Can We Finally Admit GoW Ragnarok Was Mid?

[bogey_j]

Something about the combat and the camera being fixed just kinda hurt the new franchise for me. Battling was much more fluid in the PS2 and PS3 versions.

game just needs a jump button and air combos and it would be fye (too many games these days getting too comfortable not giving us a damn jump button)

a proper open world too, not sum branching corridors with coloured ledges n shyt

 

[bogey_j]

Sony gone have to upgrade their gameplay loop. People are growing tired of the same movie game tropes in all their games.

Mindless traversal.
Useless upgrades
Bad pacing
Shallow Combat.
Camera too close.

And all of this is a direct result of them trying to make their games as cinematic as possible.

you had me until "shallow combat"

combat is the saving grace of sony exclusives imo

GoW
Spider-Man
Ghost of Tsuhima
TLOU Part 2
FFVll Remake
Forspoken

etc.

all had FIRE combat systems. FF16 looks to continue the trend too hell, even Horizon (the most bland of all sony exclusives) had interesting combat due to the the quality A.I

the worst thing about sony exclusives are the pointless crafting systems in all games (except TLOU part 1 & 2)

 

[Lord Beasley]

you can tell who played the game on easy doing no side quests or berserkers. just like clowns who skipped the valkyries in 2018

 

[MeachTheMonster]

you had me until "shallow combat"

combat is the saving grace of sony exclusives imo

GoW
Spider-Man
Ghost of Tsuhima
TLOU Part 2
FFVll Remake
Forspoken

etc.

all had FIRE combat systems. FF16 looks to continue the trend too hell, even Horizon (the most bland of all sony exclusives) had interesting combat due to the the quality A.I

the worst thing about sony exclusives are the pointless crafting systems in all games (except TLOU part 1 & 2)

All of it looks and feels good but none of it is particularly challenging or engaging.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

All of it looks and feels good but none of it is particularly challenging or engaging.

 

[Rekkapryde]

they so corny with it.

highly acclaimed GOTY selling games going diamond but are "mid" to some of yall (including the obvious XGoofs who haven't had a game meet that criteria since over 15 years ago).

Go against the grain meatballs.

 

[Kurt off them percs]

I don't know what y'all expect from a game that was developed during covid.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Something about the combat and the camera being fixed just kinda hurt the new franchise for me. Battling was much more fluid in the PS2 and PS3 versions.

I love the Ps3 version

 

[Fatboi1]

Dudes out here making legit guides on how to beat a boss with a specific build/combo and this guy is like "shallow combat" lol.





Like, this is literally amazing. A game looks this nice while having this level of AI detail in a fight that you are controlling.

There's literally NO other game that does this type of shyt in gameplay. I felt like I was fighting legit people in TLOU 2 with how real they reacted.

 

[daze23]

there's a segment of gamers that will criticize the combat in any non-FromSoftware game. they're kind of insufferable

I thought GoW 2018 had good combat. but Spiderman's combat got boring

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

they so corny with it.

highly acclaimed GOTY selling games going diamond but are "mid" to some of yall (including the obvious XGoofs who haven't had a game meet that criteria since over 15 years ago).

Go against the grain meatballs.

meatballs is crazy lmao

I read this in LL Cool J voice

 

[MeachTheMonster]

there's a segment of gamers that will criticize the combat in any non-FromSoftware game. they're kind of insufferable

I thought GoW 2018 had good combat. but Spiderman's combat got boring

It’s not about being fromsoftware.

And i agree GOW combat is “good”

But that’s where it stops. The loot and leveling system don’t matter. There’s only like two or three weapons throughout the game, And outside a few of the bosses none of the encounters are particularly challenging. You are never really forced out of your comfort zone or to learn new things or gain new skills/equipment/weapons to find success.

Those types of things are what keeps combat engaging to me. Like i just finished hogwarts and the entire time throughout the campaign you were given new spells and different challenges within the combat that forced you to uses said spells and different strategies. By the time i was done with the game i felt way more like a badass than i ever did in the GOW games and he’s supposed to be the damn God of War.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Like i just finished hogwarts

Absolutely wild example

 

[MeachTheMonster]

they so corny with it.

highly acclaimed GOTY selling games going diamond but are "mid" to some of yall (including the obvious XGoofs who haven't had a game meet that criteria since over 15 years ago).

Go against the grain meatballs.

Cac reviews don’t mean much of anything in any other context.

Same cac opinions y’all shyt on when they go against something you like

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Absolutely wild example

That’s what i said