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Eric definitely needs to play Resident Evil 4 Remake. It’s an absolute must play. I don’t think he played the original so it’ll be more fun to see him play rather than Rick or Aaron who have. Probably won’t happen till scream stream though. Should give him enough time to finish Zelda and play Jedi Survivor.
@@AbesamisMdid you not see how bad they whooped his ass?? Plus we already got bloody deaths for everyone else. Odin had to get a different type of death
One thing that struck me and it had to be intentional, was how similar the dialog and the scene was when Freya showed up with the noose strangling Odin, to the dialog and scene Freya shared with Baldur in the 2018 game. Baldur to Freya: I've spent the last 100 years dreaming of this moment. I practiced everything I wanted to say to you, every word. To make you understand exactly what you stole from me... Freya to Odin: I've spent many long winters thinking about what I would say to you as I watched you take your last breath. Baldur to Freya: But now I realize. I don't need you to understand anything. I don't need you at all. Freya to Odin: But now I realize there is only one thing I need you to know. You have no hold on me anymore. Also, as Baldur is strangling Freya to death. She tells him that she loves him. And as Odin is being strangled to death by Freya, he tells her that he's always loved her.
Huh, I’ve noticed a lot of the parallels between 2018 and Ragnarök, but I’ve never recognized how Freya’s dialogue with Odin resembles that of her and Baldur’s conversation in the last game. Thanks for pointing it out!
@15:55 THAT is the moment Kratos broke the cycle. The Norns said that all are so predictable that they can predict what will happen. But that moment, when Kratos decided to be better... that is when he changed and the "prophecy" changed.
Yup definitely. The prophecy we saw would have come to pass if atreus had sided with odin. Leading to kratos dying but he sided with kratos and that lead to odin being the one in his arms
The line “Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me and you will find every reason to keep living in it.” Always makes me cry it’s such beautiful words and mostly the right ones to be told to Kratos
The music is so goddamn good man!! The music playing when Kratos blows Gjallarhorn is amazing. Apparently, if you find the whole track, it has both Faye's and Atreus' themes playing behind the main theme to signify the two most important things in Kratos' life. Bear McCreary is a genius
The only thing I would've added to Brok's funeral is to have Atreus there in some way. Maybe not with the main group on the shore out of respect for Sindri, but maybe he could've been on a ridge overlooking the funeral. Then at some point before Sindri vanished, Atreus would morph into his wolf form and give a mournful howl. A howl to say goodbye to his two lost friends. Brok and Sindri.
I also wish Kratos had lit the arrow with the Blades of Chaos. Brok, more than anyone in the Nine Realms, was always fascinated by them, and I think he would be honoured to burn with them.
And a story ends, by being the beginning of new ones It's interesting that Odin's death was mirrored by the prophecy, though I must admit I wish we did see Fenrir just eat him accurate to myth. Freyr's death surprised me too, in Norse Myth he does indeed die to Surtr, but it's stated this is because he didn't have his sword and fought only with an antler; however here he dies with his sword anyway. Thor's death saddened me though, inches he was from making a turn, but Odin robbed him of his chance at redemption. But the interactions were great; Kratos' story, the score when Gjallahorn is sounded, Kratos telling Atreus to open his heart to people, the combo fighting, Odin's death - including Sindri getting the final blow with Brok's hammer, and Kratos and Atreus' goodbye were very well done. The additional ending though, they say the Norse saga is done, but with Sindri's path suggesting a more darker turn it does feel like there is a bit more to the tale, so I wonder what they will do next, and how they'll do it. If you want to go back there's still more to play; Gna and Hrolf are very high difficulty boss fights, plus there's still all of Vanaheim to deal with
I feel like Sindri will probably return for a hypothetical Atreus spin-off. Especially since there's nothing really left for Sindri in the Norse Realms.
