God of War Ragnarök’s Combat Design is Frustrating. 

The most annoying thing for me is enemy's following my dodge, dodging is literally useless if the enemy just stays at the same distance the entire time enemy dashes at you? Dodge? No the enemy will continue to fly after you until he hits you

It comes down to the camera for me. I really don't like having a camera that close to the character when you're likely to get swarmed every 5 seconds and need to see more than a colored arrow to know how to react to what's behind you. AAA games are too worried about looking "cinematic". Even the witcher 3 update uses this camera trick, but at least in the witcher 3 you can turn it off. The hogwarts game had the same problem but since then combat is mostly ranged it's not as much of an issue.

It's a good game but doesn't feel like a god of war game . If change kratos with another character no one even known it's a god of war game

Hard to admit but 2018 is the superior game. What are you thinking giving us options to increase fist only combat with pommels and armor only to completely remove the fist skill tree and remove 80% of the moves? What are you thinking removing all of the best and most interesting runics and/or turning them into basic attacks and leaving us with barebones options? Build variety is better but that's to be expected in a sequel and shouldnt have to result in two core components of tbe combat system being stripped for parts.

I died soooo many times because of camera problems... That was the main issue for me. Especially for bosses that have two bodies and you have to always keep an eye on the second one... Honestly it's kind of lazy design.

The double unlockable attack is so annoying bro, to do it without dodge rolling (I'm doing a spartan armor challenge run) is so hard and I'm on ps4 too so it's basically impossible to get right at 30fps 😭

Take it from someone who has beaten the bosses in this game every way possible. I used normal builds, overpowered one shot builds, and even the all Spartan gear and Burdens build. All of which I have uploaded on my channel. Everything he is saying about the boss combat in this game is true. Hvitserkr for instance is so much harder doing the Spartan/Burden build because of the runic shield. In 2018 they had a valkyrie that summoned adds but you could ring them out. Even as a level one. And of course you can't keep them all on screen at once. Its even worse when fighting the duo and trio Berserkers because Freya is worse then useless. Do you know how many times she kitted a Berserker into my back to kill me? Or how many times she didn't say anything when they shot fireballs at my ass!? The combat in this game has a lot of potential but it doesn't feel so good when fighting the bosses. Especially with the Spartan/Burden build.

Outside of just boss fights. Ragnarok’s combat encounters in general are just designed annoyingly. They give u an amazing set of tools and cool combos to use but never let you use them fully because the thing this game thrives at is making combat FRUSTRATING not CHALLENGING it’s a very different feeling. The combat system they have in the newer GOW games (2018 and Ragnarok) works best when it’s a 1 on 1 fight and gets increasingly harder when more enemies are added to the fray. So the way Ragnarok makes combat more “engaging” is by throwing about seventeen annoying arse enemies at you that u are basically banned from getting more than 5 hits on cos they will eventually just tank ur hit to get a cheap shot at you or scurry away even if you hit them. Mix all this in with the fucking annoying dark souls-esque parry timing shit on the enemies and u find urself not acc playing the game and enjoying the cool juggling mechanics but rather doing anything u can to bum rush the enemy to kill them fast enough so u don’t get swarmed. The game punishes u for pressing on bosses too much by giving u an unblockable that could be anything from an AOE attack, an attack u have to only back roll away from or an attack u have to precisely dodge at just the right time but u won’t know which unblockable of the 3 it will be unless you’ve fought this boss before so ur kinda just expecting to tank a hit regardless to learn what the bosses unblockable will be. So since u learned that game doesn’t like u pressing on bosses too much u decide to back away for a bit and do some mid ranged or ranged damaged but wait! They don’t like u playing defensively either so they add in the blue ring shield bash option! Which, at least for me, almost always popped up when I was too far away to possibly get to the boss in time to shield bash them causing me to take massive damage. It is infuriating how bad this games combat can be sometimes. Doubly disappointing when u saw how well balanced 2018’s was.

I wish they added new abilities to the bosses like maybe the berserker king could run away less and instead have life steal that can steal your health and heal him or Gna could summon in wisps that steal your rage and explode it would add a entirely new level of challenge to it

I remember when I fought the double hateful, I perfectly parried every parry-able attack, but still died because the camera just kept spinning and I kept losing my bearing. For any fanboy who can't think on their own and relentlessly defends this game because the franchise is popular, tell me you don't experience this: if you use lock-on, the camera keeps spinning plus the lock jumps back and forth among the enemies; but if you don't use lock-on, your camera turns very slowly and you can't turn quickly enough.

