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Topic	Exdeath Plays Every Game in the GotD 2020 Contest Part 2 (ft FO:NV, Ghost Trick)
Evillordexdeath 12/30/20 12:51:27 AM #68:	I wonder if these types of action games shouldn't just work like 2D fighting games, where it's just battle after battle with no exploration or puzzles in between, because everything outside of the combat always feels like such an afterthought. God of War II does have one cool thing going where a lot of the areas are interconnected. You'll go through one section and seamlessly come out in an area you visited before with a new power-up that lets you access a previously-locked area from there, like in a Metroidvania. It's sort of neat when it happens, but not really utilized by a game with few optional areas and no real reason to revisit old areas. When something new is unlocked by a power-up, it's always related to the critical path, at least as far as I found. The less said about the climbing combat the better, and the puzzles just kind of suck. I was so sick of pushing blocks (or corpses) onto switches to weigh them down by the time I was done with this damn game. And God help you when they try to combine the puzzles and the combat. It's a short list of things that are more obnoxious than slowly pushing a statue (to weigh down a switch, of course) while infinitely-spawning enemies harrass you. I also found that it was sometimes bad at explaining what the individual elements of its puzzles do. I remember one area where you have to quickly turn a crank to open a door before spikes come up from the floor and kill you, but because the door is so far in the background I couldn't tell what the crank was actually doing. Fundamentally, I think the puzzles just lack creativity, and then there are a couple areas that can just fuck off. There came a point, though, where as much as I disliked the puzzles I felt even more fatigued when they wheeled out the combat instead. It's inevitable that a project like this will sometimes feel like a chore, and God of War II is a game I would've dropped if I wasn't playing it for this. I'm not sure I'm even willing to start God of War III. Apart from some of the graphics being pretty, I didn't like anything about this game. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 13/129 Currently Playing: Call of Duty: Black Ops <cite>Evillordexdeath posted [p:948905391] in Exdeath Pl... [t:79138705]...</cite> <quote>I wonder if these types of action games shouldn't just work like 2D fighting games, where it's just battle after battle with no exploration or puzzles in between, because everything outside of the combat always feels like such an afterthought. God of War II does have one cool thing going where a lot of the areas are interconnected. You'll go through one section and seamlessly come out in an area you visited before with a new power-up that lets you access a previously-locked area from there, like in a Metroidvania. It's sort of neat when it happens, but not really utilized by a game with few optional areas and no real reason to revisit old areas. When something new is unlocked by a power-up, it's always related to the critical path, at least as far as I found. The less said about the climbing combat the better, and the puzzles just kind of suck. I was so sick of pushing blocks (or corpses) onto switches to weigh them down by the time I was done with this damn game. And God help you when they try to combine the puzzles and the combat. It's a short list of things that are more obnoxious than slowly pushing a statue (to weigh down a switch, of course) while infinitely-spawning enemies harrass you. I also found that it was sometimes bad at explaining what the individual elements of its puzzles do. I remember one area where you have to quickly turn a crank to open a door before spikes come up from the floor and kill you, but because the door is so far in the background I couldn't tell what the crank was actually doing. Fundamentally, I think the puzzles just lack creativity, and then there are a couple areas that can just fuck off. There came a point, though, where as much as I disliked the puzzles I felt even more fatigued when they wheeled out the combat instead. It's inevitable that a project like this will sometimes feel like a chore, and God of War II is a game I would've dropped if I wasn't playing it for this. I'm not sure I'm even willing to start God of War III. Apart from some of the graphics being pretty, I didn't like anything about this game. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 13/129 Currently Playing: Call of Duty: Black Ops</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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