re: Just Pre-Ordered God of War Ragnarok.

lol, it was a well actually, not sure if Barlog's comments were widely known

He did hint at a future game recently in some twitter comments, but this was his comments on the series back in September of last year.

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Unlike the preceding trilogy, the Norse story of God of War will end after the second game. According to Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog, the studio just didn’t want to spend 15 years working on three titles.

Barlog shared his thoughts on the decision during an interview with Kaptain Kuba on YouTube. He said that the first game, which came out in 2018, took five years, and the second one is going to take “close to a similar time,” which means that making a third title will stretch the development to 15 years.

“I feel like we’re asking too much, to say the actual completion of that story taking that long just feels too long and given sort of where the team was at and where [Eric Williams] was at with what he wanted to do, I was like look, I think we can actually do this in the second story,” Barlog explained.

God of War: Ragnarok is expected to come out in 2022 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game will serve as a sequel to 2018’s title, telling the story of Kratos and Atreus trying to prevent Ragnarok from happening.

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He's currently working on a new IP, and if you watch the beginning of Raising Kratos, doing something that WASN'T God of War was appealing and exciting for a lot of people at the studio. I'm sure they'll revisit GoW at some point, but they have other stuff they want to do as well.

Man some of these Beserker bosses are driving me nuts. The 3 on 2 fight is really tough. I just rage quit. Having to fight the one guy while the other two rain down fire and ice at you is such bullshite. I'll try tomorrow evening, but damn they're no joke. I never messed with the Valkyries on the 2018 game, so I will probably go back and tackle them when I finish this one up.

Thanks. I'll change it up. I'm doing the build Luna's bracers I think it s called. It's worked really well up until this.

I’ve been getting shitted on so much on the second highest difficulty but I refuse to lower it

Like shitted on.

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I no-hit them on GMGOW at level 6

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I can’t even no-hit normie groups

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Also the phantom elementals are so easy, not sure what they were going for with that mini boss

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yeah they were terrible. not sure why they felt the need to put like 10 of them in the game. same with the dragons

lot of copy/paste and padding

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i think from a narrative standpoint the 2018 game was much stronger.

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no question. there wasn't a single moment in Ragnarok that topped the epicness of the Blades scene or cinematic greatness that was the 2018 finale. and that's a shame because there were so many more things to play with in this game

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i dont think id go as far as to say it shite the bed in the 3rd act but it was certainly the weakest point in both games.

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I'm not gonna talk about in-depth yet since it's still early and I don't want to risk anyone accidentally reading a spoiler (even though nothing crazy happens that would ruin the game for anyone ). But basically everything you do in this game feels meaningless and none of the major story beats feel earned. Several instances where you go on some epic mission to find someone/something and then it doesn't matter at all. So many arcs and threads that are developed and then left hanging. So many unanswered questions. And so much goddamn padding and filler.

I can't believe they made us pick fruit and fight grandma for 3 hours but Ragnarok is over in 30min

Finally beat it. 41 hours in so far, and I really enjoyed it. Now I just have to convince myself to do all the extra stuff at the end and maybe try to platinum it.

still playing GoW 2018 for the first time before digging into Ragnarok. Getting close. I'm on the "Between the Realms" chapter now and getting close to accessing Jotenheim.

I wish I had paid more attention to killing Ravens and the like...Platinum seems very accessible but I'll have to go back and search for those bastards along with some of the other things needed.

Still haven't beaten a Valkyrie yet lol

I guess it might have been rushed, I'm just not sure what else they could have done differently. You're already 25+ hours in to the game if you straight shot the story, do you really want to spend another 2 hours for the ending?