Game has an official release date now. I can't wait, it's my most anticipated game for the rest of the year. The last one was phenomenal

God of War Ragnarök launches on PS4 & PS5 November 9, 2022.

More info from Santa Monica Studio: https://t.co/GUmUZUl5NO pic.twitter.com/jMbTswDp4j

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 6, 2022

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/07/06/god-of-war-ragnarok-launches-november-9-new-cg-trailer-revealed/

Editions:

I have never in my life ordered a "Collector's Edition" of any of these games, but this one might be an exception. There's some cool stuff in there.

BEHOLD: The new God of War Ragnarok DualSense controller, out November 9. #StateOfPlay pic.twitter.com/XlrKaZv9PJ

— IGN (@IGN) September 13, 2022

FightinTexasAg15 said:

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BEHOLD: The new God of War Ragnarok DualSense controller, out November 9. #StateOfPlay pic.twitter.com/XlrKaZv9PJ

— IGN (@IGN) September 13, 2022

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Man I might be stupid enough to buy this despite already having two controllers

Preload goes live tonight

That was awesome! Better than expected. But man that was an expensive commercial.

What is this "PS5" that you speak of?

Reviews are looking good

God of War Ragnarök is the second-highest-rated new game of the year, according to @metacritic.https://t.co/FOoWfB1ALs pic.twitter.com/ba03pe9bP7

— VGC (@VGC_News) November 3, 2022

God of War Ragnarok is an almighty achievement, creating a new high that makes many of its peers look positively mortal by comparison.

Our review: https://t.co/f5IYiEzIbR pic.twitter.com/3zghTzG001

— IGN (@IGN) November 3, 2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/yl6ley/god_of_war_ragnarök_review_thread/

Decided to go with a hard copy for this one, looking forward to playing it

7 more mins… c'mon time…

Played a couple hours last night. The game looks so good on a 4K TV.

Looks great.
Combat feels smoother than GoW, which I guess is to be expected. I have been missing the quick turn around from the first game though… maybe that was something had to purchase off the skill tree and I haven't unlocked yet?

Google has revealed its now L1 + down…. And also now found it buried in the controller mappings that I hadn't bothered to look at lol

Outstanding game so far. I still love the dialog, especially Mimir and the dwarves.

"And how's life been treating everyone's favorite azure vulgarian."

"The **** you call me?"

LOL

The first hour or so goes hard! About 5 hours in and it's as addicting as I remember GoW 2018 being. It's a ton of fun so far

Favorite quote so far "my Dad likes loot".

Bout 2 hours in. Gorgeous and fun as hell

bbattbq01 said:

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Favorite quote so far "my Dad likes loot".

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I don't need a snack

I've been to five worlds I think now and I've got to say the environment designers knocked this out of the park. They all look so different and are all beautifully rendered.

Am I only one that can't stand Atreus? He's such an annoying character I hope they develop him throughout the story which I would assume they would I'm around 6+ hours played I think.

Nah I didn't but I might have to because this game is amazing

Reed25 said:

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Nah I didn't but I might have to because this game is amazing

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You have to be missing so much of what is going on if you didn't play the first one... lot of references to the 2018 God of War.

Is anyone here actually playing on PS5 using "Favor Quality" mode over "Favor Performance" mode? I'm using a basic 4K TV set-up and, to me anyway, the graphical differences are indecipherable while the frame rate differences are jarring.

Nope. I play every one of these on favor performance. I don't care about image quality if it runs like a stop motion film.

I believe you have to bind Quick Turn manually to a touch pad swipe or a button in the Settings.

Anyway, I just started doing side quests in the first main area. The quests and story flow really well so far. The voice acting and writing is just as enjoyable as the first game.

Combat has been bugging me some and I need to vent about it. I couldn't really put a finger on it until I encountered my first "The Hateful" mini boss last night. I was playing on No Mercy but after about 30min of failure I turned it to Balance. I got through Sekiro and Elden Ring just fine but something about this game just isn't clicking for me.

