“The nature of a thing is more important than the form of a thing.” I’m probably watching AEW/NJPW, reading Invincible, or playing Marvel Rivals #CowboyShit
DeVonta Smith and A.J. Brown's stats through 4 seasons of playoff games?
DeVonta Smith:
47 receptions
605 yards
2 touchdowns
A.J. Brown:
28 receptions
334 yards
3 touchdowns
When it mattered most, DeVonta Smith was always WR1.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Dave Meltzer has rated Will Ospreay vs Mark Davis from Dynamite... FIVE AND THREE QUARTER STARS.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐¾
55th 5-star match for Ospreay.
3rd 5-star match for Davis.
NOT A TYPO, UNLESS DAVE CORRECTS IT. 😭
The man in that clip killed his own wife and daughter with his bare hands. He didn't mean to. A god tricked him into it, and the ash from their bodies turned his skin ghost white. So when Kratos says "do not mistake my silence for lack of grief," he means every word.
And the quiet everyone is praising was a deliberate choice. For three games straight, this video game character was a screaming wreck who tore gods apart for revenge. Then in 2018 the studio threw all of that out. The director, Cory Barlog, had just become a dad himself, and he rebuilt Kratos into a closed-off father trying not to fail the new family he has left. Barlog has said the restraint was the entire point. Anger came easy. Holding it back was the hard part, and his own team kept telling him no, almost up to release.
The line lands in a brutal moment. His second wife has just died, and his young son, still raw, accuses him of not caring. Kratos is carrying her body to the funeral fire when he says it. And he has done this before, in the worst way there is, because the first wife and daughter, the ones he killed himself, are still buried under everything he does.
The studio backed that silence with a film trick almost no game tries. The whole thing plays out in one unbroken shot. The camera never cuts away, not once, from the title screen to the credits, across more than twenty hours. So when Kratos goes quiet, the camera has nowhere to cut. It is stuck in the silence with you.
Even the casting served it. Christopher Judge, the actor a lot of people know from Stargate, got the role partly because he was big enough for the motion capture, the gear that copies an actor's real movements onto the character. What actually sealed it was smaller: how well he clicked with the kid playing his son.
The gamble paid off. A new version of the series that longtime fans were ready to hate won Game of the Year in 2018, beating Red Dead Redemption 2 and Spider-Man, and it has sold more than 23 million copies. Judge took the best acting award for the sequel, which became the fastest game Sony has ever sold on its own.
So one short line ends up carrying a lot: a man who killed his first family and then lost his second, and a whole studio that bet everything on making him stop shouting and sit with the pain. People feel that weight, even when they can't say why.
A shot that literally every single person who ever picks up a basketball DREAMS of hitting, you mean? It’s quite literally the definition of a LEGACY defining shot
In the Kenobi novel, after being warned that prolonged exposure to the twin suns of Tatooine causes rapid aging, Obi-Wan begins standing in the sun with his hood off.
Aging was his disguise.
The fact that one of the few if not the only scene where Kratos cries is when he is presented with the possibility that maybe he CAN attain the redemption he thought he never deserved.
you can gauge how invested someone is in gow by their take on ragnarok’s story. Its such a full circle thematic payoff to kratos’ journey. The way he allows himself to heal & realises he can become a god worthy of admiration. It maybe rushed in some parts but it’s Top 3 for me
I have played some bad games, and this is one of them
Beyond frustrating/mediocre story with awful writing, very frustrating and tedious side, almost ZERO post game content