Poll: What Are Your First Impressions of God of War?

So far I played for hour and a half and the only thing that I had trouble getting used to was the combat with R1 and R2. But the game is awesome, can’t wait to go home and play it later

I'm hating it!
Terrible game...such a disappointment! Awful, just awful....
But then again maybe it's because I haven't even had a chance to start it since I'm not home :'D

It's great!

Liking it so far. Very pretty. Plus, beardy Kratos.

I had the digital preorder loaded so I got to play for about three hours before going to bed. The relationship between Kratos and Atreus is pitch perfect. It felt like a real father-son dynamic. The dialogue has a great flow between them. You feel the weight of the responsibility that Kratos bears as a father and the uncertainty that Atreus feels in his recently changed life.

I adjusted to the combat easier than I thought I would. Where the series had previously been all mashing and combos for me, this game is more methodical and rhythmic. But the feeling is still intense and the effects are visceral. I really like the feel. The throwing and catching of the axe is so satisfying to experience. The first two bosses were impressive and challenging.

Did I mention, the game is absolutely gorgeous looking? I kept pausing to admire the scenery. I’m excited for photo mode.

Buying it as soon as my train stops at Utrecht station. Then Some work i Will play this masterpiece tonight .

This is like the EU/UK only poll.

Mine's out for delivery, but USP usually doesn't get here for another 8 or 9 hours. I get a lot of stuff from Amazon it's usually fairly consistent between 3-5. Unless it's Amazon Local, then it's 11AMish.

Question for those of you who have put in a couple of hours or so:

How is it doing earning that M/18 rating? I've never trusted reviews, but after recently finishing M-18 Kingdom of Amular: Reckoning, which really was barely T for Teen, I have my doubts.
Not that I'd let kids play it, but my son is 15 and kids grow up fast these days. And he survived that Sony presser w/ the Detroit child murder and Days Gone torture. That presser really needed a warning actually. Maybe not a big M emblazoned on the screen, more like a presenter saying - "Those with a queasy stomach may wish to turn away now." Even I don't need to see that.

So anyway, first couple of hours, thought I'd let my teen watch. Are we talking cussing, sex, or just good ole Kratos wanton bloody violence? I'm assuming there's no "blood off" option in the menu, haven't sen any game do that since the PS3 days, and it would pretty much defeat the purpose of a GoW game. I'm ok w/ random bloody game violence, not a fan of rape, torture, and photorealisitc disemboweling.

I know I'm the parent and it's ultimately up to me, and my wife, just thought I'd ask. Sometimes they save the really good gory stuff until later in the game. But if Kratos is gonna go all Sandusky on the kid - what, incest is huge in GoT - well I have my limits.

Mine is still downloading and I just left home to work. When I am back I will be able to dl the rest of the initial 11GB to try it.

My bro had me starting Mad Max last night so that and KH2 will keep me busy in the meantime.

@LaNooch1978 Thank you. I probably won't let the kid watch me play all of it anyway, but I wanted to let him watch the opening tonight and see how good the graphics are. As long as the graphics aren't too graphic. I thought it would be ok, but with all the talk of spoilers I was picturing Kratos performing a C-section on his dead wife w/ that axe as the opening scene, and it was making me kind of woozy. Games are all about the head spinning horror these days.

Im sure you want our opinion once we actually play it... But will join the chorus of those still waiting for their copy.

Still waiting on Amazon/fedex for mine - says out for delivery 😒

About 3 hour in the game, the game combat and story is amazing, I definitely want to know where the story is going and I want to know more about this new world.

I'm surprised that the game difficulty is quite high compared to older gow, it's like bloodborne if it has normal difficulty.

The only complain is the control is a bit weird after playing horizon zd, and why 180° turn is in "back d-dpad"? It should be "back analog + x".

@Morenoj1220 I usually forget the control when my health is low and I'm surrounded by enemy, frantically press square or x

Its arriving today. But it’ll have to wait until after the kids are asleep.

I’m working in Bologna until Sunday- beautiful city, beautiful weather, great people, amazing food and drink...but all I want to do is sit in a dark room at home with a copy of this game!

I immediately felt more connected to the world and the characters. The no cut camera and the over the shoulder position really draws you in.

I'll let you know what I think...once I've finished Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy and have played through all the other God of War games...

@b1ackjack_ps same!! I'm playing on a 55" tv in 4k and I'm having to squint.

