Final Fantasy 16 vs God of War Ragnarok’s Combat – Which Game Did it Better?

Two games with incredibly robust, action-driven combat systems- but which one comes out on top?

[-Foxtrot]

God of War for me however some Eikon fights were a little more epic in scale but then again that’s not what the newer God of War games were going for compared to its previous games so it’s a design choice.

Things just felt more rewarding in GoW and it had elemental weaknesses which give it a touch more strategy.

[Flawlessmic]

Spectacle and boss battles, its ff16 and it's not even close.

Overall combat system though, its gowr and its not even close

[Ezio2048]

GoW for me but maybe that's a personal bias. FFXVI's combat is equally good though.

[victorMaje]

God of War for me, but some cinematic combat moments in FFXVI are simply incredible, also in some instances I got some serious DBZ vibes :)

[Flawlessmic]

Yesssss!!

The bahamut battle I was sitting there thinking this is ff vs dragonball z hahaha 2 of my most favourite things in the world

[Gianoni33]

God of war is more robust and deep. FFXVI more fun and spectable.

Somethings I think GOW is too much slow. FFXVI superficial

[Sarevok]

the old God of war games have better combat.
I don't care for emotional walking sim god of boy.
so I'll give it to ff16.

[Darkwatchman]

You can criticize the heavy narrative focus of the new games all you want but the new games also objectively have far deeper combat with a far higher skill ceiling. Old God of War is super simplistic by comparison

[GoodGuy09]

Ff16 is simply just dmc but not as good. I like GOWs much more.

[GamingSinceForever]

I enjoyed them both immensely. Not sure why people feel the need to compare everything.

[ChronoJoe]

Combat in the newer God of War games has a lot more depth and much better design around enemies attacks. FFXVI's is too simplistic, both in terms of offensive and defensive options. You can dodge everything by a single press of a button very easily as the dodge has extreme I-frames. It rarely matters what attack you choose to use either, just some deal damage faster than others.

God of War has a lot of enemies that force the player to react in different ways. When to dodge, when to parry, when to block, and when to use offense as defense. It's a lot more thoughtful. It's offensive options also have more varied attacks, with lengthy combos that juggle enemies, but also various attacks that reposition enemies in strategic ways. Environmental collisions make it strategic to position enemies into walls and pits, it's a lot more depth there.

FFXVI's combat is fun but it's a matter of style over substance. It's fun to just press buttons and see what happens and I think there's merit in that as it helps the game be more approachable, but it's also a bit of a shame because at least the turn based games did have a lot of depth to their systems. Even FF7R has a lot of depth to its combat.

[Ryuken1985]

Then you need to play Ultimania mode in FF XVI to see the true colors of the battle system.

Sure thing that the action mode and partly the FF mode doesn't offer that much of challenge.

Problem with turn based combat is that it mostly will end with you mashing the attack command 90% of the time and then heal here and there. The crazy thing is that FF XVI is the hardest game in the series and that doesn't say a lot.

[Rocketisleague]

Needing to beat the game forbthe combat to be good isn't a good thing, Devs should have had a hard mode at launch

[Ryuken1985]

"Needing to beat the game forbthe combat to be good isn't a good thing, Devs should have had a hard mode at launch"

That is common and was the norm for almost every game that was released in the 80 and 90's to have higher difficulties after beating the game.

Don't know why trolls are asking about this game especially.

No one complained that Super Mario Odyssey was too easy for example.

[Rocketisleague]

I certainly complained about super mario galaxy and onwards being too easy. Ain't a trolley m8 I love the game. But general battles are just eh, boring. Because they're so easy. Although that's common enough in final fantasy anyway.

It was a problem in 80s and 90s too although much less because 80s and 90s games were a challenge. Not sure when in started but ganes started to become too easy at some point. For the sake of grabbing in casuals.

This is something dark souls in general has helped curve from in the last 15 years and games are not afraid to be hard. FF16 should have followed that...simply with the hard mode from the get go. What's the issue with releasing the game on hard. I don't want to replay the game to see the combat system in full swing.

Either way, the boss battles are generally very good. Not just eikon and dominant battles but other ones too do showcase the combat I think.

Just again, I've died only once now about 15 hours in?(I just bet kupka)

[Darkwatchman]

16 is not the hardest game in the series by a long shot. 13 and Lightning Returns especially are far harder. Lightning returns can be legitimately hard

[shinoff2183]

That's not true at all. And you shouldn't have to adjust to ultimania mode to see a system shine.

[Elda]

I'm playing both games & I'm enjoying myself playing both games, but I must say imo FFXVI has the slight edge when it comes to combat. That's just my experience.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

The one you enjoy playing.

[MadLad]

God of War.
So now that that's settled.

[Flakegriffin]

Knack

[LucidIllusion]

God of War easily

[GhostScholar]

God of war. Not even close.