I might be off-base here, but since WB has the publishing rights, and they own the licences to everything from DC to LOTR, I guess their licencing process is quite simplified...

“how can someone who seems so honest and good can be so... so not?”

So, your point is that with previous knowledge of the game and the map, and a character restrictively spec up in some very specific way, I can brake the game as to make it more free?

For me, the main difference was that New Vegas takes a lot longer to really open up. You are forced into a path for the first few levels, until you are strong enough to explore on your own... unless you want a quick and painful death.

Yeah... I forgot about Sparta.

He slipped out of Gaia, but still blames her for that. Hera tried to killed him because he was storming Olympus and killing everyone there. At that point the only way to survive Kratos was to aid him in committing genocide (like Hephaestus) or stay out of his way (like Poseidon’s daughter), but that didn’t help them…

I would say by the third game he went all the way from “anti-hero” to “villain protagonist”...

Add that to the large number of characters he pointlessly kills (which include Gaia, Hera, Poseidon’s daughter, Hephaestus, and all of mankind). The only characters he interacts with and doesn’t kill are the whores that he deals with on a different way...

Ohhh... they are on different levels.

I hated that character, mostly for what she represents. By the end of the game, she still talks like the journey of Kratos is a journey of redemption, when it is the opposite of that, it is a journey of destruction...

Yes. Not only they provide context to the story of 3 (specially 1 and 2) but, except for the spectacle associated with more powerful hardware, they are actually better than 3...

To be fair, 3 was probably the first game in the series that made me ask the exact same questions. Not that the previous ones didn’t touch some of the same elements, but that game was the first one where half of the things he does feel completely unnecessary.

Not exactly the same example. The hapless sea captain was just not saved by Kratos. He grabbed the key and the captain fell to his dead, probably to show that Kratos didn’t care about him. Truth, he would have killed the captain if he was on his way (like he does later on), but he wouldn’t go out of his way just to…

While I agree I would be more interested on this if they had some time to be villains in their own parts, that is part of the idea of the Suicide Squad: big villain names tagged along with red shirt unknowns, so that the writer can deliver on the name of the team while still causing little repercussion to the DC-verse.

Yeah... I didn’t recognize Yakon. Or, to be more accurate, I must have confused it with the dozens of creatures he kills during Dragon Ball...

That can’t be right... Buu is the only one Goku killed throughout DBZ?

Wait... Tien is human?

He has firery eyes... I would say he doesn’t qualify as mere human,

I like the arm trying to grab the head in the end.
I guess I am a sucker for small details...

I am guessing it will look like Mission Impossible...