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I almost threw my controller at the screen during the pillar puzzle in GOW II. I was stuck at the part where you had to pull the lever and swim through 2 gates before the second one closed on you. Must have taken me about 50-60 tries. I looked at the strategy guide, looked on Gamefaqs.com, looked on Youtube.com and they all made it seem so easy.

Must have been a mental block with me or something.

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Yeah and setting the game to easy mode won't help a bit. I just think it's stupid that you can't progress in the game unless your character is at the exact right angle for a jump or move or you didn't depress the button hard enough. I usually give myself exactly 20 tries, quit and try it again later.

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Agree 100%...

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I'm pretty terrible at QTE generally, but it was even worse with the final boss battle in II. It just didn't seem like the expected reaction time was quite as long as all the other areas of the game.

I stopped counting how many times it took after 12. :(

I got it eventually though.

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I'm pretty pissed right now. I've played through GoW1 on Spartan (Hard) mode the whole way, but I cannot get past the 2nd phase of the final battle. It's just aggravating to think I'm going to have to drop it to Easy to finish the game. If I knew that was in the cards for me, I would have played that way the whole time and just breezed through it.

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Anybody have any tips for round 8 of the Challenge of the Gods? The one that's seemingly endless Gorgons?

Edit: Apparently asking on DVD Talk and trying 1 more time is the way to go! :lol:

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Woot! Now all I need to do is a < 5-hour speed run!

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So were you able to finish on Hard? I think the trick is to use Rage of the Gods so that you'll have unlimited magic, then just use that Hades demon attack or whatever it's called as much as possible.

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I didn't try, I just dropped it down to easy and finished the game. Finishing the Challenge of the Gods satisfied me, however.

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Don't leave us in suspense, what did you do to beat the endless Gorgons?

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I was able to finish it on Normal (too bad it doesn't let you drop down to that), but yeah, that part was definitely the hardest out of the whole game for me.

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I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, but I did a whole lot of ground pounding (jump, hold L1+O). Though that only gets you so far because eventually the soldiers (who drop health) dry up and you're left with up to 4 Gorgons at a time. You just kind of have to do the ground pound when they're bunched up and not gazing at you, get quick attacks or try to knock them out of the arena when they're by themselves, and do a hell of a lot of dodging/rolling.

It's tough.

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I played through both games and never knew there was a ground pound.

Nope, I wanted to hear how you got past it. :)

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Me neither. I just spam square, square, triangle and roll a lot. Hell, I play it almost like a twin stick shooter. :lol:

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One of my most annoying memories from any game EVER. The way I remember it, it wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't made you watch that whole scene over and over. Ack!

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It seems like only the first QTE button on II was timed weird. The subsequent presses were always easier for me.

What's worse is that I had him on one of my earliest attempts. The problem was: I was 100% focusing on the top-middle section of screen that shows what button to push next. I wasn't expecting the "O" mashing in the bottom left corner. :(

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I just bought the game and am playing thru God Of War for the first time. How the hell do you beat the the third dragon on the boat towards the beginning of the game. I beat the first two, that you climb the boxs to put the spikes thru them, But on the last dragon when you are press the circle button against the high post, it doesn't work.

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you hit him until he's dazed, then the O appears. Then you have to hit O quickly to pull him into the mast to crack it, then you do it again and it breaks. Then the next time you get the QTE it's the last time.

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But I have done that several times and I am the one hitting the mast, its very frustrating.

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Speaking of annoying jumps, perhaps worse than GOW was Bionic Commando Rearmed. I got all the way to the last level and it was absolutely impossible so I just completely gave up, then my 360 died so it was a moot point but still that one is annoying as shit.
See below. the guy in the video even dies twice!
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I finally finished both GOW I and II. Was getting really frustrated at the end with the QTE. I think it took about 75 tries. What made it worse is you had to watch the whole sequence before the QTE everytime.

Played through the GOW III demo and now I am pumped for the third game.

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Double Platinum! Bring on GoWIII!

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nice work homeslizzle.