I read the review of God of War III on Giantbomb and saw that there was a complaint about the fact that the game doesn't shake things up in any way for the series, and i just thought, "Good. i dont want anything different." That's not to say that i dont want innovative game experiences in general, but i definitely dont want the third of a trilogy of games to be so vastly different from the previous installments that it is unrecognizable. Now that I've finished the game i think it is the most refined of the series. and that's the key to it. Refinement. it doesnt need to be very different because hacking and slashing with bloody satisfying combat is what those games are about. I also remember a while back when Devil May Cry 4 came out that a few reviewers complained for the same reasons. but thats what DMC and GOW are. they shouldnt try to be something else. anyway what do you folks think about the issue?

always remember, a review=one dude opinion.....and you are not this dude.
 
the best reviews will always be from yourself.
 
 
for me, GOW3 had the perfect pace, a clever ending AND a cool cliffhanger to open the door for a new GOW related game.
 
the only problem i had with gow3, is......the game had to end(obviously)...sad puppy face :(

No

its like.......take Grandturismo5 and change it to a TPS.......yeah.... thats retarded.

These guys have to let consumers know about this stuff. So, I guess you could call it complaining when someone says that GoW3 doesn't offer a lot of variety from what you've seen of the series up to this point. But I prefer to think of it as informing. Plus, as you've pointed out, you read that information and see it as a good thing. Someone else might read it and say "been there, done that. Pass!". So it's obviously useful information to put into a review. In fact, it's the only part of a GoW3 review that I care about. I've played and enjoyed every other GoW, so I can be pretty sure to enjoy this one. All I need to hear is that it's more of the same, and lo-and-behold, that's what the review has told me.

It's fine to do the same thing over and over as long as it refines it like you said. However, the fact that it's stuff most people have seen before means it probably shouldn't score as well as a more innovative game. I've played a couple hours of the game so far and it's definitely not a "5 star" experience. 4 stars seems appropriate. It's probably a 5 star game for a huge fan of the series and the genre, but those aren't the people reviewing games, and rightly so.

I don't think anyone wanted any earth shattering changes to the formula, but maybe switching it up more than they did would have made for a better game. "Moar epic" is not exactly enough for a sequel, personally. You'd want that, plus something interesting, something new.  
 
GoW 3's a great game, just not a good sequel, it doesn't innovate like a good sequel should.  If it was the first GoW game (or character action game in general) I'd have played, it would have blown my mind into 8 pieces, but as it stands... it's nothing new really. 
 
I think these character action games stand out more as having sequels that don't innovate, basically because the whole genre's pretty much stagnant. They've been mostly the same since like... DMC 1 came out.  
 
I don't think anyone should be UPSET over this, like the title implies, and I don't think people really are, I just think if they switched things up and made a more original experience, it probably would have been even more well received than before. It wouldn't be the common complaint with the game, and that IS the games real big sore spot, the rest is nitpicking, really. 

Up to the individual. It doesn't bother me that it evolved very little on a gameplay level, and I'm often let down by games when they do.
 
At the same time I think people should be fair. I've seen so many sequels get hammered for this exact reason.
 
So next time a God of War 3 fan thinks of pulling a "Gears of War 1.5" style comment out of their ass, just try to remember how forgiving you were of this exact thing when God of War 3 was released. :)

I'm with you I like the game just as it is now, if it ain't broke why fix it.  But that's how Ryan felt so just respect his opinion (even though gow deserved a 5).