afgavinstan wrote:What we need is Chalice to use his Special Talent and tell us the real real truth.
Dark Soldier wrote:I think its because we aren't all HYPED OUT THE CUNT like real gamers
Stopharage wrote:I'm reading Gaiman's Norse Mythology in preparation for this. And taking the oldest son out with me tomorrow to beat the shit out of some ghastly creatures. That's Croydon for you.
Stopharage wrote:Pretty decent so far. Just his retelling of the Norse myths. Figured it might fill in a few gaps that I’m not sure Marvel’s Thor has.
Does sound like a more encouraging implementation of the annoying brat archetype than I was imagining tbf. I’m hellishly sensitive to the lazy ‘kid in peril’ angle being shoe-horned in to generate tension in a story. And video games aren’t the most subtle arena for a cleverer implementation of this. Or so I thought.Tempy wrote:monkey wrote:Everyone should have learnt not to trust reviews of big budget games. I’m glad so many haven’t though as you can all be my playtesters. Probably in for a chalice later down the road. When this was revealed (and that was the last time I saw any footage) that kid looked like a huge annoyance. Either they kill him off early (which would be trite as hell, especially for this series) or they don’t. Either solution is bad. Maybe if he’s kidnapped and then Kratos has to do the fighting again, that might be acceptable.
I am sceptical of the 10s, but there have been some more considered reviews. I think Donlan's over at Eurogamer is excellent, although I know he plays poorly over here because his opinions don't track well with the majority.
He points out that the kid is great, the fruit of a dev team that has clearly had kids of a similar age whilst working on the game and that his character works even though the central relationship/story is too well trodden for his tastes.
Here's the quote
Atreus, but beneath the heavy burden of backstory and the hacked-about Hoxton haircut, he has a lot of genuine child to him. I think someone involved in God of War may even have had a kid of their own for a while. Riding on a timber lift, he will bounce up and down on the springy planks filled with aimless energy. He is nervous around his remote father one minute and teasing the next. He pushes things and you fear for him. This glimmer of actual life inside him makes up for so much of the game's trajectory, which spends too long, in amongst the predictably gradual thawing between father and son, on that annoying idea that the best a child can be is a perfected version of the parent - or that, at the very least, they must in some ways be defined by their relationship to the parent's flaws.
FranticPea wrote:It really does sound bloody awful.
Anyone seen it for a good price anywhere?
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