God of War - Almost a Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2018
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A few bits of this were taken from a highlight reel of my streams:
• Highlights! God of War
This was made by Nick. / nickolaiboulton
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I feel like I'm forgetting something. Hopefully I remember and add it later. 
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![PIECE BY PIECE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters October 11](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Bc6trBc1kc/mqdefault.jpg)
really trying to hit that 10 minute mark for that ad revenue
@@denami8993 He only overdid the ten minute mark by a couple of minutes.
you mean the 10 hour mark
Then don't watch..if you are entertained then keep watching..save your ... comments for your mama
The joke ------------>
Your head
Bass-D C nice way of saying ‘r/wooosh’
I can't wait for Kratos to fight Jesus
Best. DLC. Ever.
The final final boss
That be fun I don't think people have the guts to make a game where you fight one of the Abrahamic gods
That would be a quick fight. The guy was killed by romans in sure he wouldn't be hard to defeat.
@Tolga K
call me out ,that'd be fine
I'm more afraid that they LL bomb me xD
“Imagine your favorite franchise. Now imagine its next mainline series entry as a racing game.”
Man, Banjo-kazooie fans don’t need to imagine this. They lived it.
hated banjo kazooie, loved nuts and bolts. Dont @ me.
Yakuza fans watching the newest mainline game become a turn based jrpg:
Like a Dragon was my 1st Yakuza game but I never finished it. Gotta start it over.
little big planet fans
Jak combat racing
Digging up the blades of chaos is my all time favourite gaming moment. I avoided all spoilers like the plague so that moment was so hype for me it was unreal.
What do you know about the plague?
@@pooloftim8263 It was just a phrase for avoiding something
@@pooloftim8263he's never gotten it so he must be really good at avoiding it
A little short don't you think?
In all seriousness, Mat Matosis’ vid was way too short so I’m glad we only had to wait a few more days for a full length feature on this game.
No.
Oh absolutely
a six hour analysis would have been more suitable
lol a fellow Maestre
“It’s Norse and no longer greek”
Yeah cuz he killed everything interesting in Greek mythology
The only major Greek gods that would have the ability to or want to take revenge upon Kratos still would be Artemis and MAYBE her twin brother Apollo. We know Art is vengeful because of her myths and we get her hunting blade in GOW1 and we get Apollo's bow in 3 except not from him, so maybe he's already dead since Helios is still the God of the Sun when Zues put Apollo in that position due to shenanigans with Helios and his son (which disappeared because of Zues leaving him in a depression.) and the rest of the gods and beings probably want to rebuild and take the powers and titles of the dead gods. I really hope at least one of them show up and give Odin and Thor the tea on Kratos after you have an encounter or two with them and they team up on you.
What basically led to Ascension
@@JM-vl3cy Ascension is the first game in the timeline.
@@SentientHoodii what I meant is that the developers already used all the cool Greek stuff for the previous games so they didn't have a lot of intersting things to show in Ascension.
@@JM-vl3cy the Furies are an integral part of the Greek Myths. And Hecatoncheires is one of the backbones of the overthrow of the Titans along with the other Centimanes. Though besides hinting at the Primordials and some oracle stuff yeah. Least of the interesting myth stuff.
To be fair, director Cory Barlog did admit that Atreus' sudden arrogant turn upon finding out he's a god would have happened over a longer period of time, but because this section of the plot had been trimmed and reorganized it meant his character development was unable to progress more naturally.
“To be fair” doesn’t mean anything when the final product is the way that it is.
@@ImortalZeus13 You mean fantastic for the most part with flaws that can be explained with time constraints? Yeah. Sometimes cuts WILL happen. Unfortunately it messed with the pacing in a single portion of this game.
@@ImortalZeus13 to be fair, your parents tried as best they could
@@heckingbamboozled8097 "flaws that can be explained with time constraints" like the entire game industry? Nobody wants to actively make a bad game , those are result of time/budget/staff constraints but THEY ARE NOT EXCUSED. Otherwise we should just accept every single garbage game because "i'm sure they have flaws that can be explained".
God of war has many problems and some of them are also bad game design.
@@gianlucaangeli2905 You wanna be mad? Be mad at the hotshots up top. They don't care about the game, they want profit. The devs got no choice about how long they have to make this game. We can only thank the lords that this game can actually be played and is not a buggy mess at first launch who needs a 100 Gb first day patch to even have it work.
12:16 - He got his full godhood back by absorbing the soul of Hades when he kills him (used Hades' Soul Hooks to do it). It was even part of the game mechanics as you needed "the soul of a god to use an Hyperion Gate" as Hephaestus said. And after absorbing the the soul of Hades he could use the Hyperion gates as his full godhood had returned (and pretty sure the game even throws up a text saying this exact thing to let you know you can now use the Hyperion Gates and why).
“Imagine your favorite series’s next mainline title is a racing game” fuck yeah finally bloodborne-kart
I'm waiting on Naughty Dog to pull through on their tried and tested formula
We got Crash Team Racing and Jak X
Now where's Unkarted and The Fast of Us?
@@InhabitantOfOddworld I was going to make a karting pun but honestly I can't do better than you did here. S-tier comment.
Actually, Crash Bandicoot's tag-team racing on PSP is great.
It's so funny this became a thing with ps1 style bloodborne April fools update.
I love bloodborne. It actually got me into from software. But I would much prefer kart souls come to us first
2016 Joseph: WARNING! This is a VERY long video at 34 minutes
2018 Joseph: let's just jump into it!
LOL
He announced the other day that the Witcher video will be 9 hours long. God help us all
Benjamin B it was 4, but apparently the Witcher 2 video is gonna be 5 hours and the Witcher 3 video is gonna be longer than either of those
@@benjaminb6678 wtf
@@benjaminb6678 witcher 3 vid will be 11 hours, we're fucked
Okay so, this was not only my first game in the series but it was the first game i had ever played. What impression did the opening given me?
