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God of War Game Informer New Details
- Thread starter WordsintheWater
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What are you even talking about? GOW was always linear this is is much more open.
At least the previous games had arenas and open puzzles and everything. Now it's all about corridors.
Did Ascension really perform that horribly performance and sales wise? I don't remember it being that bad of a game...
Because it's clear from the article that's what they wanted to make. They only wanted to do a new GoW if it was a complete overhaul.
You were never getting an old style GoW anyway, as the higher-ups weren't interested in making one.
This will sell immensely. Probably second behind Uncharted 4 this generation so far.
not sure how i feel about lack of jumping
i used to like the occasional platforming section to break up the pace
i used to like the occasional platforming section to break up the pace
No jumping is very disappointing. Not that I expecting Bayonetta level of air combos or even Kingdom Hearts 2's, but come on.
What? They have already said that this new game will be the "most open" in the series. (More like Uncharted 4 and the Tomb Raider Reboot)
The game supposedly cost something like $50M to develop. I agree with you that it wasn't a bad game but I'm sure they were expecting something much better considering the amount of money they put into it.
I agree. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Sad to see them jumping and swimming is gone also.
I'd say more like The Last of Us than Assassin's Creed.
I know people wanted change in God of War, but ironically, given The Last of Us-ification of so many games coming out on PlayStation, a traditional God of War game would have been a refreshing change.
No jumping? Gross
Guess we can look forward to the classic helping each other up a wall thing then.
Guess we can look forward to the classic helping each other up a wall thing then.
Yeah we know this since it was revealed too I am confused by some o the posts.
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Old fans didn't give a fuck about Ascension, who can blame SM for trying something new?
It's not really open world like Horizon, it's more wide-linear.
Also, Bloodborne and Nioh didn't have swimming and jumping and the combat in those games is way better than any GoW.
But not having a jump button at all in these bigger areas makes me think most non combat actions will be automated, where you press X or whatever to activate it then watch Kratos climb something or cross a gap. Either that or extremely flat areas which will get boring pretty fast.
The new direction seems interesting to be sure. I just hope the traversal speed is fast and there's not a ton of slow walking considering the game is supposed to be on the longer side.
I'd say it's a character action game.
If they wanted to use Norse mitologhy, they should've better start anew with a new hero, create another tragic story and a more refined combat system.
Let's hope they create a really good reason to have Kratos fighting against dragons, trolls and Jormundgand.
Let's hope they create a really good reason to have Kratos fighting against dragons, trolls and Jormundgand.
Same. Where are people getting their information from, before giving their misinformed hot takes?
It still has puzzles, fast pased combat with a high skill, exploration, set pieces, huge bosses fight...etc No it's not ryse at all.
BTW...Todd papy (ascension director) was working in Ryse 2 as a director before he left crytek...I wish I could see what he would do with it.
These changes sound fine to me. As I mentioned in other threads, we have 6 games in the old style. It's okay if they change it up for this one.
Do you have a PS4? Just buy the remaster when it goes on sale.
What? God of War has been a character action game just like DMC, Ninja Gaiden, etc.
Do you have a PS4? Just buy the remaster when it goes on sale.
What? God of War has been a character action game just like DMC, Ninja Gaiden, etc.
They will use the boy on this kind of sections. I remember seeing the director commenting on an area that you had to solve a puzzle to make the boy cross a wall to open a door for Kratos.
All previous GOW games are old school hack n' Slash rather than Character Action.
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People didn't like Ascension because it felt like a watered down version of the previous games in terms of set pieces and made no significant gameplay improvement. They could retain the series' direction while improving it, as opposed to abandoning it as it seems they have done. That's what I'm suggesting. I would probably play another character action-lite game after all this time without a GOW title, but this I'm just not interested in right now. We've also heard murmurs of the pre-orders being relatively low, which seems to match with anecdotal evidence about interest in the game.
This game is just kind of weird. I don't understand why Kratos is in it really. And I don't understand why you would want to humanize Kratos by having him escort his kid around. It seems like they wanted to go for a Joel-Ellie kind of relationship while keeping an established character around. Except they forgot to ask themselves if it makes sense to do that in this case.
I don't like the sound of that, having flashbacks of DmC now.
By the way, do we know the general control scheme of this game? Is it going with the Souls layout? Curious that they'd use square as the kid button. Are we finally getting another action game that uses triangle and circle as the main combat buttons?
No jumping of any sort? Figure this is really going to impact verticality during combat, if there is any. Game still looks good, but it seems like they've gone too far in the direction TLOU, including crafting mechanics(which personally I've grown immensely tired of lately).
Honestly I don't mind the lack of jumping that much, but they really should have a proper video detailing the combat mechanics of the game.
Honestly I don't mind the lack of jumping that much, but they really should have a proper video detailing the combat mechanics of the game.
I mean, they can do what they want, but if Ascensions poor reception/sales were the reason for it, then I feel they made the change for the wrong reasons.
Making one average game in a traditional format after 3 very successful predecessors doesn't mean you throw a successful formula out. They just got it wrong in one case, that's fine.
Fans didn't Devil May Cry 2 but they didn't go completely changing Devil May Cry 3 wholesale as a result.
This is barely God of War anymore. Why not create a new series? Egipt? No jump? This is not my GOW :(
Not a fan of crafting stuff either. It would be much cooler to just find sets around these optional areas you can find. A much better reward for exploration than crafting materials. Even if, at the end of the day, it takes the same amount of time played through the game to get a set, it's much more rewarding to find armor than it is to find random crap.
The game doesn't have a huge platforming element, but it's there.
You actually do have a jump button in Bloodborne. :P
The game doesn't have a huge platforming element, but it's there.
I'm ok with "no jumping". Actually I'm playing Hellblade and I'm not missing the jumping/platforming. Hopefully this will arrive in March. A Collector's Edition would be a great birthday gift.
Still, though.
And cool but they're different games and genres. souls combat isn't super amazing, imo.
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I may be wrong, but I think the only other buttons mentioned are L1 for the shield, O to grab and triangle to recall Leviathan, not sure if that is also the attack button for Leviathan.
I'll skim the article again and see if I got it right.
No jump button is a shocker, but welcome. Definitely a much needed fresh take for the series.
God of Souls here we come!
God of Souls here we come!
Hmmm, if shield is L1, than the attacks are probably R1 and R2.
I'm ok with it, it's a great control scheme.
