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

[Frogger]

Hynad said:

spemanig said:

I'll try to be more optimistic, then! I should get it this week or next.

I played Hellblade too. And that game was such a borefest. It really doesn't compare to God of War. 

God of War's battle gameplay keeps opening up as you progress, becoming better and more versatile. Just the base battle gameplay is already much better than Hellblade, and then it goes up from there.

That should tell you enough.

My problem with Hellblade's combat isn't that it's boring. It's that it's fundamentally, foundational flawed. It's poorly designed, and GoW's combat looks like it's based off of the same foundation. Since everyone is praising its combat, I'm hoping that GoW does enough to fix those problems. But I don't think there's a game in existence that has more in common with this game's combat than Hellblade, so we'll see. I'm being optimistic because GoW is by far my favorite Sony franchise.

If not, Darksiders 3 is pretty much a modern GoW clone with a modernized version of the old school GoW combat, so maybe that'll satiate me. I just want the torch of western hack-n-slash games to live on. Since GoW isn't doing that anymore and it was king there, I hope what combat system is replacing it is worth it.

Last edited by Frogger - on 25 April 2018