4afe3e No.16362499
It turns one year old this week. Now that some time has passed, how do you feel about the new direction for the God of War franchise?
I started playing last week and I cleared the main story yesterday. Might play some more and kill all of the valkyries. Some things were lost on the way while transitioning to this new gameplay style. The story feels like it's better than its ever been (crappy sequelbait aside), but I can't really tell as it's been a while since I've played the older games. You're actually forced to watch the cutscenes this time as they're unskippable on your first playthrough (but can be skipped on new game +) and on top of this there's plenty of down time where you're walking around carrying items or rowing the boat, and during these moments of downtime there's a lot of exposition/dialogue dumps between Kratos, Atreus and Mímir.
When it comes to the gameplay the combat design and combat encounters are very poor. Does anybody like those reskins of all those trolls and ogres? I don't think so…. Or The Stranger. You fight him three times over the course of the entire game and his attack patterns barely change. There isn't much variation. Camera positioning is also poor. The desire to be too cinematic is what's holding the gameplay back. With the camera so close to Kratos all the time they had to implement that threat ring to show where enemies and enemy projectiles are coming from, and more often than not I felt like the threat ring was disingenuous, especially when enemies like the nightmares were on a different elevation than I was and the threat ring was inaccurate about their location. Audio for enemy attacks didn't seem all that great either. Not every single attack has a proper audio cue to signal when and where that attack was coming from.
God of War was always a cinematic action game, and this new one is still a cinematic action game, but I think I see more potential in this new style. What do you think?
Going off of memory and based on the games I played, I would rate the God of War games as follows (out of five stars):
God of War (2005) - ★★½
God of War II - ★★★
God of War III - ★★★
God of War (2018) - ★★½
389f2a No.16362503
>>16362499
It's dead, let Soy-knee's new audience of faggots and dykes with daddy issues choke on it.
80fb00 No.16362549
>>16362505
A combination of the QA and the Australian shitposter.
8167ef No.16362556
GODS
GIVE ME BACK MY WIFE'S SON
d4a13e No.16362563
>>16362499
>It turns one year old this week
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1d0b63 No.16362571
It looked terrible and I didn't see a single person in real life praise it, period. Hell, I'm not sure it even really exists.
2948e8 No.16362584
>>16362556
I'm fairly sure it was kratos' actual son.
I just hate the reboot a lot.
They tried to make a man
*THAT USED AN INNOCENT GIRL AS A JAMMER FOR GEARS WHO ONLY WANTED TO ESCAPE AND GO HOME TO HER FAMILY*
A "DECENT" human being
694cca No.16362586
God of war 1
>you're an angry motherfucker with a shady past and people would rather get eaten by the hydra than be saved by you
>are to and angry enough motherfucker to kill the god of war?
God of war 2
>you're a very angry motherfucker and take it out on any place that isn't sparta
>zeus betrays and kills you but Gaia brings you back
>you do a bunch of bullshit until you go back in time to when zeus kills you and kick his ass but he's a chickenshit and you accidentally athena so you bring the titans to olympus
God of war 3
>You're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore so you keep telling everyone to get out of your way so you can end Zeus but a bunch of retards keep fucking with you so you end up destroying half the world before you can finally put zeus into the ground
>you an hero afterwards as a fuck you to everyone you haven't killed
God of Soy
>you an heroed but it didn't stick for reasons we're not going to explain
>you're a dad and here is an annoying shit son
>now go play The Last Of Us
God of war was a fairly simple beat-em-up and was all about the spectacle. god of soy plays it's self and the combat depth makes the souls games look like high octane action titles.
c23b53 No.16362610
The whole series was the lowest kind of normalfag-bait from the very beginning.
d4a095 No.16362618
>1 year
>one year
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
9546eb No.16362620
>>16362610
It started as baby's first action series, the remake turns it into a leftist dad simulator.
2781cc No.16362626
I have never played this game because it's a PS4 exclusive so I can't shitpost about it in great detail, therefore the only thing I can do is call you a shill.
1d0b63 No.16362629
>>16362626
It's playable on youtube as well.
3ed64c No.16362640
Now I have a reason to post these again
>>16362499
>stars
didn't know this was a character
3ed64c No.16362645
kinda weird I have kept these clips for a year for no reason, but eh
3ed64c No.16362654
>>16362626
By the way, did you know they made norse Jesus the antagonist? I would understand if the gods were pissed about a one man genocide existing, but Sony decided to just make him evil as fuck for no reason. I think the that same applies to Thor and Odin, too.
