Does God of War 3's Art Style Suck?
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2023
- In today's video essay, i analyze the art style in God of War 3 and the formula it follows throughout the game, a formula that i personally hate and wish it was handled better.
I love this art style and it is special but it just gets ignored becuz of some bad showings in some segments.
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I believe the art style is working with the game's vibe. Like, Kratos is literally shredding the whole world, which makes it so that even the colors are fading away. What stands out imo is the bright blood effect splattering around.
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thats what i was thinking
Now try and explain that to the idi.ot that made tye video🤦
Dark Souls 3 made a similar design choice a few years later (everything is more gray because the world is closer to ending) and that's my favorite game in that series, absolutely beautiful
I think Ghost of Sparta handles the darker grittier art style the best in the franchise. But also looks good at the same time by mixing in both vibrance and grit within the same environments.
Yes
@@lightmohamed5700 Yep, it's a perfect mix of 2 and 3's
@@SmumplytheF2P and the most underrated Game in the franchise by far even zesty has it as he’s second least favourite God of war Game which is sad
Agreed
I’ve said it before, the only thing I wished gow3 had was more locations in the city of olympia and actually fighting Olympian demigods and troopers. Also I think ascension had the best art style out of all gow games, realistic graphics took no toll on art design
I agree with zesty it’s God of war 2 that has the best art style but God of war Ascension is 2nd for me
honestely, i like the colerful, vibrant, and fantasy style of GOW ragnarok, i think that the style of GOW 2018 is too much dark, almost something like a dark fantasy game, in old GOWs i wish they acepted more the fantasy style, eventhing is so grey and ugly, GOW 2 is a exception trough
@@ericleal157 gow 2018 was beautiful i don’t see how, alfheim in that game was very beautiful and so was Midgard.
God of War Ascension is what a God of War 2 Remake would look like to me. They have a very similar colour palette, lots of green, gold, yellow and just warm colours in general. Very pretty.
@@ericleal157GoW 1, CoO, Ascension & even GoS aren't grey and ugly; idk what crack you're smoking.
There are only 4 colours that you can see mostly in god of war 3. Black, Gray, Red and yellow. 😅😅
God of war 2 is a colourful game that's why it's art style is great.
God Of Gray
Yes
No
God Of Gay💀💀
@@Silent_Goat God of straight
@@Silent_Goat 🫥
gaia in gow2 was so cool, brown and with waterfalls, in gow3 she was just grey.
She's a SHADOW of her former self, eh?
@@ExtremeGameplays1 yes!😭😭😭
And bigger cherries
@@Miki_big_red_machine wdymm?
The art style isn't ugly itself. It's the color pallet that is predominantly gray and gold with very short sections that switch things up.
The previous games had so much variety in color pallet from level to level that it helped in making them memorable and feel like a progressive quest.
Just off the top of my mind in God of War 1 you have blue, green, yellow, red, gold, gray. And the locations themselves vary so much. Sea, city battlefield, oracle's temple, desert, Pandora's temple, the labyrinth, Hades, Kratos family Dreamworld, the cliff
I never see the problems in the graphics, art style, design, or any grey filters. I love everything in the games with every inch of my soul for what it is, I love gow 3 because of it’s amazing details and reflections AND the amazing art style
The art style is goated, but it is scarred with sections outside (post killing helios).
@@ExtremeGameplays1 after showing the colour in the photo mode with Hera in the video, HOLY FU- it looks much more vibrant and amazing
@@Jojo_0177 more colour vibrant=art style
@@Jojo_0177 it looked oversaturated in that photo mode
@@ExtremeGameplays1 soooo the whole segment of the destruction as you fight zeus was bland....? i dont think so.... i have more of a problem with how the underworld looks... in GOW3s back cover case of ps3, there is a section box of kratos going against the Chimera in where you first use the portal of the judges and the SCENERY looks like amazing... its like a Mystical but grungy and dirty environment like GOW3s concept art of kratos in the underworld where kratos is in Hades' throne room where it has more chains and has that grungy, dirty and yellow look in the PS3s artbook or manual and the inside paper cover of the game which showcases the entire throne room.... it seems like in the beta, the colours and the scenery were supposed to look different especially in the underworld and you can see that in the demo of GOW3 and some footage of the making for GOW3
The scenery of the Chain of Balance does make sense, because Apollo still exists. And he ended up taking Helios' place in mythology anyway, so yeah, it actually does make sense
Oh. Interesting.
