With Sony and Nintendo coming soon can mean up to a year from now. I would bet that they reveal GOW3 at E3.

Well, the fact that it isn't out yet made that tricky.

Dont preach on this blog and I won't THINK in your Church.

What's wrong with the comment system. I was repliing to Rollins.

KrazyKen: yeah sure, whatever you say. Go think elsewhere.

I hope you are just kidding with this Krap you are posting, if you are then Bravo 2 u and you will definently brighten up this blog. If however you are NOT kidding then Gawd help yew sun.

I have to wonder if you live in a cave somewhere, reading nothing but Harry Potter 1, Hardy Boys, and Highlights for Kids.

On the surface, God Of War is a violent game with *gasp* nudity. Do yourself a favor and look at Greek art sometime. If breasts and sex make you that uncomfortable, please continue your decrying of it and for god's sake, never breed.

But when you get beyond the base violence and the sheer "screwed up" nature of Greek Mythology, it's actually quite an engaging story. You have a man who promised himself to Ares just to avoid death and win a battle. He became a tool for Ares (who, according to the mythos... was a sick, sick bastard) and spread death all over ancient greece. Ares forced him to slaughter his family and his sanity snapped. Faced with the harsh reality of his actions, he wanted to take his own life. But the gods, being the sick, twisted bastards they were back then, becided to use his rage and offer up false hopes to end the threat of Ares. He was betrayed in the end because his sins, and his memories of them, remained with him still as he brooded upon his throne. He decides to resume Ares's previous path before the gods once again betray him and he's forced to try and prevent the tragedy of his life ever from occuring.

Fit within the mythology of Ancient Greece, it's actually quite appropriate and despite your protest, does not seem base or pointless at all. The gods of Ancient Greece were evil, petty creatures. After all, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, once was jealous of Psyche, the most beautiful mortal ever because she was stealing attention away from Aphrodite. And so Aphrodite, being the loving bitch that she was, sent her son Eros (known as Cupid nowadays) to force Psyche into falling in love with the ugliest creature on earth.

It's easy to cherry pick mythos. It doesn't make it intelligent or deep. And it certainly is not culture.

I have no problem with sex, in fact I quite like it. Breasts on their own aren't sexual, it's just flesh. That's why I say God of War is basic teenage nudity. There is no sexual desire, no lead up, just tits shoved on the screen. I'm not uncomforatble with it, just don't force it. And especially don't force it because you seek controversy. Which is what I think Jaffe was looking for. That and a reputation as a rulebreaker. When in reality, is a little disappointing.

gold, the Greeks and most other cultures of that time period WORSHIPED the naked body. So Jaffe did the right thing by showing nudity. If it were not for the DOUBLE standard on videogames...he could show full nudity to make it more authentic. Jaffe is forced to tone it down to appease all of the JackThompsons out there on the videogame witch hunt.

Ken, you didn't read what I said. Or you did and you deliberately danced around my point. My point is - I had a point. Oh yeah:

Tits for tits sake is redundant. Just because you can does't make it any better or worse.

"There is no sexual desire, no lead up, just tits shoved on the screen. I'm not uncomforatble with it, just don't force it. And especially don't force it because you seek controversy."

You realize that aspect was paying homage to the high fantasy, barbarian films of the past and even a lot of the pulp fantasy fiction, right? Fuck em and forget em is soo engrained in those styles of stories that it's a bit silly when it isn't even acknowledged. Now, I know the scene are are talking about however... here's the thing. You're attacking an entire series for a scene that lasts about 2 minutes at the most.

Now, if this theme truly was tits for tits sake, I would have a problem with it. However, in most scenes where the breasts are exposed, they rarely are framed in the center. Even with the oracle and sex scene, it centers around their faces or their full bodies. You claim you have no problem with Nudity but your statements here seem fairly prudish. A quick sex scene in a Greece saga makers you THAT uncomfortable?

