First Impressions
1. Not much is different from the brief glimpse of what I saw. This can be both good and bad.
1a. The Bad: It's not an entirely different game and a lot of it looks similar, so far. More brutal combat, more epic boss fights, more great cinematography and choreography.
1b. The Good: It's not an entirely different game and a lot of it looks similar, so far. More brutal combat, more epic boss fights, more great cinematography and choreography.
2. A little easy if you've played GoW. That may be because of the storyline (no spoilers), so the difficulty likely changes dramatically after the first event.
3. This one is basically for Kennatsu and all other freaks. In the options menu, there are alternate costumes with various descriptions (no depictions), one of which reads as follows: "Why be a god of war...when you can be a goddess?"
Basically, if you liked the first one, you'll like this one...a lot. If you're expecting an entirely new and stunningly different game, be disappointed.
This is all based off the demo disc, though. Go reserve your copy today and we'll talk about it in this thread on Wednesday, when it comes out.
To hell with the Chaos Blades, gimme the fuck-off big claymore.
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Verily, Greenlit doth proclaim:
Any word on the Artemis Blade?To hell with the Chaos Blades, gimme the fuck-off big claymore.
At the start of the demo, I had the Blades of Athena (Chaos Blades) and Poseiden's Rage, both maxed out.
If the previews are trusted, though, the Artemis Blade is replaced by a huge fucking hammer. Mr. Parcelan fucked around with this message on 03-13-2007 at 12:52 AM.
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Greenlit's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Any word on the Artemis Blade?To hell with the Chaos Blades, gimme the fuck-off big claymore.
There are four weapons this time around. The Blades of Athena, the Barbarian Hammer (giant two handed hammer), the Spear of Destiny, and the Sword of Olympus (giant two handed sword).
I never owned the first GoW, but I did play it back when Timpo and I were roomies. Good stuff! I shall be picking this up, yes indeed.
1. The first boss fight is fucking EPIC, spanning an entire farking city.
2. Zeus is a dick.
3. Air battles with Pegasus. Fuck yes.
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So quoth Mr. Parcelan:
3. Air battles with Pegasus. Fuck yes.
Somehow, I think God of War's version of this might be a little more epic than Kingdom Hearts' was. 
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Mr. Gainsborough enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Somehow, I think God of War's version of this might be a little more epic than Kingdom Hearts' was.
GET ON THE HYDRAS BACK
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Mr. Parcelan wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
GET ON THE HYDRAS BACK
You have to admit that it was pretty damn cool and not exactly expected when you first played it though. 
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about John Romero:
You have to admit that it was pretty damn cool and not exactly expected when you first played it though.
I had fun with KH2's cinematic battles, which were a far cry from the regular smack-smack-smack-smack battles.
I stopped playing because, unlike KH1, there didn't seem to be any driving force for the story. It was all just "hey let's go from place to place killing heartless and doing nothing about anything else oh look finny fun"
Gay
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
I would buy God of War 2 if it had a Little Mermaid rhythm game in it.
It does!
But by rhythm game, I mean you grab some big puffin-man off of a cyclops and then pull the cyclops' eye out.
Speaking of which, was there any kind of armored, horned creature with bird-like legs in Greek Mythology?
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Delidgamond has sealed the pact
Chimera?
Chimera is a cross between a lion, a goat and a snake, you faggot.
Vorago fucked around with this message on 03-15-2007 at 02:28 AM.
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Vorago got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
It made me happy that they snuck the "Kratos has sex with two topless women at once" minigame in there, just wouldn't be God of War without one... just seems odd that they have it in the MIDDLE of the epic colossus fight though, heh
I missed it again! Damn it!
Anyway, there are a few references to GoW in it. Wait until you fight the Barbarian King.
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Greenlit painfully thought these words up:
Stymphalian birds are the only things I can think of, Parce, but they were kinda small.
I have fought them already...they...uh...they blow up.
Most Epic: Colossus
Lamest: Perseus
Freakiest: Euryale
Best Death: Theseus
Second Freakiest: Icarus
There are two floor switches, one opens a gate halfway, the other one fully opens the gate.
There's a body to keep one of them down, the only problem is the one I need to keep down is blocked off by some spikes that I can jump over but I can't bring the body over it.
There's a save point on the other side, how the fuck do I get past this room?
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Willias's fortune cookie read:
drop the body in the water and run over to the switch that is blockaded by the spikes
thanks i cannot believe i couldn't figure that out
Of course, half an hour of that was at 2:30 in the AM, but whatev.
Shit, he's a bitch.
e: ok nm dog taken care of Gadani fucked around with this message on 03-17-2007 at 01:00 AM.
Wait for the Chamber of the Phoenix. It will make you want to die.
FUCKING BEES
She was a real bitch, I almost died like 5 times.
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Willias's account was hax0red to write:
The one that made me want to die was the one with the rotating doors and the spikes shooting out of the floor.FUCKING BEES
That one was tough, too, but not so bad since you could just O-grab the bees.
I think my favorite part of the game was everything revolving around the Steeds of Time. While when you first see em, you're pretty much looking at gigantic horse asses, it's still awesome because they're that freakin' huge.
Oh, and which of the two extra weapons do you guys like the most? (Not counting Athena's Blades because they're pretty much standard fare for the game. You're more than likely going to be using them at some point or another. And not counting the Blade of Olympus, because you don't really get to use it until AFTER you've beaten the game, and then it's a fucking insanely powerful weapon of kickass, and it doesn't make sense to NOT like it.)
Between the spear and the hammer, I preferred the hammer. Mainly because the Triangle + Triangle combo was actually pretty good at tearing shit up fast.
Gadani fucked around with this message on 03-17-2007 at 03:06 AM.
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Gadani said this about your mom:
Just got the shield and put the statue in place, now what the fuck do I do?
Block the 2nd beam of light manually with L1
Edit: The Fleece is the most awesome upgrade in this game. Being able to fire back fireballs, gorgon gazes, and various other energy beams is just. fucking. satisfying. Willias fucked around with this message on 03-17-2007 at 03:33 AM.
