Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[HaughtyFrank]

I hope with the success of Astro Bot Sony realizes that they need to pivot on GoW6, and kill all of Kratos’s new friends. Then turn it back into the outlandish revenge game that the original 3 were. This deep dark drama has gotten tiring after just two of the new ones. Take a page from Space Marine 2.

Why can’t our violent action heroes just be questionable sociopaths again? You can still have side characters chastising them, but let them be for male fantasy purposes.

I don't even mind the turn Kratos took but it bothers me that specifically in Ragnarok he kind of always makes the right or pacifist choice. That's not my guy, my little rage boy who fucked up his life. Should he be wiser? Absolutely, but give me some slip ups where he falls back into his old ways. Like making some character who tried to fuck with him really regret it because they had no clue who they're really dealing with here. 
Overall that's a problem I'm generally starting to see with the recent slate of Sony games. Everything tries to be so mellow, making sure that it remains non offensive. Maybe that's the effect of the high budgets. Can't have anything too crass in your summer blockbuster movies either after all.
Concord was the pure essence of that. All the cutscenes from that game are just soulless character archetypes. Hey that one guy really likes hot sauce, isn't that hilarious and hopefully non offensive?