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.

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    David Jaffe is unhappy that his generic revenge puddle of spit character has actually grown in depth and is truly interesting now.

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      1 year ago

      Ehh, h’s not wrong. If this David Jaffe guy is a pro-revenge type, of course he has the right to be unhappy: the writers for the new games blatantly said in interviews they completely changed the story around to oppose revenge, completely against the wishes of this Jaffe fellow apparently. Which is ironically a vengeful act.

      People don’t have the right to just change stories to suit their personal opinions and the new writers need to learn to respect that.

      Lest the writers after that change it back to a pro-revenge story with depth and good writing just to spite them.

      Blatant anti-revenge stories are bland, predictable, preachy and uninteresting.

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        People don’t have the right to just change stories to suit their personal opinions and the new writers need to learn to respect that.

        I think the new writers absolutely do have the right to change the story as they see fit, on account of they’re the writers and David Jaffe isn’t