>YOU CAN'T KILL THE BAD GUY ANON, YOU'LL BE NO BETTER THAN H-

>>715408551 (OP)
Damn, Kratos is so badass and manly

>we must stop the cycle of killing
>kills him, starting a new cycle of killing
god i'm glad i didn't bother with onions of war

>>715408551 (OP)
How was he talking after he died? Seems like it shouldn’t have killed him

>>715408551 (OP)
>a swarthy med g*eek killing an Aryan Nordic chad
Refund

>>715408926
The cycle ends with no witnesses.

>>715408926
that's not what it was about anon

Kratos was willing to let Baldur go, but Baldur chose to stay to kill his mom, which was something Kratos didn't want to happen either

it's like if some dude came to your porch and you gave him a warning, but instead of backing down he comes rushing at you screaming

>>715408551 (OP)
One thing I learned from video games - always, always, always kill the bad guy. No hesitation, no forgiveness. But they will keep coming back until they're dead.

>>715411320
So this game lectures you with a message and then contradicts itself right after? Got it

>>715411594
What if they join your party afterwards and are really cool? Or even worse, become a trader with exclusive items?

>>715411594
I played this one game that lets you spare every single enemy you come across for a better ending but if you spare this one boss that is known for being a psycho war criminal bitch, she comes back at the very end of the game, sucker punches your character and kills you even if you beat the final boss with nonlethal weapons lmfao.

>>715412249
Oh and the game has a special ending specifically for this scenario so it's not a game over thing.

>>715408551 (OP)
This is the reason why The Punisher is the better Batman.

>>715408926
That's what happens a lot in mythology. Way to oust your self

>>715411920
Are you actually mentally retarded? Like seriously? Even if the message was what you think it is. It wouldnt be a contradiction. "We should not kill people" *kills in self defense* "Haha contradiction!!!!! I AM SOOOOO SMART!" but I dont even have to go there because you are genuinely fucking retarded.

The message wasnt about killing in an empty broad sense. It was about the cycle of children killing their parents. Its a direct call back to the classic God of War games of Kratos killing Zeus, and all the problems that resulted in and Atreus becoming like his old self.

How fucking retarded are you? The game isnt even subtle with its message, and I dont even think its particularly great, but the message atleast is coherent.

>>715408551 (OP)
>>715409076

>>715408551 (OP)
If you kill your enemies they win. A better man like Kratos should know this.

>>715408551 (OP)
probably the worst instance of it

>>715412986
True. He should of just let Baldur kill his mom.

>>715413645
>Infiltrate the Vatican
>Final battle is a fist fight with the pope

This game was fucking ridiculous.

>>715414517
the most ridiculous aspect of it was that you kill dozens of guards just doing their job on your way to the pope who is an evil bastard and you let him live

>>715412591
In what mythology does anyone at any point try to stop the cycle of killing?

>>715408551 (OP)
The worst character in the current decade.

>>715414653
christianity arguably with the whole "Dying on the cross" thing. a personal sacrifice to stop the cycle then the pope hijacked it

>>715414696
>WE MUST BE BETTER MEN
bigger KWAB than lewis hamilton

>>715408551 (OP)
>character who kratos resents for reminding him of his past actions is equally stubborn and even when granted mercy is going to kill his mom
>kratos forced to intervene and kill the guy because he doesnt want a repeat of what happened to the greek mythos to be a role model for his son, but doing so just further cements his cursed existence as a perpetual god-slaying machine and killing baldur is obviously going to kickstart another chain of revenge killing that will end in ragnarok
>he seems aware of all this but is forced to do it anyways, his "we must be better than this" line almost reads as a "alright ill just kill this one god one last time then SERIOUSLY no more killing its bad"
i think its a kino ending desu and /v/ is just a bit retarded, and i didnt even like the game. Shame it sounds like the sequel totally botched that idea, never played it but it sounds like it became some gay family drama.

>>715412249
alpha protocol?

