They changed attack to R1/R2 and removed the combo meter so we know combos will no longer be in it
The combat appears to be a very slow paced Souls clone, even worse than Lords of the Fallen
The kid follows you around the whole game, and even has his own gimmick button
Shoehorned crafting and RPG elements
focus on story and character development that has never been about this
God of War has always been about the fast, visceral combo-based combat, the gore, the spectacle, the incredible boss fights, with some lite puzzle/platforming thrown in for a bit of variety.
This new reboot or whatever you want to call it seems to have entirely lost the appeal of it. Then I see everyone applauding this dumbed down shit, most of them saying how they never even liked the old God of War games... it's like they made a God of War game to appeal to people who hate God of War. I mean I really do like Souls combat, but don't shoehorn it into every fucking game, and you don't have to dumb down gameplay to have well-written story and characters.
Not really a fan of them, but I'm not necessarily opposed to mid-gen upgrade with slightly more powerful specs, and then have a new console with a bigger hardware upgrade, new OS, new controller (back compat controllers please, hate how PS3 controllers don't work on PS4), and new features. I think 8 year gens with 4 year mid-gen upgrade would be great. I hate short gens and am absolutely opposed to the mobile yearly upgrade bullshit.
The first few years of a gen are transitional and the games are rather sparse and it's mostly finishing up last gen backlog, while later in the gen is when the games really come and the devs are able to get much better graphical fidelity out of the same hardware, I mean just compare TLoU to the first Uncharted and it looks like a generational leap but is the same hardware. It feels like this gen is just finally starting to heat up and now new consoles are coming.
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