God of War: Ragnarok |OT| 94 MC|OC Ragnarok is Here

[Legend]

Jist goes to show how much the cross-gen/pc port thing is hurting ps5 gamers.   Instead of getting full use out of the console we are instead making less impressive games that prioritize multiple hardwares.  

We're never going to get that "uncharted 2" moment again.  I knew we wouldn't get it from MS but now I'm convinced sony won't do ot either.  

Disappointed.

Wouldn't we get an "uncharted 2" moment from the second game on next gen? U2 was 3 years after PS3 launched.

Ragnarok and Forbidden West being cross gen is lame but not horrible imo.

[the-pi-guy]

Same rules as the GOW thread. Give a high, medium, and low prediction.

IE you expect it to get a 95 so you set that as your middle. Then you set 97 as your high because you don't think the game has a good chance of scoring above that. Then you set 88 as your low because you don't expect the game to score lower than that.

RESULTS WILL NOW BE SCORED SO THAT AN OVERALL WINNER CAN BE DETERMINED AT THE END OF THE YEAR. IF YOU HAVE THE CLOSEST PREDICTION, YOU EARN POINTS: SCORE +=100-(high prediction-low prediction)*2. IF THE FINAL MC FALLS OUTSIDE YOUR HIGH AND LOW PREDICTIONS, YOU LOSE POINTS: SCORE -=50.

Review embargo ends when the countdown ends. Feel free to post predictions and edit them up till that time.

100:
99:

[the-pi-guy]

Reviews go live November 3rd. Less than two weeks.

High: 98
Med: 94
Low: 90

[Legend]

96
93
92

[the-pi-guy]

Same rules as the GOW thread. Give a high, medium, and low prediction.

I feel like we have come full circle.

[Legend]

I feel like we have come full circle.

Thanks for keeping it going strong!

[nnodley]

Bein real optimistic

98
96
92

[SWORDF1SH]

91
91
91

[the-pi-guy]

91
91
91

Worst mainline GoW confirmed.  

[BananaKing]

96
93
87

[the-pi-guy]

I'm going to be overly careful about sharing things here, and specify without spoiling what the spoilers are. Would appreciate it others did the same.

Spoiler for Game Mechanics retained from the first game explained:

<br><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We used squeeze-throughs to valve the player in to prevent them from going backwards, and boosts are for preventing you from leaving the combat space before everyone is dead. Buddy can’t boost if they’re busy shootin.</p>&mdash; Kurt Margenau (@kurtmargenau) <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtmargenau/status/1583973153470001152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br>

[the-pi-guy]

This ep is pre-launch so there will be nothing shown our team constitutes to be a story spoiler.

That said, there will be gameplay clips that have not been shown yet so if you would like to avoid anything new before launch please keep that in mind.

— Santa Monica Studio – God of War Ragnarök (@SonySantaMonica) October 24, 2022

[kitler53]

I'm on blackout.  

I tend to enjoy games more when I don't have much in terms of expectations. 

[Legend]

I'm on blackout.  

I tend to enjoy games more when I don't have much in terms of expectations.

Me too, but I wonder how much has changed since the first. I'd be happy with a direct round 2.

[kitler53]

Me too, but I wonder how much has changed since the first. I'd be happy with a direct round 2.

I'll go in expecting nothings changed.  Pretty sure that will be accurate.  Pretty much has to be true since they have a 120 fps mode proving they aren't pushing the hardware at all.  I'll just hope for more bosses and goon variety.