I find it strange this entire site hates a story about self-improvement and wanting to be a good father to your son.

>>715854908 (OP)
I would never pay $100 to watch a movie.

>>715854908 (OP)
a good father to your wife's son, you mean.

>>715854908 (OP)
>your son

>self-improvement

>>715854908 (OP)
>self improvement
He went from fucking bitches and killing gods to living with his wife’s son in a janky cabin

>>715854908 (OP)
That "good father" is covered in ashes of his wife and child that he personally killed

>>715854908 (OP)
>manchildren hate self-improvement
Color me shocked

don't mind him genociding his people, he did a better now

>>715854979
>>715854983
>>715855040
Why still make retarded posts

>>715854908 (OP)
Because it's done completely unnaturally.

One of the best franchises of all time

>>715854908 (OP)
Didn't he kill his previous family?

>>715854908 (OP)
Being a hypocritical boring cuck isn't self improvement. He just become more boring. His voice acting is more boring. His motives are boring. His actions are boring. The act of playing his game is fucking boring.
These shitty "cinematic" movie games that try to be like Marvel slop are a cancer.

>>715854908 (OP)
Because it's slop writing. Nothing more pathetic than video game writers with sub b-movie plotlines trying to appear didactic and profound. Just accept you are producing a GAME not high art and therefore your job is to entertain.

>>715855197
You sounds like a tranny. You should go ahead with your transitioning you'll be much happier

>>715855191
Yes

>>715854908 (OP)
Ragnarok sucked so hard people just turned into anything related to the "reboot"

>>715855080
Strawman.

there's too many niggers
doesn't make sense

>>715854908 (OP)
subversion fatigue

>In Greek mythology, Kratos (Ancient Greek: Κράτος, lit.'power, strength'[1]) also known as Cratus or Cratos, is the divine personification of strength. He is the son of Pallas and Styx. Kratos and his siblings Nike ('Victory'), Bia ('Force'), and Zelus ('Glory') are all the personification of a specific trait.[2] Kratos is first mentioned alongside his siblings in Hesiod's Theogony. According to Hesiod, Kratos and his siblings dwell with Zeus because their mother Styx came to him first to request a position in his regime, so he honored her and her children with exalted positions. Kratos and his sister Bia are best known for their appearance in the opening scene of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. Acting as agents of Zeus, they lead the captive Titan Prometheus on stage. Kratos compels the mild-mannered blacksmith god Hephaestus to chain Prometheus to a rock as punishment for his theft of fire.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratos_(mythology)

what we get? a mopey stepfather walking simulator

>>715854908 (OP)
It isn't self-improvement. Kratos became listless and boring. The entire argument is a false premise trying to obfuscate shitty writing and political propaganda, not to mention it being more of a movie than video game.

>>715855257
Trying too hard to fit in mr. marketer.

>>715854908 (OP)
>self improvement

The game teaches you how to be a cuck. And to shit pm white culture

Kill yourself now

>>715855257
You are being incredibly obvious.

>>715855128
>nooo don't talk about my retarded past.
forever written in the anals of history.

>>715854908 (OP)
>story about self-improvement
>skips all the self-improvement

Kratos’ story ended with 3. He was always a man who spurned personal accountability, redemption and self-improvement. He had several chances and turned down each of them only delving deeper into his vices. Dad of War is an entirely different character and all of his supposed development happened off screen. I have 0 reason to care.

>>715854908 (OP)
Greek God of War games are a cautionary tragedy.
Norse God of War games are about ignoring the severity of that tragedy to justify self-improvement.
I'm not sure why people don't understand that the Greek games are actually trying to tell something here.

>Boy we must be better man and respect woman's rights

ITT a bunch of seething chuds who got filtered by Thor (first fight) and now the circle jerk coping continues like an AA meeting

>>715854908 (OP)
Nice bait. New Kratos not canon onions opera about revenge is le bad (jewish theme), like tlou2 and rdr2. Its about "dont kill jews, be kind and let jews fuck your wife, and then you have to care about your wife's jewish son".

