I FUCKING DID IT
I GOT PAST THE GAY ASS TRANSLATOR ON A FRESH TITAN MODE FILE
I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN

>>11789529 (OP)
what is that shitty filter

>>11789530
An excited shitty picture I took while my hands were shaking. This is native hardware on a CRT

>>11789530
thats how it looks half the time i take pictures of my CRT when its interlaced. looks like shit. but its not blurry in person

>>11789529 (OP)
congrats anon. Was it fun?

>>11789540
>>11789530

>>11789548
My controller rattles now

>>11789553
ps2 controllers seem to fuck up pretty easily RIP

>>11789560
I didn't outright throw it like that time 2005 freaked out and killed me after my first God mode clone section clear. I was standing too close to an edge and Kratos dropped down and fell during the cutscene

I'm past the fuckass Phoenix section and about to beat the Kraken. A ton of progress but I'm tired as hell now. This is the hardest game I've ever played

>>11789529 (OP)
Yeah same I did this once and never again. By the end I was doing it out of pure stubborn spite and refusal to admit defeat. Kinda hated the game and the devs by the time it was over

Titan mode in general has multiple moments of absolute bullshit but the translator takes the cake because it's a fucking escort mission. They did not take this section into account when tweaking enemy damage scaling and just shrugged and decided it was the player's problem. It's one of the most poorly balanced sections of any game I've ever played.

Titan mode is actually not consistently bad and like 90% of it is a reasonable challenge but the worst 10% is so bad it makes it an unenjoyable experience overall.

>>11789941
The actual combat encounters are great and force you to interact with the game's intrinsic depth and more subtle mechanics, but areas that spam one annoying enemy and the translator are sheer artifical difficulty that demand you walk a tightrope in one specific way to make it through. I'll do a NG+ run eventually, because I suspect starting off with everything maxed will actually make this a balanced experience

>>11789962
At its worst Titan mode (and God mode in 1) exhibit the worst kind of cheesy difficulty where being skilled is mandatory but being skilled only gives you a chance to roll the dice and if things break badly for you you can get fucked even if you played well. It introduces an element of luck that doesn't belong.

Like, when I finally managed to save the translator I didn't think I played any better than I did the time before. Those teleporting assholes happened to teleport where I needed them to and a dog was in the right place for me to punt it at the right guy at the right time. You don't git gud. You had to git gud just to get there you just keep hacking away at it until the pieces align favorably. It's skill + chance and that's bullshit. It's not fucking gambling. If I've got the skill I should be able to determine the outcome by how I play and nothing else.

I didn't even try the meme difficulty setting in 3. If that's how they do things then that final Zeus fight can suck a dick. I don't need the aggravation

>>11789529 (OP)
Congrats, anon, that was the hardest part. From now on it'll be more or less the same bullshit you've suffered until now.

>>11789530
lol crt fags btfo

>>11790007
3 is balanced except for the very end which is extremely hard. There's thebClotho gauntlet-tier room immediately followed by the infamous fire cerberus+satyr room, then Zeus himself

>>11789530
moiré patterns are a common result of photographing CRT screens

>>11790010
I've beaten Lakhesis and Atropos, and now I'm super burned out for the night. I think I'll call it here and finish tomorrow

I got to the last encounter of the Clotho room then got bodyblocked into a corner. Fuck

>>11789548
Nta, but fuck no. The translator is without a doubt the absolute lowest point of GoW2 on titan difficulty. Complete misery.

>>11789529 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vPnsfvN3LY

I got past the gauntlet. Fucking brutal. I had to use degenerate strategies like running away and spamming STTT and the hammer wave attack, but I did it. This game's unique rage attacks are underrated. The infinite spin attack and cyclone melted through the last wave

I can't tell if you're having fun or not OP

>>11792197
Neither can I

>>11792189
would you recommend the game (on normal mode) to someone who has never played anything like it
is it just button mashing?

>>11792214
It has cheese, but like just not stinger and grenading everything to death in DMC, there's a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives to engage with all the game's mechanics. Everything you learn has a place

>>11791560
Why didn't you simply link the original video? Or just fucking wrote a single sentence?

I am never doing that again

>>11792332
Fuck, those cutscenes look good.
I personally always get filtered in hard mode on the clone scene in Gow1 and the last Cerberus section in Gow3. And it is so infuriating that the games only offers to drop the game to easy and not the normal difficulty.

>>11789530
its called SOVL

>>11792361
And if you accidentally click it you have to reset. Sucks

Congrats. I raged at this same part back in 2008. Someone in 2038 will too. Some things never change.

>>11792893
I had four distinct rage moments. I was just numb by the Lakhesis fight. At least I can go back and play with OP gear now, which might actually just be appropriate balance

Hydrogen hammer vs coughing statue has made this worthwhile