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acksplode posted:Yeah the combat is amazing, it's like it was created for me. I hope it gets mercilessly ripped off and the next wave of character action games have the same tight camera Update to Hellblade with GoW combat please.
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Radish posted:I like this game but I don't think I've ever seen a bigger disparity in cutscene and gameplay power levels. Kratos is basically the Hulk. The angrier he gets the stronger he gets. Unless something triggers him or threatens Atreus he is strong but not STRONG. Likewise the prequel comic shows him spending all his time trying to suppress his rage so that probably had an impact on his fighting strength. Just look at the very first fight with The Stranger. Gets his rear end handed to him until Atreus is put in danger then poo poo gets real.
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Over There posted:I went into the R2 cut-scene kill with the last enemy on the "challenge tower" with three seconds left and it still said I failed. I want my money back. happened to me too, theres a later one that you gotta kill guys while they're within the rings and the executions invariably carry them out of the goddamn ring, dont use them apart from in the regen challenge, then you basically can only use them
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Apr 23, 2018 19:48
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Is there a way to dodge that Valkyrie swan dive in the secret Alfheim area where she keeps wailing on your rear end?
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Apr 23, 2018 19:49
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Boogalo posted:Really annoying me: camera still follows things even when you're not locked on and its driving me loving mental. I don't mind the soft lock-on, it just feels awkward with how slow the camera pans when you move it yourself imo. Also I was up until six in the loving morning playing this game and I dearly wish I had a job I could easily call in sick to without feeling guilty.
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Apr 23, 2018 19:52
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You can turn off the lock-on by pressing R3 again. Moving the R stick horizontally and reclicking will also reset your current priority target.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:00
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I think the poster meant the soft lock on the game does without hitting R3. I honestly find it super useful for quickly targetting a flying mob in a crowd so I can mash BOY.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:03
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I can’t wait to start a god of war difficulty play through, but I’m waiting until I beat it first
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Apr 23, 2018 20:12
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I’ll have to do that. I normally don’t care about hard difficulty in games but in this I’m compelled to try it. GreatGreen posted:I love the combat system. Love it. This is my favorite combat ever tbh I wanted to hold off on the BIG STATEMENT nature of that but nope I’ve never had this much fun with combat in a game. It feels so awesome and it has a wonderfully organic approach to playing it how you want vs playing pure Rock Paper Scissors with every enemy. The boy has this balance of being an awesome passive party member + being something you can micromanage a little and get a lot of success out of. The sound design is like 50% of it too. Jesus Christ every normal punch sounds like it could take down a brick wall. Everything in this game sounds unreal though. I’ll have to dig through and find if they’ve done behind the scenes on the audio work because it’s loving insane.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:13
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Axe combat is fun and good but I’m genuinely having more fun throwing it at someone and then beating them to death, the unarmed combat is very good Although the stupid axe aerial combo is hilarious 
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Apr 23, 2018 20:17
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I can’t figure out the world serpent’s voice. Like what the hell did the sound people do, from start to finish, to make that noise come out of my speakers. It is easily the most insane voice I’ve ever heard in any medium ever. Goddamn. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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Apr 23, 2018 20:24
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GreatGreen posted:I can’t figure out the world serpent’s voice. I was using headphones and it was probably the most intimidating experience ever.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:27
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I've never heard such a successful attempt at making something sound absolutely gigantic. I'd listen to an audiobook read by the world serpent.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:30
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I’ve genuinely never felt so tiny/insignificant in any other game or movie or anything. The set piece with the dead giant does something similar but isn’t quite the same as having a giant serpent bellowing through your bones from 50 feet away.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:30