That's the thing, Ragnarok NG+ combat is so frustrating, yet the 2018 NG+ one feels so much more enhanced than the NG version of that game simply because they adds alternative attacks, much more relentless enemy that attacks you more often than running it away (Sigrun NG+.. ahem is way harder Gna NG+ because of this) and much more unforgiving for NG+ builds, that they can still one shot you if you are careless or does massive damage with no forgiving factor. Also it's hilarious you mentioned Bold Bersekers is more annoying when Kara has more attack, is tankier, attacks sneakily more often while not running away and her minions DOES not have those shield guard yep. Idk why they fix something is not broken.

That stupid super armor outta nowhere was for me the most frustrating aspect of the game, idk it just doesn’t feel right

Agree with everything you said. And glad you said it because I thought I was crazy 😅. My biggest problems are the camera, and the rules not being consistent. I'm all for difficulty, but the berserkers and gna randomly breaking out of a runic or relic attack they didn't break out of before... I've nearly broken my controller multiple times. It's just not fun I'm sorry. I recently played through 2018, and narratively, and gameplay wise, it's the better game. As hard as it is for me to say that.

Yesterday finally I beat the Berserker king in GMGOW+ I used the Black Bear armour, it was so satisfying💪😎

OG Kratos in GoW 1-3 and some titles : I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE 😡 Kratos in GoW & Ragnarok : Wait a second, Son, I need to upgrade my pant to fight that random enemy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You make a lot of very fair points that I complete comparing the berserkers to the Valkyries yes they were both abandon combat but the Valkyries will reset and go again will the berserkers play keep away all day long it really does ruin the flow of combat

It's a good point that u are making, BUT.... U have to ask yourself how many people (out of millions of sold copies ) do actually spend 300 or 3000 hours on game like that. Because that's what it takes in order to be able to talk about the game the way u do. And im not talking about 300 hours of running around and fighting random mobs,but actually Boss fighting . Only RU-vidrs to make insane content l, like yourself, and few other nolifers. Again,we are talking about millions of people. I just finished the game around 90% this weekend,and i had to put some berserkers and GNA on story mode. There is a threshold for every person before smashing furniture,monitor, controller,and bringing holy people from heaven back to Earth comes into play. Awesome content man, i enjoy watching every time. Thank you and keep it going

Finally getting around to playing this game. The post game fights are almost all broken in some fundamental way. There's no point in taking it seriously.

I absolutely hate the fact that Kratos get stagger so easily it is so hard to complete a combo but on the flip side even normal enemies are hard to stagger

I recently beat the game, and im just trying to beat Gna, and the Berzerker King before going on to NG+, but im getting completely wrecked by them. As far as I'm concerned, for GOWR they made my beloved Kratos a punk.

Here are the things I dislike most about GOWR's combat: Runic attacks. I know the whole point of them getting nerfed was because they were too powerful in the first game, but all they've done is kill runics and give their old, broken, spammy nature to the blades triangle abilities. Also now theres 6 runics so its even more spammy but they do nothing, on top of the already stupid triangle abilities. It feels like the devs regret adding runics at all in the first place since on higher difficulties, most runic attacks do less damage than a single melee hit, and they do not stagger enemies at all. It feels like they shouldn't have been added in the first place, and they most certainly do not compare to the magic of the OG GOW Attacks have no weight. On higher difficulties, you cannot stagger most enemies AT ALL with basic melee attacks during most of their animations. You have to rely on the fucking triangle abilities to do anything. This feels much more spammy than anything in the 2018 game. Why do I have to rely on this shit so much? Why do melees do nothing? Why do I have to play keepaway against the berserkers for 5 minutes just to hit them with 2 flame whiplashes when they stop moving. You dont feel like kratos at all when the most basic enemies brush off his attacks like nothing.

It's baffling that people say this is the best god of war, or even a 10/10 game, enemies slide to connect attacks, the player slide to connect attacks, stagger is inconsistent, the colored circles (red, yellow and blue) that sometimes appear at the very last second of the attack defeating the purpose of the system, 3 and a half weapons for the entire game, the garbage camera (probably the worst problem), a companion that gets in the way and is almost useless, particle effects overwhelm the screen, RPG systems to create different builds, but if it's working too well the game will prevent that your having fun, so what's the point of having the system at all??? and most of this problems were present in 2018, and the ragnarok did nothing to solve it

Despite loving the game (but hating some of the puzzles), can't argue with the critique. You talked the truth. And yes, they do teleport much too frequently.