@@ExtremeGameplays1 I mean, you could say that it would take too long for Apollo to get the sun in its place, but since this is the universe where a goddess was born from Zeus’ forehead as an adult in full battle armor(Athena), it’s not a big deal I think
It's good because it's supposed to be a gray broken world in gow 3
I kinda agree... When i first played gow 3 some sections felt so dark and felt so dead, it was kinda understandable because it was our fault for ruining the world, when i first completed gow 1 and gow 2 it felt epic and cool while when i first completed gow 3 it didn't feel that good because of the dark and non vibrant tone, i actually didn't like it more than gow 2 and gow 1, but after fully completing gow 4 I decided to give gow 3 another try and i tried weapons other than the nemean cestus and blades of exile and then i experienced true fun trying some different combos and beating some difficult bosses and thats when gow 3 became my second favourite gow game (gow 2 still remained on top)
The art style doesn't suck it's just apocalyptic it makes sense but yeah gow 2 was so pretty.
Yes, it makes sense, I wholeheartedly agree. But, man, it makes the game incredibly boring. I completed the third game once, several years ago, and I really don't want to replay it. I'd rather get back to the second game.
@@therocketmanarch I guess I can agree it does make the vibe of the game feel heavy and dark but you know for each their own.
It sets the setting for the game
Like a movie uses a gray gloomy filter to show the dark theme and darkness of the movie.
My one complaint about GOW3's art style is that it does not feel like a Greek epic, whereas 1 and especially 2 did.
na... 1 was more in line with a dark and more grittier art style than GOW2s... just look at kratos' character design from GOW 1 and you'll see the differences.... GOW2 had that Epic Mystical art style which was good but was ruined with the weird textures that makes characters and most notably on kratos look like they are covered in a bubble
I kind of agree. It needed to be more Greek sided instead of """hollywood-fantasy""" you know what I mean? but it still ended up looking great either way
@@NinjaXFiles uhhhhhhh... which games are you inferring to?
I recently played God Of war 3 Remastered with 60 FPS and let me tell you something brother, this game game looks better than 90% of the games released today
It's hilarious that God Of War 3 on Ps3 still looks better than even next gen games like Forspoken, Saints Row, Gotham Knights, Babylon’s Fall etc
XD Zeeeeuuuusssss⚔️ 🤙
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I think when it comes to art GoW 3 hits the spot not just because of the visuals in places like Tartarus or the Chaimber, but especially in how gorgeous it animates and sounds. The minotaur puffing air when you execute him? Beautiful. The chains sound in the blades? Amazing. The overall direction of the cutscenes (That first person POV on Poseidon)? Masterful. And my personal favorite: the gorgon execution. I think I can watch that animation a hundred times. The game's presentation is top notch, despite it's darker excesses imo.
The art style was great and honestly had a gritty feeling to it
I like to think after killing helios and the sky goes grey it has a effect on the rest of the game. Cuz that when I noticed the color got significantly blander.
Eh, I'd say a little bit of saturation and the greyed areas in the game would have been 200% more cooler looking. You'd be surprised by the huge difference a bit of saturation effects can make when done right. It makes games look more visually pleasing to look at. But only when properly done. Take shading mods for example, completely changing the way a game looks.
most shading mods are just so bad... ruining the original vision of the games look... but yes you can optimize your TV to make GOW3 appear more vibrant if you like it like that... for me, i understand what GOW3 was going for in those segments but I also do like my games to be a little darker and desaturated.... grey and ugly games can really be made beautifully like the Kane and Lynch games especially the 2nd one and even Max Payne 3
@@godzillazfriction Yeah I understand it as well. In a world where it's literally based on an apocalyptic setting, it's obvious everything has to look grey and make the environment feel like it's dying. And yeah I agree on the shading part LOL, I just used it as an example, I'm not that much of a fan of those. Though I admit I'm curious to see how crazy it would be to mod the OG trilogy
@@NinjaXFiles the thing is that once helios dies, it should go dark but goes grey in which i can agree on that but I do explain more things in the comments regarding GOW3s art style
i think the peak artstyle of this franchise is gow2 and ragnarok
it's funny because of them are sequels to its first games
Ragnarok's art syle sucks in comparison with god of war 2018
What they should have done was start the game with a saturated color palette, than as Kratos kills gods, it gets darker and darker, to reflect the progression of the world's destruction. That way it isn't a constant switch from bright to dark, back and forth.
but it kinda does that don't you think? by thr time you fight zeus, there are souls, tornados, beautiful but destructive beaming light, lighting and tsunamis in the background... how is that bland when compared to the grey filter that zesty is talking about? the garden is still green and has a green aura anyways and hera is dying and so it makes thr plants and the garden even darker...
but I'll admit that once helios dies, the world doesn't look 'dark' at all which is where i can agree with zesty
That's literally what happens in the game...
