Nu Kratos is fucking pathetic

he's a better man

>>712816610
This. He learned to control himself. Being a sperging raging fagot is cringe. When he needs to, he shows his power. Stoicism is kino.

>Nigger confused at the very concept of not instantly chimping out

>>712816548 (OP)
>why does he not instantly shit himself
retarded faggot

>>712816887
would have been cooler if they showed happening it though

>>712817102
>>712818140
>t. neutered betacuck numales

>>712818164
they did, if you played the game

>>712818164
Old man Kratos beat the shit out of Baldur though.

Old Kratos comes out to kill the dragon

>>712818296
they showed the way he changed?

>kratos was better when he was a screaming retard

>>712816548 (OP)
left is cooler and you're brown

>>712818164
They literally did. Kratos starts calm but goes full ape by the end of it.

>>712818393
Yes, by becoming passive, he changed into a better man.

For me its medieval-Christian Dante.

>>712818501
>>712818503
do they show it? do they show him insane like old times and then learning to become calmer? or is it all off screen?

If a drug addict is coming at you with a bat, yelling at you and threatening violence, and you're with your kid, then you'd have to be a gigantic fucking retard to think being calm, cool, and collected is going to get that crack addict to back down. Anyone who supported nuKratos in that Baldur interaction is a coddled pussy ass bitch that's never experienced real conflict.

>>712818626
>The best way to protect your family is to start a random shootout next to them
That's why you never saw your dad.

>>712818620
He literal ignites in flames at one point due to anger.

>>712818851
but that's not what i am asking

>>712818845
You have weak wrists if you can't aim.

>>712818626
The entire point of the plot happens only because he started fighting with Baldur. Baldur was searching for his wife if he told him she died it would have been the end of it. No one cared about him living there.

>Defending Naughty Dog movie games

Kratos is just tired, he got old. Every real fighter has a day when they're done risking their life over nothing. Sick of death and sick of blood.

>>712818460
Yes, Kratos was better when he wasn't what feminists consider to be the ideal man.

>>712818914
They didn't because normal people can infer it for themselves using context clues. What did you want them to do, have some kind of montage of Kratos getting angry and then taking long walks to look at the sunset or something?

>>712819252
no but at least it wouldn't feel so abrupt

we must be better step-fathers

>>712819389
He had to pull that card though, because otherwise
>Hey dad do I have an uncle?
>Yeah well your uncle got imprisoned by your granddad then I fought him and in the end he died
>What about my grandma?
>I killed her after she turned into a monster
>How many women did you fuck before mom?
>Let's see... can you count to 10,000?
>Did you actually betray anyone?
>Well they betrayed me first so it's fair
>Er... h-how many people did you kill?
>Well Greece isn't that big of a country so probably... a few dozens of millions?
>... you're a completely monster dad, holy shit

>>712819252
NTA but it kinda sounds like you're dodging the question.
It's hardly believable that Kratos would develop into this character, and the game - which I have played, I did enjoy it - fails to sell this to anyone who'd been with the series prior.

One of two things happened during the development of this game. Either:
a) it started as a god of war game but they made it into another dadlike because the last of us was successful
b) it started as a norse dadlike (again because TLOU) and eventually had Kratos shoved into it.
The idea is very clearly underdeveloped. I honestly don't mind this direction for the character, but they absolutely did not earn it.

Haven't played Ragnarok, probably never will.

>>712819252
As someone who knows how to write:
The entire conceit of Atreus getting ill because he's a god but doesn't know it is meaningless. The story could have been streamlined if Kratos was still batshit angry and was overly violent while Atreus watched. It could have been further streamlined if Baldur was looking for Atreus, and not his mother.

Impetus for story: Kratos wages war on the Norse pantheon because they're coming for Atreus (Loki)
End of first act: Kratos has been an angry violent asshole the entire time, and Atreus decides to follow his example.
End of second act: Atreus is becoming the thing that Odin feared because he's emulating Kratos. Freya helps Kratos realize that Zeus made him become what Zeus feared most, and now he's making Atreus become what Odin fears the most.
End of third act: Kratos learns to let go of his anger to be a better father for Atreus, who in turn also learns to be calm. They both deliver his mom's ashes as she willed it.
Hook for next game: Thor is looking for Atreus because Atreus' actions in this game have now warranted his death sentence.

It's genuinely not that hard to create a better framework than whatever this dogshit is.

>>712820118
>It's hardly believable that Kratos would develop into this character
Yeah it's so weird. His anger and blaming everyone but himself only got his family killed and the the entire country. Why wouldn't he just keep up this winning formula?

>>712816548 (OP)
>"we must be better"
>instantly kills Baldur
Was he supposed to become a better man in a split second?

>>712820438
>Baldur
>has more hair than Kratos

>>712820264
>got his family killed
After which he learned nothing and there were two more games of him doing the exact same shit. Nothing in the games indicated he ever cared about his country.

Just fuck off. Don't play the smartass when you don't even know what you're talking about.

