Pelta88
Member
Yep, that's them.
This is absolutely hilarious and also kinda tragic.
I remember when I first saw this on twitter, I didn't think it was real because the intention is too overt.
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This is absolutely hilarious and also kinda tragic.
I remember when I first saw this on twitter, I didn't think it was real because the intention is too overt.
remember_spinal
Banned
The more damning list is the Fromsoftware games. They rate them all highly except bloodborne and demon’s souls lol
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mansoor1980
Member
Yep, that's them.
Boss Man
Member
Because I’m at work and was hoping to discuss the video game on a video game discussion board to get a better idea of what to expect. It’s also quicker to get an answer this way. Sorry for any offense caused to you brother, gamers rise up.
feynoob
Banned
These are the type of people who rate your games btw.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
A reminder these are grown ass men that do shit like this too.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
So far I would rate this game a 7/10. It’s good, but it’s just more of the same from the 2018 and much longer to boot. I wish game devs would realize that just because they fill their games with bloated to do list stuff it doesn’t make it a better product. But who knows, maybe it will stick the landing and made the previous 30 hours feel more worthwhile.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
GymWolf
Member
It is less linear, you have more areas like the lake of nine, and the story sure AF is less linear and bigger in scope.
If you have good\great skills with action games, hard\very hard mode is where the real fun is, if you don't like a challenge, it looks like even normal is a bit on the hard side (at least at the beginning).
Maybe try the combat on normal and if you don't have problem, go to hard and then to very hard.
The game is harder than the first one, even just for the enemy variety\groups composition.
I'm not sure if i noticed all these qtes...you have maybe 1 or 2 during major boss fights, but nothing that happen very often, 95% of combat is against normal enemies with zero qte.
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Thirty7ven
Banned
Imagine being a grown ass man working as a game reviewer and not being able to contain your pathetic childish bias for a console brand even though you are getting shit for free.
An admission of guilt.
An admission of guilt.
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
"let me give a Sony game a good score. it's getting too obvious now"
Hobbygaming
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I just beat the campaign it took me around 30 hours
97/100
97/100
Hobbygaming
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Lmao Ragnarok really is coming LOL
mxbison
Member
Really? I'm 18 hours in and haven't seen a to do list.
All the side content so far has been unique and felt very well implemented into the world.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Sometimes it’s really easy to tell who hasn’t played the game.
“I thought GOW18 was just ok good not great so I went out there and bought Ragnarok at launch, put over 30 hours into it in just a week and my thoughts are ok, kinda boring and why does it play like assassins creed Valhala? 7/10”
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Hobbygaming
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God of War Ragnarok has entered my G.O.A.T list, in no order
Uncharted 4
God of War Ragnarok
TLOU
Nier Automata
Resident Evil 2 remake
Final Fantasy 7 (the original on PS1)
Spider-man PS4
Tomb Raider 1
Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil 1
Shenmue 1
Uncharted 4
God of War Ragnarok
TLOU
Nier Automata
Resident Evil 2 remake
Final Fantasy 7 (the original on PS1)
Spider-man PS4
Tomb Raider 1
Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil 1
Shenmue 1
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
If Ragnarok "plays the same", then what was everyone saying during the older PS gens with the Tomb Raider franchise, Crash Bandicoot, Jak 2 and 3, Spyros, Uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 1 and 2, hell even the older God of War games had less evolution in terms of gameplay than GOW 2018 to Ragnarok.
I feel like expectations for sequels are getting ridiculous. Sequels don't re-invent the wheel. They never did. Ragnarok has legit chapters that feel like a completely different IP.
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Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Kill all the Ravens. Open all the chests, solving the same 3 to 4 variety of ”puzzles”. Find the very obvious buried treasure. Kill the Hateful. I would go one, but it would end up spoiling later things in the game. Its busy work To do list stuff.
The game is awesome but some of the fights in Give me God of War mode has me hitting the L3 and R3 in real life. My controllers are fearful at this point and I am inventing new curse words to describe the frustration lol I am like 24 hours in...
I don't think God of War mode is as hard as Ultra Hard for horizon. A scrounger half my level in horizon ( I'm level 36) can almost 1 shot me...