>>715854908 (OP)
He's my son but I'm not his father

>715855671

0.5/10

>>715855716
Christ, bait used to be believable.

He's the father who stepped in

What did they mean by this

>>715854908 (OP)
OP is a cock sucking faggotroon shilling AAA goyslop. God of Reddit is shit, stop trying to be a Temu-tier kike you subhuman. This is insulting my intelligence.

>>715854908 (OP)
A friend once explained the story of this franchise to me. I stopped them near the end and was like:
>a Greek man?
>traveling with his son?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>his ""son""???
>do you even history bro?
>that "son" is that Greek man's dick holster %1,000,000
>saying he is his "son" is like calling a rice ball a donut for America, or removing gay couples for China, or removing blood for Germany

>>715854908 (OP)
>The Nintendo fanboy board
>NOT hating anything from Sony
Pick one.

let's be honest here
the kind of people that made this game and the people that say shit like "lets be better men" don't want to be near people like us, less have children, even if we DO become better men
so nobody cares about shit like this

>>715854908 (OP)
It’s not self improvement, Kratos went from a selfish rage machine to an utterly whipped automaton that has little to no free will of his own. He traded one unhealthy extreme for another. Yet you expect people to clap for it because they said he was “doing better”?

>>715855949
>nintendo
Bald incels with beard consoles. Oh, wait, literally new Cratos.

Greek Kratos was 8 feet tall while Norse Kratos is 6'4". Just saying

>>715856069
You have to be a smaller man!

>>715855280
It's not. Most the complaints are this >>715855040

>waaahhhh I want my manchild power fantasy

ATREUS! COME, WE MUST TALK ABOUT OUR FEELINGS!
We...must be.....better men. More empathetic, docile role
models whom young men can look up to and learn
positive masculinity from. When strong independent
women, BIPOC of color, gender diverse children and
neurodivergent folk speak, we must sit down, listen and
learn how to give them a voice and empower them. We
will not go back. Now help me prep the bull for your
mother.
COME CLOSER, BOI. LET ME TEACH YOU HOW TO
CLEAN YOUR MOTHER'S VAGINAL FLUIDS FROM BULLS
DICK, NO, YOU HAVE TO GRIP IT WITH YOUR THROAT
WHILE DOING SWIRLING MOTIONS MITH YOUR TONGUE.
S
TO
BE BETTER, BOI #HarrisWaltz2024 #NotGoingBack"
REPARATIONS FOR MY WIFE'S SON'S FATHER!!

>>715854908 (OP)
It’s disingenuous

>>715854908 (OP)
Is that how you explain the black bull prepping mini-game snoy?

>>715856125
Incredibly dishonest strawman.

>>715856125
>waaaah i want my grown family cucky story about rasing my wife's son!

>>715856125
>waaahhhh I want my manchild power fantasy
And fighting as a bulky bearded dad isn’t a manchild power fantasy? Just because you want to say you’re mature doesn’t mean you are. Especially when you end up not actually improving. Saying something doesn’t make it true.

>>715856139
i find it rather ironic the people who are upset about this stuff, write this faggot shit, are you guys in the closet?

>>715856249
>ironic

Come back when you graduate from high school.

I never see any genuine arguments in defense of this game. The only “praises” I hear it get are just unironic “it’s good because… IT JUST IS OKAY?” It’s a story that lectures its audience about being a better man written by sheltered pseuds who have never suffered a day in their lives, then other sheltered retards who don’t know what a real man should be like fall for it and convince themselves this game has anything of value to say. The fact is this game doesn’t teach you anything. It has no value as an “emotional experience” and is otherwise just a mediocre action RPG. There’s nothing to take away from nu-GoW. Hell, even TLOU2 teaches a better moral than this game. Nu-GoW has nothing to offer to anybody

>>715856443
But that's the textbook definition of irony
>Anon writes a text trying to expose someone as gay
>The text only exposes anon himself as a faggot instead

>>715854908 (OP)
/v/ hates the idea of cooking a meal working out and drinking water even though theyre well in their 30s

>>715856579
Why do you like games for faggots?

