God of War (Good times & Bad times)

To get things started I'll list just one example of each

HARDEST: Beating Challenge 8 in CotG - I had already used RotG earlier and wasn't yet skilled enough to simply r*pe anyway at the time so I spent a lot of time devising new strategies for killing them (the classic use of Lance of the Furies and some slightly less than orthodox moves...Achilles Flip, Ascension, Apollo's Ascension, grappling gorgons to fill RotG meter/get a break in the action/safe kill and finding a use for both Hermes Rush and Hermes Stomp that would aid me throughout the rest of forever).  I quickly learned that being airborne too long was a bad idea.

EASIEST: Challenge 9 in CotG - After the last battle I had learned the Hermes Stomp was an effective way to ground myself quickly and with a hasty evasion (do a barrel roll!) I could attack in the air with little fear of being harmed.  I found Falling Helios to be my favorite among GoWI special BoC moves *it brings Cyclops down...hard*

~More later

HARDEST: Beating the Harpy Conveyor Belt with 2/3 life and 1/4 Magic on a NUR *no update run: all spells/weapons at lvl1...no RotG* with a screaming 5 year old next to me (who was responsible for my not taking proper preventitive measures to safeguard my health/magic in battles previous..I was humiliated time and time again because I also do not save throughout my runs anymore *since I can beat them in one sitting* so retreating back a little ways to right the situation was NOT an option..dieing nearly 50 times I was furious and tossed the little ******* out by this hair *I had already given him my Godzilla toy from years ago (approximately 2 feet tall and 3 feet long) and he wanted MORE!..he wanted the Kratos mask I made of clay to which I promptly warned him of the things that would happen should he even consider threatening any piece of my property with such reckless security* Only 2 tries after eliminating my distractions I defeated them with but a sliver of life to held fast to.

EASIEST: Mashing O mini-games as playing DBGT Final Bout *powerstruggles* and FFVIII *GF summons* much earlier had improved my speed/endurance exponentially higher than before. I could do it with any finger in almost any position with relative ease...if there were any places that required me to actually use some effort I'd put the controller on the ground, hunch over, stabilize the controller with my left hand and mash *depending on how many buttons need be pressed at a time or by what pattern* with my pointer finger *stiffened while using my middle finger and thumb to stabilize it* using tendon/muscle cooperation *rapid contractions almost like vibrations in the inner elbow*

~More later

depends of what diffifulty setting it is on...i played it on hard for the first time and when i got to ares second version it was hard for me but i managed to get threw it pretty quick TriPPZz

I too attempted Spartan mode in the first time. The clone battle was too hard. they would never end and I had no idea the God rage meter went up when huggin the family so there were some painful hours and the ps2 controller never become the same after that fight

HARDEST: Figuring the best tactics for each creature/boss *including the usefulness of spells* depending on the scenario (NUR, God, CotG, etc.).  It was a time consuming process.

EASIEST: Mastering the BoC and creating my own combos *with enough time spent practicing I weeded out the weak form the strong*

HARDEST: the spike pillers in Hades no explanation needed

EASIEST: fighting the first stage of the Ares battle before you fought the clones all you had to do was dodge and attack and i'm talking about easy mode just so you know creeper

HARDEST: the spike pillers in Hades no explanation needed

EASIEST: fighting the first stage of the Ares battle before you fought the clones all you had to do was dodge and attack and i'm talking about easy mode just so you know creeper

Qwark678

Trust me Qwark...I knew (lulz)

HARDEST: Parting with the game *until my brother in law manages to defeat the Clones* 

EASIEST:  Enjoying a nice relaxing stroll of death through God Mode

HARDEST: Finding a forum/union/group worthy of my devotion/obsession

EASIEST: Finding the exit by Amphitrite *saw it in a preview video long before release*

~There isn't a whole lot of other things for me to talk about in this topic...

