Despite being nominated for numerous awards and even winning Game of the Year in 2018, the creator of God of War, David Jaffe, is not a huge fan of the new direction the series has gone in. Jaffe himself hasn't worked on these new God of War games, but thinks that they're not staying true to the spirit of the character and the franchise. The creator noted that if developers want to pour their life experiences into their work, they should do it with new IPs and characters.

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't have the right to do whatever you want simply because you like it.

Yes... Yes you do? Lmao brother have you experienced any story or art in the last, I dunno, ten thousand years? Everyone is just retelling an existing story with their own little tweak or twist.

Look, it seems like you didn't like the creative direction of the new games, and that's fine. But getting mad at the writers and claiming they didn't have "the right" to write the story as they saw fit (in a brand new series of video games btw, not remakes of the existing ones) is weird.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, you don't.

You can certainly write fanfiction and create fanart all you want to. People have done it for thousands of years. But it'll never be the original story no matter how much you want it to be.

You are not the original creator of the franchise. Grow up and get over it.

Getting mad at me for telling you the truth won't change that fact, and it won't make Jaffe any less correct in his complaint that the writers deliberately destroyed his creation and his original intent. Because they did, and they admitted they did it because they didn't want a pro revenge story in media.

Go look up the interviews with the recent GoW writers. Go actually do some research instead of throwing a temper tantrum here because I won't let you do what you want.

Objective reality is a thing whether you want it to be or not. You don't get to decide what the truth is.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dawg where have I claimed to be an original creator of the franchise? You're being koo koo for cocoa puffs right now lmao. And the writers didn't destroy anything. The original games are still there. If Jaffe wanted the new games to be different, if he wanted to preserve his "original intent", he should have written them himself.

Jaffe writing the original story doesn't give him the power to dictate how new stories based on his work are written, and that's objective reality, not whatever fantasyland you're living in.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When your dumbass looked at me telling you you can't just do whatever you want, and you responded, "Actually yes, I can". Like a fucking child.

When you devolve into insults instead of responding with anything substantive because you know I am right and you are wrong.

And when deep down inside you felt the pit in your heart grow like a fucking maw when confronted with the fact that reality exists independently of your whim and whimsy.

Now you don't get a say in what is canon and what is not. Only original creators can do that. Other people's works are derivatives at best. That's the reality you have to learn to accept because reality won't change simply because you don't like it.

Now when you grow up and actually become an adult, we can continue this conversation. I am not gonna waste any more time arguing with a child.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Lol ohhh I get it. You're projecting 👍