God of War's creator doesn't like the new games.

Despite being nominated for numerous awards and even winning Game of the Year in 2018, the creator of God of War, David Jaffe, is not a huge fan of the new direction the series has gone in. Jaffe himself hasn’t worked on these new God of War games, but thinks that they’re not staying true to the spirit of the character and the franchise. The creator noted that if developers want to pour their life experiences into their work, they should do it with new IPs and characters.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      11 months ago

      David Jaffe is unhappy that his generic revenge puddle of spit character has actually grown in depth and is truly interesting now.

      • Beetschnapps@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        I mean on the one hand you have a story of a father and son grieving over loss while finding themselves…

        And on the other you have Kratos fucking bitches via rhythm-based mini games.

        I really do wonder what he thought was so great about the character before?

        • zalgotextEnglish
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          11 months ago

          People don’t have the right to just change stories to suit their personal opinions and the new writers need to learn to respect that.

          I think the new writers absolutely do have the right to change the story as they see fit, on account of they’re the writers and David Jaffe isn’t

            • zalgotextEnglish
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              11 months ago

              You don’t have the right to do whatever you want simply because you like it.

              Yes… Yes you do? Lmao brother have you experienced any story or art in the last, I dunno, ten thousand years? Everyone is just retelling an existing story with their own little tweak or twist.

              Look, it seems like you didn’t like the creative direction of the new games, and that’s fine. But getting mad at the writers and claiming they didn’t have “the right” to write the story as they saw fit (in a brand new series of video games btw, not remakes of the existing ones) is weird.

                • zalgotextEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  Dawg where have I claimed to be an original creator of the franchise? You’re being koo koo for cocoa puffs right now lmao. And the writers didn’t destroy anything. The original games are still there. If Jaffe wanted the new games to be different, if he wanted to preserve his “original intent”, he should have written them himself.

                  Jaffe writing the original story doesn’t give him the power to dictate how new stories based on his work are written, and that’s objective reality, not whatever fantasyland you’re living in.