Hardest: where you have to push that guy in that cage up the hill to sacrifice him into that fire and those hard ass guys attacking you (sorry i cant explain better because i dont know how they called thats also in Pandora's Temple )

Easy: the Hydra battle

This was on HARD mode

BAD: spike pillers

GOOD: beating the game on god mode

Finding the Desert Sirins seems to be nearly as unpopular as the Hades' Blade Pillars..

~Hopefully things like that will be avoided aswell *or tweaked to make them more enjoyable*

Did any of you KNOW why the Hades' Blade Pillars were such a disaster?..They were last minute add-ons that didn't get play tested as much as everything else (Barlog noted that mistake and has made the claim that this will not happen again..everything will be tested)

Finding the Desert Sirins seems to be nearly as unpopular as the Hades' Blade Pillars..

~Hopefully things like that will be avoided aswell *or tweaked to make them more enjoyable*

Did any of you KNOW why the Hades' Blade Pillars were such a disaster?..They were last minute add-ons that didn't get play tested as much as everything else (Barlog noted that mistake and has made the claim that this will not happen again..everything will be tested)

the-creeper

Weird isn't always a bad thing...

I didn't enjoy the Pillars at first becuase I had to watch my friend Zack (his turn) get massacred then then I got my chance and had to suffer a similiar fate...I overcame them afte settling down and looking for patterns. 

~Ever since the have been enjoyable BECUASE I can get pass them and hand the control off to someone else and watch them suffer (that is what life is all about)

Ever since the have been enjoyable BECUASE I can get pass them and hand the control off to someone else and watch them suffer (that is what life is all about)the-creeper

Precisely...

~Tomorrow I'm calling my brother-in-law...he is to give me a status report on WHERE he is in God Mode and an approximation of how long it will take him to complete it...I have waited FAR too long already..1 MONTH...

The suffering of others really does enhance the experience doesn't it.. *no question mark because it WASN'T a question...it was a stated fact*

~I think the most fun I've had in GoW was when I coached my cousin/best friend Elliott through the God Mode Ares Fight (ALL OF IT)...we laughed for hours at his folly and the difference between each others skill in the game.  After dieing about the 30th time he said in Kratos' voice "It smells down here" *about all the previous dead Kratos bodies mounting at the bottom of the cliff in the Aegean*...

This struck me as hilarious for some reason and for a while I just let him gooph around getting killed seeminly w/o progress...until around the 50th death when I started to get serious again...He didn't have many problems killing the Clones since he stayed faithful to my strategy which lucky for him DIDN'T involve the mastering of the parry (Hades' Revenge)..

His joke for the cutscene here (where the Clones gang rape Kratos) was:

Clone1: "I want his shoes!"

Clone2: "I want his skirt!"

Clone3: "I want his SKIN!!"

(all clones look at #3)

Clone1: "Let's Get him!"

(They all jump #3)

---I found that to be hilarious as well

Hardest: Fighting Ares on the second round

Easiest: Fighting the Hydras

Exactly! :lol:

My mate Will tried to scale the first pillar about fifteen times, couldn't even get halfway. Then he passed the controler to me, and I breezed through them in a shot. Good times.
Zenodoros

The suffering of others really does enhance the experience doesn't it.. *no question mark because it WASN'T a question...it was a stated fact*

~I think the most fun I've had in GoW was when I coached my cousin/best friend Elliott through the God Mode Ares Fight (ALL OF IT)...we laughed for hours at his folly and the difference between each others skill in the game.  After dieing about the 30th time he said in Kratos' voice "It smells down here" *about all the previous dead Kratos bodies mounting at the bottom of the cliff in the Aegean*...

This struck me as hilarious for some reason and for a while I just let him gooph around getting killed seeminly w/o progress...until around the 50th death when I started to get serious again...He didn't have many problems killing the Clones since he stayed faithful to my strategy which lucky for him DIDN'T involve the mastering of the parry (Hades' Revenge)..

His joke for the cutscene here (where the Clones gang rape Kratos) was:

Clone1: "I want his shoes!"

Clone2: "I want his skirt!"

Clone3: "I want his SKIN!!"

(all clones look at #3)

Clone1: "Let's Get him!"