1d0b63 No.16362662
>>16362654
It shouldn't be a surprise when his name can be roughly translated as "the white man" or something along those lines.
e6806e No.16362706
>>16362499
yep, ruined muh day
e17b51 No.16362710
>>16362640
>>16362645
>>16362654
Aren't enemies super bullet sponges in higher difficulties? like nothing else changes but their health gets a 950% boost or something stupid.
c64960 No.16362719
>>16362710
they get random perks or whatever, but that alongside a huge hp boost
c64960 No.16362732
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>>16362729
>not supporting your fellow user, !!HOkmczxaJE
75e8b8 No.16362752
>>16362662
>>16362654
To be honest, God of War from its inception was one man (voice by a based nigger no less) chimping out at the pantheon of Gods. Why would the Norse Gods be spared?
5dc7d2 No.16362756
>>16362586
They did explain it in God of Soy but the reason sucks. Athena made Kratos not die at the end of 3 so he'd be tortured by his actions forever. How does Athena have the power to make that happen? Never explained, fuck you
1d0b63 No.16362763
>>16362752
That's not even remotely the point being made but please by all means continue embarrassing yourself and making excuses for this so called game"
c64960 No.16362769
>>16362763
I mean, it's a game. Just not a particularly good one.
d4c19b No.16362861
>>16362710
>Aren't enemies super bullet sponges in higher difficulties?
Worse, they're high damage dealing bullet sponges.
3b09cd No.16362914
>>16362710
Highest difficulty doesn't make enemies faster, smarter, or even give them new combos; instead your damage is gimped, enemy health pool is bloated, they deal tons of damage, so you're stuck fighting worthless mooks for way longer than being "god of war" implies.
In my friend's words
>the game's even more boring to play than for you to watch. later i played it myself
The camerawork is extremely bad, there's a section where you fight a boss who hides in fog/mist and you need to deflect them with your gay shield, instead of having a good FoV and perspective to be able to spot their attacks and movement through the mist, you rely on your mutt son and red glowing arrows
Combat is unsatisfying, the higher the difficulty the less fun it gets.
302a14 No.16363076
>>16362499
God of War was always this "Fuck you, I'm mad as hell and I want to punch shit" kinda game. The fact that they fucking got rid of everything that made it God of War and turned it into a half assed RPG is really depressing. Not only because Soy of War takes everything God of War was and fucking throws it out the windows, but it's a window into what the "industry" is interested in pursuing and what they want the future of video games to be. The fact that it sold so well is not only a sign of the general stupidity of the average gamer, but also promotes this ideal of "push millions of dollars into said product and just market the shit out of it.". There was no love or fun put into this game, you can see that they clearly see that they made a fanfic and they replaced Kratos with the fucking director of the game. So now you're playing as some guy named Kratos but acts nothing like him. It's like if DmC was a success. The worst part is that God of War as we know it is fucking dead, and Sony is only in the business of making RPG Uncharted clones. It's a shame really. God of War 1-3 weren't amazing games, but they were fun games that you can come home to, fuck around and then have a nice big steak right after. This game tries to take itself too seriously and just ends up being a shadow of its former self.
a57db1 No.16363077
277c0a No.16363078
>>16362640
>>16362645
>>16362654
Was the com at actually this boring, or was a journo playing the game? It was nothing but upslash, downslash, Kratos tantrum, followed by a few ebin cut scenes.
302a14 No.16363080
302a14 No.16363122
>>16363078
This is actual gameplay.
f38b39 No.16363126
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>>16363076
>"Fuck you, I'm mad as hell and I want to punch shit"
302a14 No.16363132
>>16363126
I'm not talking about the story in God of War 1 to 3, they always had decent stories. Although the gameplay while more casualized than say Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry, was more of a dumb fun brawler than a serious action game. Which was fine, although the issue with Soy of War is that they threw out everything that made it God of War and turned it into a generic action RPG with cinematic set pieces.
d4c19b No.16363226
>>16363078
No, the actual gameplay is everything you just saw plus copious amounts of "cinematic" slowdown for every single fucking special move.
be188e No.16363277
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>>16362499
>What do you think?
Just like TLoU the only good thing is the soundtrack.
4afe3e No.16363713
>>16362710
Yeah, the difficulty in God of War 2018 is poorly designed. Enemies are very tank like and damage sponge-y. It's worst on the "Give me God of War difficulty" when enemies can level up and get buffed mid combat, or when nightmare parasites take over the body of a host enemy and strengthens them. You can interrupt enemies while they're in the middle of leveling up, and enemies don't level up unless you've hurt them, so it's best to pick and take on one enemy at a time until you unlock more skills.
What happened to the action games where you can kill enemies fast, but you can also be killed by enemies quickly too? Seems like there are fewer of those nowadays. Every game needs bloated statistics and large numbers with "legendary" or "epic" loot so people are constantly chasing after that next dopamine rush.
The walking/talking sections are really annoying too, especially on replay. Sony Santa Monica seems adamant that they want to copy Naughty Dog's style of storytelling. But even a game like Uncharted 4 had a mode where you could select the encounters and skip past puzzles/walking and talking. God of War 2018 needs a mode like that too.
>>16362620
>It started as baby's first action series, the remake turns it into a leftist dad simulator.
