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Fools Idol said:
This is one of those "if you liked the first one, you'll like this one" situations. I know /v/ and the like are obsessed with shitting on the Sony's first party games but GOW 2018 was a good game and everything about this one looks good too.
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Completely wrong. There’s been reviewers who liked GOW 2018 who said this game was trash.
Snekposter said:
Not like he's carrying around his daughter's ashes around with him or anything...
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Ha ha…
ShitLurker said:
Saw something about some rocket racoon horseshit. What is that about?
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There’s a talking squirrel.
 
I'm worried after having seen some of the leaks.
Th first game wasn't exactly Shakespeare, but it wasn't just cursing and quips for hours on end
 
Dom Cruise said:
The Last of Us inspiration is obvious but where I feel they took a lot of inspiration from is the forgotten 2003 Sony game Primal, which is one of the reasons why I liked God of War 2018 so much.
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I liked Primal's story and atmosphere enough to play through it twice even though the combat was pretty klunky. You're right that God of War 2018 has a lot in common with it. I've been playing through GoW 2018 off and on lately and I can see the resemblance.

I'm on the fence about getting Ragnarok, however, because GoW 2018 does things I don't like, such as having a bunch of useless loot, a skill tree that doesn't have much of a reason to exist, and a lack of enemy variety. I'm at the point where the game starts giving you optional challenges like the Valkyries and the grindy realms of Muspelheim and Nifelheim. It would have been nicer if these new areas were fleshed out with characters and story instead of busy work. I'll probably wait until it goes on sale.
 
So I've watched and read numerous spoilers about, and it's worse than I was expecting. Since we're in the age of wokeness I had a feeling they were gonna fuck Ragnarok up. Especially when I learned that one of the writers for the game is Alanah Pearce: a socjus attention whore who used to be a journalist at Rooster Teeth. There are a number of things that rubbed me the wrong way and made me glad I spoiled myself. By the way, I don't care if you complain that I spoiled you, given that Ragnarok isn't worth getting upset over.

-Women are uggofied as per usual
-Instead of Ragnarok being the complete destruction and rebirth of the entire norse world, Santa Monica decided to cop out and have Ragnarok just be Asgard getting destroyed rather than giving us the spectacle of a full blown Norse apocalypse.
-Freya tries to kill Kratos but becomes friends with him again through "The Power Of Forgiveness"
-The Basic Bitch message of "Killing People Is Bad" appears to be forced on the player. The only Norse god Kratos kills in the game is Heimdall, and it's portrayed as some horrific thing Kratos did even though he tried to gut Atreus/Loki like a fish. There are also no human enemies in the game from what I've seen.
-Kratos doesn't kill Thor, Odin does after Thor decides "Being a Destroyer is bad" or some shit.
-Kratos never gets to wield Mjolnir, the last we see of it is Odin throwing it at Thrud. It's never seen again after that.
-The only new weapon in the game is some random ass spear
-Brok the blue dwarf fucking dies but who cares?
-Odin is by far the greatest disappointment for me. This scrawny, whiny little twat is supposed to be the fucking AllFather, the king of Asgard and enthroned ruler of the Norse gods, yet the way he acts reminds me of our infamous pigroach DSP. Only without the gout. Or the luck and immortality. He blames everyone but himself, takes no responsibility for his actions, and whines like a bitch when things don't go his way. Even his angry battle cry sounds pathetic, like he's either constipated or having a heart attack.
-As listed above, we don't even get to kill the little twat. Atreus/Loki takes his soul and puts it in a fucking rock, while also revealing that the death of Kratos mural was actually about Odin. Sindri, the dwarf obsessed with being clean, breaks the fucking rock and I guess kills Odin for real or some shit.
-Also there's some gay mask that supposedly leads to the secrets of all creation and all that. Atreus/Loki fucking breaks it.
-Thor doesn't kill the World Serpent. It just gets poofed back into the past.
-Atreus/Loki leaves Kratos to go look for more giants alongside she-boon angrboda. Freya becomes the new AI companion for the rest of the post-game.

I'm probably missing a bunch of other shit, but (most of) these are my biggest gripes with the game so far. Zeus commanded far more authority, was much better designed, and felt like a proper villain. Honestly, there's probably some good-decent stuff in Ragnarok, the wolves chasing the sun and moon look pretty cool, I liked the combat from the last game so I'll probably like it here too. I do think GOW 2018 was magnificent, but given the different team working on this one, I'm not surprised at the drop in quality. I'm probably just gonna wait for it to come to pc then pirate it, then install a white angrboda mod while I'm at it.