Don’t know anything about God of War but Analyzing video game Artstyles is always interesting
You should get into the series it’s amazing
Then leave
@@mihaimercenarul7467 L gatekeep?
@@bigdawgc ești prost 😂
@@Norrabal_anims L for defending him
What is the background sound name used in this video ??
Do people just ignore the fact that Kratos is ENDING THE WORLD. Of course it's going to look bleak.
EDIT: "Why does Kratos look so powdery?"
Honestly that's what I asked myself in "Ascension" but I realized they improved the detail of being covered in ash, instead of looking a solid white skintone.
EDIT 2: "It's not so bad inside of Gaia" 😏
I really didn't like the garden puzzle section but it makes perfect sense regarding the story. Like of course it's all gray and dead looking, Kratos killed all sunlight, flooded the place, and then killed Greece's best botanist
I like the art style on all the games, although ive always had an issue with kratos skipping leg day, he finally did do leg day the last two games but he does seem a little too bulky at times, and i miss his hunched over posture from the originals, it was awkwardly menacing…especially when he walks up to Poseidon to beat him senseless.
Not agreed at the second zuse fight arena ... its awesome .. the fighting area .. the tornados in the background with the yellowish and orangey vibe ..
If you think this art style is bad you should see DMC5 “color palette” if you even can call it that , it’s just grey
Reason 1- Unlike other Greek games, this time Kratos is slowly destroying the Greek world. The world becomes grayer every time a god dies. The prominent colors are the redness in the blood effects and the grayness of the world. Also, instead of telling an epic adventure story, this game tells a scary revenge story.
Reason 2- The first games released on PS3 generally had atmospheres with dark color tones such as grey, brown or green. This was because the developers were just getting used to this console and were using these color tones to make the worlds look realistic.
But later, as they got used to this console, they started to make more colorful games. GTA 4 and 5 are an example of this. While GTA 4 has a yellow-gray tone on PS3, GTA 5 is colorful like its other versions. This is also true for other game series. This is usually the case with AAA games that were first released on PS3 and last released on PS3.
Nothing better than waking up watching ur channel videos and i made a debut in ur video at 5:38 of live stream comment section and ya gow 2 is better in art style compared to rest of series and it has so many great sections every place feels like something new and great
Should do a full video on how it should look with filters
Are you actualy gonna do a video on the architecture of the chamber, im looking forward to it
Will do. It's very beautiful.
That was a smooth transition 🤩🤩
I think one of the highlights of 3's art style is the color filter with certain moves; Blades of Exile's magic attack and Rage of Sparta. And of course the environmental design is phenomenal. While the outdoor sections on Olympus vary wildly in color balance, it really drives home how fucked up and out-of-balance things are getting as more gods die. The scenery near the end of the game delivers on both fronts, I feel. Shows the ruined landscape but without the bleary fog you see in the Upper Gardens, for example, and better colors.
But Ascension has the best art style in the whole series, and that's a fact.
Can someone explain the beautiful reflective lighting on this game without using the ray tracing on that time of the year?
For a 2010 year game. The graphics are top notch. The best game of that generation ever played. The newer generation will miss this masterpiece. 🍻🏆
Zesty,you uploaded your first vid on April 11 2021 and this is uploaded on April 11 2023 its been a plesure following you on this jounrey
Imagine a game similar to GOW3 but the world and characters are basically like Bioluminescent 3D Shadows. Let me explain this better.
I need to paint the correct picture in your mind.
So if this game had it's own version of Kratos (but it does not), a good amount of his body would look like a muscular black 3D shadow but the red marks would be made of bioluminescent red flower-like stuff.
Also blood would be glowing red bioluminescent.
So the new reason his full body tattoo is red (NOT A TATTOO IN THIS VERSION BUT MORE LIKE A PLANT-BASED BIRTH MARK) would be because the bioluminescent blood of his family was magically fused into it. Originally it would be either blue or white bioluminescent flora growth until turned red by the blood of his family.
His face skin will become more like white exo-skeleton material infused with the family ashes because he still must be the Ghost Of Sparta.
So he has a white crab-like head although kinda human-shaped like the rest of his body.
Most of his body will be black like a solid 3D shadow but with bioluminescent red flora growth where his full-body tattoo should be.
The game takes place at night, that's the problem, God of War 2 has the best art style of the entire saga, in addition to having the most memorable scenarios too.
At 3:42 That Area is also in Gow Ascension!
So turn on more light in settings and you have IT🤣
3:38 Also, why is it snowing outside when Kratos is climbing the chain but raining on top of the Olympus?
i am sorry zesty for bothering you with this question but can you tell us please what video editing software you use?