Now I argue that this decision wasn't tits for tits sake because of one main thing, this partial or full nudity theme was repeated for both male and female gendered characters AND CREATURES. Yes, if you take a good look, the giants in 1&2 both feature male genetalia. Many of the female branded creatures like Medusas and such had no tops either. And as proven by the big Medusa and Clothos, the breasts there were not designed as a flattering scenario. The game, as a whole, pays a HUGE homage to greek art and you'd see that reflected in the character designs and environment.

If you want to see blatant tit games, look at DOA, Guy game, and BMX XXX. the nudity in GOW series may not always be the most respectful, but it certainly did NOT break Mise En Scene as it were. And frankly, we NEED developers to try and push that issue rather than last minute changing the character design like on Giants: Citizen Kabuto (the female lead gained a top last minute rather than sticking with the tarditional Sirens source material they intended). And frankly, I find it ridiculous that a quick flash of a females topside is controversial when any other media does much worse.

It makes me wonder what games you play if you have such a strong hatred for God of war and are against all forms of violence, maybe you should play something like:

Harvest Moon or Tetris, they have no violence, perfect for you.

Lads, ignore this tool. He flips his username around and traditionally trolled Nintendo-related subjects

Just because he switched to attacking Sony doesn't mean he deserves any more attention.

God of War is towards fratboys? I don't think I know any fratboys willing to sit down and play a game as long as God of War when they can have a good ol' fashion man hour with some other beastly chums in Halo.

I agree with this statement when you think about it what more can they add into the gameplay? The PSP is a nice game but it does nothing to break new grounds. Yeah I know alot of people say well it was a break thru just making it on the PSP but how is just rehashing the same game on a smaller screen with more painful control layout be any better. If you ask me this game should have just not come out on the PSP and just been a downloadable game on PSN. That would have been great.j

Lol, theres more nerdy teenagers playing Halo 3 and going on about who they OWNED PWNED and beat.

The game that got me to buy a PS3 was Shadow of the Colossus 2.

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It IS coming sometime, right SCEI? Right??!!

Sim City, GTA, HALO, Call of Duty, and The Sims.

Not in that order.

Wait...So GTA made the list and this doesn't?

And violence and sex being some of your points for disliking GoW?

And Halo made the list? But GoW's plot is...

Okie doke. I figured your list would be something like that.

You win. LMAO.

Those are all Krap...KRAP I tell you. Now, if you want a REAL game, just play any Mario game. All Mario games are the best and everything else, ESPECIALLY those games you picked are MEGA Krap.
Your fired.

There's no violence in GTA. And sex is only there if you seek it out. Halo has a redundant plot, I don't praise it. The games I've listed are the best in their various genres. My list of games/franchises are guranteed to be better than anybody elses.

Ken,

you can't fire me, I quit.

Mario or bust

You've got to be joking.

Guess I've been punk'd.

Ahhh, woe is me.

I only tell the truth: the last good Mario game was Mario 3 on the Nes. 15 or so years ago. Every subsequent game smells of suck.

Try again, Ken.

Hahaha... what a dumbass. You knock on GoW for the violence and nudity, yet you list GTA as one of your favorite games? What a joke. Personally, I love both GoW and GTA, but you're just being a hypocrite.

And you didn't like Super Mario Word? Your opinion on games is now officially worthless.

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Unfotunately, Ken, the Joystiq commenting system really is borked. Even if it does say "replying to [inser name here]" above the comment field, it doesn't always work. And there's the occasional multi-post that occurs even from just clicking the submit button once.

I noticed that too. I don't remember if I've ever had a comment get mixed up, and I'm too lazy to go back into my history to check. But yeah, I look for that "replying to" notice every time I comment.

Still, sometimes those out-of-place comments are hilarious!

It is sort of weird when I see all of the complaints about the reply system. There must be something wrong, as I see so many incorrectly posted answers, etc., so I don't think it's human error.

Maybe it's the browser. I use Safari on OSX and I have never had a reply go AWOL, except for a few times where I committed an error and replied to the wrong person by starting a reply then clicking on another 'reply' button.

ALSO... I forgot to mention that I always use the e-mail confirmation option to post here on Joystiq... I don't use the 'current users/password' system. So maybe that helps keep replies from showing up where I don't want them to.

Eyetoy :) Put your face on Kratos, lol