[quote=@Dynamo Frokane] It implies you don't have an issue with the combat. Which is a more important factor than Kratos.[/quote] You're right, I don't. I'm not going to sit here and say it's on par with a good character action game but it's above any given Musou game and its simplicity doesn't mean a lack of variety, QTE event kills aside since that's more the reward anyway. If that's a defense then so be it, but the problems with God of War isn't in the combat. [quote]Obviously lead characters are important, but we are talking about a borderline retarded nu-metal re-imagining of greek mythology where you gouge eyes as a QTE and hammer the circle button to have a quick orgy. The fact that Kratos is a paper thin, nonsensical psychopath actually fits fairly well. If you're expecting multi-layered characters and complex narratives from fucking [b]God Of War[/b], you're playing it wrong, sir.[/quote] The first God of War was at least consistent with itself and opted for the Greek tragedy route. Kratos at least pretended to have a bit of nuance to him considering the game opens and then wraps around to show why he's trying to kill himself in standard Greek tragedy fashion. There's almost a bit of justification in his actions, selfish as they may be, it's at least easy to justify his murder boner towards Ares given that Ares dicked him over. It's in the sequels where they just decide to forget all about the part where Kratos tried to kill himself because of his actions and the hollowness of his revenge and just cranked him up to 11 and had him just be angry stab man. Then it was made even [i]worse[/i] when after two games of angry stab man being reprehensible they tried to fucking redeem him in the last minutes of the game as if one kind of okay deed somehow absolves him of literally ruining Greece and its pantheon forever. Kratos is the worst video game character. He's the kind of character a teen going through the phase of shitty rebellion thinks is cool except unlike Dante who is in on the joke Kratos is played totally straight and on top of being a murder angry man whose only emotion is yelling, he also can fuck so good that the god of love and pleasure has never had a better lover and the mere act inspires lesbian ravishing from the audience. God of War is a bad franchise not because the combat is a bit on the easy side but because everything about it is so appallingly tone deaf and uninspired. It's telling that one of the more memorable moments, the escape from Hades, is just done again in the third one because that's the level of creativity the games have. God of War is stupid but it doesn't even have the decency to laugh at its own stupidity. Them slowing down the combat and making Kratos a mad dad isn't going to undo things and it's stupid that people are willing to assume that giving him a longer beard and a kid will magically make him a character.