{"id":1597285,"date":"2026-06-04T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/WjtS9dioSXS6HBHshctMsc"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:48:14","slug":"dominos-pizza-uk-has-joined-the-gamer-culture-slapfight-over-god-of-war-laufey-and-id-really-like-to-just-skip-this-part-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dominos-pizza-uk-has-joined-the-gamer-culture-slapfight-over-god-of-war-laufey-and-id-really-like-to-just-skip-this-part-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I’d really like to just skip this part, please"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Typically-speaking, we wouldn’t be inclined to write about God of War Laufey<\/a>\u2014not because I don’t want to play the next God of War game (I rather liked the 2018 reboot) but because Sony has doubled-down on console exclusives for the foreseeable, and we are PC Gamer. However, it’s my job to report on gaming discourse.<\/p>\n

Imagine me saying the following with a deep, bone-tired sigh: Dominos Pizza UK has entered an X feud with Santa Monica studio because the God of War game doesn’t have Kratos in it. Or, at least, he’s not the main character.<\/p>\n

Some context, I guess\u2014God of War Laufey will follow the journey of Kratos’ wife, Faye, as she battles through the afterlife of the gods. I actually happen to think this set-up kinda rules, after all, Kratos has killed a lot <\/em>of gods, and I think it’s interesting for Faye to have to deal with the consequences of his warpath. <\/p>\n

But obviously, because God of War is historically associated with a cool rippled muscular Spartan dude yelling and butchering people, it’s become another annoying subject of a culture war that nobody should care about. <\/p>\n

Lemme just state my opinion up-front: Maybe Laufey will be a good game, maybe it will be a bad game. Neither option will have anything to do with the fact its protagonist happens to be a woman\u2014and it is, in fact, a good <\/em>thing that the franchise isn’t focusing exclusively on Kratos. <\/p>\n

It’s boring and dull to tell the exact same story over and over again, especially since the 2018 reboot has already given him two several-dozen hour long titles. And <\/em>he’s had an anthology of games before that. And <\/em>they’ll be remaking the 2005 trilogy, anyway.<\/a> Nobody should care.<\/p>\n

Except for Dominos Pizza UK, who fed the wood-fired oven of this nonsense by writing<\/a> “God of War game with no Kratos = Pepperoni Passion with no pepperoni”, to which Santa Monica responded<\/a>: “ok thanks for the feedback, dominos pizza corporate account”. <\/p>\n

I have skimmed the comments to this thread so you do not have to, and it’s mostly a bunch of griping about how a game shouldn’t be called “God of War” if Kratos isn’t in it, and a particularly nauseating AI-generated sexist video of Faye doing household labour. It’s a radioactive waste pit of discussion. This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.<\/p>\n

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