So what's the overall consensus? If you liked 2018, will you like Ragnarok?
Pretty much that for 90% of people I'd think. The game has a lot more "Marvel shit" in it now, both in dialogue and plot, but normies won't care. Personally, I'm not a fan of some story decisions, the fact that the AI companions are constantly screaming the answers for puzzles at you, and I really don't like the way a lot of the characters speak, it's just too fucking modern sounding, you can really feel the California seeping into this one at points. Also, I think it's been said before, but it was a pretty dumb move to end the Norse Saga in just 2 games.
A lot of Ragnarok feels rushed and undercooked because of it, specially that final act. I can see no reason why they decided to go this route besides Santa Monica being burned out on producing God of War games for the last 20 fucking years. Still, I liked Dad of Boi 2, it has a shit ton of content and I thought the story was good. As far as movie games go, I'd say this is probably the best one around.
Where do you think the series was going with the end of Ascension and the oracle telling Kratos his family being in that village "did not happen by chance"? From the beginning this series teases interesting plot directions it never seems to want to actually go (like whole "skeleton of Cronos being discovered in the present day" thing)
Tbf the original GoW games never had much of a plan to begin with. A lot of 1 was just Jaffe's weird ideas and they all got retconned pretty fast in the sequels, to the point where the ending of that game and all those unlockable secret videos are just straight up bizarre nowadays. Much of 2 and 3 was spent struggling to tie everything up nicely in a semi-cohesive narrative, sometimes they pulled it off, sometimes not. The whole thing with Kratos bringing Titans back from the past to fight the gods in Olympus still comes out of nowhere to me, also making Pandora's Box the reason why all the gods hated Kratos in 2 was pretty unnecessary.
I'm not sure why they decided to go with Norse mythology and if they're really planning to just turn it into Assassin's Creed, but the idea of Kratos travelling around killing different pantheons was around ever since early GoW 3 development.
Ngl, Kratos meeting Jesus sounds pretty cool.
I'm like 2 hours in the second Atreus bit and I'm really struggling to keep playing. The first was bad but this one is infinitely worse, we have the magic bitchy mary bitch sheboon who, of course, Atreus is in love with because media nigresses are somehow not repulsive in every possible way. But even disregarding her, the gameplay is really boring (you have very little options on how to fight), Atreus is 2 hit killed by fucking everything in the toughest difficulty and it all doesn't count towards progression in the actual game.
And I know there will be at least a third part because everything in modern gaming needs to happen 3 times.
Everyone seems to agree that the Angrboda segment is the low point of the game. I don't really know what they had in mind forcing you to spend an hour and a half collecting fruits and feeding animals with some chick you just met. Later Atreus segments were better IMO, which is a good thing because you play as him for a solid chunk of the main story.
, Cory Barlog, the director of the game, wanted the voiceover and motion capture to be provided by the same person and Carson's body type didn't match how Kratos looked in-game.