(They all jump #3)

---I found that to be hilarious as well

the-creeper

Hardest - Minotaur (I suck at rotating analog sticks)
Easiest - Ares on the 2nd round (everytime I hit him I got health so I finished him off rather quickly)
arikkot

i am playing easy, u guess correct!  Now i started playing spartan and god at the same time although i am much farther into spartan.  So far up to the hydra god mode wasa not so hard but the Athens level is a killer.  In Spartan I can't get past the part where you must fight a cyclop and wraiths at the same time and then another cyclop.  That part's impossible, ive tried everything and it doesnt work.  I FEEL LIKE SUCH A NOOB!:cry::cry::cry:arikkot

I would suggest videos that were made IN God Mode (speeddemosarchive.com)...Check the Ultimate Index (As a God Mode master I can assure you ballofsnow is no novice).

~strategies from lesser difficulties are often worthless

well that's on easy, u should at least see spartanevanescfan

Spartan is for the weak and unskilled..I shall not speak further on lesser difficulties.

~GodModeGOD

will u cut out the "king of god mode" thingy, i beated godmode too u know, and i said "at least see spartan" i'm not gonna suggest him to jump from easy to god mode!!evanescfan

Congratulations on failing to properly quote my title.

~"GOD of God Mode"..GodModeGOD  (last time I checked..God/gods were not to be compared to meer kings unless you meant to say God King *that would be excessive though..even for me* )

---I've covered this once before..but that was long before you joined so I'll repeat myself knowingly..I jumped from Easy to God Mode *not that big of a deal* and beating Spartan isn't even worth playing over for (That would be like playing through Easy-Very Hard on DMC3:SE and never aspiring to beat DMD..a waste of time).

Beating God Mode once is meerly to survive it (survivor)..to do it well is to be a veteran..to beat it in access of 3 times or get to the clones in a God Mode NUR is equivalent to being a master *this is where I rank*  To have met both conditions for "master" is to be a "god".  Few here other than myself have done this or have the scope of game experience that I have had with GoW (CotG included) which helps to support my self-recognition.  You could say that this fits my lifestyle (making it a topic with immunity according to curlfro*) but that would be silly (though true).

---I just happened to like the name (has good balance to it and suits a troll) more than the one I'm stuck with here on GameSpot..at IGN I'm BigVEE but I got to use my favored name at the Sony boards (unfortunately that board is of the lowest quality between the three)

bigvee....hey are u that guy "bigvee" in youtube?evanescfan

Congratulations..you can connect the dots (I'd love to give you a YTMND style prize but GS frowns on trojan linking)

~BigVEE is GodModeGOD (Joshua Ventimiglia *difficult to say* turned "V"..last name is long so "Big"..nickname originated almost 10 years ago)

---Was there something you wanted to share with BigVEE?

what, u mean good times and bad times in the game?evanescfan

Elaborate.

~You've left your question too open to interpretation for me to give a direct answer

[QUOTE="evanescfan"]what, u mean good times and bad times in the game?the-creeper

Elaborate.

~You've left your question too open to interpretation for me to give a direct answer

It was interesting the first time through (and even more so ON PAPER)..but it isn't quite "up to par" (like Hades' infamous vertical blades..it should have received more playtesting).

~Here is an article on some old GoW questions:

-GoW could have been set-up like Dark Messiah (PC game)

-Why the game was made so easy and how "God Mode" is just 'Normal' (to me at least)

-Why the game was shortened

-Some history on the 'quality titles' that the GoW team worked on before THE GAME

-An explanation of the "seeds" (possible story arcs that may or may not be used in the games)

Another Article:

-Jaffe's (and by extension the team's) view on GoW bosses (not comprehensive)

-Jaffe's view on puzzle use

-Why the Cyclops P-NES had to be "removed" (this always makes me lol)

-A 'greek character' was made mention of (dropped) *I had no previous knowledge of this*

-Why content got cut and what it was (harpy boss, etc)

---I'll leave you in the hopes that you will all consider reading these articles at the very least