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JWeinCom on 05 January 2019
COKTOE said:
JWeinCom said:

How old were you in the early 2000s?  If you see him out of context, you may not pick up on it, but in context, there were a lot of characters like that in the 90s.  Those poor tortured souls.  Shadow the Hedgehog comes to mind.  Even characters that were previously nice and friendly, the Prince from Prince of Persia or Jak from Jak and Daxter, got an attitude adjustment to fit the mold.  

I was 25 as of May 2000, and was a comic book reader until 98'. I'm certainly aware of the archetype you're referring to. I remember the ad's for comic stores within the comic books themselves, and one store in particular kept using the phrase "grim and gritty for the 90's" in it's description of multiple books. It was so overused, it briefly became a "thing" my friends and I would say among one ourselves. As for Kratos, I just never picked up on that vibe. To me, and I know this is corny, it felt timeless. Not dated.

I put 90s by accident actually.  It kind of started in the 90's with the over the top violence gigantic muscles and anger and giant weapons (Spawn/Wolverine/Punisher/Venom/Cable if you were into comics). The 00's was kind of an extension of that trope.  They still had the dark past (Kratos' origin is pretty similar to the Punisher, and even more similar to Old Man Logan, although that was a bit later), but at least they didn't look visually as silly and over the top.  But darker heroes were very much a thing.

I honestly didn't get very far into God of War (I think only to the part with the fortress where you had to move the whole thing?) but it seemed like Kratos' solution to feeling bad about being a prick was to be more of a prick.  Gameplay was pretty good, but I have a hard time finishing a game if I'm not at least somewhat invested in the characters. I felt the same way with the DMC reboot where the gameplay was very solid, but the lead was so annoying I just gave up.  I've been curious to try the other games, but if he's like that throughout the series, maybe it's not for me.



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bigjon on 06 January 2019

agree.

GOW was a very special playthrough for me. I got bored with RDR2. But that is more of me a thing. I just get bored with Rockstar games. I always buy them, but never finish. I think it is because the combat itself is weak. So I get bored. I totally understand why people love their games, but that just don't latch to me.

I started playing RDR2 today after Cmas, but got bored and bought Dragon Quest 11... so far I am in love with it.



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Nemesis1993 on 06 January 2019

Will we have a GOTY community?



Faelco on 06 January 2019
colafitte said: 

Persona 5 is a good example for me of a good game and yet disappointing one, because I loved P4G (one of my favorite games ever ) but P5 didn't stick with me the same.

Yes, it's so weird to say that but I feel the same. P5 really improved the weak points of P4G with better first hours, deeper gameplay, way better dungeons... But the characters and story just didn't make me involved in the same way. Some of the subplots worked perfectly, but a vague political conspiracy didn't hit as well as a serial killer killing people you know. And the cast of characters is too serious and specific, they don't feel like a bunch of friends like P4G... I hope they'll come back with something more grounded, personal and relatable with P6!



Kerotan on 06 January 2019
Nemesis1993 said:
Will we have a GOTY community?

You mean where we add all the GOTY from different people in one list? There's already a site called GOTY picks. 



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KratosLives on 06 January 2019

I really enjoyed god of war 4, but im not sure if it beats rdr2. Maybe i need to play through it again, but parts of the game felt unfinished. Some of the locations you go to, are short in gameplay length, and felt like there should have been more, in that area. Some of the beasts had similar kill animations, and those locked areas really got to me. Part me of was thinking they didn't get enough time to put more in. Story wise, i think there was more to see in RDR2, the main protagonist had more to say. Still love both games, and another classic Dragon quest 11 is also deserved of the title game of year.



Nemesis1993 on 06 January 2019
Kerotan said:
Nemesis1993 said:
Will we have a GOTY community?

You mean where we add all the GOTY from different people in one list? There's already a site called GOTY picks. 

No,I mean Vgchartz community game of the year 2018



JWeinCom on 06 January 2019
twintail said:
JWeinCom said:

I put 90s by accident actually.  It kind of started in the 90's with the over the top violence gigantic muscles and anger and giant weapons (Spawn/Wolverine/Punisher/Venom/Cable if you were into comics). The 00's was kind of an extension of that trope.  They still had the dark past (Kratos' origin is pretty similar to the Punisher, and even more similar to Old Man Logan, although that was a bit later), but at least they didn't look visually as silly and over the top.  But darker heroes were very much a thing.

I honestly didn't get very far into God of War (I think only to the part with the fortress where you had to move the whole thing?) but it seemed like Kratos' solution to feeling bad about being a prick was to be more of a prick.  Gameplay was pretty good, but I have a hard time finishing a game if I'm not at least somewhat invested in the characters. I felt the same way with the DMC reboot where the gameplay was very solid, but the lead was so annoying I just gave up.  I've been curious to try the other games, but if he's like that throughout the series, maybe it's not for me.

That is pretty much the point of his character arc in the older games, his own self-destructiveness 

 

Well, that may be the point, but that doesn't mean I'm going to like it. I'm not presenting any of this as a flaw, just not to my personal taste.

Faelco on 06 January 2019
JWeinCom said:
twintail said:

That is pretty much the point of his character arc in the older games, his own self-destructiveness 

 

Well, that may be the point, but that doesn't mean I'm going to like it. I'm not presenting any of this as a flaw, just not to my personal taste.

One of the points of the story is precisely to see Kratos soften a bit and act less like a prick toward his son. It takes time, it's rather subtle I think, but Kratos at the end is clearly not the same as the beginning. Maybe you should play more... The gameplay becoming better and better as the game progresses too, you could enjoy it more.



JWeinCom on 06 January 2019
Faelco said:
JWeinCom said:

 

Well, that may be the point, but that doesn't mean I'm going to like it. I'm not presenting any of this as a flaw, just not to my personal taste.

One of the points of the story is precisely to see Kratos soften a bit and act less like a prick toward his son. It takes time, it's rather subtle I think, but Kratos at the end is clearly not the same as the beginning. Maybe you should play more... The gameplay becoming better and better as the game progresses too, you could enjoy it more.

It's not like I'm averse to playing it.  Just a whole lot of games and not a whole lot of time.