God of War (2018)
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4 hours until it unlocks. Figure I can be a bit tired at work tomorrow and play a few hours after the midnight launch.
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Nola
Trakanon Raider
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I hope his axe and shield looks better the farther you go into the game. From what I seen the axe looks like it dropped off a level 1 orc.
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Dandai
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I watched a couple of interviews with the lead developer where they posed that same question, and while he was obviously coy about it, I got the impression that there was at least a possibility that there would be more weapons than the axe and shield.
Of course that could mean unlocking the classic God of War weapons when you platinum the game or something too though.
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Nola
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So. Impressions after 1 hour 35 minutes after first boss (not the troll)
Gameplay
- Great combat feel. Ties in with graphics, but animations make it so that every attack looks like it has weight behind it.
- Enemies attack following their own individual patterns. So can't focus on one. Need to dodge around everyone (playing on Hard). You can only survive around 3 hits.
- More akin to combat like a souls game than the old GOW games. Even fighting 5 mobs, it doesn't feel hack and slashy.
- First troll (one from trailers) could be ultra cheesed by flying axe. It took a while, but it never even hit me (first time I tried melee and it oneshot me).
- First boss was fun, but somewhat easy considering I am on hard (one more difficulty slider above what I use).
- No QTE evens so far. Might come later, but so far what would have been QTE scenes from the previous games are just video sequences in this.
- Already in the tutorial opening part you find things and encounters off the beaten path. (Still only found 3 of 4 toys which annoy me to no end and I want to restart, but I think this game lets you backtrack so I wont)
- Skill trees that I can see are axe, shield\defence, bow\rage\unarmed (bow is tied to the kid). No idea if there are more weapons later, but don't see any skill trees for them at the moment. I hope there are more. Kind of strange to add a loot mechanic to the game and limit you to one weapon. Granted I think you do get runes which change stats\add abilities to the axe.
Audio
- Nothing really to say. Good? Don't notice it, so nothing bad at least. Voice acting is good for the three characters I've heard so far.
Graphics
- ..... just wow. Playing on a Pro, 4k tv with resolution mode and HDR on. It. Looks. So. Good.
Only negative so far is that it is more "open" yet closed? Can't jump or fall off cliffs (at least not yet). Every time you can jump, you see a O icon and you press circle and you jump. When climbing, you can't jump to the side before you move your camera to the point where you see the O icon. You feel "stuck" to the ground if that makes sense. Example: A little hidden chest behind some trees and rocks. It looks like you'd easily be able to climb\jump over the rocks, but you can't. Need to find a specific point that lets you climb over that one particular object.
So while the areas you explore are more akin to Darksiders, your movement is still very linear.
Latter part is an incredibly minor gripe though, and more common than not in these games, so can't really fault it at all for it. 9/10 first early impression
Gameplay
- Great combat feel. Ties in with graphics, but animations make it so that every attack looks like it has weight behind it.
- Enemies attack following their own individual patterns. So can't focus on one. Need to dodge around everyone (playing on Hard). You can only survive around 3 hits.
- More akin to combat like a souls game than the old GOW games. Even fighting 5 mobs, it doesn't feel hack and slashy.
- First troll (one from trailers) could be ultra cheesed by flying axe. It took a while, but it never even hit me (first time I tried melee and it oneshot me).
- First boss was fun, but somewhat easy considering I am on hard (one more difficulty slider above what I use).
- No QTE evens so far. Might come later, but so far what would have been QTE scenes from the previous games are just video sequences in this.
- Already in the tutorial opening part you find things and encounters off the beaten path. (Still only found 3 of 4 toys which annoy me to no end and I want to restart, but I think this game lets you backtrack so I wont)
- Skill trees that I can see are axe, shield\defence, bow\rage\unarmed (bow is tied to the kid). No idea if there are more weapons later, but don't see any skill trees for them at the moment. I hope there are more. Kind of strange to add a loot mechanic to the game and limit you to one weapon. Granted I think you do get runes which change stats\add abilities to the axe.
Audio
- Nothing really to say. Good? Don't notice it, so nothing bad at least. Voice acting is good for the three characters I've heard so far.
Graphics
- ..... just wow. Playing on a Pro, 4k tv with resolution mode and HDR on. It. Looks. So. Good.
Only negative so far is that it is more "open" yet closed? Can't jump or fall off cliffs (at least not yet). Every time you can jump, you see a O icon and you press circle and you jump. When climbing, you can't jump to the side before you move your camera to the point where you see the O icon. You feel "stuck" to the ground if that makes sense. Example: A little hidden chest behind some trees and rocks. It looks like you'd easily be able to climb\jump over the rocks, but you can't. Need to find a specific point that lets you climb over that one particular object.
So while the areas you explore are more akin to Darksiders, your movement is still very linear.
Latter part is an incredibly minor gripe though, and more common than not in these games, so can't really fault it at all for it. 9/10 first early impression
Omayga
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got the notice that my copy from Amazon is going to be about 3-4 days late, guess I will get to test out their customer service again, its bee a while since I had an issue with Amazon
Not sure why they cant just re-ship and pull the one that is "stuck" in Ohio at a UPS terminal back but oh well.
Not sure why they cant just re-ship and pull the one that is "stuck" in Ohio at a UPS terminal back but oh well.
Vorph
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Even if that was normal procedure they've been sold out of it for several days.
That does suck though. I won't be getting mine from Gamefly until Saturday, but it could be Monday if USPS decides to fuck up. Fortunately Yakuza 6 is fantastic too so I will survive either way.
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Lenas
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Well, this game is fantastic. I have to admit though, until I get better at combat, I had to lower the difficulty from "challenging." Group combat is not easy. I did the first boss on hard, which wasn't so bad, but shit can get pretty hectic. Damn do I love the spectacle that is GOW.
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