The Model Gamer

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@LE0NKISSER Probably not Hunk, but Rodrigo in a protective suit. I'm sure it'll make sense when we actually play through that part.

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@GeraltofGoonia Looks right. It's only a few months after Raccoon City, so she shouldn't change all THAT much, but...clearly this is when she's captured in Umbrella's Paris facility, so she was just involved in an explosion, gunfire, running, AND she's pissed.

[The Model Gamer @TheModelGamerYT]

@MelodyCrystel But the original GoW is all about killing THE GoW. After that, Kratos BECOMES the GoW, so all future titles still fit. Because they're all about KRATOS, who IS the GoW.

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@o_akinfenwa @xDreammxyx to GoW. They changed whoever the original character was to Faye, kept Frank, and moved the plot from whatever it was before to traversing the afterlife.

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@o_akinfenwa @xDreammxyx Who is to say this was always MEANT to be Faye? I mean, the cube is named Frank and looks VERY out of place. This could have been pitched as a fresh game that would have been its own thing, but Sony got cold feet and, rather than lose all the effort, they pivoted it (cont)

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@SmashJT I find it funny how he claims it's a small crowd that'll never know/care about their name, yet he's sure crashing out over their post...

The lefty lunatics, they're all the same: always projecting.

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@OsheaJacksonJr this comparison as a gotcha don't get, because they never called this Tomb Raider. It wasn't Tomb Raider: Nate. Because everyone knows, if you're calling a game "Tomb Raider" and it DOESN'T have you playing as Lara Croft, it's an attempt to use a name for a cash grab.

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@OsheaJacksonJr It is and it isn't. It is insofar as you're playing as a gun slinging archeologist type going through massive ruins searching for some kind of treasure, usually one that could destroy the world in the wrong hands.

But it's not, and this is what people trying to use (cont)

[The Model Gamer @TheModelGamerYT]

@OsheaJacksonJr No. Because Nathan Drake was never REPLACING Lara Croft. The idea may be SIMILAR, but Uncharted was always its own franchise. They didn't try and say this is "Tomb Raider: Nathan" or something. They KNOW Tomb Raider = Lara Croft. You can't change that fact or it's not Tomb Raider

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@xDreammxyx is a DEAD giveaway this wasn't originally intended to be a GoW title and someone just decided to co-opt it for their own selfish reasons.

[The Model Gamer @TheModelGamerYT]

@xDreammxyx and think the fans will accept it.

It feels like this was meant to just be "Laufey" or some independent new IP, but they felt like nobody would buy that, so they slapped the GoW name onto it, hoping for sales. The fact that the companion is a random cube named Frank (cont)

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@MeowyWood Take Faye out of it for a moment. Your companion character isn't some Norse figure, not a child, not a friend...it's a glowing cube with the dumbest name ever: Frank.

That right there is more than enough reason to say this isn't a GoW game.

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@TheKingerdYT a franchise. But it is NOT a God of War game. Because God of War means Kratos. Kratos IS the God of War. Calling this game God of War is the same as calling a game where you play as Tails Sonic the Hedgehog.

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@TheKingerdYT game where Mario is only in it for the first 2 minutes, then the rest of the time you're Toad, but it was still called Super Mario, would you be upset?

What has people upset ISN'T playing as a woman. This could be an amazing game, maybe a fresh new IP to kickstart (cont)

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@Critical_Scribe Eventually, they fell in love because they completed each other: he was the strong companion she had been searching for since the fall of Jotunheim, and she was the calming spirit for the rage inside him.

But I forget. Context and subtlety is too much for some people.

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@Critical_Scribe I like to think when Faye found him, he was nearly dead. He had just stabbed himself to release hope to the Greeks and had a HUGE GAPING WOUND in him. Likely due to his remaining god powers, he didn't die. Faye healed him and, in return, he helped her in her life. (Cont)

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@CyberBaiAI I'll summarize the problem like this. If you had a game called Sonic the Hedgehog but you only ever play as Tails, you'd say it's not a Sonic the Hedgehog game. If you had a Super Mario game where you never even SEE Mario, you'd say it's not a Super Mario game. That's the issue.

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@OsheaJacksonJr Thanks for proving the point.

Uncharted was its own series. They didn't call it Tomb Raider and try to replace Lara with Nate. If they had, I'd guarantee the outrage would be EXACTLY the same.