“Who knew hell could be so beautiful”

I understand why 5 years ago this game was cool. It's bloody, violent, and has some nudity in it; a 13 year old's greatest dream come true. I'm sure 13 year old me would have loved this, coming at a time before I played games with amazing stories and voice acting like The Last of Us, Gone Home, and Spec Ops: The Line. I'll give it to God of War 3 Remastered though, it is quite beautiful and very nice to look at, so that makes playing for me a little easier, because you have these amazing back drops and colossal boss battles that are amazing to me could have even run on PS3, even at a lower graphical level. I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong if you enjoy God of War, more power to you, it unfortunately is not a game for my new preferences as I mature as a gamer.

The main thing I think GoW3 suffers is the killer that is nostalgia hype. As gamers grow older, they sometimes remember games more fondly than they should, because it was a game at the right place and right time in their life. For example, battletoads was one of my favorite games growing up, my brother showed me how to emulate it on a computer and I played the hell out of it. With the announce of the rare replay pack I thought "Yes now is the perfect time to go back and play the game that was my childhood". Long story short, I came to the conclusion that Battletoads was not nearly as good as I fondly remembered it; in fact, it's pretty awful, and I wish I never went back to play it. Now all those amazing memories I had as a kid are tainted with the fact that it's not as good of a game as I remember it to be. I'll always have those great memories and I will cherish them for a lifetime, but I could never recommend the game I once loved, for I know how it truly is now.