From the first scene with Kratos cutting the tree I immediately understood that this man has history. It was pretty obvious that he is overpowered for the task and the mundane way he was chopping that tree brilliantly catches you up with a few things. First, he is powerful but holding back (living differently now); and second, he is out of place. In a snowy forest sheltered by an abundance of trees and serenity Kratos with his deep voice and hardned demenour is someone who could not have been born and raised here. The little hut he lives in also pushes that narrative, that he is out of place. The furnishings and wooden plank construction are fragile in obvious comparison to kratos' own gear and it looks as if he could knock the house down with his bare hands, the house is figuratively temporary then. When you meet Atreus you understand that he is the one that is at home here but kratos and the boy are opposites reflected in a mirror. They show the potential to each become the other which is an indication for what is to come. But before that Atreus makes it clear how stressed or non existent thier relationship is.
So yeah, i think the opening of the game does a fantastic job at showing you kratos' past and also what is to come in a very succinct way. It is powerful and a great cinematic scene.
I just wanna say I appreciate your analysis on gameplay mechanics a lot. Majority of game reviewers do a recap of the story and call it a day.
True. It's a lot like most people offering commentary about comics: they don't know how to discuss visual art, which is what defines the medium.
I was about to sit down to watch a movie, BUT I GUESS THIS WILL DO INSTEAD
take me home country roads
oh
I think it technically qualifies as a documentary.
@@Volthoom that or a really long infomercial
You need to collaborate with this god of a man.
making every Nintendo game a skyrim mod to avoid copyright takedowns is absolutely genius
It's also Very Monster Factory
Ahmed Rehan and makes you remember how namby-pamby Nintendo are with fun. I’m surprised his Mario odyssey review didn’t land him in _Prison!!!_
Oh wow I didnt even think about that. I thought it was purely for comedic effect
wait HE DID THOSE?!?
I wouldnt put it past Nintendo. They sent a cease and decist to a minecraft Pokemon mod
I had no knowledge of the original three games, and I think your point about Atreus is so spot-on. It actually makes me appreciate this game so much more, it’s absolutely genius to use context to help the player sympathize with one protagonist more than the other.
I wish this guy made more content, one of the most perfect (as well as interesting) chill background to working on things at work or it home
He basically made 12 fifteen minute videos by just posting this one
Of he makes videos this long with this high amount of effort then videos will take months to complete and still hold quality such as this
@Pascal yeah, 4 years ago. He doesn't make videos like this anymore. He's relegated himself to streaming and it's truly a loss.
I wish the guy made more videos, but I understand why he doesn't, because he doesn't make "content", he offers worthwhile commentary. The use of "content" as a phrase seems innocuous, until you realize how it shapes thinking about media: as the filling of a bucket. And the "content" of a bucket can be anything. It can be gold, sand or dog dirt. If all you ask is more content to fill the bucket, you often won't get what you really want.
8 hour Witcher video hype.
8 hour per game
My body is ready.
I can't fucking wait
I'm looking forward to it but I don't think it's worth his time, haha. Will take him an ungodly amount of time.
@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 well he wants to play the games anyway. Not sure if he actually WANTS to read the books but maybe. But yeah the project is going to be so fucking massive even if the video is amazing im not sure the time investment wouldnt be better used on other things
"Imagine your favorite series"
Super Mario Bros.
"Now imagine it as a racing series"
A-Are you out of your mind?!!
How ridiculous, I can't possibly imagine something like that
@Jose GTA's not a battle royale?
@@verybored1261 Not yet 😏
Mario kart🤷🏽♂️
@Cyprien Smith very much so
I am in no way saying your videos are boring- but playing your videos whilst napping is very effective; you’ve got a soothing narration voice lol
Feel the same way haha
My biggest gripe with combat in this game is how impossible it felt to predict the enemy movements. The revenants and dark elves in particular have a tendency to teleport or jump away without any windup and in the middle of their own animations
Sounds like you need to git gud
2:22:09 he starts showing numerous problems with the combat that become apparent thanks to the "Give Me God of War Mode" telling someone to "get gud" doesn't excuse the problems it.
@@yesyoucanchange6065 and they fixed none of it for Ragnarok.
Kamera
Combo meter
Puzzles
there is more but THESE 3 THINGS MAKES A GOD OF WAR game.
They ruined the kamera fully!!!!fight System looks soooo good that you dont get its huge bullshit!!!hitting while magik,fast turn issues,no weapin change when shield(soooo dumb).
Now the real problems.
1.riding a yak
2.atreus
3.boi
4.loki
Whatever
5.pussy kratos crying around like a bitch(so awoke and humble now)....
6.no puzzles at all.not ONE REAL PUZZLE.(WHAT IS THIS????)
7.Hours with boi for his first date....
8.comor fighting
9.odin🤣🤣🤣
10.bla bla bla bla bla bla from everyone instead kratos(hhhrmpff,grrr,grumml,grmpf,no,yes,......)
11.killing giants but 1hit drougar you dead
12.way tooooo easy
13.
14.
15.
And there are many points more.only good thing is the graffiks and the fight with heimdall(the cutszene,rest is look trough after 10minutes like every boss!!!)
Sorry my bad eng!
@@yesyoucanchange6065 yes!!!!!at the beginn i thought they made it better till i got its tofally ruined!!!no god of war at all
"Imagine your favourite series, now imagine that the sequel is a racing game"
BLOODBORNE CART
BLOODBORNE CART
BLOODBORNE CART
"Carts all over the track... you'll ride one sooner or later"
@@criticalf0ll0w16 Curse the red shells, the green shells too. And the blue shells, forever, true.
Tonight, Gehrman joins the race.
final boss is lamburgini
"My guiding engine you were in my kart all along"
-Ludwig the accelerator
1:53:07
This isn't necessarily an important comment but Mimir says, "Beautiful, isn't it?" it's because he's already seen it and he knows what it looks like already so he's commenting to Kratos and Atreus who haven't seen it. There was really no point in me debunking that nitpick but I just wanted to get it off my chest.
This is correct, Jo has overreached on this 'complaint'
@@SunburnCity I disliked the video just because of this one nitpick
@@Just_a_Snake It's not that big of a deal, really. A fair chunk of his video is truly high quality game critique. But in this one point, it is a sign of someone looking for superficial nits to scratch at. I don't like it but it doesn't detract from the quality of the video as a whole.
