God Of War PS4: 'Give Me God Of War' Difficulty Reward Is Extremely Cool Looking Gear

God of War is available now for the PS4. If you are looking for an extra challenge after finishing the game, you can also attempt to beat it at the highest difficulty setting which is the 'Give Me God of War' difficulty setting.

[GamesMaster1982]

Loved this game but there is no way in hell i will be even attemping this difficuly, i dont want to spartan rage myself and put my fist through the tv haha. I still however will be going for the platinum trophy as game is amazing and this difficulty is not a requirement.

[DivineAssault]

Agreed.. I finished it on "give me a challenge" and that was brutal enough for me.. Especially the secret bosses.. Never doing that on the hardest setting. No time no patience for that lol

[The Wood]

Glad I'm not the only one getting my ass kicked on hard. . . Not sure I'll try that God level either. . Drop me off mate

I really had to work hard to beat the first valkyrie on hard. . Stuck with a distance approach. . Get as far away so that unusually long wing attack isn't used. .

[Gazondaily]

Hard mode was the perfect setting for this. No way am I attempting the final one though haha

[Aceman18]

Beat it on 2nd hardest and that was all I needed lol. Amazing game easy 10 one of the best games I've played.

I've died at least over 50 times lol

[Lexreborn2]

I’m pretty sure I’m in the hundreds for deaths

[joab777]

I did hard on first try and the beginning was tough, but now about half way, it’s much, much easier. So this shouldn’t be too bad. Just require constant focus.

I wish we got gear for hard difficulty to take into this.

[Jinger]

There is a big difference between hard and Give Me God of War. Not only health/strength/defense but also in attack patterns and they also go into a rage mode where they get their life back, get even stronger and you can't disrupt or juggle them.

[Lexreborn2]

I’m on my first play through and playing on Give me God of war. It’s actually pretty incredible, I did get frustrated in the beginning on how everything was killing me in one hit but when you start getting really good at evading and blocking it’s pretty intense. I just freed my first dragon and that entire area was rough but at the end it felt soooo rewarding so I’m glad I’m playing on this difficulty

[bangoskank]

I had to go from hard to normal difficulty because the Muspeheim trials were too brutal. I just don't have time to keep getting my ass kicked. This is still one of my favorite games ever though.

[bluefox755]

Lol, forget that. Even normal is quite a bit more challenging than most games. People make "Dark Souls" comparisons, and I imagine hard to be similar to that in difficulty. The next one up is probably ridiculous.

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

Normal is very doable. The next one up from that and you start to get a little aggravated.

[bluefox755]

Agreed. I'm doing normal, and it's certainly doable, but I'm not cruising through normal like I do in most games, I actually have to focus, and I die sometimes, lol.

[Christopher]

Have people done Valkyrie and +3 level fights on normal? Doable isn't really the word I'd use. There's a challenge there if you try to do side items as they unlock rather than at their level. Did my first Valkyrie fight as a level 4, it was very tough.

[MrChow666]

I beat the game on normal it wasn't easy, specially the valkyries, I lost the count of the times the valkyrie queen mopped the floor with my face lol

[bluefox755]

For me, it is the perfect difficulty. It is difficult, but never feels unfair.

[madforaday]

What level were you around when you did the Valkyries?

[maybelovehate]

What game is it more challenging on Normal than? And no, even on the toughest difficulty it isn't the same type of challenge as Dark Souls or Bloodborne.

[Goldby]

bud, just stop.

im playing through the game on give me god of war, and it is much more difficult than dark souls or bloodborne.

sure theres the one shots in both games. but let me know of a regular 1st are enemy (not even a boss) who can level up mid fight, gain half if not all their health back and because immune to CC like tripping or freezing or juggling.

oh and let me know, cuz i cant seem to find my estus flask or bloodvials in god of war that will regain 50+% of my health back when ever i need it.

downplaying is getting pathetic maybe

[maybelovehate]

You mean the blood vials you had to spend hours farming so you had a good chance and enemies that don't flash to give away their moves lol. How about you stop. God of War was made for casuals. Which is fine. They make up the majority of the market.

[Goldby]

What shitty place were you farming for vials, I rarely had to use any. May be because I k ow how to use the. Mechanics in bloodborne.

Give me God of war isn't for casuals sto trying to make it sound like that.