I don't think God of War mode is as hard as Ultra Hard for horizon. A scrounger half my level in horizon ( I'm level 36) can almost 1 shot me...
SLB1904
Banned
You don't have to do none of that.
GhostOfTsu
Banned
What about all the copy/paste dungeons, bosses, Evergaols, Erdtrees, etc in Elden Ring? Was that busy work too?
That's all optional stuff, easily ignored if you don't enjoy it.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Copy/past bosses? There were a few that were the same model, but offered differing challenges in how you combat them. Many with entirely new moves. Copy/Paste Dungeons? Each dungeon was unique, though a few shared similar core designs - none of it was “copy paste”, unless there was like 2-3 of them that I don’t remember well. Evergoals? You mean uniquely challenging versions of a handful of bosses with a few completely unique to just those locations? Erdtrees would be the only thing that was “copy paste” and even then, they would usually be 10-30 hours apart Unless you left them all for the end and just rushed each one in a series.
Meanwhile in GoW:R it is *literally* a checklist. Its on the feckin’ map screen as a checklist.
I get you are a big Sony Fanboy, but at least have a good argument.
Hobbygaming
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Do y'all even like video games lol
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Yes, well made games with diverse content that doesn't feel like a chore. Shocking, but not everyone has the same opinion on this game as you may have.
mxbison
Member
Why is that different from trying to find all the chests/items/powerups in "insert game you like"? You can completely ignore that part.
The actual side quests are good, they don't even feel like side content.
Crispy Gamer
Member
All games deserve a little constructive criticism for example the puzzles being solved before I can get a chance to figure it out is annoying but at the end of the day this for me tops 2018 it's right there with the Witcher 3 and 2018 as one of the greatest adventures ever crafted it's simply freaking amazing! I hope and pray 
we don't have to wait another 4 years for whatever Santa Monica comes up with. They've truly outdone themselves with this one though lol I think some people are underestimating how hard it is to create not 1 but 2 games that will be considered to be some of the greatest games ever made bravo Santa Monica studios.
we don't have to wait another 4 years for whatever Santa Monica comes up with. They've truly outdone themselves with this one though lol I think some people are underestimating how hard it is to create not 1 but 2 games that will be considered to be some of the greatest games ever made bravo Santa Monica studios.
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
Ignoring the more elaborate GoW:R side missions that culminate into some really awesome story moments while hand waving away all the checklist content in Elden Ring is totally dishonest
Maybe you shouldn’t be throwing out the term fanboy at other people
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Where am I “ignoring” anything? The side missions don’t make up the bulk of the content and I have stated elsewhere (unless the post was deleted) that the side missions are where the few good moments of writing reside.
But yes, I will call out the term fanboy at blatant fanboys as I have always done. The fact that *you* can’t handle the most mild criticism about this game speaks entirely about your character.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
I can handle criticism without resorting to calling people fanboys.
There’s tons of checklist recycled content in ER. Just because it may not show up on the map via a check list format doesn’t mean it isn’t checklist content.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad, but it’s no different than the stuff you disparage GoW with. Can’t believe the conversation has come down to overplaying the significance of Ravens and Chests…like what the fuck are you going on about? Elden Ring somehow doesn’t have its own loot to find or weird sequence of fetch quests and or minor puzzles?
The game has much more significant missions and optimal boss fights that are really fun and elaborate just like ER.
You make it seem like GoW is somehow a massive disappointment due to….ravens? Fuck outta here with that nonsense. Feels like there’s some big narrative push by certain people with an agenda to try and knock God of War down from being one of the best games made in the last few years
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Danjin44
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I would say if you enjoyed GOW 2018 then Ragnarök is better game in almost every part, even with Ravens you have better motivation to collect them.
My criticism mostly the way characters won’t shut up about puzzles and some of story sections draaaaaaaaags on way too long.
My criticism mostly the way characters won’t shut up about puzzles and some of story sections draaaaaaaaags on way too long.
Dafegamer
Member
Wasn't the sarcasm obvious?
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
I am merely calling a spade a spade. If you find offense in that, then maybe don't make posts like this that only further support that terminology.
I already pointed out how they are different. Merely claiming "but they *are* the same!" doesn't counter any point I made. Try again.
