Jute88 said:
Happyninja42 said:
Ezekiel said:
They really should have given it a new protagonist. It's the stupidest thing ever, Kratos taking on the Norse gods after he's killed all the Greek ones. I'm so sick of stories going way beyond where they should have ended.
I'm thinking they're going the route of "Kratos will create the Norse pantheon" storyline, given some of the stuff in that gameplay trailer. Odin is the Norse God of War, Thor is his red headed son, who has an affinity for lightning (which the kid demonstrated with his bow), and Odin is a grizzled old dude with a beard, constantly worried about "what is to come next" ie. Ragnarok.
I was about to come in correct you that Tyr is actually the god of war, but after a quick search he seems to share that title with Odin as well. Strange, I always read of him as the god of death. Oh well, being the founding father of Norse gods would be interesting, though it wouldn't fit Odin's backstory.
The search I did shows Tyr as the god of Law/Justice, not War. Granted, I just wiki'd it, so take that accuracy with a grain of salt. xD
Nothing about the God of War franchise sticks traditionally to actual mythology. xD They use it as a broad tapestry to tell whatever story they want. And I'm fine with that, personally I think he's going to found the Norse pantheon. And chronologically it would still fit. He's been alive for centuries (at least) since he ended the Greek pantheon, and now the long term problems of his actions (namely the beginning of Ragnarok), are on the horizon. He wants to try and stop it. So what does he do? He does what Odin loosely does in mythology, and devote his entire being to trying to put people in place to fight it, starting with his "children". Though in this context, they probably won't be his biological children, and simply the "children of his power", as he divests himself of a lot of the power he consumed from the gods and the titans (probably picking up new powers of his own), and gives it to them to start the Norse pantheon.
And honestly? I'm 100% on board with that. The only better scenario for me would be that the pantheon already exists, and are dealing with Ragnarok because of Kratos putting it in motion. But Odin being Odin, he's not going to let a very lethal tool go to waste, so he drafts Kratos to help them undo what he's started. And Kratos, at this point realizing he done goofed big time, agrees, eager to fight for something positive, instead of his own petty revenge at the expense of all creation. So then you could have him fighting along side the Norse pantheon, instead of killing them, trying to thwart the prophecy of Ragnarok.
Either plot, I am 100% down for, from what they've shown, and my own theory, I think it's the former, instead of the latter, which could be awesome in it's own right. I'm definitely intrigued by what I've seen, still a lot of speculation, but I'm cool with it so far, and I'm curious where they will take it.