@@SunburnCity sorry I was being sarcastic. I genuinely love the rest of the video it has a lot of in depth critiques that are very well pointed out.
that was my thinking too.
Okay that compilation of the trolls executions REALLY hammered home how repetitive it is and how it gets.
"...That had the attention to detail and passion of an indie game swirling inside it" really hit the nail on the head there. I couldn't place it but that is a perfect articulation of what I was feeling
I fell asleep and woke up and the video still wasn't done
just you wait on his witcher video I swear its gonna be like 10 hours and not 6 as he says hahahah
2 hour naps. Nice
@@renaudlemieux1 do you want to re word that?
The video that never ends...
You clearly need more sleep
Joseph, buddy. We don't need flying revenants. Please don't even imply that.
It's like recommending flying spiders
We don’t need more revenants AT ALL
Junkyard Productions Xbox 360 profile pic
Yeah they already are the second most annoying fucks in the game, it would be worst than a nightmare if they could fly away too.
i think he's implying that if they make the revenants fly, then they'd also take his suggestion of giving Kratos the ability to jump... thus allowing him to effectively deal with them without making revenants even more annoying than they are, just differently annoying
Coming back to this video years later chapter marks would be nice, I’ve watched this video 5 times so thank you for the content
Watched this at least 3 times now in anticipation for his critic on Ragnarok. Who else?
Actually Joe, the health and rage upgrade items are pronounced like this:
Yer-dunn apples
And
Don't-forget-mead
Why isn't this pinned? Joe, come on.
I...I don't get it :(((
The Crazy Witcher During this video he mentioned that he wasn't sure how to pronounce "Idunn apple" (the health upgrade item in the game)
He played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 a while back, and that game was infamous for having WAY too much combat dialogue. Specifically, enemy soldiers would constantly say "YOU'RE DONE!", "Don't forget me!" and "Think you can take me?!?"
@@gizmohollow ohhhhh ok tnx
YA DUN
Kratos' terrible stories are Aesop's fables. Tortoise and the hare, fox and the sour grapes, the toad and the scorpion. Aesop was a Greek teacher/storyteller from the Hellenistic period. So Kratos is passing on tales from his world, the Greek world, to his son. It's not the stories that are terrible, it's how he tells them that is terrible and truly hilarious.
And they are told in the way a Spartan would tell them: Short, practical.
NoodleKeeper lmao responding to a 3 month old comment
Aye, it makes sense for Kratos to be a Laconist
@@noodlekeeper5150 Truly laconic of him :)
@@fortnitefanningfunnymomets7613 quiet child
Watching this after Ragnarok makes me cringe a bit as I realize how little he must’ve liked that game with all the “I hope this and that doesn’t happen during the next game” 😭😭
Right I watched this before the game then came back I was like yikes 😬
I've watched/listened to this video so many times, but I just realized how flawless the transitions were at 9:53 to 10:05
Editing perfection, and it suits the point hemakes in that moment perfectly.
Losing his second wife really had an effect on him. I had my wife die and I can tell you that those movie cliches are really true: I did not know I could feel that bad mentally. I was in effect in a bubble with me and the world having a kind of sound-proof wall between us. If he went through that TWICE, I do indeed believe that he would have a totally different view on life, having to raise his son all by himself, no matter how much he wants to just curl up and die (again), even though he is probably now realizing that he has been cursed with eternal life, no matter how much he might want to permanently kill himself.
@Reddead Redemtion She was 41 years old and I was 52.
Damn man, sorry to hear that. I hope your life has gone uphill since then😔🙏
@@nathanokun8801 I couldn't possibly imagine what you went through, my deepest condolences
I dislike that they have used the dead wife as a prop for the premise twice, without giving them any substantial role.
Nathan Levesque ehhh, Faye had more of a role than Lysandra, despite having less of an effect.
Cant wait till he finally names a video "Game - Finally A Masterpiece"
Knack 2 - Finally A Masterpiece, Baby!
@Steven Murphy Bloodborne is far from a masterpiece. Everything after Shadows of Yarnham is garbage apart from the dlc and Gherman
@Steven Murphy top five are 1. Dark Souls 2.Undertale 3. LoZ Ocarina of Time (mainly because it was the first game I ever beat so nostalgia) 4. Kingdom Hearts 5. Final Fantasy 7
I hope that happen in *REAL LIFE* well we all gonna hope soo...
Halo Combat Evolved maybe
I may be in the minority but I like how slow and tedious travel is, given the fact that the story is so rich and involved it makes it feel like less of a video game and that I’m actually experiencing the world with kratos
I’d argue the opposite, that the tediousness and limitations of the movement are a constant reminder of how video-gamey the world is instead of a more natural feeling movement system (like the video pointed out, walls that seem easily climbable, obvious easy jumps that Kratos refuses to make, etc)
I liked it for exclusively the boat “in fact I tended to favour it over the fast travel in my first playthrough)
What I hated was that there weren’t enough stories and most of them were linked to the lore tablets
I think the critique here is more that the trick to hide loading times doesn't justify its own existence, and ditto the trick to force use of Atreus. Because you _are_ playing a video game. Trying to disguise it as one-shot cinema leads to some silly excesses, and it's also nice when the game lets you play the game instead of stopping to make you send an NPC to play the game for you for a few seconds with a canned animation.
Agree, the slow methodical nature of it really vibes with me.
I have yet to play on the hardest difficulty (one playthrough on Hard mode) and the stuns on runic attacks failing is consistently noticeable to me. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Most often than not they are the reason I die. I would argue the cause of 90% of my deaths was either a rune attack failing to stun when it was supposed to, accidentally entering an area with enemies that significantly outleveled me, or loading a checkpoint with too low health that I was instantly killed by a projectile before the screen faded in. Your final rant about gameplay, despite what you claim (not blaming you, blaming the game) is applicable to playing on all difficulties, not just the hardest.
Its todally ruined!!!!bullshit story,bad combat.....it just shines goodtill you see its fucked up!!!
The game BULLSHIT!and i was a fan!
