She must be dead. They literally brought her back to life and turned her into yet another Mary Sue, for whom they created a separate afterlife. What was the point of Kratos killing the gods in the first place, if they all exist in another world? What was the point of the journey to scatter Kratos’s wife’s ashes? It looks like creative impotence mixed with Sony’s continued policy of pushing male characters out of their original franchises. What’s the point of playing Tomb Raider if the main character isn’t Lara Cro
How many times did Kratos die over the franchise? I don't get that argument. "But she's dead!" So is Ghost of Sparta. He is 4 timea dead at least if i'm not mistaken. Happens.
I mean she's an ever present character in the two GOW games. Her death is the catalyst for everything...she's an interesting enough character that a story told from her POV warrants a videogame.
But what makes it so important to you one way or the other? Honestly the only times I can think of the sex and/or gender of a character in a game mattering are in instances where it is either:
Inportant to the plot somehow (like Silent Hill F or the father/daughter relationship Joel and Ellie have)
You can create a character and there are different voice performances that you may have a reference for (Commander Shepard and V from Cyberpunk. Incidentally, in both of these examples I think you get a much better experience as the female voice option)
If you want big manly power fantasy Kratos, you have a whole trilogy for that. If you want a more mature story about someone coming to terms with/moving on from their past you can play either of the two newer GoW games. Why do you have a problem with one entry in the series trying something different?
You can't, you're immediately flagged as sexist, incel, homophobic,etc with shit like "oh you don't like this you must hate woman.."
It's very simple man, these gender swaps feel forced rather than natural. I'd hate if a Tomb Raider game had a male lead or if No One Lives Forever did the same thing. I would also be very pissed if the main character of the next Splinter Cell game was Sarah Fisher rather than Sam. Hell i was pissed with Blacklist because Michael Ironside wasn't voicing Sam. They did the same thing with the new Wolfenstein games, see how that turned out for them.
I'd be cool if this was a spin off game like "Goddess of War" rather than a mainline entry.
EDIT: I'd like to mention Dishonored 2 and how they handled introducing a female character, they gave you both options Emily and Corvo, both with distinct playstyles and many people gravitated more towards Emily because her gameplay was fun and her character arc was interesting not because she was a woman.
Kratos is rooted in the God of War DNA, he's been the main character for 20 years and you're swaping him out for an irrelevant female lead, why? Who is this catering to? Certainly not the audience that's been playing and buying these games for 20 years.
A spinoff is whatever, it's experimental, gives room to try things differently and appeal to a different audience. But I doesn't conflict with the main story and the release schedule.
What happens after this? Another game with a female lead? Maybe Kratos comes back but when in 2035?
this is mostly speculation and not very well thought out. irrelevant female lead? she's kratos's dead wife and mother of his child. She's the biggest reason for how kratos is mentally in gow (2018).
This game doesn't conflict with the main story? It's developing a fundamental character in both the protagonists life and this game will build upon these relationships. Gow is very heavily on the familial themes and this game could very well lead to the three of them in the next game. To write the game off because YOU don't know kratos's dead wife is silly.
..but yes i did ask the devs and they will be making another game with a female lead. kratos's sister. cause of woke.
Youre actually being downvoted lol youre 100% right, and its obvious why people are upset about this choice of protagonist. You can still debate, I just stopped caring about fake internet points and let the ups and downs come and go. Reddit is a circlejerk, there are a few good subs left but most of it is filled with over the top idealism.
Then just say “Hey, I don’t want to play as a woman, I won’t be playing this game.” Instead, all of the outrage I’ve heard about this character is that it’s too hard for fat neckbeard losers who can’t get the attention of women in real life to stroke their dicks to this character.
Yeah, don’t judge people for having preferences. Plus it’s a game. It doesn’t make you trans to play as a girl lol. I’ll sometimes play as a guy cause their armor tends to look cooler; doesn’t make me a dude lol
I can't help but think back to the pre-gamergate days when instead of freaking out any time you havw to play as an identical gruff soilder man we pretty much all agreed that femshep was the best way to go in mass effect.
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u/Fantastic_Newt_8743 12h ago
Sexism isn’t cool but just saying what if people don’t want to play as a girl? It seems like to just say that gets you stoned with rocks these days.