You played it? What do you see as leftist in God of War 2018? Cory Barlog may be a progressive that virtue signals on Twatter but nothing in God of War 2018 leaps out to me as leftist. All that's really "progressive" in this game is Atreus for being mixed race with Kratos being a god and his mother being a giant but that sort of information is a non-issue
2019b2 No.16363724
>it's been one year
Let me die already
21f8bc No.16363788
>>16362499
>how do you feel about the new direction for the God of War franchise?
I wouldn't know, I never played it. I only played The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Testosterone, and Uncharted 4 (which came bundled with my system) and to be honest - just those three games are enough to completely burn me out on Sony's exclusives.
The only Sony exclusive I've truly enjoyed this generation was Gravity Rush/GR2.
920cc8 No.16363810
>>16363713
>when enemies can level up
3b09cd No.16363811
>>16363713
>What do you see as leftist in God of War 2018
You answered your own question in the same post.
It's a production line "rpg" third person experience.
04b53e No.16363823
>>16362499
A few months ago I 100% NuGoW since I had time to kill waiting for DMC5. The game is a just a mess, it the prefect amalgamation of everything wrong with modern game trends.
>It's a "reboot" that didn't need to happen
>It's cares more about it's Cinematic story then it does about it's gameplay, and the story isn't even that good
>It prioritizes Graphics over Frame rate which makes the game 30fps
>The game difficulty is artificially since it's a loot fest, so an enemy will always act exactly the same, but will arbitrarily kill you in one hit due to having a higher number above it's head.
>The game is open world so to extend it to 30 hours instead of just the 8 or so hours it should be, they copy paste the exact same activity 100 times though out the map.
The only complement I can truly give NuGoW is that the dialog most of the time is actually good, but the story it's self is just poor, you can't make any significance progress to your main goal, without being told constantly you can't proceed until you turn around completely and go do some set piece that doesn't end up mattering in the end. All the game is was set up for a sequel that maybe interesting shit will actually happen in.
God of War may have been mainly a button masher on lower difficulties but there was still a satisfying challenge to the combat on the harder modes and there was always something about the combat that you could have a good time mastering, NuGoW ditches all the progress made with that combat system, and now has a combat system significantly handicapped due to you inability to fucking jump, which takes away half everything you used to be able to do.
NuGoW is a video game for people who only pretend to like Video games, since I can't see anyone who actually cares about games can be at all impressed by it.
a480cb No.16363825
I guess I might as well join.
How the hell has it been one year already?
35bc12 No.16363868
>>16362499
It feels like the makers just had their first kid, and now they start every sentence with "well, as a parent…"
2d482b No.16363903
>>16362499
I still can't believe they killed this franchise, the only thing that has ever come close to it is asura's wrath.
93ebf4 No.16363914
NuGoW is just pure bait. The first boss fight would get you hyped up for the rest of the play through but later on you'll realize that's it. It was a nice bait though not gonna lie however most normalfags will orbit their opinions just off of that singular section. Its more of a movie than it is a game as it perfectly targets the most casual audience like my friend.
>friend bought it day one and beaten it
>he says its one of the best games he ever played
>said friend returned it just two days later
I will never understand this
a480cb No.16363936
>>16363923
>>16363903
Didn't Asura's Wrath have some atrocious DLC or something?
That's all I know about the game.
Also, thanks for reminding me about it, I'll have to consider picking it up some day.
82e3b0 No.16363938
>>16363914
What more is there for him to do with the game now that it's done? Are there any unlockables he might have missed? Is the core gameplay good enough to warrant returning to? He didn't think so it seems. What he played might have been great but, like what you said,
>Its more of a movie than it is a game.
Like when you go to the cinema, you see it and then you don't see it again usually. What's the point of keeping the game when he's not going to play it again? He certainly thinks he's not going to play it again, that's for sure.
277c0a No.16363948
>>16363936
You had to pay for the true ending and for a couple events that happened while you were playing as someone else. Oh, and for the street fighter crossover. It's pretty Jewish, but it's also a hell of a ride.
320ef7 No.16363960
>>16362499
I didn't hate it or anything, but after beating it I had pretty much no desire to touch it again. I found it had too many long and unskippable walking sections and too little enemy/boss variety for there to be much replay value. The puzzles weren't interesting either and I can't remember any that deviated from the formula of either A) freezing/unfreezing obstacles with the axe or B) quickly hitting those nodes when the Blades are enchanted with Hel's wind.
In terms of bosses, I thought it felt like they poured all their effort into Magni & Modi and treated the rest as an afterthought. Hraelzyr in particular would get my vote for worst boss in the series. Mechanically speaking he's really restrictive and he doesn't have much going for him in terms of spectacle, something GOW bosses are normally good at. At the time, I didn't even notice that the way you kill him was a reference to how you kill the Hydra in GOW1 because the fight bored me so much.