Maybe actually try beating the game on Give me God of war difficulty and then come back

[maybelovehate]

Unless you had watched videos the bosses in Bloodborne had very difficult patterns to learn. Hell some of the ads had difficult patterns.The only way to learn them was to get punished. This isn’t god of war with flashing circles to tell you what is coming.

[Goldby]

Really no need to watch videos. Just like in God of war with the yellow and red circles, there are tell tale signs of when an attack is coming. Every enemy in bb has a 3 stage attack. Wind up, pause, and attack. If you shoot them while they are in the pause section of the attack it allows visceral attacks, which can eventually allow you to one hit bosses.

Both are challenging, but give me god of war difficulty is much harder, than Dark souls or bloodborne.

To say it's casual because there are signs of when an attack are coming is to say every game is casual as all games have their signs that an attack is incoming.

[maybelovehate]

Sorry but not even remotely similar in challenge. The saving system is more casual. The tell tale signs are blatantly casual. Hell they even have text that pops up telling you what to do on some of the bosses :D

[PaulFiend]

Playing it at 'Give Me God of War', not as hard as 2nd and 3rd parts on their maximum difficulties after you've upgraded Kratos (and Atreus!!!) a bit. Still great challenge and very hard at the very beginning.

[LoveSpuds]

I got the plat on Bloodborne and have completed each of the Souls games multiple times, God of War is brutally hard, never going to play this on the hardest setting, I think it would be too much for me....I am getting old!

[Eidolon]

It's hard dude, some of the boss/mini-boss battles are freaking ridiculous and have me scrambling for changes to my gear/runics/enchantments. I tried the first valkyrie on balanced the first time I came accross her, my god. I swear I tried to beat her 30 times, no go. I just had to get stronger and get better range of equipment and enchantments. And you can say I have a plat on Bloodborne, just some replay left, no difficulty wall. Dark souls 1/2/3 I've played, more so 1 and 3, but that first Valkyrie encounter was more brutal than I can remember from a souls game, on BALANCED

[LoveSpuds]

Yup, I hear you squire, those Valkyrie are insane, I have managed to beat 3 of them so far but the 3rd one took me a good 2 hours. I knew I needed to quit and come back once I had better gear, but I am a stubborn old goat sometimes 🐐 😀

[nix]

i was playing on Normal because i really wanted to not play like a p*ssy but the cylindrical elevator thing happened and i just couldn't get over the third wave... so i moved to "give me a story". even then i had a hard time handling the cleric because all the time i've been killing them from a distance. didn't realise you could use arrows to zap him and then you could run to him and chop him off.

anyways... i never was able to kill any of the Valkyrie. i kept getting hit even though i rolled away from her. Anyways... i'm not proud of finishing it on easy mode but after 20+ hours of struggling throughout i really was ready to just finish the story. i think i'll move to normal mode when go back and try to finish the rest of the side modes etc. if i go back, that is.

having said that - amazing game! totally lived beyond my expectation. my only gripe is that i don't have that much of a knowledge when it comes to Norse mythology... so everything that was happening was too much for me to grasp.

[Eidolon]

Although, the 30 times were with 0 rage and the lowest resurrection stone and pretty under equipped. I never moved from the checkpoint until I got at least close to beating her, trying out different equipment and stategies.. just gave up.. got her to freaking 1/100 health and died(last life). This was Geidriful

[Aceman18]

So far I've beaten 3 valkyries, and all 3 annoyed the hell out of me on hard mode hahaha

@Eid

The one you mentioned is tough as hell, but when I finally beat her ass I felt relieved lol.

[Malice-Flare]

well, if they add NG+, i'd be up to try it, just like Horizon...

[Germaximus]

The first shield looks cool but what's the point of unlocking them? You can't even access every single armor or skill in the game before you complete the story.

[Jinger]

What if I'm already playing it on Give Me God of War? Do I just get to play it again with better gear?

[LoveSpuds]

Pretty sure it's locked until you beat the game for the first time chief. The hard difficulty that is available from the start will be plenty tough though, if you love tough games, God of War has you covered.

[Jinger]

Haha okay. I must live in a fantasy dream land where I'm currently almost done with the game on Give Me God of War on my first play through, but okay... chief.

[Goldby]

@jinger,

dont worry you are right, i think if anything, he might be meaning that the gear is locked until you beat the game on Give me god of war. once that happens it may be available, but as far as i know, no official word has been said about that.