The Greek saga was the fucking best.
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Dave. said:
I'm playing this on my dad's PS5 and I'm not even 20 minutes into the game and I want to shoot myself out of boredom. I'm getting fed up with redditors thinking slow panning and pacing the speed of a snail is somehow engaging or deep or thinking video games are movies.
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This is God of War
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This is NOT God of War
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This franchise is dead bros.

But yeah, God of War is boring now because Kratos “dOeSn’T wAnT vIoLeNcE aNyMoRE!!!!”
 
So are people missing the side quests where you go off and kill Dinosaurs?

They also have lions now that breathe fire. Enemy selection is way larger than it was before. Side content is a large part of the game, if you're bee lining the story beats you're missing a shitload of interesting stuff.

Dave. said:
I'm playing this on my dad's PS5 and I'm not even 20 minutes into the game and I want to shoot myself out of boredom. I'm getting fed up with redditors thinking slow panning and pacing the speed of a snail is somehow engaging or deep or thinking video games are movies.
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It's slow because for like the first half hour it's a tutorial. Horizon did the same thing where they opened by the space shuttle and it's nothing but a big tutorial.
 
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If the worst people can say about it is that Kratos is too nice then I know ill have a good time with it. Ive been enjoying his character development and I think the events of 2018 are a believable transition into him becoming more of a good guy. As long as I still get to lay hands on some gods and beat the shit out of them, I dont mind taking the batman approach.

I also think people really forget how the ending of 3 was all about building up to the point where he had to let go of his rage. After his vengeance plateaued , there really wasn't anywhere to go but down.

Also the original planned ending for the franchise was Krato's becoming one of the 3 wisemen and meeting baby Jesus so.. yeah. Im enjoying catholic Kratos. ✝️
 
One thing I hate about the game is how retarded they made Atreus. Throughout the game they made him hyper focus on either fulfilling a prophecy to the letter (becoming the stupid champion of giants to depose Odin) or trying to avert a prophecy with seemingly no success (preventing Kratos' death) when he already has averted a prophecy, all the while lying to Kratos for absolutely no reason.

The game and Atreus try to hammer home that prophecies cannot be averted, only change certain factors. Well what about killing Magni and Modi, both were prophesized to survive Ragnarok yet they're killed before Fimbulwinter.

So between alternating between for and against fulfilling prophecies, Atreus somehow dream walks into Ironwood, the mystical "true" hiding place of the giants and Atreus for some reason declines to just tell Kratos that fact. Yeah Atreus doesn't want to tell Kratos of his seemingly foretold death in Ragnarok (that Kratos already knows about) but he can tell him he somehow went to Ironwood. This random bout of lying causes Kratos to assume Atreus went to Asgard and then Atreus decides to actually go to Asgard after hundreds of examples of how the Aesir are a bunch of backstabbing bastards who want to kill all the giants, which Atreus is.

I was neutral on Atreus in God of War 4, and Ragnarok made me want to punt the little prick.
 
Saturnalia-1918 said:
One thing I hate about the game is how retarded they made Atreus. Throughout the game they made him hyper focus on either fulfilling a prophecy to the letter (becoming the stupid champion of giants to depose Odin) or trying to avert a prophecy with seemingly no success (preventing Kratos' death) when he already has averted a prophecy, all the while lying to Kratos for absolutely no reason.

The game and Atreus try to hammer home that prophecies cannot be averted, only change certain factors. Well what about killing Magni and Modi, both were prophesized to survive Ragnarok yet they're killed before Fimbulwinter.

So between alternating between for and against fulfilling prophecies, Atreus somehow dream walks into Ironwood, the mystical "true" hiding place of the giants and Atreus for some reason declines to just tell Kratos that fact. Yeah Atreus doesn't want to tell Kratos of his seemingly foretold death in Ragnarok (that Kratos already knows about) but he can tell him he somehow went to Ironwood. This random bout of lying causes Kratos to assume Atreus went to Asgard and then Atreus decides to actually go to Asgard after hundreds of examples of how the Aesir are a bunch of backstabbing bastards who want to kill all the giants, which Atreus is.

