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SPOILERS: God of War SPOILER Thread (SPOILER THREAD, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!)
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I failed to realise this until now. There is really soemthing going in this game. The snake is already there from the future and also Atreus knows the legend of Skoll and Hati. they are both the sons of Fenrir who is the son of Loki. I wonder how time paradoxes like these did happen. What if like I said before, the coming of Kratos changed everything, the real Farbauti was going to give birth to Loki who would have kept this name and not having Atreus instead with Spartan rage and Origins. Also Maybe Loki is really a sperate character now that happened in the future timeline from the serpent came, but not just him both Loki, Fnerir and his sons Skoll and Hati came from that timeline too.
Fuck, now I want to play Hellblade.
Question, how enjoyable it is from a gameplay standpoint? Is the experience solely dependent on the story? Is it one of those games where you have to like the story to enjoy the game?
Basically what I'm asking is, is Hellblade a good video game?
Question, how enjoyable it is from a gameplay standpoint? Is the experience solely dependent on the story? Is it one of those games where you have to like the story to enjoy the game?
Basically what I'm asking is, is Hellblade a good video game?
Yeah gameplay wise it's a bit on the shallower side, certainly nowhere near GoW. But it's so good from an audiovisual standpoint and makes really unique use of positional audio + their depiction of the auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia.
I really enjoyed it but the gameplay is probably the weakest aspect. Great story and not too long of a campaign so I think it's worth a playthrough.
Fenrir is also mentioned a couple of times including the magical chains brok and sindri made.
The whole thing is odd, everything seems to have happened while everything still needs to happen.
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Really? Wow. I must have missed that then. Something is really happening in this game. Many surprises await us in order to understand connection of the events that led to this.
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Outside of Baldur and Thor's kids being sent after them by Odin?
I'll agree with locating Thyr.
Going by the Jötnar shrines and other things, we know for sure that Loki's children already exist in the current timeline. The World Serpent is known by others and not just from when he showed up in the Lake of Nine. It makes me think then that Atreus will eventually travel back in time to long before the events of the game. He'll meet Angrboða, have the children, and all the different things involving them would happen. Fenrir will be chained, Hel would rule over Hel, Jörmungandr will be tossed into the ocean, etc. Then all the stories about them will be made, and people will know about them, the giants will make their shrines, and so on and so forth.
I don't think Kratos changed anything up, not exactly. It just so happens that time travel is involved. It's not like Jörmungandr and the others would exist without them, so they're necessary.
Hel isn't accounted for, though, which I'm very curious about.
I don't think Kratos changed anything up, not exactly. It just so happens that time travel is involved. It's not like Jörmungandr and the others would exist without them, so they're necessary.
Hel isn't accounted for, though, which I'm very curious about.
The OST really is amazing. Though, there was one thing that caught my attention on part of The Summit when I think Kratos reveals Atreus is Loki -- the musical note changes into something sinister/corrupt/mysterious exactly like Gollum's theme.
Might just be a coincidence, but with discussions here of a possible split personality, I thought it was interesting to point out. Either way, makes me think Loki will be malevolent or at least ambiguous.
Might just be a coincidence, but with discussions here of a possible split personality, I thought it was interesting to point out. Either way, makes me think Loki will be malevolent or at least ambiguous.
For some reason I feel like Norse will be a duology before they move on. They have three realms left to explore, I feel it would be spread a bit thin over two more games
Nordic, Celtic and Germanic folklore have a lot of overlap.
I think there's a lot of potential still. We visited 4/5 realms in this game but each was scratching the surface. Wouldn't surprise me if we revisited a couple.
Yup. The 2 rooms in the center will spawn some other enemies the chest in the center area will give you anchor of fog which you use to open the rift.
Mimir talks about it at one point but even more crazy is that mimir talks about the giant taking the form of a common builder that promises to build the war for asgard against the giants which ends up in the Freya/Giant marriage story and out of that it spins in to Loki taking the form of a horse to lure away and seduce the giant's super horses so he can't finish his work, that super horse ends up mating with Loki and one of loki's other children is born, the horse with 8 legs and horse of Odin, SLEIPNIR.
Hmmm, what if the Santa monicas interpretation of Loki as being a trickster is split personalities? Even the mythologies he's sometimes good, sometimes bad. The dual nature of the child was a big deal when Freya was talking about it. I have a hard time believing they'd drop it, especially since Cory said they inadvertently wrote some story for god of war 2 already
Agreed. If they were going to replace Kratos, then this game would have been the game to do it. Also the ending of GOW1 makes Kratos out to be the God of Gods, so it fits perfectly that he goes to every culture.
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Finally finished this. What a game. So much to unpack. So Loki is his child..... And he foresaw his death? Why did it look like both of them were getting killed? Looked like Kratos' head was smashed in....
I guess the full canon ending is that Thor pulls up on em
Finally finished this. What a game. So much to unpack. So Loki is his child..... And he foresaw his death? Why did it look like both of them were getting killed? Looked like Kratos' head was smashed in....
I guess the full canon ending is that Thor pulls up on em
Yeah, I believe Arteus will have demons of his own to handle.
Kratos had his constant pain of killing his family and endless rage, while Arteus will be balancing between doing good and evil due to his nature. I definitely do not see him as just "goody two shoes" character.
Absorbing black rune might have something to do with it.