I think changing Kratos' voice actor was a big mistake. It was already difficult to see this Kratos as the same character given that he behaves so differently & we aren't shown how he came to be this way (all of his "character development" seems to have happened before the game begins). Christopher Judge sounding so different to T.C. Carson really exacerbated this issue for me.
I also disagree with the story being better than ever. Having played every GOW game apart from Ghost of Sparta, whose story I'm still familiar with, the story didn't do anything that the series hadn't already done before. Chains of Olympus, Ghost of Sparta and Ascension in particular were all really effective at humanising Kratos, and I would argue much more effectively than GOW 2018, since Kratos in those games had a violent side to contrast his more human side against.
Kratos and the violence in GOW 2018 in general are really tame. The only particularly violent execution animation I can remember is the Wulver's. In places, it feels like the devs wanted it to be as cathartic as the previous games, but stopped halfway there because they were afraid of making this new Kratos seem like not such a nice guy.
This half-baked approach rears its head again in another area, the "theme" of grey morality. The Dark Elf king's dying words implies that Kratos & Atreus helped the wrong side, but this is never brought up again or expanded upon. Earlier than that, they dedicate a fairly lengthy scene to Kratos consoling Atreus after killing a bunch of human raiders, but this is the only time you fight humans in the entire game (when earlier versions of the game had you fighting humans much more often). The gameplay reveal trailer also showed a troll begging for mercy just before Kratos kills him, but they cut this from the game too. The story would have been more interesting if they kept this sort of stuff in.
The OST really disappointed me too. GOW has always stood out to me as one of the few series with an orchestral soundtrack that really stood out from the rest, but I can't remember a single track from GOW 2018. Felt like white noise most of the time. The worst part is that there isn't a remix of Zeus Wrath Divine/Phoenix Rising/Brothers of Blood.
Apart from these, I have other issues with it that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere, which is why I recorded these webms. The first webm shows me getting hit because Hraelzyr began an attack before the loading screen had ended; the second is an example of how ridiculous the tracking on enemy's attacks can be; and the third is one of the Muspelheim challenges failing to spawn enough enemies for me, which caused me to miss out on top tier loot.
Some things I thought it did well:
>the hitstop makes the weapons feel very good to use
>decent amount of side content
>the voice acting and dialogue were generally good
>the art direction is good and the game in general looks very nice
TL;DR I wouldn't call it bad, but it tries to do too many things and as a result doesn't do any one thing particularly well. The previous GOW games do most of the same things but are much less bogged down by design trends of their eras, so both their combat and stories feel much more focused.
a480cb No.16363988
>>16363948
That's a shame.
I guess you can always watch it on jewtube.
Oh yes, the 2006 reboot of Prince of Persia did the DLC ending bullshit too.
Ironically, the true end for that game is actually much worse than the cut one.
93ebf4 No.16364092
>>16363938
Youre right but what I was trying to get at is if you enjoyed something so much that you consider it as one of the highlights of your life, why the hell would you just throw it away days later rather than cherish it.
302a14 No.16364097
>>16363923
>Implying everyone here doesn't know Asura's Wrath
fuck off CIA nigger
21f8bc No.16364233
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>Kratos is finally relatable as a hu-Man bean
>He's not just a mindless killing machine, he's a tormented dad now
>Emotional masterpiece 10/10
I think the guy in this video is being a bit generous/hyperbolic in saying that "God of War was always deep", but he does have a point when the games are at least measured against each other. nu-God of War's praise is largely from people who never played the original games, or are very simplistic creatures who ignored the storylines of the original games (which can't in nu-GoW because forced cinematics) and are being tricked by surface level presentation. The original games never forgot that they were trying to be fun games (trying) first and foremost - while nu-GoW is trying to be Oscar bait cinematics with obligatory gameplay in between story-beats.
2730d2 No.16365070
>>16364233
>the god of war franchise was good in anyway shape or form
No
2730d2 No.16365081
>>16364233
Also it did greek mythology terribly
e25f1b No.16365299
>>16363823
>The game is a just a mess, it the prefect amalgamation of everything wrong with modern game trends.
Bioshock 1 felt like that in the point that it was released.
60474f No.16372411
>Zoom camera in
>Defend this decision by insisting it makes the experience more grounded and personal
>Add immersion-breaking indicators to tell you when enemies are about to attack
This alone made me despise this fucking garbage heap of a "game"
If you have to add indicators, you've admitted that the zoomed in camera does not fucking work for the style of gameplay you're trying at. I can't believe anyone would design something and then make a workaround for that design choice, but insist that the initial design is actually good.
1d0b63 No.16372428
>>16372411
I really doubt the person who made the camera decision even knows the game has combat.
