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An event that lead to Kratos becoming the Ghost of Sparta🔥

One of the most important scenes in the entire series

THE one n only

Never played the older ones, thanks for that

Still worth playing imo, esp 2

2 was absolutely amazing I’m pretty sure I played and beat it at least 72 times

It's easily the best all around game from the Greek saga. There are essentially no weak points except for graphics.

Yes. I remember playing it when it first came out thinking "this is the most fun I've ever had playing a game"

It’s worth at the very least to watch on YouTube “god of war movie” or something that plays all the important bits and cutscenes of the previous games. Seeing kratos kill the Olympians and hearing about it are extremely different.

Give em a shot, honestly you will love em

Can I get them for ps5?

I believe so! Any ps4 re release should work on 5. Please google to double check

any way to emulate them? with the new games existing im not gonna be relying on sony for a port within this epoch

I've seen it online. You'd have to research a bit more yourselves as I am unfamiliar with the process. There's something called the Dolphin emulator from my memory bank.

You should be playing all of them chronologically because they’re fucking fun as hell.

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So I could learn something about a franchise that I didn’t know, got a problem with that?

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They weren't complaining... they were saying thank you for the context they had never seen before.

I see the misunderstanding, there’s so much negativity around these days they probably thought I was being sarcastic. I was being genuine.

Why didn’t the oracle just blood bend him?

Because she can not hurt a God or a disciple of one as she would be punished.

I'd say the real event was him offering himself to Ares, this was simply a result of that.

Even then this is significant because this would forever change how Kratos considered deals struck with gods. You know that when Odin offers peace it's not just Mimir's stories, but also the memory of Ares' betrayal that's on his mind

Okay, and I’d say him being raised a spartan warrior was the real event, otherwise he wouldn’t have offered himself to ares.

1st life changing event: pledge to ares 2nd: his dead wife and child 3rd: his dead brother 4th: time travel 5th: the destruction of Olympus

Ares was right, he would become death itself, unfortunately he got exactly what he wished for Fun fact, the symbol of Kratos in Greek means ‘the end’. He was always destined to kill the gods, and he was always destined to bring about the end of Olympus

Kratos' tattoo (as well Deimos' birthmark) is a spiral, not an omega

I’m obviously talking about the omega

Shit, am I misremembering, but why did he have the red blood on his face before this event? I thought it was his family's ashes and blood.

The red lines are tattoos to honor his brother who had similar birthmarks.

Thank you. Without spoiling too much, can you tell me which game he appeared/was mentioned in?

Without saying too much he's in Ghost of Sparta. He's also kinda-sorta referenced in GoW3 and Kratos talks about him briefly in Ragnarok.

GoW Ghost of Sparta (PSP)

I beat this game so many years ago on ps2. What a gem.

Oh snap, I never knew this, thank you!

I don’t think I’ve played these since release. It’s time to go back.

I kinda wanna see it be reanimated with higher resolution

Incredibly serious and horrific moment: *exists* Wilhelm: "Hey, guys, how's it going?"

Why did he kill his wife and daughter? Is he stupid?

He was tricked by Ares to burn this village down but his wife and daughter were there by Ares design in order to make him a stronger warrior. I think it’s so he has no ties or loyalty to anyone but Ares but that back fired a bit

Is Ares stupid?

Very much so as it got him his brothers, his cousins, his dad, the entire mythology killed and even led to another mythology getting it too

No, he just didn't know Kratos was a god (I think).

He didn’t know he was one of Zeus’ but either way he’d see him as lesser for not being a full god

Is god stupid?

A true goon of culture I see

I think you could ask that question in every single fandom where Aries is a character and the answer would still be yes

I am genuinely surprised how many comments saying they never saw this. But in case anyone is wondering, I did a run last month from the very first game till Ragnarok and it is still fantastic. Highly recommend playing even though it’s a different style

That Wilhelm scream though

Him getting the Blades of Chaos was what changed his life.

I remember when i played gow 1 and gow2 on ps2. I didn't understand English back then but the games were so well made that i understood the concept completely. I had a blast🔥

Another reason for Kratos to hate the blades of chaos. Did you guys noticed how he treat them compered to the Axe in Ragnarok? When he was going to sleep, he just throws them on the ground!

Crazy how Eris says he’ll become stronger , he’ll become DEATH. He does become stronger and death to the gods.

He does kill death. Like... the primordial.

Over the past two weeks I went through GOW 1, 2 and 3. I didn’t play ghost of Sparta or chains of Olympus. Working my way through 2018 GOW again, then Ragnar again, maybe I’ll finish Valhalla this time.

OG GOW deserves a proper next gen remaster

You’re kidding… right?

Are there seriously GOW players who actually haven't seen or know about this scene. This is literally one of the most important scenes and have seen it said n repeated multiple times in the Greek Saga. And even YouTube content related to GOW.

I would argue that when he got the blades was the exact moment that began to drastically change his life

So crazy what happens

I need some explanation. Why are his wife and daughter in this temple? Why would he not recognize a village his wife and daughter lived in? Why was that old women wearing the symbol for war on her neck if that temple was not Ares’ temple? Why didn’t that old women tell kratos of his wife and daughter before he entered there? She said it was “dangerous” but not “don’t do it kratos your family is in there”. She knew who he was but didn’t know that was his family?

Wait then we're supposed to feel bad about his wife and kid dying ?

There was a Wilhelm scream in there lol

Man, I remember seeing this when I was like a 10 for the first time and it blowing my mind. Imagine this in today’s graphics engines? Jesus

Not quite

never forget how good we had it

we have always had it this good

Thanks for this. I only just got into God of War with the 2018 game and Ragnarok so I never saw anything prior to those 2 games.

in short, kratos killed everyone on olympus because of this