That was a pretty brutal 20 minutes. If the game was coming out on a platform I own, even if I was excited for how the combat works, that was barely interactive, and I wouldn’t be looking forward to sitting through that again. In The Legend of Zelda, you hold up for about a second and a man immediately gives you a sword; I couldn’t help but think of that during all that story setup.
God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games
Submitted 2 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I recently played Hell is Us, which is a soulslike game, and you don’t get a weapon or see any combat for like the first hour or two of the game. I almost thought I was playing the wrong game.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Was it worth it once the combat did start? I had been slightly interested in that game.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think God of Boy also had some pretty long cutscenes, and it could be forgiven as they’re very well written/acted. You kind of just have to be primed for it.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I played the 2018 one and not Ragnarok, and that might be true, but what an awful way to introduce people to this game during a showcase, lol.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ironically it’s what I hated about twilight princess at first which was how on rails it was for the first 3-5 hours.
Afterwards it opens up and is great but that intro is such a mood killer.
TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Long intros really can ruin my interest for games. If your game doesn’t hook me llike a roguelike it failed.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Pretty much all story heavy games are like this now, and have been for some time.
Uncharted 4 was like 2 hours in before you even got to shoot anyone.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was disappointed in Uncharted 4 for a few reasons, but it’s got other components to its gameplay loop besides shooting, and some of them are better than the shooting too. I’d expect this new God of War game to have some light puzzles and decisions around gear, but they couldn’t have baked more of that into the opening 20 minutes? Kingdom Come: Deliverance II just last year is very story-heavy, but they’re gracefully integrating introductions to mechanics (“tutorial” has connotations that don’t really apply here) all the way through the first 5 hours of the game while setting up the story. Even the introduction to your own character allows you to make decisions around how to spec out his character sheet.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
fuck. wasn’t there some sony statement about ending pc ports?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really don’t think that will stick long term. There’s a reason they started making the PC ports to begin with and that reason still exists. I think they’re just trying to build up the exclusivity things in the minds of consumers ahead of their PS6 launch in the next two years
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Correction, you won’t be able to buy this one for pc. I can assure you it will still be available to play 🏴☠️
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
do you mean to say our jolly friend roger is well versed in ps5?
dil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Made the mistake of checking the reddit thread, it looks fun, ppl fr hate anything marvelesque that isn’t edgy all the time I guess
DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The incels will be really angry with this one lol. Looks good though, I’ll be playing it.
emb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thought this looked really good!
The uncut gameplay reveal approach is a little weird when combined with the mostly-cinema beginning of the game. Might’ve been nice to see more gameplay and less setup.
I dig how goofy Frank the cube is. But I can see those quirky random characters really rubbing some folks the wrong way.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I was getting Quantantmania vibes from Frank and the sword. Aside from that, this looks really good!
My friend is considering selling his PS5 to me for about $500 with games, provided I take his offer before FF7 Part 3 comes out. I already have my Steam Deck and Switch 2 (AKA Paperweight 2) to keep me occupied. Plus, not having a job makes any big budget purchase tenuous at best.
Games like Wolverine and Laufey, and Astro Bot are making me keep his offer in the back of my mind for now, but only if they stay exclusive.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Oh god, now I can look forward to an entire game of her name being pronounced wrong.
The really need to hire an Icelandic person for like an hour. Even though I don’t speak Icelandic, it’s agonising.
ytsedude@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was expecting a prequel, but this looks way more interesting! I think the burning dude is Ifrit, which may make the woman Shiva…? She mentioned Sekmet after that bright light. And that strange mask of Odin’s is somehow related? So much potential here!!
Also, if this is the afterlife of the gods, then it seems like there would be a ton of Greeks who’d love to meet Laufey once they realize who her husband is…
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The flaming guy seems to be Begtse, the/a tibetan/mongol God/lord of war and the woman is Sekhmet a egyptain God of war, sickness and/or healing.
Sorry for the many slashes. Polytheism is complex and I know not nearly enough about these pantheons to make definitive statements.Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know if that guy is Ifrit, but the woman had some subtle egyptian designs in her outfit.
DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My only beef with this game was the casting choice. Debora Ann Woll is Karen Page from the Daredevil series and its really hard to see her playing anything else, especially a role this different. I guess time will tell if she is able to pull it off.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Wasn't this game about mythology?
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re looking at a mythology game
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
I didn't mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place...
Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You'd be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene...
I guess it's like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?
berno@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Yikes... Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon......
Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I'm disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.
Gotta say, it's pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for "woke" though.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Not sure how I feel about choosing Laufey as Protagonist. But gameplaywise, it looks lit as always.
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you mean?
She’s clearly a badass. I totally get it now why she was with Kratos.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Because, well, she’s dead. She’s an important part of ragnaroks story, but nevertheless dead, so there will be very little to no meaningfull interaction with atreus or kratos, which is honestly a bit sadge. It’s basically a completely isolated story that adds very little to the lore (considering we already know who faye is) and that’s just a bit meh.
Probably won’t be a bad game, but lorewise, I just feel we could’ve chosen a more meaningful character - or at least one that isn’t canonically dead.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I…
Do not know how I feel about bringing back a charachters who does SO MUCH because of her absence.
Too bad I won’t be finding out if it works, as Sony wont be porting this to PC.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They understand, but they also understand that when they need to make something new, and the old classic already had a complete story, their best chance to make money is off of something familiar. So not Tom Bombadil, but that’s how we ended up with Solo: A Star Wars Story and every Terminator after 2.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m a little torn about death tropes; even Kratos has “died”, and then beat up Hades and slashed his way out of hell. I think it has some premise within the world.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I thought about it more.
I really don’t like it. Not because there’s no precedent, but because it doesn’t work thematically.
Fey being alive, actually, undermines so much of the story in the previous two games.
It means Kratos and Atreus and the many scenes where they gradually accept she truly gone are wrong, actually. It means Odin was right, and that Kratos and Atreus not helping him unravel death, prevented them from reuniting with Fey.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I love it. Her absence is countered by her invisible hand in the plot. She does so much behind the scenes despite her “not being there”. If you didn’t pay close enough attention to the first two games, I believe you’re in for some big surprises in this one
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
What?
Laufey does a ton of things in the first two games, but none of it is posthumous.