My mom once told me her friend's 10 year old daughter named her cat Kratos because it was her favorite character. (I think this was during the late ps3 era) And then proceeded to ask me if that character was from one of those very violent video games!!
That's the only instance where that opinion can be slightly interesting imo
@Karasu I‘m in total agreement that it’s bewildering people like kratos so much. but at the same time it‘s also kind of inspiring because it shows there’s mystery left in this world
Kratos has a unique(ish) design, I can see why someone (especially a kid) would think the big muscle man with tattoos is super cool.
Plus 2018 Kratos actually shows a little depth and isn't just really angry. He's really angry AND an actively fathering dad. I've gathered from life that a lot of fathers are frequently angry, or people had a dad that was angry from time to time, so people identify with that I guess?
I'm not going to play this at launch, but I'll get around to it eventually. Played 2018 about a year ago and thought it was great, but this new one doesn't look all that much different from a gameplay perspective, and the story was neat I guess, but I wasn't invested enough that I need to know what happens to these characters.
Fingers crossed it's included with PS+ in the next 12-18 months
Oh no… I set myself up for a trust fall by somehow convincing myself that I had paid off a preorder for this a while back in more prosperous times… but it turns out I had misremembered… I just contemplated doing so and didn't actually do it!!
I think I might be able to contribute to driving in another of the final nails into the coffin of Gamesptopotpt by doing some gnarly trade-ins and be able to get it without paying most of the ticket price... but we'll see... Might have to sacrifice some darlings on the fel altar of Gamepsptoptospt tomorrow, but it may be merciful due to some fel trade-in promotions.
hey anyone pick this up? How are you approaching the teenage boy upgrade mechanics? Any tips for son builds/strats?
@yeso played through the first two hours last night. I‘m letting MY son do what HE wants. He’s very independent so far.
I‘ve protected him from the all father, but haven’t been given the opportunity to upgrade his stats yet…
Game looks real nice running on the PS5, that 40FPS/120Hz mode looks real nice on the LG CX OLED.
Omg we're twinzies
@Gaagaagiins 65in twins??
Hell Yeah... what a great display fr
@Gaagaagiins fr fr
It’s made me so picky about displays anymore. I want an OLED montior on my desk so bad. I do not want to spend the $$$ that bad tho.
Made you look. Lol owned
Shouts out to Cho Sung Won
I finished the game yesterday. Most of the side content too, and it took me about 50 hours.
I have mixed, if still mostly positive feelings towards the game.
To sum it up....
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On the pro side, the combat is better than ever. Lots of variety, everything feels more fluid and electric, there's more cohesion between it being a sorta weird hybrid between a 3rd person action game a la Dark Souls where it works best with methodical backs-and-forths between single or low numbers of enemies, and more like the old games like a character action game or even a 3rd person shooter where environmental awareness and gangs of enemies make most sense. The parrying and blocking and dodging all feel great, and the hard fights are exciting.
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On the con side, in a lot of ways, well, narratively and structurally mostly, it does not live up to standard set by the first game. It has a lot of great moments and twists and turns and environments… but there is, I think, definitely a pronounced lower amount of, we could say, elegance and art to how it‘s all put together. The first game had a sense of mystery to it that the second game tried its darnedest to deliver on, and largely the pieces are there but the overall impression is just not as consistently good. Of particular note is how ||wrong|| I was about the game going to be a secret trilogy… the story did pretty >!definitively conclude, for now at least,!< in a way that felt unfulfilling, again, at least in comparison to the expectations I had built up from the strength of the first game in this regard. I guess I would say that this story did not work as a ||duology…|| something more compelling, I think, could have came out of giving the revelations and story developments that did happen more weight and space than they got, and having less rushed feeling pacing. Especially the ending… like, it’s not bad, it all makes sense, but I wanted more and it pretty clearly communicates that it doesn't have more to give (or if it did, it was compromised in the midst of development).
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My pithy ACTION BUTTON ENTERTAINMENT style way of putting it is that, it‘s not better than the first game even when it is a better videogame. It has the now perhaps hard to ignore or mistake signs of a huge game, too big to fail, that also had the misfortune of being developed during the pandemic, perhaps also at the same time it first was poised to be a console mover for the PS5, but then retroactively had to act as a bridge between console generations too. That’s just speculation but it's hard to ignore the feeling that something more artful was intended here that was squeezed and stretched and repurposed.
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However, all of that is totally moot because at the very end of the game >!you can get Kratos to pet the giant doggy's face right where I wanted to pet the giant doggy, therefore, instant GOTY 2022!<