Sounds like a skill issue
Exactly what a fan boy would say. Those are valid points, but I know you're not serious. @@saulromero2635
"The Witcher is gonna be next"
2 years...
Yeah XD
i hope you are happy
@Vishnu PBAWell then...
Considering the polish and length of the project... Worth it by every mean
@@TheLazarusOperation I read your comment as 'considering the Polish and length of the project' for a second there.
It's funny that I'm watching this video today after Cory Balrog just said that the reason you fight a troll in Helheim instead of this big bird is because of performance and budget.
Raising Kratos makes it clear that this game really came together close to deadline and a lot of stuff had to be rushed to make date. AAA gamedev is like laying track while the train is moving, it's a miracle ANY of them ever come out even half-good.
Profile pic checks out
Whelp.
@@Miausrz hehehe
Man, AAA deadlines are the worst. These companies make more than enough to give devs half a year extra on every game and they really should. With pre-orders and all the other stupid monetizing bullshit, the least they could do is actually spend that money on improving the working conditions and the deadlines for their devs.
Not that I know whether the specific company behind this game is guilty of this, but it's definitely true in general
"Kratos moves like a guy with a turret for a head"
That's the truest statement about this game in any review in RUclips.
to be fair part of "Odin's wrath" most likely is Baldur. He's obviously largely acting of his own volition, but he's also almost definitely acting under Odin's orders, it also explains how he's able to travel where-ever, whenever, Odin. It kinda brings up other major plot holes if you think too much about it, but it's also possible I'm thinking about it in a flawed way.
The "Breath of the Wild but it's actually modded Skyrim" gag never gets old.
DovahSpy skyrim mario odyssey killed me
+El Duderino I love CD Projekt Red. Theyre one of the few bigger dev teams that i think still cares about their craft. They dont want you to buy their games, they want you to ENJOY their games. Not to mention the Witcher 3 DLC that was massive (and really good) for its price. Cyberpunk hype.
Blame Nintendo for that.
Can i have a time stamp
DovahSpy a
Fun fact, the bird in the back of the so stated "worst let down" was actually supposed to be the boss you face in hell, but the developers ran out of time for that unfortunately
I would have been fine if I got delayed just for that boss fight
@@lemonmist2233 It would've cost more than their budget.
Besides, they had a deadline.
It's not like they can delay the game as much as they want.
They have SONY breathing down their necks too.
Also they changed the story of the bird. It actually helped Kratos and Atreus by flapping it's wings in order to help the ship go further.
@@cyrusthegreat3299 Ik but it would’ve been cool
There was plenty unneeded that could and should have been removed to make way for better boss variety
In a perfect world, developers would have enough time and resources to make their perfect game without a publisher breathing down their necks.
But this isn't a perfect world.
This video is excellent. I love the attention to detail and research that went into analyzing both the merits and demerits of the game. It was fair-handed, and despite being analytical, it also felt relatable. Excellent work.
9:50 these cuts to the last of us are incredible. I usually just listen to your stuff this attention to detail is insane.
"Imagine the next mainline game in your favorite series is a racing game"
Banjo kazooie nuts and bolts, that is all
BLOODBORNE KART SQUAD
@@jimbogreen7029 Imagine Djura riding one of the werewolves as a playable character in that game
JAK X BABY
this was funny to me because i already thought to myself "my favorite game already is a racing game" then he commented on it and now i have to imagine a dirt rally JRPG
Bioshock Kart? I'll admit I'd play that...maybe Tears,Plasmids and golf clubs could be used like mystery box items.
"kratos can't go through an entire roster of gods in an entire game"
>laughs in God of War 3
Kratos can’t kill the entire roster. The weapons he uses can though 😂 that’s what he meant
GoW 3 got me into the series solely because of how violently kratos rampaged through the entire pantheon. Sigh, i needed an outlet like that when i was 6
@@jam5287 did yall forget how he killed Apollo?
spartttan1337 I assume you’re probably talking about Helios? And that wasn’t really a feat.. since he had the power to kill a skyfather with him the whole time lol if it was just kratos? No weapons.. no Pandora’s box? He wouldn’t even stand a chance against Hercules. He was nearly killed by a barbarian in his early days. And if you did mean Apollo you may have to remind me. Kratos has killed a lot of different popular people and gods from Greece lol
@@jam5287 whichever one was the speedy boyo where he cuts his legs off and steals his boots, after smacking the shit out of him. It was either hermes or apollo?
Imagine if when Kratos kills a valkyrie, he gets their wings like gow2, and if the game got an for slider
i cant wait till he does a video about gow ragnarok and atreus missions😂
''like SHREK, Kratos is layerd'' caught me offgaurd
I almost lost a lung with that one. :')
layered
lol he has a shriek reference i. every video and they’re like 100% accurate
Just an interesting note, but the original idea for God of War 3/4 (I forget which) was that Kratos met up with Norse-Universe Kratos-equivalent and Persian/Mayan/Japanese-universe (I forget which) Kratos-equivalent after they all killed their own pantheons and they become the three wise men.
Yes, THE three wise men.
You know, the ones that bring gifts to THE JESUS?
I want to read that script so bad.
I just thought that kratos becomes god.
I want this to be true. That would be amazingly stupid and hilarious. But I'd still play the hell out of it.
this is a very good video about the game ruclips.net/video/SYkIJ2D94XE/видео.html
This is one of the dumbest ideas I ever heard.
@@TheBrazilRules I know, it's bafflingly dumb. Isn't it great?
would love to hear your thoughts on ragnarok and how it essentially changes absolutely nothing when it comes to core gameplay lol
Over a year after playing I watch this video and feel a weight lifted hearing you call the stagger mechanic bullshit. I thought I was going to go crazy trying to figure out what I was doing wrong and stopped playing Give Me God of War difficulty after getting to the helheim valkyrie and dying to it over and over again
I hate her so much.
