I think Ragnarok will be the last God of War game I'll play in the series.

Submitted by Gay_Charlie t3_z13nu1 in consoles

For background information, I've played every single game in the series except Betrayal and also on all of the hardest difficulties.

I've been a fan since 2005 however this newest title doesn't sit well with me and I'm wondering how everyone else feels. Ragnarok is getting so much praise however all I noticed was just flaws mostly. I loved only a few combat scenarios and the slow traversal was painfully uninteresting. I buy video games to play them not interact with a movie which only started with the 2018 release.

The story was safe with no risks involved. You would think something significant would occur with the follow up however the game ends with nothing interesting happening to hype a continuation.

Am I alone with this perspective?

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angrystingray t1_ix8uz1r wrote

You're not alone. I got about 6 hours in before I got distracted with watching the Cyberpunk Edgerunner anime on Netflix. This lead to me getting back into Cyberpunk 2077 on my Series X (bought it originally on there) since I had heard nothing but good things since CDPR patched it.

It ended up pulling me completely away from God of War, and now I'm fully on Cyberpunk for the last couple weeks. Hard for me to put it down even. I may eventually circle back to beat Ragnarok just so I can say I beat it as well as justify the steep price tag, but overall, if I'm being completely honest here....I thought it was boring. Don't get me wrong, I feel the love and passion that Sony Santa Monica put into it, and I don't want to minimize their achievement at all, but at this point I feel like I'd just prefer a movie or animated series to tell me the story rather than play through a super linear interactive movie. The gameplay was just boring to me. From Software games ruined melee combat in every other game for me (except maybe DMC5) and Breath of the Wild ruined puzzles in every other game for me as well. It sure is a pretty game to look at though.

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Anubra_Khan t1_ix8zn75 wrote

I played all of the originals on PS2/PS3 on the hardest difficulty as well as 2018.

Couldn't agree with you less. The old games were great but they ran their course. They were mainly button mashers with QTE's added as finshers. On the hardest difficulty, they required you to parry everything before button mashing. They were super fun and epic but they ran their course.

The combat system introduced in 2018 was way more innovative and the challenge at GMGOW difficulty was way more fulfilling. Ragnarok improves on that combat system in every way. I've played through every Souls game and Sekiro multiple times. I do SL1 runs and can beat DS3 in under 2 hours from character creation to finish without skips. Ragnarok's combat system is insanely more involved than roll, roll swing, roll, roll, swing.

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Vemakor t1_ixc7msr wrote

Sony make game movies, I can play god of war 3 every day and it will be fun, but new God of war games can play just once, and most problem is blood and glory kills, new God of war is step back, I need more gore like in old times.

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