughout my first play-through but after I beat it on Hard then moved too Titan Mode I did think that the combat wasn't very consistent and when any main bosses or mini-bosses did any sort of attack at all would one hit you and the enemies throughout the whole game had way too much health and it felt like your blades did no damage or on the hardest difficulty everything was too damn expensive to be practical like for 80% of the game your only using the Ares Flame Element because the other ones were too expensive for red orbs and you have too save those orbs for The Blades Of Chaos too the last 2 upgrades combined is 85k orbs then upgrading your Items such as The Clone of Orkos abilitie and your amulet combined they are 10k so thats 95k orbs combined and the elements add even more The Ares one costs 8k total too fully max out and is genuinely the best one while the Hades and Zeus ones are good they are too much for practicality and overall the game is buggy like on my Play-Through of Titan I had become Softlocked and was unable too progress and that kind of killed it for me.
It would have been cool if they’d saved the GoW 2018 prequel story for a game that goes back to the original gameplay style, or something akin to it that bridges that gap. Given the size and vagueness of the gap with relation to 2018 it was really ripe for that kind of presentation.
The multi-player was awesome though. Love the different types of weapon used.
Yo brit a lot of new action games are coming out like lost soul aside, black myth wukong, ff16,ninja gaiden collection, bayo 3 (probably) why don't you make a video taking about the upcoming action games would love to hear your opinions
Why don't you add music to your video backgrounds anymore? I miss it
Thanks dude my first video and I loved it could never get a ps3 and after years I finally got one in good condition, can't wait to experience the full story of Kratos. Finished everyone even the psp versions. But 3 and ascension. Thank you for the all work.