Premiere pro
@@ExtremeGameplays1 thanks man
Hey zesty would you be continuing the ign guide run of gow 1 ?
Of course.
Cool video a kratos cutscene model or blades of chaos vid next?
It would be amazing if there were others Gods In this third game like:
Hypnos,Demeter,Dionysus,Apollo,Artemis,Eros,Eris,Íris and Hestia with the grandchildrens of Zeus what could have been added to the game like:
Triton,Hecate,Asclepius,Orpheus,Macaria and Melinoe since they are Sons of Apollo,Hestia,Hades and Poseidon
another thing that also Ares,Aphrodite,Hephaestus & Athena they also have Childrens too
It's a shame that these characters/Gods didn't appear in the game who knows in the future.. I believe there could still be two games of the Greek Mythology to close the saga
and in the current games of Norse Mythology what is now happening in this new saga and mythology there would be a lot to do with more two games a sixth game and the origin game with many story dlcs especially in the Ragnarok that I definitely believe surely there will be more
and a curiosity: we almost had a fight against Echidna the mother of all Demons and Creatures of the Greek mythology a shame it was cut and it would have been a fight on behind the Gaia's back in a forest certainly at the beginning of the game from this third game and we almost had the NPC Ixion as one of the puzzles in the underworld in the game that he would die in one of the traps that we would try to uncover to pass the level that was cut very sad that it didn't happen..
and all these things and Gods with yours Childrens/DemiGods was cut from the final version content and they were not added/placed in the game.. 🤔🥺🤧🙏🙏 like and Bye!
it fits with the tone of the game tho. I hate when people want every game to boots the saturation up by 200 for no reason at all. Also the dynamic range is waaay better in this game.
Ah, man. I know it doesn´t have anything to do with the topic in question. But when it starts the RE2 save theme at the end, I felt so fucking good.
i always found weird why did the overworld wasn't red anymore
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The beautiful queen 😂😂😂
8:40 𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 transition
Keep uploading videos everyday i will not get bored 😅
Yea
Thank you
Zesty: dose god of war have a bad-
Me :NO
Zesty: but I didn't f-
Me : NO, it's perfect 🗿
Keep the amazing videos best god of war youtuer 👍🔥
Love you zesty - from the other side of the world 😂 keep going.
Never really noticed the art style much...
Just found you and enjoying your videos. In this one I DO NOT know what you are TALKING ABOUT!! It's ALL BEAUTIFUL!!!!! The most beautiful of all the games!!! You are BUTCHERING MY BEAUTIFUL GAME!!
Dude, i LOVE how the game looks. I think i made it clear by the end of the video.
Also Zesty I think that Kratos has his tattoo faded because of the pain and suffering he has gone through (like the skirt that you mentioned on your last video). Also unlike Deimos it’s not a birthmark so that’s why it most probably faded
And he repainted it in 2018, huh :D ?
@@ExtremeGameplays1 I mean you got me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its like the game is also rewarding u with beutiful sceneries to get u playing longer imo
I preffer the greyish tone over a vibrant one
Is the background music from a GoW game?
Yes.
Pandora's melody, challenge of poseidon, pursuing destiny.
Only the last one is different and it's the resident evil 2 save room theme.
Maybe do a video about of other games art styles
Zesty
What you are talking about is not "art style" nor "art Design" nor "graphics"
Art Style/Art Design is simply the way the world and the characters are drawn (their body propotions, Architectures, clothes...)
Graphics are simply the definition/quality of the game
So what are you talking about?
You are talking about "Visuel design"
Visual design is the aesthetics of a site and its related materials by strategically implementing images, COLORS, fonts, and other elements
Hope these shenanigans were clear ZestyMan
Thanks, D.
Thing is, i truly believe the characters are drawn beautifully (so art style, i guess) but the main problem is the environment shift that constantly happens. _That_ makes people think the *Art Style* suck, rather than whatever you just typed.
@@ExtremeGameplays1 gow1-gow3 mostly share the same Art Style except for some small changes here and there (think of it as DBZ while raggy and gow4 are DBS, different art style)
Gow3 graphics and art style is phenomenal, and i do agree that people downplayed them just because of the visuel choices by the devs to "immerse" us into the chaos kratos is causing via the visuels (espacilly the colors)
So yes, i 100% do agree with you ZestyMan
Yeh zesty talk about colors and atmosphere and its filter that used to gow3 mostly (Visual design for short) but its abit late to save em now :(
I thought gow 3 remasterd fixed the colors because I played it on ps3 and ps4 but ps4 I like better because its not as grey it has more color to it.
