God of War (2018) 1 Hour Gameplay -SPOILER ALERT- (Dell Optiplex 9020, RTX 2060 KO)
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This is my first time through this game, and my thoughts on this game are mixed. As a game in it's own right, its a good, even great game. As a God of War game, seeing as the combat is the weakest part of the game, I see it as a bad sequel that messed up the greatest part of the vintage series. The one, single, greatest part of every other God of War game was having one of the most dynamic, and fun combat systems ever implemented in any game series ever, and they took it, and made most of the combat into a tedious, frustrating affair where they downgraded Kratos' badassery just to make it fit into the so-called "AAA" big open world gameplay design. For a GoW game, having a bad fighting system is a cardinal sin. Similar systems may work great in other open-world games not named God of War, but having the GoW name gives it a heritage to live up to.
I know you can't criticize anything nowadays without everyone jumping down your throat, but I don't care. I am really enjoying the gameplay and the open-world design, but as a God of War fan, I have to mentally disconnect this game from the previous games in the series to fully enjoy it for what it offers, as opposed to what it lacks when compared to the previous games in the series.
Yes, the God of War series needed a change after Ascension. The formula was getting stale, and this is a good change in direction for the series.However, the one thing that didn't need to be changed/downgraded was the combat. For any other open-world style game, the combat system in this game would be great, but for a God of War game, it is sub-par, tedious, and frustrating. Earlier in the game, I was fretting combat against groups of enemies, whereas in the original God of War series, I would gladly run towards crowds of enemies.
The rest of the game is good, but a good story doesn't make up for the poor combat mechanics in the game. I've always been a gameplay-first kind of gamer, and they broke the best part of God of War. The rest of the game is well designed, I'm just disappointed with the downgrade in combat. This should have been the one thing they didn't mess up, and they did.
My quick take: As a gamer, I am really enjoying this game, there's a lot of good exploration, and everything else but the combat is very well designed, and a big step forward for the series. However, as a God of War fan, I kind of hate this game. Unpopular take, I don't care.
I'm running it on Ultra Settings at 1080p with DLSS on because the game had strange visual glitches when I ran it native for some reason, but DLSS fixed this.
My PC:
Dell Opitplex 9020
Core i7-4790
32 gigs of DDR3 at 1600 MHZ
RTX 2060 KO
500 watt PSU with a 24-pin-to-Dell adapter