Shocked the GoW and Twisted Metal guy is a manchild. Loved those series but glad video game narrative is slowly evolving past that.
we need at least one more good twisted metal before the industry is allowed to move on.
We need a norse GoW style reboot of it because that would be an insane trainwreck, so perfect
I genuinely enjoyed the Twisted Metal tv series, so I won’t complain too loudly.
There’s definitely still a place for man-child gamelets full of exploding corpses and blood-drenched screens. But when your franchise is 20 years old, your target audience isn’t going to be horny teenagers anymore.
His problem is that he’s also an old dude. He doesn’t know how to make a game that appeals to a bunch of horny teenagers anymore, because he still conceives of “horny teenager” through the '90s/'00s era lens and not the '10s/'20s revival. Jaffe will never make the Vaporwave Transfem-Catgirl FALGSC climate apocolypse game that the modern generation craves. So he either has to mint off the Millennial Greek Classic nerds who all grew up and turned into family guys or retire to his mansion in SoCal and give up on releasing another platinum title.
How could he stay young and mad and foolish forever. He beat to death every living thing he could find in Greece, he killed everybody who ever wronged him, the people he loved, and everybody in between. He killed everybody and then he killed himself. How could he not be tired?
But yeah lol decades later Kratos should still be a Monster guzzling snapback wearing dudebro and just uhhhh beat his wife and child for minor annoyances and punch Baldur into space the first time he was insulted by him and then run in a straight line to Valhalla killing everything he sees because he doesn’t want to look like a pussy in front of Atreus who is now named Kratos Jr. because Kratos is too manly for sentimental shit like honoring another Spartan and using his name
There is the direction of being a cold and bitter old man who doesn’t have the youthful murder zeal but still is basically devoid of remorse and human empathy. I don’t think it’s as interesting as what they did with it, but it’s a viable direction, basically transitioning from being a God of War to what he really was anyway, a God of Death.
“I’m going to become the God of War.”
Well, Kratos is still relevant, unlike David Jaffe