>>715856456
It’s empty bullshit. It just presents ideas but doesn’t actually explore them. The purpose is not to tell a story and have interesting characters but to make it look like their are. The kind of shit people that want to look smart talk about. They use it as a means to project their own shit onto what little there is and then say it’s good because of that. That’s why it attracts NPCs and consumers. They are people that don’t have ideas. At most they have ideas of ideas. Vague images and movements. Like watching a Japanese guy pretend to speak English. If you don’t know English it sounds like the real thing, but if you do it’s retarded and uncanny.

>>715856636
Reminder Nu-Kratos is the least physically fit and faggots love him because of that

>>715856636
Anon most people here are Gen Z and Gen A and from underdeveloped shitholes. The rest still applies.

>>715856636
I do all those things and I hate this game. Nice try, homo.

>>715856636
Yeah, they also hate idea to have beard and bald head

>>715854908 (OP)
That's the thing Kratos can't improve. The fucker has done so much evil shit in his life even before he became Ares's personal enforcer.

>>715856740
What a bizarre statement.

>>715856837
leftist believe that criminal can be redeemed
except when they're from the right of course

>>715856837
>Noooo! I killed so many jews and jewish gods! Its so evil! We have to be a better men!
Let me guess, are u from america, half mexican cuck?

>>715856975
greeks are jews?

>>715854908 (OP)
Because games are supposed to be an escape from reality, not a $70 after school special movie with DLC

FACTS about KINGtos!
>multiversal
>mftl+
>Asura's MASTER
>better man
>top percentage soilent consumer
>BLACKEDchad
>strongest character in fiction
Now you have been EDUCATED on KINGtos. We must be better (like KINGtos).

I hate gen-z and their obsession with redemption. Why can't an asshole just be an asshole? This is like Z Broly vs Super Broly

>>715857248
Both of those are cool though.

>>715857248
This game was written by an emasculated millenial, anon. Gen Z has nothing to do with it.

>t. Millenial

>>715854908 (OP)
I know this is bait, but I’m tired of the trope that anger is an emotion that should be shunned

>>715854908 (OP)
>story about self-improvement
BECAUSE ITS THE WORST WRITTEN, MOST POORLY DELIVERED SCHLOCK TO EVER EXIST WITH NEGATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF SUBTLETY OR WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS TO BE A GOOD MAN

>>715856937
Criminals can be reformed, but not all of them.

>>715857248
What? Zly was a victim of Saiyan culture, King Bejita's jealousy, and his father using him as a tool of revenge. Zly doesn't really turn evil until he transforms.

>>715857248
millenials are the ones making movies and game now, not zoomers

>>715857436
z broly was just a ragetard that got angry only because goku cried a lot

>>715857493
>Teamshitstar's shitty joke form from not understanding the movie's story
No, Zly's "rage" towards Goku has nothing really to do with Goku himself. Baby Goku crying was a trigger for Broly because that's when Broly was stabbed as a baby.

>>715854908 (OP)
>self-improvement
Calling what happened to Kratos "self-improvement" is the definition of gaslighting.

God Kratos had vigor, Dad Kratos is burned out.

>>715854908 (OP)
Say it with me
>We
>Must

>>715854908 (OP)
>and wanting to be a good father to your son.
Kratos always had a family, the original game make pretty clear he cares a lot for them but circumstances prevent him from ever being able to save them, the fact redditors like you think its revolutionary that he takes proper care of Atreus in the nu-gow trilogy when he basically did as much as he could to do the same in the original games is just baffling.

>>715854908 (OP)
Another man's son isn't your son.
It's c.uc.k propaganda

>>715854908 (OP)
Mainly because that's not something Kratos would do. The guy is a non-stop 24/7 nigga moment. Any story that involves him growing and changing as a person is wildly out of character for him. Remember this is the guy who destroyed all of Greece and its after life because he couldn't let something Zeus said slide for five minutes.

>>715854908 (OP)
>soulless vs soul

>>715856125
>waaahhh I want my heckin' wholesome family fantasy

>>715857248
Kratos kind of regretted being an asshole the entire first game, which then set the premise of 2 and 3. For selfish reasons, but still.

