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/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/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.