God of War: Ragnarok

Looks like God of War (2018) 1.5.

It crazy how little of an upgrade it looks to be compared to the original yeah. We're talking PS4 vs PS5 and it barely looks any different.

did they give a date?

Last one was the best game of that entire generation and it's not particularly close.

If this is even half as good it'll probably be worth buying a PS5 over finally.

Big Phoenix said:

l o l we wuz vikings edition.

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OU Ariakas said:

As bad as this stuff has gotten lately let's just remember that they have not ruined this franchise with dumb shit over something like 6 games now even though their starting premise was the main character being a black skinned Spartan born of Zeus and Callisto.

I cannot bring myself to care about the look of some obscure Norse giant that I had never heard of before today despite being a fan of Norse mythology in general.

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Angrboda being black could be one of the more interesting things about this game, assuming she isnt just black for the sake of being black. I mean, if she is, I couldn't care less. But, they've said this is going to be the end of the Norse section of the God of War games so she could be anything; are Norse Giants related to the Greek Titans? And other Primordial Gods from other Realms? We know in this universe, every pantheon exists.

Are we moving back south after this game?

Will we get to hear Christopher Judge call her "GIRL"?

Will she and Boy give birth to a big wolf and all the other monsters of the world?

Jesus fucking christ you people are exhausting. Literally any character in a video game isn't white and it's a fucking countdown waiting for Phoenix to come bitch about it, regardless of if he's even heard of or cares about the time.

Just a matter of him finding a few minutes in between jerking it to fucking overwatch porn and ragging on e-girls.

ronne said:

Jesus fucking christ you people are exhausting. Literally any character in a video game isn't white and it's a fucking countdown waiting for Phoenix to come bitch about it, regardless of if he's even heard of or cares about the time.

Just a matter of him finding a few minutes in between jerking it to fucking overwatch porn and ragging on e-girls.

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Nah, it more like we get bent when a normally (canonically) white character is changed to a PoC because... reasons.

I think this character, Angrboda, will just explain that this is how she wants to be after traveling around (like Tyr). Given that Loki is as white as any Norse, I find it safe to assume that his mom was also "white", like Kratos. This will be a nothingburger, and I have some faith in Santa Monica is making Angrboda a decent character for the story.

ronne said:

Jesus fucking christ you people are exhausting. Literally any character in a video game isn't white and it's a fucking countdown waiting for Phoenix to come bitch about it, regardless of if he's even heard of or cares about the time.

Just a matter of him finding a few minutes in between jerking it to fucking overwatch porn and ragging on e-girls.

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Lets say we were playing a game about an African or Hindu or Chinese civilization, and one of the gods of their pantheon, who was historically depicted as having qualities of the faith's ethnic background, was turned into a white guy. How long do you think before all of games media was enraged?

Yeah, not long. Don't be mad because some people have a sense of fairness in the application of this new morality. Be angry at the hypocrites who don't and have made a crusade of 'ending white washing', while also cheering the reverse. The thing that annoys me the most is that this is even a thing--I absolutely don't give a shit if some made up figure is black, but I do care about social rules that are unfairly and arbitrarily applied which are clearly meant to demoralize us culturally.

And I don't mean having black figures demoralizes us--I mean us accepting double standards about our own culture representation is demoralizing, because we're made to believe race swapping is the epitome of disrespect for cultural works and then made to politely accept when its done to our cultural works. Whether you realize it or not, that promotes the idea that your culture is less important than others, less worthy of respect (And you can see this throughout the west, with many young people believing the west literally has no culture). Stop believing your culture isn't worth even a forum post, while others are worth entire media campaigns. It is. The West's cultural heritage is rich and deserves equal respect.