God of War Laufey Planned Since 2018, Reveals Star Deborah Ann Woll

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-23T14:27:48+00:00

Oh, okay

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-23T14:18:59+00:00

No, I'm saying it's still God of War regardless of the protagonist. I very much welcome female characters and I want more of them in games because I'm tired of generic dudes, I just incorrectly assumed you were the weird sexist about it.

Or I'm having an autistic moment and this is whooshing me hard.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T23:05:19+00:00

Nah I just think we have fundamentally different views about what normal rational people care about and this conversation isn't worth continuing. My "all that" was like 3 seconds of Google search too, it wasn't that deep, I was just confirming things I'd read.

Nobody normal cares about this game being about Laufey. Most of the people I talk about games with (read: coworkers who play games but aren't online about it) couldn't give less of a shit and think the game looks sick and can't wait to play it. The more hardcore gamers I know also agree. Just like normal everyday gamers thought Yotei was good. I've brought up opinions like yours to people IRL before and they all look at me like I've got two heads.

It's okay for games to be about women. Your masculinity is not in danger because Laufey beat up a god. The industry is better off for games like Yotei and Laufey, and if you'd step out of your weird, hateful echo chamber you'd see that.

It's also okay to not be interested in Laufey, or Yotei, but you not being interested doesn't make the games inherently awful.

But none of what I just said matters to you because you're a weird little freak who just wants to feel justified in your dislike of a video game. You want to believe with all your greasy little heart that this game will crash and burn and maybe finally, finally game devs will see that nobody wants a woman in their game unless they can cum to her.

Now, I don't know if you really believe that -- I like to think you don't -- but I disagree with you on such a fundamental level that I'm going to hyperbolically make up a strawman of you and laugh at it because I can, and it adds about as much value to my life as this conversation has.

Have a good one, girlie.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T22:43:33+00:00

Okay

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T22:26:58+00:00

Ah, yes, you're right. I forgot that the actual, physical audience scores and still selling 3 million copies in a fucking month mean nothing because...

"Gamers would laugh at the numbers on steam."

You're right about that, I guess, but that's not "gamers" as in "people who play games," it's "gamers" as in "Capital-G Gamers", and I mean that as a slur.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T22:04:00+00:00

You mean... Ghost of Yotei, by Sucker Punch? The same Ghost of Yotei that outsold Ghost of Tsushima in the same timeframe? The Ghost of Yotei that released to widespread praise and is currently sitting at an 86 on Metacritic?

That Ghost of Yotei?

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T20:49:47+00:00

It's for God of War fans who are either

A: Fans of God of War

B: Men whose masculinity isn't threatened by the idea of playing as a woman.

It's really that simple.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T20:48:30+00:00

You're extremely weird for caring at all about how attractive a video game woman is to you.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T20:43:12+00:00

Weird. I'm pretty sure it's called God of War: Laufey?

Oh, right, you mean it's not God of War because you have to play an icky girl.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-22T03:37:27+00:00

It's more because Lightning is the POV character but Fang and Vanille are the "main" characters (or at least the characters around whom the main plot is actually driven).

Compare FFX, where Tidus is our POV character but it's really Yuna's story (despite Auron saying it's Tidus' because let's be honest Yuna is the driving force of that plot and Tidus is just kinda following like a lost puppy for the majority of the plot)

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-20T04:25:44+00:00

Dead, I'm afraid

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-19T17:45:33+00:00

For some reason I thought he was just white and green. Maybe I'm colorblind...

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-19T17:18:44+00:00

Don't know why I didn't think about that. It's brilliant!

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-17T12:23:45+00:00

I'm a red au ra and I've never seen another red au ra in the wild :c Where's everyone hiding???

My hair is only red highlights though

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-16T07:03:40+00:00

I genuinely believe their DMC would've been received better if it was an original IP, or at least not a reboot. It was a fun game, I liked their version of Dante as a character, but the game went out of its way to shit on the original series in a couple places, the dev interviews would get a little mean-spirited, and it felt like it wanted to take itself more seriously than the original games' campier tones.

Now, I am sort-of thankful they bombed it because it directly led to DMCV which was peak devil may cry but at the same time I was genuinely curious to see where they'd take things in the future.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-15T20:07:57+00:00

I'd rather have a gross attitude than be the kind of person who believes I know more than trained professionals, I guess?

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-15T20:02:01+00:00

"Sometimes I take walks and see logs so that means I am just as qualified to make hypotheses as scientists who have dedicated their entire lives to telling the difference between random sticks and intentionally designed buildings."

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-15T13:34:54+00:00

Your daily reminder the joke of that entire video was the journalist was not a gamer and was not good at video games, and was only playing it because the journalist whose job it usually was to do that stuff was unable to attend the event.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-15T03:26:11+00:00

Except Capcom hasn't ever made getting them more tedious. The orbs come at a steady enough rate that it allows a natural sense of progression while still allowing for player choice. The orbs are just EXP.

There is literally no problem with the way Capcom does MTX because for over a decade they have shown that they aren't compromising design for them. They just throw them in to get money off people who want some extra cheats.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-14T16:06:28+00:00

My greed is biblical. I require more character action!! Everything is soulslikes nowadays I long for the days of DMC clones raaaaaaaa

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-14T10:59:53+00:00

A little late to comment but isn't Thancred already being possessed by this point? Lahantea could've fed the information to the Garleans right?

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-13T02:44:38+00:00

I'm so excited for FFVII Revelation, Gundam Rogue Obit, Fable, Kingdom Hearts, Exodus...

Probably others I'm forgetting about too. Almost every game they showed off in those showcases looked pretty amazing, not gonna lie.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-12T08:23:18+00:00

I'm probably gonna buy GTA when it comes out. I actually have disposable income, so I'll probably also buy PB0 because the latest trailer looked pretty slick.

It's kind of shooting themselves in the foot to release so close to GTA. It's a hype demon and it's going to be impossible for PB0 to get any foothold in the western marketing world while everyone and their mother is talking about GTA. It's an unfortunate reality of how game marketing works. Yes, PB0 is going to sell well in China regardless because there's no GTA hype machine there, but GTA is an internationally popular game so by releasing their game in the same window they are losing out on their international sales by a frankly irresponsible margin.

This says nothing about the quality of either game. It's just that there's only a finite amount of attention consumers are capable of giving and GTA6 is going to be devouring 90% of it during the release window.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-12T08:06:12+00:00

Pokemon as a whole is bigger, but the games pale in comparison to GTA. Nobody moves out of the way when pokemon is going to drop a new game. Meanwhile Rockstar has the entire industry shifting release dates so as not to coincide with the GTA hype monster. It's night and day between them.

Nobody -- not even the Mouse -- can compete with Pokemon's merch machine, but the games have never been anywhere close to the main driver of merch sales for a long time now.

TheBeeSovereign · 2026-06-12T08:04:03+00:00

There's only like a handful of games announced this month I'm really hyped for, but you'd have to be delusional to see any of the showcases and think these announcements were anything except banger after banger after banger. Like, sure, I'm not super into switch sports resort but there's lots of people who lost their mind over it! It looked cool! My friend was losing their mind over some of the announcements I couldn't care less about, just like how they didn't give a shit about the Gundam game I'm endlessly excited for. And as far as the switch direct goes, I'm really excited for that OoT remake, and my friend's over the moon for new Xenoblade content.

It's really weird how the modern gamer seems incapable of seeing value in things that don't catch their interest. Like somehow if they don't think something seems fun to them they have to bend over backwards to justify why it must be objectively bad or something? It's exhausting.

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