Bro the helheim Valkyrie is making me want to die
Joseph: "Imagine your favorite series"
Me: "Okay"
Joseph: "Now imagine it as a racing game"
Me: *"In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons. But then there was Engines and with engines came disparity. Heat and cold, driving and crashing, and of course, winning and losing. Then from the dark, They came, and found the Karts of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Crashed, The Biker Gang of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn, the Racing Champion of Sunlight, and his faithful fanclub. And the Last Place Pygmy, so easily forgotten.*
*With the strength of the Karts, they challenged the Dragons. Gwyn's mighty Electric cars peeled on their stone racetracks. The Biker Gangsters weaved great firestorms with their engines. Nito unleashed a miasma of destruction and crashing. And Seath the Kart-less betrayed his own, and the Dragons were no more.*
*Thus began the Age of Fire. But soon the flames will fade and only Dark will remain. Even now there are only embers, and man sees not light, but only endless nights. And amongst the living are seen, carriers of the accursed Darksign.*
*Yes, indeed. The Darksign brands the Undriven. And in this land, the Undriven are corralled and led to the north, where they are locked away, to await the end of the world... This is your fate.*
*Only, in the ancient legends it is stated, that one day an undriven shall be chosen to leave the undriven asylum, in pilgrimage, to race to the land of ancient lords, 200cc Star Cup."*
I don’t like two things about this comment. 1. Why can’t a racing game have this much depth in the story 2. And where are the likesssss
Thank you for giving me a good laugh.
That's amazing. Please, take my humble like and the everlasting respect that goes with it.
"The Darksign brands the Undriven." damn Bro that one got me good :'D
This needs more likes
Other youtubers : "gotta hit that 10 minute mark for extra revenue"
Joseph anderson: "you meant 3 hours right?"
MauLer: "You meant 10h right ?"
MauLer is da boy
1. Adding up the total amount of time spent watching the animations that play when you get a moon in Odyssey isn’t thorough research. It’s nitpicking.
2. Getting noticeably upset that critics gave a perfect score to a game, is being irrational and emotional. Because, if he’s secure about his lower scores, why do other people’s high scores bother him so much? They are all opinions, and there’s are just as valid. He can’t have it both ways.
3. Praising games for being “greater than the sum of their parts,” while at the same time, bashing a game for every single tiny flaw (such as the length of a freaking moon animation), is not rational. At best, it’s inconsistent.
Then, after everything I mentioned, he calls -other- people fragile, many of which are subscribers? He can’t be serious. Look into a mirror and take the time to listen to yourself.
Keep in mind, he’s still one of my favorite game reviewers. But the fragile comment just pisses me off. It’s a d-bag thing to say. He’s the epitome of fragile.
1- When your game is based entirely on picking up an item, you better make sure that said item picks up quickly or you reduce the number of items to pick up.
By taking this info out of context, sure, that's the pinnacle of nitpicking, but by putting it back with the point he was trying to make you realise that it's not that bad. His point being that there are way too many moons for it to have such a long animation upon pick up AND having most of them throw you back to the last checkpoint.
It's an unnecessary waste of time, which he intended to prove with what you mentioned here. Did he have to do it ? No, he could just show a couple of animations in a row and show us why it's bad, but he chose to go further and calculate the exact time that is wasted in pick up animation in the game. I really don't see the problem here, he just backed up his claim with actual research.
2- I didn't see him being legitimately upset about the game getting 10/10s, all he said was that he didn't understand the praise it was getting. It was the same with Zelda, he didn't understand the 10/10s and wasn't upset about them, he just brought them up to provide context, nothing more.
If you chose to interpret it as being "upset", well, I won't take that away from you I guess, you're allowed to feel however you want to feel.
But disagreeing with something doesn't equate being upset about it.
3- Greater than the sum of its parts litterally means that each individual part of the game has problems but they all fit together nicely to give something special in the end.
He then proceeded to criticise each individual part, which he already established had problems, I really don't see what's inconsistent here.
4- Why the hell did you think this was a topic worth bringing up under this particular comment anyway ? Not that I care, but I found it strange that you chose to leech on another person's comment in order to criticise him, that just comes accross as petty.
Revenue well earned
In the GoW novel it’s explained that the blades of chaos kinda follow Kratos around
No matter how far away he dumped them once he fell asleep they would return
Well then why doesn’t he use them in the game
@@suzysuzuki8865 Brother what? He... he does, my man.
@@aidengray3998 yeeeahhh. So I have no excuse for this one homie. Like, I realized that after the comment but I should have already knew that. I don’t know what happened up in the ol think tank man.
@@suzysuzuki8865 dumbass hater
@@suzysuzuki8865 sometimes you just have a massive brain fart, i know how it feels.
15:47 Boy jumping to try and get a better view is so adorable
1:22:52 "Kratos and Atreus are fugitives in the Norse realm, so far they've managed to stay relatively lowkey".
*slow clap*👏
i laughed audibly joe is amazing
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Developer discussed the huge change in Atreus' character was due to having to cut content because the game was gonna be even longer.
And due the actor, dude.
Source?
@@antoniomendes7961 just search Cory barlog cut content
I always viewed it as Atreus’s anger and frustration at *both* of his parents (Kratos was the one lying, true, but Faye could’ve also told him the truth, too, but probably didn’t say anything to keep Kratos’ state of mind intact) manifesting itself into a rage not unlike Baldur with Freya or even a younger Kratos back in Greece with Zeus (especially the latter).
If you thought your dad was cold and distant with you because he didn’t want to deal with his own problems head-on rather than simply “not wanting you” like you always presumed, I would get pissed off, too.
But, yeah, man, that definitely makes sense, too. 🙄
Raymond Williams
I always imagined that Kratos was in the beam of light for weeks if not months, leaving young Atraeus alone and abandoned to kill waves of these elves.
His mother was already dead, his father just disappeared...
Imagine that, during each wave of enemies, he thinks he sees his father in the light again.
By the time he can get close enough to pull Kratos out, he vanished.
Sisyphean task almost, and each failure feeding his rage as it would his father.
He finally pulls his dad out, but that rage that kept him going had not subsided.
That’s my head canon, at least.
Anyone know how long Kratos was in the light?
Great points about GMGOW, glad to see others share the frustration with inconsistency. Just wanted to throw in that shield bash attack (double parry button) can be used to break Sigrun's shielding move, as I didn't see you use it at all - and that subsequently avoids the followup thrust
0:07: God of War excels in multiple areas but falls short of being a masterpiece due to its development focus.