Persoanlly i hope we can as i want to play through and get my platinum on a difficulty that is the hardest, specially fro the Valkyries

[Gigamax]

This would be amazing to see all the way through! Anyone out there think they're up for giving this difficulty a try?

[Jinger]

Currently am. It is freaking nasty brutal. I do not recommend it especially for your first play through... and on immersion mode.

[Goldby]

amen to that brother.
its so punishing, i found it a bit easier once i pretty much maxed out the barehanded combat

[xPaYDaYx]

That's it? Wow lol.

[leemo19]

Been playing it Give Me God Of War as my first play through, I can say for sure I almost broke my controller. I've resorted to using axe throwing cheeses, just cause certain enemies can pretty much one shot you. I'm almost beaten the game, just hope the final boss doesn't kill me to many times.

[AKS]

That's why I'm leaning towards skipping that mode. If I'm throwing the axe and retreating constantly just to survive, that's really not how I want to be playing through this. The next difficulty down seems about what I'm looking for.

[Jinger]

Hahaha yep! Same here! Sometimes you have to get a little cheesy and spam some attacks, but damn, you almost have to on this mode.

Also, Atreus is a damn Saint. I rely on him so much.

[Zellos]

I've completed the game on "Give Me God of War" the first half was extreme but got easier as the game went on as the gear you get out weighs the scale of difficulty later on if you decide to do some of the side content for the good loot but now doing the Valkyries... they are insanely hard I've grind out some of the best gear possible and managed to beat 3 of them quite easily died a couple of times on the 3rd but the 4th is just too much I've tried the others but they all seem too much harder than the 3 i've beaten... i can get them down to around 50% health but they literally kill you in 3-4 hits, you have to pretty much dodge every lethal blow they throw at you and some of their moves completely 1 shot u unless you can run away fast enough, I've played the game close to 80hrs I would say and I still have a few gears to upgrade but damn feels like its too hard now almost impossible :/

[Zellos]

6/9 valkyries now, the Muspelheim one was super hard but didn't take as long as I thought it would should get there now.

[AKS]

I usually start games on the "hard" setting, but the default setting was adequate for a first run through. I wanted to explore the world a bit the first time running through this rather than being so focused on just surviving every battle. I'll probably do a second run on the next highest difficulty for the challenge. I may actually skip the very highest difficulty. I like the level of challenge in tough games, but some of these obscenely difficult modes like the 1-hit-death Very Hard in Nier: Automata and this Give me God of War difficulty setting aren't for me. FROM typically gets difficulty right for me; I want games to be challenging enough that there are clear consequences for mistakes and not being able to ignore central combat mechanics by button smashing through it, but the extreme modes tend to leave feeling me more frustrated than rewarded.

[Relientk77]

The first shield is awesome but never getting it because not beating the game on this difficulty lol

[Amyellevivv]

God of war mode is already hard , and making u frustrated and the many times i will hear BOY, makes it even more difficult to control yourself

[Lexreborn2]

I honestly have to say that this game is truly something magical. In everything it does from atmosphere to sound. Action to strategy it is a very well thought out game and amazing how it fits so well with its narrative. I didn’t expect this level of development but wow has it blown me away.

[pyroxxx]

I could to this in few days,.. The Valkyrie queen,.. not so much,.. (actually cheesed it and put it on normal) - yes it is that hard. In my opinion it is way harder then even Orphan of Kos (or I was way over-leveled for that)

[DFresh]

1st playthrough = Normal (currently)
2nd playthrough = I’ll try hard. God Level no way.

[BioShockGX]

Some dude finished the game using only fist and shield on the hardest difficulty...

[goathouse774]

There does seem to be some balancing that could be done to this mode, but I'll be dammed if it doesn't milk the combat engine for every drop of it's strategic potential and sense of urgency. The enemies are sponges, true, but getting extremely good will eventually grant the wherewithal to wipe out mobs with relative quickness.

Also, I wouldn't trade the insane level up mechanic for the enemies for anything. It adds an incredible layer to the game that - while causing all manner of problems for the player - really completes the combat package.

[Braden1998]

Just finished the main storyline on give me god of war difficulty. I actually found this game easier than dark souls, as I was able to beat this game but never could beat dark souls. Still, the end game content is insanely difficult. You don’t stand a chance against the Valkyries until you acquire the best armor from Niflheim