>>719943753
Well, the nuKratos games are a rough 180 from their predecessors on every level. You had a cruel and constantly angry guy who destroyed greece with his bare hands in the name of revenge, with linear gameplay and edgycool moments.
Now you have old kratos, a guy who is filled with guilt about his past, raises a kid, and thinks twice before killing his enemies(but does the same destructive shit as in the original trilogy). Old gow games worked because they were short, direct and fun. Nu gow games became tedious and convoluted, something that alienated the old gow audience
>Better man meme
It actually started from its soidevs. There are some dev interviews which said that with nugow they wanted to follow a more "mature" line of work, because they have grown older and have families now. They wanted the soccermom's respect. They barely want to associate with the edgy kratos.
All that passive aggressiveness towards the old gow and kratos persona can be seen clearly in nuGow games, so some soitubers/soijournos made essays in which they celebrate Kratos lower levels of testosterone, and then pretty much used him as a means to dunk on "toxic incel gamers" that dared to question their moral authority.
Also new gow looks like a soijack, so his image was perfect for old gow fans to make memes out it and shit on those "reborn" cuckhold devs and on those journos/soitubers