The way they setup Kratos to take Tyr's place as God of war in the DLC as well as his own son being Loki himself indicates the Norse mythology will still be a main part of the story. That is, if we ever get another GoW game. When we have such a perfect ending like this, it scares me that they may try to "force" a new plot that doesn't make sense for the characters, just to have the excuse to make more games to farm the franchise. It's like when your favorite series start getting a couple of seasons too many. Like, what could possibly be the next development in the story, the next "villain"? Going after other pantheons wouldn't make sense for Kratos, unless it's something very predictable such as "Atreus was kidnapped by the Egyptian gods, now Kratos is mad". So it's either that or an invading force (but again, who?)
I haven't seen it said about this line yet but Kratos is literally watching essentially what happened to himself in God of War 2 play out between Thor and Odin. "I didn't want this, I did not want this" as he is killing Thor has HUGE correlation to when Zeus stabbed him and said "It did not have to be this way my son, this path is of your choosing" but the difference is what comes after. Thor was never given a choice, and even if he ever thought he did it would have just been an implanted choice from Odin's manipulation, similar to Kratos carrying out various tasks to attempt to appease the gods of Greece so they would remove his nightmares, but as Kratos says "A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves". I can certainly imagine Kratos was ready to beat Odin's ass after reliving that memory, but still paying off his arc of doing it for justice instead of vengeance
The gravestone bosses in this game were my favorite part. Some of them were pretty easy, but the group of three at once and the final king were HARD AS HELL.
When Kartos blew the gjallarhorn man I got goosebumps, no other game has given me goosebumps out of awesomeness. Only other times was out of fright from one of my favorite horror games 😂
Completed god of war 2018 when it released. Just completed it again 2 weeks ago and then finished ragnarok straight after. I'm happy to say I think it's the greatest 2 set game ever made. And I love games like ocarina and ff7.
Atreus taking Odins soul is super dope and poetic, finishing the game with the same soul spell as it started with Fenrir, but I can never help but think; Atreus has been alone, side by side, one-on-one with Odin HOW MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT THE GAME AND NEVER THOUGHT TO DO THAT?! Otherwise, if this was a hail-mary, it's a helluva hail-mary to bet on
Such an outstanding game, still can't believe it didn't win GOTY. Has Eric played Mass Effect? or the Witcher trilogy? would be cool to see his journey through those games, the Arkham series too.
I see longtime fans of the series talk about how its out of character for Kratos to have such deep emotions for people close to him, and how different he is now, but that alone was basically his entire motivation from the start. Whether it was his brother, his wife and daughter, Faye, or Atreus. It just takes a long time for a guy that thick skinned to be able to show it outwardly
since they are announcing spiderman 2 and new assassins creed and any other games coming out.. I am expecting this game to be on pc early before those games even comes out
This game is great. One of the best games ever made. But I definitely had some issues. Especially the ending. It felt too rushed. Considering how very long the game was, the preparation and commencing of the final battle was all done so very fast and not in the best way. A lot of the preparation was done off screen and the only part that happened on screen was eventually useless and even a detriment. There was so much foreshadowing of people dying and the war not going our way but everything went off without a hitch. The only casualty we experienced in the final battle was one that WE caused. Kratos wasn’t even slightly in danger of dying. Not that I wanted him to die, but when they left god of war 4 on a cliffhanger of Kratos with a prophecy of dying, it was all anyone was talking about for years, and literally nothing came of it. They didn’t even bring it up. I just wish there was a bit more consequence. Taking down Odin felt too easy.
They brought it up? That was Atreus' whole motivation for going to Asgard, etc. But I do agree the final battle felt rushed or a bit of a let down. The part that bummed me out a little was Surtr tbh. Converting him to the "monster" was cool but then it felt like he didn't have any effect on the battle (except killing Freyr, which felt like an afterthought). Anyway, it was still a great game like you said. They had a lot of balls in the air and it's hard to land all of them perfectly.
@@ketchup016 I mean they didn’t bring it up at the end of the game. All the characters kept talking about Kratos’ death like it was completely unavoidable. But then he just…didn’t die. That’s all there was to it. I also hate that we killed Surtr for no reason. And because we did, we got Freyr and some innocent people killed. The only casualties we had in the huge climactic final battle weren’t from our enemy they were our fault.