>>712816548 (OP)
>the prompt over baldur's head
lmao

>>712820438
why is he anally raping that man and why does he look sad doing it?

>>712820438
Baldur was insane

>>712820264
Because angry retards don't do introspection which is why they are angry retards in the first place. The character was always morally deeply flawed but was just a driving force to get into cool fights and get bloody shit going on, not be a role model.

>>712818259
I could slap your mother's ass and you wouldn't even raise your voice

>>712820801
He realizes he forgot the enema and now has to go to chocolate town on the dude.

anyone who likes these pozzed new GoW games is a fag and their arguments are worthless
the original games were only just okay but are still 6 million times better than the new ones

>>712820801
Because he's Greek, nigga.

>>712820438
How would you continue the game if Kratos let Bald kill his mom?

>>712821880
turning god of war into a last of us movie game where something like that even matters was a mistake in the first place

>>712816548 (OP)
I missed out on playing GoW games during PS2 era but I do remember young Kratos being very popular with edgelords.

>>712822369
I played it throughout the PS2 era and I don't remember him being all that popular with edgelords.

>>712822369
>with edgelords
you mean normal video game players in the 00s?
you really didn't fit in with the other 12--18 year olds who liked games where you kill everything? what are you, a tranny?

>>712820238
character development for a full game and they just skipped it

Why does anyone like Dad of Bore?

>>712820238
>As someone who knows how to write

>doesn't even attempt to behead him

>>712818301
You mean Cristiano Ronaldo beat the shit out of Messi

>>712824526
> 187cm vs 170cm
Messi never had the chance.

>>712816887
you haven't played the games. old and new.

>>712824834
someone post the webm

>>712824873
>>712824834
>>712824526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3d_xL2KvyQ
Ah my bad it was the other faggot

>>712816548 (OP)
>kills half norse pantheon
I thought we were supposed to be better men.

>>712825239
>we must be better godslayers

>>712816887
someone should cut your fucking head off you faggot

Kratos being an angry retard was based and fun, who cares if his behaviour wasn't 'appropriate'?
Imagine looking at gif related and thinking "I wish they turned this into a serious story that teaches you life lessons". A game protagonist doesn't have to be a role model, and 'stoic and brooding' is simply more boring than 'unrestrained and full of pathos'

>>712819252
>it's ok to not show character development because people can infer
what is it about nu-gow that ellicits the most cum-guzzling faggotry possible?

>>712819389
Why do Sony movie games all have that exact font?

>>712825460
Found the screeching retard.

>>712816548 (OP)
This is retarded, in the OG games Kratos only chimped out against Hares and Zeus, he was perfectly calm and was willing to not fight the invisible flag on the second game, Hercules and Zeus wife (to name a few). Also, Kratos ends up killing Baldur anyway

>>712816610
>>712816887
>>712817102
>>712819054
Don't care. It's a video game. I want to play as a rampaging demi-god that gets into cool fights, not listen to lectures from the writers on their reddit view of manliness

>>712826139
Most people haven't actually played the games. They just regurgitate what they heard someone else say even if it's wrong.

>>712825475
The last of us and it's consequences have been a detrimental to videos games

Taking a series about cheesy action and deriding the previous games in an attempt to teach a life lesson is the vidya equivalent of telling someone to stop having fun because there’s children starving in Africa. Yeah, I fucking know. But shaming me doesn’t un-starve them.

>>712826680
yeah I don't get why that style of game gets fellated so much by critics and by the general public, maybe it's because people don't read books anymore so they are easily impressed by any writing that isn't straight-up cartoonish

>>712820438
>instantly
nigga wdym? it took the whole game and then some

>>712825460
>someone
because you're a pussy hahah

>>712816887
>Stoicism is kino.
lmao what a faggot, modern "stoicism" is a grift and no one really knows what it is

>>712826148
Unironically play 1-2-3
2 is pure kino

>>712828967
i watched thatt Asmongold react video too and i have those beliefs now too, you're not so special

>>712829065
>i watched thatt Asmongold react video too
lmao as if i watch that faggot, i got these conclusions because i was early on this shit and i watched it morph, even my faggot friend who gets retard angry when i banter with him is somehow telling me read marcus aurelius and learn about "stoicism" and "controlling emotions"

>>712829506
WOAH ! Mr Smart Guy

>>712816548 (OP)

>>712822554
12 -18 year olds who enjoyed games where you killed everything where normalfags dudebros who were all into GTA, CoD, sports games, Mortal Kombat and, of course, God of War.
NERDS like us were usually into other types of games.
This board is not for you btw. Fuck off.

>>712829765
yes, thank you. you should read about how passive aggressiveness is a pussy trait.

>>712826139
He did yell at pegasus threatening to kill it while he was riding it which always made me laugh

>>712829929
Please teach us about masculine traits, anonymous user of a mongolian image board.

>>712829929
where did you read that? your mom's facebook ? LOLE

>>712829892
ZEUS! YOU WILL NOT DENY ME MY NUGGIES!