When did I ever say it didn't have that?
I disagree on that last bit - personally, I don't find them any more elaborate than a typical God of War boss fight - but I do agree that there are plenty of fun optional bosses. Never did I suggest otherwise.
The only one who needs to "fuck outta here with that nonsense" is you. Never did I say that this was anything other than a mild criticism. I never suggested that the game is a massive disappointment because of the checklist design of its side activities. YOU are the fanboy who continues to push that assertion. And the bolded just further proves that you can't handle any criticism of this game.
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
Let's read what you said again:
Yes, Copy and Paste bosses. There's a lot of recycled content in Elden Ring. I don't find this to be a BAD thing either, but it's blatantly there. Evergoals are basically "checklist" bosses with tweaks. That's it.
The dungeons were some of the worst parts of Elden Ring. Unmemorable. Short. Not any good rewards generally. Hand crafted? I GUESS that's what the developers claim, but you could easily be fooled into thinking they are procedural. I ended up skipping 90% of them, and this is a significant portion of the side content in Elden Ring. If you're going to praise Elden Ring's dungeons and then shit over God of War's mini-puzzles scattered throughout that may be of a familiar type but obviously the execution tends to be quite sifferent for many of them, I don't know what to tell you. It's just objectively wrong.
Again - the point isn't to disparage Elden Ring, just not put it on some pedastal like you supposedly are. The side content in Elden Ring is of comparable quality to what you'd get in God of War, which is to say mostly great compared to other games, but obviously contains things some would call "checklist filler". What sets them apart is that they are both fairly digestible through the natural course of exploration and never overstay their welcome. They aren't like a Ubisoft games where they feel overbearing with bordedom. You actively seek them out.
Mild criticism? Lmfao, You gave it a 7/10, said it was the same as 2018 and filled with bloat. That's not mild criticism when there's LITERALLY not a SINGLE official review on Metacritic, of which there are 131, that is BELOW an 8. So yeah, maybe it is YOU that's wrong, being overly harsh, and probably have some kind of weird axe to grind to try and pit one of your more favored games against it. Somehow we're not allowed to enjoy both.
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Yes, it is mild criticism. If me giving it a 7/10 is THAT much of an issue because a bunch of random cunts on Metacritic gave it 8 and higher (and as I have said before, the only ones who put stock into Metacritic are warriors and children who need validation for their own purchases) - you need to seek counseling. Nowhere did I ever say you can't enjoy it. You are the one with an axe to grind here, kiddo.
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
Ahhh yes, 131 "random cunts" and not a SINGLE one gives it a 7.
But some random dude on NeoGAF thinks GoW is no different from 2018, just more bloated with checklist stuff.
I don't care man, you do you, I'm just glad I'm not so bitter and jaded that I can't enjoy this masterpiece of a game
But some random dude on NeoGAF thinks GoW is no different from 2018, just more bloated with checklist stuff.
I don't care man, you do you, I'm just glad I'm not so bitter and jaded that I can't enjoy this masterpiece of a game
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Once again, mate. Go seek help. Just because I found it to be disappointing doesn't mean you can't love it. The fact that my opinion triggers you *that* much is not healthy.
Here, I even googled it for you. Use it.
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mansoor1980
Member
alabtrosMyster
Banned
Have you guys seen the negative user reviews on MetaCritics? They just make no sense, as of most of these people have not played the game, this is insane.
remember_spinal
Banned
GOW: Ragnarök got a 10 from the latest Play Magazine (UK Games Magazine) they are listed on Metacritic. I can actually see this Game reaching a 95 on Metacritic
Its gotten over a half dozen perfect reviews in the last week. I think Edge giving it a good review will push it there maybe
Dafegamer
Member
In comparison, they gave GOW (2018) an 8, so that's something at least
Edit: In regards to Play btw, not Edge
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
EDGE Magazine will be the reason why this won't reach 95.
An EDGE editor already didn't like it that much from his tweets...besides the fact the 2018 entry got an 8.
If anything EDGE will seal the deal on this 94. If they give a 7 it could even go down to 93, who knows. (and it would be the game's 1st 7 lmao)
remember_spinal
Banned
Imagine them giving it the same score as they gave HFW, yikes
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Edgy!