>>715408551 (OP)
>kills him
>fucks his mom

The entire story is hamfisted, Californian dreck but Baldur wanted to die. Even after he got his wish of mortality he probably would have reignited the battle after being beaten by Kratos and Atreus. Or Odin would ask him to report to him and now Kratos has to deal with Thor and Baldur. And lets be honest despite what Santa Monica says, Dad of War is pitifully weaker than Old Kratos.

>>715408551 (OP)
I thought Baldur can't die?

>>715408551 (OP)
>le better man
Neil Cuckmann and Cory Soÿrog must eat each other's ass often

>>715416146
he got mistletoed

>>715408551 (OP)
>Ellie kills literally like a hundred people to get to Abby
>Spares her last minute for absolutely ham-fisted retarded reason

Why is this retarded ass "moral" so prevalent in snoy games. How are these hacks writers working on 9-figure projects?

>>715415094
>christianity
doesn't exist in GoW
>arguably with the whole "Dying on the cross" thing
that was not to stop people from killing each other. that was to show them that even if they kill each other, all will be forgiven.
kratos on the other hand is unable to solve any problem without killing, which was unintentional by the writers, but they couldn't come with anything but more killing as a solution.

>>715412638
>It was about the cycle of children killing their parents
>killing parents good!
>*has child*
>oh shit oh shit oh shit better be a better man or I'll die
lmao what a sorry excuse for a man

>>715416196
it's written by people who live in the folds of a corpulent society like maggots, who are deeply afraid of getting what they deserve

>>715416196
Back in 2013 we used to call it ludo-narrative dissonance because we were a bunch of pretentious cunts. It is just the result of incompetent developers believing that a games story and gameplay exist in two different containers and theyt aren't supposed to touch each other ever.

>>715412638
You're very likely talking to a redditorsoi.

>>715416196
killing goyim doesn't count

>>715418978
>believing that a games story and gameplay exist in two different containers and theyt aren't supposed to touch each other ever.
That literally is what ludonarrative dissonance is, the narrative of a game establishing one thing and then the gameplay shows something contradictory to what its own story has just established.

>>715408926
I dont even like the new GOW but youre a retard talking out of your ass

>>715409064
breaking your neck doesn't always instantly kill you but when it is fatal it can kill you in a couple different ways depending on the severity

Dude can withstand so many punishment but snapping his neck does the job?

>>715412857
Romans were actually on average shorter than barbarians because of their grain diet.

>>715412249
I remember accidentally shooting Tor after that update.

Self defence is always justified
Redditors BTFO

>>715412249
>>715412313
What game?

>>715421769
Iji

>muh do not be a monster and do not keel ppl
>can I have redemption even though I had spent three games crushing peoples heads on fucking walls by pressing X and looking like a literal angry retard at the camera
>dad simulator, plz be better than me SON

I get it, trust me, but to me the cinematic shit is extremely tiring and I much rather liked it more when it was just an angry dude going around and fucking up various famous mythological characters. Not to mention that the over-the-shoulder is inherently LESS fun for these types of stories than a greek devil may cry. Of course they kept making these games so many times people started getting fatigue but it was greek-fatigue IMO rather than angry retarded Kratos fatigue. I didn't play Ragnarok but looking at the boss fights with Odin/Thor they kinda lost the edge. Even Baldur in the first one seemed more impressive.

>>715418978
We only stopped calling it that because dumb faggots at naughty dog picked up on it and fucked up uncharted 4 as a result.

>>715408551 (OP)
>cops can drop a fentanyl nigger if they so much as look at them funny
>bamham refuses to even let people like red hood take care of the mass murdering clown
batman and his no kill faggotry have been a disaster for heroes

>>715411920
So you'd rather be a cuck and take abuse instead of fighting and defending people you care about? Got it.

>>715423041
Druckmann doesn't even think ludonarrative dissonance is a real thing.