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Yea, it's hard these days to find moments of pure spectacle in (console)gaming. A lot of the time, as someone who's played most AAA games that have come out in the past 15 years, it can feel like I've seen it all and there's nothing that can knock me back in my seat anymore. The double whammy of the turtle and the world serpent really made me feel like a kid again though, just an epic sense of scale that very few games have been able to pull off.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:37
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I loved when Mimir describes the world serpent, saying something like ”once you get past the initial shock, he’s actually a sparkling conversationalist”
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Apr 23, 2018 20:39
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So I haven't played any GOW since the first for no reason since I really enjoyed the first. Can I just jump on this one or would I at least benefit from picking up the III Remaster on PS4 first? I'm not dealing with PS Now ridiculousness for the earlier games. Sorry if this has been asked a bunch but I skimmed the first few pages and didn't see it and didn't want to go too far so as to not spoil myself.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:57
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Thumbtacks posted:Axe combat is fun and good but I’m genuinely having more fun throwing it at someone and then beating them to death, the unarmed combat is very good Yeah, I’ve using the axe more as crowd control to freeze a guy and focus down he friends. Especially in (early lake of 9 spoiler) freezing a dude in the path of dragon fire Chaotic Flame posted:So I haven't played any GOW since the first for no reason since I really enjoyed the first. Can I just jump on this one or would I at least benefit from picking up the III Remaster on PS4 first? I'm not dealing with PS Now ridiculousness for the earlier games. Playing through without knowing much about the first trilogy is actually a viable way to do it. If you’ve played them you can view the game through Kratos’ eyes as just more poo poo that won’t leave you alone. If you go in blind you kind of experience it through Atreus’ eyes. You know your dad has done some dark poo poo but you slowly learn about it over the course of the game. Kind of like playing a video game version of Unforgiven. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Apr 23, 2018 |
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Apr 23, 2018 20:58
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Chaotic Flame posted:So I haven't played any GOW since the first for no reason since I really enjoyed the first. Can I just jump on this one or would I at least benefit from picking up the III Remaster on PS4 first? I'm not dealing with PS Now ridiculousness for the earlier games. Just make the jump to this one.
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Apr 23, 2018 20:59
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God loving drat this game has good sidequests. When the ghost asked me to smash a statue I didn't expect that two hour rollicking adventure. Is it normal that I'm fighting level 4 and 5 enemies at level 2? The dwarves haven't sold me a new armour upgrade in ages.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:04
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You level up really REALLY slowly, it seems. I’m still like level 2 and I’m in alfheim
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Apr 23, 2018 21:07
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is it me or is it really hard or impossible to Parry an attack if you're locked on to a different enemy than the one you're trying to Parry? it's driving me spare.
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Thumbtacks posted:You level up really REALLY slowly, it seems. I’m still like level 2 and I’m in alfheim Level is tied to your gear level. Start upgrading!
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Playing through without knowing much about the first trilogy is actually a viable way to do it. If you’ve played them you can view the game through Kratos’ eyes as just more poo poo that won’t leave you alone. If you go in blind you kind of experience it through Atreus’ eyes. You know your dad has done some dark poo poo but you slowly learn about it over the course of the game. Kind of like playing a video game version of Unforgiven. I really like this take on Atreus. I love how they weave Atreus progression into the combat and you feel like he is growing as progress in the story. This is the first game where I care a lot more my companions progress than my own.
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Atreus has massively improved just in the time it took me to do the first realm and come back to Midgard. He was just plinking guys with arrows to distract them but now he's got upgraded arrows, a grapple movie, and he can summon a spectral wolf if I hold the button instead of tap it. He's extremely useful and it actually feels like we're teaming up on these guys.
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Basebf555 posted:Atreus has massively improved just in the time it took me to do the first realm and come back to Midgard. He was just plinking guys with arrows to distract them but now he's got upgraded arrows, a grapple movie, and he can summon a spectral wolf if I hold the button instead of tap it. He's extremely useful and it actually feels like we're teaming up on these guys. The best is when he grapples a dude and you can do a windup for the heavy R2 attack and just wreck someone
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exquisite tea posted:Is there a way to dodge that Valkyrie swan dive in the secret Alfheim area where she keeps wailing on your rear end? You can roll evade it and you have to be pretty quick about it. I also suggest rolling backwards so you can keep her in view.
