God of War Review | DailyDot

AJ Moser "My time with God of War saw the credits roll after about 30 hours of gratuitous violence, plot twists, and authentically earned emotional resonance. I was spit back out into Midgard with a new checklist of challenges to track down after beating the game, and I wanted to rush off to chase them down. But I can’t help but feel that some of my enthusiasm was whittled down over time by the number of nonsensical gameplay sequences I had to endure. Fixing elevator lifts, scaling mountain peaks, and decoding Norse runes constantly kept me from the thrilling combat encounters and tantalizing story clues I wanted to see."

[PlayStationBrah]

Is he complaining that he had to play the game?

[lxeasy]

"nonsensical gameplay sequences I had to endure. Fixing elevator lifts, scaling mountain peaks, and decoding Norse runes" I think he meant just those parts of the game. He said the rest was great hence the high score

[JazGalaxy]

There is ALWAYS a war between graphics and gameplay. They are polar opposites. In this case, "graphics" tends to mean "cinematic gaming" which includes storytelling.

So, yeah. It's frustrating when you just want the "movie" to keep going and are forced to do what seems to be unrelated "gameplay" just so that they can continue to call it a game and not sell it as a movie. This is the same problem that most modern "AAA" games face. It's the "narrative dissonance" of having to condescend to make a game actually a game instead of just making it fully a movie. They have to do it in order to sell the product to the massive number of modern "gamers" who don't actually like playing games.

People will lie to you and tell you that the gaming industry has grown over the years. This isn't really true. There are still roughly the same number of people there have always been who actually like playing real games. What has changed is that developers have cracked the nut on how to make game-like-products that they can sell to a wider audience than just people who actually like games. That's why most games these days are "open world". "everything and the kitchen sink" games. They throw everything at the wall and hope that EVERYBODY will find SOME thing that they like to do in it.

[Cyborgg]

IGN gave it a 10

[Ceaser9857361]

Its time 1st review i saw from IGN 10/10

[bluefox755]

IGN and GameSpot reviews are up. They gave it a 10 and a 9, respectively.

[affrogamer]

"this God of War is easily the best entry in a long series that had no right to reinvent itself so well."
So he's saying none of the previous games deserve a score higher than 8/10? lol smh

[Pancit_Canton]

Maybe their rating is 8/8. lol

[TekoIie]

Actually a 4/5, and that doesn't 100% translate into 8/10.

[zivtheawesome]

i read through the review, i don't get this. the reviewer seemed to like the game to bits with the only issues being some puzzles, backtracking and fast travel and only an 8? by how much he praised the game it looks like a 9 at least.

[AspiringProGenji]

That’s probably why his review scale is 0-5. So 4 out of 5 is just one point away like 9 to 10 but then in the 0-10 scale it translates to 8 instead

[Gazondaily]

Only an 8? 8 is a great score

[Cyborgg]

You're going to be surprised by IGN score

[AspiringProGenji]

Let the solid scores begin

[Krangs_Uncle]

They are on Metacritic but have broken the review embargo, no?

[Gazondaily]

It lifts today

[Krangs_Uncle]

It was 3 hours early... An embargo is an embargo, whether its 3 hours, or 3 days early.

[Gazondaily]

Maybe they are running on Australian time? Not sure tbh

[SuperSaiyanGod41]

Hmm what I find fishy is if they are on metacritic then why don't they have reviews of a huge game on other platforms that just released like sot or do they only review PS4 and switch games?

[notachance]

sot is huge?

[SuperSaiyanGod41]

notachance

Yes sot despite it's bad rep is still a huge game.

[OffRoadKing]

SoT has a "bad rep" for a reason, and its hardly a huge game. Beside why do you need another poor review for SoT from someone else, theres been enough already to know where the game stands?

[Rimeskeem]

So 30 hours of it was amazing but the end game content isn't exactly the greatest or most interesting?

[SuperSaiyanGod41]

Like I said, get ready for sum sites that will have damage control because of change. Ign I'm looking at u lol. Too much of everything, great game but too much of a father than a god, 7 lol.

[Rimeskeem]

Oh, people didnt see my sarcasm shit. I know this game isnt gonna be treated absolutely fairly because its a Sony exclusive and they never are. I'm just gonna add .5-1 point to each score knowing the bias.

[djsilke45]

i need more salt where are they at?

[DELTABOY04]

I dont expect this game to break 90..to many sites need clicks, and standards are higher on sonys first party catalog...so they will find anything they can to dock points.

[OffRoadKing]

"Full of genuine surprises, thrilling action, and emotionally grounded in almost every moment, this God of War is easily the best entry....."

Sounds fantastic! Another excellent addition to the Playstation library. The best place to play.

[preciousdeath]

OpenCritic is a much better score aggregator site. 95 there: http://www.opencritic.com/g...