12:24: God of War 2 aftermath and Athena's betrayal
24:29: Game lacks enemy variety and gating challenges in another realm with long loading times detract from overall experience.
36:30: God of War surprises players with multiple layers of storytelling and character reveals
48:20: Tedious navigation through underground passages and lake with a disappointing experience
1:00:03: Unexpected setbacks and repetitive tasks hinder game progression
1:12:07: Unexpected depth and connection in side quests enhance the main story and characters
1:24:04: Kratos faces consequences for killing Thor's son and teaches Atreus a lesson
1:36:07: Disappointment in a crucial part of the game, lacking in brutality and spectacle, spoiling the setup and potential killing spree
1:48:16: Analysis of character dynamics and development in the game God of War
2:00:25: Critical analysis of game flaws and missed opportunities
2:12:54: Mixed feelings about the game's content, pacing, and mythology accuracy
2:24:57: Inconsistent hyper armor mechanic disrupts combat flow in God of War
2:36:56: Critical analysis of game mechanics and inconsistencies
2:48:29: Gameplay Gripes and Issues
Did anyone else just yeet the Leviathan Axe off a mountain only to call it back like 10 minutes later?
You should equip the valkyries handle and go to the top of the mountain and light throw it trust me it'll even better
Better yet, leave the axe in a realm and call it from another to see what happens
@@kalash9467 doesn’t work, as soon as you put the Bifrost in the realm room, the axe comes back to you
I did that just to have the Og blades only in my back
Sorry for the necro. The axe physics were my first “next gen” moment on the PS4. It felt so fun when other games would just have it teleport back to you
My only takeaway from this is I want a JRPG about cars
2:23:40 I just watched a developer of this game react to a speedrun, and it turns out, this is actually an intended mechanic. Basically they said, if you spam runic attacks too much, the enemies will briefly gain hyper armor making them unable to be staggered. They called it a "Troll mechanic" and it's true.
Seriously? That’s lame.
If that is true then its extremely dumb. Restricting player choice is not a good idea when you don't provide them this information first hand
@@rahulshuvin5332I think it isn’t too bad, because if you could spam runics consistently to kill shit which you still can… then it becomes boring cos you don’t have to try
Wow, a lazy solution. I am shocked D:
(I am not shocked)
@@moonfrog9878 That might be completely fine for normal encounters, but in boss fights this is inexcusable. Even spamming all four runic attacks will barely hurt a Valkyrie, and having this inconsistency makes it safer to use no runic attacks at all, which prolongs the fights unnecessarily.
I really appreciate how whenever Joseph says something someone might disagree with he always adds “in my opinion”. He’s very consistent with this and I like it in his videos sharing somewhat “hot” takes.
On the enemies being less aggressive while they're off screen: TONS of games do this, notably Resident Evil 4, but even Doom 2016.
It's more of a problem that you noticed it than that it's a feature. "Invisible design" or something.
Same thing happens in Uncharted I believe. Only a certain number of enemies can shoot at the player at one time.
@Banuner dark souls spoiled me by not treating me like a child while I was a child and now every time something like Pokemon Let's Go comes out my eyes glaze over more
Banuner yeah, Ark: Survival evolved does the same thing. You can turn all you want, but you’ll still get mauled to death lol.
Uhm, on what difficulty have you played this game? Also, I think you are completely wrong when it comes to GoW as the game has implemented in its self the notification system that you're being attacked from your blind spots, visually by that arrow and audibly by Atreus, also you have a key binding for fast turn so you instantly turn. If you play more you'll notice that the AI does its thing while you don't face it. I really don't know where you got all this from.
lol except the pinkies in Doom 2016, the number of times i've been killed by an off-screen pinky that rams into me unexpectedly would seem evidence enough for me. Which is why they're one of my favorite pieces of the combat puzzle, because its still telegraphed by their pig-like scream
I think that a lot of the "slower" sections of the game are meant to be "loading screens" so that the game has time to render the next part of the level. That's why there are so many parts where Kratos and Atreus have to climb a big wall, crawl through a low tunnel, etc. It's tedious, but not as bad as having loading screens every time you enter a new area.
The game is actually really smart with this, the reason some animations may take long or there are many slow areas is because it not only loads in the next area but It also de loads (idk what the word for that is) the past area making where you are now run way more smoothly
While playing, I never even thought of this, I thought it was a good way of getting around and making the journey seem more real. Maybe if I was doing a second playthrough, it could seem tedious, but initially, I was just awe struck by the whole game, especially after having played the original. I love how this game was more open to being able to explore and re-explore with the later gain of abilities.
Plus, the conversations between destinations really made me slow down to listen and sometimes made me wait to continue as to not cut off dialogue.
@@thex8857 the word is unloads
Especially when your walking on the world tree
good thing this wont be a problem anymore cause the SSD on PS5 is so bananas its faster than anything in the market rn (or as they say it is)
Can confirm that as someone who likes racing games it would be awesome if there was a JRPG about racing cars and that generally any time racing games branch into the elements of other genres the results are unique enough to be enjoyable.
Racing Lagoon. I think ThorHighHeels did a video on it. It's a square enough jrpg about street racing on the PSX.
I keep coming back to this channel to see if god of war ragnarok video is up
gonna be after witcher 3 probs, so give it a few more years
As someone whos first god of war was this one, Atreus essentially asked all the questions i had for me lol
“Imagine your favorite series, but a racing game.”
“Shadow of the Collosus, Ride ‘em and race ‘em”
Alternatively: Collosi Racers
That would actually be fucking amazing
@@tetrafy70 imagine if you put lots of time into unlocking malus, the final one to race, and then you lose the race almost immediately because he doesn't move his legs
@@luciuswomack4337 lmaooooo someone needs to make this!
ICO: Yorda Racing.
Keep your expectations low, and you will never be disappointed.
Can’t wait for God of War Ragnarok - a Masterpiece: a brief 12 hours analysis
"imagine your favorite series as a racing game"
geralt wearing his witcher suit, sitting in a need for speed supercar, yelling "damn, you're ugly" at everyone while triss sits beside him going "well?"
