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To me, the God of War series is best described as "large angry man fucks shit up" and to be played as such. I won't hold up the games as shining exemplars of the medium, but I have enjoyed them the same way one would watch trashy 80's drive-in fodder. Accept that it has no redeeming value, keep your expectations low and have fun brutalizing mythical creatures. Just remember to turn your brain back on when you're done.

.Stop focusing on story. Focus on gameplay. We live in a world where Americans and Brits think TLOU is better than Super Mario 3D World. That's obviously not true.

Sad they closed doors.

Galgun was a very creative take on a genre that is stuck in limbo with only Time Crisis barely pushing it to relevancy.

Paiprince wrote:

Sad they closed doors.

While this is bad news for them, it's important to remember that filing for bankruptcy is not the same as shutting down or going out of business. It basically means that they owe more debt than they can pay right now, and they are asking the legal system to grant them a reprieve from paying the debts they owe while they try to get more money.

Um, if memory serves me right, last few Time Crisis games were critical and commercial failures. I think it's fair to say that HotD: Overkill was the last game in the genre which received enough attention from critics and audience alike, they even released Typing of the Dead, probably most creative take on genre in existence.

Who said anything about critical and commercial failures?

The overall concept of shooting zombies back to dead in rail shooters has been done to death. Gal Gun's schtick is to shoot your targets to love you.

Man there's so much that the game companies COULD DO. I mean where's the best Castlevania game? Always on the handhelds.

Paiprince wrote:

Who said anything about critical and commercial failures?

Well, you said Time Crisis makes genre relevant, I'm just pointing out to the fact that Time Crisis itself was hardly relevant in the course of the whole generation. Overkill was the last release to gain any positive attention. There's also underappreciated Disaster: Day of Crisis, but it's garnered rather mixed reception.

Actually, Wii had quite a few rail gun/light gun games. Umbrella Chronicles, Darkside Chronicles and DS: Extraction come to mind.

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The overall concept of shooting zombies back to dead in rail shooters has been done to death. Gal Gun's schtick is to shoot your targets to love you.

You don't shoot anyone in Typing of the Dead and this is what makes this take on the genre so unique.

Regarding the God of War series: Kratos isn't *supposed* to be likeable. He's *supposed* to be a total jerk. If you look at what most of the Greek "heroes" were like (and there are notable exceptions), they were total asshats.