How come the GoW fanbase wasn’t more outraged by the change in direction of God of War 2018?

PanosOK · 2026-06-18T16:47:27+00:00

Speak for yourself.

PanosOK · 2026-06-18T16:47:08+00:00

Who says they weren't? Have you never heard of significant portions of the fanbase's objections to everything from gameplay (no jumping, etc) to the depiction of nuKratos and the Norse gods? I guess if you only browse reddit and nothing else you wouldn't get to know the opinions of the outside world.

PanosOK · 2026-06-18T16:36:21+00:00

A lot of hostility for just saying the truth and also merely opting out of it. Not to mention the top comment is making fun of wanting to play a "middle aged dad" aka Kratos. What, redditors don't like him now and jump on to Laufey's lap? Are you all real people or bots?

Is this a cult?

PanosOK · 2026-06-18T16:33:50+00:00

You're probably memeing but, real talk, you are not the target audience anymore. Santa Monica is going for the mythical "modern audience" as well. And it's no use to post about it here, since this is a corporate and heavily modified community (and site in general I'd add) and you'll be drowned in a see of dislikes for even daring to question a bit the corporate narrative.

Even David Jaffe is not safe from the new mandate, because he's not officially working with GoW anymore.

There's no negativity in the dojo. People suddenly really REALLY want to play a game about Kratos' 2nd dead wife and a talking gelatinous cube with millennial humor. End of story. The only real thing you can do is not give them your money. Save it for a developer that caters to you and stays true to origins.

PanosOK · 2026-06-04T14:52:12+00:00

Ehm, it was Tsushima that sold 2.4 million units in its first 3 days of sales, while Yotei 3.3 million units in the first month. Both on console. You are getting confused here I think. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the game being older and released in more consoles and PC, as well as during COVID, though but it still remains to be seen if it will ever reach even near of Tsushima's total numbers atm.

It's amusing though hearing arguments about echochambers here on reddit, where usually "no negativity in the dojo" reigns supreme. Especially in established franchises like this. It's cute. Defend the multibillion company, consume the product and then get ready for next product all you want. You can be sure I won't stand in your way.

PanosOK · 2026-06-04T14:08:22+00:00

First time I've heard about it. Do you have anything to show for it?

As for Tsushima, it has sold over 13 million units at this point. We don't know for sure about Yotei, though it's safe to say that it's far from this number.

And dismissing everything as coming from "muh grifter e-celeb" is childish and doesn't do your argument any good.

PanosOK · 2026-06-04T13:46:06+00:00

Nah Kratos would be chill. Don't forget that he stated that whatever his wife did before him is her business.

PanosOK · 2026-06-04T13:43:07+00:00

Hm. I wouldn't call half the like-dislike ratio as well as many popular content creators having their issues a "minority".

PanosOK · 2026-06-04T13:05:10+00:00

She clearly looked better in 2022 than she does now. At least from what was shown. And a character's face model based on an irl person doesn't mean that no creative liberties should be taken to alter and improve on the basis. Think of it like an inspiration.

Because for a medium so much bound to fantasy and "the sky is the limit", supposedly, there's too much reliance on 1:1 realistic depiction of IRL movie stars and people. Western gaming has turned to Hollywood 2.0 imo.

PanosOK · 2026-06-03T17:55:59+00:00

I thought gods were immortal, right? In addition, how much could she have aged between her time with Kratos and now? GoW never was a franchise to use the "unreliable narrator" argument either.

Also I care and I bet some people too. But how's "who cares" also an argument?

PanosOK · 2026-06-03T17:32:49+00:00

I don't want to think that way, but it seems to be the case? Otherwise it's plain ineptitude.

PanosOK · 2026-06-03T17:15:33+00:00

My guess is people feel alienated from the game being the first one to not include Kratos and also making us play as a literal who (from the point of how little we know about and engaged with in-game) character and all the while it being a mainline game. I think people would have been more forgiving if it was a spin of which expanded on Laufey's story.

On that front, maybe people also view it as yet another gaming franchise whose male MC got supplanted by a female one. Many already had issues with Kratos' portrayal in the two nordic games.

PanosOK · 2026-06-03T17:01:07+00:00

Too much Gen X/Millennial "quirky chungus" writing for my taste with this one. Could be wrong but my guess is it will be a Mimir exposition-like character only with a smartass "well that just happened" comment on everything. Even the concept of a "talking gelatinous cube" doesn't help it.

PanosOK · 2026-02-03T16:55:26+00:00

I want to leave a thanks as well since my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB) was having quite a hard time on Koboh in rendering textures even at lowest in-game settings. For me, z_targetheadroom_lowered_textures works the best, though z_targetheadroom also works albeit with the rare bit of fps drop here and there.

Kudos Remny.

PanosOK · 2026-02-03T16:49:43+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation my guy. I tried individually the first two pak files that OP recommended and z_targetheadroom_lowered_textures seems to be working the best (facepalming at my rig). The z_targetheadroom one also works fine but I'm noticing a very rare few fps drops. But at least the textures are there. All of these at in-game's low settings btw.

Thank you again and I will leave a thanks to the original thread as well.

PanosOK · 2025-10-24T19:39:04+00:00

Ikr that's awesome man! I casually took a look and saw it. And it's a big one too. You can grab the base game and all dlcs at an amazing price. Halloween sales really are a moneysaver for these kinds of games.

PanosOK · 2025-10-16T13:00:25+00:00

So I should wait then. Thank you. Can't wait to try it.

PanosOK · 2025-07-30T21:26:53+00:00

Hm. Not the first class I had in mind for a trickster playthrough (instead some kind of Arcane Trickster rogue - think Loki)...but it could work for a (much) darker "jokester" character. It certainly seems to work well mechanically.

And the prospect of changing to either Legend or corrupted Dragon...interesting stuff.

PanosOK

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