I really tried to like this game - anyone else?

[Swimfan]

Oh man, this is a really hard post to make but I want to get this off my chest and wonder if anyone else feels the same way I do.

At the start of the game I was so excited for the second/final chapter to Kratos' North Saga. The game looks amazing, it plays well and so many good things were brought along. The longer the game went however, the more I wished it would just stop. It feels(!) like I spent hours walking through bloated story sections with excellent presentation but no meaning whatsoever. They had a very hard job on their hands connecting the dots and making everything fit after part 1 never even showed the "big bad". I'm so dissapointed that they didn't even try. There are such great moments in this game and then there are times when nothing works (characters behave very out of character to bring the plot along when they could have easily cut less important details that get pondered over for 2hrs+).
There is so much game in this that at first I couldn't decide how I feel about this entry but now I'm starting to understand what the original director meant when he said that this isn't God of War anymore - it really isn't. Kratos has cool emotional moments but the shifting perspective to Artreus (while I understand why they did it) just didn't work at all for me.

It also doesn't help that the areas in this game are some of the most infuriatingly mazelike areas I have ever seen (and the map doesn't help either). At one point I just stopped all the side content altogether because it a) felt really bad walking through the maps and b) doing all the activities (they are not bad! That's the most ironic part!) undermined the whole urgency of the plot. This game is called Ragnarok but there is no feeling of danger on the horizon. They tried to make Odin human but it all falls so flat because he gets depicted as this amazing overlord in the previous game whom you like to hunt down and then all that talking to Odin-filler made my drive just ... vanish.

This game is not a bad game ... it just really isn't a God of War game and it doesn't deliver on what I expected. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

[Spiegel]

I agree there is a bit too much crammed into the game for its own good. Feels like it goes on forever. The main story kind of grinds to a halt because they are trying to tell every other story connected to every other character from their point of view and it drags on for too long sometimes. Its a great game but i also will give up on the sidestuff and concentrate on only the main now or i will never finish :P

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Spiegel:

I agree there is a bit too much crammed into the game for its own good. Feels like it goes on forever. The main story kind of grinds to a halt because they are trying to tell every other story connected to every other character from their point of view and it drags on for too long sometimes. Its a great game but i also will give up on the sidestuff and concentrate on only the main now or i will never finish :P

Just finished the game and the ending was well-made but I'm strangely ... unsatisfied. Normally those games end with a bang and I admit that the final boss was indeed very cool but hmmm ... I feel this is less than I expected from a sequel to one of my favorite action adventure games. Maybe my expectations were too high?! It's sad because budget/graphics/spectacle has nothing to do with my gripes, it's the writing (and not in the "it's written bad" but more like missing focus).

[ShotBot]

What did you think of 2018?

[Noop]

There are some very interesting things said by the director of this game recently in public. I recommend looking at it and you will find out very easily why a lot of things seem to be out of place.

[Moonblitz]

Originally posted by Noop:

There are some very interesting things said by the director of this game recently in public. I recommend looking at it and you will find out very easily why a lot of things seem to be out of place.

He's waffled loads, care to elaborate or link to the specifics?

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Moonblitz:

Originally posted by Noop:

There are some very interesting things said by the director of this game recently in public. I recommend looking at it and you will find out very easily why a lot of things seem to be out of place.

He's waffled loads, care to elaborate or link to the specifics?

Me as well

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Winifred Mctavish:

What did you think of 2018?

I loved it so much that I finished it roughly 4 times.
This game feels off to me in direct comparison.