2667ca No.16372484
There's not enough enemies on screen, there's not enough tiddies on screen, it's not moving fast enough. It's called God of War, and it has nothing that made God of War fun, so it's shit. I wouldn't be half as mad about the game if it wasn't a God of War game, but some generic sony cinematicshit.
e25f1b No.16372753
>>16362499
Where there a slew of articles saying that DMC5 needed "catch up" to nuGoW?
f2b228 No.16372833
>>16362499
Anon you miss the whole problem with God of Soy. You can tell just by the gameplay this began life as a separate IP no matter what PR and fake proof devs give. Sony forced the devs to reskin their viking walking simulator as a God Of War game and that is even worse. Devs bending the knee to a company known for faggotry. Even if the original concept was still shit they sold out their vision and thats unforgivable.
a00bbd No.16372838
>>16362586
This webm should be posted everywhere. Perfectly summarizes current GoW franchise. Fuck off OP.
1d0b63 No.16372843
>>16372833
Like how that Turok reboot was rather blatantly a Predator game just reskinned at the last minute.
21f8bc No.16373076
>>16372564
>into the Sad Dad Genre
Wasn't Bayonetta so good that Nintendo basically snatched it up as an exclusive franchise to their systems, and DMC5 was met with such high regard that it's being considered as the herald of the "return of Capcom"? Didn't God of War III do well enough, and generate enough hype, last generation to move even E-fucking-A to make their own God of War clone?
Was God of War: Ascension so bad that it apparently "killed" an entire genre?
d698af No.16373141
>>16363277
TLoU has a cool ass setting that you couldn't even explore because some stupid ass dyke manfaced loli controls your bitch beta life.
see overgrown ruins, a tower of giraffes striding over this beautiful nature-ridden landscapes, ok now back in this dark bleak ass square skyscraper full of stupid ass boring zombies.
Congratulations!! you finally get to go outside into nature, but fuck you, it's a snowstorm so enjoy nothing but fog and ugly ass white blobs everywhere
fuck TLoU
54f32f No.16373298
>>16362610
I never played Devil May Cry back in the day because I played God of War first and it put me off the genre.
b2dba8 No.16373341
>>16373076
Among others, yes. There was also the Lords of Shadows series, and I think a few other copies. Darksiders also tried to pull from various action games in the different games; each pulling most heavily from a different source. I think part of the issue is that they pulled too much from GoW, which was already a watered down DMC style brawler, instead of trying to do more of their own thing.
0f2b4b No.16373344
I find it funny, that when Kratos, feeling the weight of the shit he did in the past games, trying his best to calm the fuck down, now has to do the same thing, all over again, but this time, he's not mad, but sad, and he's not the instigator this time.
Oscar-bait game aside, I find it interesting, and when the sequels to this reboot come out, I honestly want to see how much they can shit on him.
d6e62f No.16373363
>>16372564
>watch the reaction video on jewtube
>all the comments sucking this guy dick, "you should be proud you created le masterpiece"
I feel more and more disconnected from society every day.
c234f6 No.16373367
>"Games need to grow up": The game
>People have actually spent hours of their time looking at this game with a critical eye making detailed analyses of it.
>When its a straight up insult to the entire medium and is proud of it.
>This game has people who actually genuinely like it as a videogame
Normalfags confound me to no end.
e25f1b No.16373376
>>16373367
What is the word for the video game equivalent of Oscar-bait?
6f8429 No.16373532
>>16362499
Even Acension was better.
ca3d77 No.16373539
i only ever played the first one. it felt like people only enjoyed it for the edge but i felt it cheapened the experience further.
122458 No.16373557
>>16373076
Ninja Gaiden: 3 vanilla was so bad, that they had to make 3 Razor's Edge to mitigate the damage but it couldn't bring back the magic that 2 had since the game had underlying flaws like weak bosses. Yaiba was a side story that was a swing and a miss. Then the creators decided to just skip making another NG and created Nioh which is a Dark Souls clone, it's got a sequel planned but no new Ninja Gaiden in sight.
Bayonetta was good, but funding for the second game got dropped & the game would've been canceled. That's when Nintendo snatched it up & made it an exclusive. Series creator, and DMC1 director, Hideki Kamiya was making a Xbox exclusive game Scalebound, which was cancelled by Microsoft. Platinum is making Bayonetta 3, and that's good news.
God Of War: Like the Ninja Gaiden creators they decided to be Dark Souls clones.
DMC: DMC5 released to major fanfare after DmC released in 2013 which was a big step back.
So really, the big games that hold onto this playstyle are just Bayonetta & Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden became a Dark Souls clone. God of War was always never one of the greats in the genre, but it certainly tried, but now it's also chased the Dark Souls market. Thankfully after seeing DMC5's success, it'll strengthen this genre which was kind of dying.
e6806e No.16373568
>>16373376
Journo-bait?
>>16373076
Ascension is easily the weakest of all GoW games, mainly because of the visual design. I'm not good at assessing what a good combat system is or isn't, but I can tell you Ascension is a pain to play.