And the horse that we saw Atreus playing with and that comes in the Stone Mason edition has 6 legs and not 8 so we don't know what he is really. Too many confusing things in this game.
I think Vanaheim is huge to explore and constitues the big realm of one of the main warring factions. The next game can focus on it and revisit the previous realms and let us visit the Dwarven realm too. The main focus of the third and last game would be a huge and somptuous Asgard like Olympus in GOW3.
I think that the next game will open up Midgard a lot more because Thor is bringing the fight to Kratos. Also, we will definitely be returning Alfheim to learn more about the conflict between light and dark elves and there is no way were are not fighting that giant eagle in Helheim lol. Going further, we spent like 10 mins in Jotunheim, and that'll be one of the most interesting realms to explore. Asgard/Valhalla can definitely be saved for the third game and done BIG on PS5.
All through the final fight, I was thinking "Does Cory know that in the myths/ Edda, Loki (using Hod) to kill Baldur was the start of events that lead to Ragnarok?" Lo and behold, we come back from Joutenheim and the final winter has started. Brilliant twist for this Norse myth fan :D
According to Norse legends, Giants are made of the mixture of ice, fire and a poisonous substance, which name I've forgotten, and because of that, unlike gods, they are not capable of being "very good" and tend to lean towards being a bit evil sometimes.
Maybe Loki's giant persona plays a factor in him acting arrogantly mid-game? Plus, Kratos has his own "rage" genes to pass too.
Maybe Loki's giant persona plays a factor in him acting arrogantly mid-game? Plus, Kratos has his own "rage" genes to pass too.
I'm certain the other realms will be revisited and expanded upon, but I don't think that's what we'd be returning to Alfheim for. Mimir pretty much covered the entire thing, explaining that it's a pointless conflict where neither side knows why they're even fighting. It's just been going on for generations. What they are most likely going to tackle is the Light Elves themselves and their creepy obsession with Freyr.
As for the giant eagle in Helheim, I doubt we'll fight it either. If the theory in its identity is correct, then it's simply a force of nature that will signal the coming of Ragnarök. Plus, Kratos doesn't go out of his way to kill things now, so I doubt he'd pick a fight with it.
Asgard being saved up for the last game would make sense, especially since they're most likely going to save up Odin for then too. Vanaheim could be explored in the second game already, though. With how things were left with Freya, she's sure to play a much larger role, so Vanaheim might be touched upon quite a bit.
I think it's Atreus holding a dead/wounded Kratos(?). The fact that it doesn't show the tattoo makes me question if it's Kratos but it's most likely him. According to reddit, the runes translate to Betrayal, Death, Father, Disaster.
Fighting Thor in the next game is a given. Maybe in 3 years? (the time in-game is 3 years I think) Going back to your house and sleeping post-game shows Thor, but he isn't as I expected. At first I thought it was Odin. Both not appearing in this game is a bit of a let down, but the game was so frackin' long even without them.
It's enjoyable enough. There's not that much combat. The puzzles are super simple. The audio is probably the highlight but there are some very cool sequences. It focuses on some of the gods / entities not mentioned or focused on in GoW, like Surtr and Valraven (who is not really a Norse thing I think). The Valraven level is incredible-- it's almost survival horror like.
I thought for sure that Sindri was going to be Loki after just casually handing over mistletoe arrows. Nice twist with the ending there. I don't know if there will be a time travel element or if they will just pick a choose what they take from Norse mythology. Maybe in their version these creatures aren't all related to Loki.
I have the opposite feeling. We haven't even scratched the surface here.
Finished this game last night. Absolutely fantastic. The story has far more depth to it than I initially thought. The boss fights were epic, as expected. And the visuals were insane. But in the end, my favorite part of the game has to be when you get the blades. Everything about that sequence was amazing. And with the full backstory of the blades and all, it was so epic. And the way the blades control is perfect, along with implementing all the old moves to this new control setup. I'm beyond impressed with this game.
Kind of disappointed where the game ended. We didn't even visit half of the realms. What's the point of them being there if they aren't even included in the main story. Feels very half baked to me.
Oh yea don't get me wrong, I used the fuck out of that slam attack when I had her in a corner, so much damage when you get all the hits in!
The devs said in play tests people thought it was weird that in dealing with the tree, they couldn't see all the realms, so they included them in the final game, but not as places to visit right now.
Yeah I literally thought the game was half way over when we spread mom's ashes and I see the credits rolling and I was like what the fuck I don't want this to be over.
I thought that he was trying to give Kratos some space and wait until his father wanted to talk to him about it.
Sounds like Eitr, the primordial goop from which all flesh emerged and will eventually decay into. I believe even the Aesir are made of the stuff, so I wonder if it's the fire or ice that makes giants disagreeable.
Jormugandr even put some Eitr in Kratos' axe, for some reason. Maybe it'll come up in the next game.
Yo, join us in the photography thread!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/god-of-war-photography-thread-may-contain-mid-game-spoilers.37208/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/god-of-war-photography-thread-may-contain-mid-game-spoilers.37208/
Are spoiler GIFs allowed in there?
Sigrun getting absolutely axed and chained.
Screenshots only mate. Imagine having heavy screenshots + gifs? Damn..Are spoiler GIFs allowed in there?
Sigrun getting absolutely axed and chained.
