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Let’s discuss the God of War series. What is your favorite game in the series? What do you like about it? What doesn’t work for you? Are there similar games you like? Feel free to share anything that comes up and react to other comments. Let’s get the conversation going!

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  • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I don’t particularly love the floaty, sloppy “just put some damage in this 180 degree arc” basis of the combat system much.

    I’m not sure what this means, to be totally honest.

    I am also not at all on board with most of the early teenage edgelord narrative stuff in there. Maybe I was a bit too old by the time these came out.

    I don’t care what anyone says, narratives in character action games are shit 😂 I’m never gonna defend it, and always find it odd that people cared about their stories. They’re not good vehicles for storytelling, IMO.

    There’s a reason GoW (2018) had to change genre to shift focus to storytelling, for example.

    I would much rather spend time in the more expressive, free-flowing Devil May Cry side of things if I’m going for snappy, precise combat

    Hmm… this makes me wonder how much time you spent playing around with GoW3’s combat system because it clearly takes a lot of inspiration from DMC.