Camera is zoomed out too far too often just to show off the vistas. Yeah, it's impressive and all that, but it makes navigation and especially combat difficult. A lot of gimmicky fights are memorable for all the wrong reasons, invisible walls are at their worst, the glare holy shit the glare from all the glowing effects makes your eyes bleed. Instead of different weapons and spells you basically just switch between four "elements" (fire, ice, lightning, soul) which may add one or two empowered attacks, but it's not enough to differentiate themselves. The grabbing takes a lot of getting used to, I think 3 had a similar mechanic where you could grapple an enemy at a distance and then immediately shoulder charge them. Here you basically just tether yourself to a smaller enemy and only walk and use a single blade while that guy is still alive. I fail to see the point.
Dante's Inferno was better than Ascension. And that's a semi-competent GoW clone at best.
And in spite all of that, I'd still wager it's better than nuGoW.
0dc536 No.16373586
GOW:Re had terrible gameplay with a very limited moveset. Kratos was also completely unnecessary for it and he stands out like a sore thumb.
21f8bc No.16373591
>>16373341
>>16373557
>>16373568
I actually misread the article headline as "sad dead genre", when it was actually "sad dad genre"… which I didn't realize was a fucking thing and an odd way to describe a game - but I guess when you're dealing with failed movie critics turned game journs, they can only think in narrative genres and gameplay is just a legacy feature tacked on to sell to a different market.
73f765 No.16373958
>>16373341
>Darksiders
Man, third game was sad. They're supposedly patching it up and I'm surprised they're so committed to it, but its combat is just wrong. It's "soulslike" moniker makes it sound as if Dark Souls is the most passive/boring game ever (which is probably wrong, but the point is that even if I haven't played DS, I'm sure it's taking all the wrong things from it).
2b0674 No.16374914
Can anyone make a webm of one of the devs of the first game saying "this game will get you laid"?
d4c19b No.16375073
>>16372428
You mean the game director, the guy in charge of making the game?
>>16373602
>>16373801
I know of place with answers to all your questions; >>>/cuckchan/
b2dba8 No.16375208
>>16373958
They added in a "classic" combat option that makes the dodges better, I guess? I haven't done comparisons, but even then the game doesn't play half as well as either of the other two. I might also be salty because Death and War both start off decently strong at the start. War does most of his work with the sword and the other weapons expand your moveset; there is also boomerang canceling and that is the first weapon you get. Death starts off with two weapons, or maybe gets the second almost immediately because of random drops, his dodges remain constant throughout the game and most of the combat progress is getting the gun, and whatever skills you want. That is if I remember correctly, been awhile since I played 2. It is immediately obvious that Fury starts off with half a moveset when you start playing.
The focus on counters is also rather aggravating. It works fine in one on one fights, but they throw group fights out like you are still playing 1 or 2.
1ff2e3 No.16375224
>thread made by a (2)
>unusual feeling of marketing present
I don't trust this thread at all
e6806e No.16375325
>>16375224
what part of using stars is unusual for a blatant shill?
be188e No.16375417
>>16373141
I hate Druckmann for what he did to Uncharted.
21f8bc No.16375748
>>16375417
>I hate Druckmann for what he did to Uncharted.
To be honest, Uncharted was always kind of a low-tier series that could never decide if it wanted to be Gears of War or Tomb Raider. Uncharted 1 and 2 were alright, but it really fell apart with Uncharted 3 - and Uncharted 4 was just pissing on the series grave. I wonder if it gave Neil Druckmann a hard-on driving Amy Henning out of the studio and ruining her game, all the while being praised by the "Progressive" media for being the ideal male feminist and "Ally".
That son of a bitch is slimy and subversive even by Jewish standards.
4afe3e No.16375848
>>16363960
Good post
>The Dark Elf king's dying words implies that Kratos & Atreus helped the wrong side, but this is never brought up again or expanded upon
I had forgotten all about this until you mentioned it. I was going back to Alfheim to mop up a few more collectibles post-game. Mímir mentioned something about the Dark Elves and the Light Elves having over 200 something wars in a battle for the light, or whatever it was, and it's just left at that. Kind of lame when you learn they've been going at it so long and different factions held control of the light numerous times.
Now I'm trying to mop up a few more Valkyries and I have two left before I can fight the queen valkyrie. I still haven't gone to Muspelheim and Niflheim. I heard those two realms were just randomly generated challenges/trials or something so I'm not looking forward to those
adca71 No.16376500
>>16375748
>they know and openly admit their games aren't fun
it'd almost be funny if it wasn't so sad
5c67c5 No.16376544
It's trash. I honestly don't understand how anyone can like that sort of game.
302a14 No.16376565
>>16375208
At least the game is fun in classic mode, what frustrates me is that now fucking EA of all people are making the new Star Wars game a fucking soulsclone
ab758b No.16376567
>>16362618
>being so retarded you're surprised when a year passes
2f0068 No.16376661
>>16372843
>Turok was a Predator game.