The game wasted alot of potential both gameplay and story wise.

I would just like to remove some of the fucking projectile enemies. One or two is fine to make you switch to ranged. But the game has a fucking fetish for projectiles, I can't think of a single world encounter that doesn't have some projectile involved

What irritates me is how they give you these special attacks with cool downs, yet when you USE the special attacks (some are very slow to perform) you are just 100% open to enemy attacks. On the higher difficulty modes this problem becomes really apparent, as you can use ONE special ability and WHILE you're performing the attack you get hit TWICE and you're dead. You just fall dead after finishing the animation for the special ability. Like why? Couldn't have made our reliable attacks reliable? I just don't get that, it contradicts itself. Here's a special ability with a huge cool down, but it mostly just sentences you to death because you can't cancel the animation once it begins and it takes 4 whole second to complete. I died SO many times due to this. A massive developmental oversight IMO. Regular difficulty is fine but NO Mercy and Give Me God Of War modes suffer heavily from this problem. 😡. Special attacks should grant you protection since you're LOCKED into that animation until it finished. Ridiculous.

Honestly for boss that’s called “BERSERKER KING 👑” you would think he be a bit more ferocious, relentless, and tankier then hey 👋 imma get 20 feat and just shoot you with mini gun, rocket launcher, and a air strike for safe measures instead. Like 😅 …… WHY You would think in new game plus difficulty they would just add at least 2 new moves to these bosses instead of making them tank runic attacks, increase their level, and make them 2-1 shot you. Like why would you do this to people especially fans. I really don’t think they tested ng+ before releasing it. There something’s they could of did better instead of leaving it alone. And this applies to the weaker enemies too!!!!

The point about some moves not affecting bosses and normal enemies is so on point. In GoW 3, you could launch Zeus into the air with triangle and AIR GRAB HIM. In Ragnarok, I can't Hyperion Grapple to Thor or even Traveller. You have to glitch at best, if you want your hit properties to work.

Kratos is sop clunky. I love not being able to cancel attacks, and if i find myself attacking, then some enemy spawns in and attacks more quickly, i am doomed to watch it happen, and then get gang-graped by multiple hits. So frustrating. GOW franchise used to be so combat focused, and now the game is story focused, which is fine, but not at the cost of combat. It has become an afterthought.

The biggest bullshit for me was not having the ability to cancel inputs. At least not with breaking the animation.

The number of times the game put you in unsurvivable situations just because it decided you were doing too well against a boss that was supposed to be hard was ridiculous, why do they care if you know the mechanics and builds well enough to cheese a boss on a single player game

The stonemauer shiled is usefull if you have this unparierable stuff....it collects the energie and can realease it till 5hits i think

Camera is the big problem. Its WAY too tight for a game where you have enemeies all over the screen that can easily jump around The fact that they can legit gravitate toward you from Halfway across the area while in an attack animation also sucks bc whats the point of learning their attack patterns if you cant dodge them

Teleporting and blinking enemies have become a staple in gaming nowadays. Lazy game design

Lore/story = 10 Gameplay/combat = 0 It so ridiculous see a "powerfull god of war" been humillated by random guys and little lizards. I´ll never know where they find the corage to make a DLC based enterely on his combat mode.

I know this is late. I freaking love this game, but the combat is so fucking frustrating, you either kill the bosses really fast, or you do it slow over the course of 5 to 10 minutes and you could get completely fucked over if they decide they didn't give a shit about my freaking combos and just attack and one shot my ass and I have to do that shit all over again. It's just frustrating to see such amazing game devs not having the ability find different ways to improve the combat, sure there are burdens and what not in the game, but I don't like using that shit, I like have a proper build and still facing challenges when fighting bosses.

im not sure if you already have done it, but the elden ring dlc is coming out soon, and im pretty sure many people would love to see a playthrough.

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only having a hard time with the combat in Ragnarok. I beat the game when it was first released and haven't touched it since but when I heard that a new game plus has been added I decided to hop back in to get the platinum, but my God am I struggling. I know it' s been a while since I played it but damn the combat is so inconsistent now.

For me it was that it always felt more like a spell Que syste, then a active system, i had so many times i blocked last second but he was stuck in my Attack combo PS: Was the first Game for me i switched from hardest Diff to easiest just because combat started to be just annoying, specially the Alfheim Enemys escaping all the time even thought you just give them the hardest clapping in their life they just leave like nothing is happening.

