God of War Collection players complain of freezing issues

by David Hinkle on Nov 20th 2009 12:01PM

Some folks over on the official PlayStation Forums allege to be having trouble playing God of War Collection. Several users are complaining that the game has been locking up on them, specifically after God of War's first cutscene and during the first mission. Most of the people who claim to be running into this freezing issue are running the game on 60GB launch PS3s, though a few PS3 Slim owners have also jumped into the threads to report the game is locking up on them, too.

Additionally, commenters on PlayStation.Blog have reported the same problem and specifically implicate 60GB PS3s. While we didn't experience such issues playing the final game code on a debug PS3 unit, we've contacted Sony for comment on this report and will update as necessary.

God of War Collection

[Thanks, Scott]

Source - "God of War Collection Freezing Issues" [PlayStation.com Forums]
Source - PlayStation.Blog comments

Tags: god-of-war, god-of-war-2, god-of-war-collection, god-of-war-ii

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"Playstation forums"
"commenters on PlayStation.Blog"

That automatically makes this article invalid

360 fanboys with too much time in their hands

Yeah, I suspect that most of those users are the same guy.
Back during fw 3.0, there were several new users that were saying the same thing on their first posts.

These are the places that we have to compare and report our problems. How do these resources make the article invalid? How else do you think these things are found and reported? That's a very odd post you have made.

FYI - I am waiting on the UPS man to drop mine on the porch. For my sake(having a launch 60GB) I hope it IS just a blog and forum conspiracy.

No, it's not 360 fanboys (I'm sure some of them are), it's just that they are always finding something to bitch about no matter what it is, for right now they are just complaining because they didn't get their precious cross game chat.

The thing is that anyone can create an account on the forum/blog, without a serial number or any proof of console ownership.
A group of dedicated fanboys (or 1 lone avenger) could cause any company to spend time & resources on a nonexistent problem, while discouraging potential customers.
Whatever.

So what are you trying to say? That these problems DON'T exist?

Thank you. Seriously Joystiq, you guys need to stop combing the forums for article ideas. Anytime anything new comes out there is always thread on "XYZ broke my PS3!!!!". That doesn't warrant a story on a reputable blog.

That's the problem, you can't tell if these complaints are legitimate or the work of 360 fanboys.

Also its only a handful of reports, and its the same people on both the forum and the blog........

Protip: Everytime a problem is reported with the PS3, it's just 360 fanboy's making stuff up.

Gotcha!

/ugh

To be fair, the official forums is exactly where the average person would go to complain about an issue. So the problem is almost certainly real. But you always have to keep in mind that those without a problem usually don't post so issues have a way of appearing exaggerated online.

Vidkron, no, the average person wouldn't go on forums and say shit like "FW x.xx bricked my PS3, fire Eric lempell!" They would just contact Sony.

I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist, just that it's most likely a very small minority of users.

I was the first one to complain about the freezing issue on the playstation blog (psn id GreySpot). Not sure why people are accusing me and others of lying. I have never owned an xbox and never intend to. I complained about the batman freezes a couple months ago on the eidos forums, and now that I see it with GoW collection, I'm complaining on the sony site. I've owned my ps3 since launch day and have only seen the problem in these 2 games (though PoP froze twice too). Since it looks like the freezing happens to the launch 60GB model, I decided to return my ps3 (thanks costco :) ), and I'm awaiting my new slim. I hope the problem isn't widespread. At least Sony knows about it and can fix it.

inFamous freezed a couple times on me, and I own a 40GB PS3. It just happens, I guess... :/
I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the hardware differences between PS3s.

You cant always believe things you read on the internet, otherwise i'd be a nigerian millionaire...

Case & Point: npshehab
This is why we can't have nice things on the internet... aside from porn.
New guy's first post is consistent with the theory.