@@JKBlackClover I mean the Norns pretty much already explained it. Their predictions are based on what's most likely to happen based on peoples nature and since people rarely go against their nature they're rarely wrong. Kratos went against his nature pushing both Atreus and Thor to go against theirs changing the prophecy of Atreus siding with Odin and kratos dying.
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Eric definitely needs to play Resident Evil 4 Remake. It’s an absolute must play. I don’t think he played the original so it’ll be more fun to see him play rather than Rick or Aaron who have. Probably won’t happen till scream stream though. Should give him enough time to finish Zelda and play Jedi Survivor.
Christopher Judge absolutely owned this role.
"indeed" ;)
Yes he did, but let’s also give the actor who voices the first set of God Of War, games his credit also.
He's a true GOD (of war) for this game!
He earned a gaming award for this
Sindri just canonically one shot Odin. Bad ass
wish odins death was more bloody lol
@@AbesamisMdid you not see how bad they whooped his ass?? Plus we already got bloody deaths for everyone else. Odin had to get a different type of death
One thing that struck me and it had to be intentional, was how similar the dialog and the scene was when Freya showed up with the noose strangling Odin, to the dialog and scene Freya shared with Baldur in the 2018 game.
Baldur to Freya: I've spent the last 100 years dreaming of this moment. I practiced everything I wanted to say to you, every word. To make you understand exactly what you stole from me...
Freya to Odin: I've spent many long winters thinking about what I would say to you as I watched you take your last breath.
Baldur to Freya: But now I realize. I don't need you to understand anything. I don't need you at all.
Freya to Odin: But now I realize there is only one thing I need you to know. You have no hold on me anymore.
Also, as Baldur is strangling Freya to death. She tells him that she loves him. And as Odin is being strangled to death by Freya, he tells her that he's always loved her.
Huh, I’ve noticed a lot of the parallels between 2018 and Ragnarök, but I’ve never recognized how Freya’s dialogue with Odin resembles that of her and Baldur’s conversation in the last game. Thanks for pointing it out!
@15:55 THAT is the moment Kratos broke the cycle. The Norns said that all are so predictable that they can predict what will happen. But that moment, when Kratos decided to be better... that is when he changed and the "prophecy" changed.
Yup definitely. The prophecy we saw would have come to pass if atreus had sided with odin. Leading to kratos dying but he sided with kratos and that lead to odin being the one in his arms
The line “Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me and you will find every reason to keep living in it.” Always makes me cry it’s such beautiful words and mostly the right ones to be told to Kratos
The music is so goddamn good man!! The music playing when Kratos blows Gjallarhorn is amazing. Apparently, if you find the whole track, it has both Faye's and Atreus' themes playing behind the main theme to signify the two most important things in Kratos' life. Bear McCreary is a genius
"A hole" That simple line will always get me
What a fucking phenomenal game no other words for it definitely one of my new favourite games of all time
"Grief is love persevering."
I like that
It’s a line from Wandavision
@@xblissfulleex "What is grief, if not love persevering?"
I cried so hard when Kratos told the story in the tent, I really thought they would kill him from that
The only thing I would've added to Brok's funeral is to have Atreus there in some way. Maybe not with the main group on the shore out of respect for Sindri, but maybe he could've been on a ridge overlooking the funeral. Then at some point before Sindri vanished, Atreus would morph into his wolf form and give a mournful howl. A howl to say goodbye to his two lost friends. Brok and Sindri.
Ooooh that would've have been really nice
I think maybe they'll do a throwback, to where Atreus was in this moment somewhere else. Maybe how it impacted him. Could be a cool call back.
I also wish Kratos had lit the arrow with the Blades of Chaos. Brok, more than anyone in the Nine Realms, was always fascinated by them, and I think he would be honoured to burn with them.
Id love that but ngl the wolf part is corny
It is satisfying that Sindri smashed the marble with Odin's soul in it with Brok's hammer.
