YouTuber plays God of War 4 and laments it. God of War 4 might set dangerous trend.

[Mr Puggsly]

Shiken said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I feel Sony is essentially making all their action games very similar.

God of War plays more like Dark Souls than the Last of Us.  The only thing it has in common with TLoU is the over the shoulder camera and a child companion.

Uncharted is a fast paced 3rd person shooter during action sequences...nothing like GoW.

Infamous SS is a fast paced sandbox.

Horizon Zero Dawn is more comparible to BotW than any other Sony game, and even then it is still unique.

Knack 2 is an action 3D platformer.

I mean come on. are you really trying to say Sony makes their games the same?  That would be MS, who pretty much seems to cancel anything that is different from their usual formula.  I am suprised Sea of Thieves made it, and despite the low scores, it is the one XBox exclusive to interest me since Sunset Overdrive.

But I digress...

God of War needed to evolve, Acension proved that.  SSM did an amazing job with this sequel/reboot and I do not agree with most points made by this guy.  While you cannot please everyone, the incredible reception of the game is proof that they made the right decision to change the focus and mix it up.

I'm referring to the heavy story focus, the graphics are starting to look similar between their games, the gameplay mechanics are leaning more towards realism (huge change for GoW). It feels like GoW evolved into something similar like other Sony games. I see similarities between Uncharted, TLoU, The Order, Horizon and now GoW. I'm not really complaining, its just the direction Sony has gone and it works for them.

Infamous:SS is an exception as that basically a super hero game. Knack is more hack n' slash, but also irrelevant.

The biggest issues with Ascension wasn't the gameplay. The story wasn't interesting and world felt uninspired. I would make the same argument for Gears Judgement, the gameplay was still good but other aspects that were lacking. While a game like Halo Reach felt fresh and raised the bar for the IP.

I like the new GoW, but it also make me yearn for a hack n' slash game that isn't so story focused.