The thing is, I don't have to take your and his word for it. Most points he made, I disagree with. Most outlets also had no problem with them, so you better make a more in depth argument other than "I don't like thing". Even with the weapon degradation, the reason why it is not a problem is because A: It makes you be careful and strategic with your weapon usage (which is survival, the theme of the game) and after 235h you find that there are more weapons that you can carry. So this is why I don't take your guys' word for it, when presented with weak arguments from the start. So it makes me conclude other things, A: a bias. You don't like this game rating higher than your favourite game. You downplay it purposefully but not fully (game is still great guys! Just overrated!) to not appear fully against it. B: Other motives which play into contrarianism, attention, elitism. Etc. In conclusion, you can have your opinion on the game, but I can also choose to ignore and not take your word. Also I find it funny that you're talking about a honeymoon period, when the game is still getting awards. You'd think that they would look back at the game after a year wouldn't you?

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.

Elaborate on how it's fundamentally flawed. 

And no, Hellblade's combat system really isn't like GoW's. GoW's battles are more like those found in the Souls series, if anything.

I personally think BOTW is one of the few games that really deserve its praise. I played in early 2017 when it came out and then I replayed it form start almost a year later and liked it even more.

The thing is it wrong to assume that a great game is a game without flaws, and I say it for at least two reasons. One is that, if you look at it very closely, you can find flaws in every game, perfection is not a real thing is something to aim for. Secondly you can find games that are very well polished all around and don't have any apparent flaws on surface but at the same time don't offer anything that is really captivating.

To make a comparison (and I take games form the same company not to make any misunderstandings) Mario Odyssey is a near-perfect game, well polished in every presentation aspect, good level design, good soundtrack, new mechanics introduced in every level. But at the same time it hasn't thilled me. Probably after having played Galaxy and 3D World it felt a bit samey.

What keeps me hooked in BOTW is the free world exploration, it's soo good and rewarding that some flaw doesn't tone down the experience a bit for me. I can understand that if you expected a game like OoT you could have been disapponted, because BOTW is just somethign different (just like I remember Resident Evil 4 at the time alienated some of the older RE fans).

Another good example is Dark Souls, a game that doesn't shine in the technical department, difficulty isn't always balanced (even if fans use the git-gud argument), some portions of the game (one in particular) are admittedly unrefined. Yet the combat system, the game progression and exploration are soo good I can say without a sweat it's my favourite game of last generation.

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I've talked about it in the Hellblade threads, so I'd rather not get into it here.

I mean I can't say for sure until I get the game, but I've seen gameplay and the combat looks nothing like the Souls combat so if that's the case, I'd be very surprised. Colin Moriarty said it was like Hellblade too though, and he did play (and enjoy) it, so I don't know how much I can believe that at this point. I've heard that the attacks use the shoulder buttons (?), but that alone doesn't make the combat less like Hellblade or more like Souls.

I see. Thanks for bringing up something and not providing further explanations.

I really don't feel like getting into a debate today, so I really don't care that you're not satisfied by that.

it's one of the best games so far.

Does anybody know what to do when the PS4 won’t download a patch??? 1.15 is out for God of War but I just keep getting the notification “1.15 cannot download”