>>715422359
>muh do not be a monster and do not keel ppl
Kratos literally tells Atreus that killing people in self-defense is justified, all he wants is for the boy to not be another douchebag god like all the others he dealt with, and as the father he needs to set the example

>I didn't play Ragnarok but looking at the boss fights with Odin/Thor they kinda lost the edge
it's not great, there a few good moments but the 3rd act was rushed as shit

>>715408551 (OP)
The real lesson from these games is that violence and hatred are inevitable, and that you should embrace the cycle of pain with a smile on your face and enjoy it.

>>715408926
>we have to stop the cycle of killing.. by letting the killer go so he can kill more people and by sending a message to all other would-be murderers that they to can kill without punishment!
Dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

>>715421328
Shoulda stuck with the holly branch story.

>>715416196
because they wanted to make part 3 with Abby

It's more about Kratos himself. Baldur reflects who he was.
A big theme of GOW is the way in which violence changes you, both the motivation and the aftermath. You're a brainlet if you don't understand the themes especially when the game opens with a deer hunt.

>>715408926
the first game was slow but genuinely pretty good. the second one's story nose dives HARD after the first hour and is fucking awful, which is par the course for sony sequels

>>715416196
because the people writing for the game are often evil or funded by evil people who want you to forgive them with their shit finally catches up

>>715410795
>Chicken flees to report your crimes to the jarl
The cycle will continue.

>>715408551 (OP)
>finally cure the thing that ruined his life
>he doesn't just fuck off to enjoy things and decides he's just going to kill you
The juxtaposition of Kratos's firm but fair relationship with his son and that other lady's overbearing overprotective relationship with her son was nice but man he was fucking retarded.

>>715430206
gay faggot hands typed this post

>>715414620
Video game logic.
It's what you do in every AC game.
I think the only one who was justified was Connor, since he only killed the invaders.

>>715422359
ragnarok sucked ass and i liked 2018
it refused to do anything with its story, bosses are lame and the writers treat freya as if she did nothing wrong
i will die on the hill that 2018 was well written for the most part, but ragnarok is irredeemable dogshit

>>715430936
To be fair, I would have tried to kill her too after spending centuries or millennia without feeling anything for her.

I've already kill hundreds if not thousands of his men, so what's one more body on the pile?

>>715409076
Kratos is literally just a nigger.

I'm never gonna play these dogshit games, how the fuck do they reconcile the fact that his kid is literally Loki who will bring about Ragnarok?

>>715416196
Jews trying to reappropriate the message of Christ because they know it’s the word of God but can’t cope with believing Christ was the messiah to come.

>>715434543
The apocalypse ain't so bad.

Are the OG GoWs worth playing? I emulated the first one as a lad and all I remember is that one climbing part was annoying
IIRC the combat was also kinda simplistic but I'm sure it's miles deep compared to modern AAA shit

>>715434543
gods are bad so ragnarok is good

>>715434543
He's gonna fuck off with that black chick to another pantheon while Kratos has sex with Freya

>>715434959
Yeah. For me, the best part of those games was the set pieces how everything felt huge

>>715408551 (OP)
>GOW 2018 is great
>GOW Ragnarok is shit

how does that happen?

>>715408551 (OP)
People keep crying about this as being some super generic trope.
I can't even think of 5 examples.

>>715431549
Not just for her. He felt NOTHING
Imagine if you had to go a milennia without being able to jerk off or taste food or feel the warmth of a fire or the refreshing chill of the wind. Just nothing. I'm pretty sure some circles of hell are preferable to that existence.

>>715430936
Nah Vdur had every right to want her dead. Not only could he not feel ANYTHING cause of her and she locked him in a sensory deprivation chamber of a body, it's vlear that she not only knew the cure but lied to him when she said there was nothing she could do.

>>715408551 (OP)
never gonna play this kike propaganda trash, even the old ones
>muh mythical gods from the cradle of civilization are le bad
>me angry
>me kill
fuck off with that bullshit, if it was any good you'd be destroying pantheons that actually deserve it, like the Indian one or some other similar trash.