SPOILERS: God of War SPOILER Thread (SPOILER THREAD, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!)
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Well there's no way they went the Marvel route, I think they'll put their own spin on it, no reason to think otherwise imo. I expect his intro to be epic tho, can't wait.
Believe it or not, there a lot of movies and even theatrical plays that uses the blonde and womanizer Thor rather than the red haired, rude warrior of Norse mythology.
Somehow, Marvel Thor has entered the collective imagination more than the "official one" and this is waaay before the MCU.
I hope they go a completely different route. Red haired Thor with a helmet sounds awesome
How the hell did this get out already? Then entire game will be online by the time it releases smh
You would think it'd been leaked earlier if that was the case. I guess a question for OP is where the footage was originally posted.
Based on the subtitles it's somewhere in Asia right? Could be a possible disc production plant or shipping facility no?
Welp...beats me. Maybe a rich guy with good inside contacts? idk
Based on what he's been doing in the Lost Pages of Norse Myth podcast, this game is going the route of having him be a monstrous brute. He's been engaged in a campaign of genocide against the frost giants and goes out and murders people based on Odin's orders. The axe Kratos is using was apparently created as a counter to Mjolnir after the creator of Mjolnir learned of the destruction and genocide Thor was using the hammer for. It has not been discussed how that ends up with Kratos, however.
This looks awful to me. Walk, cutscene, walk, cutscene, smash 3 guys in a corridor, walk cutscene.
Those 10min really are just this. Not being able to jump for combo, stuck on the ground with emotions and drama who have no replay value once you know them.
GOW always was linear but this is too much for me.
Those 10min really are just this. Not being able to jump for combo, stuck on the ground with emotions and drama who have no replay value once you know them.
GOW always was linear but this is too much for me.
What????? Don't tell me you expect Hulk, Iron-Man, Spider-Man to show up too. This game is the closest depiction in media you will get about Norse Mythology and not the westernized version of it.
Yes he is and he wears a helmet llike what we saw in the Stone Mason trailer.
Man i dont even know if people are joking these days.
I agree with the person above, we need to avoid all spoiler discussions in an open forum.
How do you know this? Outside the Hulk and Iron Man since that is obvious?
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Know what? That GOW is close to Norse Myths? You listened to the Lost Pages podcasts and the links I posted millions of times? Or Do you allude that Marvel Thor is the real deal???
Mate why would I be joking ? It's my opinion after watching this leak video.
You'll get criticized for saying that here, but I kind of agree with you. I keep trying to talk myself into liking what I see of the combat, but I'd be lying to myself.
I don't think that's entirely fair to say quite yet. This appears to be early game content when we've seen encounters that are much more complex. The higher difficulty that reshuffles the enemies is also good for replay value. That being said, the lack of the jump has concerned me since the initial reveal (even more odd since Juggles are still around it seems) and I imagine that will continue.
The fuck...?
Anyway, yeah I meant the depiction of Norse mythology and Thor's appearance that you described? Just from said on a podcast? Until you actually play the game itself I don't how you can say that for sure.
Looks absolutely fenomenal. I was always a fan of GOW, but this new chapter is just something else.
While I'm not that extreme, there's some stuff in here that looks straight out of a ND game or the recent Tomb Raider (hold forward to sidle through cramped corridors), straightforward climbing sequences, and just general ND like pacing. The quiet walk and talk moments that get interrupted by characters falling, leading to bigger enemy encounters is definitely right at home in an Uncharted or TLOU.
I don't know if these are necessarily bad things though.
Yeah, I think maybe you should step back from this conversation...
I don't think the combat looks great-tier watching it, but playing it might be different entirely.
Too early to call until you try it yourself.
Graphics and atmosphere look fantastic, but obviously linear and this segment of the game at least has a lot of cutscenes. It will live or die based on how good the combat actually is because that's where the gameplay focus is. Look at how linear Doom 2016 was. It didn't matter because all you were looking forward to was the next fight.
You quoted Uncharted and TLOU but to me it's also remniscent of COD campaign really. Scripted event on a linear path that drags you elsewhere to the next cutscene. Except cutscenes are longer, and can you even pass them ?