How do you do the punching move with the blades? They changed it from 2018. I see you doing in this video at 6:28 and at other times too, but i can't even find it in the skill tree. What am i missing?

So I’ve been playing back through this game recently and I came looking for a video like this commenting on the flaws of the combat. Put simply, beating bosses no longer feels rewarding. God of war was so good that I actually 100%’ed it. Every difficult boss that crushed me didn’t feel like the game was unfair… if felt like my skills weren’t able to keep up. Ragnarok is different. All of the late game “difficult” fights amount to a few things that are the lamest ways to up difficulty: 1. Throw an unreasonable amount of enemies at you and DO NOT sync up or optimize their coordinated attack pattern - the poison boss was the last straw for me… I nearly broke down in anger on the berserker trio where two were fire and ice elements and would actively chase your companion while the berserker stalks you-if you apply too much pressure to the berserker they start spamming spacer counters, which is insane, because the melee opponent already has reactive combos as well. There’s one case where the two spacers can spawn tracking elemental balls that can literally arrive in the middle of when you need to dodge/parry the melee opponent. I spent hours to beat that fight and then the game failed to save… so I had to redo it. 2. Make enemies give too few damage windows and flee often - this is baffling to me, because it’s at odds with the philosophy of the combat options provided to Kratos. He has so many moves that are essentially useless because they take too long to get off so the enemy dodges or the enemy actively responds to them with a counter that comes out too quickly… i had to change builds on bosses multiple times to silly builds that weren’t based on fun, but instead latency to get the attack off… why even make these attacks an option if they’re always worse and the damage scaling doesn’t justify having them? E.g. multi-hit moves with the fire weapon are a death sentence usually because right then you stagger the boss a mob (that does way too much damage) combos you into oblivion mid attack. The tracking on some attacks is also absurd btw and the fact that bosses sometimes essentially cancel staggers for some reason is baffling to me. 3. Over optimize hit timing to throw off player by making hit timing purposefully feel unnatural - There are so many attacks where the logical hit proc time is delayed like a 4th of a second or something and it’s maddening. Why do this when your intent is to throw 1 million enemies on the screen all of different varieties half of which I can’t even see. They needed to fix the pacing of fights or get rid of the multi enemy of screen nonsense. 4. Make enemies spongier - I feel like normal trash mobs are a pain to get through because of how the armor system works. It takes too many hits to shred shields and trash mobs sitting in boss arenas are way to hard to down. 5. Combat that exploits limitations in the actual game design-e.g. throwing 3 spacer opponents in the same arena where the game essentially forces you to down them in sub optimal orders-particularly egregious for berserker fights-it’s ideal to take out shooters first, but the melee primary enemy is so overly aggressive that you have to deal with them first and in doing so you’re trying to proc parries on an opponent that is off screen half the time. It’s idiotic. 6. Absurd damage buffs for enemies - I walked into way too many arenas on my play through where I was essentially getting 1-2 shot by the boss. It’s a bit counter intuitive to do this because it makes Kratos, the god, feel extremely mortal. All of this makes a game harder, but none of it makes the game more fun. In God Of War, combat felt like a dance, the difficult Valkyrie fights were all just unique and difficult enough to be interesting but consistent enough to feel fair. Hit timing didn’t feel overly optimized for making parry timing purposefully more challenging. Enemies had clearer tells. Also, the combat system feels overly complex and somehow slightly less fluid-there are too many options for combat and not enough reasons to use them all. Let me also emphasize… tracking on attacks is way to aggressive in a game that throws 8 enemies in the same arena with you. Also, the combos enemies throw out have too tight a dodge window. There are attacks that are literally not dodge able-you have to parry to stop them OR stay hidden under shield OR get nearly frame perfect side steps back to back-every single time in the fight. This breaks the flow of battle. Parry isn’t made effective enough. Why throw a combo at me that I essentially must parry to get out of more consistently just to not provide me a damage window after because the enemy retreats after. How can they retreat after my parry has staggered?

