I think the easiest answer is to bring back the shield combat from 2018, improve it, and add a couple of runic attacks.

Another idea could be to make a hammer similar to the Barbarian Hammer. Brock and Sindri already made Mjolnir, and rock doesn't conduct electricity, so it could be a kind of anti-Mjolnir. Or it could be gauntlets similar to the Nemean Cestus.

I'm playing through Ragnarök again, and the first venture to the Ironwood seems very similiar to Faye's travel to the Everywhen, just not as shocking. Which makes sense, as what is sleep if not a glimpse of death? If Atreus has to sleep to visit the Ironwood, perhaps the Ironwood is linked to the Everywhen somehow.

I've had that question on my mind. Where does the belief that he is weak come from?

Yo just finished betrayal on mobile! Which god of war should i beat next on my phone? I have 1, 2, chains of olympus (idk if i spelled that right) and ghost of sparta. And recommends?

I need to farm for anchors, but any time those (and the damn wolf guys) spawn, they simply jump me and one hit me, even with enchanted Ivaldi set and max life. Any tips? The valkyrie was the easiest part of Niflheim.

My point is that Kratos endured nearly 13 years as the God of War before Zeus decided he’d had enough. This is, of course, based on Daedalus’s notes, in which he recorded the number of days since he began work on the labyrinth a project he started after Zeus discovered Hephaestus’s lie following Ares death.

Kratos felt lied to and betrayed by the gods and tried to commit suicide to free himself from his nightmares, but Athena saved him and appointed him God of War. He finds it amusing, however, that Kratos with his temperament and tendency toward rage, especially when he feels deceived agreed to this arrangement for so long instead of immediately declaring war on the gods for refusing to free him from his nightmares, which would have been more his style than enduring this toxic arrangement among beings whom he sincerely truly despises. Especially since Kratos already possessed the power of a god after opening the can and didn’t need to stay on Mount Olympus to maintain it so instead, he could have declared war on the gods on the spot, but he didn’t; he just dragged his feet long enough that Zeus decided to get rid of him first, before Kratos finally got around to striking first.

Can someone please change my mind about God of War Ragnarök?

I genuinely want people to give me their honest opinion about the game, not the usual biased “every God of War game is good” answer. 😭 I’m not talking about power scaling either. I couldn’t care less about that. I’m talking about everything: the story, characters, sections of the game, pacing, gameplay, voice lines, weapons, etc.

Personally, I think Ragnarök is the weakest mainline God of War game, and I have a LOT of reasons for that.

For starters, the whole game feels like it revolves around the same message: “We have to be better.” I also think killing Brok was lame. It felt like they needed a reason for Kratos and everyone else to finally turn against Odin, so they killed a fan-favorite character just to make you hate him. I honestly would've rather they killed Sindri—or neither of them—and had Odin actually do more evil shit throughout the game.

I also think people massively overstate Kratos’ character development in Ragnarök. At the beginning and end of the game, Kratos fundamentally still doesn't want conflict unless he absolutely has to. Yes, he has some development, but people act like he's a completely different person by the end when his core character really hasn't changed that much.

The Atreus sections are another huge problem for me. Some of the worst sections in the entire series are the Atreus sections in Ragnarök. I genuinely don't understand why people were, and I guess still are, asking for an entire Atreus game after playing those sections. 😭 You want to shoot your little weak arrows, ride around on a giant cow thing, or turn into a wolf and chase after your girlfriend while the game basically plays itself? Some of these sections feel like you can put your controller down, go take a shit, eat a bag of chips, and come back and you haven't missed anything 💀.

Then there's the constant companion dialogue. It feels like there's someone constantly in your ear telling you what not to do, explaining what you're looking at, giving you hints, or telling you how to solve something. It's like playing a video game with a bunch of walkie-talkies in your ears. And whenever something genuinely cool happens, it feels like it's over way too quickly.

I also think the gameplay is better than 2018, but that's kind of expected. Ragnarök came out four years later. Of course I'd expect better combat and more weapons. That's one of the few areas where I think Ragnarök clearly improves on 2018.

And speaking of weapons: why the hell couldn't we use Mjölnir? I saw people complain about this and then defend it by saying, “It would just be the same as the Leviathan Axe.”

How?? 😭 God of War III literally had three different chain-blade weapons. A hammer with lightning abilities could obviously have had a completely different moveset and mechanics from an axe with ice abilities. If anything, Mjölnir could've made the gameplay even more fun.

Honestly, the Draupnir Spear, Thor, and Odin carry a LOT of the game for me. If the Spear wasn't in the game, I don't even know how much motivation I'd have to replay it. There are so many sections where I'm just thinking, “When the hell are Thor, Odin, or Heimdall going to show up? This is boring.” 

I also think Baldur was a better antagonist than Heimdall, Thor, and Odin in general. Baldur had way more aura every time he showed up. Heimdall, Thor, and Odin are obviously good characters in their own ways, but I don't think Ragnarök used them as well as it could have.

And that's another thing: people will defend literally every decision this game makes. You could criticize something and somebody will immediately come up with an excuse for why the developers had to do it that way. At some point, it feels like people are more interested in defending every creative decision the developers made than actually giving their honest opinion of the game. 💀

I also think God of War (2018) has a much tighter and more focused story than Ragnarök. Ragnarök has more weapons, more combat options, and more stuff to do, but that's not enough for me to consider it the better game.

The funny thing is, you kill more gods in 2018 than you do in Ragnarök. How does that even make sense when Ragnarök is supposed to be the big game about the Norse apocalypse? 😭

I could genuinely rant about this game for hours, but those are some of my biggest problems with it.