Apart from that, blown away by it. Seriously in awe at the quality. An early encounter with someone who has tattoos (is that vague enough?) Had me literally cheering and I'm sat on my own!

Graphics look nice find the kid irritating though which would put me off buying the game. Just going to watch it on Twitch instead.

@get2sammyb Thanks, that's what I thought, but figured I'd ask a group of people all playing near the beginning of the game while it was fresh on their minds.

I am rethinking playing on "normal" mode though as you suggested I should after reading @wiiware comment. I've been scanning the comments for any mention of Souls games. I'm also 88 hours into H:ZD so my fingers only work one way, going to be hard to reconfigure them.

And people complaining about the text size? Man, I hate that. H:ZD was fine, but we'll see. It's a GoW game, reading never even entered my mind before.

Sammy, when you played were you on Pro or Slim? I'm thinking the font may be smaller on Pro than Slim b/c of resolution if they didn't double the font size when they doubled the resolution, all the writing would only be half size in checkerboard 4k.

Still waiting on UPS, but good thread, I like first impressions, everybody has a different thing they focus on - difficulty, graphics, text, story, controls. You never really know that stuff until you play it for yourself.

@Morenoj1220 you can change it to the classic controls in the settings. I did and it is so much better

Text size is fine to me. But I'm sitting about 2 metres away from my 43 inch TV.

It literally just arrived, and so far, wow. Its actually incredible. This is my first God of War though, so when I did a stun attack and Kratos ripped a draugr in half with his bare hands I was a tad taken aback 😂

Played roughly 3 hours. Stuck on a puzzle with the moving puzzle with the three cogs you need to hit with your axe. Playing a lot more this weekend but so far it's awesome. Glad they got rid of quick time events. Not much gore thou

@rjejr Yes! I forget about the text size, it's to small lol

Also im pretty sure dragr are from the witcher lol

@johnny30 The Witcher didn't invent them...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr

@wiiware @get2sammyb They should relate the text size to the difficulty setting, easier it is, larger the size, harder it is, smaller the size.

Awesome game.The realms are beautiful and the artwork is insane.
Well done Corey we salute you sir👍👍

For me so far beautifully brutal.

I think it’ll be great just won’t be a 10/10 thing or whatever

@Derpie1 Maybe first play it ? Although i called it a masterpiece (and have not played it) i think all those scores it is getting has some truth in it

@Octane @johnny30 Are there draugr in The Witcher? I think you might mean Skyrim — they're everywhere in that game.

Personally I think its good but its too early in my game to determine if its a 'Masterpiece' or the 10/10 that so many reviewers have awarded it. Its a massive improvement over the previous games - much more depth and character.

I do find some of the movement limitations frustrating - funnelled in certain directions and its annoying that right at the start the game tells me I can leap over a waist high log but then can't climb over a knee high wall. Minor detail overall but its not as explorable as it could be.

My first impressions though are still very positive and it has a lot of depth too. Its certainly visually impressive and combat is a lot of fun too...

@ShogunRok Witcher 2. In Witcher 3 they only make an appearance as a card in Gwent iirc.

i love it!

the world itself is full of mysteries and it pulls you in.

the story so far is great (though i'm not far yet) .

any idea of how many "chapters" there are? i'm on the 3rd one now . you can PM me to avoid spoilers.

@Octane Ah ha. I can barely remember TW2.

@get2sammyb after playing for a few hours I can see how well you did with your review. You summed it up succinctly without giving anything away, and there's been so many moments so far that have been literally jaw dropping for me. Something that would have been diminished somewhat by having things (and by that I don't mean plot points, but I won't say more than that) pointed out in a review.
This is why I love this site so damn much. Well done man!

Brill, got to the blue blacksmith guy earlier, bout an hour and a half/2 hours game time so far, looks spectacular, the change of prospective and pace are needed after 6 games for me

Well it came - first impressions w/o actually having played yet...

Reversible cover - US - is very cool. Considering keeping the box just for it when I trade in the game, Gamestop doesn't require the box. The ad for "Loot Box" inside darn near gave me a heart attack. LOOT BOXES!! my mind screamed. Close call for my sanity. The ad on the other side was for Detroit Become Human w/ the date listed, 5/25/18. That's for those who downloaded the game and were wondering what they were missing.

Screen said 9 minutes to install 9GB to internal storage to begin playing. Wondering how fast home broadband would have to be to match download speeds matching install speeds. 1TB?

