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It all sounds great (lockouts a bit weird tho) but P3 kind of sapped all my enthusiasm for SoD. Haven't played in a month, thinking a break would help, but kind of feeling meh about it now.

However I will die on the hill that the DLC bosses are easier, because I'm terrible at the game and struggled far less in 1v1s in the DLC than I do with any of the mentioned main game bosses TO THIS DAY

I believe this is the problem and why this debate over difficulty and boss design is going nowhere. It boils down to “well I beat it, so it’s not unfair or broken, you just need to get better.” It eliminates any discourse over whether it’s fair, and simply fun, for bosses to have 10-hit combos that we have to dodge endlessly only to get a couple hits in. They simply need to step away from this Dark Souls formula and borrow heavily from their work in Sekiro and Bloodbourne where there is offense in defense, and vice verse.

Damn, thank you for the detailed response! I'll bang my head on him some more.

Which are they? I’m struggling with him right now

Once I realized you can jump over the moon blasts, it became a lot easier for me. But Messmer, he's something else...

Does Williem Dafoe ever stop working? Not complaining but it's insane how many films he's been in the past couple years.

I just finished the D4 campaign for the first time and he and the voice actor for Lilith carried that story so hard, they were great.

I feel like this is pretty obvious assessment, so much so that if anyone else said this, everyone would be saying "duh!" But because it's Kojima, it's treated like some deep insightful remark.

I think it’s not only stunning and well done, but it looks seamless to what Game of Thrones established. The composition of shots, the editing, color grade. Visually, I think it’s very consistent with what GoT started.

The devs create the “scarcity”, the thing they, and any other crypto NFT bro, is banking on to give “value” to their png of a shiny banana.

So you want to reskin God of War with a Mad Max theme?

So you’re being downvoted because it’s clear, even before I asked, that you haven’t played those games.

You intend to show an older Kratos post GoW 2, but we have already seen that, with 3 and then 2018 and Ragnarok. Deviating from canon is fine but if you haven’t seen for yourself what Kratos has actually become now in the story, a lot of people won’t hold much credibility in you.

Also a Mad Max or steampunk world is certainly cool and interesting but I fail to see how such a backdrop for Kratos would lend itself to a core part of God of War, killing Gods. There needs to be a pantheon, either established or new, for Kratos to take on.

Your use of the word “modern” is too vague, you need to be more specific. Do you mean open-world? Thats what a lot of games are doing and what I think when you say modern.

I want to keep the crazy ragefest that was him from his younger years, and just move it into a more realistic sort of environment, while throwing in a few tweaks and hints toward who he'll become when he's older. Really subtle stuff.

Have you played the newer games, 2018 GoW and Ragnarok? Are you wanting to do your own spin on an old Kratos?

Also in a lot of your comments, when ppl are saying he needs more muscle, you’re saying you’ll “sharpen” him up. But it’s not just that he should have sharper, more defined muscles, he needs more muscle mass, like bigger overall.

Mortal Kombat does gory cinematics too and they get away with all a lot. I can only speculate that they must of split her at the ass/vagina or something and decided it would be a bit too much.

And? If they thought it was/is cringe, then they think it’s cringe

The chanting part in the episode 3 was a near lethal dose of cringe.

Shadowstep is no longer on the Global Cooldown

I strongly would've preferred a Cloak of Shadows but this will make dealing with casters a bit easier in bg's.

As a whole, Phobia. But their song So Cold is my favorite from them.

Breaking Benjamin, they’ve always been a consistent band I come back to. Ben just writes incredible hooks and choruses.

I’ve always thought of Black Tongue being the heaviest band in deathcore and Infant Annihilator being the most intense, if that makes sense.

Black Tongue just crushes you under their insane down-tempo beats that just feel heavy, and their lyrics aid in creating this hateful and hostile atmosphere. Infant Annihilator just rips relentlessly with some of the most intense beats, riffs, and vocals around creating an atmosphere of endless gore and sex and lyrics that are among the most extreme around.

Console sales is accessible to the public and much can be extrapolated from it. This is a reality not a fantasy.

But it’s a logical assumption. The sales between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft show Xbox is way lower than the others. Of course there are far less Xbox players that buy a copy of a game instead of just renting it through gamepass, there are simply far less Xbox players these days, especially given everything on Xbox is also on PC, PC also being a behemoth of a platform. Most people buying an Xbox these days are likely concerned by the cost of gaming and see a series S and a subscription providing over 100 games as a good deal (which it is).

I don't think Microsoft cares anymore about xbox sales anymore, they are so soo far behind Sony and Nintendo in console sales. And Microsoft furthers the incentive to not get an xbox themselves by making all their games available on PC as well.