CPR make it happen!
@@arthurdurham i thought of the song cpr at first my brain is cursed
"well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?" "well?"
At the start of every race, "How long are you gonna make me wait?"
@@Dabajaws so iconic
Find someone who enjoys time with you as much as Joe enjoys his own jokes
IMPOSSIBLE
NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE
I mean his jokes ARE pretty good lol
Cringe.
Who's Joe?
Thank you. I could have sworn I was having issues with inconsistent stun mechanics but when I told other people I was just told to get good since there's no input lag. Which has nothing to fucking do with my complaint. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who struggled with that. I had most of my issues on normal mode.
Normal is a cake walk, enemies turn to sponges on hard and above, sometimes it makes no sense why enemies die faster than others, it’s so confusing. This is why I hate games with difficulty settings, there needs to be one fucking setting and maybe a hand holding mode that just gives the player more health.
As another comment on another video said.
"Atreus was always under the rules of his father, so being told he is one of the beings that seemingly have no rules
Of course the kid is gonna get crazy arrogant with power.
14:50 simple but hard to miss answer, Kratos was cursed to be invulnerable to suicide, so him killing himself would quickly be undone, so he still released the hope, but just reverted to life almost immediately afterwards.
Well his not just invulnerable to suicide, his invulnerable even in the sense if atreus dies and he has nothing to live for and he lets him self killed by thor this is still consider an attempt at ending his life. And he will die over and over until his going to kill thor. This works only if kratos is the strongest in the whole universe which at this point its true if you consider everything. So is not only to suicide. And no one can out power him.
Edit: and no one can out power him yet*
Sooo his the strongest in the whole universe based on overpowering everyone he faced.
Weren't the blades of chaos attached to Kratos and only could be removed either by the God of War himself or when the wielder's time of servitude ended? Then Kratos killed Ares and the curse broke. This means any Greek curse should've disappeared when Kratos killed all of them
@@Vlad-ip2zt Couldn't Kratos just think of killing himself with the enemy's attack moments before death to be invincible?
@@yuanwang9324 I imagine he could remove them, it would just take the skin with it. And you see Kratos with bloody bandages on his arms so
@@silversalmon9909 Kratos stated he tried to get rid of the blades but they "came back."
Can't wait for the 60 hour long Xenoblade 2 analysis
Think you can take me?
60 hour long Xenogear/xenosaga analysis ;)
How about a 300 hours review of Eve Online.
@Patrick ArmsRoberts 500 hours containing the ★A$$♂EATERS♀ cracking eggs that look like Haru while Yusuke paints a nude painting of Hifumi
@@PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS don't forget all the "for real!" presented by our resident Ryuji
43:42 Once I kicked a chain in Ragnarok and didn't auto climb I knew that they knew it was a mistake in the first one but somehow they couldn't just go back and fix it for some reason post launch.
I just found your channel and I'm absolutely loving these in-depth yet succinct reviews of my favourite games. Great job and keep it up!
The leveling system is easily the worst part of this game. Kratos can survive a Valkyrie grinding his face into the ground but will eat shit instantly if a rotting zombie norseman hanging out on some bumfuck island so much as sneezes on him because of an arbitrary number floating above their head.
Funny, I just finished the game and at no point were the levels ever something I had to care about
@@sus425 The only thing funny is that your post has nothing to do with the person you're replying to. Whether or not *you* had to care about the levels has nothing to do with the fact that putting levels into the game was stupid and there are situations where things the OP said *could* potentially happen. In fact, the idea that you never had to care about the levels means the system is even more idiotic and didn't even need to be in the game.
Did you know that kratos is faster than light? Sadly games can't really effectively demonstrate this
Personally I've never survived any hits from a valkyrie but I know what you mean with the levels
@@sarkaztik3228 go eat a Snicker's.
Matthewmatosis: 41 minute God of War video
Joseph Anderson: _BOI_ *3 HOUR LONG GOD OF WAR FEATURE FILM*
At least mat has something to say...
For me daddy Joseph will always be a chad no matter what
@Nerdyy where's a pic of him?
BIGGEST DICK ENERGY
the first chad comment in the replies to this onwards reminded me why youtube comment sections are garbage and to never go looking in them
2:03:40 I think the narrative was that Atreus was learning to control his anger and his rage, not Spartan rage just emotional rage. He killed a god in anger and was forced to confront his actions after having a sobering moment of sorts when he realized they're in Helheim because of him. He not only was knocked HARD off of his high horse, he was then forced to watch what he had done before he came to his senses. His lines "that wasn't me" and "I couldn't have done that" were him seeing his actions after having a clear head and reconciling it by denying it. Like when someone acts violently in a fit of rage, and all they can say is, "I blacked out." It's not meant to exonerate them nor excuse their actions. Similarly to the stages of grief, there are stages to accepting your actions and holding yourself accountable. Oftentimes, people would first come up with excuses or try to reaffirm the idea of themselves that they have in their head before coming to terms with their flaws. It's a very human response to seeing yourself in such an ugly light with hindsight. I think that was the point, though.
I distinctly remember watching this video in my 7th grade art class when it first came out. I graduated in July. I'm 19 years old now. God fucking Damn. I literally started an entirely new sport, developed depression, lost 80 pounds, ended up in a mental hospital, found love, experienced heartbreak, and grown about 6 inches in the time since this video came out. I can't believe it, to be honest. When I think relative to the chronological order, so damn much has happened in 5 years. Yet this video feels 2 years old to me still, even though it's actually over 5. I remember distinctly doing Homework at home while "sick" (I didn't want to go to school) and seeing the Mario Odyssey video pop up at the top of my notifications, posted less than a minute ago. These videos are a part of my childhood, a distinct marker of a moment in my life now long past. When I think of these videos, I think of that time which once was. And in some ways, big and small, I think of these videos whenever that time of my life crosses my thoughts.
Thank you.
I love sports, what sport did you start friendo?
I finished GoW 2 times while listening to this video
Which difficulties?
