God Of War Is A Rarity - It's A Game Everyone Is Allowed To Love
God of War is out on PC now, and I'm sure there aren't too many people I'd need to convince to play it. While not my absolute favourite of PS4's conveyor belt of mega-hits - that honour goes to Spider-Man - it is undeniably a must-play game of the last generation. It's beloved by all - and that's sort of the point. I'm sure there are some people who don't like it, and again, I'm not a God of War superfan, but there is no collective noun for the people who don't like God of War, and that's probably worth exploring. Everyone is allowed to love it - something very few games can claim.
Let's look at some other definitive titles from the last gen. Nintendo titles seem in a very different sphere to these (generation is out of step, less involved in console wars, Switch is more family oriented and accommodates handheld play), and just being a Nintendo game is enough to come in for criticism because of gatekeeping bullshit. For that reason, it'll just be PS exclusives, Xbox exclusives, and cross-platform games I'm discussing. And because Xbox took a lot of swings but missed them all last gen, we're just talking about PS and cross-plat.
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Starting with The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima. I touched on this a little bit when I explained how Days Gone became an anti-journalist symbol (I won't be mentioning Days Gone further, because most people just think it's okay), but TLOU2 and GoT found themselves on opposite sides of a culture war. TLOU2 was beloved by critics for its woke politics. I thought it was technically impressive, but mostly fine. Ghost of Tsushima on the other hand was praised for its gorgeous visuals, but hated by critics (83 on Metacritic, so
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