I am playing God of War for the first time.

Have you never played the original trilogy and just started with Sonys reboot?

Ah gotcha. I highly recommend them if you really like old school hack and slash games.

As far as Sonys reboot duology, they’re fine games on their own. Obviously made in a style that is in keeping with Sonys 1st party studio games brand image. If you are generally a fan of Sonys games I think you’ll likely enjoy it. The story’s are pretty good (mostly,) the combat can be fun but you need to play on high difficulty. I found the half baked rpg systems in the first one pretty bad but almost like everything else it is much improved in the sequel.

Must watch

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The original trilogy is with the God of War doing God of War things is much better than the dad Kratos era.

Don’t get me wrong the reboot is a great game on its own but it has nothing on Kratos unleashing pure wrath on Greece.

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They’re very different experiences but I do think the Greek trilogy gives a lot of emotional backing to the Norse games and what they’re trying to do

Ragnarok is a top 3 gaming letdown of my entire life. Every story choice they made was the wrong one

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The original trilogy is with the God of War doing God of War things is much better than the dad Kratos era.

Don’t get me wrong the reboot is a great game on its own but it has nothing on Kratos unleashing pure wrath on Greece.

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The original games are definitely more fun. They are just the right length too for what they are.

The new games obviously great too, they were just made in an era where "fun" often takes a backseat to other things.

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Ragnarok is a top 3 gaming letdown of my entire life. Every story choice they made was the wrong one

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Completely agree about Ragarok being a big disappointment. The pacing of it was terrible, the story got much more aggressively in way of the game play. The Atreus parts ranged were at best "meh" and occasionally just terrible. The chapter of him in that swamp was dreadful. The part with him in Midgard wasn't much better either.

Meanwhile Ragarok itself was the most overhyped event in any video game ever. Two games and 80 hours worth of build up and it was like a 15 minute minor skirmish, you fought Thor again which you had already fought and then the Odin fight was completely lame. Talk about ending on a whimper.

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Two games and 80 hours worth of build up and it was like a 15 minute minor skirmish, you fought Thor again which you had already fought and then the Odin fight was completely lame. Talk about ending on a whimper.

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Up until the boss fights you’re just fighting the same groups of mobs you fought all game while all the cool Ragnarok shite is going in in the background as set dressing

Compare that to GOW3 where you just had epic setpiece after epic setpiece and got to play every single cool thing yourself instead of watching

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I liked 2018 better, but Ragnarok was still a great game. It has a 94 metacritic with an 8.2 user score. Seems like most of that is a you problem.

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Beloved franchises, Sony first party games’, and Nintendo games always get over scored, that’s nothing new. You could shite out the most by-the-book Mario or Zelda game ever and there’s a 0% chance it would get below a 90. People have similar attachment to GOW and Kratos. There has been a ton of reevaluation online over the past 2-3 years with people starting to realize that Ragnarok was pretty mid

It’s not a bad game. It's highly polished, mechanically sound (even though it has a host of issues), has great performances from the cast, has a couple of good moments. But it could’ve been a true masterpiece with all the setup it had going in. They just botched it. That’s what happens when you have Barlog writing + directing 2018 and then switch to a 15 person team of millennials. It's pretty damning that basically every fan theory I read online in the years between 2018 and Ragnarok turned out better than what we actually got.

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My biggest issue was making Thor a beer gut redneck.

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Yeah and Odin being a sleazy mob boss and Asgard being a bunch of log cabins So retarded

They've taken creative liberties with Norse mythology and most of it has been just fine. I had no problem with Asgard, and it was evident with Odin that they decided to go with a big name regardless. He was ok. Not what I would have imagined for that character, but Schiff is really good.



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I still get chills thinking of that scene when they take Tyr to the mural, and knowing who he actually is, he whispers "he lied".

Played ascension and part of ghost of Sparta but it was a rough PSP port on ps4 so I didn’t make it very far.