God Of War Is Not A Masterpiece ...

[greenFizz]

Recency bias is strong in this thread!

I see people claiming that God of War is better than TLoU. I have a feeling if GoW came out in 2013 and TLoU came out last week they would be saying the opposite.

I think OP is actually being too kind to the game based on what I have played thus far. I'm currently at *spoiler* The part with the woman who lives under a giant turtle. Never thought I would be running around picking flowers in a freaking god of war game! This is pathetic!

The story has simply not moved me yet. Maybe I will be eating my words by the time I finish the game but right now I am just not feeling the story. The kid just seems whiny to me. Ellie on the other hand was a character I actually genuinely liked. Plus the performances in this game are nowhere near as good as the ones in TLoU. That part that OP mentions is similar to the scene in TLoU, the end of the chapter where you play as Ellie, except it is nowhere near as powerful and just comes across as awkward and out of place like OP said.

However all of this would not matter to me if the gameplay was good. This is of course personal preference but I much preferred the style of the previous god of war games. Combat/puzzles/enemies are all boring and repetitive. I hope to god the Ax is not the only weapon throughout the entire game. That would be incredibly disappointing. The only good boss battle so far has been with the stranger and for all the hype that received it still would not make my top ten favorite GoW boss battles. I know QTE's have gotten a bad rap in recent years but that is because lesser games misused them. God of War was always one of the few series that did QTE's right and I am really missing them in this new game.