TLOU2 looks absolutely incredible. That gameplay is far beyond anything else in games as far as realism goes.
Ghosts of Tsushima could be fantastic and looked utterly gorgeous.
Death Stranding looks beautiful and crazy, but we still know so little. Needless to say I am in.
Spiderman just looks super fucking fun. Cannot wait to play this.
Also loved seeing RE2 and KH3, which continues to be crazy nonsense that I am going to need to see for myself. Overall I thought what they showed was fantastic despite the weird format.
This actually seems like a really awesome way to get tons of unique art in the world as well as make the game really special to the fans who get their work featured. I was kind of shocked anyone was expecting any sort of serious compensation. This is clearly not a job offer or anything, just a cool little way to contribute to something you love. Fundamentally not any different from the Giantbomb E3 banner contest.
Did... did Abby hate GOW ending because Freya was a bad mother?
God of War end spoilers below:
Waypoint and Kotaku both have articles about this, how it basically sucks to be a mom/woman in the game, and I'm guessing that's a large part of her/their dislike of it. The ending is also abrupt, especially if you're thinking you'll end up fighting Thor and Odin and don't realize it's a trilogy. The story arc is focused around Baldur and the mothers ashes, it's easy to lose sight of the smaller scope with all this crazy shit happening around you.
I'm not a mythology buff, but my understanding is that a lot of the relationships are just taken from Norse/Greek mythology... Freya is overprotective of her son, and her sons death signals the beginning of Ragnarok. Seeing as the game is very concerned with Ragnarok and such, it makes sense that Baldur and Freya are the way they are, IMO. If Freya were flippant about her son dying, it would make even less sense and make her kind of boring and overly rational for a woman who would rather her son hate and kill her than see him come to harm, despite being a bit of an asshole.
Waypoint's article ends with "Only fathers can remain." since Faye is dead, though I'm not sure how that pertains to Freya. I also don't understand why only fathers can remain, because the prophecy is that Atreus may end up killing Kratos, and sons have a history of killing their fathers.
That said, this is only speculation. It's fine to not like a game for whatever reason, and I'm guessing they didn't get into it to avoid spoilers.
Those articles you mentioned really rubbed me the wrong way. I mean they made Freya a super interesting and well developed character in this game. What could you possibly do more than that to better the portrayal of women in games?
Did people want some perfect mother figure in this game or something? If anything that seems somewhat disingenuous to woman considering nearly every single character in this games universe is completely detestable. I mean even the father figure Kratos, who admittedly is trying to do better, is an absolutely abhorrent dude. I imagine if Freya was an outstanding mother people would go on to complain why isn't this female character more complex and better developed?
Maybe people wanted just more female characters in the game in general? I can kinda see that, but at the same time there are very few characters even in the game at all and I doubt they would want to give up the iconic Norse gods they chose. They are a big pull to this games story for many people.
I can understand criticisms of games in general not having enough prominent, fleshed out female characters (although we seem to be doing drastically better as time goes on), but I think God of War is not an offender and even did right by women in a big way.
Sometimes I wonder if people are even coming up with these things that bother them as they play or if they are just reading something after they already enjoyed the game and just souring on it for the sake of pointing out any tiny perceived injustices to x group of people. That doesn't seem like an enjoyable way to consume games. And I am definitely not saying we shouldn't find injustices and change games for the better. But when people start finding the tiniest things in games that do just about everything right socially and representation wise, it become tiresome and probably weakens future arguments you make for games that actually are dropping the ball and doing a disservice to groups of people.
This looks kinda cool. I think I might have fun just running around playing with the different scenarios and taking in the great production quality. Sucks that the story/writing is cliched, but I am definitely going to redbox this.
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