Old to New UI Comparison

[Checkerknight]

Perhaps this is just me coming directly off of a play through of the first one (and by that I mean 2018) but is anybody else incredibly disappointed that they went and changed all the interfaces and menus. Everything from the weapon/armor screen tabs being moved to the bottom of the screen, to even just the text when picking up items, makes this game feel incredibly dated. IMO there was nothing wrong with the way the first game was set up in these aspects, and to me they felt very fresh and inviting. Now it just seems like they went for the most visually displeasing way they could present something like this.
Also not sure if its a bug but everything about the skill tree seems incredibly low res as hell.
I wish we could get to a point where devs would notice the things that they actually perfected and realize that not every aspect about the game needs to change.

[John Wick from Mario]

Much of the reason for the UI changes was because in GOW 2018, the text was simply too small to read for a lot of people who originally played it on PS4 when it originally released. Keep in mind that most console gamers play on their couch or other kind of seating, far away from whatever display they're using. Even on big screens, that UI and its smaller text sizes were better adapted to a desktop game in all honesty.

After getting many complaints about these small text sizes, SMS were intent on making the UI readable and comfortable for console players, hence the sweeping changes. Of course, I don't necessarily agree with all the UI changes to this game (I personally think it looks a bit cluttered + some of the padding inconsistencies throw me off) but I think we'll get used to it in time!

[Checkerknight]

It's not necessarily just the size of text and pop ups that I'm disliking. Even simple things such as enemy health bars and Kratos Health/Rage bars just look like they are made in a super dated style. Idk how to explain it but the first GoW just looked so much more... modern than this does.

[Grimzy]

I am with you on this, I liked the previous menu much much better than the current one.
I found the old GoW 2018 menu to be more intuitive and much easier to navigate.

[Almaz]

yes! agreed big time! i fking hate the interfaces of this game. why did they think that putting ALL sh1t like ransom, upgrading and creating of different pieces of armor and weapons in one big mess. i just can't understand, how after the beautiful and functional interface of 2018 they did THIS

[Moe]

git gid

[カイラ]

I have to agree, the UI is absolutely awful compared to 2018 which i just finished, played an hour of Ragnarok at a friends and left feeling like the UI was cheap and huge.. even on a 4k monitor.

[Checkerknight]

I thank the 3 of you so far for agreeing with me haha. This is the first post I've ever made where I didn't just get ♥♥♥♥ on for saying something