I think the biggest problem with these AAA games is that the devs do their best to provide a difficulty which is satisfying enough for all levels of players. They did a good job here really. It's definitely not perfect and new game plus esp on gmgow should have had a lot more redesign done to it and not just filling in the moments you have to breathe with an additional attack or projectile you have to deal with. Like for real none of these bosses have any dodging or blocking abilities other than teleporting away

Honestly that’s the one problem I have with the berserker king he always runs away I’m not used to that

When you make a god of war game you want to make the gamers to really feel the immense power kratos has and that he is a badass unstoppable killing machine. You want to translate that to the player. I can tell they did a horrible job. These combat designer should be ashamed of themself. The difficulty is not the issue. The games combat has so many interupting moments that detroys the speed and flow of the game. These are mine biggest issue. 1 enemies in packs attack to often and interupt the combos. 2 to many flying projectiles theat interupt combos. 3 The field of view is bad and it does not help that enemies in pack and projectiles ofte vime from the back or the sides. Indicator is not reliable and somitimes there are so many indicators at the same time you light up like a christmas three. 4 hold down the button to charge up the weapons. Are you fucking serious. When? There is no time when you are surrounded by eneimies and 5 projectilel incomming. Its horrible. 5 travrersal combat and fight enemies on differnt levels Jump up and down destroys the flow. 6. The effects of special attacks feels super weak. 7 No felling of weight or impact. 8 really bad effects from the weapons. 9.. Camera movement in combat sucks. Its static almost and does not follow what you do. There are alot more that i dont like. I dont like the inconsistent staggering. Enemies are made in a way that you are forced to play it more tactical and slowed down. It forces you to block,dodge,quick turn all the time during combat with multiple enemies. Then you can do a couple of hits and reapet with dodge,block and qiuck turn or run a way to get distanse. Its feels weak and boring to play like this. Single enemies or a couple are not a big issue in my opinion. Enemies using delayd attack or fake hit. Everything in this game is forcing you to play it way to much tactical or defense. Its slowes down the combat to a crawl. Its weak and wimpy and I hate it. There are alot of other things line the bad and muffled sound in comparison of 2018. Akward dialog like using modern day. The colors and design of the armor is horrendous. There are some bad pacing overall in the game. But some of these ard of course not the combat designer fault. They have already done so many wrong things. I hopw that they never lay a finger on a god of war game again.

You have some determination. After I finish the game I will never touch it again. The camera really ruins the combat and frankly I hate the difficulty spikes in the game. I can’t even experiment with combat because there are so many enemies I’m swarmed with.

6:44 GBG is doing that challenge. It's a real madness

Glad someone is. Saying somthing about it

They nerfed GNA to the max she is so unpredictable and can hit whilst being attacked mid runic !!

I really hope Santa Monica think about this when they make the next games, and I'm talking about the hyper armor, it's inconsistent, it feels annoying, it's a bad design choice, if you want to stop runic spammers, there a better way, simply remove the cooldown, and make them charge by fighting, just like your weapons... I hate how enemies (even comon ones) will just stay there taking your hits like they are Broly or something, you feel weak! and playing as Kratos, there's no bigger flaw than that!... two other problems are companions, I like to have someone to speak with in the travels, but I don't like when someone blocks my vision with wings in the middle of the fight... also the camera, I like it the way it is, but it can be a problem while fighting giant enemies for being so stiff, zoom out the damn camera goddamnit! at least in these situations, I can't see shit when I got close to the damn dragon, it's annoying.

Auto-targeting is complete garbage! It's gotten me killed so many times; I'll be fighting one enemy and the targeting will suddenly switch me ro someone else! Complete BULLSHIT!

I beat both games on give me god of war, i see why people would prefer the system 2018 had but i do think ragnaroks combat is a direct upgrade to it in every way, attacks feel smoother and more balanced having the power up for the axe be something you just have instead of it being a runic attack was the right thing to do in my opinion. Hot take but i would take the draupnir spear and the blade of olympus any day every day over a half baked bare handed skill tree giving us the most useless moves in all of gaming that should have been unlocked at the start in the first place. Only thing i see that makes it a bit less fun is the camera but at that point just put sensitivity to 10 and use lock on for throwing draupnir or the axe. I feel like most people are blinded by nostalgia for 2018 but even tho 2018 is still an amazing game ragnarok just improves on everything, and for the people saying the combat feels weak cause of nerfed runics and attacks: womp womp a single runic attack cannot decimate an entire area full of late game enemies on give me god of war without needing to aim it time it or position it too bad if you want to feel like a “destroyer” set the game to easy mode and get an op build from youtube for the same experience.

It just shines sooo good that i see ya video and wanna play....theni play and get angry...its not like:yes good fight....its like:finally did it,its over...uff

I just don’t feel like the Kratos the god of war when I’m playing this game like I did the first one, I feel like Hermes the god of getting his legs chopped off because kratos is severely nerfed.