And a story ends, by being the beginning of new ones
It's interesting that Odin's death was mirrored by the prophecy, though I must admit I wish we did see Fenrir just eat him accurate to myth. Freyr's death surprised me too, in Norse Myth he does indeed die to Surtr, but it's stated this is because he didn't have his sword and fought only with an antler; however here he dies with his sword anyway.
Thor's death saddened me though, inches he was from making a turn, but Odin robbed him of his chance at redemption.
But the interactions were great; Kratos' story, the score when Gjallahorn is sounded, Kratos telling Atreus to open his heart to people, the combo fighting, Odin's death - including Sindri getting the final blow with Brok's hammer, and Kratos and Atreus' goodbye were very well done.
The additional ending though, they say the Norse saga is done, but with Sindri's path suggesting a more darker turn it does feel like there is a bit more to the tale, so I wonder what they will do next, and how they'll do it.
If you want to go back there's still more to play; Gna and Hrolf are very high difficulty boss fights, plus there's still all of Vanaheim to deal with
I feel like Sindri will probably return for a hypothetical Atreus spin-off. Especially since there's nothing really left for Sindri in the Norse Realms.
@@Birthday888 I reckon it too for sure. Perhaps Atreus will need to turn to him for help?
The way they setup Kratos to take Tyr's place as God of war in the DLC as well as his own son being Loki himself indicates the Norse mythology will still be a main part of the story. That is, if we ever get another GoW game. When we have such a perfect ending like this, it scares me that they may try to "force" a new plot that doesn't make sense for the characters, just to have the excuse to make more games to farm the franchise. It's like when your favorite series start getting a couple of seasons too many. Like, what could possibly be the next development in the story, the next "villain"? Going after other pantheons wouldn't make sense for Kratos, unless it's something very predictable such as "Atreus was kidnapped by the Egyptian gods, now Kratos is mad". So it's either that or an invading force (but again, who?)
I haven't seen it said about this line yet but Kratos is literally watching essentially what happened to himself in God of War 2 play out between Thor and Odin. "I didn't want this, I did not want this" as he is killing Thor has HUGE correlation to when Zeus stabbed him and said "It did not have to be this way my son, this path is of your choosing" but the difference is what comes after. Thor was never given a choice, and even if he ever thought he did it would have just been an implanted choice from Odin's manipulation, similar to Kratos carrying out various tasks to attempt to appease the gods of Greece so they would remove his nightmares, but as Kratos says "A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves". I can certainly imagine Kratos was ready to beat Odin's ass after reliving that memory, but still paying off his arc of doing it for justice instead of vengeance
Too bad he didn't want to 100% this game. There is a lot of great stuff hidden from the player (all regions of Vanaheim, hidden areas in Svartalfheim)
The chaos in the final stretch of this game is awesome!
My son trusts you, I trust you.
One of the best games I have ever played, it was a time ago that I don't feel huge emotions playing a game. Mater piece. Sorry my bad English
42:48 Eat your heart out, Helios!
21:04 absolutely creased
21:01 Great edit XDDD
The gravestone bosses in this game were my favorite part. Some of them were pretty easy, but the group of three at once and the final king were HARD AS HELL.
When Kartos blew the gjallarhorn man I got goosebumps, no other game has given me goosebumps out of awesomeness. Only other times was out of fright from one of my favorite horror games 😂
I hope there will be recorded playthrough for Valhalla DLC by Eric
Completed god of war 2018 when it released. Just completed it again 2 weeks ago and then finished ragnarok straight after. I'm happy to say I think it's the greatest 2 set game ever made. And I love games like ocarina and ff7.
Atreus taking Odins soul is super dope and poetic, finishing the game with the same soul spell as it started with Fenrir, but I can never help but think;
Atreus has been alone, side by side, one-on-one with Odin HOW MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT THE GAME AND NEVER THOUGHT TO DO THAT?!
Otherwise, if this was a hail-mary, it's a helluva hail-mary to bet on
Odin was extremely weak after that fight. I assume if Atreus had tried the soul spell earlier Odin would have simply repelled it.
To grieve deeply is to have loved fully. What a line!
Fun fact, the guy who voices Freyr is the guy who played Ward in Agents Of shield!
