David Jaffe calls it pulp and he's correct. He was contrasting pulp with the more literary style of The Last of Us. As another poster mentioned, it's not criticism within this context. It's simply what they were going for with the original trilogy.
And you're completely wrong.
There's a difference between rebelling and calling your father an asshole. Disobeying your parents is a natural process of growing up. Notice I didn't say a thing about Atreus disregarding Kratos' instructions and doing as he pleases? This is normal for a growing boy who is transitioning into adulthood. What isn't normal is insulting his father who was very strict in raising him. Did he even apologize for calling Kratos that?
He didn't know Kratos' past. No one did besides Fey. What Atreus did know is that Kratos could get angry when fighting and he called out Kratos on that because Kratos told him he shouldn't let his emotions control him. Kratos then replied that anger could be a weapon, but only if he harnesses it. Atreus had no idea about what happened until Kratos told him. Not that it matters, because merely knowing Kratos' past wouldn't be grounds to replicate his behavior. Atreus would have needed to see it himself to be greatly influenced by it. If he sees Kratos act with patience on a daily basis, this will influence him far more than hearing that Kratos lost his shit and killed people centuries ago. You can't seriously be arguing that Atreus would imitate old Kratos he's never seen but ignore the influence of current Kratos whom he spends every waking hour with.
This is completely false.
And this was already explored in GOW 2018. We had a whole arc dedicated to Atreus acting like a little turd and losing his mind because he found out he was a god. This part is done. Atreus admitted he wasn't himself and Kratos told him to quit it. Did he somehow regress?
As opposed to you who claims every teenager is disrespectful and entitled? Sure.
Which is exactly the point. He behaves like a modern 21st-century western kid, but he isn't that. He's a kid who was raised by a strict Spartan father and a mother whose society is based on 10th-12th century Scandinavian communities. You telling me to go look at modern kids for reference proves exactly my point. That or you haven't been paying attention.
Proof that GTA's/RDR euphoria animations are actually realistic.
Exactly.
Born in the 80's and yes I would fucking yell to my parents when I was a teen regardless of how they would react ( I have been slapped, yelled, punished) who cares at that age. I am Greek btw.
Title will be 'Son of former God of War - Lame daddy's boy'
nah, play this:
This, they are in world fill with gods and magic and they act like high school kids in modern world.
I loved the old games in the series. The new ones are terrible.
same. lukas did the same thing after both the original star wars trilogy & the original indiana jones: he attempted to take what was classic juvenile pulp adventure & make it more 'realistic'. it was awkward then, & it will always be awkward. for me, there's just too much cognitive dissonance required to make the 'transformation' believable/acceptable...
well, yeah. but it only took raiden one game to do it. atreus is going on 3 now...
Same. I don't get why there's so much love for these. They took away everything that made GoW. Where's the gore?!
I enjoyed 2018, but I was hoping they would greatly expand upon it in the sequel and move back the camera, allow jumping, and aerial combos. But noooooo. It was just more 2018, but worse in every regard.
There was not one moment in the game where he was better than Kratos.
Isn't he talking about visual and gameplay design? You're arguing about character.
yea i hated this section as well, this also applies to spiderman 2
hehe good point. Perhaps it's just a result of modern western cultures that create spoiled liberal californian brats