Near the end of the install time from disc the patch download started. That was kind of cool, it just started. Didn't wait until I started playing, didn't ask, just did. Another 5 minute wait for patch #4. Yes 4, I'll get to that later.

After all of that waiting I couldn't play it b/c my son got home with his friend from school and they play DBXV2 on the PS4. Should have purchased that on Switch instead. But I did get a chance to hit Options and "Check for Updates" just to make sure. No more of those today, maybe tomorrow. Or more likely Monday, give those guys the weekend to celebrate their success. I then checked "Update History" and it listed 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 and 1.10 w/ notes for each. That's 4 patches Day 1. Day one and if you bought the game on disc and don't have internet you're already 4 patches behind. Day 1. Well at least the entire base game seemed to be on the disc, more than some Switch games can claim.

So my impression is - boxes are cool, but why bother putting a game in them, just put in a download code. But the PS4 OS itself is a great huge improvement over PS3, Sony got that right. And not only easy external storage, but letting us choose which we want set as the default is a small touch I really appreciate after the screwed up mess that was the Wii U. And online saves with PS+ is nice, won't want to lose these, its gonna be a decent length game. When I finally get to play it. Am glad this came out on Friday, not Tuesday, can cut back on sleep a few nights.

Combat feels odd at first. Spongy R2 wouldnt generally be my attack button of choice, especially when paired with R1. Also feels odd to have so many menu RPGesque options in a GoW game. Minor gripes as I have got somewhat used to the changes. The story and production values are as high as can be. So far So impressive.

@rjejr I always hit 'play without updating the game' and I've never had an issue. The console installs the patch in the background and when you come back the next time, it's installed.

Got it at 3... Played non stop till 6. After the first boss you know you playing a God of War game. All the doubt goes away.

Had to settle into the combat at first - was a hot mess - kept tossing the axe by instead of a light attack 😂

It is just brilliant so far.

I think I played for like 4 hours! When the game opens up is just ridiculous, I love it...so much to kill, so much to see! Love the sidequests

Played it and love it. Love the exploration and loot

@Octane Yeah, I did that with update #5 today, 1.11, it was going so slow, 1% per 45 seconds or so. Guess I spoke too soon earlier about 4 being enough patches for day 1 and they would hold off on the rest until Monday.

But I finally got to play it!!!

First off, thank goodness for control options, I don't see how I could possibly play with the defaults, they make no sense. So I switched them all, basically it's Horizon now, which is great. Though I don't like R1 or L1, but as long as I don't need both L or R at once it should be ok.

Graphics. Just wow. After U4, U:LL and H:ZD I didn't think it could get much better but it does. I do think the H:ZD DLC is better looking than the main game, and this is slightly better still.

No QTE, no rapid button presses for chests or gates, my prayers have been answered. Hallelujah.

Story is moving along, played for 2 hours, stopped when it seemed time for stopping after the fight. I did die once near the end, but I can live with that. Will see how difficult it heys, playing on normal balanced now.

Yes the font is small, too small, but it's actually much better than XCX b/c I can just barely read it. XCX was truly unreadable.

Looking forward to getting back to it in a bit after the lids go to bed.

Oh, thanks to everyone who answered my question about the rating. The 2 hours there's nothing troubling. The R3 fatalities are a mess, but it looks like the orange soda from Sunset Overdrive, my kid and I were joking about it. Also, Kratos is Kratos, but it's funny b/c him and Atreus are very much like Vegeta and Trunks in season 7+8, only Kratos makes Vegeta look good.
Not sure how the rest of the game will play out, but I kid is holding out on rest for another day, probably on PS5 while he's in college. 😉

PS needs another article in a couple of weeks called last impressions. Some of you will finish this weekend, but st least give the rest of us a week. 😁

Question - one of the things I really liked in previous GOW was the mountain size bosses. The scale was amazing. Does the new one has such things too? Because those that were shown in the review weren't that large actually (or maybe those trolls aren't bosses?)

Without spoilers, but the beginning is really F***** impressive including the first boss fight.

@rjejr What did you not like about the default controls?

I'm usually fine with whatever the game throws at me.

