right because the game where you play as the chalk white son of Zeus fighting mythic beasts & the dirt spectrum post-apocalypse grim & grit simulator are shooting for the exact same tone & level of self-import
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Replying to @saintwalker98
Have you read about what Kratos does to Posiedon's sex slave?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @saintwalker98
those games are just nasty. i stopped playing the first one after he used a woman to stop a crank wheel from turning so he could solve a puzzle
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Replying to @Plutoburns @saintwalker98
That's what I'm referring to. I remember people saying "that was disturbing" but not "this game is sending the Wrong Message for Our Times, why didn't the protagonist go to therapy, boycott this game and if you like it you're trash"
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But that specific thing is SO MUCH MORE disturbing than ANYTHING I've heard described by Naughty Dog or anyone. Comparing that to shooting people who have friends or their (combat optimized guard) dogs is just... I cannot not see a double standard
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
again it's not a double standard it's a change of tone, GoW1 is all about how Kratos sucks & we shouldn't emulate him & it was good (they said) GoW 2-3 were about how awesome gore & tits are and they absolutely got a bad case of "problematic"
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @BootlegGirl
and then God of War was about how kratos is trying to be a good dad but still manages to kill ANOTHER mythology
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Side note: that was one thing that did bug me on that game. For all that it did to rehabilitate Kratos he never actually addressed how shit he was in GoW1-3.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @Plutoburns and
"Did you only kill bad people?" "...yes." *flash to pushing a naked woman to her death to jam up some gears*
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @Plutoburns and
At one point Kratos does say "I killed many who were deserving, and many who were not." But that's about it.
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Kratos deals with his past by just running away from it, and it actually mostly works as a way to escape accountability even if he's still sad about it, and that's unfortunately pretty realistic
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