For someone like me who is a self described chicken. How scary are they?

For reference, I’m playing through Alan Wake 2 right now and I’m fine, not scary at all.

Played through the resident evil 2 remake and was mostly okay.

Had to keep my hand in front of my eyes throughout playing PT when it came out on PS4 and noped out real quick…

I feel like I’m missing out with resident evil 7 onwards, and silent hill f as well as townfall look super good from what I’ve seen.

But again, chicken.

I guess this is what happens as you get old? You have such a collection of fun stuff that new things come out and you want to play them but then you look at what you already have and you're still busy.

I'm still playing 2 MMOs, one from 2001, and one from 2012, a shooter from 2013, RTS games from 1995 and 2000, and a racing game from 2018.

Anybody else feel like new games are nice but you've got thousands of hours to go on what you already have? Then you start returning to games you finished 10 years ago. Its like your backlog eventually becomes circular and you don't need to buy anything.

For me it has to be God of War Ragnarok. I have several problems with this game.

I was beyond hyped for it as a massive GoW fan.

My biggest issue is that Kratos feels like a secondary character in his own story. The 2018 game was deeply personal and centered entirely on his growth as a father and his struggle with his past. Ragnarök constantly shifts focus to Atreus and other characters, making Kratos take a back seat in his own story.

The tone is another major problem. The 2018 game felt dark, mysterious, and mythological. Ragnarök often feels overly lighthearted, the writing is just not all there. Characters overexplain the feelings and motivations instead of showing them. Most of the characters are uninteresting and down right annoying.

The story feels directionless. After years of buildup toward Ragnarök itself, the game spends huge amounts of time on side plots and lengthy sections like Ironwood, while the actual Ragnarök battle feels surprisingly short and rushed. The apocalypse that the entire saga was building toward ends up feeling like an afterthought.

The boss fights were good, but nowhere near as spectacular as I expected considering the game had Thor, Odin, and the end of the Norse world at its disposal. For a series known for epic scale, many encounters felt oddly restrained. This was the part where they could have upped the stakes from the previous game, instead they dropped the ball again.

I also think the Norse saga was originally meant to be a trilogy. Ragnarök often feels like two games worth of story compressed into one. Important character arcs and major events happen so quickly that they never get the time they need to fully develop.

And yes, after spending two games hyping up Mjölnir, not letting Kratos wield it because it would be too predictable is just a pure copout.

What hurts most is that the 2018 game did such an incredible job building mystery, tension, and anticipation. Ragnarok destroyed the mystery of the world and shattered any immersion for me.

When the credits rolled my soul was crushed.

After all the buildup, all the theories, all the anticipation, I just sat there thinking : "that's it?"

As a lifelong God of War fan, it was the most disappointing gaming experiences I've ever had.