>>715854908 (OP)
Stories that teach morals are for children. Stories that portray the rawness of humanity (the good and the ugly) are for adults.

>>715854908 (OP)
People are just sick of being told how to be a man by people who despise masculinity.

>>715858301
>The guy is a non-stop 24/7 nigga moment. Any story that involves him growing and changing as a person is wildly out of character for him.
That is also the entire point to the ending of God of War 3. The curse he got from opening Pandora's Box is the realization that everyone fucking died because he lost his humanity to fear.
Of course a lot of people don't like the ending because they miss the point, but that's why Kratos kill himself anyway.

>>715854908 (OP)
I don't hate the story of the new God of War games. I just find them boring to play and boring to look at most of the time. Most of what I appreciated about the series is absent in the new games.

I hate numale 'manliness' so much

>>715854908 (OP)
Giving Kratos a redemption arc or self reflection wasn't a bad idea but the execution sucked

>>715854908 (OP)
Considering this board is 80% pajeets it makes sense, as children their father probably got mauled by a tiger when they were trying to rape a toddler.

Ah... I'm.... I'M.... IMPROOOOOOOOOOOOO?V?VVVVVVVINGGGG!G!!!!!!!

>>715854908 (OP)
everyone hates that. the creator of god of war is on record looking into a camera saying he doesnt like it. fuck nu god of war.

>>715859192
All the onions boys go on to talk about how the character has outgrown its creator and cringe shit like that.

>>715859192
isnt this where death of the author applies
not that im defending new god of war

>>715856243
No, because a character struggling with real issues (being a responsible parent, tackling his past trauma, mourning the loss of a loved one) isn't a fantasy; it's a reality that most people deal with

>>715859653
Woah it's just like my HBO slop

>>715859409
It does apply, so it's not really an argument for or against nu-God of War. It should be judged on its own, regardless of what the franchise creator thinks or feels about it. But it doesn't hold up when scrutinized in such a way. Bland, boring third-rade unreal engine workshop asset rpg gameplay, a story that goes nowhere and characters that only exist to enable the story to happen. Worst of all, the music is an absolute mess, I had no idea how could someone like Bear Mc Creary produce something so completely unremarkable and mediocre. His work on AA games like Dark Void is vastly superior compared to anything in this game.

>>715858584
Kratos has moments of introspection and humanity but hes so consumed by callous indifference towards anyone weaker than him and mistrustful disdain for anyone above him. The only people he doesnt see this way are Spartans but as God of War hes meant to be impartial to everyone in Greece. Kratos spent his whole life thinking he was hot shit until someone stronger came along and he traded his soul for power. Then regretted it and spent 10 years as the gods attack dog before finally earning his seat. And he squanders it and makes an enemy of all Greece.

>>715854908 (OP)
>make a game about pure hatred and revenge
>people like it
>change
>some people don't like that
Look, just because some people like the former doesn't make em bad people, God of War was just the kinda game and story they wanted and now it's different. It isn't hard to understand if you have normal cognitive abilities.

here's a take both reddit and 4chan will dislike. GOW 2017 is the best GOW and Ragnarok is fucking terrible.

despite the cutscene walking the actual gameplay of 2017 is by leaps the best the franchise had ever had. the story is also very good. its basically a story about Kratos choosing to retire. accepts the horrible things hes done, DOESN'T try to claim that he's redeemed, just that he knows it was wrong and that he'll never act that way again. then he focuses his energy into letting Atreus live how he wants to live and supporting him. it all makes sense. also Baldur is an excellent rival, he chews scenery.

Ragnarok fucks the whole thing. now that subtle, well done choice on Kratos's part is just too fucking subtle. needs to be the leader of the viking avengers and they're gonna do a big team up and take down Odin forever. there's like 9 new characters and they're all fucking horrible marvel quip lords. Odin sucks. Atreus sucks now too. apparently it was written by different people and you can absolutely tell, they have no idea what made the first one work.

