@bigsocrates said:
Does anyone actually care about the silly story or Kratos as a character?
Does anyone want to go back to Greece AGAIN and use the same weapons AGAIN?
I don't. I don't know why I even bothered typing anything out if no one's gonna read it.
I read what you wrote. The problem is, it's all over the place. You complain that Kratos is a cartoon character who you are now expected to take seriously, but that's more of a problem for the new game than a "betrayal" of the old. If you put Daffy Duck in a serious movie it might not work but it wouldn't be a betrayal of the old material, because he's a cartoon and you can't betray them, you use them for whatever you want.
Also a serious movie exploring the pathos and emotional core of Daffy Duck in a serious way could actually work.
Next you complain about the gameplay and the camera and a bunch of other stuff that you don't know anything about because we've only seen a tiny part of the game. For all we know the game totally changes a few hours in. Maybe it pulls an MGS2 and you end up playing as the kid, not Kratos. Maybe Kratos gets his chain blades back and the camera zooms out further later. Maybe there's an upgrade system that makes him faster and stronger and by the end he's flipping out the way you want.
A lot of your complaints seem to stem from believing that the small bit we've seen is fully representative of what we're doing with the game, but we just don't know.
Complaining about level design in a game you haven't played is just assuming everything won't be to your liking. And there are lots of games that have lots of walking and talking at the beginning for exposition and then focus more on action later on. Maybe the kid dies, reawakening Kratos' rage, and so you only have a companion for the first hour or so. There could be cool interesting mechanics we haven't seen.
Basically, before asserting something is a "betrayal" of a series you should at least give it a chance to actually be released and see how reviews describe it. Heck, this thing isn't out for a year. They might pull the camera out and change the default weapon in that time.
It's too early for the "Not MY God of War!" lament.
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