I was neutral on Atreus in God of War 4, and Ragnarok made me want to punt the little prick.
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I just hate how they turned Atreus into a stereotypical burger teenager.
One of these days writers need to learn that using shit as a expletive for everything and needless quips is the result of american pop culture.
It doesn't fit the setting at all, and instead the dialogue of every character has to come down to Atreus' level now
 
Marissa Moira said:
So are people missing the side quests where you go off and kill Dinosaurs?

They also have lions now that breathe fire. Enemy selection is way larger than it was before. Side content is a large part of the game, if you're bee lining the story beats you're missing a shitload of interesting stuff.


It's slow because for like the first half hour it's a tutorial. Horizon did the same thing where they opened by the space shuttle and it's nothing but a big tutorial.
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It's picked up a bit after 45 minutes, but jesus christ on a cross it takes fucking forever for something interesting to happen.
 
Übertroon said:
I just hate how they turned Atreus into a stereotypical burger teenager.
One of these days writers need to learn that using shit as a expletive for everything and needless quips is the result of american pop culture.
It doesn't fit the setting at all, and instead the dialogue of every character has to come down to Atreus' level now
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Well, they hired Anthony Burch and the talking squirrel is the voice actor's self-insert.
 
user176 said:
So I've watched and read numerous spoilers about, and it's worse than I was expecting. Since we're in the age of wokeness I had a feeling they were gonna fuck Ragnarok up. Especially when I learned that one of the writers for the game is Alanah Pearce: a socjus attention whore who used to be a journalist at Rooster Teeth. There are a number of things that rubbed me the wrong way and made me glad I spoiled myself. By the way, I don't care if you complain that I spoiled you, given that Ragnarok isn't worth getting upset over.

-Women are uggofied as per usual
-Instead of Ragnarok being the complete destruction and rebirth of the entire norse world, Santa Monica decided to cop out and have Ragnarok just be Asgard getting destroyed rather than giving us the spectacle of a full blown Norse apocalypse.
-Freya tries to kill Kratos but becomes friends with him again through "The Power Of Forgiveness"
-The Basic Bitch message of "Killing People Is Bad" appears to be forced on the player. The only Norse god Kratos kills in the game is Heimdall, and it's portrayed as some horrific thing Kratos did even though he tried to gut Atreus/Loki like a fish. There are also no human enemies in the game from what I've seen.
-Kratos doesn't kill Thor, Odin does after Thor decides "Being a Destroyer is bad" or some shit.
-Kratos never gets to wield Mjolnir, the last we see of it is Odin throwing it at Thrud. It's never seen again after that.
-The only new weapon in the game is some random ass spear
-Brok the blue dwarf fucking dies but who cares?
-Odin is by far the greatest disappointment for me. This scrawny, whiny little twat is supposed to be the fucking AllFather, the king of Asgard and enthroned ruler of the Norse gods, yet the way he acts reminds me of our infamous pigroach DSP. Only without the gout. Or the luck and immortality. He blames everyone but himself, takes no responsibility for his actions, and whines like a bitch when things don't go his way. Even his angry battle cry sounds pathetic, like he's either constipated or having a heart attack.
-As listed above, we don't even get to kill the little twat. Atreus/Loki takes his soul and puts it in a fucking rock, while also revealing that the death of Kratos mural was actually about Odin. Sindri, the dwarf obsessed with being clean, breaks the fucking rock and I guess kills Odin for real or some shit.
-Also there's some gay mask that supposedly leads to the secrets of all creation and all that. Atreus/Loki fucking breaks it.
-Thor doesn't kill the World Serpent. It just gets poofed back into the past.
-Atreus/Loki leaves Kratos to go look for more giants alongside she-boon angrboda. Freya becomes the new AI companion for the rest of the post-game.

I'm probably missing a bunch of other shit, but (most of) these are my biggest gripes with the game so far. Zeus commanded far more authority, was much better designed, and felt like a proper villain. Honestly, there's probably some good-decent stuff in Ragnarok, the wolves chasing the sun and moon look pretty cool, I liked the combat from the last game so I'll probably like it here too. I do think GOW 2018 was magnificent, but given the different team working on this one, I'm not surprised at the drop in quality. I'm probably just gonna wait for it to come to pc then pirate it, then install a white angrboda mod while I'm at it.

The Greek saga was the fucking best.
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Sounds like they subverted your hecking expectation and it is actually a masterpiece you are too stupid to understand. Sony wins again! Take that chuds!
 
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