>>715860962
>make a game about pure hatred and revenge
despite obviously reveling in it, nearly pornographically by the third one, the first GOW games were explicitly about how revenge leads to misery for everyone. Kratos literally kills himself at the end of 1 because killing Ares did nothing to relive his grief. I still basically agree w you though

>>715856456
No you can't explain why you don't like the game you just have to repeat "wife's son" every thread.

>>715854908 (OP)
>hey dad why did mom have so many male friends
>that's her business boi

>>715855719
I'll never understand why they're still trying to push the "revenge is bad" angle when one of the most successful and beloved media series in recent history has been about a man who goes on an absolutely insane killing spree because someone shot his dog. The general public fucking loves revenge.

>>715861497
Its lazy writing

>>715854908 (OP)
Imagine /v/‘s disappointment when they played this game and it wasn’t a cuckold simulator

>>715861497
they probably think chuds shouldn't be exposed to revenge/rape/toxic masculinity stories because they might go outside and do those things irl

>>715855872
That picture never stops being retarded.
>point 1
What the fuck has sex drive to do with protecting people?
>point 2
Strongman physiques have always been seen as impressive and masculine.

>>715855731
>I'm the dad who stepped up

>cuckfags are so cucked they have to headcanon everything in order for their fantasies to be true
Pottery.

>>715854908 (OP)
ah yes, "self improvement" of losing all agency in his own story choosing to play second fiddle to anyone he can

no wants needs or plans of his own, just an obedient dog on a leash

disingenious twisting of meanings, just like the picture you chose. og kratos is taller.

>>715861497
Because Keanu is the reddit poster child. If Mel Gibson was doing John Wick or something similar the movies would bomb. Pedro Pascals John Wick would also do well because hes “Ie wholesome.”

>>715857248
can you millennial cucks stop pinning every gay thing you make on zoomers. i swear in 2 years you faggots are gonna be posting about how zoomers made borderlands and rick and morty

>>715861164
had a similar experience, although i don't consider 4 THAT good. but it is decently written for the most part (atreus spergout is a low point tho). it works very well as both the first game and a sequel and not in a vague marketing way, i mean the writing clearly put effort into it.
ragnarok is a trainwreck made by people who did not care about anything. tyr is a nothingburger, you save him and then he just stands around doing nothing. norse gods barely appear. thor dies like a bitch so suddenly i didn't even realize he died. none of the plot points set up are resolved, kratos does not die, jormungandr is a blink and you'll miss it event, athena does not reappear and then freya is treated as a poor didnu grieving mother despite cursing her son out of selfish desire to "protect" him. and then the fucking angroboda part. her being a nigger is just the cherry on top, her section literally never fucking ends and then she barely even appears after so what was the point

i can't possibly overstate how fucking awful ragnarok is.
but i still don't understand the obsession with calling kratos a cuck. i met people who actually think atreus isn't really his son. it's quite literally a major plot point that he is his son or the story in 4 wouldn't work

>>715861665
They are just buck broken to the point of hating everything new. By that pic's logic Goku from Dragon Ball is the epitome of nu-male, even without a manly beard.

>>715861164
>the actual gameplay of 2017 is by leaps the best the franchise had ever had
I wish I could agree with that.

>>715854908 (OP)
It's not the idea, it's the execution. It's done poorly both overall and with many smaller things like the kid being annoying, Kratos' interactions with other characters, characters being stupid with ZERO charm and retarded half-witted modern dialogue that makes the whole thing a pain to go through.
Simply just having a nice idea behind your story won't automatically make it good, your playthrough not a bore and your ears not bleed after hearing that kid and the annoying woman talk, it won't elevate everything else that's done bad or mediocre at best.

>>715857384
>millenial

>Cory Barlog Born September 2, 1975

>>715861827
>it's because it's Keanu

wrong

>>715854908 (OP)
The funniest part about this image is that when nu and og Kratos met in the dlc, og was the one calmly silent while nu gave a gay speech.

