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I was going to make this comment in this thread but decided I didn't want to derail it so I'll just put it in this thread.

I see stuff like this:

and it's just amazing how generic, boring, and lame of a character that Kratos is and how many people swoon over him.  The only people that seem to beat him are Cloud and Sephiroth.

Now this is coming from someone who has only played the first God of War (I have God of War II but I still haven't opened it >_>) but Kraton is just so uninteresting and generic looking in every way.  They try to make him look uber brutal by doing these brutal things, but I don't know, it just comes off as a B movie trying too hard.  I see all these random gifs of him and he just reeks of generic action hero, I just don't see the appeal.

Don't get me wrong, the game looks fantastic (though the blood looks silly), it's just Kratos is so boring.

You forgot to say '''IMO''

No I didn't.

You forgot to put /sarcasm in the end of the OP

I just can't help but feel that this image is appropriate in this thread.

I agree with you on the blood part but I don't think he's a lame character.

It's not for you.

More seriously, though, Kratos is a fulfillment of male power fantasies in the most literal, brutal way that the designers could come up with. If you expect anything else, you will be a sad panda.

Still, his visual design is actually pretty distinctive - compare him to Dante in EA's Dante's Inferno, and the difference in how distinctive their faces are will really jump out. Kratos is just stylized enough that nobody in the world actually looks like him, which is a neat little trick.

That gif is retarded...he is beating some dude up..how does that make him lame ?

I get what they're doing with him, it's just they tried so hard that they just made him boring.  I guess that's what happens when you make a game that dictates you must be doing something amazingly brutal every 15 minutes but when all he does is that it just loses any of its value.

For him to look generic don't there have to be a lot of characters that look like him and makes it hard to pick him out of a crowd? I find it hard to believe that you couldn't pick Kratos out of a lineup of Action Game heroes.