Kratos is such a lame character

[Scoobes]

twesterm said:

Scoobes said:
Well... in terms of depth and just genrally being original most video game character are lame as they're generally very one dimensional:

Master Chief? lame
Marcus Fenix? lame
Lara Croft? lame (although the models and Angelina Jolie are hot)
The Prince? lame
Most Final Fantasy characters? generic and lame
Duke Nukem? funny, perverted, but still lame
Nathan Drake? interesting and funny, but fairly generic
Every character in Resident Evil? lame

If you want an interesting character play Planescape Torment or a Bioware game.

But at least those lame/generic characters change things up.

From what I seeonly in random trailers, gifs, advertisements, ect:

• Master Chief has multiplayer, shoots guns, and drives vehicles.
• All very generic and something that most characters have done in lots of games, not to mention the helmet thing is really lame.
• Fenix has multiplayer, has a chainsaw, shoots guns, and at least tries to have something other than super macho-man xtreme attitude
• Guns? Really? They were invented hundreds of years ago and the chainsaw thing has been done in Doom...1. And he really doesn't have that much extra depth, just the usual military crap.
• Lara Croft...
• has tits.
• The Prince (I don't actually play or pay attention to these games >_>)
• K
• Final Fantasy characters - agree, but at least there are a lot of them so they spread out the bad
• lol
• Duke Nukem - kicks ass, is funny
• exactly, a generic parody
• Nathan Drake - platforms, shoots, like a movie
• Exactly, like a movie, and a generic action movie = generic character (still a great game)
• Resident Evil - atmosphere, shooting, story
• All aspects of the game. Characters are poorly acted (still, lol) and have little to no depth
• God of War - he's always brutal
• He's a Spartan. And honestly in the game he does show tit-bits of depth... kinda... during the games. At the end of the day he's just as lame as the other characters mentioned. And it is partly because the game is based around his vengeance.

I think the only time I haven't seen Kratos do burtal stuff was around when God of War II came out and he was trying to kill himself by jumping off a cliff or something like that.  In that one time I actually heard more than grunts and killing!  Other than that, it's ripping guys heads off, ripping their nails off, cutting through them, same ol, same ol.

It's actually sad that any other character from any other game doing any of the things Kratos does on a regular basis would be bad-ass but since it's all Kratos does when he does it, it just seems boring.

Those other above characters may be able to be simplified into simple one dimensional things, but at least they have some sort of variety and that's what I'm getting at. 

Any time anything God of War is mentioned, it's only Kratos being brutal.  Unless you played  and loved the game, you have no reason to assume he's anything other than boring and lame.  Why would I want to play a game that every advertisement about it makes me think he's boring?

 

A lot of the stuff you mentioned has nothing to do with the character and everything to do with the game, which isn't really what we're debating. I still think Kratos is as lame as 90% of video game characters. It's just the video game characters generally are lame and generic and really a bit crap compared to characters in other media. The remaining 10% is golden though.