Nu Kratos isn't "better", he's just a coward.

because it makes for a boring story, and more importantly, a boring game. people want to kill and purge their enemies, not spare them to be a better man. one is cathartic, the other isn't. it's that simple. imagine if in django unchained the dude was told "erm if you kill those white folk you'll be just like them" and he just leaves them be without any bloodshed.

>but uhhh being a better person is the better message!

well it's a boring one. video games aren't an essay they're an entertainment medium.

>>715856069
only on paper was he 8 feet, ingame he was like 6'5

>>715862031
goku actually has sex though

>>715854979
I resent the 7 posts itt about Atreus not being Kratos'. Not because I'm biased and like nu-GoW, but because it's making up canon.

>>715856456
it's a game, it doesn't need to teach anything

>>715861164
Agree on everything minus the gameplay. Ragnarok, for all its faults, it's a clear step up from 2018 in the gameplay aspect.
Aside from the obvious point that they added a new weapon, thus increasing depth, they also added some much needed verticality with the blades, plus the rpg elements actually matter and you can make builds. I cheesed the Muspelhein final challenges on Give Me God of War by going full regen/defense and becoming unkillable.
Shame the story sucked.

>>715854908 (OP)
Because having this kind of character do a 180° so late in his life after being a horrible human again and again just make the whole of his new characterisation in the last two instalments and his preaching feel hollow and hypocritical as fuck.

They should've created a new character, like a greek warrior and his son living in the hellscape he created at the end of GoW3 by killing everyone if they wanted a story about a dad and his son.

>>715854908 (OP)
It's barely about self-improvement since they skipped the part where Kratos actually had to stop being bloodthirsty. They just skipped so far ahead he might as well not be Kratos. After he went through the entire greek pantheon I agree that it would've been boring if he just did the same for another mythology but their approach was poorly done.

Why is nu-Kratos taller??? og Kratos was like 38 years old lol he ain't a lil kid

we have to be better men

>>715857210
Wrong board, chump

>>715856125
one of those scenarios certainly sounds like a more fun video game to play. i can tell you're pretty stupid but i bet you can still figure out which.

>>715856069
To be fair he often seemed smaller since the guys he was going up against were at least a head taller than he was. Presumably for gameplay reasons so that the player can always see the enemy even if Kratos is directly in front of them.

>>715854908 (OP)
Y'all need to be better

i want someone to make a story about God being like "You know what? Maybe humanity was made in my own image, but was that image the right one?" and he just walks towards a sunset with a backpack or some shit with credits rolling.

>>715854908 (OP)
I just think it’s funny how /v/tards invented a headcanon about cuckholding. Really shows you how mentally ill Americans are

>>715864185
Speaking of games that make you feel like a god, I really liked how Okami did it. Really made it feel like Ammy was in tune with nature and everyone in it.

>>715854908 (OP)
I was invested in a hack and slash action series about an angry man going mental and tearing down pantheons and they changed it into a movie game with RPG elements. Why shouldn't I be pissed off?
They changed FF and RE into action games, Call of Duty into Fortnite, removed RPG elements from Fallout, etc, etc.
The list goes on and the series is always worse for it.

>>715864294
because of what kratos said in gow4
>what your mom did before I met her was her business
for a lot of people, this is like when you ask a woman their body count and they get mad

>>715856456
>even TLOU2 teaches a better moral than this game
Let's not start talking crazy here.

why did we get nu-kratos as a boomer but nu-prince of persia as a niglet?

>>715857149
Everything is jews when you need them to be.

>>715857435
they can all be reformed into meat cubes

>>715864953
Do you want mad cow disease? Because that is how you get mad cow disease.

>>715865024
What about soap

>>715865079
lamps are better

>>715854908 (OP)
It's because it's badly written slop that directly disrespects my heritage. I am both Greek and Norwegian. The original trilogy was a fun homage to Greek mythology and a rad action game. The nuGoW is subversive cultural vandalism and a mediocre action game bogged down by retarded walk and talk story faggotry, a bad camera angle and Fromslopified combat [I love From but copying them the way GOW did was fucking retarded]

So in summary
>Kikes
>Dogshit mainstream pandering gameplay

>>715865079
You don't eat soap.