drotahorror
Member
This dude is such a beast
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Vick
Gold Member
Made my choice already, and after this post I'm sure I'll regret it. But maybe not.
I was ace at parring in the first one but because of the harder attack patterns and aggressivenes, not here at the moment, not with the old shield at least.
I was ready to hate him, after wanting to get inside the first game and slap him during that "phase". But I actually like Atreus in this one. I care for the character, which is super surprising.
Graphics became mindblowing by the way in the first realm, and the house before. Phenomenal art style too, and at 60fps and that pristine IQ? Chef kiss.
If the sense of progression and evolution of combat/mechanics is similar to the first one, I can tell this will end up being my favorite game of all time.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
His character does feel good to control, and a nice contrast. I feel like a little Legolas when using him. His companions rock too, especially that certain someone is a visual treat with colors.
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GymWolf
Member
I'm 90% sure that there is gonna be an armour set and a couple of emblems\pendants that enlarge the parry window.
There was something that you could equip in the past game that make parry window larger.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yeah, they changed the enchantments to go into a device now instead of each armor piece like in 2018. Also, there is an attachment for the parry shield you get that makes the double ring parry so, so good!
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GymWolf
Member
I think it's just a matter of difficulty mode\being underlevelled if the axe doens't stunlock small enemies more often, but when it does it feels the same as 2018 to me.
Maybe i'm just not observing enough to notice the small difference.
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GymWolf
Member
Yeah i'm strangely digging having different choices for the shield, when they announced this feature i was pretty cold about it.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Now that you described the tower shield for defense, I may have to give it a try as well. I carry both maxed out to this point.
Here is how the new enchantments and attunements work:
The Amulet of Yggdrasil: Enchantments and Attunement Bonuses
You will no longer slot Enchantments into individual pieces of Equipment. Instead, you must find the Amulet of Yggdrasil to slot Enchantments in God of War Ragnarök.To increase the number of slots available, you will have to locate the Jewels of Yggdrasil. A few you’ll get by playing the main story, but the rest you’ll find by exploring different areas of the realms.
Many Enchantments have an innate realm attunement. You’ll know which ones these are as they have the realm they are attuned to in their name, for example the enchantment Midgard’s Endurance has a realm attunement to, you guessed it, Midgard. If you slot three or more from the same Realm Set, you will unlock Perks that power up with your stats.
All Realm Enchantments provide stat boosts – even if you don’t equip a complete set.
Realm Enchantments are not necessarily found in the realm in which they are attuned, so be sure to keep an eye out!
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Topher
Identifies as young
Just did that. Badass. This is the stuff that was missing from the first one.
I'm getting the hang of the parry shield. Was pretty effective against that last boss in the spoiler.
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GymWolf
Member
Lol i'm being the usual moron and not upgrading anything until i have an encounter where i die 50 times.Now that you described the tower shield for defense, I may have to give it a try as well. I carry both maxed out to this point.
Here is how the new enchantments and attunements work:
The Amulet of Yggdrasil: Enchantments and Attunement Bonuses
You will no longer slot Enchantments into individual pieces of Equipment. Instead, you must find the Amulet of Yggdrasil to slot Enchantments in God of War Ragnarök.
To increase the number of slots available, you will have to locate the Jewels of Yggdrasil. A few you’ll get by playing the main story, but the rest you’ll find by exploring different areas of the realms.
Many Enchantments have an innate realm attunement. You’ll know which ones these are as they have the realm they are attuned to in their name, for example the enchantment Midgard’s Endurance has a realm attunement to, you guessed it, Midgard. If you slot three or more from the same Realm Set, you will unlock Perks that power up with your stats.
All Realm Enchantments provide stat boosts – even if you don’t equip a complete set.
Realm Enchantments are not necessarily found in the realm in which they are attuned, so be sure to keep an eye out!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I am usually like that, but you can now buy old resources on the dwarves, so you don't need to worry too much about saving for the next item you want to upgrade to. Resources seem to be plenty too.
So, upgrade yourself!
GymWolf
Member
Not gonna open the spoiler.
Tonight i'm probably gonna buy the parry shield for a try, but the tanky one is pretty fun already.
GymWolf
Member
I'm not sure if at max difficulty you have less resources so for now i'm being stingy with the upgrades.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Im in the second world now (fuck all them names) with the elves and Im free to roam the canyons/desert. Still not really feeling it. Combat is getting better but man those sequences where you have to fight a couple of rats are just laughable.
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Vick
Gold Member
I don't know, maybe the difference I felt is due to changing dynamic range from High to Balanced, but feels more like the first one. Not quite the same, but much more similar nonetheless.
I can confirm I currently suck at parrying by the way, that pack of grims was brutal.
I previously said the jump is like going from GoW to GoWII, but at the moment it feels more like going from Uncharted to Uncharted 2 to be honest.
