On PS4 there have been a few tree warps where there isn’t much of any dialog and it still takes half a minute or more, whether standing still or running the ring. They fill it up with dialog usually but it’s still essentially a fast travel system, and last gen hardware just doesn’t have that magic SSD juice. The only exception might be if you warp right back to where you were just at, it seems a bit faster.
I wouldn't know. I haven't played on PS4 in two years. But yeah, I imagine that's because the Ps4 cant load like Ps5 can so you get a bit of a different experience there. The PS5 instant loads are the intended way the game is to be experienced though, so that'll be what I'll consider the "cannon" player experience.
Ok fair enough, since I have no intention of replaying the game I was only thinking about that first (and for me, only) play-through. Which just further emphasizes my observation at the huge gap of how I feel about both GoW:Viking games- main campaign = GOTY, post-game f***-about = blech.
Still better than the cycle of revenge fest that was Last of Us Part 2. My problem with Freya was her sense of self-righteousness at the very beginning when you start the quest with her. She and Odin were the cause of Balder's needless death. At least multiple characters call her out on this more than once. I will say that if you perform her personal side quests with her after, doing the main line was with her, she develops better, and it transitions smoother. I do find it ironic that a God of War game does themes of revenge better than you know what. Hell, the two character side quests for Lady Misako and Noriko does it better in Ghost of Tsushima. And they're not even the main plot in the game.
I guess you mean the Berserker that has two lady Berserkerettes with him? That was actually less difficult than the double fight because the Berskerettes have their health linked, so I was able to wail away on one right away and almost kill them both.
IMO This is what a platinum should be tbh. I don't think a Platinum should be based on having the biggest challenge the game can possibly offer, but rather encouraging the player to see and do all of the available content. Some game could have challenges within, like the Bezerkers or Valks or whatever, because those fights will still be challenging even on the easiest setting (as you can confirm). But the point is, they aren't crushing challenges.
I wouldn't say it does it better. I mean, it was shorter, so I guess. My problem with Freya in this game, and with the majority of the character arcs, is that it just can't sell me on it. I agree with what the game has to say about these characters, but it feels like I have to do the legwork for the story, rather than the story carrying me along.
Which automatically makes it better already for me.
Then you would have to wait another 5 years for a third game, for all that to be developed fully and properly. They did the best thing could do, and I don't blame them for ending it. I'll take that over stretching it. Pick your poison, if you consider it that way.
That was kind of the point for both quests, but for different reasons. Masako had no one left aside from a grand niece, if I remember correctly (that we never see and is only mentioned by the very end of the last quest). Noriko got his proper vengeance, but nearly went insane because of it, and still felt pain and despair. The pain never permanently goes away, but heals with time.
Frankly, I don't think even a third game might've been enough. I think Santa Monica got a way to eager at the end of '18 with the amount of things they were setting up. I remember at the time when finishing it that I felt sorry for the developers that had to make all the sequels necessary to do all of this set-up justice.
Doubtful. Corey Balrog is working on a new IP for the studio which is why he didn't direct GodRag. That project is already years in development so whatever it is, is going to be the next game.
Well, that's good at least. But even so, if the point of GoW: Ragnarok was to put this Norse world to bed, it still feels remarkably wide awake.
Well I mean, the Greek one did. A couple of characters were unaccounted for, but we can assume they got shallowed up by the primordial chaos that was left. Not that I'm saying the Norse world should've ended like that, just that for a game that was supposed put a period behind it there's a lot of sequel hooks.
Sometimes not answering EVERY question or wrapping up EVERY plot line does not mean there is any intention of sequels or spin offs. Sometimes it's better to let the audience answer those questions and finish those plots in their imagination.
