3:20:44 ok I did not know that this scene existed, since I remember that instead of a living being, it was a caged Undead and Kratos smiled maliciously
@@Jamushu This. The original God of War story was a Greek tragedy in video game form. Maybe not on the level of something like the Illiad or The Odyssey, and tbf it has it's fairly memed moments ("Ares!!! Zeus!!") but GT storytelling is clearly what it's shooting for. The number of people that are like "dude GOW 2018 is so deep and mature and great storytelling", yet will crap or blindly meme on the old games, says a lot about how pretentious or smooth-brained they are
No, it just means the previous games put gameplay before story. Which is objectively true. And games like that tend to have more simple narratives. It was still deep and impactful, sure. But not complex. That's where the new games differ.
Chains of Olympus really destroys so much of character development of Ascension and it kinda doesn't make much sense why kratos after getting free would go back to helping Olympus
Not really. In Ascension, in the order to keep him loyal even after he had renounced his loyalty to Ares, the Furies trapped Kratos in an illusion and made him forget that he had slaughtered his own wife and daughter. After killing all the Furies including Orkos, the guilt and memories of what he did returned to haunt him. He couldn't even have a good night's sleep, and every moment he was not fighting he remembered what atrocities he committed. In desperation to remove the nightmares haunting him, he turned to the Gods once again, as there was nothing he could do to remove his nightmares. The Gods then made him serve them for 10 years as their lackey to fix whatever mess that they should be fixing instead. Kratos's story is just full of pain and suffering. He had suffered throughout his life on the whims of the Olympus Gods. He had been broken to the point of seeking suicide as an escape, and yet even that sweet release was taken from him. He was instead made immortal to keep reliving his nightmares, and then only to find out the truth about his family, their suffering and the root cause of his nightmares being the Gods themselves. What he had experienced in Ghost of Sparta, GOW1, Chains of Olympus and Ascension ultimately culminated to him being royally pissed off and fed up with the Gods, leading to his rebellion against Olympus in GOW2 and GOW3.
3:20:44 ok I did not know that this scene existed, since I remember that instead of a living being, it was a caged Undead and Kratos smiled maliciously
Hope the next VOD isn't long. Really loved watching her watch the God of war franchise
She's shocked now......wait till she sees the kills in 3....
2:55:23 dream on! dream on! dream on! DREAM ON! DREAM ON! DREAM ON!
3:29:21 *Mega Faceplam* I hope the chat corrects momo
She starts the reaction at 1:02:39
Kratos was always a deep character, everyone saying 2018 was revolutionary was lying or cowards.
Anyone who says Kratos wasn't deep or mature before 2018 did not play a single Game and I will not be convinced otherwise.
@@Jamushu A Kratos.
@@Jamushu This. The original God of War story was a Greek tragedy in video game form. Maybe not on the level of something like the Illiad or The Odyssey, and tbf it has it's fairly memed moments ("Ares!!! Zeus!!") but GT storytelling is clearly what it's shooting for. The number of people that are like "dude GOW 2018 is so deep and mature and great storytelling", yet will crap or blindly meme on the old games, says a lot about how pretentious or smooth-brained they are
No, it just means the previous games put gameplay before story. Which is objectively true. And games like that tend to have more simple narratives. It was still deep and impactful, sure. But not complex. That's where the new games differ.
@@kin4386 .....there is nothing complex about GoW2018 story. Its even simpler than OG GoW.
Chains of Olympus really destroys so much of character development of Ascension and it kinda doesn't make much sense why kratos after getting free would go back to helping Olympus
Not really. In Ascension, in the order to keep him loyal even after he had renounced his loyalty to Ares, the Furies trapped Kratos in an illusion and made him forget that he had slaughtered his own wife and daughter. After killing all the Furies including Orkos, the guilt and memories of what he did returned to haunt him. He couldn't even have a good night's sleep, and every moment he was not fighting he remembered what atrocities he committed. In desperation to remove the nightmares haunting him, he turned to the Gods once again, as there was nothing he could do to remove his nightmares. The Gods then made him serve them for 10 years as their lackey to fix whatever mess that they should be fixing instead.
Kratos's story is just full of pain and suffering. He had suffered throughout his life on the whims of the Olympus Gods. He had been broken to the point of seeking suicide as an escape, and yet even that sweet release was taken from him. He was instead made immortal to keep reliving his nightmares, and then only to find out the truth about his family, their suffering and the root cause of his nightmares being the Gods themselves. What he had experienced in Ghost of Sparta, GOW1, Chains of Olympus and Ascension ultimately culminated to him being royally pissed off and fed up with the Gods, leading to his rebellion against Olympus in GOW2 and GOW3.