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I'mma just start off the thread saying this:
We done ****** up. BIG TIME.
Recently we went with the upgrades of Athena and PoH Kratos to grant them Tier 1. And in that pursuit, we axed out the thing that made Kratos Kratos. His Conceptual Invulnerability. That too without even making another proper CRT to do so, but ultimately that does not matter anymore. We jumped the gun assuming that it had something to do with Tier and physical durability. We of course, found out eventually, that we were horribly wrong, upon going into it further.
So, when Fear Zeus whacks Kratos, Kratos is forced into the remnants of his consciousness (Which basically means nothing because Zeus nuked his soul without which in GoW you effectively cease to exist and there would be nothing to bring back), but the thing is, he would've never outmuscled him with sheer force alone. That entire segment of Kratos having to get to the box in his inner mind, to free himself from the effects of the Great Evils, forgive himself for his sins, overcome his guilt and confront his Demons to lay them to rest and as a result, unleash Hope within him to come back to life, soul restored and all, and then overcome Fear, is the sole determining factor of what GoW3's ending is all about.
It's about Hope overcoming Fear, as Athena herself blatantly puts it, unlike us taking it like Raiden vs Armstrong. This had become far greater than Kratos and Zeus themselves. The purpose of that fight wasn't physical anymore, but rather it was a conceptual battle, between Fear and Hope, where Hope was laughably superior, where Kratos finally attains the power to forgive himself and achieve the one true feeling of expectation that he would see this through, as well as overcoming Fear itself as an idea.
Hell, even Stig Asmussen himself, the director of GoW3, confirms this notion, even going out of his way to establish that Kratos blatantly gained immunity to the evils and their energies and their ability to affect the course of reality the way they did, and that Kratos had to overcome his guilt to obtain Hope to repel Zeus. Actual physical strength was never a factor here.
Another reason is that Zeus himself was never able to make physical contact with Kratos himself, another thing we jumped on. Zeus literally tried to do the same shit he did with Kratos prior, to put Fear into him and destroy him like before, but this time, he never gets to touch Kratos himself, and his efforts are completely nulled by Hope actively protecting Kratos instead, repelling all of Zeus' attacks in the process. This was effectively Fear vs Hope at this point.
Hence, Kratos' Conceptual Invulnerability would irrevocably be restored as a result of the above facts to the old justification plus what Stig himself said. And his Empathic Resistance gets turned to Immunity. Remind me never to wank at the cost of butchering the character ever again.
AND NO, THIS WON'T GET RID OF THE TIER 1 RATINGS. AT ALL. SUFFER.
Agree: 23 - Marvel_Champion_07, Planck69, Emirp sumitpo, KingTempest, LordGriffin1000, Elizhaa, Maverick_Zero_X, Georredannea15, BlastX, Quintessence_PE, Eseseso, RaveeCPN, LuffyRuffy46307, Ped2018, Hasty12345, The_Axiom_of_Virgo, AnimesFreak2, Fixxed, Diamentus, Quantu, BEASTHEART880, omegabronic, Roirr,
Disagree: 1 - LephyrTheRevanchist,
Neutral:
We done ****** up. BIG TIME.
Recently we went with the upgrades of Athena and PoH Kratos to grant them Tier 1. And in that pursuit, we axed out the thing that made Kratos Kratos. His Conceptual Invulnerability. That too without even making another proper CRT to do so, but ultimately that does not matter anymore. We jumped the gun assuming that it had something to do with Tier and physical durability. We of course, found out eventually, that we were horribly wrong, upon going into it further.
So, when Fear Zeus whacks Kratos, Kratos is forced into the remnants of his consciousness (Which basically means nothing because Zeus nuked his soul without which in GoW you effectively cease to exist and there would be nothing to bring back), but the thing is, he would've never outmuscled him with sheer force alone. That entire segment of Kratos having to get to the box in his inner mind, to free himself from the effects of the Great Evils, forgive himself for his sins, overcome his guilt and confront his Demons to lay them to rest and as a result, unleash Hope within him to come back to life, soul restored and all, and then overcome Fear, is the sole determining factor of what GoW3's ending is all about.
It's about Hope overcoming Fear, as Athena herself blatantly puts it, unlike us taking it like Raiden vs Armstrong. This had become far greater than Kratos and Zeus themselves. The purpose of that fight wasn't physical anymore, but rather it was a conceptual battle, between Fear and Hope, where Hope was laughably superior, where Kratos finally attains the power to forgive himself and achieve the one true feeling of expectation that he would see this through, as well as overcoming Fear itself as an idea.
Hell, even Stig Asmussen himself, the director of GoW3, confirms this notion, even going out of his way to establish that Kratos blatantly gained immunity to the evils and their energies and their ability to affect the course of reality the way they did, and that Kratos had to overcome his guilt to obtain Hope to repel Zeus. Actual physical strength was never a factor here.
Another reason is that Zeus himself was never able to make physical contact with Kratos himself, another thing we jumped on. Zeus literally tried to do the same shit he did with Kratos prior, to put Fear into him and destroy him like before, but this time, he never gets to touch Kratos himself, and his efforts are completely nulled by Hope actively protecting Kratos instead, repelling all of Zeus' attacks in the process. This was effectively Fear vs Hope at this point.
Hence, Kratos' Conceptual Invulnerability would irrevocably be restored as a result of the above facts to the old justification plus what Stig himself said. And his Empathic Resistance gets turned to Immunity. Remind me never to wank at the cost of butchering the character ever again.
AND NO, THIS WON'T GET RID OF THE TIER 1 RATINGS. AT ALL. SUFFER.
Agree: 23 - Marvel_Champion_07, Planck69, Emirp sumitpo, KingTempest, LordGriffin1000, Elizhaa, Maverick_Zero_X, Georredannea15, BlastX, Quintessence_PE, Eseseso, RaveeCPN, LuffyRuffy46307, Ped2018, Hasty12345, The_Axiom_of_Virgo, AnimesFreak2, Fixxed, Diamentus, Quantu, BEASTHEART880, omegabronic, Roirr,
Disagree: 1 - LephyrTheRevanchist,
Neutral:
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