Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games

mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re looking at a mythology game

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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn't mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place...

    Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You'd be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene...

    I guess it's like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?

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    • ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it’s a myth, anything can happen in mythology so a mix of everything are not a bad thing

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      • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair enough! I'm genuinely not trying to be a hater.

        However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don't know.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It takes place in the afterlife of all gods, which is why they’re from various mythologies.

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• berno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yikes... Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon......

    Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I'm disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.

    Gotta say, it's pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for "woke" though.

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    • berno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The same way Ghost of Yotei didn’t sell?

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m with you, and I felt Ragnarok (and to a lesser extent, the original God Of War PS…4?) were also Marvel-style slop. Ragnarok was paaaainful.

      Love hearing SungWon Cho anywhere and everywhere, though.

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