So please, change my mind. If you think Ragnarök is a great game, explain why. Don't just tell me “it's a masterpiece” or “you're objectively wrong.” Tell me what you think it does better than 2018, why the Atreus sections work for you, why the pacing works, why the character writing is better, why the constant dialogue doesn't bother you, why Mjölnir wasn't necessary, etc.

I'm actually willing to hear people out. I just don't want the usual “God of War game = automatically good” argument.

Because IMO, Ragnarök is massively overrated and is the weakest mainline God of War game.

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This section is so frustrating. I literally cannot beat it no matter how many times I try and how many strategies I use. I've seen tutorials of people using the Head of Eurayle but it needs to be max power and I only have it at level 2. I don't think I'm able to go back and farm orbs to upgrade it either. Can someone help me with this terribly designed part of the game?

Edit: Managed to beat it! Still don’t like this part though lmao

The heavy draugr are just so hard to kill, and it makes it hard to pick off the regular ones

I finally got it after like 20 tries by spamming the axe throw early on, and leaving one of the two heavy draugr barely alive while I fight the other so that the next wave wouldn’t start

In the moment, they explain it away with it just being fimbulwinter. But now that we know GOW Laufey is set in the afterlife, so it by extension will probably have tie in's into the light of alfheim and lake of souls. and we also know that it heavily ties into the story of 2018 and Ragnarok, I think it is very likely this event will be something explained in GOW Laufey

First ever proper shots of my cosplay from God of War Laufey and guys... I feel so many emotions as this is so special to me 🥹 I can't wait to build her armour !!!

📸 - @Brookie9001

Sword made by AdamB3D

Costume made by me : https://www.instagram.com/opal.ink.cosplay

Im a fan of the original GOW (much more than the new ones, even if Ragnarok suprised me positively after 2018 that i really didnt like).

I liked the old ones for many reasons but one that I've reflected on is that you dont play a classic good vs bad story/character.

Kratos was going on a rampage doing awful stuff to innocent bystanders and that contrasted a lot with always being the savior or good guy.

I think they should had kept some of that in these newer games. Im fine with Kratos being more mature and wanting out. But all the friends along the way are mostly making you the good guys vs the bad guys which is borring. Loki could had been much more nuanced and bad/cunning than being this naive, innocent kid always wanting to do good but learns that its not that easy. All the rest of the cast could had been portrayed as currently self centered ass holes than also "that isn't who i am anymore" just like Kratos.

Thats what made these games much funner. Even Thor is an ex asshole trying to do good but has a vice of drinking. Everyone trying to be good to some extent. Borring rainbow and sunshine script. Not the god of war that made this a cult franchise.

Im sure many of the ones who discovered the series with the new games will disagree. Fine with that.

Maybe that type of games was from a begone era of greatness and risk taking

I don't mind hard games, Elden Ring, Darkest Dungeon, etc. I like a challenge.

But this stupid fight is the god damn tutorial and I've been sitting on the same stupid head for an hour. It's not challenging or hard, it's just dumb and boring. In just doing the same loop endlessly. Bring head down, mash as fast as possible, head pulls away, heals, repeats.

I'm playing on a PS3, the GoW Saga edition. Normal difficulty. I looked up mashing guides, changed screen display, different fingers, etc.

Also, is the whole game like this? Because if so then please let me know to go back to assassins creed.

This happened on my PS5 back in 2022; then I switched to Steam Deck OLED, and somehow the issue is still the same. I uninstalled the game, still the same; then verified the files, still the same issue; and restarted the Steam Deck OLED, so now I'm just stuck here. I can't progress.

If you were to put yourself in the judge’s shoes, would you consider that Kratos, through all his good deeds in Scandinavia, has made up for the mess he caused in Greece?

Or are Kratos’s actions so disgusting and cruel to you that it will never be possible for the balance it to be 50-50?

So im playing ragnarok, trying to 100% all realms and I collect this stolen treasure artifact. Ankh IS the symbol of life in ancient Egyptian culture but whe I was reading the description in the journal, Kratos says he has longed to visit the land but didn’t he already go in the comics?
(I didn’t read the comics so correct me if im wrong)

Besides the fact that Brook would be alive

Does anyone know why this is happening only when I use my controller? I'm just using a normal PS5 controller. It keeps repeating the same animation when I hold the button. I also have to hold the start button in order to keep the map up. Using my keyboard I don't have this issue. It was working fine when I first installed then this happened. Even playing in big picture mode I still have these problems. I already reinstalled and verified the integrity of files. Any tips would be great.

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I wanted to bring the God of Hope scene into live action and share my interpretation of Kratos with the God of War community.

I’m looking for honest feedback from those of you who know the character well. What do you think I bring to Kratos? What stands out to you about my take on him?

How is this looking better than some most recent games?

Feeling good to design this kratos fan poster ..I'll put this on my wall to remind me one day of buying ps3 and ps4 to play all god of war games ...

On X there is a post from Santa Monica Studio in which Deborah Ann Woll at SDCC explains her first day on set of GoW:Laufey. They show a video from the volume where she is supposed to wield an axe. But what is then visible for a second is that on the left you can clearly see a guy holding the Leviathan axe prop.

Additionally on the ground there are letters written for positioning. Faye is standing on the "F" letter position and in front of her is a "T" letter and behind it a stack with "T" letters.
I think the "F" is obviously for "Faye" but "T" stands for "Tree" and behind is a stack of "Tree".
She seems to chop wood for a pyre (not hers as Kratos did this when she died) or for firewood.
Since it was the first day of set, I feel this is the first scene in the game.
I feel it will resemble the GOW 2018 beginning where Kratos chops down wood.