Its by far the worst GOW. It was litteraly pointless

Now God of War: Ascension does have some problems but I haven't experienced some of your complaints.

1. I thought the combat is more fluid than ever, never felt like the dodge roll was unresponsive. Also pushing the analogue stick with a button press works perfectly every time for me, I use it a lot as well as doing so cancels out the dodge roll animation allowing for faster movement.

2. Yes I agree that the camera angles aren't always ideal but it's rare that they make it hard to play. The only times I had problems with the camera is when fighting the Hekatonchires and fighting whilst riding the giant snake to delphi, it's perfectly fine for the rest of the game.

3. Well those 3 bitches you have to kill are the Furies (Erinyes). They are after Kratos to punish him for breaking his blood bond to Ares, there's is more to it, SPOILERS:

........................ Alecto (fury Queen) and Ares planned to overthrow Mount Olympus but needed the ultimate warrior to help them, Ares knew of the prophecy of the marked warrior taking down Mount Olympus (either Deimos or Kratos) and due to Deimos being imprisioned and Kratos' mark Ares believed he was the one. So Ares needed the Furies to help him keep Kratos under his control. You also learn at the end of the game who took Kratos' family from Sparta and placed them inside the temple in Athens where they were accidentely killed by Kratos....................... That's all I'll say, I've probably ruined it for you but at least you'll understand what's going on now.

I think you'll greatly apprecitate the new game + mode (as long as you're finding all the artifacts) as it great improves the gameplay with the option to have the rage meter constantly at its max and to have the game do the QTEs automatically. You'll also appreciate the story more on the second play-through (as I did).

And I actually agree that the single player is weaker than past installments (with the multiplayer being to blame for cuts & lack of polish) but it's still pretty great overall and the multiplayer is really fun & addictive.

I actually found the core of the game to be the best. I actually had to sit down and look at enemy spawns and plan strategy based on it. I can honestly say there hasn't been a hack and slash game that took this much consideration into enemy strategy since Devil May Cry 3.

Na i dont think its to do with any of that personally although good points. The op is right the story which i thought was going to be the most complelling of them all was forgettable which really made it the weakest entry for me, the combat on the other hand i thought was really satisfing and more skill based this time around. One thing is for sure the worst camera angles out of all the games and the most amount of times when you dodge roll in a small area with loads of enemies. 

i kind of agree but do you think the combat and element powers were cool atleast? But yea story wise i wish they had hired someone good.

The element powers and overall combat were great.

I just thought the story and overall level design was poor.  Also its time to move on from Kratos

Indeed, that's a pain.  When we got the Hades power was a total mess...  Just put a load of aggro beast in a small space and have some fun. Nope. no fun.

About the element powers, I'm just getting use to it but it's not a problem.

Haven't played it yet. Played the demo though and I thought it was pretty darn good. Seriously wondering what all the fuss is about over this game...

yea its kind of sad but i agree after playing acension its time to move on or into a new mythology