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Chaotic Flame posted:So I haven't played any GOW since the first for no reason since I really enjoyed the first. Can I just jump on this one or would I at least benefit from picking up the III Remaster on PS4 first? I'm not dealing with PS Now ridiculousness for the earlier games. I did this and the only thing it really did was make the 8 year game design jump more satisfying. In terms of plot, the only remotely relevant bits can be summed up in like a paragraph max: GOW: Kratos pledges to Ares for power, gets tricked into killing his family. Pledges to Athena instead, kills Ares, becomes a god. GOW 2: Zeus says "you're my son and also too reckless, I need to kill you." He fails to kill you and you fail to kill him, the latter because Athena throws herself into your fight and dies instead. GOW 3: Zeus continues to fail to kill you and you eventually succeed after killing the rest of the greek pantheon. Athena's ghost helps you for awhile, but wants to become the new All Powerful God or whatever and only tells you this during the end cutscene, demanding that you give her the power you used to kill Zeus. You opt to release the power into the world instead, and you part ways with her royally pissed off at you but not really able to do much about it. Anything else that ever becomes plot-relevant and wasn't retconned will be brought up explicitly, eventually.
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GreatGreen posted:I can’t figure out the world serpent’s voice. I have a pretty decent 5.1 setup with large speakers and subwoofer and the world serpent was inside my apartment. When I play through again on hard I'm gonna get a save right before scene that just to show it to people.
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I'm going to go with what several others have said and say I prefer the combat without the hard (pressing R3) lockon. All the hard lockon ever did was frustrate me when I tried to change targets and it either wouldn't change, or it would change to an enemy I didn't want to change to. Game works fine without it. If you find you aren't turning fast enough, you can up the horizontal pan speed of the camera. drat thing pans real quick when you push that slider all the way up.
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My favorite thing about the World Serpent could best be described as the game's full time audio mix is at like 60% then that thing is at 100%. Like I was playing the game pretty loud and that fucker nearly blew out my windows. I love it so much.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:36
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I appreciate that the parry window is wide enough that even a scrub like me can do it and feel awesome in combat.
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poo poo I didn't even realize there was an option
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:I appreciate that the parry window is wide enough that even a scrub like me can do it and feel awesome in combat. And you can easily get a talisman that makes the parry window wider.
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Holy good lord this game just made me super emotional during the modi causing atreus to hulk out and have to been taken to freya section. Kratos body language while holding him and carrying him there was amazing. It’s storming real bad where I live right now so the solitary travel back to their home was surreal. And then the thing at the house happens ahhhhhh GOTY every year forever
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Minor near-end spoilers: After Kratos mellows out and grows as a dad and talks to his kid and all that stuff, there's a scene in the realm travel room where Mimir is talking about the battle between the World Serpent and Thor being so epic it breaks time and sends Jormungandr back to before his own creation. Kratos, after spending a full game silently listening to stories from Norse mythology, finally says "That is nonsense." Its the funniest line in the game.
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Also I have to believe all those extra vowels in the World Serpent's language are semantically or grammatically important, not just him talking super slow, since Mimir does it too.
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Finished the main story tonight, game is  I'm a bit saddened that it isn't 200 hours long so it could tie up every loose end in the entire norse mythos but hopefully building the next game won't take another 5 years. I guess there's only so much stuff you can fit into 45GB of data, and not a single bit of it was wasted on pre-rendered cutscenes 
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i like to think what the World Serpent says to you is "DID YOU BRING ME COOKIES? I SMELL COOKIES"
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Kilometers Davis posted:Holy good lord this game just made me super emotional during the modi causing atreus to hulk out and have to been taken to freya section. Kratos body language while holding him and carrying him there was amazing. It’s storming real bad where I live right now so the solitary travel back to their home was surreal. And then the thing at the house happens ahhhhhh The best part of that is the impatient pacing on the elevator up to the Freya's house.
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