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SPOILERS: God of War SPOILER Thread (SPOILER THREAD, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!)
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I started the game yesterday (review copy), and this fight was awesome. I know who is this guy, it was suprise for me.
According to some leaks (dunno if they are true), the wife was a witch and her ashes need to be scattered on the highest point conecting all realms to sever the bond between all realms so no native of any realm could attack the others and to prevent Ragnarok from happening.
This GOW Fan user speculated that the stranger is either Baldr or Magni (who is normally more powerful than Thor):
If he is not Magni,and this fight is already so epic, so I expect to see a fight similar to the ilk of Hercules in the sequel.
I think they are just groping the surface of the new gameplay type they established in the sereis and waiting to see how it works. If it everything goes well, the sequel will be much meatier like the gradual evolution from GOW1 to GOW3 in terms of epicness.
Magni is stronger than all the Aesir gods combined as a baby. If we are fightning him so early that would be so weird
Yeah. This is what I think too. Imagine the bomabstic destruction this would lead too. This needs PS5 hardware. :p
And you saw how Kratos is immortal and heals his wounds too like the stranger, but this comes with a toll of exhaustment after.
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I can only imagine how awesome that fight would be. It also has the perfect set up post Ragnarok Magni wants to avenge his father Thor since Kratos killed him.
Yeah i liked that part a lot showcasing Kratos' immortality
Some leaks claim fighting two gods at the same time in this game. Dunno if this is true but what if they were Magni and Modi? You probably you don't kill them in this game. I can't think of another duo that can challenge Kratos in similar fight. Can you give an example?
Yeah and an energy blast bursted in that same scene like DB. The midair fight was awesome too.
People seem to be saying the stranger is Baldr so maybe we fight him and his brother Hodr. Hodr is responsible for Baldr's death(tricked by Loki) so maybe they twist this in the game somehow.
But isn't Baldr vulnerable only to mistletoe hence
Sindri gave Mistletoe arrows to Atreus after the dragon fight.
It was very Dragonball... Which made the neck snapping at the end weird.
I doubt he's dead. He was bragging about how nothing Kratos did hurt him and how he didn't feel pain. Based on his dialogue, he has a "One Punch Man" complex of wanting to fight powerful warriors in the hopes that one might be the special one to make him feel pain
Mortal Dragon Ball Kombat. No disqualification + Fatality.
People are saying he isn't dead and will return. And yeah if they were staying really true to Baldr, Kratos shouldn't have damaged him at all and the stranger wouldn't need to heal as Baldr is invulnerable. Also Baldr is handsome and gracious
Yeah. I don't think he is dead either. It would be so weird to get rid of of such powerful God so early in the game. We had some games where we fight the last boss as first boss at the start of the game like Z.O.E.2 and others.
I initially had the same concern when I saw the clip out of context, but now that I've seen the fight in its entirety, it's actually just a phase transition like you'd see in any other multi-stage boss fight: you lose control for a few seconds while you change environments, and you get to relax your fingers for a moment before you face a new boss pattern, read it, and resume. (That's what I'm inferring, anyway.) I think the continuous stitching of playable and scripted/cinematic content is doing quite a lot of work here to maintain a sense of geography while you're whisked from phase to phase, arena to arena, in an otherwise structurally conventional boss battle.
I think the fight would have been more epic if Kratos only used fist fists and kicks like a real fighting game. Who is in to try this for the sake of spectacle?
They actually could of done that. Kratos' spartan range mode has a nice fist only moveset. They could of just gave him that mode without the flaming effects for the fight.
Yeah but what I meant we have the choice to go through the whole battle without using the axe. Is there anyone who loves challenges for the sake of pure show and who will try just fist and kick fight? Shield is fine ofc.
Haha. Count me in too. :D
I may try to keep the axe at the start of the game and never call it back to see how far I can go without it like Cory promised. This won't be in my first playthrough though. :p
If that's the case and it was just out of context then I'm totally down with it.
If you just watch the gifs separately you will get a meh sensation but if you watch the whole thing, you will get the full context and witness how amazing this is. I am sure by playing this it will feel even better.
It was the intro. Felt very quiet and thoughtful, especially when compared to the past games.
It involved him burning his dead wife,
This one:
Can you please read what is written there?
Edit: According to someone from the old forums:
I can't quite make out what it says, and some of those runes look like they aren't part of the futhark. Hmm.. I'll see if I can find any better shots of the horn.
Spoiler for the fight in that video, it's a gif.
Yeah, I like how this fight develops and I haven't seen the end of it and I'm glad. I just hope it's not a special one for the intro and that actually most of bosses play out like this one with scripted transitions.
LOL
Exactly, I always dream of a medieval fantasy Naughty Dog game but the melee action in this plus the camera work seems to fill that void even better than I trust ND to do it. Still want that though for other reasons but this could potentially have similar or better gameplay to what I imagine.
Because it's just a seamless transition inside an actual player controlled fight with multiple stages and it serves to not break the flow and not interrupt the camera/scene and it proves to work if you have that preference. Of course, that works on some of us that prefer a near camera rather than a farther one, I think.
I'll try and remember to do this just because the stranger is unarmed so it would only be fair. Throw the axe and never recall it until later or just unequip it if possible (and the shield).
Yeah. This is what I was talking about and refering to. The fight would feel and look more equilibrated an natural and it won't feel like this:
There were some issues with bosses being dumb because of a memory leak that was fixed with a day one patch. I remember that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJiY9k5axVE
Nope but from everything we are seeing most likely just the axe
I would really hope so. Also finishing the whole game without using the axe or leaving it at the start of the game without calling it back. What a big challenge. Epic Gold trophy.
Yes, we do.
Hmm. I forgot about this. Didn't Cory say that we can throw it at some point and leave it for a quite long time and call it later after reaching half of the game and you can see it coming to you from where you left and this idea made programmers go crazy? I wonder if there are some workarounds for some puzzlers or other shortcuts for some paths needing the axe to be freed. For example instead of throwing the axe at something to break it, you throw the bomb thing we saw.
Sorry, I posted on my phone and probably messed something up with that many quotes. Apologies for everyone affected!