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God of War Ragnarök | Review Thread

What score do you predict God of War Ragnarök will receive?

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    Votes: 5 2.5%
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  • 90-95%

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  • 95%-99%

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  • 100%

    Votes: 6 3.0%

  • Total voters
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  • Poll closed .
You said the original trilogy had a deeper combat, and that comparing it to Ninja Gaiden, DMC and Bayonetta is like comparing a puddle to the ocean. What the hell did you expect? There's no other reaction to be had.

I apologize for the repetition, but you asked for arguments when these were posted already in this same Thread:

This video is only covering the core, basic combat systems (30% of it at best), and it's more than an hour long..




How can you expect a sane individual to share your opinion? I've been playing games for almost 30 years, if GoW 2018 combat is not deep then 99.9% of games ever created in history have literally NO COMBAT whatsoever.

Comparisons with the games you mentioned (ridiculous comparisons anyway as they're completely different) were made already by what's considered by some to be the best reviewer out there:




"It's about the skills, because alot of the time in DMC or Bayonetta you kind of button mash your way into victory, you can't do that with God of War. It's very much about the precision of what's going on around you, and because it's so tightly controlled, because it's so well designed, you're able to maintain that control the entire way through, and it's just absolutely brilliant."

"You can craft new sets of armors, and within each of those they all have their own different stats that can actually unlock different play-styles if you want it. If you want to specialize in your abilities being really low cooled down that's what you can do, if you just want to punch and kick shit to death, there's an armor set specifically for punching and kicking shit to death. Like there's build diversity in a GoW game ffs, that's how good it is and it's not just token, it's really meaningful differences in how you play this game based upon how you chose to gear yourself.
So those are the gameplay systems and you might think of what I just said and being "yeah okay that sounds okay".. i can't explain to you how good this gameplay feels.
"
- SkillUp

The game combat goes so deep in fact it becomes a complete reflection of you as a player.. if you suck, combat sucks, but if you don't you can even have people question whether you hacked the game or not..




Ian Cassady
The combos are amazing BUT the combos with the speed of how he’s transitions weapons is what really is blowing my mind. How his attacks don’t have any break at all. Completely flawless.......

GodsBattle
@ lan Cassidy
I dont even think is possible anyways, he cheat the games somehow like that dude with camera, you cant to them transitions like that, he skipping the animations somehow ive tried a lot of times and cant do that because there are animations goin on he hacked the game.

The Fire Fades
@ GodsBattle
He has multiple videos explaining how he does it. But I still don’t know how he cancels animations. But he isn’t the only one that’s been able to do it.

@ The Fire Fades swear i tried so so many times, is not working man, and im not a noob, im playing games since nintendo famicom

@ GodsBattle Yeah I’ve tried too, it’s difficult.

SkirowX
@ GodsBattle
the issue with trying to accomplish what you see in this video (may hours of trial and error) is that the button inputs must be extremely fast and precise. It is in fact possible to do every combo you see in this video. But you must play for hours upon hours to achieve that speed and be very comfortable with the controls. Keep trying! You’ll be a god of war soon!

Thanos
@ GodsBattle
It's either you're doing the combos too fast or too slow. If you had listened to GBG about the timing between the combos you'd be able to pull it off. Just because you're unable to achieve this doesn't mean no one else can, that just goes to show that GBG is on a completely different level compared to everyone else

For how many combat systems the same can be said? You can put hundreds of hours into the game and still have no idea of what can be done with it..


It never was indeed. Until GoW 2018.


Here's another one.. zero depth..
The only logical explanation is that you never played the game, and think users like MasterDerico MasterDerico are the hardcore gamers stating bold truths against hordes of fanboys.
GoW 2018 has nothing to do with the original games, that description does not fit the game at all.


This only shows, once again, that you can say the most blatantly, utterly false stuff on GAF and still have some people agree with it.
Might be worth to check the post history of said users though..

Do that, im waiting!
I always respected people here, and their opinions...But when something is a fact, there's no debate.

Also there's no debate on tastes.

Btw, search my threads and setup thread, if you think im a fake, you'll need to apologize.

If u prefer i can say "gow is the deepest game ever made", if that makes you happy and stop this now.

I hate forum vendetta's because of details.
 
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I laughed at you because you put forward your opinion forcefully like they're gospel.

Then you go and mention "facts" and ruin any credibility your opinion may have had.

Your opinion isn't facts at all.
Man, pls...If you don't think its a fact ok.

Actually i hate to say "fact", search and u'll see i respect tastes and opinions, but some things you deeply know and has a large knowledge... It's not cool, i know, but you feel obligated to say.
 
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Here's another one.. zero depth..
The only logical explanation is that you never played the game, and think users like MasterDerico MasterDerico are the hardcore gamers stating bold truths against hordes of fanboys.
I literally have the platinum and completed the game on Give Me God of War. I also literally called out Derico for being a debbie downer and coming into the thread to try and start shit.
GoW 2018 has nothing to do with the original games, that description does not fit the game at all.
Never said it did. Do you even know how to read?
 

Justin9mm

Member
The one consistent criticism of this game I keep seeing in the reviews is that it is not inherently better but more of the same experience.

I feel like every reviewer who says this does not appreciate that it's a continuation of the story, the second part of the story and not a sequel. Sometimes this serves more as a warning to the player which is fine but if this is a negative then it's clutching at straws.

The reviews are so fucking consistent in a positive way that I would be very surprised if this did not win GOTY.
 

