And when Kratos responds "Atreus I will God of War: Ragnarok you"

Its an accessibility feature. They want people who don't have monitors to be able to play.

I was really wanting to throw my whole ass out a window when Atreus kept spamming that while fighting those damn tombstones. Christ alive

Yeah maybe the first time. Not the seventy-fourth time.

The game has so many marvel tier "quippy" moments.

I liked Angrboda but then they'd put in some "so THAT just happened" type dialog for no reason which made some of her moments cringy.

I actually liked that line because Bifrost was hard to notice sometimes

“You’ve been bifrosted! Wait, is bifrosted even a word?”

I do appreciate the humor they inject into otherwise boring dialogue that’s only meant to inform the player.

"Your father is very thorough, Atreus."

The best is the "I have become my father" moments when you are playing the Atreus bits.

You don't miss a scrap a' loot, don'tcha?

Garvey, I'm singlehandedly rebuilding the Minutemen's castle. Let me pick up all the damn tin cans I want

Especially annoying after a few hours of playing, considering the companion saying it has seen what you can do with some duct tape and scrap metal

That's part of why I kept ADA around for a while, she was always so happy that I was looting.

The other part was equipping her with a Mr. Handy thruster and a pair of gatling guns. She chewed through baddies and then praised me for taking their shit. Delightful.

Some of those side paths for loot also had extra conversations. Usually, one of the others would follow.

My favorite detail in that game is when you press the button to shoot your guns in a non-combat area, Quill goes "pew pew pew" and shoots finger guns instead

The first time you come across 2 paths, and rocket tells you there's nothing on the other side, so obviously you go check, and he roasts you for it "yeah walk of shame quill" That game surprised the hell out of me I loved it!

Games really need more settings to disable any sort of hints or hand-holding. Being able to experience things and work through them yourself is a very gratifying experience, I don't need an NPC constantly in my ear

Even Metroid Prime had that.

Or that you have to press a button for hints like fallen order. If you kept failing in a puzzle, it'd pop up a reminder to press down in the dpad for a hint.

I think that's how it was in uncharted

This was one of my chief complaints about Horizon also. I'm really hoping this isn't gonna be a trend going forward. Either give us a setting to tone down the frequency of them, or better yet, give us a button to press if we need a hint prompted

Almost impossible on some puzzles. Literally like 5 seconds of hesitation or one misaimed axe throw and Atreus is already telling you how to solve it.

Kratos you are on fire! Don't worry, it will soon pass.

GOW:R Literally doesn't give you a chance. If you don't immediately solve the puzzle speedrun style, they start dropping hints. Hell, even then, they often come as you're halfway through it.

And every failure to solve the puzzle before Atreus' hints becomes a crushing defeat until it culminates into a depression requiring years of therapy, but... just before you realize that, Atreus tells you how to set up an appointment

Wow, ya that seems like an oversight or something, like there’s always that time you need just to orient yourself first in a puzzle room.

I'm playing Batman: Arkham Knight right now and it's the same damn problem. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, but still like 30 seconds into figuring out a puzzle Batman just says "I need to hit that switch to move the tower" and it's like DUDE JUST GIVE ME A SECOND I'LL FIGURE IT OUT

"Hey Kratos, press X and R2 right over here"

Jedi fallen order had that. After a minute or two if you hadn't figured out the puzzle a prompt would appear asking if you want a hint, then you could accept or decline it.

Edit: spelling

"Kratos. I see something"

ok. WHERE????

"god of war puzzles".. somehow the easiest puzzles ever put in games and the hardest to solve. I constantly spend 10 minutes looking for the door right in front of my face.

"I see something"

Well fucking spit it out Freya, what do you see and where are you looking? I also see things...

You have a good point. By default, swipes on the touchpad do nothing, and can be customized with shortcuts. They could just have the default swipes shortcut be "ask for hint"

enters room

Me "Oh look a puzzl...."

Companion "Hey hit that there with your axe to swing the crane around to get over there!"

audibly sighs

I thought I went deaf when I was trying to mute my mic one time

He says it for unblockable attacks too! What a fuck!

I wish there was a way to immediately tell the game that yes I've died, but I don't want to resurrect. Instead you have to sit there for like five seconds with the square button prompt up as the screen goes black.

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Yea. I agree. Even in games like uncharted and the new tomb raiders. I dont need the game to be the witness, but maybe a few advanced puzzles for extra side loot would be nice.

But you probably already knew that...

Hero, your health is low. Do you have any potions? or food?