Have never heard of those, I personally play too many games where the narcissistic divine entity gets their ass handed to them by their own creations. 

Halo reach.

I’m trying to enjoy it. I’ve heard it’s really fun. I just keep returning to these ugly bases and fighting in or on them is pretty dull. I’m hoping it gets better, I’m still in love with Halo CE. I don’t think halo will ever be as good.

There is no actual babysitting, the child takes care of himself. Unless you mean that particular story arc and themes of parenting and personal growth and such. If that's not your thing, fair enough.

Games that don't have a cohesive story with a beginning and an end. What's the point, just button mashing for the heck of it? Once you get a hang of the gameplay loop, there's nothing to look forward to anymore and the novelty wears off quickly.
Souls type games, where everything respawns and you have to kill the same exact enemies over and over. Not even random spawns to simulate roaming enemies, but the same actual ones in the same actual positions. Boring and repetitive af. The best games have enemies that stay dead permanently, so you can see that you actually have made a difference. I loved the original Dragon Age, where enemy encounters were actually a finite resource for xp and loot, so you welcomed each encounter and they were always meaningful and pertinent to the quests, rather than some meaningless RNG.
I'm sure there's more but those came from the top of my head.

My problem with Bayonetta was the amount of trial and error during boss fights. Some stuff just insta kills you and there's no way to know when that happens beforehand. That wouldn't be so bad if you could just restart that battle but if you die often enough during a mission you have to restart the entire mission.

That just wasn't worth it for me.

Any kind of mmo... I know that I'd become addicted. I played a PvP based one in high school called turf war and surely enough, became addicted.

Have had a few friends try to convince me to start playing WoW over the years. Avoided it like the plague.

That's the exact type of theme that I would want to avoid. I want to explore the theme of "God of War" with emotions like rage, death, brutality, desperation, bloodshed, hostility etc.

I say that even though I desperately want to be a father.

I couldn't beat Red Dead Redemption 2. I tried on multiple occasions. I'm glad the game doesn't force sex at you or nudity, but the violence... Ugh. I grew up on John Wayne western movies, I want THAT kind of western game. I almost fully quit numerous times, but when I got to the cannibals I noped out. Also the plot was just so dark and depressing!

Good quality for a game on all counts, just isn't the kind of game I enjoy.

Got plenty of other games for emotional stuff. He is the God of War, not the God of (Fatherly) Love or God of complicated emotions.

I don't play realistic (set in current times or the last century or so) war games because I just get pissed off and don't want to play as an agent of a warmongering state.