Justin9mm

Member
just a question do i need to play the last game or can i just get into this does it give you a recap of anything.
You get the recap in Ragnarok but GOW 2018 is such a good game and great experience, you would be doing yourself a disservice not playing it.

But I'm one of those people that could not handle Mass Effect 1's clunky combat/gameplay when playing through Legendary Edition so I decided to quit it after about 5 hours and skipped onto Mass Effect 2. Some people would consider that Blasphemy lol
 

Gamerguy84

Member
The one consistent criticism of this game I keep seeing in the reviews is that it is not inherently better but more of the same experience.

I feel like every reviewer who says this does not appreciate that it's a continuation of the story, the second part of the story and not a sequel. Sometimes this serves more as a warning to the player which is fine but if this is a negative then it's clutching at straws.

The reviews are so fucking consistent in a positive way that I would be very surprised if this did not win GOTY.

I agree. Its also what the warriors are calling DLC. It makes no sense to reinvent the sequel and if they did the public wouldnt like it.

This is a continuation they already reinvented GoW 2018.
 

rofif

Banned
I agree. Its also what the warriors are calling DLC. It makes no sense to reinvent the sequel and if they did the public wouldnt like it.

This is a continuation they already reinvented GoW 2018.
gears of war 2 was like that too. Looked very similar, same animations and so on but holy shit was it SO MUCH BETTER than first one.
I see no reason to reinvent engine and all animations or models. Let's continue the story
 
There are enough trolls here already, but let me be another, although this is my real opinion:

God of War 2018 was a great game. But RDR2 was my GOTY that year, hands down

I will play GOW:R ASAP for sure, but the immense praise for GOW2018 and it having won GOTY has always left me feeling like I took crazy pills

I am convinced that GOW2018 won GOTY because gamer dads got to play out the ultimate father fantasy by playing as Kratos: Daddy Edition. Whereas I much prefer playing as lonely, perpetually single cowboy Arthur Morgan

Thanks for reading my blog
Well if rdr2 was your game of year you probably were on crazy pills!😄
 

NT80

Member
The one consistent criticism of this game I keep seeing in the reviews is that it is not inherently better but more of the same experience.

I feel like every reviewer who says this does not appreciate that it's a continuation of the story, the second part of the story and not a sequel. Sometimes this serves more as a warning to the player which is fine but if this is a negative then it's clutching at straws.

The reviews are so fucking consistent in a positive way that I would be very surprised if this did not win GOTY.
The way the developers were talking it sounded like they knew some of the shortcomings of the 1st game and were working to improve them. I'd be surprised if they haven't made some considerable improvements. From the trailers at least it looks like there are going to be a lot more interesting characters in this one. The first game lacked that.
 
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Putonahappyface

Gold Member
Fingers crossed I get this delivered early like previous games.

time should GIF
 

zkorejo

Member
How far in are you? He starts off really annoying like a spoilt little shit but he alright by the end, you get used to him lol
Opposite for me, in the starting he came across as whining little shit but atleast it was understandable, his mother passed so I gave him a pass.

When he started acting like an arrogant little shit that's where I wanted to smack him across his face. But yeah by the end he kind of got better.
 

DavidGzz

Member
The fuck you pay me for cross saves from Sony is going to make it to where I won't be done with GoW before the sequel hits. I had to restart on PS5 despite being past the part where you get the old weapons on PS4. Fml
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
The fuck you pay me for cross saves from Sony is going to make it to where I won't be done with GoW before the sequel hits. I had to restart on PS5 despite being past the part where you get the old weapons on PS4. Fml
You can put PS4 saves on a USB or external.
 

zkorejo

Member
The fuck you pay me for cross saves from Sony is going to make it to where I won't be done with GoW before the sequel hits. I had to restart on PS5 despite being past the part where you get the old weapons on PS4. Fml
What's the point? Do you get something extra for having GOW 2018 savelog?
 

mili2110

Member
I just bought the PS4 version. How do I upgrade to PS5 Version? I wanna see if its free like with Horizon Forbidden West.
 
I just bought the PS4 version. How do I upgrade to PS5 Version? I wanna see if its free like with Horizon Forbidden West.

God of War: Ragnarok PS4 to PS5 upgrade

God of War: Ragnarok's PlayStation 5 version costs £10/$10 more than the PlayStation 4 version.

Unlike Horizon: Forbidden West which was free to upgrade from last-gen to current gen, God of War: Ragnorok will not be free. There will be a digital upgrade option from a disc or digital PS4 game to the digital PS5 version for an additional cost.
 
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just a question do i need to play the last game or can i just get into this does it give you a recap of anything.
In the main menu, there is a GoW 2018 recap option that you can choose and it summarizes everything that happend in the last game. Although, I highly suggest you still play the original, you'll appericiate the sequel that much more, its characters and the world.
 

Ulysses 31

Member
In the main menu, there is a GoW 2018 recap option that you can choose and it summarizes everything that happend in the last game. Although, I highly suggest you still play the original, you'll appericiate the sequel that much more, its characters and the world.
Is there no risk of burning out on Ragnarok playing them back to back or does Ragnarok introduce enough new things to keep it fresh?
 

GymWolf

Member
Is there no risk of burning out on Ragnarok playing them back to back or does Ragnarok introduce enough new things to keep it fresh?
The risk of burn is very high unless you really fall absolutely in love with the game (like i 'm doing mycthird run on the game to get familiar with the combat system again but gow was my number 2 game of the past gen), not gow faults, nobody should play 2 games from the same franchise back to back, i love yakuza games but i can't play 2 yakuza games one after the other.

Play the first one and then buy ragnarock with a discount.
 
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