Such an outstanding game, still can't believe it didn't win GOTY. Has Eric played Mass Effect? or the Witcher trilogy? would be cool to see his journey through those games, the Arkham series too.
All of the Eric Mass Effect highlights are on the main channel, and the full streams are on BW gaming.
@@schwardo oh awesome, thanks. will definitely have to check those out
Elden ring won goty cause it deserved it more
@@Crystalhair2024 GOTY was God of war for me personally but Elden ring was a feat within its own genre and deserved it
Whenever I worry I'll grow older and not enjoy games anymore, I just go back and watch one of Eric's playthroughs.
There's a song called To Be Better by Miracle of Sound. It's the unofficial theme song. Give it a listen.
I see longtime fans of the series talk about how its out of character for Kratos to have such deep emotions for people close to him, and how different he is now, but that alone was basically his entire motivation from the start. Whether it was his brother, his wife and daughter, Faye, or Atreus. It just takes a long time for a guy that thick skinned to be able to show it outwardly
ERIC there's still more of the game you need to discover
Odin is the best villain in Gow series well written
I really hope they make a spin off game called: God Of Mischief that follows Loki
This game is so damn amazing
11:06 YES!!! I luv it! :)
You need to continue playing
I feel like it ended too abruptly. I assembled an entire army and never felt their presence . I wanted an avengers assemble moment
since they are announcing spiderman 2 and new assassins creed and any other games coming out.. I am expecting this game to be on pc early before those games even comes out
A brilliant game
Justice for chaurli 😂
Now we need see Freya and kratos together as a couple ❤
This game is great. One of the best games ever made. But I definitely had some issues. Especially the ending. It felt too rushed. Considering how very long the game was, the preparation and commencing of the final battle was all done so very fast and not in the best way. A lot of the preparation was done off screen and the only part that happened on screen was eventually useless and even a detriment. There was so much foreshadowing of people dying and the war not going our way but everything went off without a hitch. The only casualty we experienced in the final battle was one that WE caused. Kratos wasn’t even slightly in danger of dying. Not that I wanted him to die, but when they left god of war 4 on a cliffhanger of Kratos with a prophecy of dying, it was all anyone was talking about for years, and literally nothing came of it. They didn’t even bring it up. I just wish there was a bit more consequence. Taking down Odin felt too easy.
They brought it up? That was Atreus' whole motivation for going to Asgard, etc. But I do agree the final battle felt rushed or a bit of a let down. The part that bummed me out a little was Surtr tbh. Converting him to the "monster" was cool but then it felt like he didn't have any effect on the battle (except killing Freyr, which felt like an afterthought). Anyway, it was still a great game like you said. They had a lot of balls in the air and it's hard to land all of them perfectly.
@@ketchup016 I mean they didn’t bring it up at the end of the game. All the characters kept talking about Kratos’ death like it was completely unavoidable. But then he just…didn’t die. That’s all there was to it. I also hate that we killed Surtr for no reason. And because we did, we got Freyr and some innocent people killed. The only casualties we had in the huge climactic final battle weren’t from our enemy they were our fault.
@@JKBlackClover I mean the Norns pretty much already explained it. Their predictions are based on what's most likely to happen based on peoples nature and since people rarely go against their nature they're rarely wrong. Kratos went against his nature pushing both Atreus and Thor to go against theirs changing the prophecy of Atreus siding with Odin and kratos dying.
Kratos is the greatest character in gaming history there is simply no argument to the contrary
Your opinion
I thought Loki and Thudd would make a good couple :P
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Kinda dissapointed how not so epic it seemed when I see how FF16 looks , im pretty confident in saying it will blow this out of the water !
PlayStation game storytelling >>>> Actual movies & TV series (at least 95% of the times)
bro i forgot about charlie he definitely dead
manipulating even in the end
You cut too much 😂
Sad they didn’t show his reaction Brock’s Funeral
43:15
What the hell kinda reaction video was this??? The video cuts on every important scene lol
All these comments have to be fake right… you post a reaction video but edit out all the reactions😂
this games story was disappointing to me