Topic: God of War OT

@Ulythium out of curiosity, why the specificity?

Oh, we will get along grand then 🤣

OK, so if I kill everybody in all of the other rooms first and collect all of the treasures (sans the nornir chests, which are way more trouble than they're worth given the time limit), then I seem to be able to fairly reliably find those items I need in Area Y. I've collected two now.

Niflheim was kinda annoying at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to obtain whatever you need.

The last trailer for Ragnarok is now available in various languages (fully dubbed) - that must mean the dubs are more or less complete, right?
And that should mean the development is in its final stages?
I'm just guessing here

@Voltan I could see it being a May or June title. Horizon is pretty early anyway, so there's enough breathing room for both.

Ah, so killing Odin's birds are part of the process of 100%ing an area. That should hopefully make them a little easier to track down. I like how this game just becomes a collectathon after a certain point.

I have to say, though, they REALLY hide these suckers.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I'm naturally extremely lazy and as much as I enjoy writing when I get into it, I have to will myself out of my sloth to get ANYTHING done. Like, not just work or writing. Anything. I even have to will myself to engage in leisure activities.

I'm a big believer in the Shia LeBeouf approach to toppling procrastination.

Of course, being a chronic procrastinator, 'just doing it' usually involves waiting until the last minute and then scrambling desperately to accomplish anything.

@Ulythium sorry buddy my weekend has just been so busy I haven't got around to it yet. I got a pretty busy day again today but I will try and sort through the boxes later and have a look for you. 👍

I’m seeing a bunch of people announcing their departure from Santa Monica on Twitter lately.
It’s not unusual for game developers to change workplaces between projects so I think this might be yet another indication that Ragnarok’s development is nearly complete now.

Been cleaning up Odin's birds since I discovered they're part of an area's checklist, which makes it relatively easy to know where to look. Although I still have, like, a million of these things to kill.

So I decided "enough with the busywork/checklist clearing!" and ended my play session by entering Muspelheim, where, as with Niflheim, I'll likely be staying until I clear it.

Oh my god the Valkyrie Queen fight! Definitely one of the harder boss fights I've encountered in a video game. It's past 3 AM now, which means I've spent at least 2.5 hours obsessively restarting the battle with her over and over until I finally got it. So many times I got her down to two bars or so of health, but I was finally in the zone, dodged most of her attacks, and took her down. Didn't even need to use my resurrection stone!

I should get some sleep, but I'm wired enough now that it'll probably take a while.

@Ralizah Congrats. It might not have taken me over 2h (although tbh I can’t be sure how long it was) but it was still a while since I refused to lower the difficulty
Or I guess you could also say it took me 3 years because I didn’t do it when I originally played the game at launch

Anyways, that’s one tough boss fight.

@Ralizah Congrats! It’s a great fight and cleverly done to use all of the abilities from previous fights. I have to admit to dropping the difficulty after many many attempts..

@Voltan @Thrillho Probably would have been easier if I'd bothered to upgrade my health and rage more first.

Yeah, I do like how she combines the mechanics from the fights with the previous Valkyries with a gigantic health bar and really fast reaction times.

Dropping the difficulty just wouldn't have been satisfying at all.

@Ralizah Well done! Glad you made it past her. That fight is definitely a culmination of all the Valkyrie fights that lead up to it and is so satisfying to accomplish.
Having made it past that, now you have no choice but to find all those infernal Ravens and get the platinum 😜

@Ralizah @Th3solution I thought the ravens weren't that bad. It tells you on the map how many remain in each region. A few of them can be tricky to spot but hey, that's what guides are for on the interwebz

@Voltan Actually, I think it was one Jotnar Shrine that ended up being my final collectible that was a pain to go back and get. Seems like it was one of the earlier ones in the opening area that I somehow missed and couldn’t be reached all that easily and took me a while to find. 😅

@Ulythium so I finally got to a point where I could unpack my games (sorry for the delay mate, it's been crazy)... sadly my copy is the PS hits one dude 😔

@Ulythium have you got a cex local to you... or anyplace that sells second hand games?

@Th3solution @Voltan I've actually been killing them since discovering they're part of an area's given 100% checklist. Still annoying busywork, IMO, but busywork I'm more inclined to engage in. Small QoL features go a long way in games like this.

Although now that the Queen is dead and I'm almost exclusively reduced to checklist clearing, I'll probably slow down with this game.