Completed W3 three times in a row, still loved the game.

I have to disagree with you on Fallout 4's side content, I agree that there are those kinds of radiant quests that are copy paste content but there are many that reward exploration and introduce some great characters and companions. I mean there's one where you find a guy who is trying to make this weird serum that makes you impervious to radiation but it all goes wrong and in the end he dies giving me the serum, there's another where a boy is taking refuge in a fridge and asks me to find his parents, another one where you help the radio man go on a date with some lady in diamond city, finding the detective's wife's killer, finding a human body for a robot to fulfill her dream of becoming a human and so many more of those character driven quests. I've never cared for voice acting that much but God of War is amazingly voice acted and has some really amazing characters that feel real, I wish there were more of those interactions or just more people to meet. 

Yes I know that there are those lazily made, procedurally generated quests but there are those that build on the commonwealth and make it look alive filled with weird and likeable characters. Yes the main story isn't the best in terms of storytelling but in terms of a living and immersive open world filled with real characters I feel like Fallout 4 is one of the greats among Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption and Watch Dogs 2. 

God of war's side quests have a very repetitive structure to them, you kill stuff and you earn gear, it doesn't flesh out the world or build on the characters. Feels like a missed opportunity to look at how humans have been affected and how they try to survive in this flooded and devastated area. You see humans ONCE in this whole game, in the whole world and they're just enemies you have to kill. You can probably never meet Freya (another cool character) either. 

Yeah there seems to be a lot of content. I went to one of the optional realms today. It's the equivalent of doing the post game challenges such as the challenge of Olympus in gow3. Very enjoyable. I will be spending many hours post game.

Damn, I thought you were being hyperbolic at first. But ... man, the side content in this game is even better than the main content. At least from what I've played(I think i'm about 3/4ths through the main game and 2/4ths through the side content).

I don't know if i'd say it's the "best". I haven't played enough RPGs to make that distinction. I think Dark Souls is better too. And iirc Dragon Age Origins had great side content. But this is up there.

I haven't beat the game yet but I've doing alot of the optional stuff which are very challenging. Just unlocked impossible trials.... fml.

I have to say it was awesome. Whole new areas of midgard and new realms to explore post game. Very well done.

I haven't played God of War, but in terms of side content my favorite game is still this one:

Nice choice And wow, that avatar really pops. Not a Xeno fan but that's probably the best fitting avatar so far. 

I don't know if the content itself is the best, its certainly very good, but GoW does integrate its side content on the world and the normal flow of gameplay better than any other game I played .It's like everything you are doing is tied to the main quest somehow, you get to know more of the world, learn more about the characters and dive deeper in the lore by doing the sidestuff. And the characters aknowledge they are doign these things for a reason, they aren't just gratuitous and unrelated to what is going on.

The feeling you get because of this integration is quite amazing, even after beating the game you have this sensation that the story is finished for now, but the world lives on.

I think it should be a rule where we have to wait a minimum of ten years before assessing ANYTHING as the "GOAT".