Next should be the Judaic-Christian mythology
One of these things is not like the others.
And lots of gold!!
Ancient Greece was not a "white" culture, per se. I blame this on European culture and in later years Hollywood. Ancient Greece was a diverse mixing pot of various ethnicities, and the ancient Greek religion, if you can call it that, was a hodgepodge of various cults and sects existing under the banner of the Hellenic/Athenian/Olympian gods. The gods were usually considered whatever skin color the people that believed in them or heard the myths thought they looked like. God of War is definitely whitewashed.
Say they do go to Egypt next... what comes AFTER that? Greek, Norse, Egyptian Mythology.... are there any other "well known" mythologies?
What is white culture? Are people from the middle east not white? Are only light hair and pale skinned people white? Then what do "race" do middle eastern people belong to? Ancient Greeks didn't look much different from how they look today. Obviously there are some changes, but generally speaking they are the same. I do agree that a lot of depictions of Greeks in popular culture looks more Northern European.
might have been even more rad than the Norse setting
The problem with Indian Gods would be that the religion is still pretty alive and kicking. While Hindus are kinda nonchalant in general, you can't have Kratos fighting and killing Gods of 1 billion people.
I guess you could say the same for any other major religion as well, but there is nothing saying a game company can't. Just a bunch of angry people who would had never bought the game anyway raging that we could kill their god (or gods) in a game. Yet it's perfectly okay to do that with other god pantheons.
Let Kratos fight Jesus or Vishnu. That would be amazing. Let haters hate.
Norse is fine, but Egypt would've been way more interesting tbh
The hell is this? lol
Assassin's Creed 2017 says hello.I hope they go there after this saga is done. Egypt is a great setting that nobody uses.
What is white culture? Are people from the middle east not white? Are only light hair and pale skinned people white? Then what do "race" do middle eastern people belong to? Ancient Greeks didn't look much different from how they look today. Obviously there are some changes, but generally speaking they are the same. I do agree that a lot of depictions of Greeks in popular culture looks more Northern European.
As interesting as Egyptian Gods are, I'm much more pleased with the current direction especially after seeing the trailer. The forests and snowy mountains in the distance looked incredible.
That may be true for real Norse Mythology, but Norse stylization is a common part of popular culture and figures like Thor, Loki, and Odin are household names nowadays.Both could be fantastic, but it also depends on how they use it.
I feel that besides Jotun and The Banner Saga, there isn't much that really represents Norse Mythology.
Norse Mythology used to be very obscure before the Thor comic book came out. And in fact, the comic book is largely responsible for bringing Norse Mythology back into the limelight. That's probably also why the popular view of the original stories is so sanitized. So sure, the public may mostly think about Marvel, but that's one of the main reasons they'd even know of Norse Mythology at all.Elves, Dwarfs, Trolls, middle-earth (midgård / midgaard) originate from Norse Mythology, but most people have much stronger connotation with Tolkien. And as for Thor/Odin/Loki, it's Marvel now.
So if they are going to do proper justice to norse mythology, it won't be like most people think it will be.
At least we'll have Egyptian Assassin's Creed soon.
How many games are we expecting with Norse mythology anyway? 2 games? Another trilogy? Can't see this being a one off.
I liked seeing the drake.
Kratos going to actual hell and fighting Levitation etc. is really appealing.