Maybe Boss fights can save it all who knows.
That encounter looked really bad, all the other stuff that has been show previously was great but that horde of enemies+narrow path was awkward. I hope it was just a "get out of there asap" section or something
You must take a look and not jump into conclusions. Continuing like that won't get you any results or advancements.
Gonna tell you what is the biggest swerve-thingy I wanted this game to reveal. It was the following:
Almost at the end of the game, some god/enemy heavily injures the kid, almost dying. Kratos is having flashbacks from his old days(he tried to forget who he was?) but seeing his kid like that made him remember all of that. All of this while this music is becoming more and more intense.
Kratos goes berserk on everybody. Then he brings the kid back to wherever there's someone that can heal him.
"My vengeance... begins now"(ayy lmao)
Camera cut* to Kratos going to the bathroom and shaving his beard. This dude just brings the Blades of Chaos from a crate buried in the garden. And the final third of the game begins with good ol Kratos coming back. Almost everyone gets a new and the old Kratos in the game, nobody can complain. We're all happy.
Cory, bb, if you wanna contact me to make the next GoW just send me a message here.
If something remotely close to this is happening then sign me up.
*Actually, no camera cuts in this game. Just follow Kratos to the bathroom
Almost at the end of the game, some god/enemy heavily injures the kid, almost dying. Kratos is having flashbacks from his old days(he tried to forget who he was?) but seeing his kid like that made him remember all of that. All of this while this music is becoming more and more intense.
Kratos goes berserk on everybody. Then he brings the kid back to wherever there's someone that can heal him.
"My vengeance... begins now"(ayy lmao)
Camera cut* to Kratos going to the bathroom and shaving his beard. This dude just brings the Blades of Chaos from a crate buried in the garden. And the final third of the game begins with good ol Kratos coming back. Almost everyone gets a new and the old Kratos in the game, nobody can complain. We're all happy.
Cory, bb, if you wanna contact me to make the next GoW just send me a message here.
If something remotely close to this is happening then sign me up.
*Actually, no camera cuts in this game. Just follow Kratos to the bathroom
Or you could just answer the question instead of vague and passive aggressive nonsense. Probably would work out better than whatever it is you're trying to convey nkw
The kid is ill and we are witnessing this more and more. He now has snotty coughs. In previous artworks we saw Kratos carrying him on his back while he has fully white hair (which means it will get palerin time like in SOTC or DmC). I wonder if his body can't sustain the inherited curse from Kratos and how the latter will feel about this.
I haven't played that game basically since it came out, but I felt like those sequences were usually simple platforming challenges like timing your sidle between obstacles and spikes and stuff, or some absurd thing like doing it on a moving titan or while a battle was happening in the background.
The ones in the video really feel right out of an ND game thanks to the tight camera and the general pacing of the dialogue. I think about all the various staples of those games too like team lifts and little touches like that.
Again, I don't think these are bad things but it does lend to this feeling so much like one of those games with a different core interaction. I'm not criticizing this game as a "GoW3 did it right," so much as the pacing being strikingly similar to a ND game.
We aren't so sure in that scene where Kratos was absent inside the light beam that whether his son used the axe or the bow. We know he used his mother's knife too.
I don't think he could have killed that amount of enemies with an axe he can barely hold or lift, unless he used with his hidden power which drained his life force and made him ill.
You can see the axe stuck in the corpse of one of the enemies.
I mean stuff like squeezing through tight spaces as the camera pulls in close and simple platforming sections are right out of GoW 3's playbook. Like there were moments like that within the first 20 minutes of the game while you were inside Gaia.
Why would you have to jump to combo? In this game you don't need to, you can launch enemies in the air, carry out juggles, combinations etc without having to jump. Technically Kratos was stringing large combos together here, of different enemy hits and kills (even though they die really fast) but there just isn't a combo indicator to highlight that.
And obviously this is a more linear part of the game where they are literally crossing narrow bridges in some sort of underground mine or system, whilst other combat arenas we've seen are instead wider and/or larger.
After watching some of the leaked footage, I guess we now have a conclusive answer to whether the game sustains the illusion of an unbroken shot—and that answer is no. White-out transitions galore.