@Eran Believe me the first boss you meet is no giant but is superman level destruction . I mean it is not big but its more hardcore than i have ever encountered in GOW3

Started it a bit after midnight and didn't realize 6 hours had passed when I stopped, didn't want to put it down. The combat took a bit of getting used to at first but now that I know what I'm doing it has me hooked and I think the change was for the better. It's still fast, still brutal, still has a bit of a hack-and-slash/button mashing (not meant in an insulting way) feel to it, just not quite as flashy without all the aerial moves. Still feels like God of War though, and that first boss was freaking awesome. We'll see where it goes but so far I love the story and the characters and as somebody who enjoys exploring every part of a game's world, I like that this one encourages you to do a lot of that.

Nothing amazing in my opinion (only 2-3 hours in). Very linear, same puzzle mechanics as in basically every other game. Cut scene + fight + cut scene + fight...solid 7/10 for me but I was expecting more innovation and more uniqueness for it to be game of the year. It's very pretty but it feels like I have seen and played the same game 100 times before, just in different settings.

@Morenoj1220 I heard you can put the controls on classic.

@dryrain is he irritating to you simply because he’s a kid because I’ve played the game for about five hours now and there’s nothing irritating about him plus he’s super useful in combat

@get2sammyb I feel like my brother and me are weirdos because I told him about the tons of people complaining about the text size and we both just don’t see it where it’s too small it’s easily readable to us.

@Derpie1 I don’t know maybe play it actually before making that call. I mean all the reviews and gamers who have got their hands on it can’t be wrong and I know not everything appeals to everyone but I just don’t see how someone can play the game and not see the quality.

@mantralux yeah you’re still in like the prologue lol it opens up big time later. The I think it’s called sea of nine is a rabbit hole that if you’re not careful can keep leading down and down until four hours pass and you still haven’t touched the main story

@Eran The answer is yes.

@dark_knightmare2 I guess it depends on the size of your TV, and the viewing distance. I had no issue with the font size either, and I didn't know it was a thing until I read about it here. Though I have to say, I am playing the game on a 43 inch TV, and I'm less than 2 metres from the screen, it pretty much fills my entire FOV.

Played about 2-3 hours...so enjoyable, this product is above the definition of a "great, awesome, excellent game" etc.
it's an incredible unique and immersive adventure.

@rjejr beware of the second boss fight (if you consider the troll from the trailer the first boss fight)! It's pretty brutal!

ok so the other half said i could use discounts and money off vouchers to get it oh boy its well worth the wait but incredibly hard lots going on with regards to controls etc

@get2sammyb you nailed it in the review i think even with the controls a bit wild etc it makes you a lot more cautious this is a true masterpiece and worthy of goty candidate i do feel spidey might blow us all away in september

@AFCC Hard to write these things w/o spoilers isn't it?

Troll wasn't too bad, I think Atreus did half the work while I just sat back and kept throwing my axe at it. 2nd fight, the true boss fight, I died when he had about 1 bar of health left, so close, b/c I wasn't even really sure if I was supposed to win, thought it was one of those - hero loses, comes back later for redeeming victory - fights. By the tim eI realized I could hurt him my health was blinking red. Next time around was easy. Checkpoints mid boss fights are certainly our friends. I can see me changing the difficulty to easy at some point though, there's always that one boss fight in every game I can just never figure out. But I'm giving it a go on normal for now.

@dark_knightmare2 I mean the game is good, but impressive graphics and the one-shot camera gimmick is still not enough for me to suggest it should be GOTY. I'm sure I'm only in the prologue bits but the game would have to turn drastically for me to change my 7/10 to a 10/10. It has to be on par with Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild and Horizon in terms of open areas, progression and storyline for that to happen and I just can't see that happening.

7 or 8 out of 10 I would understand simply because of the technical achievements + well-written storyline and well-crafted characters. But when the half-god protagonist can't even climb a waist-high ledge because it would take him away from the linear game path it doesn't exactly help with immersion. This is what Breath of the Wild did so well, it always felt like you could go anywhere.

And maybe it's just me but I see no innovation in the game outside of the technical ones. Sure the axe is multi-use for both combat and puzzles, but it has been done before. The world feels small because the camera is one-shot so they traverse miles in minutes which again doesn't help with immersion.

I dunno, so far I'm not blown away.

@mantralux It seems like you're suggesting that a game has to be ''open world'' to be a ''10/10''. This isn't an open world game like The Witcher, Breath of the Wild or Horizon. That doesn't mean it's not good though.