@Prof. Von Manifest

If you're not having the freeze issue, I'm happy for you. It's pretty obvious that this isn't a widespread issue, even among 60GB owners. Not sure why some posters believe this is some conspiracy to put down the PS3. There IS a freezing issue some users are experiencing with GoW. We are bringing it up in hopes of having a fix from Sony. It's not fun buying a game only to find that it doesn't work on your system.

This makes me so angry i wanna pull someone's eye out!!

I blame facebook. Tear their eye out please.

"I HAVE FURY."

Oops, wrong character :P

There's worse places in those games where it could freeze.

Let me get this straight: The console version with full backward compatibility with PS2 titles...is having problems playing ported PS2 titles.

WTF?

Irony is a dish best served, flllllllaming.

Seems so, and yet the irony is that the actual PS2 versions run perfectly on BC-enabled PS3s.

I'm sure they'll fix this soon, I can imagine it sucks the finest of balls.

I read this and started thinking "oh well I'll buy the PS2 version" then I remembered my PS3 doesn't have BC... -_-

Every now and then I think "I wish I had BC".

Then I see the PS2 sitting across the shelf, with Component cables, and I forget about it.

Wasnt aware they made component ps2 cables. Hm.

I got them from someone for a copy of Kung Fu Panda (bought the Lego Indiana Jones/KFP pack at Gamestop for 11 bucks). They do help a good amount.

@R (Planeteers | Power of Penile Pulse)

The fricken' GameCube had component cables (I've got some). I'd be surprised that the PS2 didnt. Even after that "Special Less-Jaggies" hardware revision.

As a matter of fact, the official Sony component cables for the PS2 are the exact same ones as the PS3.

And yeah Bradwart, I'm the same way...I got an 80GB PS3 for its BC, and guess how many PS2 games I played? 2...they were called God of something, and they looked like shit so I stopped trying. I still have a PS2 Skinny in my entertainment center; that's plenty of BC for me.

Hmmm I have a launch 60 gig and have had ZERO problems playing the game. It's working out quite well. Of course there's not going to be much play time on it since AC2 is eating up all my time and attention! LOL

"Most of the people who claim to be running into this freezing issue are running the game on 60GB launch PS3s..."

The ironing is delicious.

The ironing also ironic.

I have a 60gb, so this is worrying as I was going to pick it up this weekend.

You eat irons? That's gotta burn!

Ironing? Meh. I'd rather eat washing.

surely you don't mean Microsoft is a big boy in making hardware. They've taken hardware issues to a whole new level.

I prefer goldy or bronzy to irony.

It's only ironic to people who are too dumb to realize that this is a fully ported game and it doesn't care whether you're console is backwards compatible or not. It probably has more to do with the age of the console than anything else.

Sure, of course the God of War collection isn't working with a certain type of PS3. Just like a certain firmware update bricked MILLIONS of PS3s, right? Sure, sure.

or how about let the banning commence

Let the trolling commence! Oh, wait...

Umm...150 million PS2's and 100 million PS1's would like a word with you.

Sony IS the big boy on the console market. They were just drunk or high or something for the last three years.

I have the 40GB model and haven't ran into any issues.

However there have been reports that the trophy

Boss Batch 3
(For killing the kraken and the sisters)

Is bugged and not popping up for some people when the requirements are fulfilled

Same here, I have a 40gb and I've had no issues yet. I'm looking for pandora's box right now, so far so good. Now playing borderlands last night online with a friend, we did have a glitch with an arena match on the 3rd mission. Everyone was dead but it didn't clear us for the mission, my friend actually had to grenade himself so he'd die and open the doors. Didn't glitch when we did it again though!

You forgot one: ...and making superior gaming hardware. And the other thing you said doesn't make sense. Sony are the big boys.

I'm no Sony fanboy, but one console generation of small mistakes does not a fuck up make. Using that logic both Xboxes are miserable failures and Nintendo hasn't been a "big boy" since the SNES.

I have had zero issues with my launch 60gb - it is running the latest firmware... and I'm well in to both games. Runs great.

same here... joystiq, you seem to fall ever deeper on my blogroll... :-/

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