That was what got me AND showing Kratos try to express love (reaching out to rest his hand on his sons shoulder) was something I didnt think he was capable of by the end of the 3rd game.

This is a really interesting read on the situation, and does make me more interested for the future.

Okay, this is insane. After The Last of Us, I have been waiting for the next game that explores the relationship between father and child. Who would have imagined that that game would be God of War.

That’s because Jaffe actually had an interesting idea for a Greek tragic hero in Kratos that was executed masterfully in the first game. After he was removed from the franchise, they took every surface element of the character(loud, angry, promiscuous, violent), and made these perks instead of personal failings. If…

All I know is that I was hoping for Kratos to be left alone for the next installment. But after seeing the demo and how they’re looking into the parental/human side of Kratos definitely has my attention because Kratos’ insane non-stop rage was starting to get old- this coming from a GoW fanatic.

That’s cool! If my psp hadn’t slipped out of my backpack and cracked on a rock ten years ago, that might have been a Kratos I would have been interesting in spending time with. But none of that comes through in the actual body of work that was the three console GoW games.

Good points, but i still do favor the 2nd theory with the unnamed character, first unnamed characters in mythology are a great chance to slot in character of your own and make it seem coherent (since you didn’t mess too much with what is already established), second it creates a good reason for conflict between Kratos…

Cue the fanbois with their accusations of you being overly-sensitive, and “butt-hurt”, in 3...2...1..... (okay I’m a couple hours late, but I did predict it without looking in the thread below).

I could find it interesting if the aspect is Kratos is drawn in unwillingly to fight.

If this is in regards to any comment but the frogger one - insert something snarky about your obvious degree in the field of mental health, your obvious respect for the medium of video game storytelling, and your general capacity for intellectual discourse.

If it’s about the frogger one, should I have used a /s?

I don’t think they’re going in that direction. The ending in particular, where Kratos seems uncertain whether to reassure his son, speaks to maybe after five games he finally learned something.

It’s definitely ambitious, I’ll give them that. I mean, I don’t have a tremendous amount of faith in their ability to actually -do- it in a way that’s not hilariously infantile, but I’m also a cynical bastard who has no faith in any video game studio.

That said, mad props for them on shaking it up - the game is…

In the little chat they had with the director and the voice actor they said that the game is about Kratos imparting his knowledge and him learning to be a father without having ever been fathered himself.

Kratos’ hands have almost exclusively wrought death and destruction in the past, this time it’s about him trying…

Totally! I mean, what was he trying to get to on the other side of the road? Absolution? Salvation? Forgiveness? Or where his endless attempts at road crossing just an expression of self-destructive tendencies? Did he, in some deep place in his heart, -want- one of the cars to hit him? Do we, the players, secretely…

I’m sorry, did I say I was offended? Pretty sure I just said that I was annoyed/bored. I’m no longer thirteen, so “he’s soo badass, cause like he’s angry and covered in the ashes of his family, and he can kill anything, and women just fall on his dick, and they have supernice boobs, and” - doesn’t really do much for…

Jokes require context and more than one word.

Kratos, as a character, is why I didn’t want to play as Kratos in God of War 4. He’s a terrible character. Always has been.

I’m remaining fairly detached from any hype until I can get my hands on the game itself, but I can definitely say what I -don’t- want from this game.

What I don’t want is a delightful romp wherein Kratos, paragon of boring, toxic macho bullshit, teaches his fresh faced young son about how to be a “real man”. I mean,…

I don’t really think so. The developers stated that the main focus in the game is the relationship between Kratos and his son. Kratos is teaching the boy how to be a god while the boy is teaching Kratos how to be human again.