Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoPeople don’t have the right to just change stories to suit their personal opinions and the new writers need to learn to respect that.
I think the new writers absolutely do have the right to change the story as they see fit, on account of they’re the writers and David Jaffe isn’t
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They don’t, because they’re not the original writers and stories are art, not corporate marketing products.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes… Yes you do? Lmao brother have you experienced any story or art in the last, I dunno, ten thousand years? Everyone is just retelling an existing story with their own little tweak or twist.
Look, it seems like you didn’t like the creative direction of the new games, and that’s fine. But getting mad at the writers and claiming they didn’t have “the right” to write the story as they saw fit (in a brand new series of video games btw, not remakes of the existing ones) is weird.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, you don’t.
You can certainly write fanfiction and create fanart all you want to. People have done it for thousands of years. But it’ll never be the original story no matter how much you want it to be.
You are not the original creator of the franchise. Grow up and get over it.
Getting mad at me for telling you the truth won’t change that fact, and it won’t make Jaffe any less correct in his complaint that the writers deliberately destroyed his creation and his original intent. Because they did, and they admitted they did it because they didn’t want a pro revenge story in media.
Go look up the interviews with the recent GoW writers. Go actually do some research instead of throwing a temper tantrum here because I won’t let you do what you want.
Objective reality is a thing whether you want it to be or not.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Dawg where have I claimed to be an original creator of the franchise? You’re being koo koo for cocoa puffs right now lmao. And the writers didn’t destroy anything. The original games are still there. If Jaffe wanted the new games to be different, if he wanted to preserve his “original intent”, he should have written them himself.
Jaffe writing the original story doesn’t give him the power to dictate how new stories based on his work are written, and that’s objective reality, not whatever fantasyland you’re living in.