I think it lies in the Parry/Counter attack mechanics. Parry/Counterattack is a trap, at least early game. The "reward" of Counterattacking is not worth it for several reasons:

1. You're animation locked during the Parry and the Counterattack.
2. There are no i-frames during these animations.
Combine those two factors together and in a fight against multiple fast moving enemies, parry/counter leaves you open big time.
3. The counterattack itself doesn't inflict much Stun damage to dangerous enemies (at least that Hateful mini-boss) and it also doesn't interrupt their current action. The counterattack feels like it hits like a wet noodle on dangerous enemies.
4. The counterattack is single target. The Shield Slam from the Stonewall Shield is a front cone AoE.

It seems like I'm supposed to be picking a shield style and upgrading that shield only, there's not a lot of upgrade materials to go around. So I want to pick a style and stick with it. Parry/counter against basic enemies isn't worth the effort either. The Shield Slam from the Stonewall is easy to execute and knocks most enemies in the air.

Hopefully, going with the Stonewall Shield going forward makes combat feel enjoyable all around.

Lunda's armor has been pretty solid for the early-mid game.

Game has been great so far!

chase128 said:

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I believe you have to bind Quick Turn manually to a touch pad swipe or a button in the Settings.

Anyway, I just started doing side quests in the first main area. The quests and story flow really well so far. The voice acting and writing is just as enjoyable as the first game.

Combat has been bugging me some and I need to vent about it. I couldn't really put a finger on it until I encountered my first "The Hateful" mini boss last night. I was playing on No Mercy but after about 30min of failure I turned it to Balance. I got through Sekiro and Elden Ring just fine but something about this game just isn't clicking for me.

I think it lies in the Parry/Counter attack mechanics. Parry/Counterattack is a trap, at least early game. The "reward" of Counterattacking is not worth it for several reasons:

1. You're animation locked during the Parry and the Counterattack.
2. There are no i-frames during these animations.
Combine those two factors together and in a fight against multiple fast moving enemies, parry/counter leaves you open big time.
3. The counterattack itself doesn't inflict much Stun damage to dangerous enemies (at least that Hateful mini-boss) and it also doesn't interrupt their current action. The counterattack feels like it hits like a wet noodle on dangerous enemies.
4. The counterattack is single target. The Shield Slam from the Stonewall Shield is a front cone AoE.

It seems like I'm supposed to be picking a shield style and upgrading that shield only, there's not a lot of upgrade materials to go around. So I want to pick a style and stick with it. Parry/counter against basic enemies isn't worth the effort either. The Shield Slam from the Stonewall is easy to execute and knocks most enemies in the air.

Hopefully, going with the Stonewall Shield going forward makes combat feel enjoyable all around.

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You're not alone having done this... I played about half the game on No Mercy and became annoyed what felt like inconsistencies with the parry/counter mechanic and some of the gank fights. I remember having the same frustrations with the first game.

Game is an absolute masterpiece

Easy 10/10 from me

You're not the only one - by far the worst part about this great game is it's targeting system. I've lost too many fights by dodging and trying to lock on the closet enemy only to target lock onto a guy 40+ feet away.

cr0wbar said:

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You're not the only one - by far the worst part about this great game is it's targeting system. I've lost too many fights by dodging and trying to lock on the closet enemy only to target lock onto a guy 40+ feet away.

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I think there are settings for auto toggle you can mess with. I'll have to look again next time I fire it up. Changing quick turnaround to the L3 button was a game changer.

I feel like I must be doing something wrong when I play as Kratos. My attacks feel like they hit like a wet noodle and stun damage accumulates very slowly. Dealing with multiple enemies at once gets frustrating sometimes since I feel like my attacks have zero weight or impact to them

Artreus on the other hand does a ton of stun damage, and playing as him feels a lot smoother. His playstyle of building up stun meter and using R3 feels pretty good.

Am I supposed to be applying Frost or Fire debuffs then switching weapons? I've picked up the talents for that playstyle but I haven't bothered with that much, yet, since the Chaos Blades are disappointing as heck to use. I'll try the element/switch if I ever get back to Kratos. This one section with Atreus is beginning to drag on.

Edit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/z14ol9/god_of_war_ragnarok_combat_discussion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This post really sums up my thoughts on combat