TrustInJanuzaj
'Liverpool are a proper club'
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Not for me it didn’t. I can honestly say I hadn’t even heard of GOW before going into it and had never played the previous other games. To be honest I thought the linear story might put me off like with Uncharted and The Last of Us but i felt like GOW immediately grabbed me in. Kratos was a great character and there was definitely character building in the relationship between him at the boy. I thought the lore was really interesting too especially once you got Mimir on board. Overall the experience blew me away but I would agree that it’s not a highly replayable experience compared to the other open world games.The style and presentation gets old after 5 minutes. And the biggest problem in gow is the lack of content. The entire game is the size of a demo reskinned over the entire length with zero character building or anything. Not just Bloodborne but pretty much most of the top action adventure games of the last 15 years leave it behind in terms of the actual content on the game. If this wasn't a sequel of an already successful franchise with a huge fanbase and wasn't milking the whole Norse thing which MCU and others are also into it wouldn't get half the sales it did.
As for the rest RDR2 is brilliant in what it does and was in my list. It has loads of content and you can actually replay it in completely different ways with a different experience. Same for Bloodborne where every playthrough with a different weapon is an completely new experience or witcher where your decisions constantly dictate your journey. There's nothing like that in gow and it falls short in pretty much every aspect of actual game design.
I did enjoy the bit of Bloodborne I played but ultimately I couldn’t stick with it just like Dark Souls as I just find the formula a little repetitive and frustrating after a while and I can’t motivate myself to jump back in.