God of War is probably the best game of this generation so far

[Frogger]

Faelco said:

spemanig said:
I plan to get the game soon, but if the combat is anywhere near as bad as Hellblade's was, and it looks to be so, that will be a very gross overstatement.

I trying to go into this game with optimism, and its combat already looks better than HB's seeing as the moveset seems more complex and you can actually control the camera here, but it still looks eerily similar to that game, which scares the crap out of me, especially when GoW was pretty much the only relevant slasher made in and for the west. This looks like a cataclysmic downgrade in gameplay by comparison.

The story looks better though so I genuinely don't know how I'll feel. I never hated the old stories though - I really don't know.

I have no idea what you're talking about (didn't play Hellblade),but the combat is great and just keeps getting better since you add more and more available moves. It's fluid, violent, quite diverse, and just a joy to play. 

Unfortunately, because you didn't play Hellblade, that doesn't really make me feel better. Some people praised Hellblade's combat as well in very similar ways, and it was very not good. Knowing what I've played of Hellblade and how identical this looks to that, albeit way beefier, it's hard for me to be optimistic there.

I can say though that a lot of what I hated was how stiff Hellblade was because of the camera, and though I really don't like the camera in this game, at least it appears as though you can freely manipulate it during combat. I think the retractable axe gimmick looks interesting, as well.