@david waddell hmmm
TheCivildecay no you didn’t.
Mexymack 1130 is ever heard of sarcasm
The world record for speedrunning the game is slightly shorter than this video
“I won’t watch this whole thing”
*watches whole thing
I hope Cory and the team see this. I have high hopes for the sequels to this new formula. Awesome first edition.
me
“I won’t watch this whole thing AGAIN”
*watches whole thing again
4 times...
Doesn't look like you'll be getting that jump button you wanted.
Only off ledges lol
More auto-platforming !!!
51:32 *sweats profusely* uhhhhhh
"Almost a Masterpiece"
Joseph: *Proceeds to pick apart the game until all that's left is essentially the video game equivalent of a skeleton*
@Mouldy Banana ok but he sucks at fucking reviews lmao
@@skinnycorprus I disagree. Pretty spot on in all of his reviews
@@skinnycorprus Please explain. I would like to hear your opinion.
The Senate your silly alliteration hurt a lot of people’s feelings. Apologize.
I thought it was great game myself the last Valkyrie fight was seriously intense even on normal, on god of war it was insane.
You have the ending of GoW3 wrong. When Athena revealed to Kratos that she placed her power of hope within the Box of Pandora, Kratos gives it back to the Greek people. Instead of giving this power back to Athena, Kratos used the Sword of Olympus not to kill himself, but to regain his Godly powers within the blade. This is why the Sword is dark after Athena pulls it out of Kratos, so to an extent Kratos got his power back but also lost a great amount by spreading Athena’s power to the people of Greece. What was really amazing though was that Kratos had hope within him the entire time as he always possessed the power of the Gods as Zeus’ son, and where his godly strength of Spartan rage stems from. Anyways, there’s so much to dive into, but that’s the brief of it lol.
See I thought so too at first, but why did Kratos not regain his godhood when Zeus stabbed him with the B of O back in GoW2? He just died then. Was it his own hand that could only give his powers back, inconsistancy or plain notgiveafuckery from the devs' part?
@@1234567890noone probably something along the lines of because zeus was holding the blade he could absorb and hold onto the power. Similar to how Thor's hammer grants the power of Thor if your worthy, Zeus had Kratos' power as long as he held it. So when kratos stabs himself he gets his powers back because he's holding it and absorbing it back in.
Jason Lee James I believe you’re right, also because Kratos places his own powers within the blade that Zeus created. So in a sense Zeus was wielding Kratos’ power when he first killed him.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 dude...you blew my mind, I didn’t even think of that during that cutscene..good catch
Cody Risling same here
I'd argue that a 25% zoom out would be better. The new system won't work at that distance. You need that focused view, but it is a tad too close.
Even tho I watched this video before I’m watching it again due to how damn good the commentary is
Joseph 51:28 "...Please don't let Thor show up, break the leviathan axe, leave Kratos half dead, and make the player regain his power."
I feel like they are gonna do exactly that.
Edit: Yeah yeah yeah. So they didn't break the axe. Whatever. But you still have to go through a damn skill tree AGAIN to get to the good stuffs from the previous game. And the 'good stuffs' ain't even as good as they used to be btw. But that's a whole topic for another time.
"Thanos will return in Kratos: Ragnarok"
How would they explain leaving Kratos weak af at the start of the game without stripping all of his upgrades though?
Nah, in the next game Thor will kill Kratos with a golf club, and then you will have to spend 10 hours playing as Thor
@@gyrozeppeli00 dont make him weak as fuck? Just expand on his enemies. His enemies are stronger. Hes not weaker. It's not hard.
@@gyrozeppeli00 his whole point is that Kratos shouldn't start off GoW 2 back at level 1, that he should start off with the full list of powers he has from this game.
"it's weird how the axe has the same power as mjolnir"
i mean, they were made by the same guys, right?
It was made to rival Mjolnir. How did he miss that?
The axe was made by kratos’s wife right? Even then it doesn’t seem as strong as mjolnir
@@emarythomp It was made by Brok and Sindri for his wife, Fae after they made Mjolnir, it was made from similar material and was made to rival Mjolnir in power.
@@65firered *Faye
And he said rival the hammer, not copy it? Those aren't synonyms. If I were a blacksmith, I wouldn't want my own weapons to have the same gimmick. Especially for the brothers being who and what they are. They couldn't come up with another cool or useful feature to implement? No experimentation? Seems silly and lazy writing to me.
@@jaynedodd5528 Uhh, the runic attacks? The upgrades, the pommel? Rival could mean similar if the two things are to oppose each other. Also, it's an axe which is a different type of weapon to a hammer, they do different things inherently, for example, a hammer crushes, slams, and bashes, while an axe chops, slashes, and cuts. It's not a copy, it's a different weapon with a similar power.
A bit of triva, the axe was an idea before they even knew where the game was going to take place.
2:19:48 Mandalore Gaming:"Give me back my fucking dog you piece of shit"
Funny watching this back after having played the second one. All of the pitfalls brought up happen in the second one
I think the title will have smthn like more good same bad
@@popcornyummmore like more bad same good
@@justyourordinarytom6528 nah second ones way better
@@popcornyumm second one is one of the most dissapointing rushed preachy and boring sequels of any media
@@justyourordinarytom6528 damn rly, I liked it more than the first from hour 1 till the end
other youtubers: I'm afraid of posting long videos.... like, who will sit and watch a 20 minute analysis amiright?
joseph anderson: you fool
I come from House Biscuit. Long videos are our stock and trade.
Ironically, I'm more tempted to skip through a 20 minute review than I am with this video
NANI?!
Then there is shaymay with his 7 freaking hour review of pokemon
i love that Joseph's stream laugh finally made a cameo on his main channel
Well i had a problem with the game that you didn’t mention: that all the finishing moves were enemy specific and only had 1 variation.
It got a bit boring to watch the same kill animation (R3) over and over again. Would’ve been cool with just a couple of different ones thrown in for variation so the fight became even more cinematic.. can’t imagine it would’ve taken that much time to do??
Not only are you 100% right about the blades , I almost never get touched when I use the blades, that moment had to be for the older players because it was immediately second nature .