It's not hard for me to admit, because gow 2018 gameplay and story is way better than ragnarok, in ragnarok they remove all the stances from shield and blades, only the axe still have them, but using both blades and axe feels nerfed, ragnarok doesn't have the heaviness of the hits from 2018 combat, and they completely removed the illumination effects from both blades and axe imolation, the weapons are so much better and look better while you are fighting in 2018, they shine with every hit the scenario around you, even the shield too feels better the effects and particles illumination. And they completely removed the barehanded combat, in 2018 when you get your defense higher then 230 every move from barehanded skill three, have a golden effect that applies massive stun and high damage, you can beat any enemy using fists and shield and is very satisfying. The combat feels complete and way more satisfying than ragnarok, I would choose the barehanded combat skill three over the spear skill three from ragnarok any day.

Dude GBG beat the poison Bezerker lvl1 but it took him 2 streams lol. It’s possible ctfu

the whole game was a colossal disappointment cloak was cool, as is the spear...but even that was not taken as far as one would think - wear are the pause combos and why is the final unlock faster throwing that is not as fast as most of the shields can cancel, let alone the semi auto shatter star...a shield that did not work as intended until ng+...6 months later. ragnarok is a "masterpiece" that is "meticulously crafted" if you play on story mode and enjoy marvel movies. i still cannot believe i actively and significantly dislike this game, when the foundation was more than there for it to be at least enjoyable. fucking movie games.

I'm glad that I came across this video. As much as I love GOW. I was really disappointed in NG+ bosses! The mechanics they have added I agree means only they are frustrated with the main mechanisms and though adding an avoidable attacks is a smart idea along with the ability to move out of your attacks without hyper-shield. And glad you mentioned the constant running away, like I'm not asking you to make them just stand and do nothing but the frequent movement is quite annoying and proves nothing. I fought the stalker where you fight the first Dreki and she just froze!!! 😂 I love the game but this trend of DS like bosses is getting undet my nerve.

Mechanics are absolutely broken

I think the problems with Ragnarok's bosses are the same that malenia from elden ring has but even worse, malenia can ignore staggers, has unpredictable attacks (specially waterfall dance), forces you to play defensive and overall breaks the rules of the Game, but at least if you're very good at the Game or know certain hidden mechanics you can play more aggresively. On the other hand gna and the berserkers pretty much oblige kratos to be a pussy who only knows how to use a shield

Same lol I beat gow 3 times and have 270h

Are you having fun?

Love the game and agree with you completely. I spend most my time waiting with the bosses. From Software got it right with Sekiro. The bosses are on you constantly and the update they dropped improved them amazingly. They became more aggressive, new moves, mixing up patterns, etc. it also has (imo) the best “hard mode” of any game with the chip damage for blocking instead of deflecting.

God of War Ragnarök is frustrating

God of War Ragnarok bosses are frustrating and just terribly designed, they wanted to copy Elden Ring and failed

This game is just horrible combat covered by pretty graphics, it’s not even about skill. It’s just about if you’re able to destroy your bumpers and x button(on PS4) until eventually they get you with one mistake and inf combo you to death(or just take most of your health in one non runic basic hit.

I just miss the "Oomph" and spectacle of the old games. Kratos back then was a force of nature besides being this little dude fighting giants and real !!! gods. The new Kratos is just a dude fighting other dudes and some dudes with magic called "gods". The personal story replaced the spectacle of this universe/world. While ( besides the ravens) i completed GoW 2018 i couldn't force myself to grind in Ragnarök. I did some side quests at the beginning of the game and just felt that it would totally destroy the pacing of the game for me. So i played just the main story and it was "ok". Never felt the wish to play the bulk of endgame content. I don't care for buildts and achievements, i just want a game that "rocks". I just feel that if the developers would have put more effort in the game itself instead of the side content the quality of the sigle-player game experience would have been better. Ragnarök is a good game but it never really felt as great as the old ones and even 2018 did.

I always said Ragnorok has better combat for hoards of enemies but 2018s was better for boss fights.

I can't comprehend how Santa Monica came from one of the most unique and perfect combat design to trying to copy Fromsoft's work and be absolutely terrible at it

All games have flawed combat

Cant say I agree man. A lot of the issues you have are with the optional bosses and not the combat system as a whole. Compared to 2018 it is way more balanced

Git gud😂

Also without ur beautiful guides I built my own build for myself who prefers to always be angry and on the offensive. But I won't lie I love you dude without your knowledge I wouldn't have been able to do it

I finished it 15 try to 1 up me mf😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