@Sanquine Sounds interesting! Still, the sheer sizes of the bosses in GOW always amazed me, like, you walked on a mountain which turns out not to be a mountain but some creature you'll have to fight with (usually), and when the camera zooms out you see the scale of the thing - that was quite an achievement. In the new one they made more intelligent, but smaller creatures? That's less unique I think.

@Octane No I'm just saying that a 10/10 game for me has to be a perfect experience. God of War is too limiting and linear in my opinion. Which would be fine if it offered something completely unique compared to all other third-person linear adventure games like Tomb Raider or Uncharted. But it just follows the same format as those games, in a different setting.

@GraveLordXD I'd say Breath of the Wild deserved a 10/10 for many reasons. Uniqueness, scope, progression, innovation, etc. Witcher 3 was a magical game but suffered with technical issues for a very long time. But taking all its expansions into account and judging it how it runs today, I'd be willing to give it 10/10 as well.

My point here is that by giving God of War 10/10, you are saying that it's on par with those two games. Which, in my opinion, is not even close to being true. It has impressive graphics but what does God of War do that Uncharted 4 or Tomb Raider didn't? God of War has essentially the exact same format as those two games. Cut scene, fight, cut scene, puzzle, cut scene, fight, etc. Even the boat scenes in God of War feel eerily like the car scenes in Uncharted 4.

The relationship between the protagonist and his son is a unique take on a storyline, but is that mechanism alone worth 10/10?

@mantralux Though to be fair, GOW isn't linear at all. It sounds like you're still in the first chapter. This game isn't like Uncharted at all.

@Octane I've only done a few hours (currently at the lake after the witch's house). But again, so far it's been quite underwhelming for a 10/10 game. And if it does become open world soon it still has to compete against other open world games.

@rjejr but don't you feel the fight itself was pretty brutal? Like, bloody, messy...and the way it ends

@mantralux It's not open world... Don't go in expecting The Witcher 3, that's not what you're getting. It's more like a Metroidvania.

In my opinion, it has the best of both worlds. The detailed level design and narrative of a linear game, but with the option to explore and venture off the path like you do in an open world game. Add top notch combat on top of it all, and you've got a brilliant game!

@Miles_Edgeworth this god of war is faaaaar tamer than previous ones. That had ripping off heads, thumbs pushed through eye sockets, people set on fire and a sex scene where you busted some sweet walls with button prompts 😂
I must be the only person who is missing some classic god of war. Im enjoying it and it looks absolutely jaw dropping but something is missing for me.

It’s phenomenal! Genuinely phenomenal! I’m about 10-15 hours in & if it keeps this up it’s going to beat Uncharted 4, Bloodborne & Persona 5 to my game of the generation!

The best thing about God of War (2018) is that how it feels like something completely new, yet FEELS like God of War of old.

THAT first boss battle...wow(!) .
It feels like the natural evolution of God of War.

@mantralux that axe with its throw mechanic is def innovative and has never been done. I can almost guarantee it will be copied from here on out.

Combat really doing my nut in!! I swing my axe ... millisecond later enemy attacks (faster than me)! Kratos Cant/Wont use shield until the axe is finished a full swing ... meaning I get hit repeatedly, which has nothing to do with my reflexes!! Combat doesnt flow at all ... in previous GoW games it was gloriously fluid. Staying away from enemy and getting Atreus to continually attack seems better in most situations.

Need help if anyone knows!
In God of War SPOILER inside the mountain there's this creature that looks like a tatzelwurm that just keeps getting in and out of the ground...I can't hit it, what it's the purpose of it?

@AFCC ahhh, that kind of brutal, brutality, not difficult. My mistake.

For a GoW game it didn't really strike me as brutal, no. GoW games tend to involve intestines falling out and decapitation. And ripping eyeballs out of their sockets, I think he did that to a psychos once. I recall one guy he ripped their jaw off and best them with it, but that might have been something else.

I actually think the fact Kratos didn't cut off any limbs or rip out one of the guys ribs and shove it back down his throat or tear his head completely off was done on purpose to show Kratos is old and tired and really wasn'tb into the fight, he wasn't looking to torture or maim anynody, he just wanted it to be over. That was probably the least "brutal" fight I've ever seen Kratos have. Old man Kratos.

I had no problem with my wife and kid watching, nobody batted an eye, think we were expecting worse. And I'm sure worse will come. At some point he's going to get into it, climb up dome giants snus, and cut his way out thru his chest with that axe. Now THAT will be brutal. But not yet.