Shit that sounds like Sega's Felix the Cat game all over again if you did not know they lost the IP a third of the way through and the Felix game was retooled into Sonic
21f8bc No.16376743
>>16376661
>Shit that sounds like Sega's Felix the Cat game all over again if you did not know they lost the IP a third of the way through and the Felix game was retooled into Sonic
You're going to have to provide a source on that. I've never heard that anecdote before, and while Felix was admittedly a design inspiration - it was only one of many character designs they drew from (including Mickey - hence the white gloves). Everything I've heard from Yusuhara, Naka, Kodama, and Oshima suggest that the game started off as a tech demo by Naka playing around with Genesis hardware to see what it could do, and that eventually got spun into a mascot project that Sega decided they needed to counter the popularity of Mario.
It wasn't just a reskin of a half-finished Felix game that happened to strike gold.
122458 No.16376919
>>16376743
Woah, that's the first I ever heard of that! I had heard that the character wasn't always going to be a hedgehog, but I didn't think it was based off of Felix the Cat.
Reminds me about how Mario was created because Nintendo couldn't get the rights to put Popeye the Sailor into their game.
1e8a0b No.16376926
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16376919
They go into detail about his creation in this video.
60cc9b No.16377560
>>16375748
>To be honest, Uncharted was always kind of a low-tier series that could never decide if it wanted to be Gears of War or Tomb Raider.
Sure but it was a fun series that didn't pretend to be anything else than a shooter with a discount Indiana Jones. The third one felt rushed and U4 basically destroyed the main character just for the sake of "deconstructing" the franchise.
c87c01 No.16377594
Never played a god of war game before, never even was slightly interested about the series. Did I lose something or not? The newest game looks like its some bad drama shit with little to no freedom of choice.
7e4621 No.16377622
>>16377594
>Did I lose something or not?
Not really it's an okay game to pass a couple days if you have nothing else to do though.
4afe3e No.16377656
>>16372564
>destruction of toxic masculinity
How do people get that out of the game? I wasn't thinking about that at all while playing. If anything I saw more of a condemnation of helicopter parents. The antagonist in God of War 2018 exists because his mother was too overprotective.
a0a933 No.16377713
>>16362752
>(voice by a based nigger no less)
I remember some sort of angry black guy complaining about this, and honestly with the new one it is kind of weird. He's an ethnically ambiguous character, voiced by a black guy, but he's dyed white, raising a white son, in snowy norway-land. And I'd presume most of these norse gods are shown as white, otherwise you boys would be throwing a shit fit in this very thread. It worked fine for ancient greece, but now that Kratos has been awkwardly transplanted to a much whiter setting it's become a bit incongruent.
a40591 No.16377737
>>16377713
>, raising a white son
"huwite" mystery mix that doesn't resemble any White ethnicity in particular.
>>16377713
> It worked fine for ancient greece, but now that Kratos has been awkwardly transplanted to a much whiter setting it's become a bit incongruent.
What do you think the greeks were you retard quadroon?
a0a933 No.16377787
>>16377737
It's certainly more believable in a generic, kinda sandy Mediterranean setting than it is in a literally snow white scandinavian setting where no one even has a tan.
66d25e No.16377913
>>16377594
GoW was one of the proto-AAA sony cinematic games that paved the way to the cancer of today. It was a simple game with a lot of spectacle cutscenes and QTEs. It's kind of quaint to read through some of the criticisms the first 3 games had, if they were released today they would be hailed as a return to a time where gameplay was still kind of important.
73f765 No.16377930
>>16375208
>>16376565
Might check it out again, then. Not punishing aggression isn't as good as promoting it, but it's still something.
>counters and group fights
I don't know which one do I hate more.
122458 No.16381698
>>16376743
>>16376661
>>16376926
That video didn't say anything about Felix the Cat being the foundation for Sonic, the way Nintendo wanted to make a Popeye game but couldn't get the rights so they created Mario instead.
Seems the biggest thing was Sega wanted their own mascot character like Mario, but that means they wouldn't use existing characters like Felix.
Digging around a little, I did somewhere that they wanted their new mascot to be relatable like Micky Mouse, Doremon and Felix the Cat.
>“We wanted a character kids could draw,” Oshima said, a cartoon animal on par with Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat or Doraemon. The team wanted their new mascot to be instinctively familiar, almost instantly recognizable and affectionate.
Only thing I could find was that they might've gotten a dog instead at some point.
>“I planned a trip to New York while this discussion was going on internally,” Oshima recounted. “They said ‘We definitely want to see something like an old guy with a mustache, we also want to see something spiky, and we also want to see a dog-like character.’”
>Oshima said he drew those three concepts on a board and took the sketches to Central Park in Manhattan, surveying random people on which concept they liked best.
>“The hedgehog was the most popular,” Oshima said. “People pointed at it and liked it. Second was Eggman. Third was the dog. This was kind of pleasantly surprising. I was asking myself ‘I wonder why it is?’ The conclusion to me … was that by a lot of people choosing the hedgehog, it will transcend race, gender, different types of people.
