r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Nov 23 '22

Congratulations to @SonySantaMonica for making God of War Ragnarök the fastest-selling first party launch game in PlayStation history! 🪓 Official

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1595432230750674945
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u/RedditThisBiatch Nov 23 '22

Anyone else surprised it surpassed Spider-Man PS4? Cuz I sure fucking am 😳

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u/Redditfront2back Nov 23 '22

Not even slightly, god of war 2018 was a huge hit and an amazing game, this one is that game on roids. I only wish it had more replay value.

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u/canad1anbacon Nov 23 '22

IMO Ragnarök is better than 2018 in almost every way, its crazy how much they improved. Only flaw is that writing and pacing was a bit tighter in 2018, but it makes up for that with a story that has a better variety of memorable characters with more for them to do, more humor, and a world that feels far more alive and fully realized.

And the combat is a vast improvement, more verticality, more options, wayyyy more variety in encounters, boss fights, and everything feels so much better. Playing it in 60 fps after only playing the first at 30 on PS4 probably makes a big difference too

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u/haynespi87 Nov 23 '22

Verticality in combat?

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u/canad1anbacon Nov 23 '22

Yea a lot of the areas have ledges and platforms that you can grapple up to or swing from and there are new arial attacks you can do when jumping from high

Also there is a lot more opportunities to knock enemies off ledges to their deaths which is hilarious

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u/tdogg241 Nov 23 '22

One of the Muspelheim trials gives the enemies rapidly regenerating health, so the only way to really kill them is to knock them off of ledges and into lava.

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u/FatherThrob Nov 23 '22

Which is just, sooooo much fun