God Of War Is Not A Masterpiece ...

[jardesonbarbosa]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

jardesonbarbosa said:
I wondered when those threads would start appearing, I was tired of reading the Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey ones.

Why does every good game has to be dissected to show that "actually, it's not that great". What is a masterpiece anyway? Of course no game will ever be objectively perfect. Let's just accept that, to some people, God of War is a masterpiece, one of the best games ever made, even though your experience was a bit different. You don't have to prove that the game isn't perfect.

Because it's interesting.

Why does nearly every comment in this thread have to be some form of saying, basically, "this is unnecessary"

Yeah, most opinion pieces are unnecessary. 

I think it should be more of a "here is the things I didn't like in the new God of War" than a "God of War is not a masterpiece and here's why". What if people simply didn't care about the points mentioned? It didn't detract from the experience for me. There's a thread on Resetera full of people trashing on Breath of the Wild, especially the weapon breaking mechanics and how reviewers should subtract 2 points of the game's score based on that. But what if some people simply didn't care about it or, as crazy as it sounds, liked that feature? I for one loved that, it was really well implemented in my opinion. I think the exercise of nitpicking stuff and trying to find reasons why a game shouldn't have a 95 score on Metacritic a waste of time. When you go to a game with the mindset of "it cannot be that good" you're obviously going to have a different experience than someone who goes into it with a "I hope it's really good" mindset. I'm not saying that this is the case here, but that's why I think those discussions are kinda futile.