Seems like the Sonic is blue because he matches Sega's blue logo, and had a challenging attitude because it represented how the underdog Sega was trying to overcome the industry giant Nintendo.
http://archive.fo/V3aa5
e9cbb0 No.16382124
5dc7d2 No.16382203
>>16375748
Oh look it's that statement that made me never buy another Naughty Dog game because vid related.
d08fc6 No.16382231
>>16382203
I too only listen to talking heads and live by their every word. Oh and the me me's are the best part about them. Heh. Body ready.
5dc7d2 No.16382238
>>16382231
Stop trying so hard to fit in, newfag. He may be a suit but in the video he says an undeniable truth.
4afe3e No.16382996
>>16362499
Ok, I just obtained the platinum trophy for God of War (2018). The final trophy I unlocked was "Treasure Hunter" for using the treasure maps to find all of the dig spots. Even though there are 12 total treasures to find, the trophy unlocked for me when I picked up the 11th treasure (Light Elf Outpost). I still had the one treasure remaining at the Witch's Cave but now that I have the platinum I don't care to go and pick it up. The collectibles in this game are mostly trash, especially Odin's ravens. Would not recommend going after the platinum in this game. I've uninstalled God of War (2018) and I don't think I'll play it again. Time to trade it in. God of War (2018) is a decent time-waster if you've got nothing better to do, and the story is worth seeing to the end, but screw the platinum and all those nonsense collectibles. And farming for all those mist echoes in Niflheim was awful.
I might play the next God of War but if they don't pull the camera back out and make improvements to the combat I'll probably skip over it.
f5d709 No.16383004
>>16382231
He aint wrong faggot.
f5d709 No.16383014
>>16376743
>Sonic was a Felix The Cat game.
>Actually the real story is Sonic was inspired by Felix The Cat.
Even if its slightly wrong thats still fucking wild.
2d482b No.16383590
>>16373341
Darksiders is 3D legend of zelda done right, it doesn't borrow anything from GoW or DMC.
1e8a0b No.16383621
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16383014
In a later interview Naka didn't like Sega of America tweaking his design (which originally had anime esque fangs) and Ohshima intended the character to be maturer than what had been finalized. The rationalization being Hello Kitty and Japan being immersed in a culture of cute, fearing that if Sonic went that route, he'd would just get drowned out and not really stand out from those types of characters. He never was as popular in his native country as he was overseas, and funnily enough for the 25th anniversary, Sega ended up collaborating with Hello Kitty for a merchandise crossover. (One of the other potential candidates were DBZ, MLP, and Pokemon)
http://shmuplations.com/sonic/
98edbe No.16383679
>>16382996
>earning the platinum
I applaud your tenacity. As someone who loved the first two games and thought the third was meh and then thought the prequel was pretty fun, this newest one was boring as fuck to me. I played through the story once, put the disc away, uninstalled the game, and haven't looked at it ever since. From the beginning I never understood why people having been loving this game so much, and I similarly can't understand how anyone could have the urge to play the game enough to earn all the trophies.
f78002 No.16383732
>>16383590
Darksiders 2 is very light on the DMC tones. But the deal with Darksiders is that the gameplay has always been a mishmash of what was popular at the times. Which is why 3 is a fucking snoresborne knockoff.
f7a6c1 No.16384865
>>16362499
I never had enough interest in Single Dad Simulator to spend any money on it, so I watched a playthrough of it on the internet instead, and I have a few things to say about the story:
It's painfully obvious this was designed as a reboot early on, but adapted a continuity with the original storyline as a late-stage decision. (If I remember correctly, this was even admitted in an interview once.)
This whole game's story, characters and worldbuilding are an utterly awkward mix of oil and water. Shoehorning old GoW into new GoW was such a fucking mess, it was actually quite amusing to watch and I can almost count it as unintentionally positive.
The biggest problem is that the new environment is insultingly tame compared to the old.
Kratos, despite being an old man past his prime, seems to face no legitimate threat through the whole story of this game. Every time he's somewhat backed into a corner, he can simply Spartan Rage his way out of it. Nu-GoW's first god-on-god fight puts Kratos at a bigger disadvantage than any other point in the game, and he still won. Compare and contrast this with the old GoW storyline, where the gods were far more threatening and Kratos died multiple times.
Bottom line: This game's wimpy portrayal of Norse gods is utterly insulting. Fuck you, Barlog.
16470d No.16384927
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>>16373557
Ninja Gaiden died when Itagaki got fi–I mean resigned. Nioh was in development since 2004 and was first announced in 2005.
bc7239 No.16384945
>>16382996
It looks like skyrim with 1 or 2 mods,
2730d2 No.16384966
>>16384865
>This game's wimpy portrayal of Norse gods is utterly insulting
Well, Baldr was killed by a shrub