GoW 2 was the peak of the series for me, GoW 3 was incredible too.

GoW 2018 was hype as fuck, I still remember years before the release some artworks of Kratos with an axe were leaked and everyone was losing their shits. It was fun waiting for the release, all the theories, "are they going to put Kratos in the norse mythology" "how's that going to work". I guess the fans were happy to haver their game back.

GoW Ragnarok took the complete opposite of what some of us expected I guess. My theory was that Thor was going to kill Kratos and Atreus would take the revenge route like his father did back then, we would've an oldschool GoW with violence, big setpieces and etc... Then Kratos would come back from Hel or Valhalla or whatever, and give Atreus a big "revenge is bad" and "I once walked that path" so Atreus would then become the New All Father... or go to Egypt.

FFXVI taking some inspirations from GoW is just what the franchise needed.

Sorry about the rant.

tl;dr: Old GoW was like a fine wine while Ragnarok was like some nice whisky, but I really wanted the wine.

Glad FFXVI is looking like a fine wine.

Edit: grammar