Also the God of War 2 cutscenes look better than any God of War game in the Greek Saga. I mean they look like they got grabbed straight out of a Movie.
The CG cutscenes, huh? Those look really nice, yes.
Tnx,niw i can't unsee it
One of my problems with the GoW3 aesthetics lies in graphics. At that time it was developed for the new hardware. First, I think they didn't have enough time and knowledge to utilize their possibilities in the best way. Second: that god awful bright and thick weapon effects, like fire etc. Level 1-2 weapon is ok, but the higher the worse. It covers a lot of the screen and makes unnecessary contrast. It seems to me they were trying to impress with their new effects but in the end...
In terms of art... A lot of GoW3 zones just look blunt comapring to those in previous titles. Even GoS from PSP looks more cool.
Now imagine if the gods had Ichor (gold) instead of blood (red) running through their veins!
This channel is underrated af I’m glad I found it never stop making vids bro
That would be a good video, color correcting god of war 3
i like how in gow 1 you start off with a kinda bad graphics but when you progress in the game the graphics gets better and better until you get to zeus boss fight and it looks so good in HD with the HD cutscene is just insane
Edit : i meant God Of War 2 Please Forgive Me
The world is fkn dying, don't you get it? Thats why outdoor settings look like that, even a friggin 6 year old can notice it...
RE 2 ❤️ save room theme
I know IT is not the place for this buuut...
HOT TAKE: (it's accualy hot take about hot take) „Let's argue" and„ Reading bad revievs" are the BEST series on the chanell.
There is no perfect gow to be onest
I still kinda love them:)
We need an IShowSpeed and Kratos collaboration fr
So.....
Top 5 art styles coming soon?
Eh, idk.
So does art style just mean color contrast to you?
Lol with the internet everybody is a critique and an art expert. GoW 3 Art style is fucking amazing no debating.
Yeah, its true, but i think behind of that is bcs the colors want to show how world its distroyed, how ,,THE CYCLE ENDS HERE" !
Nice video
Before watching this video I thoght that gow 3's art style was boring, grey, desaturated and ugly but after watching this video I'm very mixed on how to feel about it.
It was considered bad?
Yep, art style in GOW3 has it’s problems, mainly due to the gray-filter, but at least it has a redeeming factors.
While in GOW:chains and GOW:ghost I absolutely hated the art style and visuals, I mean every section in this games has some sort of filter to it. Attica - yellow, temple of Helios and Heraclion - gray, Tartarus - green, Atlantis - blue, and in realm of Thanatos it’s the greyest of all grey. Kratos, enemies and environments just blend together most of the time. And it’s even not justified by console limitations, because on psp there was some pretty nice looking games, like Daxter or Medievil.
Remember when all the ps3 games era had the piss grey filter to make the game more "realistic" like gta4, re5, assassins creed 1, MGS 4, farcry 2
I think they just tried to tone the colors a bit because the ps3 couldnt handle it, or they just tried to make it as gritty as possible to showcase the decay of mount olympus
I think you're talking about the _brown_ filter that was in nearly every game after RE4, not a gray filter.
atleast people could make mods that make the game more vibrant and colourful but it would be too vibrant in most places and it would suck again so if they just made a remake to gow 3 and fixed this damn gray filter it would do it
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Hey I butchered her because she tried to destroy a pillar or some shit like that
According to what Hermes told me
Zeus said Hades should let that go
But he didn't.
Zesty i found your doppleganger. His name is gotham chess and he only plays chess instead of gow. He sounds, Looks, and talks like you. His first name is levy.
Lighting
Kratos look sad in this place 6:56
Hey i have a video idea for you zestyman and its (EVERY THENG THAT HAVE DONE WRONG IN GOW3) and i talk about story, gameplay, combat, sound, mechanics, and so on.... remember zestyman its not a sining video,.
I have my 5 things wrong and right series. That should suffice.
Before HDR
Well that's subjective, which standard are you using to judge?
I'm always expressing _my_ thoughts about the games :) I always say "leave your thoughts in the comments" in my other videos, and that goes for this one too.
Except this one has a dramatic outro.
5:40 ay das me
Technecly the problem is not art style, its lighting.
Zesty it's have been 5 days since you made a video. I guess you are mading big video??
Yup
i guesse you are playing the remastered version , because it is muted in comparison to the ps3 version which is more vibrant from my experience.
I dont remember God of War III having a bad art style, maybe try changing your TV settings?
Gow 3s is the BEST art in gow on par with the old games
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The art style is intentional because Kratos is destroying this world making it Grey and sad