So. What's everyone's opinion on this game?

Sequence breaking is a part of metroid now

https://gamerant.com/god-of-war-no-camera-cuts/[/mention] wrote:During an interview with Eurogamer, Barlog stated that he made the decision to move away from QTEs and camera cuts as a means to keep from breaking players’ immersion so as to tell a more “personal story” that allows scenes to focus more so on what Kratos has been experiencing throughout the narrative for God of War. Initially, Barlog encountered some push back from members of his own development team for ditching these once-mainstay features of the series, but they eventually relented in order to tackle it as a new challenge.

http://gearnuke.com/god-war-creator-david-jaffe-calls-new-game-ambitious-says-eager-play/[/mention] wrote:Lots asking what I think about new GOD OF WAR. A- love the open world B- graphix amazing (duh!:) C-Ambitious changes and ANY time a game has the courage to grow and try new things I’m interested! D-From what I gather they are going for a somber, serious tone. May NOT be accurate read but I’m just going off E3 demo. But for me, I would hope that hope the somber tone isn’t so pervasive that it squashes the high adventure feel I love about the series. So overall am excited and proud and eager to play it!

Combat:
-Combat is based on prioritizing enemies, it’s not as chaotic as in the past. For example certain enemies are resistant to Leviathan which is Kratos Axe, others are impossible to stagger.
-Use of your surroundings is important to get through combat scenarios. Gives players a few different choices in completing combat scenarios.
-Leviathan is can be thrown to freeze certain enemies and a button needs to be pushed to summon it back to you.
-Not sure if this was known, but there’s no jump button
-Shield is used to parry and as well in melee combat
-Arteus (Kratos’ Son) is an extension of Kratos moveset, can be used to attack certain enemies by pushing the square button.
-While not being directed in combat Aretus will rain arrows on enemies which will increase their stun meter, once they are stunned Kratos can grab the enemies and either rip them apart or use them as weapons. The example given is a specific enemy creates an area of effect attack that launches the rest of the enemies in the air

Traversal:
-No more jumping or swimming
-Kratos and Arteus use boats to traverse the environment when appropriate

Upgrade System:
-Skills, armor, weapons can all be upgraded
-Uses some type of crafting system that the developers are being tight lipped about
-Can craft different types of armor
-Skill upgrades and crafting of armor applies to Arteus as well
-There are rune slots on the axe that can change the properties of the weapon for both light and heavy attack

Weapons:
-Being tight lipped about other weapons appearing in the game, but say that the Axe and Shield are the star of the show.

Miscellaneous
-They wanted to get away from the destroy all Gods mentality that they had in previous God of Wars so they Made Kratos more vulnerable. The only time he really goes insane in combat is during Spartan Rage where he starts demolishing characters with just his fists.
-After Ascension it was hard to get the higher ups to sign off onto another God of War game, they were pretty much done with the franchise, Cory had to pitch something great and fresh in order to get the game greenlit.
-Cory speaking about the future of God of War mentions the Mayan Era or the Egyptian Era
-Cory mentions he wants this new direction of God of War to reach way more people and go into Uncharted and Assassins Creed levels and to grow the franchise

Birdman wrote:Thats the good thing about rentals. The devs get nothing unless you liked what you played and choose to buy.

Im not trying to super defend this game or anything, but even if someone did that with the kid, wouldnt we be able to raise the same argument as S,S,T?

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