Be passionate all you want, I don't mind. I do disagree with most of your points though. For instance
>To me the problem is when you want to /act/ like you’re a story game with a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding, why bother using a mythology if you’re going to piss all over it and get it entirely wrong?
Not following the original story is orthogonal to having a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding. Its also just a reinterpretation, that's an extremely common thing in art. On a smaller time scale look at how batman went from campy comedy in the Adam West era, to a brooding action hero with Nolan's trilogy. And these are stories that are hundreds/thousands of years old.
>By extension of that analogy, why should I have to wade through a hack writer’s truly awful fuckup of a story just to play the hacky and slashy bits people are buying the game God of War for.
That's just like, your opinion man, to quote another piece of art. I happen to have found the story compelling and given the rave reviews it got, that's not an uncommon sentiment. The story not being for you is a lot different than it being _truly awful_
>To me the problem is when you want to /act/ like you’re a story game with a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding, why bother using a mythology if you’re going to piss all over it and get it entirely wrong?
Not following the original story is orthogonal to having a big dramatic plot and worldbuilding. Its also just a reinterpretation, that's an extremely common thing in art. On a smaller time scale look at how batman went from campy comedy in the Adam West era, to a brooding action hero with Nolan's trilogy. And these are stories that are hundreds/thousands of years old.
>By extension of that analogy, why should I have to wade through a hack writer’s truly awful fuckup of a story just to play the hacky and slashy bits people are buying the game God of War for.
That's just like, your opinion man, to quote another piece of art. I happen to have found the story compelling and given the rave reviews it got, that's not an uncommon sentiment. The story not being for you is a lot different than it being _truly awful_