@GraveLordXD That being said, I'm certain someone will correct me and say it's not exactly like Bloodborne. But the controls are very similar to Dark Souls at least. And it's a bit slow paced and methodical. I dunno, it's satisfying at least, and there's a lot of special combos too.

@AFCC Don't be sorry, be better.

@GraveLordXD Hah! You know it's good when someone calls you to tell you to play a game.

@Octane ouch x) now seriously you read about that stupid worm? XD

@rjejr I think since it wasn't so cartoonish and over the top as fights in previous games I actually felt the fight was pretty intense, Kratos all bloodied, the SPOILER neck break and all! But I thought you were the guy that complained about gore xD it doesn't affect me the slightest and I encourage teens to see it lol

@AFCC Yeah, you can hit it.

@Octane but...I did! Several times! He just keeps going up and down on the same location lol

@GraveLordXD Even the combat is sometimes very dark souls like. I play this game at the higher difficulty and i die a lot

@AFCC You need to be quick! He gave a bunch of loot, not sure if it was rare loot or not, but I'm certain you can always come back for him.

@Octane I'll wait for fast travel, don't want to climb the whole mountain again xD

played all weekend. its a masterpiece. Druckmann and co have the highest pole to vault over

@rjejr i agree. I get the sence now that he has regretted some of his past actions and has moved away to settle down and leave the past in the past, which has obvioutly caught up on him. I did about 3 hours yesterdat and got to the sea and wasnt blown away. I decided to start again today and switch the contol to classin with □ and ♤ as my attack buttons and got on alot better. Im now in the mind set that this is a new god of war and i cant compar it to previous ones. Im mising the over the top mountain sized bosses and the gore from the other ones as mentioned but im really liking the "last of us" style of story telling. Feel sorry for Atrius tho, kratos is still an arse hole but just doesnt kill everyone and everything this time round 😂

@AFCC I have complained about gore in the past, and maybe here though I meant to just ask if it was in there - but my ideas of gore are probably different than other peoples. 80 slasher films like Halloween, Nightmare and Friday the 13th with teens soaked in buckets of blood, funny. Films like Saw and Hostel w/ torture for tortures sake, not good.

The guy Kratos was beating on even said - I don't feel any of it. Since he didn't feel anything Kratos could have slowly broke every bone in his body one by one until he was just literally a blob bag of skin on the ground. But he didn't, he just ended it the best way he knew how. No pain for pain sake, just a fight to the end, mano - a mano. I'm ok with that, it seemed ok. Though admittedly, had the stranger done that to the kid I would have felt otherwise, I'm a parent.

@Kidfunkadelic83 "Feel sorry for Atrius tho, kratos is still an arse hole"

Yeah, watching this with my son is making me look good. It's even making Vegeta look good and he bullies Trunks all the time.

I 'm 3 hours in and havent' made it to the sea yet, I keep dieing, 4 times so far, so it's probably slowing me down. I do expect Kratos to lose it about halfway through though and get medieval on some guys. Really gruesomely medieval. So my kid isn't watching anymore. He'll play it some day when he's older. After the others.

@rjejr I am almost done with the game...the game is still brutal and gory, but not like other GoWs! There is one type of enemy that if you kill with R3 the animation is pretty intense

@AFCC The R3 animations are certainly the most intense. One frozen guy I held down and stomped on his face for a bit, which certainly earned it it's M rating, but non-R3, as you said, this game doesn't seem as gory as past games. I still think it's funny ripping guys in half w/ R3 spread out that orange stuff which looks like the soda pop in Sunset Overdrive more than blood.

But I'm still early, only play an hour or so a day, may be weeks before I get to the really violent stuff.

@rjejr I honestly like this new aproach! It feels more realistic and less over the top! I finished the game now...It was probably the best game I've ever played

@AFCC "It feels more realistic and less over the top"

Yeah, I kind of feel like that's what they were going for. They all sat around and decided to go for gritty rather than brutal. The Last of Kratos.

@rjejr I like this game better than Last of Us! And that's saying something...
Wish we could fast forward some years and play sequels

@AFCC Gotta have the GoW DLC first. Though don't tell me if it's feasible or not, in my head Atrues will get a stand alone story, maybe with his mom teaching him to hunt. Maybe with a Kratos cameo. But I have a 30 hour story to play thru first before I can decide what the DLC story should be. Trying to avoid spoilers on this game is a full time job.

@rjejr The DLC could be about Kratos going North...right? Would be cool!