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GooseMan69
Member
Oh, I love him as a character in this one. Way better than 2018. I was only talking about his model, on a technical level. I would say Naughty Dog is still in their own league when it comes to detailed character models and facial animations.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Topher
Identifies as young
thegame983
Member
I'm about 12 hours in I think and I just completed a quite painful overly long section of the game that has left a bad taste in my mouth. You'll know.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Thanks. Yes, that finally changed the game audio setting to Surround, but i am not getting any audio from my rear speakers with Dolby or DTS. Only with Linear PCM but somehow even though the ingame setting shows Stereo, im getting surround sound.AlsoSlimySnake
You were right, It's Stereo with PCM in Ragnarok for some reason. The game audio changes in settings to surround once you change to either Dolby or DTS.
Ignore my previous post.
The home screen audio is the same. Doesnt have surround sound in rear speakers when using Dolby or DTS, only on LinearPCM. Kinda lame because now im not sure if GOW menu is just bugged or if im indeed getting full surround sound.
But this was a lot of help. Apparently for watching 4k blurays, i have to go and change LinearPCM to Bitstream to get Dolby Atmos but I will try that today.
Represent.
Banned
I’m getting my ass handed to me on the second highest difficulty. Still warming up to the combat. Been a while since I played a action melee game last was Sifu
struggler_guts
Member
If you could handle sifu you can handle that difficulty. Im on the same and its gotten rough at some parts but Im progressing steadily...and I couldnt beat sifu lol
MasterCornholio
Member
Topher
Identifies as young
Anyone else get one of these? My biggest peeve with sony is they just havnt done any real LE controllers. Mostly just colors.. They finally did !
I'd buy that if I could get a matching set of plates for the PS5. That's my biggest pet peeve. These boring ass options....
And no God of War Ragnarok plate? WTF, Sony?
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
SLB1904
Banned
This game is so good. 27hours in according to my save. Cheff kiss
The exploration is so interesting. Loads of story bits from characters of the first game. Just learned about Sigrun before she decide to become a valkyrie
The exploration is so interesting. Loads of story bits from characters of the first game. Just learned about Sigrun before she decide to become a valkyrie
Lol that's first level bits
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Con_Z_ǝdʇ
Live from NeoGAF, it's Friday Night!
Love your impressions. Having great fun so far.
tommib
Banned
Jesus the game is huge then. I spent so much time with the boat and finding all the little rock islands. Everything is quite delicious.
I’m really not the target audience but I love the contained experience it offers. Reminds me of Metroid Prime as well when it locks you in a semi-big area for you to solve. I have everything on auto: jumping, pickups, everything. And it helps with the pace a lot.
SLB1904
Banned
Yeah it's huge.
It's weird because when you get in a new realm. It looks really small with not much to do. Than things start to escalate lol
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Finished it, not 100% as I'm finishing up some of the remaining favours and the after main story stuff...
honestly the ending sequence just sucked, they pulled out the "revenge bad, break the cycle" That the Last of Us 2 pulled, except it actually had some writing to support it this time before they pulled it. At least Sindri showed up at the last second to fucking save the writers credibility and do what needed to be done unlike Spiel Drunkman. However everything in that ending sequence just sucked outside of the spectacle, people just seemed to do 180's on their minor characters... like how many mothers are going to let go of people killing their sons in this game? I know they where assholes, but still.
I think it got a little bit better after Atreus fucks off with his new girl friend and Kratos has a cry after seeing a statue of himself being worshiped.
Its by no means the worst ending in a videogame, but it just feels so generic compared to what we got in the 2016, I didn't really feel anything on an enotional level, thats a step back in my book. Looking forward to hopefully an actual PS5 game next time in the sequel, without so many cracks in the wall /bridge to shuffle/sail under to hide the load times, solid 8/10 like the first game with a worse ending.
I think it got a little bit better after Atreus fucks off with his new girl friend and Kratos has a cry after seeing a statue of himself being worshiped.
Its by no means the worst ending in a videogame, but it just feels so generic compared to what we got in the 2016, I didn't really feel anything on an enotional level, thats a step back in my book. Looking forward to hopefully an actual PS5 game next time in the sequel, without so many cracks in the wall /bridge to shuffle/sail under to hide the load times, solid 8/10 like the first game with a worse ending.
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Topher
Identifies as young
I'm taking a break to dive deeper into the weapon and skill upgrades. I was showing that if you are using just blades or just axe, you are doing it wrong. Use axe to apply frost effect and use blades to amp up the damage. There is more depth to this combat than I realized.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Need to get the game to open up. It's not grabbing me like I thought it would. Only a few hours in. Will get my teeth into it over the weekend. Not blown away right now.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
Where is the option to remove enemy indicator directional arrows from the screen?
I just want to rely on my allies to tell me where enemies are.
I just want to rely on my allies to tell me where enemies are.
Topher
Identifies as young
In Gameplay menu, Go to HUD Customization. Change to Custom. Go down to Enemy Off-Screen Indicators and select Off.
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Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Boneless
Member
wait what .?
GooseMan69
Member
Every time I play this game it introduces something new that keeps it feeling fresh. I constantly find myself thinking “oh wow, they actually went there”. Hard to explain without spoiling it. But god damn, game is fucking wild.
GooseMan69
Member
They really went balls out. Can’t get over it lol
MatrixReloaded101
Member
I think the weapon switching is too slow in combat. Going to try this.
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