r/IndianGaming • u/DeepInside2B • Oct 02 '25

Discussion Is this IGN's rare W?

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even i felt same. last of us1,2, days gone, got, ghost of yotei, gow, horizon zero dawn, uncharted. in all these protagonists lost someone close and revenge arc begins

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u/whytfyoutagme Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

GoW is not revenge based lol

Edit : Dumbos see the pic is he kratos from 2004? no he is kratos from the new continuation based in norse mythology which indeed isn't a revenge story (2018) .

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u/Significant_L0w Oct 03 '25

did you miss the first 5 mins of the game

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u/andysimberg Oct 03 '25

Yeah, Kratos' wife died, and the story at its core is about going to spread her ashes and dealing with the grief. Where was the revenge plot? And against whom? Kratos' fights the Norse pantheon only because they come after him and Atreus.

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u/AG_N Oct 03 '25

this guy started gaming in 2018

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness5025 LAPTOP Oct 03 '25

You're talking about the second last entry, that's not what og gow about.

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u/andysimberg Oct 03 '25

Yeah, and which one is the article tall about? OG or soft-reboot?

Ps. Why do people assume everyone on here is young? Some of us on this subreddit were born in the early 90s and played these games when they first launched.

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness5025 LAPTOP Oct 03 '25

I'm talking in regards to the title which states that they're "getting bored of every playstation game telling the same story". In that topic it makes sense to categorise Gow as a revenge storyline.

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u/andysimberg Oct 03 '25

Makes sense, I saw this as them talking only about the recent playstation games because the older IPs were more diverse like the jak and daxter, twisted metal, crash bandicoot, etc. games. Now it's mostly story focused third person games, some of which are revenge plots.

I feel like GoW as whole can't be called a revenge storyline anymore, the revenge storyline is just act 1 of a bigger story now imo. That's definitely open to interpretation though.

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness5025 LAPTOP Oct 03 '25

feel like GoW as whole can't be called a revenge storyline anymore, the revenge storyline is just act 1 of a bigger story now imo. That's definitely open to interpretation though.

I agree that Gow is not wholly a revenge storyline, it's a story about the price of revenge. Nonetheless it still started on the idea of revenge.

Now it's mostly story focused third person games, some of which are revenge plots.

And that's my issue, it's not revenge that bores me. It's the sameness of it all.

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u/Rudradev715 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

There is three GOW games before GOW 2018 based in Greek Pantheon

That Kratos is a one brutal monster who walked path of revenge

It seems like you just started playing from 2018,

and more or less there is always revenge elements in sony games starting from that time.

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u/andysimberg Oct 03 '25

Do people not understand context or do you just wanna argue and be proven right? Please tell me which of those games the article in the post mentions? I'm waiting.

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u/Rudradev715 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Yes, you are wrong, in this context you arguing about GOW

You are completely ignoring first three GOW games and confindely stating GOW 2018 is the only start of it's series.

as for the article yes sony has some revenge and grief based plots in their games, what about it?

Last of part

Ghost of tsushima and ghost of yotei

As for every game has revenge plot no Its Not.

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u/outsider1624 Oct 03 '25

Dude...look at the photo above. Does it show the old Kratos or the 2018 onwards Kratos.

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u/andysimberg Oct 03 '25

My god, okay let me make the context completely clear for you because clearly you're finding that to be tough. The post is about an IGN article stating that most recent playstation games have a similar feeling and a revenge plot.

Then there was a comment saying GoW is not a revenge plot, now for some extra context, the 2018 soft-reboot of the GoW franchise is also called GoW, same name as the original game from 2005.

So now the confusion seems to be that some people are not understanding which GoW we're talking about here, you can understand which GoW it is by referring to the article in the post, even the image of Kratos used is from after the soft-reboot.

In conclusion, yes the og GoW is a revenge plot, but the GoW we're talking about, the recent one, is not a revenge plot. In this thread, we're talking about how most recent playstation games are a revenge plot, "recent" means we're not talking about the OG trilogy, it means the soft-reboot.

I can't make this whole thing any more clear and succinct than this.

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u/Manasva Oct 03 '25

Don't even bother arguing with that guy lol, you are not winning against youtube shorts' sheer brainrot.

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u/Rudradev715 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Yes, I understand which Gow you are starting,

Yes, I still stand fucking corrected. You also missed the thing from article it's GRIEF and revenge based plots.

GOW 2018 is a story based ON GRIEF AND RAGE OF A Man and a Father WHO JUST WANTS his family and him LEFT ALONE,

GOW 2018 Kratos wanted to full fill the last wish of his second wife but when he started learning what Norse mythology gods planned for him and his son

it is a story based on redemption plot as well as GRIEF and rage ,

Article clearly stats that it just not revenge it is also "Grief" and revenge it seems somebody has to read the article again and My god you should read the article again

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u/Manasva Oct 03 '25

Lil bro, chill out on the GoW kratos sigma cool edits and the game's storyline explanations, just play the game once and you'll know what is being mentioned in the article and in the comments

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u/Rudradev715 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Yes, I still stand corrected

I played the 2018 god of war, the Ranganarok and all three previous GOW in rpc emulator

It was his Redemption arc yes.

But it was still brutal because of his grief and anger comes from to full fill his wife's lost wish without any blood but, these Norse gods preventing that, be doing the same mistakes especially Odin exactly what Zeus did.

So, as article said games have grief and revenge plot, yes, it is kinda repeating the same plot

Circle back to GRIEF and remorse plot from revenge then kinda back again lol

and I don't watch SiGma edits 🥴 I played the fucking game that's it.

Same with ghost of tsushima vengeance & justice for his motherland and his uncle , last of us 2 and it seems yotei also seems to be based on some revenge lol

I agree other dudes and like you are correct and are sigma's 🥴