Arthur Gies from Polygon made a big fuss too and even said he rated the game lower because of the trophy.
However, even if some critics stupidly rated the game lower just because of a bloody trophy that's obviously not the only reason it's the lowest rated God of War game...
If an AAA game can't sell over 1 million copies within it's first month, when it's still full price, then it's not doing well enough.
As far as I know both Killzone 2 & 3 achieved 1m+ within a month with little to no bundling, so obviously it is a well established series that must make a nice little profit for Sony. As long as the series has games that break the 1m barrier that quickly and can sell 2-3m each then there's a future for the series.
You should have The Order 1886 on your radar, it's going to be special.
God of War > Uncharted > Infamous
I got the first Infamous for free, thought it was just ok but would never have bought it. I heard the sequel was much improved so I bought it for less than £10 brand new in early 2012, it plays and looks better but my goodness it's so tedious, still haven't bothered to finish it.
As a franchise I'd call it mediocre, definitely not a system seller as evidenced by the series' low sales of 1-2 million whe...
God of War trilogy, just absolutely magnificent. http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Wow, it's weird seeing an Edge article speaking so positively about God of War, normally their reviews of the games are completely troll worthy, not even exaggerating, 8/10 for GoW1, 7/10 for GoW2 and 8/10 for GoW3 are really far below average when they average 93/94%...
@GameNameFame
Firstly you really should use Metacritic to determine if a game is good or not, however...
Halo games don't average in the mid 80s now, Halo 4 averaged 87.60% on Metacritic, that rounds up to 88% which is high 80s and close to 90% than 85%. If you remove the troll reviews (5.5, 5.5 & 2 out of 10) then it averages 89.18%, very respectable for the studios 1st Halo game.
Look at the Killzone, Resistance & Infamous serie...
@Nicaragua lol! Who the hell told you that only 50 devs worked on TLoU? That's not close to the truth. There's 500 employees at Naughty Dog and two teams, assuming they're equal sized teams then that's 230+ on TLoU and 230+ and the rest form the ICE Team.
Not to mention that Assassin's Creed games are released yearly which totally justifies the 500 strong team, TLoU took 3.5 years to create, 4 AC games released during that time. How are they doing somethi...
I disagree, MGS4 doesn't deserve to be so high, it's shit in my opinion. I genuinely hated it, the first and only MGS game I'll ever play.
Top 5 should be:
God of War III, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock & The Last of Us
In terms of exclusives:
God of War III, The Last of Us, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted 2 & Journey.
God of War: Ascension is disappointing, however, it's still a good game. A solid 8/10 single player & 9/10 multiplayer experience. I would give it a 8.5/10 and say it's one of the best hack 'n slash games on the 7th generation consoles, only God of War III & Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are better.
Cory & Stig are the best, I would say Jaffe too since he's the reason the series even exists and the first GoW is an incredibly good foundation for the series, but his story idea for GoW3 was awful so I wouldn't want to see him direct another one. Since Stig is busy with his new IP I hope Cory directs GoW4.
I hope the PS4 surpasses it, that'd be amazing for the industry!
One of the best games of all time.
Naughty Dog & Guerilla are some of the best in the industry but none compare to Sony Santa Monica for pushing console visuals, seriously look at their games, even with v-sych at 40-50fps with MLAA they blow away the competition.
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E3 2014 for the new IP? Maybe, however has been in development for 3 - 3.5 years, the game must be very far along by now so they'll have something to show and VGX is probably the best time for a reveal due to the huge amount of publicity.
Also a developer from SSM said on twitter last week "hope that we can share news about our new game soon". E3 next year is 7 months away, not really soon but VGX is only around 2 weeks away, let's hope we're not made t...
They already have 200+ people at the studio, it's grown so much since the first GoW which only had like 40 developers work on it.
Team Stig = New IP. Will be announced in 2 weeks at VGX.
Team Cory = GoW 4, will be the biggest evolution to the formula yet, won't be announced for another 1.5 - 2 years.
MK8 = Yes.
3D World & Smash = No.
@pyramidshead God of War doesn't have shallow combat though http://www.youtube.com/watc...
It's accessible, so it's easy for casual players to have fun with and there's depth for the hardcore to pull of some awesome combos.
March
Gears of War: Judgment - 8.0
God of War: Ascension - 7.0
What the actual f**k?! Same critic too, the insufferable prat called Arthur Gies, the most detestable creature to work in the video game industry.
Gears: Judgment averaged 79% by critics so Polygon overrated it.
GoW: Ascension averaged 81% by critics so Polygon underrated it.
This is almost always the case on Polygon when it comes...
Breast physics, another thing Crytek could learn from Sony Santa Monica http://youtu.be/HkPmfsLy5Bk...